yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
subcostal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
entomology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From sub- + costal.
Base: costal
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: subcostals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Below (deep to) a rib or the ribs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to the subcosta and/or the area of the wing next to it.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A subcostal muscle.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the principal nervures of the wings of an insect, situated next beneath or behind the costal.
pos: noun
Derived words: subcostally
Translations:
largen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From large + -en.
Base: large
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: largens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: largening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: largened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: largened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To enlarge.
pos: verb
tags: UK
literary
Translations:
soul-crushing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more soul-crushing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most soul-crushing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Demeaning, boring, disheartening.
pos: adj
examples: Some came to get rich on their wits and intellect, others on their strength and brawn, toiling from dawn to dusk in soul-crushing labors.
And for an introduction to politics course, zombies represent the threat posed by a textbook that is so chock full of soul-crushing boredom that it will smother the mind and rot the flesh right off of students' faces.
Oh, it was nothing compared to the immediate, soul-crushing loneliness I'd experienced when Baxter and I had split.
Translations:
tlk
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: talk
pos: verb
tags: Internet
Translations:
wnt
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: want
pos: verb
tags: Internet
Translations:
cully
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Short for cullion? Compare Irish cuallaí (“companion”)
Inflected forms:
form: cullies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cullies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cullying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cullied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cullied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Yet the rich Cullies may their boaſting ſpare; / They purchaſe but ſophiſticated VVare.
I have learned that […] I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess.
One [attitude] was a fascination with street-walkers and courtesans as self-confident entrepreneurs, able to outwit their simple cullies.
gloss: A companion.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A male client of a prostitute; a john, a gonk.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
historical
examples: The assumption tends to be the opposite: Whores constantly seek sexual encounters to fulfill their burning desires and also sometimes manage to wheedle gold out of their cullies.
gloss: To trick, to impose on, to dupe.
pos: verb
Derived words: cullyism
Translations:
ranga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Extracted from (o)rang(utan), with -er suffix; in use since 1990s; to a certain extent popularised by the ABC television show Summer Heights High (2007).
Inflected forms:
form: rangas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An orange-haired or red-haired person.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
derogatory
slang
examples: You′re looking down upon ‘rangas’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.
2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii,
Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country′s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can′t tell.
3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.
Joy and Lydia and Izzy despised the rest of the girls, from their plucked little threesome, disgusted by Yolanda's hairy calves, the faint down over a lip, Verla's ranga armpits.
SID: Yeah, all my friends hate me, I don't know why. MR. INCREDIBLE: Maybe it's because you're a fucking ranga you cockhead. SID: What the fuck did you just say, cunt? MR. INCREDIBLE: I said; ranga. SID: I am not a ranga!
Translations:
Thameside
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Thames + -side.
Base: Thames
Affixes: -side
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: located by the River Thames
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ritualist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ritual + -ist.
Base: ritual
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: ritualists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One skilled in ritual.
pos: noun
gloss: One excessively concerned with religious ritual.
pos: noun
gloss: One rigidly adhering to institutional procedures.
pos: noun
Related words: Ritualist
Translations:
hardpoint
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
Etymology: From hard + point.
Compound parts: hard
point
Inflected forms:
form: hardpoints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Part of an airframe designed to carry an external load such as a missile.
pos: noun
gloss: A metal screw thread embedded in a workbench to facilitate the mounting and removal of specific tools.
pos: noun
gloss: A structure for holding someone suspended with rope.
pos: noun
gloss: Designating a type of saw with specially hardened teeth that cannot be resharpened.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Luddism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ludd + ism, after Ned Ludd, a legendary example.
Base: ism
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Opposition to the Industrial Revolution by textile workers fearing for their livelihoods.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
gloss: Opposition to technological change.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
derogatory
uncountable
examples: He walks over to the wine crates holding the LPs, gets infuriated with the brutal Luddism of any man who still deals in vinyl and needle.
Related words: Luddite
neo-Luddism
Translations:
melaleuca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From genus name, translingual Melaleuca.
Inflected forms:
form: melaleucas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of the genus Melaleuca of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family.
pos: noun
examples: From November to February, the usually sombre olive green bush is a palette of pink heath, cream and mauve melaleuca, gold hibbertias, snug on the ground, pale blue iris, the swashbuckling scarlet and orange blandfordia lily, and Hewardia tasmanica, the mountain purple iris.
[H]e passed on, upsetting nothing, completely unnoticed by the peewee birds and crows resting in the silent melaleuca trees and paperbark woodland […]
Translations:
Naugahyde
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A marketing coinage of the 1930s, from Naugatuck, Connecticut, where it was first produced, and hide; it was humorously marketed as being the skin of an animal called a Nauga.
Inflected forms:
form: naugahyde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: naugahide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An artificial leather made with a knit fabric backing and PVC coating.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The floor was of plain yellow tile, the chairs and sofa of what looked like light green Naugahyde.
Translations:
noice
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: noicer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: noicest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Nice.
pos: adj
tags: humorous
pronunciation-spelling
slang
examples: 'Ye be noice chaps,' said John, looking steadily round. 'What's to do here, thou yoong dogs?'
“The Celtics won. Noice.”
Translations:
underinsurance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From under- + insurance.
Base: insurance
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Inadequate insurance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: overinsurance
Translations:
waymarked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From waymark + -ed.
Base: waymark
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Marked with a waymark.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
coursemate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From course + mate.
Compound parts: course
mate
Inflected forms:
form: coursemates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is taking the same academic course.
pos: noun
examples: I went drinking with some of my coursemates after the last lecture of the term.
Translations:
Pan-Africanism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pan- + African + -ism.
Base: pan
Inflected forms:
form: pan-Africanism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Panafricanism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sociopolitical movement seeking to unify native Africans and those of African heritage into a global community.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
monzonite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Monzoni in the Italian Tyrol, + -ite.
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: monzonites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of plagioclase and orthoclase
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Crumbling silvery stone beneath her hand and in front of her face: monzonite, maybe, or one of the lesser schists.
Translations:
playscape
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From play + -scape.
Base: play
Affixes: -scape
Inflected forms:
form: playscapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A designed landscape for play
pos: noun
gloss: A designed landscape for play that includes settings and features beyond traditional playground equipment (e.g. logs, planted play settings, sand or mud play, paths for wheeled toy use, etc.)
pos: noun
gloss: A playground where the playground equipment is cohesively integrated with topography, plantings, and circulation systems.
pos: noun
Translations:
playsuit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From play + suit.
Compound parts: play
suit
Inflected forms:
form: playsuits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A one-piece stretch garment worn by very young children.
pos: noun
examples: Like Marsha, his hair was tinged a faint rusty red. Sound asleep in a chair in the corner was a small girl, perhaps three, in a rumpled playsuit.
gloss: A one-piece item of clothing for women.
pos: noun
examples: To some, the very word "playsuit", with its frolicsome associations, will induce the conviction that this is not an item of clothing to be seen alive in. But playsuits are the natural second stage of the shorts revolution.
The playsuit combines shorts, a skirt, and a backless bodice.
gloss: A one-piece undergarment for women.
pos: noun
Derived words: playsuited
Translations:
printery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From print + -ery.
Base: print
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: printeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A printworks.
pos: noun
Translations:
rootball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From root + ball.
Compound parts: root
ball
Inflected forms:
form: rootballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: root ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The mass of roots and associated soil that comes up with a plant lifted from the soil or from a container.
pos: noun
Translations:
wittedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From witted + -ness.
Base: witted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being witted
pos: noun
tags: especially
in-compounds
uncountable
Translations:
chaturanga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga).
Inflected forms:
form: caturanga
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ancient Indian game, its rules not fully known, presumed to be the ancestor of chess and similar games.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
biopharma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening; compare pharma.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The biopharmaceutical industry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
off-speed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: offspeed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Being a pitch thrown at a slower speed than a fastball, such as a change-up.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
shortcode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From short + code.
Compound parts: short
code
Inflected forms:
form: shortcodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: short code
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: short-code
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A special short telephone number for an SMS or MMS service, designed to be easier to remember.
pos: noun
Translations:
Eurobond
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From Euro- + bond, modeled after Eurodollar.
Base: bond
Affixes: Euro-
Inflected forms:
form: Eurobonds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eurobond
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An international bond denominated in a currency not native to the country where it is issued.
pos: noun
examples: As a result of Eurobond sales, foreign holders of dollars could find “attractive” investments and thereby refrain from selling the dollars to their central banks, sales that would cause more pressure to step up the gold outflow from America.
gloss: Proposed government bonds to be issued in Euros jointly by the Eurozone states.
pos: noun
examples: The most widely discussed eurobond concept is certainly the Blue Bond/Red Bond concept proposed by Jacques Delpla and Jakob von Weizsäcker (2010). They suggest that sovereign debt in euro area countries be split into two parts.
Translations:
microstock
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From micro- + stock.
Base: stock
Affixes: micro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a form of stock photography where the images are sourced on an individual basis, as from amateur photographers via the Internet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
salesforce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sales + force.
Compound parts: sales
force
Inflected forms:
form: salesforces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A team of salespeople.
pos: noun
Translations:
sclerotherapy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From sclero- + therapy.
Base: therapy
Affixes: sclero-
Inflected forms:
form: sclerotherapies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A treatment for varicose veins, hemorrhoids, and ulcers involving an injection of material into a blood vessel to make it harden and shrink.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
crankpin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From crank + pin.
Compound parts: crank
pin
Inflected forms:
form: crankpins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crank pin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The pin that attaches a connecting rod to a crank.
pos: noun
examples: Three independent sets of Walschaerts valve gear are provided, those for the outside cylinders being driven by return cranks placed on the driving crankpins, and by crosshead arms attached to the crossheads.
Translations:
inharmonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From in- + harmonic.
Base: harmonic
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more inharmonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inharmonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking harmony; discordant; dissonant
pos: adj
Translations:
nooky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From nook + -y.
Base: nook
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: nookier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: nookiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like a nook; small and secluded or cosy.
pos: adj
examples: […] it may be a little seat in a nooky place, a spring under a tree, a bit of walk by the brookside or a vista amongst the trees.
And so you will find that his whole orchard is a quaint and nooky place where one may not only pick apples, but may saunter and rest.
Translations:
residentiary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: residentiaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or having residence, especially official residence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A canon who has an official residence.
pos: noun
Translations:
wristy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From wrist + -y.
Base: wrist
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: wristier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wristiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wristies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characterised by marked or exaggerated movement of the wrist; involving deft wrist movements.
pos: adj
examples: I walked Jane down to the drive and watched her as she reversed, admiring her wristy gear changes.
gloss: A handjob.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "So, what is sex? Is it plain intercourse? What about oral? Does that count? What about a wristy? [...]" “A gobby? A wristy?” asked Brenda. “More slang. A gobby is a blowjob, and as for a wristy...” Babs curled her fingers around an imaginary cock and made a jerking motion.
Elle's grasped the front of his chinos, her fingers closing around his cock and Jackson jerked back […] After two days of sexual torment, his cock was on a hairtrigger, but that didn't mean he wanted a wristy on a hilltop.
Translations:
skyglow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sky + glow.
Compound parts: sky
glow
Inflected forms:
form: skyglows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sky glow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The illumination of the sky above populated areas, mostly by street lighting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
self-treatment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From self- + treatment.
Base: treatment
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-treatments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of attempting to cure one's own medical condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A method or substance intended to permit the user to cure their own medical condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
assimilable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin assimilabilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more assimilable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most assimilable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being assimilated; susceptible to assimilation.
pos: adj
examples: 1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A Fabrick of Science Natural, London: Thomas Heath, Book 3, Chapter 15, Section 3, p. 381,
[…] very deep and large wounds are many times soon healed of themselves; i. e. meerly by the goodness of Nature it self, which being vigorous, and of our own provision furnished with convenient means, wholesom and assimilable Blood, doth every moment freshly apply it to the part that hath suffered solution of Continuity, and thereby redintegrate the same:
He was not like other teachers, a mere vehicle of text-books. He made his teaching personal, he himself was the source of it, and therefore it was made of life stuff, easily assimilable by the living human nature.
Sometimes there are such bizarre experiences that the dream seems not at all assimilable to anything that happened in the remembered life, but may have some deeper meaning that we don’t know, as Freud conjectured.
British postwar immigration policy deliberately excluded Jews (and non-white immigrants) because it didn’t consider them assimilable.
Translations:
billfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bill + fish.
Compound parts: bill
fish
Inflected forms:
form: billfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: billfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several fish, of the families Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae, that have an elongated jaw.
pos: noun
examples: Collectively, the billfishes are among the most sought-after game fishes because of their grace and power, in and out of the water.
gloss: Other fish with elongated jaws:
pos: noun
gloss: Other fish with elongated jaws:
pos: noun
gloss: Other fish with elongated jaws:
pos: noun
gloss: Other fish with elongated jaws:
pos: noun
Translations:
bioprocess
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From bio- + process.
Base: process
Affixes: bio-
Inflected forms:
form: bioprocesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bioprocesses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bioprocessing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bioprocessed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bioprocessed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any technological process that uses living cells or their components
pos: noun
gloss: To process biochemically
pos: verb
Translations:
extrastriate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From extra- + striate.
Base: striate
Affixes: extra-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing that part of the cortex next to the striate cortex
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
zygomaticus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from New Latin zygomaticus, clipping of mūsculus zygomaticus (“zygomatic muscle”). Doublet of zygomatic.
Inflected forms:
form: zygomatici
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of several small subcutaneous facial muscles arising from or in relation with the zygomatic bone.
pos: noun
Translations:
charlock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English charlok, cherlok, from Old English ċyrlic, ċirlic, ċerlic. Further origin unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: charlocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chadlock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: harlock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several yellow-flowered cruciferous weeds of grain fields, especially wild mustard (Rhamphospermum arvense, syn. Sinapis arvensis).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cording
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cord + -ing.
Base: cord
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: cordings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Decorative cord, often wrapped in colored fabric or foil
pos: noun
gloss: The resultant decoration, or the act of decorating with cording
pos: noun
Translations:
phin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese phin (“a filter”). Doublet of filter.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A type of coffee filter.
pos: noun
Translations:
aulos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐλός (aulós).
Inflected forms:
form: auloi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of ancient Greek musical instruments resembling pipes or flutes.
pos: noun
Translations:
infeed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From in- + feed.
Base: feed
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: infeeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The material fed into a machine to be processed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
investible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From invest + -ible.
Base: invest
Affixes: -ible
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That can be invested.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mediumistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From medium + -istic.
Base: medium
Affixes: -istic
Inflected forms:
form: more mediumistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mediumistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to mediums (people claiming to contact the dead); relating to or having the ability to communicate with spirits.
pos: adj
examples: 1852, E. C. Rogers, Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, Human and Mundane, Boston: Redding, No. 1, p. 88,
Fear of the world, fear of man individually, fear of loss of property or station, would all interfere, and prevent them from giving to their fellow-men, teachings, that their more receptive and mediumistic minds had been capable of receiving.
Mr. Michie’s wife is mediumistic and liable to be controlled. One day an entity came to her and spoke through her to her husband […]
Then there is that queer practice of the whites, psychometry, by which mediumistic people claim they can, by handling any object, tell events that occurred to the owner of it.
I don’t imagine either of these young women has mediumistic gifts?
Translations:
tailpiece
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: architecture
arts
crafts
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
media
music
printing
publishing
Etymology: From tail + piece.
Compound parts: tail
piece
Inflected forms:
form: tailpieces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An appendage or appendix.
pos: noun
gloss: An element, often triangular, to which the strings of a violin, guitar, etc. are attached at the lower end of an instrument.
pos: noun
gloss: A short joist between a header and a wall.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of a lock that transmits motion from the hub to the latch bolt.
pos: noun
gloss: An ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page.
pos: noun
Translations:
e-card
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + card.
Base: card
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-cards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ecard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A computerized greeting card, typically hosted on a website to which the recipient is directed by an e-mail message.
pos: noun
Translations:
e-billing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + billing.
Base: billing
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: electronic billing
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: My telephone company now offers e-billing: it saves paper and allows me to check my bill on the Internet at any time.
Translations:
multisports
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From multi- + sports.
Base: sports
Affixes: multi-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to multiple sports
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Alumni Stadium, a 1400-seat multisports complex featuring synthetic turf, was completed in 2001.
Translations:
double-plus-good
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined by British writer and journalist George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Inflected forms:
form: doubleplusgood
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: double-plus good
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: double plus good
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ++good
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Excellent; very good.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For someone like myself who loves the MINISTRY album Mind... this new album is double plus good!
I think our glorious government's rewriting of language is double plus good, brother.
We can only agree with Mermin's anonymous physicist, but must add that they are double-plus-good rocks, full of promise.
Nudging the nearly-closed bedroom door secret-agent style, I saw on the bed the double-plus-good definition of inviting.
Antonyms: ungood
double-plus-ungood
Translations:
ungood
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ungod, from Old English ungōd, equivalent to un- (“not”) + good (adjective). Popularised by its appearance in Newspeak, a fictional language coined in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel by George Orwell.
Base: good
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: ungooder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more ungood
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: ungoodest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most ungood
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not good; bad.
pos: adj
examples: An unjust judge, as one well observes, is a cold fire, a dark sun, a dry sea, a mare mortuum, an ungood god, contradictio in adjecto, monsters, not men, much less gods.
Now to make a short story shorter, we all know this is very ungood for a new motor and I do not want to thank the person or persons who unwittingly left their fingerprints, of which I have photostatic copies, so that might detect the presence of graphite before staring the motor.
What I was before wasn't good for me. But it was from that ungood that I put together something better: I had put together hope. From my own ungood I had created a future good.
“Way ungood guys, way ungood.”
And remember! Islam is ungood; atheism, file sharing, civil liberties and homosexuality are doubleplusungood.
This man is very, very ungood.
gloss: Those who are not good; the wicked, evil, or bad.
pos: adj
tags: in-plural
examples: The authorities desire to deceive humankind, because they perceived him being in a kinship to the truly good. So they took the word 'good', they applied it to the ungood so that thru words they might deceive and bind him within the ungood.
Synonyms: bad
Antonyms: good
double-plus-good
Derived words: double-plus-ungood
Translations:
replug
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + plug.
Base: plug
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: replugs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: replugging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: replugged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: replugged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To plug again or anew.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
double-plus-ungood
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined by George Orwell (as doubleplusungood) in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Inflected forms:
form: doubleplusungood
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: double-plus ungood
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: double plus ungood
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ++ungood
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Internet
Senses:
gloss: Terrible, very bad.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There's only one problem. Files converted from Word Perfect to Q&A format don't work with Q&A. Q&A thinks it has read in the file, but then the whole mess blows up. Ungood. Double plus ungood.
But no excuses for the idiots who did the Cenotaph, double plus ungood!!
In the former case, obtaining the current version from the object store appears to be a form of “reset” operation [...]. That is double-plus ungood Git thinking.¶ In the latter case, an earlier version of the file is pulled out of the object store and placed into your working directory. This has the appearance of being a “revert” operation on the file. That too is double-plus ungood Git thinking.
Summary: Mozilla Metathought seems ++Ungood
Translations:
Tejano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Spanish tejano, originally a translation of Texan from English.
Inflected forms:
form: Tejanos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Spanish colonial settler of the region that later became Texas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: But when Santa Anna’s forces invaded the renegade province, Seguín and other Tejano leaders joined the secessionists in proclaiming an independent Republic of Texas
gloss: A Texan (especially male) of Mexican descent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Calderon points out as evidence an increase in Tejano record sales worldwide, and the meteoric rise of the young late Tejano recording artist, Selena Quintanilla-Perez.
Translations:
horsehead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From horse + head.
Compound parts: horse
head
Inflected forms:
form: horseheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The head of a horse.
pos: noun
gloss: A pump for pumping oil from an oil well.
pos: noun
gloss: A steel girder supporting the roof of a mine tunnel.
pos: noun
Derived words: horsehead fiddle
Horsehead Nebula
Translations:
endophthalmitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From endo- + ophthalmo- + -itis.
Affixes: endo-
ophthalmo-
-itis
Inflected forms:
form: endophthalmitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: endophthalmites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the interior of the eye.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
extracapsular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From extra- + capsular.
Base: capsular
Affixes: extra-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: intracapsular
Translations:
hypoalbuminemia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From hypo- + albuminemia.
Base: albuminemia
Affixes: hypo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The presence of an abnormally low concentration of albumin in the blood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: hyperalbuminemia
albuminosis
Translations:
intertrochanteric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From inter- + trochanteric.
Base: trochanteric
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between the two trochanters of the femur
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pivotable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pivot + -able.
Base: pivot
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more pivotable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pivotable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being pivoted.
pos: adj
examples: Feist named the album “The Reminder” as “a pivotable riddle: something that could change and feed in and didn’t necessarily have a concrete point to it,” she more or less explained.
Translations:
macrocell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From macro- + cell.
Base: cell
Affixes: macro-
Inflected forms:
form: macrocells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The largest and most powerful type of mobile phone cell.
pos: noun
Translations:
metaphyseal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the metaphysis
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
metaphysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “after”) + Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis, “growth”), equivalent to meta- + -physis.
Base: meta
Inflected forms:
form: metaphyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of a long bone that grows during development.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In this ulna, the margins of the lytic lesion in the proximal metaphysis are fully corticated.
gloss: Change of form; transformation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: metaphysial
Translations:
sunkissed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sun + kissed.
Compound parts: sun
kissed
Inflected forms:
form: more sunkissed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sunkissed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sun-kissed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sunny (exposed to a high amount of sunlight).
pos: adj
examples: Now Greece is making it easier for the rich and famous to fulfill their dreams by preparing to sell, or offering long-term leases on, some of its 6,000 sunkissed islands in a desperate attempt to repay its mountainous debts.
gloss: Rendered warm or brown due to exposure from the sun.
pos: adj
gloss: Having an attractive appearance from recent sun exposure, i.e. a slight tan, often a slight sunburn, and a radiant glow.
pos: adj
gloss: Of black descent.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
euphemistic
offensive
Translations:
trinkle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trinkles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trinkling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trinkled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trinkled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To trickle.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
rare
gloss: To tinkle.
pos: verb
tags: rare
gloss: To play piano, as in "tinkle the ivories."
pos: verb
gloss: To act secretly, or in an underhand way; to tamper.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: others of them have made it their business to trinkle with the members of parliament
Translations:
radiobiological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From radio- + biological.
Base: biological
Affixes: radio-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to radiobiology
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
reoperation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From re- + operation.
Base: operation
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: reoperations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A second or subsequent operation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
subretinal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From sub- + retinal.
Base: retinal
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Underneath the retina
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
trochanteric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From trochanter + -ic.
Base: trochanter
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the trochanter of the femur
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
tachycardic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or exhibiting tachycardia
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dumble
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probable variant of dimble.
Inflected forms:
form: dumbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shady valley, a dingle; especially one with steep wooded sides and a stream running through it.
pos: noun
tags: Midlands
examples: When a stream runs in a deep dell, particularly in clay districts, the steep banks and stream form what are called a “dumble” in Nottinghamshire.
Fine electric activity in sound came from the dumbles below the road, the birds piping one against the other, and water mysteriously plashing, issuing from the lake.
Lambley is famous for its ‘dumbles.’ A dumble being a local name for a shallow dale with a stream.
gloss: The club rush.
pos: noun
tags: East
Yorkshire
examples: Recently Dr. K. J. Allison has come across a Leconfield lease of 1631 which included 'all the earl 's dumbles growing in Arram Carr' ?
In such circumstances it may well be that a natural pool would be enlarged or deepened or an artificial pond created to maintain a suitable habitat for the rush. Later archival references to the rush “dumbles" are for the River Hull valley.
The item from Elizabeth Hotham's account book does not state where the dumbles grew, but in a later account book of Sir Charles Hotham Arram Carr is specified.
Related words: dumbledore
Translations:
Phan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Phish + fan.
Compound parts: Phish
fan
Inflected forms:
form: Phans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fan of the American rock band Phish.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Phish "phans" compile set lists, take notes on performances and tape-record everything from a section designated for them at each show.
But none were as crazy as this one -- when Phish's tie-dyed "Phans" danced in the aisles, sang along to the music and generally created a scene that recalled the Grateful Dead's glory daze.
It was the type of evening -- an entirely mesmerizing and moving two-set concert filled with superb musicianship and incredible improvisation -- that made the undying devotion of the "phans" seem quite logical.
Translations:
downhaul
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From down- + haul.
Base: haul
Affixes: down-
Inflected forms:
form: downhauls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any rope used to haul down a sail or spar.
pos: noun
examples: The only sail that is wholly ours is the spanker. They control absolutely--sheets, halyards, clewlines, buntlines, braces, and down-hauls--every sail on the fore and main. We control the braces on the mizzen, although they control the canvas on the mizzen.
Translations:
modiolus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin modiolus (“wheel's hub”), diminutive of modius (“measure of grain”).
Inflected forms:
form: modioli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The central core of the cochlea
pos: noun
gloss: A chiasma of facial muscles held together by fibrous tissue
pos: noun
Related words: modioliform
Derived words: perimodiolar
Translations:
palpus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: palpi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of pedipalp (“invertebrate appendage”).
pos: noun
Translations:
quillwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From quill + work.
Compound parts: quill
work
Inflected forms:
form: quillworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Decorative textile embellishment made from porcupine quills by certain Native Americans.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On the each end was a leanback made of willow rods tied together in a tapered trapezoidal form set at an angle. Covers of buffalo hide with the hair on and quillwork designs were draped over the leanback and bed surface.
Translations:
blue-nosed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more blue-nosed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blue-nosed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bluenosed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: priggish
pos: adj
gloss: A person from Nova Scotia.
pos: adj
Translations:
one-up-one-down
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: one-up-one-downs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional house with one room upstairs and one room downstairs.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
patera
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Latin patera.
Inflected forms:
form: paterae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in ritual contexts such as libations.
pos: noun
gloss: A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes etc.
pos: noun
gloss: The caldera or crater (dish-shaped depression) atop a volcano, especially an extraterrestrial one; also used in the names of extraterrestrial volcanoes which have such a caldera.
pos: noun
examples: What caused the transitions from explosive to effusive volcanism in the Circum-Hellas Volcanic Province generally and during the eruptive lifetimes of individual highland patera volcanoes?
Note that the eroded plains materials to the right of the patera show no signs of individual lava flows.
Derived words: pateriform
Translations:
left-drag
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: left-drags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: left-dragging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: left-dragged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: left-dragged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To drag an item using the left mouse button.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
right-drag
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: right-drags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: right-dragging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: right-dragged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: right-dragged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To drag an item using the right mouse button.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
tricker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Derived from trick + -er.
Base: trick
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: trickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who tricks or plays tricks; a practical joker; a prankster
pos: noun
Translations:
saltern
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Old English sealtærn, from sealt (“salt”) + ærn (“place, building”).
Inflected forms:
form: salterns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An area used for saltmaking, especially in the East Anglian fenlands.
pos: noun
gloss: A modern saltworks.
pos: noun
Translations:
unsilent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + silent.
Base: silent
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not silent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
flibanserin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Contains -anserin (“serotonin receptor antagonist”).
Affixes: -anserin
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A drug that may be used to treat decreased libido in women
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
garbages
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Garbage; waste; refuse.
pos: noun
tags: India
plural
plural-only
examples: In market areas the commercial people provides necessary incentives to the municipal sweepers to keep the area clean of garbages. The problem is the "disposal" of the garbage.
It is a common observation that garbages are scattered around the slums. The respondents complained that the municipal sweepers seldom bother to collect the accumulated garbages from around the slums.
Translations:
lampas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French [Term?].
Inflected forms:
form: lampases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of luxury fabric with a background weft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
khoa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi खोआ (khoā)/खोया (khoyā).
Inflected forms:
form: khowa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: khoya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A South Asian dairy product made of either dried whole milk or milk thickened by heating.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
broadacre
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From broad + acre.
Compound parts: broad
acre
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to, or suitable for large-scale farming.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
examples: Higher prices for most major broadacre commodities, including wheat, wool and beef, contributed to a large increase in profits for the majority of Australia′s broadacre farms in 2001-02.
The survey covers broadacre agriculture across all of Australia (see Figure 20.1), but excludes small and hobby farms.
Broadacre organic farmers − farmers of sheep, beef and cereals − of the inland and the semiarid interior were particularly active in adapting organic production methods to Australian conditions.
Translations:
tuah
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The sound of spitting.
pos: intj
Translations:
becak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Indonesian becak, from Hokkien 馬車 /马车 (bé-chhia).
Inflected forms:
form: becak
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cycle rickshaw.
pos: noun
tags: Indonesia
Translations: