yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
gravesite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grave
Latin situsder.
Anglo-Norman sitebor.
Middle English site
English site
English gravesite
From grave + site.
Inflected forms:
form: gravesites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The location of a grave.
pos: noun
examples: The gravesites of American soldiers buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial near Margraten have been adopted by Dutch families.
Ethel Kennedy joined President Obama and former President Bill Clinton — each held one of her hands — as they climbed stairs to lay a wreath at President Kennedy’s gravesite during a November 2013 observance of the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death.
gloss: A grave.
pos: noun
Translations:
gridded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a grid, or grids
pos: adj
examples: gridded paper
Translations:
haggling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hagglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who haggles.
pos: noun
examples: All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings.
After weeks of haggling, Transport for London and the Department for Transport agreed a £200 million short-term funding deal that will keep the network running until June.
Translations:
harnessing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: harnessings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The materials used to harness an animal.
pos: noun
examples: All this, along with the carriages and harnessings of the horses, was temporarily housed in the armoury on the east side of one of the inner quadrangles.
Translations:
mangue
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French manger.
Inflected forms:
form: mangues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The kusimanse, a genus of mongoose, Crossarchus.
pos: noun
Translations:
incrementally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incremental
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incrementally
From incremental + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incrementally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incrementally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incremental fashion; by small changes.
pos: adv
examples: The probability density of the Bayesian posterior was estimated by Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo, with multiple incrementally heated chains.
Performance is improving incrementally, depot by depot and diagram by diagram.
Antonyms: decrementally
Translations:
resizable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English resize
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English resizable
From resize + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more resizable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most resizable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: re-sizable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: resizeable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: re-sizeable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: resizables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: re-sizable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: resizeable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: re-sizeable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That can be resized.
pos: adj
gloss: An item that can be resized by the user.
pos: noun
Translations:
conferencing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Communication among multiple participants for serious discussion.
pos: noun
Translations:
parented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the specified kind or number of parents.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: a two-parented family
Translations:
complementarity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
semantics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English complementary
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English complementarity
From complementary + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: complementarities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or characteristic of being complementary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Synergy is one of the most overused words in the English language, but there is a tremendous complementarity to these organizations."
gloss: A semantic relationship between two words wherein negative use of one entails the affirmative of the other with no gradability; the relation of binary antonyms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For complementarity, there are entailments both from affirmative sentences to the corresponding negative sentences (which is what ordinary antonymy allows) and from negative sentences to the corresponding affirmative sentences. [...] That light is on entails That light is not off. That light is not on entails That light is off.
gloss: The idea that physical phenomena may have (mutually contradictory) properties that cannot be observed simultaneously (e.g. wave-particle duality).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: noncomplementarity
Translations:
slobbery
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slobber
English -y
English slobbery
From slobber + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: slobberier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slobberiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wet and slimy, containing slobber, having the consistency of slobber.
pos: adj
examples: He placed one paw on my right thigh and planted a slobbery dog kiss on my cheek.
"Well! Make yourself at home, why don't you?" I joked.
2004, Susan Johnson - The Broken Book page 25.
My own lips are slobbery suckers, the bane of my life, the subject of teasing by Peggy Gordon, who has recently taken to calling me Lubra Lips.
gloss: The behaviour or attitudes of a slob; slobbishness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Darrell Johns […] sat across from him in his plaid Sears wash-and-wear jacket, fast approaching Ruffino's sotted state of slobbery.
Translations:
farter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English farter, fartare, fertere, equivalent to fart + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for a bed or sleeping bag, + -er (patient suffix). Cognate with German Furzer (“farter”).
Base: fart
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: farters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that farts.
pos: noun
gloss: One who ambles along slowly.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
examples: The drive took forty minutes, stuck behind those farters from the backwoods.
gloss: A bed or sleeping bag
pos: noun
tags: Australia
informal
Synonyms: cheese cutter
Related words: fartee
Translations:
jeera
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hindi जीरा (jīrā)bor.
English jeera
Borrowed from Hindi जीरा (jīrā).
Inflected forms:
form: zeera
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zira
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Cumin.
pos: noun
tags: India
uncountable
examples: The vegetarian menu had [...] pizza speckled with jeera.
Translations:
tick-tock
Part of speech: intj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: journalism
media
Etymology: Imitative. See tick.
Inflected forms:
form: tick tock
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ticktock
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: tick-tocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tick-tocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tick-tocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tick-tocked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tick tock
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ticktock
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: tick-tocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tick tock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ticktock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The sound of the ticking of an analog clock.
pos: intj
gloss: Time is running out; a deadline is approaching.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: Near-synonym: clock is ticking
You may be smart enough to elude the law for five years, but your time has run out. Tick tock, motherfucker.
gloss: Time is running out; a deadline is approaching.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
gloss: To make continual clicking sounds like those of an analog clock; to tick.
pos: verb
examples: And so as the clock tick-tocked along at MetLife Stadium on Friday night, the possibility grew into the probability that this frustrating, scoreless quarterfinal between Colombia and Peru would end up in one of those unfortunate, nearly random shootout results.
gloss: When marching, to swing arms and legs on the same side at the same time.
pos: verb
examples: Ex-military didn't pass up the chance to harshly criticise the mediocre stepping, noting their "tick-tocking" technique which is a term used in the army, describing moving arm and leg on the same side in the same direction while marching.
gloss: The sound of a ticking clock.
pos: noun
examples: Stepping inside from the courtyard, there was silence except for the tick-tock of the antique grandfather clock in the great hall. The hulking cream-and-gray flagstones underfoot had been worn away from centuries of service.
gloss: A step-by-step account of an event or timeline.
pos: noun
examples: A few days ago, the Washington Post published a long, depressing ticktock of the Trump administration’s execrable attempts to control the coronavirus and “reopen” the country for business, beginning with a shocking but not exactly surprising anecdote about how the president’s economic advisers had abetted the president’s most destructive impulses.
Related words: second hand
Derived words: tick-tock biological clock
tick-tock model
TikTok
Translations:
tock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.
pos: noun
gloss: To produce such a sound.
pos: verb
examples: The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.
The old clock tocked with a wooden "cluck," and like as not a squirrel would be hopping across the oilcloth table or scrambling along the loose bark of the log wall in search of a stray gingersnap.
Translations:
samphire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally sampiere, from French Saint Pierre (Saint Peter), the patron saint of fishermen who often harvested the plant.
Inflected forms:
form: samphires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: suolasormikki
mijo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish mi
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁ilyós
Proto-Italic *θīlios
Proto-Italic *fīlios
Latin fīlius
Old Spanish fijo
Spanish hijo
Spanish mijobor.
English mijo
Borrowed from Spanish mijo.
Inflected forms:
form: mijos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: miho
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: A term of endearment for a man or boy; dear, darling, my heart.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: but hopefully ill get to hear from you pretty soon.*muah* and hugs. tell mijo im proud of him too! love always, your other half
Casey asked to speak to his grandmother. His parents put her on the phone. “We told her, ‘Casey wants to tell you something,’” Dan Schmitt said. “He told her he really wanted her to come to San Francisco. She hasn’t been out of the house in three years. She has health challenges, medications. But when they started talking, it got pretty emotional. She said, ‘You know, mijo, I’ll be there.’ And here we are.”
I tried to come out a couple times to my abuela, but one time, I said, “I think I’m gay.” And she turned to me and she was like, “You know, mijo, Rachel Maddow is a handsome woman.”
Translations:
harmattan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Twi Akan haramata or a related word (whence also Spanish harmatán). The ultimate origin is supposed by some to be an Arabic word, but which one is uncertain; حَرَام (ḥarām, “accursed thing”) has been suggested.
Inflected forms:
form: harmattans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dry and dusty wind which blows from the Sahara over the Atlantic coast of West Africa in December, January and February, being a hot wind in some areas and a cold wind in others.
pos: noun
examples: Storm-clouds stretched their arms across the sky; from the east, to all appearances, might come a fierce harmattan, or from the south might come the fierce hurricane.
That was many years ago, twenty years or more, and during this time Okonkwo's fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan.
gloss: A season which spans the period in which the harmattan wind blows.
pos: noun
Translations:
epiphenomenalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Hellenic *epí
Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí)
Ancient Greek ἐπῐ- (epĭ-)der.
English epi-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)
Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor.
Late Latin phaenomenonder.
English phenomenon
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
▲
Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor.
French phénomène
▲
Old French -al
Middle French -al
French -al
French phénoménalbor.
English phenomenal
English epiphenomenal
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 epiphenomenalism
From epiphenomenal + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: epiphenomenalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The textbook account of epiphenomenalism goes something like this. Although our thoughts, desires, and other mental states seem to affect what happens in the world, by bringing about changes in our behavior or subsequent mental states, this is only an appearance, cast off by the real physical sequence of cause and effect that underlies our mental life.
gloss: Such a doctrine, as advanced by a particular thinker or school of thought.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The theory of emergent evolution has been largely developed as a corrective of mechanistic theories with their attendant psycho-physical dualisms and epiphenomenalisms.
Related words: epiphenomenon
epiphenomenal
epiphenomenalist
epiphenomenalistic
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: epifenomenalismi
lang: German
word: Epiphänomenalismus
lang: Polish
word: epifenomenalizm
parcelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: parcellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parceling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of the long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used also in mousing on the stays, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The wind continuing very light; all hands were sent aloft to strip off the chafing gear; and battens, parcellings, roundings, hoops, mats, and leathers, came flying from aloft, and left the rigging neat and clean, stripped of all its sea bandaging.
This effectively prepares the way for the parcelling to produce a smooth finish, prior to serving.
gloss: A system for dividing something up.
pos: noun
examples: […] these are posterior Divisions, fallen upon as Brandenburg (under Albert chiefly) enlarged itself, and needed new Official parcellings into departments.
That many different parcellings of phenomena for the purposes of theoretical explanation are conceivable does not however show that these parcellings can be quite arbitrary.
Spaces of the imagination rather than tidy parcellings.
gloss: The division of land into parcels.
pos: noun
examples: The parcelling of large estates into smaller agricultural units swelled the area of peasants' land by 1,759,000 acres.
Another category of norms is valid for parcellings taking place after 2 December 1966 , but preceding the date ( 1 September 1967) when the Lege Ponte entered into force; while a third category of norms applies to parcellings carried out after 1 September 1967.
Near the coast, tidal creeks and high marshland formed a landscape with irregular parcellings.
gloss: The manner in which something is structured or packaged for sale, including the use of a specific size, material, color, font, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Most of the commodities have their own special parcellings, in the absence of which its market would be impeded and prices would have a tendency to become artificial.
They may have special shades of paper stamps or "chops," tickets, tapes, ribbons, and parcellings.
The smallest number of parcellings are found in the group of small volume texts—in 1.5% of cases. In advertising of medium volume, parcellings are used in 14% of texts.
Translations:
unwrapped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not wrapped.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unwrapped gift
unwrapped text in a wordprocessor
Translations:
dement
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Vulgar Latin dē
Vulgar Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *méntis
Proto-Italic *mentis
Vulgar Latin mēns
Vulgar Latin dēmēns
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Vulgar Latin -ō
Vulgar Latin dēmentōder.
English dement
Borrowed from Middle French dement, from Latin demens; verb from Vulgar Latin dementare (“to deceive; to drive mad”), also from Latin dēmēns (“demented, mad”).
Inflected forms:
form: dements
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dementing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: demented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: demented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make (someone) demented; to drive mad.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To show signs of dementia; to develop dementia.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: dementation
Derived words: dementor
Translations:
sneakerhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sneaker + -head. The birth of sneakerhead culture came in the late 1980s and can be attributed to two major sources: basketball and hip hop music.
Base: sneaker
Affixes: -head
Inflected forms:
form: sneakerheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who owns multiple pairs of shoes as a form of collection and fashion.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: That culture waned in the late 80's and the 90's —remember Jerry Seinfeld in his clunky, generic white sneakers— but now the sneakerhead is back.
The rise of sneakerheads, as aficionados of artistically enhanced footwear call themselves, has had a contagious impact on shoe companies.
Mr. Luber, who, like many sneakerheads, speaks of his footwear collection as if it were an ever-expanding portfolio, started collecting at age 10.
Translations:
parasitized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
pedalled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having, involving, or being operated by pedals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The bicycle is a pedalled vehicle.
The Erard pianos used by Chopin were particularly good at sustaining a pedalled note
She also made us clothes on a pedalled sewing machine.
Translations:
pedaled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pedaled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pedaled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
peepshow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From peep + show.
Compound parts: peep
show
Inflected forms:
form: peepshows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: peep show
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass.
pos: noun
examples: Beautiful peepshows with hand-coloured engravings by Martin Englebrecht, 1684-1756, were produced in Augsburg about 1740. The box, about six inches cube, contained slots to take four cut-out scenes, the front of the box had another cut-out, and the back was painted with a landscape, making six 'curtains' in all.
gloss: A titillating or pornographic display viewed through a small slot, generally equipped with a timer to automatically close the slot when payment has expired.
pos: noun
Related words: raree show
Translations:
physicality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English physical
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English physicality
From physical + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: physicalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Physical attributes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their bodies started to melt, and lost what physicality they had. Pretty soon, all of the test subjects had melted together into … Those.
At the heart of that was McTominay, using his physicality to break down Spanish momentum, and his reading of the game to stymie their attacks.
gloss: Obsession with physical urges.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: physicalness
Derived words: nonphysicality
Translations:
picnicking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English picnic
English -ing
English picnicking
From picnic + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: picnickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An expedition for the purpose of having a picnic.
pos: noun
examples: This sentiment was particularly approved by Lady Jane, who had a childish liking for expeditions and picnickings, and who had set her heart upon carrying out her drive that afternoon.
Translations:
pilotless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pilot
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 pilotless
From pilot + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not having a pilot.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bevor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English baviere, from Old French baviere (“child's bib”), from baver (“to slaver”).
Inflected forms:
form: bevors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beaver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bever
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck, typically in two parts, called upper bevor and lower bevor.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He who lookes you in the face, ſaith he ſees you, though the reſt of your bodie be within your cloathes, and if you, being an ὁωλομάχος a cataphract in your proteſtantiſh πανοπλία [panoplía, suit of armour] should for fear pull downe your beuer before you come into the liſt, your Aduerſarie for all that might light vpon your (  ) vnleſſe you bring with you Giges his ring, ſo to make your ſelf inuiſible; [...]
Since gorgets completely encircled the neck, they were usually more articulated than the bevors to allow for some movement of the neck and head. Bevors typically were open in back but extended up above the wearer′s jaw on the sides and front. Use of a bevor or a gorget depended upon the type of helmet the knight wore[…].
For heavy field use a reinforcing breastplate was sometimes added, together with a wrapper over the upper bevor.
Many helmets had an upper part joined with hinges to a bevor, which protected the knight′s lower face and jaw.
Translations:
dealmaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From deal + making.
Compound parts: deal
making
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The making of commercial, financial or political deals
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Anatolian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Anatolia
Middle English -n
English -n
English Anatolian
From Anatolia + -n.
Inflected forms:
form: Anatolians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Anatolia or its people, culture, etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Anatolia.
pos: noun
Translations:
forel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English forel (“case, sheath”), from Old French forrel, fourrel.
Inflected forms:
form: forels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: foreling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: forelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: foreled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: foreled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: forelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: forelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A kind of coarse parchment for book covers; a forrill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: To bind with a forel.
pos: verb
examples: As for Josephus's conceit , that the second edition of the temple by Zerubbabel , as it was new forelled and filleted with gold by Herod , was a statelier volume than the first of Solomon
Translations:
tritone
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tréyes
Proto-Indo-European *tri-
Proto-Italic *tri-
Latin tri-der.
English tri-
English tone
English tritone
From tri- + tone.
Inflected forms:
form: tri-tone
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having three tones.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The first cotume^([sic]) in which Mrs. Earle appeared was a tritone dress of crepe, with a brown velour cloche and brown calf sling pumps.
Fortrel-and-rayon-linen tritone dress, with drawstring waist.
Tritone jacket has contrast nylon inserts. 80(Blue/Red/Wht.), 38(Beige/Navy/Red).
It is hard to believe that today’s signs may be tomorrow’s beloved ghosts, but sure as my 1970’s polyester tritone shirt and my plebeian 1964 Volvo are now “classics,” it will likely be so.
Translations:
reworking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: reworkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act in which something is reworked.
pos: noun
examples: What is ancient for us was in its own time a reworking of what was ancient for the ancients.
It was the exhilaration of moments like this that made the audience somewhat restless during the band's long warm-up sets later in the evening, sets primarily made up of craftsmanly but unimaginative reworkings of contemporary pop-funk.
Translations:
concertante
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian concertante, originally present participle of concertare (“to form or perform a concert”).
Inflected forms:
form: concertantes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A concert for two or more solo instrumentalists, with orchestral accompaniment.
pos: noun
Translations:
touchline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
soccer
sports
Etymology: From touch + line.
Compound parts: touch
line
Inflected forms:
form: touchlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: touch line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of the lines that mark the border limits of the pitch.
pos: noun
examples: French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.
Some kids were having a kickabout on the grass beside the walkway, cheering, groaning, calling for the ball, absorbed in the game, a self-contained universe marked out by jackets for goalposts and invisible touchlines.
Translations:
tamping
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tamp
English -ing
English tamping
From tamp + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more tamping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tamping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tampings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very angry; fuming.
pos: adj
tags: Wales
gloss: The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, with earth, sand, or similar material in order to contain and direct explosive force meant to blast the rock or collapse the mine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The material used in tamping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: tamping iron
tamping machine
Translations:
tailfin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From tail + fin.
Compound parts: tail
fin
Inflected forms:
form: tailfins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tail fin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fin at the tail of a fish, caudal fin
pos: noun
gloss: A fin on the tail of an aircraft, vertical stabilizer
pos: noun
gloss: A fin-like projection at the rear of a car, common on American cars of the 1950s.
pos: noun
Translations:
swiveled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a swivel.
pos: adj
Translations:
swivelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: swivellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swiveling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that swivels.
pos: noun
examples: Around us, groups of girls with short summer dresses hoicked up to tan their milky white thighs sat on thin jackets and aerated the grass with coy swivellings of their spiky heels.
Translations:
switchable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
Etymology: Etymology tree
English switch
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 switchable
From switch + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being switched.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Being a switch; able to take either a dominant or a submissive role.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: nonswitchable
photoswitchable
unswitchable
Translations:
swallower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English swallow
English -er
English swallower
From swallow + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: swallowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who swallows.
pos: noun
tags: agent
slang
vulgar
gloss: One who swallows.
pos: noun
tags: agent
gloss: Any fish of the family Chiasmodontidae.
pos: noun
Derived words: black swallower
sword swallower
Translations:
swaging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: swagings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of shaping metal with a swage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After repeated swagings and heatings […]
Translations:
sloot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans sloot, from Dutch sloot, from Middle Dutch slote, sloot, from Old Dutch *slōt, from Proto-West Germanic *slaut.
Inflected forms:
form: sloots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sluit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A ditch.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
gloss: An irrigation channel.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
archaic
examples: Gorton, Ixopo, continues to suffer from prolonged drought. The Ixopo has not been so low for the last fifty years. Some sluits around here have ceased running.
Translations:
semi-highway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
English highway
English semi-highway
From semi- + highway.
Inflected forms:
form: semi-highways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An undivided road, usually two lanes, which is built on one roadway of a highway and functions as a temporary replacement until the second roadway is built.
pos: noun
Translations:
darb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: darbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something beautiful, a charm, a peach.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Ain't it a darb?
“Boss,” he exclaimed, “it's a darb.”
“It's more than that,” I cut in, “it′s a wonder. It′s a masterpiece.[…]”
‘My new bird is a darb,’ he says, ‘only four months old and he′s got a roll and a chop the size of your arm. Never heard a young bird sing like that.’
1941, Amazing Stories, Ziff-Davis, Volume 15, Issues 1-6, page 21,
You can figure for yourself what a darb of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers!
I looked at the snapshot of his sister for a long while, and I suddenly pitied the Hallmark people, and all the other sterile unfortunates who are manufacturing and consuming ready-made greeting cards, because, even among their choicest items, among their most expensive numbers, they had never been able to corner a Christmas angel that deserved to hold a candle to little Tessa Pavlic. She was a darb.
"She's very beautiful," I said, handing him back his picture.
gloss: A cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
Translations:
durry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from Bull Durham (an American tobacco brand) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: durries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: durrie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cigarette, especially a roll-your-own.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
colloquial
examples: “Fire-head lady, you got a smoke?” asks the younger of the two men. “You got a durry. Cigarette.”
He pulled a tobacco pouch out of his pocket with a plastic bag containing what had to be a mind-altering substance. “You′re welcome to join me in a durry,” he said, rolling himself a cigarette.
He thought for a moment as he deftly rolled the paper and tobacco into a durry, licked the edge and stuck it down.
This was the first thing Yolanda knew in the dark morning. (That and where's my durries?)
Translations:
uncomfortableness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English uncomfortable
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 uncomfortableness
From uncomfortable + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Discomfort, especially uneasiness associated with awkwardness, embarrassment, or self-consciousness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It took away all the uncomfortableness, and we felt mighty good over it, because it would a been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; […]
Translations:
de-muck
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English muck
English de-muck
From de- + muck.
Inflected forms:
form: de-mucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: de-mucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: de-mucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: de-mucked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove muck or dirt from.
pos: verb
examples: Fill, grading, removing boulders, de-mucking and any other preparation needed on the site can be a nightmare of costs.
Our squirrel.
Translations:
dismaying
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dismaying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dismaying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Disheartening; daunting.
pos: adj
Translations:
superheterodyne
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
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-
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
English -dyne
English heterodyne
English superheterodyne
From super- + heterodyne.
Inflected forms:
form: superheterodynes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a technique used in radio and television receivers to tune to a particular frequency, or to receivers using such a technique.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Approaching Louisville, the Tin Hind was almost swallowed up in the Great Ohio Flood (which preoccupied the radio news for days; I hung over my superheterodyne set) and he was unable to visit a new correspondent of Lovecraft's there.
gloss: A receiver of this kind.
pos: noun
Translations:
supercharged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Equipped with a supercharger.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Boosted.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: On Tuesday, every Republican running for statewide office won by at least 16 points, leaving little doubt that Florida is Republican country — and that Mr. DeSantis’s political career has become supercharged.
gloss: Debruised, surmounted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [...] And over all, an Inescutcheon Azure, the whole supercharged by a Saltire Argent.
The Moretuses took as their arms : Of gold with an eagle of sable charged upon his breast with a scutcheon of gules, supercharged with a star radiating with gold on a champaign checked with azure and five strokes silver.
[...] is a blue cross supercharged with one of red, the whole enclosed by a blue [...]
Derived words: unsupercharged
Translations:
whydah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of the first component of widow bird, after Whydah (now Ouidah) in Benin.
Inflected forms:
form: whydahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whidah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whyda
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wydah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various black and white African birds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds.
pos: noun
Translations:
worldling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós
Proto-Germanic *weraz
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi
Proto-Germanic *alaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Germanic *-þiz
Proto-Germanic *aldiz
Proto-Germanic *weraldiz
Proto-West Germanic *weraldi
Old English weorold
Middle English world
English world
English -ling
English worldling
From world + -ling.
Inflected forms:
form: worldlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mundane person, preoccupied with worldly affairs rather than spiritual matters.
pos: noun
examples: A foutra for the world and worldlings base!
These wicked wares, that worldlings buy and sell,
The moth will eat, or else the canker rust:
All flesh is grass, and to the grave it must.
[…] if the simple look benevolently on money, how much more do your old worldlings regard it! Their affections rush out to meet and welcome money.
Disgusted with the world and worldlings, I drove down to an estate of my father's, in Suffolk, determined to “misanthropise” and be romantic ; but all my plans were disconcerted by the “Large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands” of Miss Emily Hathenden, whose estate bordered on my own.
His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony—the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings—to save him as a human offering to their flaming deity.
Translations:
breeding-ground
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: breeding-grounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: breeding ground
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A place or region where animals go to breed.
pos: noun
gloss: A place or institution seen as creating large numbers of a stated thing, type of person, etc.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Harris criticized the report's emphasis on enforcement, noting that, "Putting people in jail won't stop the virus from spreading." In fact, prisons are virtual breeding grounds for AIDS, due to lack of safer sex and safer drug use education, condoms and uncontaminated needles.
Echoing Allen Ginsberg, he contends that the suburban setting of “Father Knows Best” is most accurately seen as America's “ludicrous breeding ground for the young meat who will be fed into its wars and rat races and inhuman conformities.”
What, wonder the denigrators, is county cricket for (if you ignore for a moment the small matter of providing a breeding-ground for the Test team)?
Related words: fever swamp
hotbed
nidus
Translations:
Clementine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin clēmentīnus, from Late Latin Clēmens (“Clement”) (genitive Clēmentis) + -īnus (“of or pertaining to”), from clēmens (“merciful”). By surface analysis, Clement + -ine (adjectival suffix).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Clement, especially to Pope Clement I and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V and his compilations of canon law, or to the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate (commonly called the Clementine Vulgate).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
turbocharged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From turbo- + charged.
Base: charged
Affixes: turbo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a turbocharger.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With all-wheel-drive and a 300-horsepower turbocharged 3-cylinder engine, the GR is far more powerful than the standard, front-wheel-drive Corolla hatchback.
Translations:
Roundhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From round + head, from their short-cropped hairstyle.
Compound parts: round
head
Inflected forms:
form: Roundheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A supporter of parliament during the English Civil War (in the 17th century).
pos: noun
tags: historical
informal
Translations:
roundhead
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English round
English -head
English roundhead
From round + -head.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a dome-shaped head.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The roundhead screw and its fraternal twins, the button head and pan head screws, have a head that is flat on the bottom and hemispherical on top.
You can use flat-head screws and plug the holes, or you can use roundhead blue screws and let the heads project.
Translations:
bucketload
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bucket + load.
Compound parts: bucket
load
Inflected forms:
form: bucketloads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: As much as a bucket can hold
pos: noun
gloss: A large amount.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Related words: bucketful
Translations:
cavefish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cave + fish.
Compound parts: cave
fish
Inflected forms:
form: cavefishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cavefish
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various fish, typically blind and lacking pigment, that inhabit subterranean waters.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various fish, typically blind and lacking pigment, that inhabit subterranean waters.
pos: noun
Derived words: northern cavefish
Ozark cavefish
Translations:
cytomegalovirus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
Etymology: Internationalism. Borrowed from taxonomic name Cytomegalovirus, equivalent to cyto- + megalo- + virus.
Base: virus
Affixes: cyto-
megalo-
Inflected forms:
form: cytomegaloviruses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: CMV
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Any of several herpes viruses, of the genus Cytomegalovirus, that infect the salivary glands of certain primates, including humans.
pos: noun
examples: The peak period for the development of acute graft-versus-host disease overlaps with the time during which cytomegalovirus infection occurs.
Prophylactic virostatic treatment with aciclovir did not prevent cytomegalovirus infection in an immune suppressed patient.
Additional study is necessary to elucidate the contribution, if any, of cytomegalovirus to the development of this syndrome and to determine optimum therapy.
Translations:
deformability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deform
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English deformability
From deform + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: deformabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being deformable
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A measure of the extent to which something is deformable (under standard conditions)
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
dodecahedral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dodeca- + -hedral.
Base: dodeca
Inflected forms:
form: duodecahedral
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having twelve plane surfaces.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hexahedral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hexa- + -hedral.
Base: hexa
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having six plane surfaces.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
yellowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: yellowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of turning yellow.
pos: noun
examples: Rusty spotting and yellowings occur on the lower basal leaves.
Translations:
yellowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more yellowed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most yellowed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having acquired a yellow color (or discoloration), especially when due to age; having been made yellow.
pos: adj
Translations: