yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Benedictus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Western-Christianity
entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin benedictus (“blessed, praised”), from benedīcō (“to speak well (of)”).
Inflected forms:
form: Benedictuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Gospel canticle of Zechariah (Luke 1:68–79), with the incipit Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel (“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel”).
pos: noun
gloss: The second part of the Sanctus, beginning, Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini (“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”), and historically often sung as a separate piece of music.
pos: noun
gloss: The music that accompanies either of the above.
pos: noun
Translations:
petto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Only used in in petto
pos: noun
Translations:
bemusing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bemusing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bemusing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wryly perplexing.
pos: adj
Translations:
pellicle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
biology
cooking
cytology
dentistry
engineering
food
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
mycology
natural-sciences
optics
photography
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin pellicula, from pellis (“skin”). Doublet of pellicule.
Inflected forms:
form: pellicles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pellicula
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A thin skin or film.
pos: noun
gloss: A cuticle, the hard protective outer layer of certain life forms.
pos: noun
gloss: The outermost layer of a mushroom; the skin of a mushroom cap; especially, a surface that is viscid and easily peels off.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin layer supporting the cell membrane in various protozoa.
pos: noun
gloss: The growth on the surface of a liquid culture.
pos: noun
gloss: A skin or coating of proteins on the surface of meat to be smoked, improving the surface adhesion.
pos: noun
gloss: A coating of glycoproteins from saliva that forms on teeth; it offers some protection to the enamel from bacterial acidity.
pos: noun
gloss: The photosensitive emulsion of photographic film.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin plastic membrane used as a beam splitter or protective cover (for example, to protect a photomask).
pos: noun
Related words: pelisse
pell
pellage
pellagra
pellicula
pellicular
pelt
peltry
Translations:
nullity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French nullité and its etymon Medieval Latin nūllitās, from Latin nūllus. By surface analysis, null + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: nullities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being null, or void, or invalid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: nullity of marriage
gloss: A void act; a defective proceeding or one expressly declared by statute to be a nullity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The dimension of the kernel of a linear transformation; the dimension of the nullspace of a matrix.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: rank-nullity theorem
Translations:
foot-pound-second
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: foot-pound-seconds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a measurement system that uses the foot as a measure of distance, the pound as a measure of force, and the second as a measure of time. Abbreviations: ft-lb-s, fps, f.p.s.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A unit of mechanical power, equal to that required to raise one pound through a distance of one foot in one second.
pos: noun
Translations:
bagasse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French bagasse, from Spanish bagazo, from baga (“berry”).
Inflected forms:
form: bagasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The residue from processing sugar cane after the juice is extracted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
segno
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian segno, from Latin signum. Doublet of sign.
Inflected forms:
form: segnos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: segni
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sign 𝄋, indicating the start of a passage of music to be repeated.
pos: noun
Translations:
Newf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of Newfoundlander.
Inflected forms:
form: Newfs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Newfie, Newfoundlander (person)
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Newfoundland (dog)
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
bluenose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
Etymology: From blue + nose.
* See sense 2: Coined in references to the color blue as the color of the Presbyterians or Blue law.
* See sense 3: Possibly coined in reference to early Nova Scotian sailors whose noses were alleged to turn blue from the cold, or possibly coined in reference to the early settlers who would frequently eat blue potatoes and herring.
Compound parts: blue
nose
Inflected forms:
form: bluenoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prude.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Used among Roman Catholics for a Protestant (specifically Puritan).
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A person who has crossed the Arctic Circle.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: That summer the Clipper detoured north on its way to Norway so that cadets could be initiated as bluenoses. She passed between the Shetland and Orkney islands on her way to cross the Arctic Circle at Greenwich.
gloss: A variety of potato from Nova Scotia, Canada.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A follower of Everton Football Club.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A follower of Birmingham City Football Club.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A trout cod (Maccullochella macquariensis)
pos: noun
tags: Australia
US
gloss: Antarctic butterfish (Hyperoglyphe antarctica)
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
US
gloss: blue-throated wrasse (Notolabrus tetricus)
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Related words: blue-nosed
bluenoser
Translations:
cursus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cursus. Doublet of course and cour.
Inflected forms:
form: cursuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cursus
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: cursūs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cursi
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: A course; a journey or progression.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: His cursus from Fréjus to Paris turned into a triumphal march, with whole towns and villages staging ceremonial entrées for him and cheering his passage.
gloss: A long ditch or trench of unknown function, constructed in Neolithic Britain and Ireland.
pos: noun
gloss: A racecourse.
pos: noun
gloss: An academic curriculum.
pos: noun
gloss: A form of daily prayer or service.
pos: noun
Translations:
manzanilla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably named for the town near Seville.
Inflected forms:
form: manzanillas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pale, dry fino sherry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A kind of small roundish olive with a small freestone pit, a fine skin, and a somewhat bitter taste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Manzanillas are commonly pitted and stuffed with Spanish pimientos.
Prices for the two main types of Spanish style green olives - manzanillas and queens - vary according to the size of the crop of each. In some years queens will be more expensive than manzanillas […]
gloss: An American flowering plant of species Malvaviscus arboreus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cussing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cussings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who cusses, or uses bad language.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: […] the whining Yankee cussings, the spluttering Dutchman's swearings, and the imitative intonations of the Celestial.
Translations:
cussed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more cussed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cussed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Ill-tempered, nasty, obstinate.
pos: adj
tags: US
informal
gloss: Cursed, damned.
pos: adj
tags: dated
informal
examples: No one ever see him down on his luck till this cussed fever took him, Our rations was often short, but it was share and share alike down to the last pipe o' baccy.
gloss: Very, cussedly, accursedly.
pos: adv
tags: US
informal
not-comparable
Derived words: cussedness
Translations:
car-house
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: car-houses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A garage or a building for a car, typically separate from a house.
pos: noun
examples: Jem picked up a rock and threw it jubilantly at the car-house
Translations:
felicitate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin fēlicitātus, perfect passive participle of fēlīcitō (“to felicitate”) (from fēlīx (“happy”)), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French féliciter.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: felicitates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: felicitating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: felicitated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: felicitated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To congratulate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […]we contemplate death under quite a different aspect;—creating in us such sweet influences of joy, that our beloved brethren, under one common Father, have attained what we ought all to be in search of, the heavenly goal, that rather than repine at this their advancement, we sincerely felicitate them.
[…] he waddled to the platform, bowed as low as his belly would permit, and was duly decorated and felicitated […]
Still, he tucked in handsomely to bacon and tomato on fried bread, felicitating himself on the considered wisdom of his arrival in the character of guest to Bradly.
Translations:
felicitations
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Congratulations! Well done!
pos: intj
Translations:
boned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a (specific type of) bone.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: hollow-boned;   thick-boned
Most of the words came straight through the girls’ neat little well-powdered noses, which didn’t flinch at all. Noses are boned, you know, at least half-way down, so they don’t show the results of ill-treatment very soon.
gloss: Of computer-generated animations: based on models with simulated bones or joints.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: O cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones; it bones for thee.
gloss: Broken.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
gloss: Having had the bones removed before cooking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Fitted with bones.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having the legs straightened during a trick.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Bro, for sure you were all boned out, but I wasn't rolling.
Related words: boner
Derived words: bare-boned
big-boned
preboned
rawboned
raw-boned
twitter-boned
Translations:
lang: Hungarian
word: csontozott
lang: Hungarian
word: kicsontozott
lang: Italian
word: disossato
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: beinløs
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: beinlaus
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: benløs
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: beinlaus
lang: Sicilian
word: sdisussatu
ferryboat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From ferry + boat.
Compound parts: ferry
boat
Inflected forms:
form: ferryboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ferry-boat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ferry boat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule
pos: noun
examples: He insists that it is practically undisputed that, when the ferryboat crossed the bow of the tug to make her slip, she crossed at a distance of at least 300 feet away
The ferryboat "Argentina" rides toward Golden Gate, her ocean-going prow slicing the waves.
It was on this vessel that the founder of the second largest ferryboat company on Puget Sound...
Translations:
ferryman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ferry
English -man
English ferryman
From ferry + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: ferrymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who operates a ferry.
pos: noun
gloss: Charon.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
Translations:
fetcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fecchere, equivalent to fetch + -er.
Base: fetch
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: fetchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or thing that fetches something
pos: noun
examples: More and more people agreed to help with the mailings, the hand-distribution of flyers, and telephonings. Others agreed to be gofers and fetchers.
Translations:
firedamp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From fire + damp with 'damp' not in the usual sense of 'moist' but old German, modern Dutch, Danish 'damp' as steam or vapour, hence a gas liable to catch fire.
Compound parts: fire
damp
Inflected forms:
form: firedamps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fire damp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fire-damp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A flammable gas (mostly methane) found in coal mines; forms an explosive mixture with air.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
fishcake
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fish + cake.
Compound parts: fish
cake
Inflected forms:
form: fishcakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fish cake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fish-cake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mixture of flaked fish, mashed potato or another starch, and seasoning, made into a patty and shallow fried.
pos: noun
examples: There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
Translations:
fishnet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English fishnet; equivalent to fish + net.
Compound parts: fish
net
Inflected forms:
form: fishnets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A net used to catch fish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The fishnets were hung over bushes to dry.
gloss: A fabric mesh with an open diamond-shaped structure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: All the little minnows which were not caught for bait this spring may well give thanks to the women of the U. S. who have adopted fishnet turbans, scarfs, belts and skirts as items in their sports outfits.
gloss: Stockings made of fishnet fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
examples: Fishnets are for catching men.
I don't see people walking around in the fishnets, heels and make-up, but I do see alot^([sic]) of guys with the short bleached blonde hair, the baggy sweats, and other Eminemesque fashions...
Derived words: fishnet stockings
fishnetted
Translations:
fishpond
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fishpond; equivalent to fish + pond.
Base: fish
Inflected forms:
form: fishponds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fish pond
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fish-pond
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A freshwater pond stocked with fish; especially one formerly attached to a monastery etc as a source of food.
pos: noun
examples: Constructed of hard flint stone, which came as ballast from England and is now painted coral white, the house has a fishpond, or catchment, roof, dating from 1788, to collect rainwater.
Incarcerated in earth-filled boxes, the hapless annelids face execution in the morning. Death by immersion in fishponds, death by cruel hooks.
Translations:
fistful
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fist (noun) + -ful.
Base: fist
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: fistfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fistsful
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount that can be held in a closed fist.
pos: noun
gloss: A small number of something.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: At Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, he survived to pilot Navy reconnaissance planes again and pick up a fistful of medals, from the Purple Heart to the Distinguished Flying Cross.
gloss: A blow with the fist.
pos: noun
Translations:
five-and-dime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
government
military
poker
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: five-and-dimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: five and dime
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 5 & dime
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A store selling inexpensive items.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: I got my first real six-string / Bought it at the five-and-dime / Played it 'til my fingers bled / Was the summer of '69
I was working part time in a five-and-dime / My boss was Mr. McGee / He told me several times that he didn't like my kind
gloss: A two pair, composed of fives and tens.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A five and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: The 5th Battalion 10th Marines, a US artillery battalion.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Admiral Fitzwallace: A three hour patrol of the no-fly with the five-and-dime.
Related words: nickel and dime
Translations:
five-and-ten
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: five-and-tens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: five and ten
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A five-and-dime.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Christmas toys—windup robots and air guns and painted trains—filled the front window of the five-and-ten.
Translations:
flannels
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: clothing made of flannel; especially trousers and underwear.
pos: noun
Translations:
stowaway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From stow away, from stow and away.
Inflected forms:
form: stowaways
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stow-away
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.
pos: noun
examples: “Oh, I don't mind 'em, sir,” said Archy; “I knew it all before now. Didn't I hear 'em in the hold? And didn't I tell Cabaco here of it? What say ye, Cabaco? They are stowaways, Mr. Flask.”
In every sense of the expression he is ‘on deck’; but my Jim, for the most part, skulked down below as though he had been a stowaway.
One explanation came to me, and I leaped at it—the possibility of a stowaway hidden in the hold, some maniacal fugitive who had found in the little cargo boat’s empty hull ample room to hide.
My client is an infant, a poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny.
Translations:
screeching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: screechings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of producing a screech.
pos: noun
examples: hysterical screechings
Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.
Translations:
defo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: defamation
pos: noun
tags: Australia
informal
uncountable
Translations:
hornbook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: law
Etymology: From horn + book.
Compound parts: horn
book
Inflected forms:
form: hornbooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Yes, yes, he teaches boyes the Horne-Booke: […]
HO′RNBOOK. n.ʃ. [horn and book] The firſt book of children, covered vvith horn to keep it unſoiled.
By way of the hornbook Shakespeare would have learned to read, […]
Infants learned their letters from a hornbook, a square of wood shaped like a table-tennis bat on which were pasted the alphabet, syllables and the Lord's Prayer […]
The hornbook is the first piece of instructional material specifically mentioned in American records.
Not only is it difficult to extract just the right doozy of an adjective out of the hornbook, but the maneuver can be performed at most twice in the course of an article or chapter.
gloss: A legal textbook that provides a basic overview of a particular area of law.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: abecedarium
lang: Swedish
word: abc-bok
Catalina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
commerce
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
retail
war
Inflected forms:
form: Catalinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A twin-engined amphibious aircraft used during the Second World War.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A Catalina coupon.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A locality in the Eurobodalla council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
pos: noun
Translations:
hexing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hexings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of casting a hex or curse.
pos: noun
Translations:
brewster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: After David Brewster.
Inflected forms:
form: brewsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of stress optical coefficient which is equal to 10⁻¹² m²/N or 10⁻¹² Pa⁻¹. Symbol: B.
pos: noun
Translations:
siciliano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sicilianos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: siciliane
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of siciliana.
pos: noun
Translations:
even-tempered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more even-tempered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most even-tempered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Remaining calm even in situations that would cause many others to become angry, frustrated, panicky, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Who has not known some even-tempered old man or woman who seemed to have drunk of the fountain of youth?
If you just want to hear beautiful music, this album is delightful. It is in the same general style of the Paul Winter Consort and the albums from Windham Hill, being lovely, even-tempered but not dispassionate music which stimulates relaxation and thoughtfulness.
Translations:
Garratt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Developed by Herbert William Garratt, a British locomotive engineer.
Inflected forms:
form: Garratts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts, with a boiler mounted on the centre frame, and two steam engines mounted on separate frames, one on each end of the boiler.
pos: noun
examples: The 13th class were the first Garratts on the line and on arrival were set to work on the Villa [sic: Vila] Machado-Umtali section, increasing the train load from the 350 tons hauled by the 9th class to 450 tons.
Translations:
mezzotint
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed Italian mezzatinta (literally “half dye”).
Inflected forms:
form: mezzotints
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mezzotinto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: mezzotints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mezzotinting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mezzotinted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mezzotinted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mezzotinto
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A form of intaglio etching in which a metal plate is roughened evenly and then smoothed to bring out an image.
pos: noun
gloss: An etching or print made using this method.
pos: noun
gloss: To make such etchings
pos: verb
Derived words: mezzograph
mezzotinter
mezzotintist
Translations:
schoolie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: equestrianism
fishing
government
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
military
pets
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English school
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
▲
Scots -ieinflu.
English -ie
English schoolie
From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: schoolies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: schooly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: skoolie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: Known as the Drug Awareness Network, it was able to find funding assistance for its work from the National Drug Education unit. The network devised a programme of activities which was later advertised to intending Schoolies by helpers walking the streets and distributing leafets containing information about forthcoming events.
Some of the locals prey on the Schoolies.
If staying in November or December, the place is filled with hundreds of schoolies.
But the victim in this case had been a schoolie, she′d been assaulted during Schoolies Week, and her attacker might have been a fellow schoolie.
gloss: A schoolteacher.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: An education officer.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Arbroath, being a training station for young naval airmen, also housed several ‘schoolies’ (education officers), four of whom lived in an adjacent building to mine. I quickly struck up a close friendship with two of the schoolies, Ron Horner and Vivian Price.
gloss: A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: 1997 August, Lawrence Pine, Massachusetts′s Plymouth Rock Bass, Field & Stream, page 94,
Poppers and Clouser-style flies can produce large numbers of schoolies that average 16 to 24 inches, with a sprinkling of fish from 24 to 28 inches.
Oklahomans Jim Campbell and Gary Tyler caught 123 peacocks (including two teeners) by concentrating on the schoolies with jigs and other small lures that day.
Schoolies tend to concentrate inside harbors and along beaches, often moving far inside tidal creeks and salt ponds.
gloss: Synonym of school horse.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A public school meal, the school cafeteria food.
pos: noun
tags: New-York-City
slang
examples: Idk how the schoolie in Georgia is but nyc schoolie is a 5 star gourmet meal
the schoolie mozzarella sticks are the best meal out of nyc lunch
Who eats schoolie 😭
Related words: toolie
Derived words: schoolies week
Translations:
florescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin florēscō, from flōreō (“to bloom, flower”) + -ēscō, from flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”), as if through the form flōrēscentia.
Inflected forms:
form: florescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The time, or the condition, of budding or flowering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Oh, you are a dear!" exclaimed Nora, who has been placed at a considerable disadvantage by being introduced just at this stage of her florescence.
Translations:
florescent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin florescens, present active participle of floresco (“I flower”).
Inflected forms:
form: more florescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most florescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Flowering or budding.
pos: adj
Translations:
floret
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French florete, diminutive of flor (“flower”). Doublet of fleuret and floweret.
Inflected forms:
form: florets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: florette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower.
pos: noun
Translations:
fluoroscopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fluoroscope
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English fluoroscopic
From fluoroscope + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or using a fluoroscope.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
forensically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English forensic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English forensically
From forensic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more forensically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most forensically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a forensic manner.
pos: adv
examples: He banged his fist forensically on the top of a dinner-wagon.
a forensically thorough search
gloss: Regarding forensics, or forensic science.
pos: adv
Translations:
forensics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of formal debate; rhetoric.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A type of rhetoric or debate society or club, particularly one affiliated with a school.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Forensic science.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: forensic
Derived words: antiforensics
atomic forensics
bioforensics
cyberforensics
digital forensics
geoforensics
nuclear forensics
phytoforensics
Translations:
forsythia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin, named in honor of Scottish horticulturist William Forsyth, who brought the shrub over from China. Forsyth's own name is from Irish Fearsithe, meaning "man of peace."
Inflected forms:
form: forsythias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several shrubs, of the genus Forsythia, native to Asia and Eastern Europe, that are cultivated for their yellow flowers, which bloom in early spring.
pos: noun
examples: They heard laughing then, and looked up to see Ann and Bell coming down the street toward them. Ann had plucked a twig of forsythia, and was trying to arrange it in her hair. "Take that off!" Bell was saying. "It's got bugs crawling on it!"
Translations:
fungoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fungus
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English fungoid
From fungus + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: more fungoid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fungoid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fungoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus.
pos: adj
examples: He had no hair on the front of his head at all so that the sweep of bone skin, daunting in its fungoid pallor, came right over above his ears.
gloss: A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus.
pos: noun
examples: He found the suspicion correct which supposed the tree branched from one great root, like a candelabrum; the fork, though stained and slimy with green fungoids, was quite near the ground, and offered a first foothold.
Translations:
semiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin semaeologia, from Ancient Greek σημεῖον (sēmeîon, “sign”) + -logia (“-logy”). By surface analysis, semio- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: semiologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Semiotics, the study of signs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: The art of using signs in signalling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: The symptom expression of an epileptic seizure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: semiotics
Related words: symbology
Derived words: semiological
semiologist
Translations:
parlando
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian parlando (“saying”).
Inflected forms:
form: parlandos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of music to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
pos: noun
gloss: Declamatory in style; in recitative.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In a declamatory style.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
tailless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tailles, equivalent to tail + -less.
Base: tail
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without a tail; not having a tail.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Cavies are caviomorphs. Caviomorphs are tailless South American rodents that are characterized by having one pair of mammae (teats), four digits on the forefoot, and three digits on the hind foot, as well as special anatomical features of the head and jaws.
The Manx Rat: This tailless rat variety is usually smaller than the standard rat with front legs that are shorter than its hind legs.
Strictly speaking, the term toad should be restricted to members of the family Bufonidae, of which the common European and natterjack toads are good examples. But common parlance has seen the name applied to any warty tail-less amphibian.
Fossils show that the ancient primate Proconsul africanus, shown in the illustration above, was a tailless tree-dweller.
Translations:
scornfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English scorn
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Germanic *fullaz
Proto-Germanic *-fullaz
Old English -ful
Middle English -ful
Middle English scornful
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English scornfully
English scornfully
Inherited from Middle English scornfully; equivalent to scornful + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Base: scornful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more scornfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most scornfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a scornful manner; contemptuously, derisively.
pos: adv
examples: "Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"
"Get drunk! Damn it, I am drunk," he said scornfully.
'What does he look like?' asks John Halgard. 'A salesman,' says Gerontius scornfully.
Translations:
seborrhea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin sēbumlbor.
English seb(um)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English -rrhea
English seborrhea
From seb(um) + -o- + -rrhea.
Inflected forms:
form: seborrheas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seborrhoea
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: seborrhœa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A skin disorder causing scaly, flaky, itchy, red skin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
seductiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English seductive
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 seductiveness
From seductive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The property of being seductive
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Her seductiveness came from her apparent innocence.
Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.
She brought a tigresslike seductiveness and a husky-voiced irreverence to roles as worldly, devil-may-care women, becoming adept at playing exotic vamps and free-spirited protagonists, […]
Translations:
seedbed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From seed + bed.
Compound parts: seed
bed
Inflected forms:
form: seedbeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Ground prepared for the planting of seeds.
pos: noun
gloss: A place conducive to development and attainment.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Paris was a seedbed of artistic creation in the 1920s.
Translations:
sedation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sedations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The patient was so agitated that the doctor resorted to sedation.
Translations:
scoffer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scoff
English -er
English scoffer
From scoff + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: scoffers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who scoffs or mocks.
pos: noun
examples: Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.
gloss: One who eats a large amount.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
Translations:
biscotti
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian biscotti, plural of biscotto (“cookie, biscuit”); doublet of biscuit.
Inflected forms:
form: biscotti
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: biscottis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: biscotto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hard, usually nut-flavored biscuit, derived from the Tuscan cantuccio.
pos: noun
examples: If you like your biscottis to be softer, keep them refrigerated.
Translations:
bave
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: baves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: silkworm thread extruded as brins from the two glands and stuck together with sericin proteins
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bedazzle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English bi-
English be-
English dazzle
English bedazzle
From be- + dazzle.
Inflected forms:
form: bedazzles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bedazzling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bedazzled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bedazzled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To confuse or disarm by dazzling.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonym: daze
He was bedazzled by her charm and wit.
gloss: To decorate with sequins or other sparkly material; to bespangle.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: She bedazzled her handbag.
Derived words: bedazzlement
bedazzler
vajazzle
Translations:
clamorously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clamorous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English clamorously
From clamorous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more clamorously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most clamorously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: clamourously
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a clamorous manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
MRB
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: To send a failed component through the MRB process.
pos: verb
Translations:
gusty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gust
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gusty
From gust + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: gustier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gustiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.
pos: adj
examples: The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
gloss: Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: A change evidently came over the countess's thoughts; her thin lips grew white (her eyes remained the same), and her voice when she spoke evidently surprised even herself by the violence of its gusty outburst.
'No, no, no,' she said. 'Who could be disloyal to you, Miss?' And then the gusty tears came.
The spirit becomes an ingrained part of one's life, not subject to gusty moods and feelings, but a habitual part of life.
gloss: Bombastic, verbose.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: “I am a man of few words,” shouted a red-necked House member as he started his second hour of a gusty speech.
From the vigorous, warm, gusty oratory of the Gallican apologists, we pass into a thinner and cooler and quieter atmosphere, that of the Spanish lecture-room.
Kingsley came back again, Leonard countered his reply, and so it went on, with personal insults buried in paragraphs of gusty rhetoric.
Back then, it was the conservative backlash to canon reformation that blew hot with the gusty rhetoric of politics.
Translations:
half-metal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: half-metals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any substance that acts as a conductor to electrons of one spin orientation, but as an insulator to those of the opposite orientation
pos: noun
Translations:
half-metallic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English half-
English metallic
English half-metallic
From half- + metallic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Made half of a metal and half of some other material.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Spock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
human-sciences
psychology
rock-paper-scissors
sciences
Etymology: Anglicized from Dutch Spaak.
Inflected forms:
form: Spocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Spocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Spocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Spocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Spocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person or character like a Star Trek Vulcan; someone resembling Star Trek's character Spock.
pos: noun
tags: common
gloss: The Vulcan salute when used in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock, a handshape that beats rock and scissors and loses to lizard and paper.
pos: noun
gloss: To play the Vulcan salute hand.
pos: verb
Translations:
attender
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English attender, attendere, equivalent to attend + -er.
Base: attend
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: attenders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting, school, etc.
pos: noun
examples: She was a very constant attender of First-day and week-day meetings, at the meeting places she belonged to
1900, James Wideman Lee, Naphtali Luccock, and James Main Dixon, The Illustrated History of Methodism, page 345, The Methodist Magazine Publishing Co.
And she continued her infamous trade of procuress, while a zealous and regular attender of the Tabernacle at Tottenham-Court!
The great distance that some youth travel...is bound to play its part in the case of the borderline student who becomes an infrequent attender and finally drops out of school.
If there is no spiritual distinction between member and attender, the question is asked, Why have membership at all?
gloss: An attendant; one who attends to someone or something.
pos: noun
examples: Sri C. Rajabather was appointed to assist in the office as typist attender from 7-4-41.
gloss: The subject; one who experiences.
pos: noun
examples: the whole process of ages’-long mentalization, of which our present ability of conceiving “Mind” forms only the culmination, and by no means the constant attender.
Activity of attention for the sake of knowledge changes only the mind of the attender and is resisted only by the habits, biases, laziness and the like
The other aspect pertains to the subject’s own subjectivity, those qualities that constitute the subject as the experiencer or attender.
Derived words: attendress
nonattender
Translations:
pyrosequencing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Hellenic *pāwər
Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr)
Latin pyr
English pyro-
English sequencing
English pyrosequencing
From pyro- + sequencing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A technique used to sequence DNA using chemiluminescent enzymatic reactions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
chemiluminescent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English chemi-
English luminescent
English chemiluminescent
From chemi- + luminescent.
Inflected forms:
form: more chemiluminescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chemiluminescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or employing chemiluminescence
pos: adj
Translations:
resveratrol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: resveratrols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A phenolic substance, 3,5,4'-trihydroxystilbene, a stilbenoid and phytoalexin, that is found in some fruits and nuts, and in red wine, and is reputed to have some beneficial properties for humans.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Resveratrol (3,4,5-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene) is a phenolic compound of the stilbene family present in wines and various parts of the grape, including the skin, and shows antioxidant and antiproliferative activities.
2003, Diane F. Birt, Weiqun Wang, Nancy Paiva, Angela Au, Chilly Chung, Laura Schmitt, Yu Jiang, Chapter 5: Cancer Prevention by Phytochemicals, Modulation of Cell Cycle, Mark S. Meskin, Wayne R. Bidlack, Audra J. Davies, Douglas S. Lewis, R. Keith Randolph (editors), Phytochemicals: Mechanisms of Action, Volume 4, page 64,
Resveratrol was first identified in grape vines in 1976 and in wine in 1992.
2011, Yiwei Li, Dejuan Kong, Aamir Ahmad, Bin Bao, Fazlul H. Sarkar, Chapter 16: Augmenting the Efficacy of Chemo- and Radio-Therapy by Nutraceuticals: Evidence from Pre-Clinical and Clinical Trials, Fazlul H. Sarkar (editor), Nutraceuticals and Cancer, page 366,
Resveratrol is a phytoalexin mainly found in grapes. Red wine contains a high level of resveratrol. Resveratrol has been shown to prevent the development of mammary and other tumors in vivo in animal models (Bishayee 2009).
Translations:
four-flusher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the practice of attempting to pass off four cards of the same suit, and a fifth of perhaps the same color, as a flush in poker.
Inflected forms:
form: four-flushers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fourflusher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
slang
examples: That four-flusher shoot himself? Not a chance.
Translations: