yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
prednisolone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From prednis(-ol)one.
Inflected forms:
form: prednisolones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A synthetic glucocorticoid C₂₁H₂₈O₅ that is a dehydrogenated analog of cortisol and is used especially as an anti-inflammatory drug.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
glucocorticoid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek γλῠκῠ́ς (glŭkŭ́s)der.
New Latinder.
English gluco-
English corticoid
English glucocorticoid
From gluco- + corticoid.
Inflected forms:
form: glucocorticoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glucorticoid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of steroid hormones, produced by the adrenal cortex, that are involved in metabolism and have anti-inflammatory properties.
pos: noun
Translations:
prednisone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin praegnāns
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānusder.
English -ane
English pre(gnane)
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Hellenic *dwi-
Ancient Greek δῐ- (dĭ-)bor.
Latin di-bor.
English di-
French -ènebor.
English -ene
English d(ie)ne
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-sder.
Latin cortexder.
English cortico-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-
Proto-Hellenic *kʰolā́
Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *ster-der.
Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós)
French cholestérine
French cholestérolbor.
English cholesterol
English sterol
German Ketonbor.
English ketone
English -one
English -sterone
English corticosterone
English (cort)isone
English prednisone
From pre(gnane) + d(ie)ne + (cort)isone.
Inflected forms:
form: prednisones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A glucocorticoid C₂₁H₂₆O₅ that is a dehydrogenated analog of cortisone, used to relieve rheumatic and allergic conditions and to treat leukemia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
rotenone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Japanese ローテン (rōten) + -one (“ketone”), from Hokkien 蘆藤 /芦藤 (lôo-tîn, “Derris elliptica”).
Base: ローテン
Affixes: -one
Inflected forms:
form: rotenones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A toxic crystalline substance obtained from the roots of derris and related plants, widely used as an insecticide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cryophilic phenotype of the atu mutant was alleviated to some extent by administering rotenone, a pharmacological inhibitor of oxidative phosphorylation, but not tolbutamide, a sulphonylurea that stimulates metabolic rate by raising the lymphatic concentration of glucose.
Translations:
sulfone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: sulfones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sulphone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of organic compounds that have a sulfonyl functional group attached to two carbon atoms; drugs of this structure have been used to treat leprosy.
pos: noun
Translations:
sulfonyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sulfonic
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English sulfonyl
From sulfonic + -yl.
Inflected forms:
form: sulfonyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sulphonyl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The bivalent radical or functional group -SO₂-
pos: noun
gloss: Any univalent radical derived from a sulfonic acid
pos: noun
Related words: sulfone
sulfuryl
Derived words: amisulpride
benzenesulphonyl
chlorosulfonyl
dalfopristin
disulfonyl
fluorosulfonyl
methylsulfonylmethane
rosuvastatin
satranidazole
sildenafil
sulbactam
sulfonterol
sulfonylated
sulfonylating
sulfonylation
sulfonyl fluoride
sulfonylhydrazone
sulfonylimine
sulfonylketenimine
sulfonyltriazole
sulfonylurea
sultopride
sumarotene
toluenesulfonyl
tolufazepam
Translations:
ubiquinone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: ubiquinones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any of several isoprenyl quinones that have a role in cellular respiration
pos: noun
Translations:
talion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French talion, from Latin talis (“such”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Retaliation; retribution.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Simple talion may be fine for wartime, but politics between wars demands symmetry and a more elegant idea of justice, even to the point of masquerading, a bit decadently, as mercy.
Translations:
diminution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English diminucioun, from Anglo-Norman diminuciun, Old French diminucion, from Latin dīminūtiō.
Inflected forms:
form: diminutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lessening, decrease or reduction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The new emission standards have produced a measurable diminution in air pollution.
Another part, feeling a diminution of confidence in him, still hope that the general tenor of his conduct will be essentially right.
Cold is usually shapeless, I suppose, extending over large spaces equally, or with gradual diminution.
Scenic illusions such as those caused by the haze, or the apparent diminution of scale where everything was enormous, intrigued Dutton.
gloss: The act or process of making diminutive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: abatement
declension
decline
decrease
decrement
diminution
lessening
reduction
shrinking
Antonyms: augmentation
Related words: diminish
diminished
diminuendo
Translations:
soba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 蕎麦 (soba).
Inflected forms:
form: sobas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese buckwheat noodle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
listlessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English lystles
English listless
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English listlessly
From listless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more listlessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most listlessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a listless manner; without energy or enthusiasm.
pos: adv
examples: The lamb bunted several irresponsive objects - never its dam's udder - baaing listlessly.
And as a child stares at the bare walls of a narrow hut, so the gods looked all listlessly upon the worlds, saying: “Will no new thing be?”
He thrust his head into the aisle. "Boy!" A Chinese in a white coat responded listlessly. "What will you have? Beer?"
Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.
Translations:
litigiousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English litigious
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 litigiousness
From litigious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Property of being litigious, of tending to resort to legal means such as lawsuits.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: His litigiousness won him almost as few friends as it won him cases.
Translations:
litterer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English litter
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English litterer
From litter + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: litterers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who litters.
pos: noun
Translations:
lobed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lobe
English -ed
English lobed
From lobe + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having lobes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
louvered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English louver
English -ed
English louvered
From louver + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: loovered
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: louvred
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Having louvers.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
Translations:
lushness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lush
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
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 lushness
From lush + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: lushnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being lush.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The lushness of the jungle impeded travel; it seemed plants deliberately tried to slow us down.
Dynamic typography reinvigorates the storytelling genre by anthropomorphizing fonts, defibrillating calligraphy, creating rhythmic, ambient moodscapes without sacrificing speed or lushness.
[…] neighbors often stop in summer to admire the lushness of the Japanese lilies and the lavender spires of the liriope.
Translations:
lucidity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French lucidité, from Late Latin lūciditās. By surface analysis, lucid + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: lucidities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being lucid; lucidness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The lucidity of his answers argued against his being insane or confused.
He was notable not only for his longevity but also for his unusual lucidity for his age. Up to his final months, he pored over The Los Angeles Times every morning, discussed the war in Ukraine and other world events and posted dispatches about his life on his blog.
gloss: The state of being aware that one is dreaming, i.e. being in a lucid dream.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: terminal lucidity
Translations:
teg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First used to contemptuously refer to a woman, then later applied to a ewe in her second year. Possibly borrowed from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).
Inflected forms:
form: tegs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
dialectal
examples: One Stringor, that brought a tegg from Wresill.
gloss: A doe in its second year.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
dialectal
gloss: A child's tooth.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: TEG [tɛɡ] - tooth (child's).
Translations:
ak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: apple of Sodom (Calotropis procera).
pos: noun
Translations:
loutish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lout
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English loutish
From lout + -ish.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a lout (troublemaker or bumpkin).
pos: adj
examples: He was a loutish fellow, much bent in the shoulders, with leggings, which lacked most of the buttons, over his disreputable breeks.
Translations:
lovingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English loving
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lovingly
From loving + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lovingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lovingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a loving manner, affectionately.
pos: adv
examples: Over the past 20 years, the station complex - including the main platform buildings, signal box and level crossing gates - has been lovingly restored, with the gates replaced according to original plans.
Translations:
anabolism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”) + -ism. Formed in analogy with metabolism.
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: anabolisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from catabolism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We used to think bodybuilding was all about anabolism by way of turning on testosterone and growth hormone secretion.
Translations:
prowler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prowl
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English prowler
From prowl + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: prowlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who roves about for prey; one who prowls.
pos: noun
examples: House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.
gloss: A person who moves stealthily around a place with intention to commit a crime, especially burglary or theft.
pos: noun
examples: Discourage nighttime prowlers by installing motion-sensitive lights.
“I was under the impression that a prowler had broken in and killed my baby. Never did they say that it was a deputy-involved shooting until my brother read it on the internet,” Wilburn said.
Translations:
mealy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From meal + -y. Cognate with German mehlig.
Base: meal
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: mealier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: mealiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mealies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Resembling meal (the foodstuff).
pos: adj
examples: Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.
gloss: Of the pale yellow color of a canary.
pos: adj
examples: That it is a cross-breed there can be no doubt, from the fact that after a year or two the brilliant colours, both orange and black, begin to fade—the orange fading into a mealy tint, and the black to a dingy grey.
gloss: A canary of a pale yellow color.
pos: noun
examples: I know not, indeed, if the artist could give the beautiful orange which distinguish ^([sic]) the jonque, or the mellowness of tint that pervades the mealy.
The clear Norwich canaries, as well as the evenly marked, the crested, the ticked, the green, and the unevenly marked, are each divided into two separate classes, i.e., jonques and mealies.
Related words: cornmealy
Derived words: mealily
mealiness
mealybug
mealy bug
mealy-mouthed
mealywing
unmealy
Translations:
terrene
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From Middle English terrene, from Anglo-Norman terriene, feminine of terrien, from Latin terrēnus, from terra (“earth”).
Inflected forms:
form: more terrene
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most terrene
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to earth or the material world; earthly, terrestrial (as opposed to heavenly or marine).
pos: adj
examples: God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene.
Even Crovvns and Diadems, the moſt ſplendid parts of terrene attains; are akin to that, vvhich to day is in the field, and to morrovv is cut dovvn, and vvither'd: […]
The common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience
One had never thought of the sea as the great place of safety, but now it came over one that there is no place so safe from the land. When it does not give you trouble it takes it away—takes away letters and telegrams and newspapers and visits and duties and efforts, all the complications, all the superfluities and superstitions that we have stuffed into our terrene life.
Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.
For the earth was both celestial and terrene, the down here and the up there.
gloss: Made of matter (as opposed to antimatter).
pos: adj
gloss: The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: Tenfold the length of this terrene
Derived words: exoterrene
extraterrene
salino-terrene
subterrene
superterrene
terrenely
terrenity
ultraterrene
Translations:
ribonuclease
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ribose
English nucleic
English ribonucleic
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English ribonuclease
From ribonucleic + -ase.
Inflected forms:
form: ribonucleases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid.
pos: noun
Translations:
tetter
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English teter, from Old English teter, tetr, tetra, from Proto-West Germanic *tetru, from Proto-Germanic *tetruz, *tetruhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dedru-, from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, crack”).
Inflected forms:
form: tetters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tettering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tettered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tettered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To affect with tetter.
pos: verb
examples: […] And all my smooth body, barked and tettered over.
Most deaths are ugly, pathetic events, and Shakespeare must have seen his share of them in bodies tettered by the pox, made noseless by syphilis, or festering blackly from the plague.
I bent down to touch him, for my revulsion had gone, and had been replaced by a great love and sorrow; and thus I wept upon his form, that was cold like a corpse's, its wasted brawn tettered all over with sores and encrustations that were not the botches and whelks of leprosy — though e'en then I would have embraced him, as St Hugh of Lincoln kissed many a leper for the good of his own spirit!
Translations:
thana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi थाना (thānā), from Sanskrit स्थान (sthāna, “military outpost”). Doublet of Thane.
Inflected forms:
form: thanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tanna
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tannah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thanna
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thannah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Indian military outpost.
pos: noun
gloss: A police station, or a police jurisdiction.
pos: noun
tags: India
examples: To this talk the dacoits agreed, and we had no trouble at the Thana, and could eat melons in peace, sitting upon our charpoys all day long.
Accompanied by some other young men from the village, he made rounds of the police thana and military base to get a release order.
Related words: thanadar
Translations:
sisterhood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English susterhede; equivalent to sister + -hood (with a modification in the suffix).
Base: sister
Affixes: -hood
Inflected forms:
form: sisterhoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state, or kinship of being sisters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of being sisterly; sisterly companionship; especially, the sense that women have of being in solidarity with one another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A religious society of women.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In contrast, she said, women join sisterhoods and do volunteer work for Jewish fundraising organizations that are run and dominated by men.
gloss: The idea of universal experience amongst women, regardless of other traits or factors. (Considered obsolete in third-wave feminism.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What does the rallying cry of sisterhood and the concept of feminism mean when last year, the majority of white, female voters chose whiteness as a political identity over womanhood?
In a terrible way, I’ve never felt more part of a sisterhood or more certain that pain is shared within that family.
Related words: brotherhood
sorority
sistren
Translations:
ingratiating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ingratiating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ingratiating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Which ingratiates; which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another, often with flattery or insincerity; smarmy; unctuous; oily.
pos: adj
examples: an ingratiating smile.
Mr. Alfred O'Shea, a tenorizing youth from Australia, sang several times at Queen's Hall, and may congratulate himself on being one of the 'catches' of the season. He sang airs from Italian and French operas, and also a number of Irish ditties—naturally, with a name like that and such an ingratiating McCormackian voice.
Translations:
amorality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
English morality
English amorality
From a- + morality.
Inflected forms:
form: amoralities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lack or absence of morality.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: "I don't think we're headed for a grey-goo scenario here, but we'd all feel really bad if the local biosphere got consumed by nanobots after we left." "We'd still get paid, right?" "I'm going to treat that as a humorous stab at your own exaggerated amorality, and then move on if you don't mind."
gloss: The metaethical belief that nothing is morally right or morally wrong, that morality does not exist.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In law school, when we students thought the outcome of a case was determined by a rule we had studied, leftist professors admonished us, “Tools not rules!” In other words, rules control nothing; they’re merely tools you manipulate for the results you want. The fancy word for this kind of amorality is “instrumentalism,” and it subverts the rule of law.
Related words: immorality
Translations:
nanostructure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor.
Latin nānusbor.
English nano-
English structure
English nanostructure
From nano- + structure.
Inflected forms:
form: nanostructures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any manufactured or natural structure having a scale between molecular and microscopic.
pos: noun
examples: We demonstrated a chemiresistive sensor based on core-shell hybridized nanostructures of Fe 3 O 4 and PEDOT for the efficient detection of VOC biomarkers.
In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields.
Translations:
ninon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ninons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheer fabric of silk, rayon, or nylon made in a variety of tight smooth weaves or open lacy patterns.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
nitpicking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From nit + picking.
Compound parts: nit
picking
Inflected forms:
form: nitpickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nit-picking
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The painstaking process of removing nits (lice eggs) from someone's hair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors, particularly if the pointed-out details seem insignificant or irrelevant to all but the finder.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: "Of all life's pleasures, I like nitpicking the best." -- Wally in Dilbert
Related words: netpicking
nitpick
nitpicker
nitpickingly
nitpicky
Translations:
octosyllabic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English octo-
English syllabic
English octosyllabic
From octo- + syllabic.
Inflected forms:
form: octasyllabic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: octosyllabics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: octasyllabic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Containing eight syllables
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]
gloss: A word of eight syllables.
pos: noun
Translations:
oldster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From old + -ster, modelled after youngster. Attested from early 19th c.
Base: old
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: oldsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is old.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The oldsters start squabbling about whose memory is better. “It was cold that day,” one says about some faraway memory. “What are you talking about? It was May, late May,” says another.
gloss: A midshipman of four years' standing; a master's mate.
pos: noun
Translations:
overglaze
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English glaze
English overglaze
From over- + glaze.
Inflected forms:
form: overglazes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: overglazes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overglazing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overglazed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overglazed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The outer layer or coat of glaze on a piece of pottery
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A decoration, usually enamel, applied over a glaze.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To apply overglaze to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To glaze excessively.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If the dish is "overglazed," the glaze will "run" and bubble.
Translations:
kas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch kas (“cupboard, chest, case”), from Middle Dutch kasse, casse, from Old French casse, from Latin capsa (“box, chest, case”).
Inflected forms:
form: kases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kaas
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of large cupboard or wardrobe of Dutch origin, popular in the Netherlands and America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
pos: noun
Translations:
imprimatur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: From Latin imprimātur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).
Inflected forms:
form: imprimaturs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: imprimantur
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
pos: noun
examples: The Cheats · A Comedy · Written in the Year, M.DC.LXII. Imprimatur, Roger L'estrange. Nov. 5. 1663. By John Wilson
Sometimes 5 Imprimaturs are ſeen together dialogue-wiſe in the Piatza of one Title page, complementing and ducking each other with their ſhav'n reverences, whether the Author, who ſtands by in perplexity at the foot of his Epiſtle, ſhall to the Preſſe or to the ſpunge.
This ingenious plan expressed in a booklet by the Italian Roman Catholic priest had received three Nihil Obstats and two Imprimaturs from his bishop.
gloss: Any mark of official approval.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Children, the final imprimatur to family life, are being borrowed, adopted, created by artificial insemination.
Even with the imprimatur of Tynan and Hobson, the play was not an instant hit.
The author suggests that Grace is hoping to meet at church a respectable marriage candidate who will have the imprimatur of her pastor and the church community.
Related words: authorization
Translations:
thanatopsis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θάνατος (thánatos, “death”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “seeing”), via the poem "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant. Although a surface analysis of thanato- + -opsis readily suggests itself and might invite a semantic expectation of deathliness, Bryant's sense of the word corresponds to "the seeing of death" rather than "the appearance/likeness of death".
Base: thanato
Inflected forms:
form: thanatopses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Contemplation of death.
pos: noun
Translations:
thenar
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θέναρ (thénar).
Inflected forms:
form: thenars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The palm of the hand or sole of the foot.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: the parts of the human anatomy most sensitive to cold being the nape, stomach, and thenar or sole of foot?
gloss: The ball of the thumb, or the muscle controlling it.
pos: noun
gloss: Relating to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: antithenar
opisthenar
thenad
Translations:
pia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord.
pos: noun
examples: One screen in the theatre relays live colour pictures of Harkness and his colleague Tiernan Byrnes's progress, cutting and pushing through first the dura, then the arachnoid and finally the pia, the thin, spider's web-type membranes that cover the brain itself.
Translations:
tholos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θόλος (thólos, “dome”). Doublet of tholus and thole.
Inflected forms:
form: tholoi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dome, or domed building; a cupola.
pos: noun
examples: On the way they pointed out the tennis court and the old summerhouse, a mock tholos, Doric by way of Pompeii, and Stanford White, and (said Francis, who was scornful of this Victorian effort at classicism) D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille.
gloss: A dome-shaped tomb from the Mycenaean period of Ancient Greece.
pos: noun
Translations:
perinatal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Ancient Greek περῐ́ (perĭ́)der.
English peri-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós
Proto-Italic *gnātos
Latin gnātus
Latin nātus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin nātālisbor.
Middle English natal
English natal
English perinatal
From peri- + natal.
Inflected forms:
form: more perinatal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perinatal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the time around birth.
pos: adj
examples: Perinatal HIV infection of infants is a problem in sub-Saharan Africa.
Translations:
kora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Bambara kɔ́rabor.
English kora
Borrowed from Bambara kɔ́ra.
Inflected forms:
form: koras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of harp or lute played in West Africa.
pos: noun
examples: He is performing here with his Symmetric Orchestra, an ensemble of West African musicians who play both traditional instruments (kora, balafon, bolombatto, djembe) and slightly more contemporary ones (guitars, keyboards).
Since its invention, probably in sixteenth-century Senegal, the kora has been used by professional bards called jalis, or griots. The plucked instrument's harplike sound accompanies the jali's song—praise for patrons, histories and genealogies, satire, political commentary, and poetic recitation.
Translations:
thurible
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originated 1400–50 from late Middle English turrible, from thoryble, from Latin thūribulum (“censer”), equivalent to thūs (“incense”) (root: thūr-) (from Ancient Greek θύος (thúos, “burnt offering”)) + -bulum (“instrumental suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: thuribles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A censer, especially one hanging on a chain.
pos: noun
examples: […] and then Father Conroy handed the thurible to Canon O’Hanlon and he put in the incense and censed the Blessed Sacrament […].
1981, Dennis G. Michno, A Manual for Acolytes, Episcopal Church (Morehouse Publishing), page 55,
The celebrant may fill the thurible with incense before the entrance, or may instruct the thurifer to do so.
The young priest took the thurible from the altar boy and moved along the coffin. The metal of the container chinked against the chains at each flicking movement. Although the blue smoke disappeared quickly, Catherine smelled it all around her in the porch.
1998, David Philippart, Serve God with Gladness: A Manual for Servers, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago (Liturgy Training Publications), page 41,
If you are carrying a bowl thurible, hold it with both hands. Hold it away from your body. Gently move it back and forth to send the smoke up.
If you are carrying a thurible on a chain in procession, let it swing gently at your side.
Translations:
tilak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit तिलक (tilaka).
Inflected forms:
form: tilaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: teeka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tika
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tikka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tilaka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tilka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mark or symbol worn on the forehead by Hindus, ornamentally or as an indication of status.
pos: noun
examples: I wore these spots of shine and silver like tilaks, the marks of colour that we Hindus wear on our foreheads as symbols of the divine.
He dressed in a dhoti, had a wispy white beard that trailed down to his waist, and regularly smeared across his forehead a tilaka, a pitchfork-shaped design that signifies enlightenment.
Translations:
MiG
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian МиГ (MiG), from Микоя́н (Mikoján) (from Armenian Միկոյան (Mikoyan)) + Гуре́вич (Gurévič), the names of the original designers: Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich.
Inflected forms:
form: MiGs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a series of Soviet and Russian fighter aircraft.
pos: noun
Translations:
palindromic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English palindrome
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English palindromic
From palindrome + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: palindromics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or being a palindrome.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Madam I'm Adam" is a palindromic phrase.
Palindromic prime numbers are those which read the same backwards as forwards.
gloss: Beginning and ending in a similar way.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: palindromic rheumatism
gloss: A palindromic polynomial.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonpalindromic
palindromicity
pseudopalindromic
quasipalindromic
Translations:
midrib
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Germanic *midjaz
Proto-West Germanic *midi
Old English midd
Middle English mid
English mid
English mid-
English rib
English midrib
From mid- + rib.
Inflected forms:
form: midribs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The strengthened vein down the middle of a flower petal or simple leaf or leaflet.
pos: noun
gloss: The continuation of the petiole of a pinnately compound leaf around which the leaflets attach.
pos: noun
Synonyms: midnerve
midvein
Derived words: midribbed
Translations:
mineshaft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mine + shaft.
Compound parts: mine
shaft
Inflected forms:
form: mineshafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mine shaft
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A vertical hole through the strata to reach the mineral which is being mined.
pos: noun
Translations:
mocktail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of mock + cocktail.
Compound parts: mock
cocktail
Inflected forms:
form: mocktails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nonalcoholic cocktail.
pos: noun
examples: New York City has weathered many drinking trends: the craft beer craze, the natural-wine movement, the age of the $20 mocktail.
Translations:
monospecific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
English specific
English monospecific
From mono- + specific.
Inflected forms:
form: more monospecific
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most monospecific
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: containing only one known species.
pos: adj
gloss: with affinity for the same antigen.
pos: adj
Derived words: monospecificity
Translations:
mousehole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English mosse hole, mowse hole; equivalent to mouse + hole.
Compound parts: mouse
hole
Inflected forms:
form: mouseholes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mouse-hole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hole through which a mouse enters a room.
pos: noun
gloss: Any small hole or opening.
pos: noun
gloss: The storage area on a drilling rig where the next joint of drilling pipe is held until needed.
pos: noun
Derived words: mouseholing
Translations:
kile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English kile, kyle, kylle, from Old Norse kýli (“boil”), from Proto-Germanic *kūlǭ, *kūlijǭ (“boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewl- (“vessel, bowl, ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, vault”). Cognate with Icelandic kýli (“wen, boil”), Swedish kula (“boil, bulge; pit”), Danish kule (“boil, bump; pit”), German Keule (“club”), German Kuhle (“hollow”), Dutch kuil (“pit, hole”). See also keel.
Inflected forms:
form: kiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ulcer; sore.
pos: noun
Translations:
caffeinated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From caffeine + -ated.
Base: caffeine
Affixes: -ated
Inflected forms:
form: more caffeinated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most caffeinated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing caffeine naturally (e.g., coffee, tea, and cacao) or as an additive (e.g., soft drinks, sports drinks, or energy drinks).
pos: adj
examples: But to address the question in theoretical terms, it turns out that yes, caffeinated soap might perk you up, but it would depend on how long you stayed in the shower, and how long you spent rubbing the soap against your skin.
gloss: Overly peppy or energetic; stimulated by caffeine.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: For most of us, to be caffeinated to one degree or another has simply become baseline human consciousness.
Synonyms: caffeinic
juiced
leaded
regular
Antonyms: caffeine-free
decaf
decaffeinated
unleaded
Derived words: hypercaffeinated
noncaffeinated
overcaffeinated
precaffeinated
supercaffeinated
uncaffeinated
undercaffeinated
Translations:
kinner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Children.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: ... the chair drew the kinner to them, each wanting a ride. Being such gut kinner they all waited their turn. Barbie watched with a warm heart.
"... do more babies mean so very much to you?" "Babies are blessings!" he'd said. "Patience, what is a marriage without kinner to bind you? You'll see - you'll want to have kinner of your own. And the kinner will want babies.
Translations:
nyuk
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Introduced by Curly (Jerome Horwitz) of The Three Stooges in the 1930's.
Inflected forms:
form: hyuk
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hyuck
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: nyuck
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An exaggerated laugh.
pos: intj
examples: Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
Translations:
magnetohydrodynamics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Old French magnetebor.
▲
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
English magnet-
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English magneto-
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dunamai
Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor.
French dynamiqueder.
English dynamic
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English dynamics
English hydrodynamics
English magnetohydrodynamics
From magneto- + hydrodynamics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the study of the interaction of electrically conducting fluids with magnetic fields; as in the Earth's core
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: the study of the interaction of water with magnetic fields and its application
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: MHD
Related words: magnetodynamics
magnetofluiddynamics
magnetoplasmadynamics
electrohydrodynamics
hydrodynamics
Derived words: electromagnetohydrodynamics
magnetohydrodynamic
MHD
Translations:
skins
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: the skins
pos: noun
tags: canonical
plural
Senses:
gloss: The drums.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
slang
examples: If I had my rathers I'd make up my own band. Art Blakey on the skins, Charlie Mingus on the bass, John Coltrane on the sax, Harry Edison on the horn-
Two women sat whacking the skins with long whippy sticks, whining a song
Related words: shirts and skins
Translations:
horribly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English horribly, horribely, horribliche, horriblelyche, equivalent to horrible + -ly.
Base: horrible
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more horribly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most horribly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a horrible way; very badly.
pos: adv
examples: The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces.
Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had noticed, there were roughly 300 state and federal elections during the Trump years and Republicans did horribly in most of them.
gloss: To an extreme degree or extent.
pos: adv
tags: often
examples: Then everything went horribly wrong.
The man was horribly nice, yet she still wouldn't marry him.
gloss: With a very bad effect.
pos: adv
examples: Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened.
Derived words: go horribly right
Translations:
inga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese ingá, borrowed from Old Tupi ingá, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *iŋa.
Inflected forms:
form: ingas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Inga of small tropical trees and shrubs.
pos: noun
examples: Here are the mimosas, the ingas, the acacias, the maples, the beautiful ailantus, and the fine fruit tree, the mango.
Fruit trees such as ingas are underutilized in reforestation efforts.
Translations:
amusing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, amuse + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more amusing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: amusinger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amusing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: amusingest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Entertaining.
pos: adj
examples: The film has some amusing moments, but it is unlikely to make you laugh out loud.
We don’t get amusinger as we get older, we grow prosy and repeat ourselves and talk about our complaints and selfish grievances: but our old friends bear up with our dullness for old times’ sake; […]
Never borrow money for my amusements. Now paying Mrs. McCrowder just at this present period would be an amusement. In fact when we consider the quality of the article she gives, I think that paying her on the nail would be about the amusingest little thing I could do.
‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For 30 seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.
gloss: Funny, hilarious.
pos: adj
examples: An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.
[T]hey’d had to call it something – i.e. something that differentiated this occasion from others where they might just go for a pint or a curry. So beer & sausages had somehow happily invented itself, […] The best thing, of course, the amusingest thing, was that no one ever brought beer and Jas had only actually done sausages once.
Antonyms: unamusing
Derived words: amusingly
amusingness
semiamusing
Translations: