yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cliquey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clique
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English cliquey
From clique + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: cliquier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cliquiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cliquy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having the characteristics of a clique.
pos: adj
examples: Jack McFarland: Um, look, Leo, I know you're new here, and, um, we don't want you to think we're really cliquey and don't let anyone in our little group, but, um, well, we're really cliquey and we don't want anyone in our little group.
Karen Walker: So, if you want to break into the fag four, this symbol of gay oppression has got to go.
Do not form clubs on the playground that don't include everyone - they're cliquey and mean.
Cliquey is cooler. If you don't like it blame Kitch.
Translations:
closed-captioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having captions that can only be seen with the appropriate equipment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
closed-circuit
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That consists of a closed circuit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Holborn Underground Station, on London Transport's Piccadilly and Central Lines, has been equipped with closed-circuit television to help control passenger movement.
Translations:
commodification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin com-
Proto-Indo-European *med-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Italic *medos
Latin modus
Latin commodus
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin commoditāsder.
Anglo-Norman commoditeebor.
Middle English commoditee
English commodity
Latin -i-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-fakāō
Latin -ficō
Latin -ificāreder.
Old French -ifierbor.
Middle English -ifien
English -ify
English commodify
English -ification
English commodification
From commodify + -ification.
Inflected forms:
form: commodifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The assignment of a commercial value to something previously without such value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: commercialization, monetization
Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodification.
One drizzly morning, I joined a political walking tour to hear former combatants of the Troubles show off Belfast landmarks and tell their stories. Almost everything about this notion piqued my curiosity: the commodification of violence into a tourist product; the idea that “politics” was actually history.
gloss: The transformation from being commercialized on a nonfungible basis into becoming a commodity that is fungible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A company that innovates to achieve the commercialization of a technology often must shift strategy some decades later in response to the advent of that technology's commodification.
Related words: commodify
commodityism
consumerization
Derived words: decommodification
noncommodification
recommodification
Translations:
close-set
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more close-set
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most close-set
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: close set
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: set close together
pos: adj
examples: 1856 Catalogue of apodal fish: in the collection of the British Museum
Fore half of the mandible armed by two rows of teeth ; the outer row consisting of 10 or 11 close-set low teeth, having compressed but not pointed tips.
But the feature of them that made the most startling impression upon their prisoner was their white skins—neither in color nor feature was there a trace of the negroid about them. Yet, with their receding foreheads, wicked little close-set eyes, and yellow fangs, they were far from prepossessing in appearance.
2005 Marc Ponomareff - the House of the Dead
Admittedly it consisted of only two pages of foolscap; but the lines, to my favor, were executed with a fine hand, resulting in close-set characters . . .
Translations:
clubfoot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From club + foot.
Compound parts: club
foot
Inflected forms:
form: clubfeet
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: club foot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: club-foot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A congenital deformity of the foot in which the ankle, heel and toes are twisted.
pos: noun
examples: At his lower extremities, he exhibited the deformity which is popularly known as "a club-foot." But he carried his lameness, as he carried his years, gayly.
He stood still as much as he could, with his club-foot behind the other, so that it should not attract notice.
The cure developed by Dr. Ponseti in the 1950s relies on physical manipulation. In each step of the treatment, a child’s clubfoot is stretched and turned slightly outward, and a hip-to-foot plaster cast, like the ones shown in the photograph, is then applied.
Translations:
clubhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From club + house.
Compound parts: club
house
Inflected forms:
form: clubhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any building used by a club for meetings or social activities.
pos: noun
gloss: A locker room and possibly associated rooms used by an athletic team.
pos: noun
gloss: A building at a golf course that houses various activities associated with golf.
pos: noun
Derived words: clubhouseful
clubhouse lead
clubhouse leader
clubhouse sandwich
clubhouse turn
Irish clubhouse
Translations:
clunker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clunk
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 clunker
From clunk + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: clunkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A decrepit motor car.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The only rig nobody'd recognize is that clunker that Vic drove here in, and he won't take it.
2008 July 9, Jacqueline Mitchell, “America's Most Stolen Vehicles”, in Forbes magazine,
So don't think for a moment that your old but tired vehicle matters only to you. Your clunker is cash money to professional thieves.
gloss: Anything in poor condition or of poor quality.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: It seemed silly for the crowd to applaud or groan over what you had already felt in your fingers or even in your arms as you braced to shoot or for that matter in your eyes: when he was hot he could see the separate threads wound into the strings looping the hoop. Yet at the start of the game when you came out for warm-up and could see all the town clunkers sitting in the back of the bleachers elbowing each other and the cheerleaders wisecracking with the racier male teachers, the crowd then seemed right inside you, your liver and lungs and stomach.
I bought an old clunker of a typewriter.
All of the stories have a subtle undercurrent of brutality, and the writing is consistently sharp, direct and darkly funny, and there’s not a clunker in the bunch.
Translations:
able-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English able-minded
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 able-mindedness
From able-minded + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being able-minded.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
headcount
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From head + count.
Compound parts: head
count
Inflected forms:
form: headcounts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: head count
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
pos: noun
examples: Let's take a quick headcount, to make sure we're all here.
Population 39,693 (just north of 115,000 today), Cheltenham has been overtaken by Gloucester in terms of headcount.
gloss: The number of people present in a group or employed by a company.
pos: noun
examples: The company's headcount on January 1 was 15,203.
The last headcount data for BTP is from December 2022, when the number of BTP officers was 3,183, up from 3,175 in April 2022.
gloss: More generally, a consideration of a company's appropriate staffing level based on some larger context. (Generally used adjectivally.)
pos: noun
examples: Due to economic difficulties, the company will be making headcount adjustments.
gloss: By extension, one slot in a workgroup, filled or to be filled by one person.
pos: noun
examples: I've convinced management to give us one more headcount, to take some work off the rest of us.
Related words: capitation
headage
head tax
census
per capita
Translations:
undesired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English undesired; equivalent to un- + desired.
Base: desired
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more undesired
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undesired
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not desired; unwanted.
pos: adj
Translations:
phytochemistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
botany
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti
Ancient Greek φύω (phúō)
Ancient Greek φῠτόν (phŭtón)der.
English phyto-
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 chimiabor.
Middle French chymie
French chimie
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istabor.
French -iste
French chimistebor.
English chemist
Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye
English -ry
English chemistry
English phytochemistry
From phyto- (“plant”) + chemistry.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The scientific study of the chemicals found in plants.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The collection of chemicals and chemical processes found in a particular plant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The phytochemistry of mosses is very different from that of other plants.
Related words: phytochemical
phytochemically
phytochemist
Translations:
perspiring
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more perspiring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perspiring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: perspirings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Producing perspiration; sweating.
pos: adj
examples: Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.
gloss: The act of producing perspiration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yet for all that they did not live an idle life: they found the means of making their retirement more useful to mankind than the perspirings and runnings to and fro of other men: wherefore these persons are thought to have done great things, in spite of their having done nothing of a public character.
Translations:
osteoblast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From osteo- (“bone”) + -blast (“immature cell”).
Base: osteo
Inflected forms:
form: osteoblasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mononucleate cell from which bone develops.
pos: noun
Translations:
blading
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: rollerblading (sport)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The act of cutting oneself open, usually on the forehead, to draw blood and make the fight more spectacular.
pos: verb
Derived words: hydroblading
Translations:
protoplanetary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planets
Etymology: From proto- + planetary and protoplanet + -ary.
Base: planetary
Affixes: proto-
Inflected forms:
form: proto-planetary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a protoplanet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: planet
planetary
preplanetary
Translations:
provable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English provable, prevable, equivalent to prove + -able. Doublet of probable.
Base: prove
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: proveable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a statement or hypothesis that can be proven.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: unprovable
Translations:
proverbially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English proverbial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English proverbially
From proverbial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more proverbially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most proverbially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that uses proverbs; in or according to proverbs.
pos: adv
examples: The bee is a proverbially busy creature.
“Unless I am gravely in error you are yourself a very brave man, and brave men are proverbially magnanimous.”
gloss: In a manner reminiscent of a proverb.
pos: adv
Related words: proverb
proverbial
Translations:
providential
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin prōvidēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin prōvidentia
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English providential
From Latin prōvidentia (“providence”) + English -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more providential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most providential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to divine providence.
pos: adj
examples: The same belief underlay the providential view of history, in which the rise and fall of nations appeared as the expression of God's unsearchable purposes.
gloss: Fortunate, as if occurring through the intervention of Providence.
pos: adj
examples: “Why, Jane,” he cried, “what do you mean? What has our providential rescue to do with altering your feelings toward me? You are but unstrung—tomorrow you will be yourself again.”
Related words: providence
Derived words: nonprovidential
providentialism
providentialist
providentially
unprovidential
Translations:
permeation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: permeations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The movement of a fluid through a porous or permeable solid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The spreading of something (especially something malignant) through the body via blood vessels etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: permeable
permeant
permeate
permeator
Derived words: perstraction
pervaporation
vasopermeation
Translations:
psoas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψόας (psóas, “of the muscle of the loins”), genitive singular of ψόα (psóa).
Inflected forms:
form: psoae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: psoai
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: psoas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: psoases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two muscles, the psoas major and psoas minor, involved in flexion of the trunk.
pos: noun
Translations:
crontab
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Shortening of cron table, where cron is the name of the system program that handles these tasks, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Inflected forms:
form: crontabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A table of commands to be executed periodically.
pos: noun
tags: Unix
examples: The purpose of /etc/crontab is different from that of individual users' crontabs. With /etc/crontab, root may specify which user will run a particular command.
Translations:
publicise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English public
English -ise
English publicise
From public + -ise.
Inflected forms:
form: publicises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: publicising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: publicised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: publicised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: publicize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: To make widely known to the public.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: The scandal was so publicised that he lost the next election.
gloss: To advertise, create publicity for.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: They're already publicising next month's concert.
Translations:
publicist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French publiciste, equivalent to public + -ist.
Base: public
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: publicists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person whose job is to publicize information or events; a publicity agent; a public relations agent or worker.
pos: noun
examples: Legendary soul singer Bobby Womack died Friday, Womack’s publicist said. He was 70.
gloss: A journalist, often a commentator, who focusses on politics.
pos: noun
gloss: A scholar, of public or international law.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Related words: publisher
Translations:
spymaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From spy + master.
Compound parts: spy
master
Inflected forms:
form: spymasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The leader of a group of spies.
pos: noun
Translations:
Coptic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Copt
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English Coptic
From Copt + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Copts, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria or to the Coptic language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The Afroasiatic language traditionally spoken by the Copts in Egypt, now extinct and used only as a liturgical language.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
aerodyne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from aerodynamic. Analysable as aero- + -dyne (“motor-powered flight”).
Affixes: aero-
-dyne
Inflected forms:
form: aerodynes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift from motion.
pos: noun
Translations:
gurn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Early 20th century: dialect variant of grin.
Inflected forms:
form: gurns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: girn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gurns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gurning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gurned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gurned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: girn
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A distorted facial expression; grimace.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: To make a grotesque or funny face; to grimace.
pos: verb
tags: UK
Translations:
sublicense
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English license
English sublicense
From sub- + license.
Inflected forms:
form: sublicenses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sublicence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sublicenses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sublicensing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sublicensed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sublicensed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sublicence
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A license granted by a licensee to a third party, under the authority of the license originally granted by a licensor to the licensee.
pos: noun
examples: Joe received a license from McDonald's to develop twenty McDonald's restaurants in Dearborn, which included permission to grant a sublicense to the individual restaurant managers.
gloss: to grant a sublicense
pos: verb
Translations:
licensor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English license
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English licensor
From license + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: licensors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: licenser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A party that grants a license to another.
pos: noun
Translations:
objectivist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English objective
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English objectivist
From objective + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more objectivist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most objectivist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Objectivist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: objectivists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Objectivist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to objectivism.
pos: adj
examples: (Only now has Republican Congressman Paul Ryan, perhaps realizing that supporting an atheist adulterer might hurt his veep chances, changed his tune from Objectivist fanboy to follower of Thomas Aquinas.)
gloss: An advocate of objectivism.
pos: noun
examples: What of the current moment, shaping up to be the fourth age of Rand? The Randian politicians are still in place: [Paul] Ryan is now boosted by a cabinet crammed with objectivists.
Translations:
pootle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of poodle, from German Low German Pudel, from the onomatopoeic term pudeln (“to splash about”) by its merging with tootle. Alternatively, a blending of doodle (to draw aimlessly) with potter (to move aimlessly)—as reported by 1970s English visitors to Australia.
Inflected forms:
form: pootles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pootles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pootling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pootled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pootled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A stroll; a wandering.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: go for a pootle
gloss: To wander or ramble in a leisurely, indirect, or aimless manner, such as by walking or driving.
pos: verb
tags: UK
informal
examples: Prince William, in a surprise break from the schedule, borrowed his father's 41-year-old open-topped Aston Martin to pootle down the Mall to Clarence House with his new bride.
You turn up every morning for the ‘ward round’, where your whole team of doctors pootles past each of their patients.
"I'm in favour of this, although it'll look pathetic/insane on a two-car Class 150 pootling through Nunthorpe," said one user on X.
Translations:
bench-press
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
Inflected forms:
form: bench-presses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bench-pressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bench-pressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bench-pressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To press the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.
pos: verb
Translations:
white-ant
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From white ant (“termite”), suggesting the action of termites eating the inside of wooden building foundations, often leaving no outward evidence until the structure begins to crumble.
Inflected forms:
form: white-ants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: white-anting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: white-anted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: white-anted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bring down from within; to undermine.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
colloquial
examples: The white-anting of ATSIC has been brought about by the usual suspects.
If someone undermines you at work you might say they were "white-anting" you.
The left was divided between the ALP Club, slowly being white-anted by supporters of the DLP, and a Labour or Socialist Club which disgraced the labour movement by its extremism.
Plans for the Force 7 had officially been announced earlier in ′74, off the back of the P76′s Car of the Year award, before the shortages and poor quality control started white-anting it.
He was always prepared to contest an open ballot, when he viewed runs on the leadership as a free-for-all, but never challenged an incumbent leader. In time, Peacock supporters would accuse Howard of white-anting Peacock′s leadership.
In May 1947, Clark ‘debated’ Edmunds on ABC Radio, the topic: ‘Is communism white-anting our education system?’—a clear invitation for violent disagreement.
Translations:
bagboy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bag + boy.
Compound parts: bag
boy
Inflected forms:
form: bagboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bag boy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man or boy employed to put clients' purchases (e.g. groceries) into bags at the checkout line of a store.
pos: noun
Translations:
countertop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From counter + top.
Compound parts: counter
top
Inflected forms:
form: countertops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: counter-top
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: counter top
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The top surface of a counter, for preparation of food, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
beatdown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
music
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: Deverbal from beat down; influenced by earlier throwdown.
Inflected forms:
form: beatdowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A severe beating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A prescribed situation, usually to advance an angle or establish character, where two or more wrestlers severely beat up another wrestler or performer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A subgenre of hardcore punk influenced by heavy metal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: smackdown
Translations:
white-anting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from white-ant.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The action or process of bringing down from within, undermining, sabotage.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
uncountable
examples: The white-anting of our economic controls by black marketing operations is another serious circumstance.
You heard delegates admit that Cameron formed the white-anting organization for the purpose of undermining the A.W.U. ?
I didn′t complain, just worked harder despite the white-anting that went on under the surface.
Having done all she could for Wollar, Bev had to back off from local involvement; the white-anting had succeeded ... and Wollar would collapse.
Translations:
unhelpful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English helpful
English unhelpful
From un- + helpful.
Inflected forms:
form: more unhelpful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unhelpful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not providing help or assistance; not helpful.
pos: adj
examples: Even if you are genuinely a victim, having a victim mentality is unhelpful because it is disempowering. ― Ned Kelly, "NFL Players Are Setting A Bad Example By Teaching Black People To Encourage Victimhood", 8th of October 2017
"Did you know, beloved, at the last, in that intolerable heat, in that moment of supreme anguish, that he is unlistening, unhelpful as the stars, that you cried not to him?"
The luckier and less disabled ones manned lifts or were posted at the doors of public buildings, a uniformed and bemedalled conciergerie who were more often than not unhelpful, making the most of whatever petty authority they were invested with.
Translations:
Circassian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Circassia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Circassian
From Circassia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: more Circassian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Circassian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Circassia or Circassians.
pos: adj
examples: But in the garden was life in all its glad and bright hues: the early roses and the late violets opened their urns, exhaling in perfume the drops they caught, till every breath was pleasure; the laburnums, those prodigals of fleeting wealth, were covered with gold; and the Persian lilacs waved graceful as the Circassian maidens, to whom they are so often compared in eastern song.
Translations:
swimwear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English swim
Proto-Indo-European *wes-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti
Proto-Germanic *wazjaną
Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan
Old English werian
Middle English weren
English wear
English -wear
English swimwear
From swim + -wear.
Inflected forms:
form: swimwears
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Items of clothing appropriate for swimming.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Dark Tidehttp://www.avclub.com/articles/dark-tide,72548/
For Stockwell’s purposes, Halle Berry reps an appreciable presence in swimwear, but even her opening voiceover sounds swamped by boredom and regret.
Translations:
double-decker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: journalism
media
Etymology: Etymology tree
English double
English deck
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 double-decker
From double + deck + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: double-deckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doubledecker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: double decker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A vehicle (usually a bus, coach or train) or aircraft with two floors.
pos: noun
gloss: A frigate with two decks above the waterline.
pos: noun
gloss: Any object with two layers or parts stacked on top of each other.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: Any object with two layers or parts stacked on top of each other.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A headline that is two lines long.
pos: noun
gloss: a man who both penetrates (top) and is penetrated (bottom) in sex with other men; sometimes also has relationships with women and/or presents masculine as well as feminine mannerisms and appearances.
pos: noun
tags: India
examples: Indian MSM include self-identified gay men (Western acculturated), kothis (men who tend to be the receptive male partner in anal and oral sex and typically have more effeminate mannerisms), panthis (men who tend to be the insertive male partner in anal and oral sex), and double deckers (men who are both receptive and insertive partners). While MSM may self-identify as kothi, the terms panthi and double-decker are generally given by kothis to their male partners based on their sexual roles.
A double-decker is a term used for someone who functions as both. Double-deckers and Kothis have a high risk of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases according to studies among different MSM sub-groups in the nation.
Participants were either kothi (feminine acting, usually the receptive sexual partner) or double-decker (either insertive or receptive sexual partner; usually has male and female partners) at screening, and were required to speak English, Tamil (in Chennai), or Hindi (in Mumbai) fluently.
Related words: double-deck
single-decker
three-decker
triple-decker
Translations:
superstardom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From superstar + -dom or super- + stardom.
Base: superstar
Affixes: -dom
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The status or position of a superstar.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Eminem: A normal life is boring, but superstardom’s close to post mortem.
Boasting thirteen years in the drag industry, Saki [Yew] once took a hiatus to pursue a dance career. Now, she’s back, back, back and ready to be catapulted to superstardom to serve “looks, sass and a dulled down Australian accent”.
Translations:
hooliganism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hooligan
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English hooliganism
From hooligan + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: hooliganisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: unruly, aggressive behavior; behavior associated with hooligans
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Only one [tomb] stone was damaged (the Scaife one), and this took place on Friday, March 2, 1951, as a result of hooliganism on the part of two boys.
Translations:
scandia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: scandium oxide
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
titania
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of titanium dioxide.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Synonym of titanium dioxide.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: nanotitania
Translations:
biller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bill
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 biller
From bill + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: billers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An issuer of a bill.
pos: noun
gloss: One who bills (caresses in fondness), in the context of billing and cooing.
pos: noun
examples: "[…] O, O, O," continued the horrible old creature, "you billers and cooers, I have been listening to such flatteries, such confessions! Beware, beware, Arthur, there's many a slip."
Translations:
marline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English merlin, from Middle Low German marling, from Middle Dutch marlijn (“cord”), from marlen (“secure, fasten”), frequentative of maren (“to moor”), from Proto-Germanic *mairōną (“to moor, fasten to”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.
Inflected forms:
form: marlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: marlines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marlining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: marlined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: marlined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A light all-purpose cord commonly used to bind the end of a larger rope, to prevent fraying.
pos: noun
examples: 1749 (Sunday 26th May), John Newton's journal
A young man, who has been the whole voyage out of irons, first on account of a large ulcer, and since for his seeming good behaviour, gave them a large marline spike down the gratings, but was happily seen by one of the people.
gloss: Twine used similarly.
pos: noun
gloss: To wind marline around.
pos: verb
examples: to marline a rope
Derived words: marlinspike
Translations:
hulking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hulk
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English hulking
From hulk + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: hulkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Large and bulky, heavily built; massive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.
gloss: Unwieldy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A kind of sloping embankment used as a coastal defence.
pos: noun
examples: The sand-hills have permanently disappeared from many parts of the coast and have been replaced by clay embankments, timber hulkings, and, during the pre-war years, by mass-concrete stepwork.
Derived words: hulkingly
Translations:
propanol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: propanols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₃H₇-OH
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Either of two isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₃H₇-OH
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: aminopropanol
bromopropanol
methylpropanol
propanolamine
propanolysis
propranolol
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пропилов алкохол
roman: propilov alkohol
lang: Bulgarian
word: пропанол
roman: propanol
lang: Catalan
word: propanol
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 丙醇
roman: bǐngchún
lang: Finnish
word: propanoli
lang: French
word: propanol
lang: German
word: Propanol
lang: Italian
word: propanolo
lang: Polish
word: propanol
lang: Portuguese
word: propanol
lang: Portuguese
word: álcool propílico
lang: Swedish
word: propanol
butanol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English butane
English -ol
English butanol
From butane + -ol.
Inflected forms:
form: butanols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₄H₉-OH
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₄H₉-OH
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₄H₉-OH
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₄H₉-OH
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: biobutanol
ethambutol
kauri-butanol value
Translations:
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 丁醇
roman: ding¹ seon⁴
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 丁醇
roman: dīngchún
lang: Finnish
word: butanoli
lang: French
word: butanol
lang: German
word: Butanol
lang: Italian
word: butanolo
lang: Polish
word: butanol
lang: Portuguese
word: butanol
lang: Portuguese
word: ácido butílico
lang: Romanian
word: butanol
lang: Spanish
word: butanol
lang: Swedish
word: butanol
lang: Turkish
word: bütanol
parachuting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parachute
English -ing
English parachuting
From parachute + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: parachutings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sport or activity of jumping with a parachute.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
hemi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Clipping of hemisphere.
Inflected forms:
form: hemis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motor with hemispherical combustion chambers. A piston engine internal combustion engine with hemispherical piston cylinder heads.
pos: noun
gloss: A combustion chamber with the hemispherical cylinder head from such an engine.
pos: noun
gloss: A hemispherical cylinder head from such a motor.
pos: noun
gloss: A vehicle equipped with such a motor engine.
pos: noun
gloss: Domed versions of the above that have cylinder heads that are not exactly hemispherical
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Synonyms: hemi engine
hemi head
Translations:
zhou
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 粥 (zhōu). Doublet of jook and juk.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of congee, a thick rice porridge.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We did, however, send them to a Chinese nursery school that fed them a daily lunch of zhou, a rice porridge with various seasonings: pickled turnips, flakes of dough sticks, green or red beans, sesame paste, or something called hot prickly mustard tubers.
Translations:
Niger-Congo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined in the 1950s by Joseph Greenberg, from the name of the two principal rivers in the area in which this language family is spoken, the Niger River and the Congo River.
Inflected forms:
form: Niger-Congos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A speaker of any Niger-Congo language, or a member of a Niger-Congo culture by ancestry or other affinity.
pos: noun
gloss: An African descendant of the transatlantic middle passage in the Americas.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Belonging to the Niger-Congo language family, or pertaining to its associated peoples.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
object-control
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A control verb whose shared object is not the subject.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
subject-control
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: whose shared object is its subject.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
crosse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French crosse (“stick”), of Germanic origin. Doublet of crutch.
Inflected forms:
form: crosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lacrosse stick.
pos: noun
Translations:
sublingual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
herpetology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin sublinguālis, from sub- (“under, below, beneath”) + linguālis (“relating to the tongue”); equivalent to sub- + lingual.
Base: linguālis
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: sublinguals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Administered through placement under the tongue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: Situated beneath the tongue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: A particular scale near the front of the lower jaw in snakes, usually in a pair.
pos: noun
tags: relational
Derived words: sublingual artery
sublingual caruncle
sublingual duct
sublingual gland
sublingual immunotherapy
sublingually
sublingual nerve
sublingual nucleus
Translations:
lang: French
word: sublingual
lang: Polish
word: podjęzykowy
lang: Russian
word: сублингва́льный
roman: sublingválʹnyj
lang: Tagalog
word: pang-ilalim-dila
bedwetting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bed + wetting.
Compound parts: bed
wetting
Inflected forms:
form: bedwettings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bed-wetting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bed-wetting
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of urinary incontinence involving involuntary urination while in bed during sleep.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Characterized by cowardly attitudes; wishy-washy.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
examples: Really? There'll be none of this bedwetting attitude towards problems when I take office.
Translations:
sledding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sleddings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of sliding downhill, or transporting something, on a sled.
pos: noun
Translations:
microtome
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Could be construed as either micro + -tome (“instrument for cutting”) or micro- + tome.
Base: micro
Affixes: -tome
Inflected forms:
form: microtomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: microtomes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: microtoming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: microtomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: microtomed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A special instrument that produces very thin slices of plant and animal tissues, for later examination by light microscope or electron microscope.
pos: noun
examples: The first microtome was constructed for John Hill, to make the specimens described in his book on the structure of timber (1770).
gloss: To cut into sections using a microtome
pos: verb
Translations:
anterograde
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From antero- + -grade (“direction”) from Latin gradus (“pace, step”).
Affixes: antero-
-grade
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Effective immediately after a traumatic event such as an external shock.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia.
gloss: Moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Movement of mitochondria and other cell parts from a neuron's cell body toward the synapse is called anterograde transport.
Anterograde tracing is a research technique which is used to trace neural connections from their source to their point of termination. The opposite technique is retrograde tracing.
Antonyms: retrograde
Derived words: anterograde amnesia
anterogradely
Translations:
histological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English histology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English histological
From histology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to histology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Laboratory manuals of paleopathology have long taken the form of atlases illustrating the skeletal changes wrought by various diseases. They have consistently included radiological images and histological slides alongside macroscopic images of diseased remains.
Translations:
stereotaxic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to stereotaxis
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A stereotaxic atlas is a collection of sections of the brain with coordinates for stereotaxic surgery.
Translations:
microdialysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English dialysis
English microdialysis
From micro- + dialysis.
Inflected forms:
form: microdialyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A technique in which a short length of dialysis membrane is introduced into a biological tissue in order to collect samples of fluid for analysis.
pos: noun
Translations: