yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
consolatory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English consolatory, from Latin cōnsōlātōrius.
Inflected forms:
form: more consolatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most consolatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: consolatories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Which consoles.
pos: adj
examples: […] where in he reporteth of the coragius
wordes that were moch consolatory […]
1649, John Donne, Fifty Sermons, London: M.F., J. Marriot and R. Royston, Volume 2, “Sermon XVII. Preached at Lincolns Inne,” p. 140,
Where then is the restorative, the consolatory nature of these words? In this, beloved, consists our comfort […]
The punishment of real tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind.
“It is singularly reviving after such hurricanes to feel calm return, and from the opening clouds to receive a consolatory gleam, softly testifying that the sun is not quenched.”
Supper had been eaten, the turkey had been trussed, the children at last persuaded into their beds. That was the consolatory side of family life, Grorley thought—the long, Olympian codas of the emotions were cut short by the niggling detail.
gloss: That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation.
pos: noun
examples: 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 658-662, in Paradise Regain’d […] to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, pp. 43-44,
Consolatories writ
With studied argument, and much perswasion sought
Lenient of grief and anxious thought,
But with' afflicted in his pangs thir sound
Little prevails,
How is it possible to imagine, that a woman, who has all these consolatories to reflect upon, will die of a broken heart?
Translations:
coverlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English coverlite, from Anglo-Norman cuver-lit, formed on cuvrir (“to cover”) + lit (“bed”). Cognate with Catalan cobrellit.
Inflected forms:
form: coverlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blanket used as a bed covering, usually quilted.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: bedspread, bedcover, counterpane
Year after year unto her feet,
 She lying on her couch alone,
 Across the purpled coverlet,
 The maiden's jet-black hair has grown, […]
The wintering grasses smoldered with a reddish-browh hue, similar to the patches on the bird's coverlet feathers.
Translations:
crimped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more crimped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crimped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With a crimp in it; crushed shut.
pos: adj
examples: The crimped edges had been welded in earlier models.
Translations:
diligently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English diligent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English diligently
From diligent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more diligently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most diligently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a diligent manner, with appropriate effort, carefully.
pos: adv
examples: Instead, empty bags were folded diligently into the corners of underpacked suitcases, waiting to be jammed full with the familiar objects of home.
Translations:
doleful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English doleful, doolful, deolful, equivalent to dole + -ful.
Base: dole
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more doleful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dolefuller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dolefuler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most doleful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dolefullest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dolefulest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
pos: adj
examples: The doleful peal of the bell indicated another funeral was being held.
A doleful expression that tugged at my heartstrings.
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, / As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames / No light; but rather darkness visible / Served only to discover sights of woe, / Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace / And rest can never dwell, hope never comes / That comes to all, but torture without end / Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
O King this is very doleful. It is told that that traveller came at last to the utter End and there was a mighty gulf, and in the darkness at the bottom of the gulf one small god crept, no bigger than a hare, whose voice came crying in the cold: “I know not.” And beyond the gulf was nought, only the small god crying.
“We face a doleful future,” said Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg, a former president of the National Academy of Medicine.
Translations:
farmhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From farm + house.
Compound parts: farm
house
Inflected forms:
form: farmhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: farm house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: farm-house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A house (usually the main house) on a farm; thus:
pos: noun
examples: No farm-house goes on well without there is a Nis in it, and well is it for the maids and the men when they are in favour with him.
gloss: A house (usually the main house) on a farm; thus:
pos: noun
examples: Since the farm's redevelopment into mixed commercial and residential space, the farmhouse has served as a community center.
The couple live in a renovated farmhouse that was once the hub of a 300-acre farm.
Derived words: farmhouse loaf
farmhouse sink
farmhousey
Translations:
farmyard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From farm + yard.
Compound parts: farm
yard
Inflected forms:
form: farmyards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: farm-yard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The area of a farm, excluding the fields, usually surrounded by or adjacent to farm buildings.
pos: noun
examples: "Where's Kipper?" I asked, and was surprised to note that Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature. "Reggie?" she said, suspending the farmyard imitations for a moment.
The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.
Translations:
flogger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: BDSM
entertainment
lifestyle
sexuality
theater
Etymology: From flog + -er. Compare Low German flogger (“a flail”).
Base: flog
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: floggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who flogs.
pos: noun
examples: How could the flogger of urchins be otherwise than animated and joyous?
The High Masters were as shrewd floggers as any.
gloss: A whip.
pos: noun
examples: But the "Sac" party imagines that if the boy had not dropped his whip, their horse would have won, for he was so partial to his flogger, that the Treasure in all probability would have stopped to it, and Custance been just enabled to do him.
gloss: A whip.
pos: noun
examples: Savanna walked around the stock, unhooking her flogger from her belt.
gloss: A handle with strips of cloth attached, used for beating away charcoal dust etc.
pos: noun
examples: Schlepitchka is a texturing trick done by twirling a feather duster or flogger around gently and dabbing it on the surface of the scenery between each twirl of the tool so that the splayed pattern prints on the scenery.
Derived words: a hanger and a flogger
hanger and flogger
Translations:
frosty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English frosty, forsty, from Old English forstiġ, fyrstiġ (“frosty”), from Proto-West Germanic *frostag, *frustīg, By surface analysis, frost + -y.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian froastich (“frosty”), Dutch vorstig (“frosty”), German Low German fröstig (“frosty”), German frostig (“frosty”), Swedish frostig (“frosty”). Compare also Saterland Frisian froasterch (“frosty”), German Low German frösterg (“frosty”).
Inflected forms:
form: frostier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: frostiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cold, chilly; icy.
pos: adj
examples: The air was frosty; I could see my breath and walked quickly with my hands in my pockets.
I'd like a frosty milkshake.
It was late at night and frosty[.]
During the frostiest days of the Cold War, avoiding the Soviet Bloc meant flying north around Greenland to Alaska, refueling in Anchorage, and then around the Bering Straits to reach Japan.
gloss: Having frost on it or in it.
pos: adj
examples: The frosty pumpkin is the sign of the end of the growing season, soon the greenery will wither and harvest end for the year.
The frosty beverage gave him a brain freeze.
In scented, frilly boutiques that she seemed to find by instinct, they exchanged her battered wardrobe for fur capes and Anna Karenina riding boots that slithered on the frosty cobble, and Pym's dismal school habit for a leather jacket and trousers without buttons for his braces.
gloss: Having an aloof or inhospitable manner.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: After the divorce, she was civil but frosty to her ex.
Chilly from the start, she grows ever frostier as the book proceeds, partly because Mr. Martin has difficulty translating her sexual abandon to anything beyond “sexual due process.”
Network Rail had previously been reported to be frosty about reopening the South Sub [South Suburban Railway] to passenger traffic - but things appear to have changed.
Derived words: frostily
frostiness
frosty moon
frosty one
stay frosty
that'll be the frosty Friday
unfrosty
Translations:
gallantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gallant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English gallantly
From gallant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more gallantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gallantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a gallant or gentlemanly manner; with social graces.
pos: adv
examples: Poirot rose gallantly, bowed her into the seat opposite him.
gloss: In a brave or valiant manner.
pos: adv
examples: [T]he curve of her nostril suggested the figurehead of a ship plunging gallantly into a rough sea.
Translations:
gentlemanly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gentilmanly; equivalent to gentleman + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Base: gentleman
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: gentlemanlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gentlemanliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more gentlemanly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gentlemanly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a gentleman or gentlemen.
pos: adj
examples: Best of all, he ought to imagine his fellow-gamblers and the rest of the mob which stands trembling over a coin to be equally rich and gentlemanly with himself, and playing solely for recreation and pleasure.
With an election to cover and the soccer season in full swing, the sudoku newspaper rivalry stayed relatively gentlemanly until this month, when some of the last sudoku holdouts, including The Independent and The Guardian, joined the fray.
Some schools bump up everyone’s grades, some just allow for more As and others all but eliminate the once-gentlemanly C.
The stationmaster was an important part of the local community. Anyon Kay, in his reminiscences of Horwich in the early 20th century, remembers a Mr Horsfield as stationmaster - "a gentlemanly character who took his job very seriously".
gloss: In the manner or with the behavior of a gentleman; with social grace, politely.
pos: adv
examples: He went gentlemanly dressed in East Virginia style, wore a high-top silk hat, as had lawyer Park, and sported a gold headed walking cane.
Translations:
hebdomadal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin hebdomadālis. According to The Poly-Olbion Project, coined by John Selden in 1612.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lasting seven days.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: At the right ſide of any of the Baſes begin your account, from that to the oppoſitly noted Planet, thence to his oppoſite, and ſo ſhall you find a continued courſe in that Order (grounded perhaps among the Ancients vpon myſteries of number, and interchanged gouernment by thoſe ſuperior bodies ouer this habitable Orb) which ſome haue ſweated at, in inquiry of Proportions, Muſique diſtances, & refer’d it to Planetary howrs: wheras They (the very name of Houre for a XXIIII. part of a day, being vnuſuall till about the Peloponeſiaque warre) had their originall of later time, then this Hebdomadall account, whence the Hourely from the morning of euery day had his breeding, and not the other from this, as Pretending & Vulgar Aſtrologers receiue in ſuppoſition.
gloss: Weekly, occurring once a week.
pos: adj
examples: The wits and humourists, the distinguished worthies of the town or village, the apothecary, the attorney, even the curate himself, did not disdain to partake of this hebdomadal festivity.
They quickly weary of this brief hebdomadal Sabbath here, yet they long for that eternal one; they dream of it, they talk about it, they think they think they are going to enjoy it—with all their simple hearts they think they think they are going to be happy in it!
Synonyms: hebdomadary
Related words: hebdomadary
Derived words: hebdomadally
Hebdomadal Council
Translations:
equanimous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin aequ(us) (“calm”) + animus (“mind”). By surface analysis, equ- + animus.
Inflected forms:
form: more equanimous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most equanimous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: æquanimous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Calm and composed; of stable disposition.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: calm, composed, imperturbable; see also Thesaurus:calm
Translations:
guttural
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French guttural, from New Latin gutturālis, from Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ālis.
Inflected forms:
form: more guttural
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most guttural
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gutturals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sounding harsh and throaty.
pos: adj
examples: Arabic is considered a very guttural language, with many harsh consonants.
The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
gloss: having a place of articulation towards the back of the mouth; in modern use, uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal; in earlier or non-technical use, also including velar.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.
pos: adj
examples: guttural duct of the ear; guttural pouch infection
gloss: A harsh and throaty spoken sound
pos: noun
examples: He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect.
He seems quite an exception to some husbands in that respect!" remarked the Berliner in deep gutturals.
"Teeka is Tarzan's," said the ape-man, in the low gutturals of the great anthropoids.
Derived words: gutturalisation
gutturalise
gutturalism
gutturality
gutturalization
gutturalize
gutturally
gutturalness
guttural toad
nonguttural
unguttural
Translations:
cuneus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
architecture
biology
entomology
medicine
natural-sciences
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cuneus. Doublet of coign and coin.
Inflected forms:
form: cunei
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A portion of the occipital lobe of the human brain, involved in visual processing.
pos: noun
gloss: A wedge-shaped section of the forewing of certain heteropteran bugs.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a set of wedge-shaped divisions separated by stairways, found in the Ancient Roman theatre and in mediaeval architecture.
pos: noun
Derived words: precuneus
Translations:
pashmina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Classical Persian پَشْمِینَه (pašmīna). Compare پشمین (pašmīn /pašmin).
Inflected forms:
form: pashminas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Cashmere; a goat native to Kashmir.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fine wool that grows under the hair of this goat; cashmere.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A soft fabric made from this wool; (in particular) a shawl made from this fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: However, Leh's most important product is the soft underwool of sheep and goats, most of which are tended by nomads, men who roam about the uplands with their herds. It is this fine, soft wool which is used to make the famous pashmina shawls of Kashmir.
Pashmina was invented more than four hundred years ago when Nur Jaban, wife of the Emperor Jehangir, asked her weavers to present a woolen fabric that was "as light as a cloud but as warm as a tender embrace."
Related words: pashm
Translations:
well-nigh
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wel-neigh (“physically close to; near in time to; almost, nearly; closely”) [and other forms], from Old English wel nēah, wel nēh, from wel (“well”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”)) + nēah, nēh (“close, near”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to attain, reach”)). Synchronically a univerbation of well (“completely, fully; to a significant degree”) + nigh (“close by, near”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Almost, nearly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The ſame ſo ſore annoyed has the Knight, / That welnigh choked with the deadly ſtinke, / His forces faile, ne can no lenger fight.
The household cock had given his first summons, and the night was well nigh spent.
[…] Sindbad the Seaman continued:—So when I escaped drowning and reached the island which afforded me fruit to eat and water to drink, I returned thanks to the Most High and glorified Him; after which I sat till nightfall, hearing no voice and seeing none inhabitant. Then I lay down, well-nigh dead for travail and trouble and terror, and slept without surcease till morning, […]
This is what makes off-hand testimony about the subjective identity of different sensations well-nigh worthless as a proof of the fact.
Five years ago the officers determined to build a new mess. There was only one objection to the fulfilment of this wish: the regimental coffers were wellnigh empty.
From the third quarter of the 18th century, there has been a steady accession of English words into Bengali, and through an intimate knowledge of the English language and English culture among the educated classes—and 'educated' is now almost synonymous with 'educated in English'—an unending stream of English words is now being admitted into Bengali; and the process was never more active than at the present moment: so that it is well-nigh impossible now to estimate the English element in Bengali, alike in its extent and in its phonology.
Derelict and well-nigh forgotten, Port Victoria now watches the great ships on the Medway—ships that might have berthed in its docks.
Directed by Christopher Gans[…] and scripted by Roger Avary, who shared an Oscar with Tarantino for the screenplay of Pulp Fiction, Silent Hill is a well-nigh incomprehensible horror movie made in Canada and set in a West Virginian ghost town.
Translations:
triggerfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trigger
Proto-Indo-European *péysks
Proto-Germanic *fiskaz
Proto-West Germanic *fisk
Old English fisċ
Middle English fisch
English fish
English triggerfish
From trigger + fish. First attested in the 1840s.
Inflected forms:
form: triggerfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: triggerfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trigger-fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several brightly coloured fish, of the family Balistidae, that inhabit tropical reefs and have an erectile spine on the dorsal fin.
pos: noun
Translations:
poleaxe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier pollax, from poll (“head”) + axe, with the spelling influenced by pole.
Base: poll
Inflected forms:
form: poleaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poleax
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pole-axe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pollaxe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pollax
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: polax
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: poleaxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: poleaxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: poleaxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: poleaxed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: poleax
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: pole-axe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: pollaxe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: pollax
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: polax
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ax having both a blade and a hammer face; used to slaughter cattle.
pos: noun
gloss: A long-handled battle axe, being a combination of ax, hammer and pike.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To fell someone with, or as if with, a poleaxe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To astonish; to shock or surprise utterly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Lisa Griffin, who runs Brew Rock and an Irish pub in nearby Benidorm, was as poleaxed by the announcement as her customers were.
gloss: To stymie, thwart, cripple, paralyze.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: After a lacklustre campaign that has failed to grapple with Germany’s looming problems, the world should expect post-election coalition talks to last for months, poleaxing European politics while they drag on.
Related words: pole hammer
twibill
Translations:
sere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin serere, present active infinitive of serō (“to entwine, interlace, link together; to join in a series, string together”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, tie together; to thread”).
Inflected forms:
form: seres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved.
pos: noun
examples: We examined one of several seres found in the middle Rocky Mountains that progress from a subalpine or montane forb-dominated meadow to a climax forest dominated by Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii).
[C]ommunity types may represent either climax plant associations or successional communities within a sere.
[S]ome communities persisted as repeating early successional seres ("disclimaxes"), while climax communities could contain small areas of different sere communities.
Translations:
sist
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin sistō (“to bring to a stand, stop”).
Inflected forms:
form: sists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sisted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To stay (e.g. judicial proceedings); to delay or suspend; to stop
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
gloss: to cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
examples: Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.
gloss: a stay or suspension of proceedings
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: Fourteen Days are only allowed for Sists of Execution, from the Date the Bill was signed, for the Clerks inquiring in the Condition of the Cautioner […]
Translations:
ankylosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀγκύλωσις (ankúlōsis, “a stiffening of the joints”), from ἀγκυλόω (ankulóō, “to crook, bend”), from ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “bent, crooked”). By surface analysis, ankyl- + -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: ankyloses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anchylosis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ancylosis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The growing together of bones to form a single unit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The stiffening of a joint as the result of such abnormal fusion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An onset of stiffness or inflexibility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Yet in using the word democracy, one must plead for a distinction, or, better, a reversion, indicated by the curious anchylosis that, at a certain point in their maturity, usually sets in upon words newly put in use to express some august and large spiritual reality.
Related words: arthropathy
arthrosis
dysarthrosis
Derived words: ankylotic
Translations:
ankylosaurus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From taxonomic name Ankylosaurus, from ankylo- + -saurus, from Ancient Greek ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “crooked”) + New Latin -saurus, from Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”). The word was coined in 1908 without explanation by Barnum Brown and may refer to his mistaken belief that its back was sharply bent in a manner similar to the stegosaurus or to his attention to the fusion of his specimens' rear ribs to their vertebrae, a condition medically known as ankylosis.
Affixes: ankylo-
-saurus
Inflected forms:
form: ankylosauri
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ankylosauruses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Ankylosaurus magniventris, a large herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous period notable for its heavy armor and clublike tail.
pos: noun
Translations:
ankylosaur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of ankylosaurus, q.v.
Inflected forms:
form: ankylosaurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of ankylosaurus, Ankylosaurus magniventris, a herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous period notable for its heavy armor and clublike tail.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of ankylosaurian, any member of the suborder Ankylosauria, herbivorous dinosaurs notable for their armor in the form of bony osteoderms.
pos: noun
examples: In a study published Wednesday in Nature, Chilean researchers announced the discovery of a new species of ankylosaur, a family of dinosaurs known for their heavy armor, from subantarctic Chile.
Translations:
hyperglycemia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
Ancient Greek γλῠκῠ́ς (glŭkŭ́s)der.
English glyc-
Ancient Greek αἷμᾰ (haîmă)der.
New Latinder.
English -emia
English glycemia
English hyperglycemia
From hyper- + glycemia or hyper- + glyc + -emia.
Base: glycemia
Affixes: hyper-
Inflected forms:
form: hyperglycemias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hyperglycaemia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hyperglycæmia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An unusually high concentration of sugar in the blood
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: hypoglycemia
Translations:
wellspring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English wellespring, from Old English wiellspring, wiellġespring (“spring, fount, fountain”), corresponding to well + spring. More at well, spring.
Compound parts: well
spring
Inflected forms:
form: wellsprings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The source of water for a stream, spring or well; a fountainhead; a wellhead.
pos: noun
gloss: A perennial source of anything; a fountainhead of supply or emanation; resource.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: We’re so often taught to simply believe in ourselves—to trust our instincts—that to see a narrative in which second-guessing oneself and refusing one’s deepest impulses is a potential wellspring of charity and good is, in itself, noteworthy.
Krapp’s Last Tape has been acted by prisoners in San Quentin and made into a chamber opera. It goes to the wellspring of an actor. Well, most of the time: when Albert Finney played the part, Beckett went to sleep in rehearsals.
Translations:
wrecker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wreck
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 wrecker
From wreck + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: wreckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: Near-synonyms: breaker, knacker; salvager, salvor; scrapper, scrap dealer; shipbreaker, car breaker
gloss: One who breaks up situations or events.
pos: noun
examples: home wrecker / marriage wrecker / party wrecker
gloss: A tow truck.
pos: noun
gloss: A mooncusser (type of land-based pirate).
pos: noun
gloss: Someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking; that is, of undermining the state in intangible ways.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Antonyms: builder
constructor
maker
producer
Related words: wrecking bar
Derived words: home wrecker
nation wrecker
Translations:
Saanich
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Saaniches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Saanich
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Native American people from British Columbia.
pos: noun
examples: Mount Newton is next on the list of Greater Victoria landmarks that First Nations want to see restored to their traditional names. The Saanich, or Wsanec, tribes know the mountain as Lau,Welnew, which means place of refuge in the Sencoten language. […] “There’s big support for that one in the Saanich Nation because we have always held that mountain sacred,” said Tsawout hereditary chief Eric Pelkey, who spearheaded last week’s march up Mount Douglas to erect a sign bearing the traditional name Pkols.
Translations:
fabula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin fabula (“story”). Doublet of fable.
Inflected forms:
form: fabulae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series of events forming the basis of a story or narrative.
pos: noun
Translations:
fiar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps from fee + -ar, compare feuar.
Base: fee
Affixes: -ar
Inflected forms:
form: fiars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a liferenter.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: I say, since ye hae sae muckle consideration for me, I'se be blithe to accept your kindness; and my mother and me (she's a life-renter, and I am fiar, o' the lands o' Wideopen) would grant you a wadset, or an heritable bond, for the siller, and to pay the annual-rent half-yearly; and Saunders Wyliecoat to draw the bond, and you to be at nae charge wi' the writings.
gloss: The price of grain in the counties of Scotland, as legally fixed on an annual basis.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: It seems to be a practice as improper as it is unnecessary, to strike the fiars in three different qualities of the same species of grain; and it should, in our humble opinion, be discontinued.
It was answered by the Sheriff. 1st, That the Act of Sederunt did not impose any positive injunction on Sheriffs to strike Fiars; that if the Fiars were substantially just, the Court could have no power to reduce them; and that the Act of Sederunt had never been observed in East Lothian;[…].
In further confirmation that this is not the date of the origin, it may be stated, that there is very early mention of Commissaries' Fiars, Sir John Connell tracing the commencement of these so far back as the Reformation, when Commissary or Consistorial Courts were established, in place of those of the bishops or their officials; and notice is taken of the Fiars prices of grain in the records of the Commissary Court so far back as 1564—somewhat earlier than the statute above quoted.
Derived words: fiars prices
Translations:
piss-take
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: piss-takes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: piss take
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pisstake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An instance of taking the piss.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
vulgar
examples: You don't mind me saying this, but this is not a piss-take, is it? Because I know a few impressionists and you could be one of them.
gloss: A parody.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
vulgar
examples: The slogan reminds me of Team America, the puppet piss-take of Bush era military interventionism brought to you by the creators of Whale Whores ('America: fuck, yeah!'). But this is no piss-take.
What's so funny about Maggie Smith's dowager of Downton is that it's basically a piss-take; but so good a piss-take that everyone takes it for real, because that's how we'd like to view our decaying aristocracy.
“Within minutes, Damon had penned this superb Western theme tune, and I made up some words, a complete piss-take which went, 'I wanna sing in a Western, walk like big John Wayne, I wanna kill a hudred injuns, then shoot myself in the brain.' The rest of the class were gobsmacked because it sounded amazing, but they just didn't get it, it was a total piss-take.
gloss: An unpleasant situation that is comparable to a parody.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
vulgar
examples: this job is a piss take.
Derived words: piss-takery
Translations:
hellfire
Part of speech: adj
intj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English helle fire, helever, from Old English hellefȳr, equivalent to hell + fire. Cognate with West Frisian helfjoer (“hellfire”), Dutch hellevuur (“hellfire”), German Höllenfeuer (“hellfire”).
Compound parts: hell
fire
Inflected forms:
form: more hellfire
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hellfire
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hell-fire
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hell-fire
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a violent, apocalyptic and ultimate day of reckoning and judgment; usually characterizing a form of Christian preaching.
pos: adj
examples: The advance of liberalism, so-called, in Christianity, during the past fifty years, may fairly be called a victory of healthy-mindedness within the church over the morbidness with which the old hell-fire theology was more harmoniously related.
Sermons such as The Eternity of Hell Torments and The Future Punishment of the Wicked Unavoidable and Intolerable, as well as several manuscript examples, serve to mark the distinction between a true hellfire sermon and the proto-eschatological concerns of Sinners [in the Hands of an Angry God], consumed as it is with the here and now.
gloss: hell; damn; blast
pos: intj
Translations:
ketosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From keto- + -osis.
Base: keto
Inflected forms:
form: ketoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A metabolic state in which the body produces ketones to be used as fuel by some organs so that glycogen can be reserved for organs that depend on it. This condition occurs during times of fasting, starvation, or while on a ketogenic diet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ketoacidosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Ketonbor.
English ketone
English keto-
English acidosis
English ketoacidosis
From keto- + acidosis.
Inflected forms:
form: ketoacidoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A severe form of ketosis, most commonly seen in diabetics, in which so much ketone is produced that acidosis occurs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
buckyball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Blend of buck(minsterfullerene) + -y + ball.
Compound parts: buckminsterfullerene
-y
ball
Inflected forms:
form: buckyballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bucky-ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A buckminsterfullerene molecule (C₆₀).
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: The most common types of spheroidal fullerenes, C₆₀ and C₇₀ usually; with C₇₂ and C₇₆ sometimes also included.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
gloss: Any spheroidal fullerene, from C₂₀ on upwards.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
Related words: bunnyball
buckyonion
C60
Derived words: buckypaper
Translations:
southward
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *sunþ
Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥
Proto-Indo-European *sh₂w-én-s
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ún-teros
Proto-Germanic *sunþraz
▲
Proto-Germanic *sunþraz
Proto-Germanic *sunþrą
Proto-West Germanic *sunþr
Old English sūþ
Middle English south
English south
Proto-Indo-European *wert-der.
Proto-Germanic *wardaz
Old English -weard
English -ward
English southward
From south + -ward.
Inflected forms:
form: south'ard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more southward
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most southward
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: south'ard
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more southward
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most southward
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: south'ard
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The direction or area lying to the south of a place.
pos: noun
tags: no-plural
examples: 100 leagues to the southward
gloss: Situated or directed towards the south; moving or facing towards the south.
pos: adj
gloss: Towards the south; in a southerly direction.
pos: adv
examples: As the remnants retreated northward to Pengyang (平壤 Pʻing-jang), war was declared and a Chinese contingent from Manchuria went southward to that place.
Translations:
lazybones
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lazy + bones.
Compound parts: lazy
bones
Inflected forms:
form: lazybones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is lazy.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The foremost traveller stopped and called impatiently to his companion. "Come on, can't yer? What a lazybones yer are, Charlotte."
His father thought that there was no doubt some more suitable work to be found for him, for he who should watch hares ought to be light and smart, and no lazybones, and when the hares began to run and fly about, there would be quite another dance than hanging about the house all day doing nothing.
How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?
Isn't it time you got up, you lazybones?
Translations:
legalistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.?
Proto-Italic *lēks
Latin lex
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin lēgālislbor.
English legal
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
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -istic
English legalistic
From legal + -istic.
Inflected forms:
form: more legalistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most legalistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, following the letter of the law.
pos: adj
examples: He's very legalistic, so let's hope the law is just and merciful as well as strict.
gloss: Of a person, tending to resort to the law, as one who sues frequently.
pos: adj
examples: His legalistic tendencies irritated his neighbors, especially since they had to defend themselves against his frivolous suits.
gloss: Practicing or characterized by legalism.
pos: adj
examples: She was legalistic in her observation of religious rules and traditions.
the European Union is legalistic, bureaucratic and runs by precedent.
Related words: legalism
legalist
literalistic
punctilious
Derived words: legalistically
nonlegalistic
unlegalistic
Translations:
self-indulgence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English indulgence
English self-indulgence
From self- + indulgence.
Inflected forms:
form: self-indulgences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: self indulgence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: selfindulgence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Excessive or immoderate indulgence of one's own personal desires and needs above all others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You might think it sounds like self-indulgence or an excuse to buy the doll you wanted when you were younger, but reparenting is a therapeutic technique that might help you save yourself and future generations from a lot of pain.
Translations:
self-indulgent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English indulgent
English self-indulgent
From self- + indulgent.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-indulgent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-indulgent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting tendencies of self-indulgence.
pos: adj
examples: It is not a refuge for self-indulgent monomaths to channelize their aggressions within a community of colleagues and students.
I can assure him and others that I am more than willing to let feminist-separatists, male and/or female go their own gay way. Along with other extraneous and self-indulgent factions, they have been a diversionary and devisive ^([sic]) element.
Translations:
twenties
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: 'twenties
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: From or evoking the 21st through 30th years of a century (chiefly the 1920s).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: That bob haircut makes you look so twenties.
It tells the life of a Sicilian peasant girl, Teresa, who is brought to a village in Provence just after the First World War; is adopted by two very "twenties" lesbian ladies, one American, one English, who rebuild, maintain, and allow to decay, an old house called the Bishop's Palace.
Old photos show her in typical twenties styles—tight-fitting black dresses with lace, low-slung wide belts, large ornamental pins on her equally large bodice, funny hats with feathers.
Translations:
thirties
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: 'thirties
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: From or evoking the 31st through 40th years of a century (chiefly the 1930s).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Yearslong droughts? How thirties!
'Something light and airy for this last burst of summer, non?' said Madame, and held up a dress in creamy pink crêpe-de-Chine. 'Very thirties, n'est-ce pas? I adore this fabric—so fluid, so graceful.'
Translations:
forties
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: 'forties
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 1940s
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: '40s
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 40s
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: From or evoking the 41st through 50th years of a century (chiefly the 1940s).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Two forties aircraft sat forgotten in the hangar until they were rediscovered by two trespassing teens.
Like any big modern city, Scott's Los Angeles of 2019 is saturated with technologies; in fact, it is most striking for its layering of technologies, styles, lifestyles and ethnicities, which range from oriental peasant altars and cookfires through forties hats and building facades to off-world colonies and androids.
Translations:
fifties
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: 'fifties
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: From or evoking the 51st through 60th years of a century (chiefly the 1950s).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Don't bring ambrosia, this isn't a fifties potluck.
As they inspect the message, "Happy B-day Netta," the bakery clerk places four plastic figures around the edges of the cake. The figures have fifties hairstyles and clothing, and they are in rock 'n roll dancing poses.
Translations:
sixties
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: 'sixties
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: From or evoking the 61st through 70th years of a century (chiefly the 1960s).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She coughed as she exhaled. Sixties weed had been nowhere near this strong.
Historians do not rely on single bits of evidence, but are always seeking corroboration, qualification, correction. These novels, set in context, are in themselves interesting fragments of sixties culture.
Translations:
seventies
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: 'seventies
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: From or evoking the 71st through 80th years of a century (chiefly the 1970s).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I know the theme of the school dance is "The 1970s" but is covering the walls, floor, and ceiling with tie-dye too seventies?
Among rock critics and journalists, there is an overwhelming bias to view the late sixties in a positive light and seventies music as an unfortunate decline into commercialism at the expense of musical authenticity.
Translations:
eighties
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Eighties
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 'eighties
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: From or evoking the 81st through 90th years of a century (chiefly the 1980s).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Sue picked a playlist of eighties music for the dinner to remind her wife of that night they met all those years ago.
These publications can, however, be linked to a very eighties trend initiated among African American women writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker whose most distinguished novels deal with previously untold stories set deep in America's imperialist, slave-owning past.
Next to her, a woman with puffy sleeves, bright bubblegum makeup, and big eighties hair spoke melodiously into a microphone.
Translations:
nineties
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: temperature
Inflected forms:
form: 90s
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: '90s
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Nineties
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 90s
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: '90s
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Nineties
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: The range between 90 and 99.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: My ideal bracket of temperature ranges from the sixties up to the nineties.
gloss: From or evoking the 91st through 100th years of a century (chiefly the 1990s).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I found myself attracted to his mullet even though it struck me as needlessly nineties.
Nineties kids are honestly "fired up" about their environment. Students are aware and worried that their world is being destroyed, and teachers only need to tap into that hidden stream of interest.
Related words: nonagenarian
Derived words: nervous nineties
Translations: