yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
recap
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + cap.
Base: cap
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: recaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recapped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: recaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To seal (something) again with a cap.
pos: verb
examples: They're planning to recap those oil wells permanently.
gloss: To replace the worn tread on a tire by gluing on a new outer portion.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
examples: They buy a lot of camelback because they recap a lot of truck tires for trailer fleets.
In 1942 almost 86,000,000 pounds of camelback—a 25-percent increase over 1941—were made available for recapping purposes, and the output of this product is continually increasing. Dealer establishments are as busy as beehives. They have about 90 percent of the recapping equipment. In the testimony before you yesterday one of the proponents of this bill admitted that independent dealers had 88 percent of all the recapping machinery there is in the United States. We estimate that it is probably about that figure, although we thought it was a little higher, probably 90 percent. In addition to recapping tires for the general public, they also are doing this work on Government-owned tires, including the military, with the result that the independent dealer has retreaded hundreds and hundreds of thousands of tires, at a substantial profit, during said period.
Are recapped tires safe? This is obviously the thing to know before you consider buying recaps.
gloss: A tire that has had new tread glued on.
pos: noun
examples: He refused to buy recaps because he didn't trust them not to come apart on the highway.
As she did so, Stacy noted that the tire had been a recap—a tire created by gluing a new outer portion of tread onto the worn inner core of old tires.
Translations:
teledildonics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
English tele-
English dildonics
English teledildonics
From tele- (“afar, from a distance”) + dildonics (“electronic dildos”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Technology which can be used to remotely control dildonics, allowing mutual masturbation over the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: And considering their comfort level with remote interaction and online gaming, teledildonics will not seem odd at all. It will just be another option on a Wednesday night.
Wide-eyed futurists have long envisioned a world where teledildonics helps us all get it on with partners half a world away; so far, their predictions have amounted to little more than empty hype.
Translations:
duplicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin duplicare (double). Equivalent to duplex + -ity.
Base: duplex
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: duplicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of being double or twofold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For instance the rod-cone 'duplicity' of retinal function was first enunciated by the German microscopist Max Schultze in 1866 […]
Related words: duplicitous
dupe
double-cross
Translations:
serotonin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ser-
Proto-Indo-European *sér-o-der.
Proto-Italic *serom
Latin serumder.
English serum
English sero-
English tone
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English serotonin
From sero- + tone + -in.
Inflected forms:
form: serotonins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An indoleamine neurotransmitter, 5-hydroxytryptamine, that is involved in depression, appetite, etc., and is crucial in maintaining a sense of well-being, security, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Notably, mouse lines targeting genes codifying for serotonin receptors, for enzymes involved in 5-HT synthesis as Tph1 and Tph2, in its metabolism as monoaminoxidase A (MAOA) or in its re-uptake as serotonin transporter (SERT), have been generated.
The class of antidepressants most commonly associated with sexual dysfunction is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which treat depression by ultimately increasing levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain.
Translations:
capstan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from either Old French cabestan, from Old Occitan cabestan, from cabestre (“pulley cord”) or from Spanish cabestran, both of which derive from Latin capistrum (“halter”), from capiō (“take hold of”).
Inflected forms:
form: capstans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: capstern
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: capstorm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A vertical cylindrical machine that revolves on a spindle, typically surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for levers for turning it; used to apply force to cables, ropes, etc.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: to pawl the capstan
to rig the capstan
to surge the capstan
"Man the capstan! Blood and thunder!—jump!"—was the next command, and the crew sprang for the handspikes.
We toiled over the capstan, and late in the afternoon slipped out of the harbour.
Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
gloss: A rotating spindle used to move recording tape through the mechanism of a tape recorder.
pos: noun
gloss: a screw on the rising side of a piano key, which serves the function of lifting the wippen when the key is depressed
pos: noun
examples: The upward force of the capstan causes the wippen to rise, thrusting the jack upward into another component called the “knuckle” that is fixed to one end of the hammer shank.
Related words: hoist
winch
Derived words: capstan bar
capstan effect
capstanman
capstan screw
jeer capstan
Translations:
androgyne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.
Inflected forms:
form: androgynes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is androgynous.
pos: noun
examples: Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne.
The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved.
There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.
gloss: An androgynous plant.
pos: noun
Derived words: androgynism
androgynist
androgynize
androgynise
Translations:
haya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish haya, from Old Spanish haya, from Latin [materia] fāgea (“hay wood”).
Inflected forms:
form: hayas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A beech tree, especially a Mexican beech (Fagus mexicana).
pos: noun
Translations:
ness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English nesse (in placenames), from Old English næs, from Proto-Germanic *nasją (“promontory; ness”); cognate with Middle Low German nes, Icelandic nes, Swedish näs, Danish næs, Old Norse nes. Related to nose.
Inflected forms:
form: nesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A promontory; a cape or headland. (Frequently used as a suffix in placenames.)
pos: noun
examples: Velvraz Sebarm stands upon the lake, among orange-trees and pomegranates and almonds and peaches of the south, a mile north-west over the water from Zayana town, and two miles by land: an old castle built of honey-coloured marble at the tip of a long sickle-shaped ness that sweeps round southwards, with wild gardens running down in the rocks to the water’s edge, and behind the castle a wood of holm-oaks making a wind-break against the north.
Translations:
highfalutin
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possible an alteration of high-fluting. Another speculation connects the term with high-flighting/-flying. First appears c. 1839 in the Spirit of the Times.
Inflected forms:
form: more highfalutin
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most highfalutin
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hifalutin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hifalutin'
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hifaluting
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: highfalutin'
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: highfaluting
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: high-falutin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: high-falutin'
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: high-faluting
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: high falutin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: high falutin'
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: high faluting
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.
pos: adj
tags: US
informal
examples: It's only a matter of time before some highfalutin developer builds a huge hotel and ruins the scenery.
That one Cajun that moved to Austin is too highfalutin to come back to Livingston Parish. He's over there with that mean bread lady!
His speech was very highfalutin.
When it comes down to it and it's time to get it on / Ain't no way to do it / If you find yourself alone / 'Cause all your highfalutin / Ain't worth nothin' when you're old / When it comes down to it / Love will get you more than gold
There’s been a spate of stories lately about how Cruz’s rhetoric is more hifalutin than everybody else’s. He uses lots of big words and dependent clauses.
As a rhetorical maneuver, invoking common sense has the advantage of distancing oneself from a complicated, highfalutin legal analysis.
Derived words: highfalutinism
Translations:
reddy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós
Proto-Germanic *raudaz
Proto-West Germanic *raud
Old English rēad
Middle English red
English red
English -y
English reddy
From red + -y.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat red in colour.
pos: adj
examples: Baby brown snakes are dark grey or black, and have broad bands on the back of their heads and numerous reddy-brown spots on their bellies.
Translations:
rebuff
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From obsolete French rebuffer, from Middle French rebuffer (compare French rebiffer (“to rise up, revolt”)), from Italian ribuffare.
Inflected forms:
form: rebuffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rebuffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rebuffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rebuffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rebuffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sudden resistance or refusal.
pos: noun
examples: He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.
And it is symptomatic of the many paradoxes of Lederer's life that of all the people in the room, Brotherhood is the one whom he would most wish to serve, if ever he had the opportunity, even though — or perhaps because — his occasional efforts to ingratiate himself with his adopted hero have met with iron rebuff.
His administration’s blunt rebuff of a plea by his ally and Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for an increased supply of vaccines to combat a Covid-19 spike represents the kind of tough decision the President and his team will increasingly face on the exit road from the crisis.
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he would support a new election in Venezuela, after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also floated the idea, despite rebuffs from Venezuela's ruling party and its opposition which both claim victory in the July 28 contest.
gloss: Repercussion, or beating back.
pos: noun
examples: the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud
gloss: To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The plaque (2014) doesn't tell you that Leonard [Woolf] had initially been rebuffed. His intended proposal was refused by Virginia [Woolf to be], who then had a change of heart.
Lawyers for CBS News are rebuffing a legal threat from Donald Trump over the network’s “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris, telling the former president his demands are based on a “faulty premise.”
“If you have rule of the bureaucrat — if the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have?” Musk said during his 30-minute appearance with Trump, where he rebuffed critics who said he’s the one undermining democratic institutions.
Translations:
legwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From leg + work.
Compound parts: leg
work
Inflected forms:
form: legworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leg work
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: leg-work
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Work, especially research or preparation, that involves significant walking, travel, or similar effort.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In addition to spreading more information, brokers are going to have to do some leg work to get new customers.
The worldwide effort has already revealed several valuable lessons [including] . . . the use of old-fashioned legwork in tracking down people who may unknowingly carry a virus.
John did all the legwork. He had the invitations printed and mailed. He found speakers.
gloss: Skillful or vigorous use of the legs, as in dance or sports.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: "Watriss, No. 3, is rowing well. . . . His leg work is very fair."
Fancy legwork and jumping rope will get you in great shape.
Related words: footwork
groundwork
pound the pavement
Translations:
groundwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ground + work.
Compound parts: ground
work
Inflected forms:
form: groundworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ground-work
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The foundation; the basic or fundamental parts that support or allow for the rest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The discovery of the laws of electricity laid the groundwork for a century of innovation.
This outline programme was compiled by a working party consisting of members from the Regional Planning Office, the civil, mechanical and electrical, and signal engineering departments and the traffic services, on the basis of much groundwork done within each of these departments.
Oft-derided, even in its 2002 heyday, no one expected electroclash to last. But, just as sonic heirs such as La Roux or Little Boots capitalise on their groundwork, the old electro guard return with works of real solidity and depth.
Translations:
gingivitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin gingīvabor.
English gingiva
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.
New Latin -itisder.
English -itis
English gingivitis
From gingiva + -itis.
Inflected forms:
form: gingivitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gingivites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the gums or gingivae.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
psychrophilic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From psychro- + -philic.
Base: psychro
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Especially of certain bacteria: capable of living at relatively low temperature.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ontological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ontology
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 ontological
From ontology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to ontology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word—‘Everything’—and everyone will accept this answer as true.
Applying a critical discourse analysis to MM, this thesis argues that far-right media portrays any challenge to the status quo, be it demographic, political, cultural, or social, as threatening to ontological security by utilizing a Positive Self and Negative Other dichotomy.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the nature of being or existence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Such is the human ontological imagination, and such is the convincingness of what it brings to birth. Unpicturable beings are realized, and realized with an intensity almost like that of an hallucination.
Related words: ontic
Derived words: nonontological
ontological argument
ontologically
ontological proof
ontological shock
preontological
unontological
Translations:
ullage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
Etymology: From Middle English ulage, from Anglo-Norman ulliage, from *ullier (“to fill a partially empty cask”), from Old French oel (“bunghole”, literally “eye”), from Latin oculus (“eye”). See French ouillage.
Inflected forms:
form: ullages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ullages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ullaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ullaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ullaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In a wine bottle, the empty space between the cork and the top of the wine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In a cask or barrel, the empty space, occupied by air, that is created by not completely filling the cask or barrel, or through spillage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The dry ullage will be obtained in the same manner, the dry inches being used instead of the wet.
gloss: The topping up of such a barrel with fresh wine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In an industrial setting, the empty space in a tank, especially as for fuel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Upon completion of loading, all cargo tanks shall again be inspected and ullages carefully measured and recorded, with temperatures, in the Cargo Record Book, Port Log and Supplementary Loading and Discharging Report.
According to the Colombian Government's report regarding this accident, the bomb explosion itself did not compromise the structural integrity of the airplane; however, the explosion punctured the CWT and ignited the Jet A fuel/air vapor in the ullage, resulting in the destruction of the airplane.
gloss: Additional cargo of little or no value taken on to prevent movement or shifting of the purposive cargo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]5 hhds. rum/ 5 bbls. flour/ 1 bbl. sugar/ 9 do. pork/ 1 do. suett/ 3 do. cocoa/ 6 do. peas/ 2 ullage bbls. vinegar[…]
gloss: Leftover wine surreptitiously drunk by waiters as they clear away the glasses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: Mopps […] was draining his vast array of wine-glasses, lest the waiters carrying them off should find any "ullages" in them for surreptitious tippling on stair-cases.
gloss: To gauge the amount of empty space between the top of a cask and the level of liquid inside it.
pos: verb
examples: The Duties on Spirits in England are charged on the number of proof gallons they contain, which is ascertained by first “gauging” or “ullaging” the liquor, and then “trying its strength” by Sike's hydrometer, in the way already described […]
Related words: dunnage
Derived words: ullage burn
ullage gas
ullage motor
Translations:
neurotransmitter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
neuroscience
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
English transmit
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 transmitter
English neurotransmitter
From neuro- + transmitter.
Inflected forms:
form: neurotransmitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any substance, such as acetylcholine or dopamine, responsible for sending nerve signals across a synapse between two neurons.
pos: noun
examples: Anyway, my neurotransmitters are scrambled and they're going to stay scrambled. But I can do okay as long as other people don't know about me.
Together with this is the influence of an infinite number of neurotransmitters, neurohormones, environmental hazards, and accidental programmings.
The class of antidepressants most commonly associated with sexual dysfunction is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which treat depression by ultimately increasing levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain.
Translations:
reverend
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French révérend, from Old French, from Latin future passive participle reverendus (“that is to be respected”), from deponent verb revereor (“to honor, revere”).
Inflected forms:
form: reuerend
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: reverends
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reuerend
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Worthy of reverence or respect.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: revered, esteemed
The reverend doctor will enlighten us with a lecture on the germ theory.
gloss: Showing or granting reverence or respect.
pos: adj
gloss: Extreme, extraordinary, or powerful.
pos: adj
tags: Pennsylvania
Western
examples: Near-synonyms: reverable, estimable
gloss: A member of the Christian clergy; a minister.
pos: noun
examples: The esteemed reverend will enlighten us with a sermon on reconciliation.
Reverend Sykes closed his sermon. He stood beside a table in front of the pulpit and requested the morning offering, a proceeding that was strange to Jem and me.
Derived words: irreverend
reverendly
reverendness
unreverend
Translations:
gentrification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gentry + -ification, after gentrify. Coined by German-born British sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964.
Base: gentry
Affixes: -ification
Inflected forms:
form: gentrifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Labour's manifesto contains the wild promise of 'war on the private landlord,' but this may conceal a real determination to use the powers of compulsory purchase to prevent the existing residents of places like North Kensington being driven out by the twin forces of 'gentrification' and development.
Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street? Yo, what you wanna live in a Black neighborhood for, anyway? Man, motherfuck gentrification.
In particular, the focus is on property value changes and gentrification in Portland that are often attributed to urban growth and containment policies within the state.
I went to a large national forum not that long ago where about six hundred local government officials, nonprofit and neighborhood development corporation staff met to discuss the gentrification of urban neighborhoods. The irony is that the forum quickly shifted to discussions on race as it frequently does when gentrification is discussed.
gloss: A geographical area that is gradually becoming prosperous due to investment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: degentrification
gentrify
gentry
price out
urban blight
urban renewal
Derived words: hypergentrification
pregentrification
regentrification
Translations:
take-away
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English take awaydeverb.
English take-away
Deverbal from take away.
Inflected forms:
form: take-aways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to food or drink intended to be consumed off the premises.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
gloss: An idea, lesson or conclusion learned at some event for future use.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: The following take-aways are critical when developing corporate strategy.
gloss: A takeout restaurant, or food from such restaurant.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
examples: The small scale of Chinese take-aways is an important factor in making these businesses viable for families.
Translations:
takeoff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
media
printing
publishing
sports
surfing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English take offdeverb.
English takeoff
Deverbal from take off.
Inflected forms:
form: takeoffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: take-off
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A launch or ascent into the air or into flight, such as of an aircraft, rocket, bird, high-jumper etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The flight was smooth, but the takeoff was a little rough.
That high-jumper's takeoff needs some work.
The mute swan, being one of the world's heaviest flying birds, can have a laborious takeoff.
gloss: A parody or lampoon of someone or something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Weird Al's song "Lasagna" is a takeoff on the popular song "La Bamba".
I came across a little pamphlet of the period, yellow and almost undecipherable, which, on examination, I found to be a rather amusing skit or satirical take-off on the profit system.
I had originally titled it, On Claiming An Identity They Taught Me To Despise. I said that having been a Renaissance historian, I was doing a take-off of the Latin tracts—"On This," "On That," "On the Beauty of Women."
gloss: A quantification, especially of building materials.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I'll give you an estimate after I do the quantity takeoffs for the trusses and structural steel.
gloss: The removal of sheets from the press.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: The spot from which one takes off; specifically, the place from which a jumper rises in leaping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Encyclopaedia of Sport
The take-off should be selected with great care, and a pit of large dimensions provided on the landing side.
gloss: The initial movement a surfer makes to start riding a wave.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Steamer Lane, home of the world's latest takeoff.
Synonyms: liftoff
Related words: take off
Derived words: power takeoff
PTO
T/O
TO
TOGA
Translations:
milestone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mile + stone. Compare Dutch mijlsteen (“milestone”), German Low German Mielensteen (“milestone”), German Meilenstein (“milestone”), Swedish milsten (“milestone”).
Compound parts: mile
stone
Inflected forms:
form: milestones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: milestones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: milestoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: milestoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: milestoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.
pos: noun
gloss: An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: Death is another milestone on their way.
Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
She bought the model as a surprise gift for a friend who is a lifelong HST fan and railwayman, and who will soon be celebrating a milestone birthday.
gloss: To place milestones along (a road, etc.).
pos: verb
gloss: To plan out a project as a series of major steps.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
Synonyms: landmark
Related words: mileage
milemark
mile marker
milepole
milepost
game changer
landmark
watershed
Translations:
potpourri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
entertainment
food
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From French pot-pourri (“stew, potpourri”), a calque of Spanish olla podrida (“stew”, literally “rotten pot”). Doublet of olla podrida.
Inflected forms:
form: potpourris
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pot pourri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A collection of various things; an assortment, mixed bag or motley.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A convention of sorts, the evening was an exciting potpourri of education, entertainment and political consciousness.
gloss: An anthology of miscellaneous prose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A medley of songs or music.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mixture of dried fragrant plant material, often in a decorative bowl, used to scent a room.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A ragout or stew of meat and vegetables.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: pot-au-feu
Translations:
detoxify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Attested since 1905 (twelve years earlier than toxify), from de- + tox- + -ify. (Detoxicate is attested one year earlier, since 1904.)
Base: tox
Affixes: de-
-ify
Inflected forms:
form: detoxifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: detoxifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: detoxified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: detoxified
pos: verb
tags: past
form: de-toxify
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To remove foreign and harmful substances from something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As a result of this, in some way or other, unknown to us, a diminished power of oxidation results and the organism loses the power to detoxify substances absorbed from the intestine which have been present there in excess; […]
The severe disciplinary action taken by his daughter—who since taking over the FN in 2011 has led a drive to “detoxify” the party and move it away from the racist, jackbooted, antisemitic imagery of the past—was supposed to silence her father.
gloss: To make something that is harmful more benign.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We can either break as a nation or find a way to detoxify our politics.
Synonyms: detoxicate
Derived words: detoxifiable
detoxificant
detoxification
detoxifier
undetoxified
Translations:
detoxification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English toxification
English detoxification
From de- + toxification.
Inflected forms:
form: detoxifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of removing toxins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
detox
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of detoxification.
Inflected forms:
form: detoxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: detoxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: detoxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: detoxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: detoxed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Detoxification, especially of the body from alcohol or addictive drugs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A detoxification unit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To detoxify, especially from alcohol or recreational drugs.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: My grandmother said being organized led to success, so I set out to turn our fridge into a liquid dieter's paradise. First was detoxing the kitchen. I tossed out everything that would lead to temptation, like the leftover candy from Halloween, as well as everything that was expired and rotten.
Derived words: detoxer
digital detox
teatox
Translations:
roustabout
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From roust + about.
Compound parts: roust
about
Inflected forms:
form: roustabouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rouseabout
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: roustabouts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roustabouting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roustabouted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roustabouted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rouseabout
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The U. is my own Alma Mater, and I am proud to be known as an alumni, but there are certain instructors there who seem to think we ought to turn the conduct of the nation over to hoboes and roustabouts.
Then Sísiphos in torment I beheld / being roustabout to a tremendous boulder.
Brooklyn Tony, who had run away from home to be a circus roustabout, became a poster artist and eventually an Abstract Expressionist.
She works in McGregor, North Dakota as a roustabout pusher. That means she and her crew help fix and maintain the drilling sites.
See also quotations under rouseabout.
gloss: To work as a roustabout.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When Jack is old and weatherbeat, / Too old to roustabout, / In some rum-shop they’ll let him stop, / At eight bells he’s turned out.
I was due to bust through that cellar door here to-night, so I hurried the rest of the way up the river, roustabouting on a lower coast packet that made a landing for every fisherman that wanted a plug of tobacco.
Thereafter, the youth gives many years to aimless wandering about the South and the Middle West. He roustabouts with a carnival […]
Translations:
middle-class
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more middle-class
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most middle-class
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Occupying a position between the working class and the upper class.
pos: adj
gloss: Characteristic of the middle class(es); reflective of that class's values and aspirations. Commonly associated with a desire for social respectability and an emphasis on family values and education.
pos: adj
Translations:
poxy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pox
English -y
English poxy
From pox + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: poxier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: poxiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: poxie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Suffering from pox.
pos: adj
gloss: Sickening; unsatisfactory; generally bad.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Being a pop star means its goodbye to starving in a poxy garret.
“Everyone bally [balaclava]^([sic]) up, tool up,” said one man. “Let’s show the fucking media that we’re not a fucking pushover, that no more fucking foreigners are allowed into this poxy country.”
gloss: Unimportant, worthless.
pos: adj
tags: UK
derogatory
slang
Related words: pockmark
pockmarked
chickenpox
smallpox
lousy
Translations:
unintuitive
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 intuitive
English unintuitive
From un- + intuitive.
Inflected forms:
form: more unintuitive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unintuitive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not intuitive, not easily graspable by intuition
pos: adj
gloss: In particular, counterintuitive; counter to what one's intuition expects.
pos: adj
Translations:
dealie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deal
English -ie
English dealie
From deal + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: dealies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dealy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dealie-o
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dealio
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dillio
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A thing, especially one seen as complex or having much associated with it.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
ria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From German Ria, from Spanish ría (“inlet, estuary”), from Galician ría, from Galician río, from Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: rias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A narrow inlet of the sea formed by a flooded unglaciated river valley.
pos: noun
examples: Flinders had advised Baudin to stop in Port Jackson (the ria of what is now Sydney) when in need of refreshment […].
Translations:
drawback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From draw + back. Compare setback.
Compound parts: draw
back
Inflected forms:
form: drawbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
pos: noun
examples: Poor fuel economy is a common drawback among larger vehicles.
gloss: A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
pos: noun
examples: East-India goods, not specifically and particularly rated, are to be liable to duties and drawbacks on the value, to be taken by the gross price at the company's public sales.
gloss: The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette, viewed as a skill of the practised smoker.
pos: noun
examples: ‘I wanta learn to do the drawback better than Swiftie.’
Translations:
salutation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English salutacioun, from Old French salutacion, from Latin salutatio (“a greeting, a wishing health to”), from saluto (“wish one’s health, greet”), from salus (“well-being”). Compare the Latin greeting salve (literally “be well”).
Inflected forms:
form: salutations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A greeting, salute, or address; a hello.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A greeting, salute, or address; a hello.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of greeting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Welcome, we²l'ku²m. a.
 Received with gladneſs, admitted willingly, grateful[…]
Welcome, we²l'ku²m. interj.
 A form of ſalutation uſed to a new comer.
gloss: Quickening; excitement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: salutatorian
salutatory
valediction
Derived words: angelic salutation
salutational
salutationless
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: titteli
lang: French
word: titre
lang: German
word: Titel
lang: Hungarian
word: cím
lang: Polish
word: tytuł
lang: Russian
word: ти́тул
roman: títul
lang: Russian
word: зва́ние
roman: zvánije
lang: Tagalog
word: titulo
lang: Tagalog
word: pamagat
detract
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French détracter, from Latin detractum, past participle of detraho.
Inflected forms:
form: detracts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: detracting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: detracted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: detracted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take away; to withdraw or remove.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The improvement here patented consists in so arranging the parts of an ever pointed pencil case, that the point which holds the pencil shall be obtruded and detracted without having a slot in the side, which a ferrule and pin to draw it down, as is ordinarily done.
The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.
gloss: To take credit or reputation from; to derogate; to defame or decry.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That calumnious critic […] / Detracting what laboriously we do.
Related words: take away from
Derived words: detractable
detraction
detractive
detractor
Translations:
walk-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
sports
television
theater
Inflected forms:
form: walk-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A student athlete who wants to try out for a college sports or athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship or having been recruited.
pos: noun
gloss: An actor of a small (or "bit") part in a theatrical production or film, often without speaking lines.
pos: noun
gloss: Such a part in a play or film.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: Did you exchange / A walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
gloss: One who arrives and boards transport (such as a train or ferry) without having booked in advance.
pos: noun
examples: If you have a walk-on ticket you can have a full refund before the date of travel without paying the usual £10 administration fee.
Derived words: walk-on girl
Translations:
blastoderm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From blasto- (“germ”) + -derm (“skin”).
Base: blasto
Inflected forms:
form: blastoderms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The germination point in an ovum from which the embryo develops.
pos: noun
Translations:
varicella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin varicella, diminutive of variola (“pox”).
Inflected forms:
form: varicellas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: varicellae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An acute, highly contagious pathogenic disease caused by the varicella zoster virus, primarily affecting children and characterized by a widespread eruptive skin rash of itchy blisters;chicken pox
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of various other eruptive diseases, such as swinepox, hives, and varioloid.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
usually
Derived words: varicella zoster virus
varicelloid
varicellous
Translations:
pockmark
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pock + mark.
Compound parts: pock
mark
Inflected forms:
form: pockmarks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
pos: noun
examples: When we were quite well and tolerably free from pock-marks [from smallpox], my father took us to London with him, […]
gloss: A crater in the seafloor caused by erupting gas or liquid.
pos: noun
Derived words: pockmarked
Translations:
wildcard
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From wild + card.
Compound parts: wild
card
Inflected forms:
form: wildcards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wildcarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wildcarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wildcarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To replace or supplement with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.
pos: verb
examples: The unfortunate consequence is that document elements cannot be wildcarded because a schema needs to provide a closed list of possible document elements.
Translations:
pock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pok, from Old English poc, pocc (“pock; pustule; ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokk, from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow; swell”). Cognate with Dutch pok (“pock”), Low German Pocke (“pock”), German Pocke (“pock”).
Inflected forms:
form: pocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
pos: noun
gloss: Any pit, especially one formed as a scar
pos: noun
gloss: To scar or mark with pits
pos: verb
examples: In and out of the tufts they went, with their eyes dilating; wishing to be out of harm, if conscience were but satisfied. And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions.
Just next door, at Al Azhar University, a rocket mangled the protective metal bars as it crashed through the windows of the president’s office this month, destroying his desk and pocking his walls with shrapnel.
Derived words: cowpock
kinepock
pock-fretten
pockmark
pockpit
pockpitted
pock-pudding
pockwood
pocky
pox
quarter point
small pock
the pock
Translations:
counterintuitive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From counter- + intuitive. Coined by Noam Chomsky in 1955 as “counter-intuitive”.
Base: intuitive
Affixes: counter-
Inflected forms:
form: more counterintuitive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most counterintuitive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: counter-intuitive
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Contrary to intuition or common sense.
pos: adj
examples: With the students who worked on drafts in class, a number of aspects of lexicography proved challenging and counterintuitive.
Antonyms: intuitive
Translations:
take-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English take updeverb.
English take-up
Deverbal from take up.
Inflected forms:
form: take-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine or loom for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Acceptance (of a proposal, offer, request, etc.).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the take-up of benefits by the unemployed
As a first step, Mode Shift Revenue Support (MSRS) funding should be expanded, to ensure a higher take-up of unused freight paths in today's timetable and to help shape a sustainable path for multi-modal UK logistics.
Translations:
talkativeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English talkative
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 talkativeness
From talkative + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being talkative.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: chattiness; see also Thesaurus:talkativeness
Antonyms: curtness
reticence
taciturnity
Translations:
sportscast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sports + -cast, from broadcast.
Base: sports
Affixes: -cast
Inflected forms:
form: sportscasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of a news program reporting on sports and athletics.
pos: noun
Translations: