yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Pompeiian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Pompeii + -an.
Base: Pompeii
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Pompeiian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Pompeiian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Pompeian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pompeiians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pompeian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Pompeii.
pos: adj
gloss: An inhabitant of Pompeii.
pos: noun
Translations:
photo-romance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From photo + romance.
Compound parts: photo
romance
Inflected forms:
form: photo-romances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A romantic story illustrated with sequential photographs in the style of a comic strip, published in magazines etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
conjecturally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From conjectural + -ly.
Base: conjectural
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more conjecturally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most conjecturally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a conjectural manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
unpressurized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + pressurized.
Base: pressurized
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unpressurised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not pressurized.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: pressurized
Translations:
trian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: See in trian aspect
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Only used in in trian aspect
pos: adj
Translations:
jube
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From jujube, from Ancient Greek ζίζυφον (zízuphon).
Inflected forms:
form: jubes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of gelatine-based confection; its ingredients and consistency vary between countries.
pos: noun
examples: As the scum forms on the top remove it, or the jubes will not be clear.
[…]for example, barley sugar, menthol jubes, honey and glycerine jubes, eucalyptus jubes, voice jubes, &c).
Unlike other jellies and jubes, which are made with gelatine, Pectin Jellies are made with natural pectin.
Ros′s father′s main preoccupations in his nursing home were to have a box of man-sized tissues beside his bed and plenty of his favourite fruit-flavoured jubes beside the jumbo Kleenex.
Translations:
half-monthly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From half- + monthly.
Base: monthly
Affixes: half-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Occurring twice per month.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
chinny
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From chin + -y.
Base: chin
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: chinnier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: chinniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chinnies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a prominent chin.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a sensitive chin.
pos: adj
gloss: Given to talk, talkative.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
gloss: An exercise similar to an abdominal crunch, performed by lying flat on one´s back and then bringing the knees toward the chest while simultaneously raising the chest to meet the knees.
pos: noun
gloss: An opaque white chalk marble with colored stripes.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: chinny chin chin
Translations:
screenie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From screen + -ie.
Base: screen
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: screenies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A screenshot.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A screensaver.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Someone who spends a lot of time in front of a (television or computer) screen.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Screenies: these boys spent very large amounts of time in front of a screen of some sort — 10 per cent of boys spend over seven hours every day in front of a screen — but had low levels of physical activity and sleep.
The study found three clusters of boys: 'sporties', 'screenies' and 'autonomes' (the last group spending a lot of time in self-starting pursuits, either by themselves or with peers).
Related words: screeny
Translations:
khor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic خور.
Inflected forms:
form: khors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A swampy depression in Middle Eastern countries.
pos: noun
Translations:
phoo
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative; compare phew, faugh.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An expression of rejection or disgust.
pos: intj
examples: Sai. The devil he has, and yet that's odd enough, for I have heard of the British Constitution, and as a d-d good one too, all over the world. / Far. Phoo, Phoo! Paine knows well enough that we have a Constitution, which has long been the admiration of the world.
Translations:
bedan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: French bédane
Inflected forms:
form: bedans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of woodturning tool consisting of a bar with a single bevel.
pos: noun
Translations:
quintain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman quintaine, quinteine, Middle French quintaine, probably from Latin quīntāna (“street separating fifth and sixth maniples in a Roman camp”), feminine form of quīntānus (“pertaining to the fifth”).
Inflected forms:
form: quintains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An object (generally a post or plank on a support) set up as a target to be tilted at in jousting, or otherwise used as target practice.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: My better parts
Are all thrown down; and that which here stands up
Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.
At Offham, in Kent, tilting at the quintain provides a climax to the day's revels.
In the tiltyard, his companions felt the juddering impact of his sword-blows and saw the muscled precision of his archery and his tilting at the quintain.
Translations:
labialization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From labialize + -ation or labial + -ization.
Base: labialize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: labializations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: labialisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or rounding of the lips (labia) during pronunciation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These labialized stops are of course nothing but positionally determined allophones of the [t] and the [k] phoneme, and their labialization is non-distinctive
The second question concerns the reasons for the labialization of this suffix in [1.3] - in the case of artukluk one immediately thinks of an assimilation (*u - ı > u - u)
Translations:
come-to-Jesus
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a Christian conversion, recommitment, or associated ritual, especially a public confession.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
gloss: Relating to a similar secular ritual.
pos: adj
tags: US
idiomatic
examples: With the coaches still in the room, the veteran leaders on offense, one by one, took turns addressing the rest of the unit. / "It was a come-to-Jesus meeting," guard Daryn Colledge said Wednesday.
gloss: Conveying a scolding or a blunt discussion of a disagreeable fact regarding the addressee.
pos: adj
tags: US
idiomatic
examples: To bring someone in for a come-to-Jesus talk.
Joe Biden’s growing frustration with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, continued to mount, with the Democratic US president captured on a hot mic saying that he and the Israeli leader will need to have a “come to Jesus meeting”.
Related words: come to Jesus
Translations:
mixed-race
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mixed race
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, having genetic characteristics of two or more different races.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.
Translations:
monton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Spanish montón (“head”).
Inflected forms:
form: montons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A Mexican unit of weight for ore, varying from 1,800 to 3,200 Spanish pounds.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
respec
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Clipping of respecialize.
Inflected forms:
form: respecs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: respeccing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: respecced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: respecced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-spec
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To reallocate the distribution of skill points on a character's skill tree, changing their specialization.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Last night I paid 5 gold to the trainer to respec as a shadow priest.
Respeccing a character is also easy in the game, allowing for different builds to be created an switched between.
Translations:
naked-eye
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the unaided eye, as in unaided sight.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
multigrade
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: education
Etymology: From multi- + grade.
Base: grade
Affixes: multi-
Inflected forms:
form: multigrades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the characteristics of multiple grades of a product (especially of a lubricating oil)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to students of differing grade levels
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An oil having a viscosity specified for multiple temperature ranges.
pos: noun
Related words: monograde
Translations:
ovolo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Italian ovolo, from Latin ōvum (“egg”). Doublet of ovule.
Inflected forms:
form: ovolos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ovoli
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ovulo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A classical convex moulding carved with an egg and dart ornament.
pos: noun
examples: Decoration inside: six linked palmettes with 9 petals around a band of ovolos between incised lines, surrounded by 13 palmettes linked around a band of ovolos.
Each of the pairs is connected by a kind of web, and each pair stands clear of the ovolo and astragal mouldings which form a kind of extension to the column shaft and complete the essential construction of the capital. Ovolo and astragal are enriched with egg and dart and bead and reel respectively, the setting out related to a fluting pattern of twenty-four flutes to the column shaft circumference, as shown on the plan.
Using a template or a good eye to guide the paring chisel, slice off the corners of the tenon ovolos at 45 degrees.
Translations:
headies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: head (from the notion that it gives a head high) + -ie + -s (possibly either genitive or plural).
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: High-grade marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
gene-napper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gene-nappers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who appropriates DNA or other genetic material from another human being without permission with the intent of uncovering private information
pos: noun
examples: "No degree of personal vigilance can prevent gene-nappers from wreaking havoc in the private lives of others." -- Jacob M. Appel, American bioethicist, 'Gene-nappers,’ like identity thieves, new threat of digital age, 2009
Translations:
groundsman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From grounds + -man.
Base: grounds
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: groundsmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male groundskeeper.
pos: noun
Translations:
unmute
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + mute.
Base: mute
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unmutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unmuting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unmuted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unmuted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To restore the sound output (on a speaker or other audio device), having previously muted it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
unmuted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more unmuted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unmuted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not muted.
pos: adj
examples: Geographically, this area has in common an exposure to the elements in their most unmuted form. North of the protective barrier of the Gulf Islands, the waves are allowed as much play as the Strait of Georgia will permit.
Translations:
Matagalpa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Matagalpa
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Matagalpas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Cacaopera (“people”).
pos: noun
Translations:
repro
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: repros
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reproing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reproed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reproed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To reproduce (a bug or problem).
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: We cannot repro the bug in the latest version, so we are marking it as fixed.
Translations:
palanka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka). Doublet of planch, plank, and phalanx.
Inflected forms:
form: palankas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A permanently entrenched wooden camp attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
chronos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A steady, quantifiable beat or rhythm; measured or objective time.
pos: noun
examples: Hazağ ∪−−⊥: This foot has the first chronos (time-unit), a half syllable followed by three syllables, the last being prolonged.
Translations:
unschooling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A set of educational philosophies which champion education outside the standard school environment, including homeschooling.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
deschooling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process of adjusting to the non-school environment of everyday life after leaving the education system.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The concept, or belief that a formal education system is counter-productive to the education of young people.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The events continue this weekend: the squat's website, temporaryschool.org, says there will be a session on "labyrinth building with Steph" tomorrow, followed by "deschooling society".
Translations:
suni
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sunis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: suni
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small antelope of Southern Africa, Nesotragus moschatus.
pos: noun
Translations:
spread-eagled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more spread-eagled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spread-eagled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a spread eagle position.
pos: adj
Translations:
femtocell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: From femto- + cell.
Base: cell
Affixes: femto-
Inflected forms:
form: femtocells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wireless communication system, smaller than a picocell, typically designed for use in a home or small business.
pos: noun
Translations:
upliftment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From uplift + -ment.
Base: uplift
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: upliftments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lifting up; elevation or promotion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For instance, the most plausible stylistic progenitors of Yorick's rhapsodic upliftments of language are the astonishing outbursts of Theocles in 'The Moralists'.
We turn to the spirit because the material world has nothing to offer us; we declare spiritual upliftments to be the highest virtues.
Intermarriage, he apparently thought, would produce racial upliftment, biologically as much as spiritually and culturally, through generational enhancement.
Translations:
phratry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
From Latin phrātria, from Ancient Greek φρατρία (phratría, “tribe, clan”), from φράτηρ (phrátēr) + -ία (-ía).
Inflected forms:
form: phratries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clan or kinship group consisting of a number of families claiming descent from a common ancestor and having certain collective functions and responsibilities.
pos: noun
examples: To be sure, he plays a decisive role at the time of the birth, since he confers on the child legitimacy, at least on the son, by taking him in his arms, walking him around the house and declaring him his son in front of the members of his phratry: in Athens, no one may obtain citizenship without these familial rites.
gloss: A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identities but considered to be a single unit.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: The moieties are linked to or bear the names of beings or forces expressing the cosmic dichotomy. Most common are heaven and earth moieties, "above" and "below," or moieties named after birds and land animals (or aquatic animals), as is the case among the Winnebago and in the phratry system of the Northwest Coast Indians.
Related words: moiety
Derived words: phratral
phratriac
phratrial
phratric
subphratry
Translations:
nowcasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: climatology
mathematics
meteorology
natural-sciences
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Blend of now + forecasting.
Compound parts: now
forecasting
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The use or production of nowcasts.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Spence said: "We have a weather provider, MetDesk, which gives us real-time information - radar analysis of what rain is falling. It's called nowcasting rather than forecasting, with refresh rates every five minutes.
gloss: The use of mathematical models of a current situation that include adjustments to imperfect data.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
nowcast
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: climatology
mathematics
meteorology
modelling
natural-sciences
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Blend of now + forecast.
Compound parts: now
forecast
Inflected forms:
form: nowcasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nowcasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nowcast
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nowcast
pos: verb
tags: past
form: nowcasted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
participle
past
proscribed
sometimes
form: nowcasted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
past
proscribed
sometimes
form: nowcasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To predict the weather for a very short upcoming period (usually a few hours).
pos: verb
examples: If the nowcasted or forecasted rainfall depth is greater than the FFG, then flooding in the basin is considered likely.
gloss: To estimate what is currently happening based on knowledge of how data is biased.
pos: verb
examples: The indices are nowcasted at a very low level, meaning thousands of nowcasts. Attention has been focuesed on the nowcasts that fail validation checks.
First, the value-added contribution from each origin country is adjusted according to their (nowcasted) change in GDP.
Our ability to nowcast will depend on the length of the delay and the quality of data available.
gloss: A weather forecast predicting the weather for a very short upcoming period, usually only a few hours.
pos: noun
examples: A low-probability nowcast was essentially a “No Forecast" , but issued with less confidence.
gloss: An estimate made by nowcasting.
pos: noun
examples: The indices are nowcasted at a very low level, meaning thousands of nowcasts. Attention has been focuesed on the nowcasts that fail validation checks.
Derived words: nowcasting
Translations:
epipelagic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From epi- + pelagic.
Base: pelagic
Affixes: epi-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of photic (“Describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
roko
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from Hindi रास्ता रोको (rāstā roko, literally “obstruct the road”).
Inflected forms:
form: rokos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of protest in which transport is disrupted.
pos: noun
tags: India
Translations:
uninvite
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + invite.
Base: invite
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: uninvites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uninviting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uninvited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: uninvited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: uninvites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cancel or withdraw an invitation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonym: disinvite (see notes)
By the way / You've been uninvited / 'Cause all you say / Are all the same things I did
gloss: A disinvitation.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The opposite could be true. Your invitation could easily become an uninvite, and the work that you put in will be flushed down the drain.
Translations:
X-radiation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: x-radiation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of X-ray radiation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
cinemascope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: CinemaScope
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An anamorphic lens series used from 1953-1967 for shooting Twentieth Century Fox widescreen movies
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: [Owen Weingott] had after all choreographed the first mass duel in cinemascope for Byron Haskin's Long John Silver.
Translations:
payscale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pay + scale.
Compound parts: pay
scale
Inflected forms:
form: payscales
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pay scale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A system of pay grades.
pos: noun
Translations:
exogamous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: exogamy + -ous or exo- + -gamous
Base: exogamy
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to exogamy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: endogamous
Translations:
creational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-der.
Latin creō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin creātiōnemlbor.
Old French creacionbor.
Middle English creacion
English creation
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English creational
From creation + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more creational
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most creational
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to creation.
pos: adj
Antonyms: noncreational
noncreationary
Translations:
Nitinol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of the chemical symbols Ni (“nickel”) and Ti (“titanium”) + NOL (“Naval Ordnance Laboratory”).
Inflected forms:
form: Nitinols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alloy of nickel and titanium that has the ability to return to a predetermined shape when heated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
prazosin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Probably from (pi)p(e)raz(ine) + -o- + -in.
Base: piperazine
Affixes: -o-
-in
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An alpha-blocker used chiefly as a smooth muscle relaxant, especially in the treatment of hypertension and benign prostatic hyperplasia.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
tamsulosin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From tam- (of unknown origin) + sul(fonamide) + -osin (“α₁-adrenoceptor antagonist”).
Base: sulfonamide
Affixes: tam-
-osin
Inflected forms:
form: tamsulosins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alpha-adrenergic blocking agent administered orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₂₀H₂₈N₂O₅S·HCl to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
neuroma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From neuro- + -oma.
Affixes: neuro-
-oma
Inflected forms:
form: neuromas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neuromata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tumour composed of nerve cells.
pos: noun
Translations:
coreopsis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek κόρις (kóris, “bedbug”) + New Latin -opsis (“resembling in appearance”), from Ancient Greek ὄψις (ópsis, “aspect, appearance”).
Inflected forms:
form: coreopses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coreopsises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several composite herbs, of genus Coreopsis, typically with bright yellow flowers.
pos: noun
Translations:
antimalware
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + malware.
Base: malware
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Designed or intended to combat or eliminate malware on a computer system.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
underworked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From under- + worked.
Base: worked
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: more underworked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most underworked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Ineffectively or inadequately utilized.
pos: adj
examples: The malicious boss thought that all of his employees were underworked.
Translations:
clear-out
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Etymology: Deverbal from clear out.
Inflected forms:
form: clear-outs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clearout
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of emptying a room or space.
pos: noun
examples: We should give the garage a clear-out to make space for the new car.
DB Cargo has begun its clear-out of its Class 90 electric locomotive fleet in a fresh attempt to sell 12 examples, some of which have been out of use for almost 20 years.
gloss: A semicircular sweep with the ball grasped firmly in both hands.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of removing opponents from a ruck or scrum in order to secure possession of the ball.
pos: noun
examples: Dave Kearney was straight over the ball in a jackal, and Mul made a brilliant clear-out.
Leading British rugby correspondent Brendan Gallagher, writing in The Rugby Paper on 31 December 2017, produced a withering indictment of the practice, saying: “Sort out the thuggery at clear-out time, start reffing it properly. The clear out doesn't exist in law and certainly shouldn't be used as an excuse for players who are not bound to launch themselves off their feet like an Exocet and take out-injure-maim players who are behind the ball and legally bound on. Or sometimes just trying to reach the ruck."
Translations:
Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derives from its tendency to close its flowers around midday on sunny days.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A biannual plant distributed across Europe and North America (Tragopogon pratensis).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
jazzfest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From jazz + -fest.
Base: jazz
Affixes: -fest
Inflected forms:
form: jazzfests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A festival of jazz music.
pos: noun
Translations:
island-hop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: island-hops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: island-hopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: island-hopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: island-hopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To travel from island to island in a certain area, especially as a tourist to visit numerous islands.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
ecliptical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ecliptic + -al.
Base: ecliptic
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an eclipse.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to an ecliptic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: ecliptically
Translations:
job-hop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: job-hops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: job-hopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: job-hopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: job-hopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To have numerous jobs in a short period of time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
mega-annum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mega- + annum.
Base: annum
Affixes: mega-
Inflected forms:
form: mega-annums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mega-anna
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of megayear: a period of 1 million years.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond
Translations:
dof
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Afrikaans dof. Doublet of daff, deaf, and dowf.
Inflected forms:
form: more dof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stupid; thick.
pos: adj
tags: South-Africa
Translations:
unpleased
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + pleased.
Base: pleased
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not pleased; displeased.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Laplander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Lapland + -er.
Base: Lapland
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Laplanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Swedish historical province Lapland
pos: noun
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Finnish historical province Lapland
pos: noun
gloss: A Sami.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
proscribed
examples: They say there's no people like show people, but now scientists have found that show people are genetically linked to the Laplanders and the Finns.
Translations:
leviton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: levitons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The collective excitation of a single electron within an electrical conductor such as a metal or graphene.
pos: noun
Translations:
foreteller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From foretell + -er.
Base: foretell
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: foretellers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who foretells.
pos: noun
examples: But Powers, a former staff writer at The Washington Post who has written extensively on media and technology, is not simply an earnest foreteller of doom.
Translations:
gadgeteer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gadget + -eer.
Base: gadget
Affixes: -eer
Inflected forms:
form: gadgeteers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone interested in, or owning a lot of, gadgets.
pos: noun
Translations:
e-cigarette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + cigarette.
Base: cigarette
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-cigarettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of electronic cigarette.
pos: noun
examples: Electronic cigarettes, battery-powered devices that convert a solution of nicotine and other chemicals into a vapor that can be inhaled, or "vaped," have the potential to wean a vast number of smokers off cigarettes. […] The problem is, not enough smokers are switching to e-cigarettes, despite their relative safety – and understandably so. Smokers are barraged with news about inaccurate labeling, shoddy counterfeits and poorly made e-cigarettes that emit toxins and cancer-causing chemicals in vapor.
Translations:
fronton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Inflected forms:
form: frontons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pediment.
pos: noun
gloss: A two-walled or single-walled court used as a playing area for Basque pelota.
pos: noun
Translations:
omic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From ome + -ic or a back-formation from omics.
Base: ome
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: 'omic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: -omic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an ome or omics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Following the success of the human genome project effort, several other “omic” disciplines have emerged, with the goal of analyzing the components of a living organism in its entirety.
Functional genomic and proteomic (‘omic’) approaches can be helpful to accelerate the identification of the genes and gene products involved in particular modules, and to describe the functional relationships between them.
Translations:
angiosarcoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
Etymology: From angio- + sarcoma.
Base: sarcoma
Affixes: angio-
Inflected forms:
form: angiosarcomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: angiosarcomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any malignant tumour of vascular tissue
pos: noun
Translations:
non-prisoner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + prisoner.
Base: prisoner
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: non-prisoners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nonprisoner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who is not a prisoner.
pos: noun
Translations:
granny-bashing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: assault or abuse of elderly persons.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
uncountable
examples: But it also tackles problems like granny bashing and the overprescribing of drugs to elderly patients.
There are many factors that militate against healthy living and contribute to family conflict, which may result in child abuse, wife battering, granny bashing, teenage runaways, mental disturbance or substance abuse.
Translations:
hori
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Māori Hōri (“George”), itself from English George.
Inflected forms:
form: horis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Māori.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
derogatory
slang
sometimes
examples: “I'm a typical hori after all, made to work on the chain, or be a factory hand, not try for high places.”
Translations:
beira
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: beiras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beira
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small antelope, Dorcatragus megalotis, found in the Horn of Africa
pos: noun
Translations:
mindstate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mind + state.
Compound parts: mind
state
Inflected forms:
form: mindstates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of mind.
pos: noun
Translations:
slenderly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From slender + -ly.
Base: slender
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more slenderly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most slenderly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Thinly, slightly, delicately.
pos: adv
examples: The columns slenderly rose to support a heavy platform and statue.
gloss: meagrely; deficiently
pos: adv
examples: It is no wonder that in an age when this kind of merit is so little in fashion, and so slenderly provided for, persons possessed of it should very eagerly flock to a place where they were sure of being received with great complaisance […]
Translations:
vegetatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From vegetative + -ly.
Base: vegetative
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a vegetative manner; without sexual reproduction.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes.
gloss: In terms of vegetation.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]
Translations:
incoherency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin haereō
Latin cohaereō
Latin cohaerēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin cohaerentia
English coherency
English incoherency
From in- + coherency or incoherent + -cy.
Base: coherency
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: incoherencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: […] Haste and Sickness made me rather venture on your good Nature, for the Pardon of a venial Fault, than put myself to the trouble of altering the Order of these Papers, and substituting new Transitions and Connections, in the room of those, with which I formerly made up the Chasms and Incoherency of the Tract, you now receive.
Pardon, madam, the haste and incoherency of scrawls penned at so trying a moment.
‘It can make no change. You do not understand my position,’ returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner.
Incoherency had overtaken his speech, but he was unaware of it.
gloss: A thing which is incoherent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: But that vvhich vvould beſt of all juſtifie me, and the ſeeming incoherencies of ſome parts of my Diſcourse, vvould be the noble Authors Piece it ſelf, becauſe of the Antitheſis, and the forms of his Applications.
For besides the unavoidable incoherencies, which must be reconciled and adjusted; one may safely affirm, that all popular theology, especially the scholastic, has a kind of appetite for absurdity and contradiction.
[…] he took into his large moist palm the dry little hand of his friend, while they both broke out into the incoherencies of people meeting after a long time.
Synonyms: incoherence
Translations:
anona
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: anonas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: custard apple (Annona)
pos: noun
examples: Other fruits are several species of the anona (Annona diversifolia Safford, Annona reticulata Linnaeus)
Apparently from xol op, or rotten anona (Annona cherimola)
Important trees providing the peasants with fruits include anona (Annona diversifolia)
Translations:
quippy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quip + -y.
Base: quip
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: quippier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: quippiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Jokey; inclined to or characterised by quipping.
pos: adj
examples: I usually flinch at the quippy philosophies espoused on car bumper stickers...
One of them told us in a quippy comment: “we are not architects”.
Dyer’s trademark wit and uniqueness, in fact, surround you before you’ve even turned to the first page: the first half of his title, “Jeff in Venice,” at once offers a quippy come-on and announces he’s going to subvert and update the classic novella by Thomas Mann (putting the self, or anti-self, in place of death)[…]
Translations:
chocolate-box
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the artwork seen on boxes of chocolates.
Inflected forms:
form: more chocolate-box
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chocolate-box
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chocolate box
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chocolate-boxy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chocolate boxy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a twee picturesqueness.
pos: adj
tags: UK
derogatory
examples: He painted a chocolate-box picture for the Salon, entered it, was admitted.
The impressionists showed us something about the world, Cezanne something different, a chocolate-box painting nothing.
I find it difficult to pick a personal favourite from the two, but Wylam wins on the chocolate-box front, framed by an in-keeping (also Grade 2) footbridge just down the line from it, [...].
Translations:
banana-shaped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more banana-shaped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most banana-shaped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a shape like that of a banana.
pos: adj
Translations:
hourglass-shaped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hourglass-shaped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hourglass-shaped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a shape or cross-section like that of an hourglass.
pos: adj
Translations:
hairband
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hair + band.
Base: hair
Inflected forms:
form: hairbands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a headband
pos: noun
gloss: a hair tie
pos: noun
Translations:
Qom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Toba (“a people of Argentina”).
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
hanafuda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From Japanese 花(はな)札(ふだ) (hanafuda), a compound of 花 (hana, “flower”) + 札 (fuda, “card”).
Inflected forms:
form: hanafuda
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Small, rigid Japanese playing cards with colorful drawings of flowers and animals, a single deck consisting of 48 cards divided in 12 suits that each represent a month.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A pack of "Hana-fuda" consists of 48 cards, there being 12 different denominations or figures, and each such denomination or figure being represented by 4 cards of different face values; the figures on such 4 cards of the same denomination being the same, but having certain marks upon them to indicate the difference in their respective face values.
Couldn't we play with hanafuda cards instead? I asked. I had a decent amount of experience with oichokabu or koi koi thanks to playing with my mom's family in the countryside.
Briefly, Sin described the Hanafuda playing cards and how he had adapted them to his own ends.
On a different occasion, he was playing hanafuda in a mountain hut with several Japanese.
“What’s hanafuda?” Sam asked.
“Plastic cards. Quite small and thick, with flowers and scenes of nature,” Watanabe-san said.
Translations:
Taron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Tarons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Taron
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an ethnic group of the Himalayan foothills of northern Kachin, Myanmar.
pos: noun
Translations:
galactorrhea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From galacto- + -rrhea, from Ancient Greek γάλακτος (gálaktos, “milk”) + ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”).
Affixes: galacto-
-rrhea
Inflected forms:
form: galactorrheas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: galactorrhoea
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: galactorrhœa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lactation (the secretion of milk from nipples) that is not associated with childbirth or nursing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
shortleaf
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From short + leaf.
Compound parts: short
leaf
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having short leaves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: shortleaf pine
shortleaf fig
Translations:
replier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From reply + -er.
Base: reply
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: repliers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, replies.
pos: noun
Translations:
moo-moo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Inflected forms:
form: moo-moos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moomoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: moo moo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cow.
pos: noun
tags: childish
Translations:
Continent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Continents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Encratite.
pos: noun
Translations:
vine-grower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: vine-growers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who grows grapevines, especially for making wine.
pos: noun
Translations:
rasic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rasa + -ic.
Base: rasa
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more rasic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rasic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to rasa.
pos: adj
Translations:
vaccinium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Vaccinium, itself borrowed from Latin vaccīnium.
Inflected forms:
form: vacciniums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Vaccinium of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.
pos: noun
Translations:
retroreflective
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From retro- + reflective.
Base: reflective
Affixes: retro-
Inflected forms:
form: more retroreflective
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most retroreflective
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to reflect light back to its source with a minimum scattering of light.
pos: adj
Translations:
z-fighting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From z- + fighting.
Base: fighting
Affixes: z-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A phenomenon in three-dimensional rendering where two or more primitives have similar values in the z-buffer, causing flickering as one is displayed varyingly behind or in front of the other.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
grandmother-in-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From grandmother + -in-law.
Base: grandmother
Affixes: -in-law
Inflected forms:
form: grandmothers-in-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A grandmother of one's spouse.
pos: noun
Translations: