yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bigha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali বিঘা (bigha).
Inflected forms:
form: bighas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beegah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: beegha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bega
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: begah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bigah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: biggah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.
pos: noun
tags: Bangladesh
India
examples: Colonel Watson had, within a brick wall, at least four hundred begahs of land, which the East India Company had executed a grant of to him to construct docks […] .
Translations:
epiglottitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Hellenic *epí
Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí)
Ancient Greek ἐπῐ- (epĭ-)
Proto-Hellenic *glṓťťā
Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă)
Ancient Greek -ις (-is)
Ancient Greek γλωσσῐ́ς (glōssĭ́s)
Ancient Greek ἐπῐγλωσσῐ́ς (epĭglōssĭ́s)
Ancient Greek ἐπῐγλωττῐ́ς (epĭglōttĭ́s)bor.
New Latin epiglōttislbor.
English epiglottis
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.
New Latin -itisder.
English -itis
English epiglottitis
From epiglottis + -itis.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the epiglottis.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
creaser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From crease + -er.
Base: crease
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: creasers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tool, person, or device for making creases.
pos: noun
Translations:
knight-errantry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: knight-errantries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Virtue is knight-errantry no more
Translations:
podunk
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Podunk, a mythical small town of no importance, from Eastern Algonquian.
Inflected forms:
form: more podunk
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most podunk
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Small, rural, and unimportant.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: "'A Super Bowl win can legitimize us as a town. We're not some small podunk town anymore,'" said Spencer Venable of Indianapolis.
Yes the beautiful time every year when this little podunk town [of Pendleton, Oregon] swells to four or five times her size with Round-Up feverish Cowboy types who chew, spit and chase four-legged critters around a screaming arena….check that….That’s normal…
You might live in a podunk town if...your Wal-Mart has a hitching post.
Translations:
Klamath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Chinook Jargon Tlamatl (“either "swiftness" or "they of the river"”), with the first syllable's onset consonant cluster dissimilated and the coda of the second syllable changed to the somewhat similar-sounding interdental fricative during the process of anglicization.
Inflected forms:
form: Klamath
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Klamaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of a Native American tribe formerly living along the Klamath River in California and Oregon.
pos: noun
Translations:
flinger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fling + -er.
Base: fling
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: flingers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who flings or hurls something.
pos: noun
gloss: One who jeers.
pos: noun
Translations:
floriated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Inflected forms:
form: floriate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having floral ornaments
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: floriated capitals of Gothic pillars
Translations:
facepaint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From face + paint.
Compound parts: face
paint
Inflected forms:
form: facepaints
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: face paint
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Paint used to decorate people's faces.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bronzite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From bronze + -ite.
Base: bronze
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: bronzites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ferriferous variety of enstatite, often with a bronze-like lustre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
go-out
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: go-outs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gowt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters when the tide is out.
pos: noun
examples: John of Gaunt, "time-honoured Lancaster,," made Lincoln Castle his summer residence, and built a winter palace in the southern suburbs, near the Gowts (go-outs) bridge.
There is a public-house in the parish of Burgh-le-March, near Boston, called the "Gowt," and I was told that it meant the go out, or junction of two drains, and that it was a common word in those parts .
GOTE—'Pease-Gote Lane.' 'Gote' or 'Gowt' is an outfall or a sluice for the draining the land, it is the "go-out" of a water-course .
But in Queen Elizabeth's reign the river below Boston was getting so silted up again that the waters of South Holland were brought by means of two "gowts" (go outs), or "clows," one into the Witham above Boston at Langrick, and one below into the harbour at Skirbeck, to scour out the channel.
gloss: A dog obedience training maneuver, in which the dog leaves the trainer and goes to a target (a white fence), turns, and sits there
pos: noun
examples: This method of teaching the go-out is set up to take 11 days, but can be done in a week if your training sessions are scheduled properly.
If you are a competition trainer, an immediate sit is paramount, whether the dog is sitting when coming to a halt while heeling, sitting at front, or doing a go-out.
It is used in competition obedience training to teach send-aways (or go-outs) in Utility.
The last time we practiced go-outs he did not understand the game and was frustrated.
gloss: A session of surfing, bodyboarding, windsurfing, or similar sea sport.
pos: noun
examples: Up until then, I had only surfed Rincon a couple of times. And, they were short go-outs.
Many business-related surf trips to Florida culminated in my moving to Cocoa Bach, in 1969, but my fondest surf memories are of LBI—especially early morning go-outs off Tebco Terrace in Holgate.
Dick Metz came from the era when you slept on the beach, made your own boards, and could only take 20-minute go-outs in California's cold waves, which makes him the surfer with the connection to surfing's enchanting past.
Came to Trestles Headquarters today, and the scene was as it's been since the building opened—we, all of us Lifeguards, cronies and peers standing around contemplating the effects of wind, swell and tide, our lives an endless round of surf checks and possible "go-outs.”
Translations:
ironbound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From iron + bound.
Compound parts: iron
bound
Inflected forms:
form: more ironbound
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ironbound
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bound with iron, ironclad.
pos: adj
gloss: Rugged.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: an ironbound coast
He rose and went down to the kitchen, where he knew a fire was burning, and there the terrified servants were all assembled, all agreeing, as the blast came roaring down the chimney, they never had witnessed such a storm, and between the gusts, breathing shuddering prayers for those who were “out at sea that night.” The vicinity of Melmoth’s house to what seamen call an iron-bound coast, gave a dreadful sincerity to their prayers and their fears.
Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso Bay on the one hand, and Murkle Bay on the other, and which presents to the open sea, in the space that stretches between, an undulating line of iron-bound coast, exposed to the roll of the northern ocean.
gloss: Rigid, unyielding.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: ironbound traditions
Translations:
straight-joint
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Whose boards are laid so that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
Translations:
electively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From elective + -ly.
Base: elective
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In an elective manner; by choice.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
wolfsangel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From German Wolfsangel (literally “wolf hook”).
Inflected forms:
form: wolfsangels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wolf hook.
pos: noun
gloss: A Z-shaped symbol, reminiscent of the Germanic wolf hook hunting device
pos: noun
Translations:
hypocritic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑποκριτικός (hupokritikós).
Inflected forms:
form: more hypocritic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hypocritic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hypocritics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of hypocritical.
pos: adj
examples: Let others screw their hypocrite face
gloss: A hypocrite.
pos: noun
Translations:
Havanese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Havana + -ese.
Base: Havana
Affixes: -ese
Inflected forms:
form: more Havanese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Havanese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.
pos: adj
gloss: The natives or inhabitants of Havana in Cuba.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Know-Nothing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Party members claimed to know nothing about the party when questioned.
Inflected forms:
form: Know-Nothings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a secret antiforeigner political organization in the nineteenth-century United States.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
examples: The legacy of the Know-Nothings lived beyond its life as an organization. The seeds of bigotry, fear and hatred bore fruit again in the years after the Civil War.[…]
The First World War led to another outbreak of nativism. A new group, adopting the program of the Know-Nothings and the name of the Ku Klux Klan, came into being, denouncing everything its members disliked—Negroes, Catholics, Jews, evolutionists, religious liberals, internationalists, pacifists—in the name of true Americanism and of “Nordic superiority.”
Translations:
backhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From back + house.
Base: back
Inflected forms:
form: backhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back-house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: back house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An outbuilding behind the main building, or an annex attached to the rear of it; especially, a scullery or washhouse.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
examples: […] to abstene […] fra all melting […] of talloun within thair bak hous […]
gloss: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
euphemistic
examples: BACK'HOUSE... a necessary.
[…] the chlorides Mother was always throwing into the little outdoor backhouse […]
Translations:
insurrectional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From insurrection + -al. Compare French insurrectionnel.
Base: insurrection
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to insurrection.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] I can’t understand why a political movement would want to celebrate an insurrectional movement like the Commune. It shocks me.”
Translations:
Pictish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Pict + -ish. Compare Old English Pihtisċ.
Base: Pict
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Picts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Gothic monarch and the Pictish peer
Translations:
morinda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: morindas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Morinda of rubiaceous trees and shrubs.
pos: noun
Translations:
drainable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From drain + -able.
Base: drain
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more drainable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most drainable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being drained.
pos: adj
Translations:
hoper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hoper, equivalent to hope + -er.
Base: hope
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hopers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who hopes.
pos: noun
examples: Our thoroughsped republick of whigs, which contains the bulk of all hopers, pretenders, expecters, and professors
Translations:
whitebeard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From white + beard.
Compound parts: white
beard
Inflected forms:
form: whitebeards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An old man; a greybeard.
pos: noun
examples: According to the whitebeards and coffeehouse celebrities, Mullah Abbas had always been there.
Translations:
betterer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From better + -er (agent noun suffix).
Base: better
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: betterers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who betters, makes something better.
pos: noun
Translations:
procuratorate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin prōcūrātorātus. By surface analysis, procurator + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Inflected forms:
form: procuratorates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The office of a procurator.
pos: noun
Translations:
snape
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
nautical
shipbuilding
transport
Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps from snape, a dialectal variant of sneap (“to nip, bite, pinch”). More at sneap.
Inflected forms:
form: snapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snaped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
pos: verb
examples: It had to be accurately cut and trimmed, and its upper edge scored to suit the snaping of every beam end.
Translations:
metritis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From metr- + -itis.
Affixes: metr-
-itis
Inflected forms:
form: metritides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the uterus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The conjunctive tissue, young and succulent, then becomes hard and fibrous, and the uterus, on section, is pale, indurated and devoid of blood; that is chronic metritis which has reached the second period, or period of induration.
The use of systemic antibiotics is justified and often required for metritis that causes systemic illness.
Translations:
burnie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From burn + -ie.
Base: burn
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: burnies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small brook.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: But, Willie, set your fit to mine, / An' cock your crest, / We'll gar our streams an' burnies shine / Up wi' the best.
c. 1820s, James Hogg, "Sing on, Sing on, My Bonnie Bird"
A bramble shade around our head,
A burnie popplin by
Translations:
gnomonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin gnōmonicus, Ancient Greek γνωμονικός (gnōmonikós, “judging by rule”). Compare French gnomonique. See gnomon.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Showing all great circles as straight lines, and thus preserving the shortest distances between any two locations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Biscayan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Biscay + -an.
Base: Biscay
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Biscayans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the province of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the province of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain.
pos: noun
gloss: The westernmost of the modern varieties of the Basque language, spoken in Biscay and neighbouring parts of Álava and Gipuzkoa.
pos: noun
gloss: A long heavy musket.
pos: noun
gloss: The bullet fired by a musket of this kind.
pos: noun
Translations:
Girondist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French Girondiste; so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of Gironde.
Inflected forms:
form: Girondists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a moderate political faction in France during the French Revolution.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
beany
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bean + -y.
Base: bean
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: beanier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more beany
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: beaniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most beany
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of beans.
pos: adj
examples: Those who like the beany taste in baked beans, will like the Pea bean better than the Blue Pod […]
He kept whoever it was waiting while he wiped up the beany mess.
Some producers even add powdered soymilk or soy flour, but the latter can give an objectionable beany flavor.
the little plates / in the sink / and the big spoon / and the baked beany pan
Translations:
aircar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From air + car.
Compound parts: air
car
Inflected forms:
form: aircars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A car capable of flight.
pos: noun
Translations:
tum-tum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps onomatopoeia (of hooves or footfalls); compare tuk-tuk. Perhaps from tandem.
Inflected forms:
form: tum-tums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tum tum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tumtum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A dog cart; a rickshaw; a kind of vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: India
examples: An optimistic old man was our driver; he needed all his optimism too, for his tum-tum was one of the most rickety I've seen , and his little pony very tiny. The balance of this vehicle was most important; we had to sit in certain definite positions ...
His fellow assistant, Dr Panna Lal, was in ecstasies at the prospect, and was urgent that they should attend it together in his new tum-tum.
Translations:
beerhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English beerhouse, from Old English *bēorhūs, from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀahūs (“beerhouse”), equivalent to beer + house.
Compound parts: beer
house
Inflected forms:
form: beerhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beer-house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: beer house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tavern or restaurant in which the primary drink served is beer.
pos: noun
Translations:
hypopharynx
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From hypo- + pharynx.
Base: pharynx
Affixes: hypo-
Inflected forms:
form: hypopharynges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hypopharynxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: bottom part of the pharynx, the part of the throat that connects to the esophagus
pos: noun
Translations:
jabroni
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: Alteration of earlier gibone (also spelled jiboney, jaboney, etc.), possibly from dialectal Italian giambone (“ham”, also “self-important fool”). As a wrestling term, it was popularized by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who claimed to have borrowed it from the Iron Sheik. Prior to its popularization by Johnson, the term had also been used by Scott Hall, Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, and others.
Inflected forms:
form: jabronis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jabrone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jabroney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An obnoxious or contemptible person; a crybaby.
pos: noun
examples: Howard glared at the kid walking towards him. "Now look here, jabroni. These are my trails and that's my tree house you're playing house in, and I don't remember you asking me permission to be here.[…]"
Sometimes a person is stuck as a jabroni for life. Geraldo Rivera--there's a guy who no matter how high he grows his hair, how full he grows his moustache, or how dangerous an assignment he goes on as an "investigative reporter," he'll always be a jabroni.
“I don’t want to be bullied again. I don’t want to feel like I have to stand in the cold again because some jabronis want to blow a three-foot cloud,” Richter says.
gloss: A performer whose primary role is to lose according to social standing.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Get out of that, uh, jabroni outfit.
A jobber—also known as jabroni, extra, and enhancement talent—is playing the part of getting beat all the time.
Related words: tomato can
jiboney
palooka
Translations:
lute-backed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more lute-backed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lute-backed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a curved spine.
pos: adj
examples: lute-backed chair
lute-backed person
Translations:
lightman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From light (noun) + -man.
Base: light
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: lightmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who carries or takes care of a light.
pos: noun
examples: c. 1680s?, Tom Brown, The Practical Quaker; or, the New-Lights
The Stars might go to sleep a-nights,
And leave their work to these new-Light
The Midwife Moon might mind her Calling ,
And noisy Lightman leave his Bawling
Translations:
Osirian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Osiris + -ian.
Base: Osiris
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Osirian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Osirian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Osiris.
pos: adj
examples: It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries.
Nevertheless it is a potentiality, for out of it rises the beetle, the sign for "form" and "coming into being." In the next, the Osirian stage, the night sun penetrates to the Underworld and its rays fall upon the soul in its new form as the body of Osiris.
Translations:
phytologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From phyto- + -logist.
Affixes: phyto-
-logist
Inflected forms:
form: phytologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist.
pos: noun
examples: our learned phytologist Mr. Ray
Translations:
kirkman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From kirk + -man.
Base: kirk
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: kirkmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clergyman or officer in a kirk.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A member of the Church of Scotland.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Synonyms: churchman
Translations:
factbook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fact + book.
Compound parts: fact
book
Inflected forms:
form: factbooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A book of facts.
pos: noun
Translations:
involucral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare French involucral.
Inflected forms:
form: more involucral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most involucral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, having, or similar to an involucrum or involucre.
pos: adj
examples: involucral bract
involucral tube
involucral
Translations:
executively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From executive + -ly.
Base: executive
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the way of executing or performing.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: As an executive
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
microlithic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From micro- + -lith + -ic or microlith + -ic, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”).
Affixes: micro-
-lith
-ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Formed of small stones.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to microliths.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
overcomer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English overcomere, equivalent to overcome + -er.
Base: overcome
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: overcomers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who overcomes.
pos: noun
examples: an overcomer of pain
Translations:
Milesian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French Milesien, and its source Latin Mīlēsius, from Ancient Greek Μιλήσιος (Milḗsios).
Inflected forms:
form: Milesians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Milesian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Milesian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: a native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Miletus in Asia Minor.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: a follower of the Milesian school of philosophy founded by Thales
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to Miletus or its inhabitants.
pos: adj
examples: I commend the Milesian wench, who seeing Thales the Philosopher continually ammusing himselfe in the contemplation of heavens-wide-bounding vault, and ever holding his eyes aloft, laid something in his way to make him stumble[…].
Translations:
winner-take-all
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
economics
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: winner take all
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: winner-takes-all
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: winner takes all
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: winners take all
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a contest, election, or other competition in which only the winner is rewarded and none of the losers receive anything.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You need luck in poker tournaments, because in the nature of this winner-take-all style of play, there will be several occasions when you cannot avoid putting all your money in the pot.
Under winner-take-all elections, many minority candidates find it nearly impossible to win.
[S]he volunteers to take her sister's place at the annual "Hunger Games", a bloody winner-take-all competition in which 24 teens fight to the death.
gloss: Of a market in which a product or service that is only slightly better than its competitors receives a disproportionately large share of revenue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a neural network model: organized so that neurons in a layer compete with each other for activation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: the winner takes it all
to the victor go the spoils
Translations:
hamble
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hamelen, from Old English hamelian (“to hamstring, mutilate”), from Proto-Germanic *hamalōną, *hamlōną (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Cognate with German hammeln, hämmeln (“to geld”), Icelandic hamla (“to mutilate, maim”), Dutch hamel (“wether”).
Inflected forms:
form: hambles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hambling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hambled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hambled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hammel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hamel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hammle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs) so as to render them unfit for hunting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To walk lame; limp.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
Medicean
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From post-classical Latin Mediceus (16th century; from the family name Medici) + -an.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Medicean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Medicean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Designating the four largest moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), as named by Galileo in honour of his future patron Cosimo II de' Medici.
pos: adj
tags: historical
examples: Four Medicean stars dance about Jupiter, two Austrian about Saturn, etc., and all (belike) to the music of the spheres.
Evelyn recorded a suggestion that the Society might take as its coat of arms a representation of a pair of crossed telescopes surmounted by the Medicean planets.
gloss: Pertaining to the Medici family.
pos: adj
Translations:
peziza
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: pezizas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Peziza of saprophytic fungi.
pos: noun
Translations:
metakaolin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From meta- + kaolin.
Base: kaolin
Affixes: meta-
Inflected forms:
form: metakaolins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dehydroxylated form of the clay mineral kaolinite.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
welwitschia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name Welwitschia, after Austrian explorer and botanist Friedrich Welwitsch.
Inflected forms:
form: welwitschias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Welwitschia mirabilis, a desert plant of southwest Africa.
pos: noun
Translations:
firetail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fire + tail.
Compound parts: fire
tail
Inflected forms:
form: firetails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any Australian finch of the genus Stagonopleura.
pos: noun
gloss: The common redstart.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
dialectal
Derived words: beautiful firetail
diamond firetail
red-eared firetail
painted firetail
Translations:
Owenite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Owen + -ite.
Base: Owen
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: Owenites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A follower or successor of Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer.
pos: noun
Translations:
curdy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From curd + -y.
Base: curd
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: curdier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: curdiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like, or full of, curd; coagulated.
pos: adj
examples: A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery.
The oil by degrees gets covered with a curdy mass, which after some time settles to the bottom, while itself becomes limpid and colorless.
Translations:
orval
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: French orvale.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A sage, of species Salvia viridis.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
lighty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lighties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lightie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A young man; a boy.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
slang
Translations:
towy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tow + -y.
Base: tow
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more towy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most towy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Composed of, or resembling, tow (the fabric).
pos: adj
examples: a towy mass
Translations:
gemmy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gem + -y.
Base: gem
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: gemmier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gemmiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of, or covered in, gems.
pos: adj
examples: The gemmy bridle glittered free, / Like to some branch of stars we see / Hung in the golden galaxy.
gloss: Bright and glittering, as though studded with gems.
pos: adj
examples: His mildly vivid dewy beam
Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam
With elf-light tiniest figures lit
Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit
Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip
In circle.
He looked strained, his eyes gemmy with the determination to sustain all, but his nosy face flat and with a light of pale unhappiness.
Derived words: gemmily
Translations:
knab
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See nab, and compare knap.
Inflected forms:
form: knabs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knabbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: knabbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knabbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: knabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To nab or steal.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
gloss: To seize with the teeth; to gnaw or bite.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: a Mouthful of Fresh Grass to Knab upon
gloss: A hill.
pos: noun
tags: Northumbria
archaic
gloss: a promontory or headland
pos: noun
tags: Orkney
Scotland
Shetland
Translations:
double-faced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having two functional faces.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a double-faced hammer
gloss: Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Fame , if not double-faced , is double-mouthed ,
And with contrary blast proclaims most deed
A deep-seated misgiving about U.S. Asian policy is spreading among anti-Communists in Southeast Asia, who fear that the Korean truce is the first sign of U.S. withdrawal. In Hong Kong, anti-Communist Chinese newspapers, even those critical of Chiang, now talk about “U.S. double-faced diplomacy.” One said that “Ike and Dulles have stepped right into Acheson’s shoes.”
Related words: speak with a forked tongue
Translations:
Gallicanism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From Gallican + -ism.
Base: Gallican
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: Gallicanisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope; also, the intellectual movement in support of this doctrine and the policies expressing it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: […] after being ordained, [Wake] went to Paris in 1682 as chaplain to Viscount Preston. Here Wake came into close touch with Gallicanism […]
Moreover, the enthusiasm with which Hecker’s ideas had been received among Catholic liberals in France served to increase Leo XIII’s suspicion that Americanism was yet another attempt, not so very different from the Gallicanisms of the past, to assert the independence of a national church from Rome.
gloss: Support for the autonomy of national churches.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
derogatory
often
uncountable
examples: Ultramontanism (dominance by the Vatican) conflicted with Gallicanism (freedom from the Vatican) as the Church tried to come to terms with the changes of the nineteenth century.
Douthat himself immediately tweeted that “it’s synodality when the Germans want something, Gallicanism when the Americans want something.”
The second large issue roiling the world Church during the papacy of Pope Francis was closely related to this theological question of the reality of revelation: the emergence of a new, twenty-first-century Gallicanism that imagined Catholicism as a federation of national Churches rather than a universal Church with distinctive local expressions.
gloss: A liturgical feature distinctive of the Gallican Rite.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It must be remembered that the Gelasian Sacramentary is a Gallican recension of a Roman Sacramentary, and that it abounds in Gallicanisms.
The earliest surviving Anglo-Saxon books are full of Gallicanisms: just as the Stowe Missal, though it contains the Roman Canon, betrays at every turn its Celtic origin.
Whatever Gallicanisms are found in the Dominican rite were not taken directly from the Gallican rite—for this had long ceased to exist—but from the Roman rite. As a matter of fact some of the Gallican customs incorporated in the Roman rite were rejected by the Friars Preachers in favor of the more ancient practice of Rome.
Translations:
ogdoad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀγδοάς (ogdoás, “eight, a group of eight”). By surface analysis, ogdo- + -ad.
Inflected forms:
form: ogdoads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thing made up of eight parts.
pos: noun
examples: Probably these, as in the other systems, made the second Ogdoad; and these, with other astral influence, borrowed from the Tsabaism of the region, the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the thirty-six Decani
Translations:
Yooper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From U.P. (“Upper Peninsula”) + -er.
Base: U.P.
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Yoopers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
shahin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shahins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The shaheen falcon.
pos: noun
Translations:
shaheen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shaheens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The shaheen falcon
pos: noun
Translations:
nart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From a North Caucasian source (see West Circassian нарт (nart) and Ossetian нарт (nart)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr ("man, hero").
Inflected forms:
form: narts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a race of giant heroes in the folklore of the peoples of the North Caucasus (notably the Circassians, Ossetians, Abkhazians, and Vainakhs).
pos: noun
Translations:
rynd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rynd, rynde, ryne, from Middle Dutch rijn, rine (“rynd”) or Middle Low German rîn, rîne (“rynd”).
Inflected forms:
form: rynds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rhynd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone, by which the stone is supported on the spindle.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Laker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From lake + -er.
Base: lake
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Lakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Lakist; one of the Lake Poets.
pos: noun
gloss: A player for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team.
pos: noun
examples: Just that measly 35-point, 14-assist and 12-rebound game from LeBron James as the Lakers got a little revenge on the Grizzlies.
Translations:
Thomasian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Thomas + -ian.
Base: Thomas
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Thomasian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Thomasian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet and writer.
pos: adj
examples: Since the early 1970s, Finch has been the principal innovator in Welsh poetry, the most genuine successor to Dylan Thomas; but instead of florid, drunken Thomasian rhetoric, Finch has favored a variety of tight sober structures[…]
Translations:
morganatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From morganatic + -ally.
Base: morganatic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a morganatic manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Prince Ulric merely replied that there was only one woman whom he wished to marry and she was not of sufficiently exalted station, and as she refused to marry him morganatically […] there was no prospect of his ever marrying at all.
Translations:
carlock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French carlock, from Russian карлу́к (karlúk).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon. Among its uses is clarifying wine, restoration, and making gelatin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rindy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rind + -y.
Base: rind
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more rindy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rindy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a rind or skin.
pos: adj
examples: If you graff upon a large Stock that may pinch your Graff, let the inner and woody Part of your Graff bear the Pressure, by being a little thicker than the rindy Part
Translations:
redfin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From red + fin, having a red dorsal fin, especially males in the breeding season.
Compound parts: red
fin
Inflected forms:
form: redfins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A common shiner, a small North American dace of species Luxilus cornutus.
pos: noun
gloss: A redfin shiner (Lythrurus umbratilis), of the central US.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of certain species of genus Moxostoma of large suckers of North America, the males having red tail fins during mating season.
pos: noun
Synonyms: shiner
Derived words: big-scaled redfin
Eastern Cape redfin
fiery redfin
giant redfin
Maluti redfin
Mongolian redfin
Pacific redfin
redfin bully
redfin perch
redfin pickerel
redfin robber
redfin shark
redfin shiner
redfin worm-eel
smallscale redfin
Verlorenvlei redfin
Translations:
mouse-ear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English mousere, musere, equivalent to mouse + ear, in reference to the shape of the leaves.
Compound parts: mouse
ear
Inflected forms:
form: mouse-ears
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of small hawkweed native to Eurasia (mouse-ear hawkweed, Pilosella officinarum), commonly found on dry grasslands.
pos: noun
examples: Mouse-ear is a low herb creeping upon the ground by small strings like the Strawberry plant, whereby it shoots forth small roots […]
gloss: A plant of the genus Cerastium (mouse-eared chickweed).
pos: noun
gloss: A forget-me-not (genus Myosotis).
pos: noun
Related words: mouse-eared
Derived words: Arctic mouse-ear
Translations:
bivalved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bi- + valved.
Base: valved
Affixes: bi-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having two valves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a bivalved seed pod
Oysters are bivalved.
Translations:
Oneida
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from Oneida Onyota'a꞉ka (“men of upright stones”); also spelled Onʌyoteˀa·ká·.
Inflected forms:
form: Oneidas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Oneida
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a tribe of Native Americans formerly inhabiting the region near Oneida Lake in New York, now often found in modern New York, Wisconsin, or Canada.
pos: noun
Translations:
cypripedium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From translingual Cypripedium (genus name).
Inflected forms:
form: cypripediums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the orchid genus Cypripedium.
pos: noun
examples: The cyprepedium from South America is supposed to be of larger size and brighter colours than that from North America […].
Translations:
Vedantic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Vedanta + -ic.
Base: Vedanta
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more Vedantic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Vedantic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Vedanta.
pos: adj
Translations:
Narragansett
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Narragansetts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Narragansett
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an Algonquian Native American tribe that formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.
pos: noun
Translations:
Valentinian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Valentīniānus, from Valentīnus (“Valentine”) + -iānus (“-ian: forming adjectives”), from valentia (“strength, health”) + -īnus (“-ine: forming adjectives”). Equivalent to Valentine + -ian.
Base: Valentine
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Valentinians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A follower of Valentinus, a 2nd-century Egyptian gnostic.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
hollow-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hollow-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hollow-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hollowhearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: insincere; deceitful; treacherous; hypocritical.
pos: adj
examples: Had I, through the weakness and doting fondness of this poor woman, come upon the one link which would yet lead us to identify this hollow-hearted, false and most vindictive man of great affairs with the wandering and worthless husband of the nodescript Bess, whose hand I had touched and whose errand I had done, little realizing its purport or the influence it would have upon our lives?
gloss: Yearning.
pos: adj
examples: Their fingers tightened with a sweet fury, and they sat still and breathless and crazy with love, their eyes drowsy with tenderness, hollow-hearted with wanting each other, and wanting to put their mouths together.
gloss: Having a hole at the center.
pos: adj
examples: Just like a bamboo is hollow-hearted, he ought to open his heart to accept whatsoever of help and not ever have conceit either bias.
Related words: half-hearted
Derived words: hollow-heartedly
hollow-heartedness
Translations:
Gladstonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Gladstone + -ian.
Base: Gladstone
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Gladstonian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Gladstonian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Gladstonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898), British prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894.
pos: adj
examples: Their guiding light is the Gladstonian ideal of a low tax, laissez-faire, “night-watchman state”.
gloss: A political supporter of William Ewart Gladstone.
pos: noun
Translations: