yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unloved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English loved
English unloved
From un- + loved.
Inflected forms:
form: more unloved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unloved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not loved.
pos: adj
examples: Then, too, there was the mute appeal of this wee waif alone and unloved in the midst of the horrors of the savage jungle.
Kidderminster: Work can start on a new glass-fronted station building (double the size), following the demolition of the dilapidated 1968 structure. Always unloved, it was cheaply assembled by BR to replace a mock Tudor building that survived for nearly 100 years before being infested with dry rot.
Translations:
ambulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ambulatus, past participle of ambulō (“to walk, go about”). Doublet of amble.
Inflected forms:
form: ambulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ambulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ambulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ambulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To walk; to relocate oneself under the power of one's own legs.
pos: verb
tags: formal
intransitive
examples: Peter slowly ambulated to the bathroom, favoring his strained knee.
I'm working in social services, but I'm also suffering from a lot of chronic pain and limitation. I can't really sit at my desk because I need to ambulate a lot.
Translations:
relocate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English locate
English relocate
From re- + locate.
Inflected forms:
form: relocates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: relocating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: relocated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: relocated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To move (something) from one place to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We had to relocate the magazine rack because we bruised our shins on it too frequently when it was near the door.
In the three weeks since, the city has repeatedly relocated evacuees on short notice. To reopen schools, it bused many to armories, turning drill floors into open dormitories for the first time since a 1980s lawsuit halted the practice.
HS2 will pass in a deep cutting, right through a busy road junction which has to be relocated.
gloss: To change one's domicile or place of business.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Alfred relocated to Colorado Springs to take advantage of the boom in the defense industry.
On 'prosperity re-distribution', it ignores the prospect that businesses may relocate to be near HS2 stations. So never mind the observable phenomenon of major businesses relocating to Birmingham, with a veritable rash of private sector investment.
Approximately 100 Louisville-based KFC corporate employees will relocate to Texas over the next six months. […] KFC joins a parade of companies relocating to the Republican-run state of Texas, with oil giant Chevron, Elon Musk’s Tesla, X and SpaceX, as well as Hewlett-Packard all making similar moves in recent years.
gloss: To lose something and find it again.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I relocated the bird I spotted last week.
Derived words: nonrelocated
nonrelocating
relocatable
relocatee
relocator
Translations:
singly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English senglely. Equivalent to single + -ly.
Base: single
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a single or unaccompanied manner; without a companion.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Singly, they are every one a representation or appearance of some quality, or other accident of a body without us, which is commonly called an object.
The cross, reared now above all other objects, and standing singly out against the sky, was greeted with a burst of delight; […
Grey-coloured woods covered a large part of the surface. This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others—some singly, some in clumps […]
They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.
gloss: Individually; particularly; severally.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: to make men singly and personally good
Ursula saw that now Bella Watson's chance meetings with him had to be strategically and singly planned by Bella, whose wifely attentions to the bereaved man were markedly meaning.
gloss: Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: to attack another singly
gloss: Honestly; sincerely; simply.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Singularly; peculiarly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
Synonyms: solo
truthfully
Derived words: misfortunes never come singly
singly even
Translations:
powdery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English powder
English -y
English powdery
From powder + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more powdery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most powdery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to powder.
pos: adj
examples: powdery drink
We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color.
gloss: Having a lot of powder.
pos: adj
Antonyms: nonpowdery
Related words: powderiness
powderily
granular
Derived words: powdery liveforever
powdery mildew
powdery scab
unpowdery
Translations:
wrenching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wrenchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is wrenched.
pos: noun
Translations:
phrasing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: phrasings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.
pos: noun
examples: But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner -- or Southron, according to Sir Walter's starchier way of phrasing it -- would be wholly modern, in place of modern and medieval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advanced than it is.
gloss: The way the musical phrases are put together in a composition or in its interpretation, with changes in tempo, volume, or emphasizing one or more instruments over others.
pos: noun
examples: I found myself truly moved by a stage event for the first time in years. I found myself humming tunes that one might not rightfully call tunes. Days later, I still remember these musical phrasings in little swatches of sound.
Derived words: cross-phrasing
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: fraseeraus
lang: French
word: phrasé
lang: Polish
word: fraza
justifiable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle French justifiable. By surface analysis, justify + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more justifiable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most justifiable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That can be justified.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: defensible, excusable
It was at all times clear that, from the point of view of the idea it conveys to us, every motion must be considered only as a relative motion. Returning to the illustration we have frequently used of the embankment and the railway carriage, we can express the fact of the motion here taking place in the following two forms, both of which are equally justifiable:
(a) The carriage is in motion relative to the embankment,
(b) The embankment is in motion relative to the carriage.
In (a) the embankment, in (b) the carriage, serves as the body of reference in our statement of the motion taking place. —
gloss: Describing an illegal and intentional act that is nevertheless not blameworthy, for example because its positive consequences outweighed the bad. Distinguished from excusable, describing an involuntary illegal act.
pos: adj
tags: specifically
examples: justifiable homicide
Derived words: justifiability
justifiable homicide
justifiableness
justifiably
unjustifiable
Translations:
credulity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English credulite (“faith, belief”), borrowed from Middle French credulité (French crédulité), from Latin crēdulitās. Corresponding to credulous + -ity (compare credulosity).
Base: credulous
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: credulities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A willingness to believe in someone or something in the absence of reasonable proof; credulousness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These testosterone thumpers have repackaged and exaggerated the study, with a credulity born of zealotry, into articles with shitposty titles like “Trust The Science: Study Links Left-Wing Politics to Lower Testosterone,” casting it as hard proof of their hormonal theories of healthy politics.
gloss: Faith, credence; acceptance or maintenance of a belief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
nonstandard
uncountable
examples: Do you think Mr. Allworthy hath more contempt for money than other men because he professes more? Such credulity would better become one of us weak women, than that wise sex which heaven hath formed for politicians. Indeed, brother, you would make a fine plenipo to negotiate with the French.
As Challenger spoke of his pterodactyl I glanced at Professor Summerlee, and for the first time I seemed to see some signs of a dawning credulity and repentance. There was no sneer upon his thin lips, but, on the contrary, a gray, drawn look of excitement and amazement. Challenger saw it, too, and reveled in the first taste of victory.
Derived words: incredulity
miscredulity
omnicredulity
overcredulity
Translations:
infantryman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From infantry + man.
Compound parts: infantry
man
Inflected forms:
form: infantrymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a soldier employed in an infantry role
pos: noun
gloss: a male soldier of the infantry
pos: noun
Derived words: infantrywoman
Translations:
vingt-et-un
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French vingt-et-un (“twenty-one”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The card game pontoon.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
brillo
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of brilliant + -o.
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: more brillo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brillo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Brilliant; excellent.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
dishwater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dish + water.
Compound parts: dish
water
Inflected forms:
form: dishwaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Water that dishes and cooking utensils have been washed in.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The dishwater drained away slowly.
gloss: Anything dull and lacking interest or flavour.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
usually
examples: This season's offerings are nothing but dishwater.
Derived words: dishwater blond
dishwater blonde
dishwatery
dull as dishwater
Translations:
blokey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bloke
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English blokey
From bloke + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: blokier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: blokiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Associated with the mainstream male culture, particularly blue-collar.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
UK
informal
examples: Tennis isn't a blokey sport.
Translations:
guv
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alternative phonetic spelling of gov, short for governor.
Inflected forms:
form: guvs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gov
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A form of address to a man, usually a stranger or a superior.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
London
UK
informal
examples: Spare two quid, guv? I 'aven't eaten since yesterday.
Right away, guv... I mean, sarge.
gloss: A male prison officer.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
examples: We cover up the window so the guvs can't see us.
Synonyms: boss
guv'nor
Related words: guv'nor
governor
Translations:
appeasement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English appesement, from Old French apaisement.
Inflected forms:
form: appeasements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being appeased; the policy of giving in to demands in order to preserve the peace.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This decision is the end of any attempts at appeasement in our land; the end of urging us to get along with the dictators, the end of compromise with tyranny and the forces of oppression.
Senator, Saturday on television, you said that you had always thought that Quemoy and Matsu were unwise places to draw our defense line in the Far East. Would you comment further on that, and also address to this question: couldn't a pull-back from those islands be interpreted as appeasement?
What’s crucial is that the Taiwanese people preserve their individual freedom and the planet does not endure a third world war. The best way for the United States to pursue those goals is by maintaining America’s military support for Taiwan while also maintaining the “one China” framework that for more than four decades has helped keep the peace in one of the most dangerous places on earth.
Hawks will call this appeasement. So be it. Ask them how many American lives they’re willing to risk so the United States can have official diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
Translations:
HE-double-hockey-sticks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The word hell spelled out, referring to the fact that the capital letter L resembles a hockey stick.
Inflected forms:
form: aitch ee double hockey sticks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Hell.
pos: noun
tags: childish
euphemistic
idiomatic
plural
plural-only
usually
examples: His voice rose about an octave, actually just short of a scream, and he said something to the effect that "it's an HE-double-hockey-sticks-week at work."
He's made the mother's life a living HE-double-hockey-sticks, my daughter says.
She knew Kate didn't have a snowball's chance in HE-Double hockey-sticks, with Angelina's Zee-Zee and Bud's Mister Dobson winning everything.
Translations:
deader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dead + -er (comparative suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Base: dead
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: deaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
humorous
examples: I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.
"No, nor drink. And Mr. Bender, he was the fust to go, and then Indian Pete, and then Mrs. McGregor, and then Johnny Hones, and then, dearie, your mother."
"Then mother's a deader too," cried the little girl, dropping her face in her pinafore and sobbing bitterly.
"Yes, they all went except you and me...
Translations:
adit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin aditus (“entrance, access”), from ad (“to, up to”) + itus (“going, departure”).
Inflected forms:
form: adits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage, used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.
pos: noun
examples: A narrow and untrodden cavern at the bottom connects it with the outer sea; they could even then hear the mysterious thunder and gurgle of the surge in the subterranean adit, as it rolled huge boulders to and fro in darkness, and forced before it gusts of pent-up air.
What all these passages are, of course I cannot say, but we thought that they must be the ancient workings of a mine, of which the various shafts and adits travelled hither and thither as the ore led them.
It consisted of an opening in the forest which clothed the hillside with the black mouth of an adit in the midst of it, and a few big mounds of debris, beside which stood a rude log shanty.
The Old Mine is currently entered through an upper adit as the main is no longer accessible.
The adit sloped downwards into the bowels of some long-fallen building, following a passage that had silted up when the city had first been buried.
Translations:
hummin
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hummin
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hummin
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Totally stinking.
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
examples: That aad fellas house was hummin!
Translations:
mobilize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French mobiliser.
Inflected forms:
form: mobilizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mobilizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mobilized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mobilized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mobilise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make something mobile.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
gloss: To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
gloss: To get ready for war.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
intransitive
Related words: mobile
mobility
mobilization
move
Derived words: countermobilize
demobilize
mobilizability
mobilizable
mobilizee
mobilizer
remobilize
Translations:
mobilization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French mobilisation or mobilize + -ation.
Base: mobilize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: mobilizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mobilisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of mobilizing.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
examples: a national mobilization to fight climate change
It's produced tremendous activism and backlash: there's been all sorts of demonstrations and mobilizations in civil society, there's been examples from the people from the Administration being heckled in a restaurant or not served in a restaurant, there's been a growing crescendo of conversation about what that means.
gloss: The marshalling and organizing of troops and national resources in preparation for war, bringing them to a state of readiness for an action.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
examples: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law a key piece of legislation overhauling the country’s mobilization rules.
gloss: The softening of rock such that geochemical migration can take place.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The transport of a copy of a gene from one chromosome, or one organism to another.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
Antonyms: demobilization
immobilization
Related words: mobile
mobility
mobilize
move
Derived words: comobilization
countermobilization
lipomobilization
mobilizational
premobilization
remobilization
retromobilization
Translations:
mobilisation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French mobilisation or mobilise + -ation.
Base: mobilise
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: mobilisations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mobilization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: the act of mobilising
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
mobilise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French mobiliser.
Inflected forms:
form: mobilises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mobilising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mobilised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mobilised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mobilize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
British
English
Oxford
US
Senses:
gloss: To make something mobile.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become made ready for war.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: All Whitby is mobilising against the economy plan, alleging that loss of railway facilities would turn the port into a "ghost town"; [...].
And there were justified fears for the future of the Swanage branch, although enthusiasts were already mobilising themselves to take it over.
Antonyms: stabilise
fix
demobilise
Related words: mobilisation
Derived words: mobilisable
Translations:
samovar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian самова́р (samovár, “self-boiler”); from само́ (samó, “self”) + вари́ть (varítʹ, “boil, cook”).
Inflected forms:
form: samovars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the urn. Today, it is more likely that the water is heated by an electric coil.
pos: noun
examples: The samovar was beginning to sing; the laborers and the family, having disposed of the horses, came in to dinner.
Come on now with the samovar ─ and make haste sorting the letter-bag.
Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor.[…]Elsa made her drink a glass of vodka. Then she fetched the samovar from the kitchen, and made tea.
“Chumley. The beverage situation around here is reprehensible.” “Oh, good morning, sunshine.” “Surely our massive conglomerate parent company could spring for a samovar of coffee.” “Yeah, or like a big coffee dispenser.” “That's what a samovar is.” “Are there other black nerds, or is it just you and Urkel?”
Translations:
Gabi-Gabi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The native word for no, reduplicated.
Inflected forms:
form: Gabi Gabi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Gabigabi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Kabi-Kabi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Kabi Kabi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Kabikabi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Gubbi Gubbi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Australian Aboriginal people of southwest Queensland.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
mangal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Portuguese mangal, from Portuguese mangue (“mangrove”) + Portuguese -al (“-al”)
Inflected forms:
form: mangals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tropical and subtropical coastal intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by mangroves or similar shrubs and trees.
pos: noun
Translations:
one-dimensional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more one-dimensional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most one-dimensional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: onedimensional
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having length, but no width, height or depth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: A straight line is one-dimensional.
gloss: Lacking depth or believability; flat.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
usually
examples: one-dimensional characters
Such one-dimensional characters have always existed in the theatre along with more recognizably human characters.
In contrast to this are the flat, one-dimensional characters found in fables.
gloss: Lacking personal depth and substance; conceited, vain, shallow, superficial.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
usually
Derived words: one-dimensionally
quasi-one-dimensional
Translations:
mangel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mangels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sugar beet, which can be refined to equal cane sugar in all manners save for botanical origin.
pos: noun
gloss: A mangelwurzel, a plant of the beet family raised as cattle feed.
pos: noun
examples: For many days the animals had nothing to eat but mangels.
Derived words: mangel beet
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: rehujuurikas
lang: Māori
word: mangawaha
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fôrbete
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fôrroe
syphilitic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or infected with syphilis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One can try hunting syphilitic treponemes directly by having skin irregularities […] biopsied and subjected to a silver-staining test.
Translations:
proviso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin proviso (“it being provided”), ablative singular neuter of provisus, past participle of providere (“to provide”); see provide.
Inflected forms:
form: provisos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: provisoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A conditional provision to an agreement.
pos: noun
examples: Now, with all these provisos in mind, what’s the best way to put spinach to work? All due respect to Popeye, a can may not be the tastiest way to introduce it to your table.
The biggest change in the governance of American horse racing was tucked into a 2020 federal spending bill. That proviso ultimately created the national Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, or HISA – a move that, after three previous legislative attempts, found support from federal lawmakers after a particularly deadly season at a California racetrack.
The writing has been on the wall that Americans’ support for mass deportation was subject to all kinds of caveats and provisos.
Translations:
enrolling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: enrollings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An enrolment.
pos: noun
Translations:
fainting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English feinting, equivalent to faint + -ing.
Base: faint
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: faintings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of collapsing into a state of temporary unconsciousness.
pos: noun
examples: fainting fit
Translations:
blacks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
pos: noun
gloss: Black garments, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible.
that was the full time they vsed to were blackes for the death of their fathers
Translations:
samosa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani سموسہ (samosa) / समोसा (samosā), from Classical Persian سنبوسه (sanbōsa), from Middle Persian *sambōsag.
Doublet of sambusa, sambusak, sambuseh, sambuusa, and samsa.
Inflected forms:
form: samosas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: samose
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: somosa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: samoosa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: samuza
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: somasi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: somaas
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A South Asian snack consisting of a deep-fried triangular turnover filled with vegetables (especially potatoes) or meat.
pos: noun
examples: Homemade samosas are a world away from those dry cardboard triangles sold under the name in supermarkets. Instead, they have delicately flaky and deliciously rich pastry and a generous stuffing that’s easily tweaked to suit all tastes. […] Repeat with the remaining dough balls and filling, making sure each samosa is well sealed.
Translations:
blacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Shoe polish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Instead, the unions persisted in believing they could defeat Murdoch through a unified campaign of picket lines, blackings and boycotts.
Translations:
monadic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μοναδικός (monadikós, “single”), from μονάς (monás, “a unit”); see monad. By surface analysis, monad + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, relating to, or being a monad
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We can refuse to view each of these areas as distinct and monadic categories of identity and we can refuse to study them in isolation from one another.
gloss: univalent
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: of or relating to the Monas genus of microorganisms
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: having an arity of one (taking a single argument or operand)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "The monadic existential quantifier ∃, as in ∃x, may express existence of x in formal logic or mathematics".
Related words: monad
dyadic
triadic
polyadic
variadic
Derived words: monadically
monadicity
monadic predicate logic
monadic second-order logic
nonmonadic
Translations:
monarchic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French monarchique; equivalent to monarch + -ic.
Base: monarch
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to monarchy or to a monarch.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
monic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From mono- + -ic.
Base: mono
Inflected forms:
form: monics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a polynomial whose leading coefficient is one.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Monomorphic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a morphism: that it is a monomorphism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If a composition (of morphisms) is monic then, by theorem, the pre-composite of it is monic as well.
It is often convenient to view a monic arrow i#58;A#92;rightarrowtailC, defined in Chapter 1, as showing that A is a copy of a part of C, and that i maps the copy on to that part. For example, in Set, the monic arrows are the one-to-one functions and, clearly, if i is one-to-one then A is a copy of a subset of C, namely of the image of i.
gloss: A monic polynomial.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonmonic
Translations:
Monic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to the branch of the Austroasiatic language family that includes the Mon language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
monogenic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From mono- + -genic.
Base: mono
Inflected forms:
form: monogenics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: of or relating to monogenesis or to monogenism
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: regulated by a single gene
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: producing offspring of only one sex, exhibiting monogeny
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: having a single derivative at a point
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: generated by a set containing only a single element
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A derivative of a monogenic function
pos: noun
Derived words: monogenicity
Translations:
monomorphism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: monomorphisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an injective homomorphism
pos: noun
gloss: the absence of sexual dimorphism
pos: noun
gloss: A morphism n such that for any other morphisms f and g, if n∘f=n∘g then f = g.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: мономорфизъм
roman: monomorfizǎm
lang: French
word: monomorphisme
lang: German
word: Monomorphismus
lang: Icelandic
word: einmótun
lang: Icelandic
word: ímótun
lang: Italian
word: monomorfismo
lang: Polish
word: monomorfizm
lang: Russian
word: мономорфизм
roman: monomorfizm
lang: Spanish
word: monomorfismo
morphemic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English morpheme
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English morphemic
From morpheme + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to morphemics or to a morpheme.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
vulcanization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Vulcan
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English vulcanize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English vulcanization
From vulcanize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: vulcanizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vulcanisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A process by which rubber is hardened using heat and sulphur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Mosaic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French mosaïque, moysaique, and its source, post-classical Latin Mosaicus (5th century), from Latin Moses.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to Moses, or the writings and traditions attributed to him.
pos: adj
examples: Mosaic law
The Mosaic account of the creation, whether taken as divine authority, or merely historical, is full to this point, the unity or equality of man.
The Mosaic Code, embodied in the Pentateuch, furnished to the children of Israel the necessary platform of justice; ancient tradition and Rabbinic interpretation contained in the Talmud, supplied needed rules of practical application.
Translations:
mountaintop
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mountain
English top
English mountaintop
From mountain + top.
Inflected forms:
form: mountain top
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mountaintops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mountain top
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Situated or occurring on the summit of a mountain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The summit of a mountain.
pos: noun
examples: So we follow dear Jenny along the mountaintop trail, until it descends to the forest below, where Maple and Oak, and violet Trefoil, and velvety Viburnum grow; where polynose clusters hang from Striped Maple, and Cinnamon Ferns that show.
While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops in Montana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering ceiling tiles.
Translations:
mulloway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Ngarrindjeri malowe.
Inflected forms:
form: mulloways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the species Argyrosomus japonicus of large fish, found along the eastern coast of Africa and the coasts of Australia, prized for sport.
pos: noun
examples: I clawed my way up a long, evil hissing slope and saw the light on the lonely beach and my father with a mulloway slung across his back like an aura […].
To us, a rainy day may mean that we have to rug up and stay inside out of the elements, but the coming of a storm or the rising swell will find a mulloway that lives and feeds along the beaches, waiting around a river entrance for the mullet...
Translations:
multiprotein
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English protein
English multiprotein
From multi- + protein.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: consisting of several proteins
pos: adj
Translations:
musculoskeletal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English musculo-
English skeleton
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 skeletal
English musculoskeletal
From musculo- + skeletal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to both muscles and the skeleton.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Have the patient collect an hour-by-hour log of work activities, with an attempt to define actions that may cause or exacerbate musculoskeletal problems.
The superficial fascia surrounds the body and includes subcutaneous fat; the deep fascia surrounds the musculoskeletal system; the meningeal fascia surrounds the nervous system; the visceral fascia surrounds body cavities and organs.
The most common cause of absence in the rail and bus sectors is musculoskeletal - conditions that affect joints, bones and muscles. Between January 1 2019 and June 30 2022, 6.5 million working days were lost due to musculoskeletal illness at a cost of £946m.
Translations:
myelin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós)der.
English myelo-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English myelin
From myelo- + -in.
From Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós, “marrow”).
Base: myelo
Inflected forms:
form: myelins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A white, fatty material, composed of lipids and lipoproteins, that surrounds the axons of nerves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As the result of prolonged action of water upon myelin, bird's-nests-cells are also said to be produced, and we are certain we have seen, as the result of such prolonged action of water, the appearances thus compared.
This gene controls the production of an insulating sleeve that wraps around neurons. Known as myelin, it is crucial for long-range communication in the brain.
Translations:
myoblast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From myo- + -blast.
Base: myo
Inflected forms:
form: myoblasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An undifferentiated stem cell that develops into muscle tissue.
pos: noun
examples: It is the deeper parts of such cells which give rise to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell (myoblast), the part which produces the above, performs other functions, and usually bears a cilium.
Translations:
stoically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stoical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English stoically
From stoical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more stoically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stoically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that endures pain and hardship without outwardly showing suffering or expressing complaint.
pos: adv
examples: Frank Connor look the news stoically and, except for a sudden and nearly unnoticed grimace, with no outward show of emotion.
gloss: In an unfeeling manner that inwardly is unaffected by pain or distress.
pos: adv
examples: Regardless of how involved Carl outwardly appears, inside he holds himself stoically detached.
gloss: In a manner consistent with the philosophy of stoicism.
pos: adv
Related words: stoic
Stoic
stoical
stoicism
Translations:
tramping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trampings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or sound of one who tramps, or walks heavily.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now we was in the lean-to, and heard trampings close by outside. So we crept to the door, and Tom stopped us there and put his eye to the crack, but couldn't make out nothing, it was so dark
gloss: Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport; hiking
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
uncountable
Derived words: rubber tramping
Tramping Lake
Translations:
Waterloo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle Dutch, composed of water (“water”) + loo (“sacred wood, forest”). More at water, lea. cf. German Loh. Most places in English-speaking countries are named for the battle.
Compound parts: water
loo
Inflected forms:
form: Waterloos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Often in the term meet one's Waterloo: a notable and decisive defeat following an encounter with a powerful opponent or a problem that is too difficult.
pos: noun
examples: He flung his dime at a newsboy, got his Express, propped his back against the truck, and was at once rapt in the account of his Waterloo as expanded by the ingenious press.
Surprisingly, Greenfield did not meet his Waterloo in this showdown with his competitors.
The skull ended up as Dubois’ personal Waterloo. His work received nothing but rejection and derision throughout the next decade, and the bones became dark secrets for much of the early twentieth century, locked away in Dubois’ home, unavailable for study by other scholars.
Translations:
lightering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process of transferring cargo or fuel off of a sunken or grounded ship, making it easier to refloat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
grayish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gray
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English grayish
From gray + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more grayish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most grayish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: greyish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat gray.
pos: adj
Antonyms: achromatic
colorless
Translations:
napped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
nation-state
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Compound of nation + state. Coined c. 1890s under the influence of European languages; compare German Nationalstaat (from 1840s), Italian Stato-nazione (from 1860s).
Inflected forms:
form: nation-states
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nation state
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A political entity (a state) associated with a common national identity (historically, culturally, or ethnically; as with a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.
pos: noun
examples: Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.
gloss: Any independent political state; a country.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
proscribed
Derived words: aspirant nation-state
Translations:
naturalistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From naturalist + -ic or natural + -istic.
Base: naturalist
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more naturalistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most naturalistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the appearance of nature or realism; lifelike or realistic.
pos: adj
examples: The genius of High Hopes is in its director's ability to push both his characters and his audience to places they would never think of going. Although the situations are always naturalistic (there is not even any of the arty mise en scene Frears used in Sammy and Rosy or My Beautiful Laundrette), he is not afraid of making his characters caricatures.
Each core autistic participant engaged in three naturalistic conversations around the topic of loneliness with: (1) a familiar, chosen conversation partner; (2) a non-autistic stranger and (3) an autistic stranger.
gloss: Of or relating to philosophical or methodological naturalism.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, being, pertaining to, or occurring in a real-world, everyday setting, rather than in a controlled, supervised, or clinical one.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, being, pertaining to, or occurring in a real-world, everyday setting, rather than in a controlled, supervised, or clinical one.
pos: adj
tags: specifically
Derived words: antinaturalistic
hypernaturalistic
naturalistically
naturalistic fallacy
nonnaturalistic
quasi-naturalistic
semi-naturalistic
supranaturalistic
unnaturalistic
Translations:
neoplastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Hellenic *néwos
Ancient Greek νέος (néos)
Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der.
English neo-
Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō
Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō?
Ancient Greek πλάσσω (plássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek πλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós)der.
Latin plasticusder.
English plastic
English neoplastic
From neo- + plastic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of or relating to a neoplasm, neoplastics, neoplasty or neoplasia
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
nisus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin nīsus (“pressure, exertion”).
Inflected forms:
form: nisuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The godly personality of a higher order, as the telos of the nisus of moral categoriality, is the sensus plenior of the nisus to a universal communalization of perspectives.
The immanent nisus to completion, therefore, drives the complex to the explication of its internal relations so that they become recognizable as such.
gloss: The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1833, James O' Beirne, New Views on the Process of Defecation, and Their Application to the Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, and Other Organs, quoted in 1833, John Johnson (editor), The Medico-Chirurgical Review, New Series: Volume 19 (Volume 23 of the Analytical Series), page 7,
The evacuation of the rectum and bladder being completed, immediately the nisus ceases, the rectum and the sphincters return to their former state of contraction, the diaphragm reascends, carrying with it and restoring to their proper situations the liver, the stomach, the spleen, the small intestines, the cæcum, and the ascending, transverse and descending portions of the colon.
Translations: