yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
antibiotic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French antibiotique; by surface analysis, anti- + -biotic.
Inflected forms:
form: antibiotics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more antibiotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antibiotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any substance that can destroy or inhibit the growth of bacteria and similar microorganisms, generally transported by the lymphatic system.
pos: noun
examples: On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. It’s not just that it produces unhealthy food, mishandles waste and overuses antibiotics in ways that harm us all.
We selected colistimethate sodium (CMS) as our antibiotic of choice.
gloss: Of or relating to antibiotics.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the theory that extraterrestrial life does not exist.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Related words: abiogenetic
abiotic
antibiosis
gnotobiotic
xenobiotic
antibacterial
antiseptic
Translations:
hols
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of holidays.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Holidays (time off work or time spent travelling).
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
plural
plural-only
examples: Where are you off to on your hols this year?
"A lot of queer things happened to me in the hols," said Eustace mysteriously.
Translations:
feisty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1896, American, feist (“small, aggressive dog”) + -y; the term feist (now rare) itself originally meant “stink”, and earlier “fart”, from Middle English, from Old English, from Proto-Germanic, presumably from Proto-Indo-European – see feist for details.
Base: feist
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: feistier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more feisty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: feistiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most feisty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tenacious, energetic, spunky.
pos: adj
examples: spirited and feisty
She gave a feisty response during the debate.
The feisty puppy barked at everyone.
gloss: Belligerent; prepared to stand and fight, especially in spite of relatively small stature or some other disadvantage.
pos: adj
examples: small but feisty
The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.
gloss: Easily offended and ready to bicker.
pos: adj
examples: feisty attitude
Derived words: feistily
feistiness
shiesty
unfeisty
Translations:
monetary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French monétaire, from Late Latin monētārius (“pertaining to money”), from Latin monētārius (“of a mint”), from monēta (“mint, coinage”), from the presence—from 273 BC to AD 84—of the chief Roman mint at the Templum Iunonis Monetae (“Temple of Juno Moneta”), q.v. Doublet of minter.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or consisting of money.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Although of little monetary value, Rosie treasured her late grandfather's old hunting gear.
So what’s the Fed to do? It must manage interest rates without a working monetary policy compass.
Wondering how else he passed his time, Winifred surveyed the room again, this time without regard for the monetary value of the things she saw. A box of lutestrings. Five songbooks. But no lute.
The song is set in a "red room," a likely fiction, urban legend space of torture and death. Being urban legend, details can differ, but consistent within the mythos of the “red room” is its existence on the “deep web” and crowd involvement—likely with a monetary cost—to decide how the person will be tortured and killed.
Translations:
polyphagous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From poly- + -phagous.
Base: poly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Eating many types of food.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Animals show various degrees of adaptation aimed at taking advantage of available resources, but. . . most can be considered either specialists or generalists. Among plant-eating insects the more specific terms polyphagous, oligophagous, and monophagous are widely employed in relation to the variety of plant species they use. The majority of phytophagous insects are oligophagous. While they differ in their behavior from monophagous insects (which feed on only a single plant species), they are selective as far as which plant families or genera are acceptable. Other factors besides nutritional composition of the plant are important in guiding their behavior. Specialist animals exploit a particular resource: perhaps a particular plant part such as leaves or fruit, or perhaps a single plant species. . .
By contrast, humans are extreme generalists. Like other omnivores such as rats, bears, pigs, and many primates, we eat a range of animal and plant foods. For omnivores, not only sensory perception but also the lessons learned from the physiological consequences of ingestion are important in determining food selection.
gloss: Feeding on many different species of host plants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 2024 WA Government Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development: Agriculture and Food
Polyphagous shot-hole borer Euwallacea fornicatus is a beetle native to Southeast Asia. The beetle attacks a wide range of plants by tunnelling into trunks, stems and branches.
Polyphagous shot-hole borer has a symbiotic relationship with a Fusarium fungus, farming it inside the tree as a food source for the beetle and its larvae. In susceptible trees, the fungus kills vascular tissue causing Fusarium dieback and tree death.
Translations:
cottonmouth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From cotton + mouth.
Compound parts: cotton
mouth
Inflected forms:
form: cottonmouths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cotton-mouth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An oral dryness often associated with certain medicines and recreational drugs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, the water moccasin.
pos: noun
gloss: A snake, Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead.
pos: noun
Derived words: cottonmouthed
Translations:
interlingua
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inter- + Latin lingua (“language”).
Base: lingua
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
form: interlinguas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an interlanguage
pos: noun
Translations:
bask
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English basken, from Old Norse baðask (“to take a bath”, literally “to bathe oneself”), mediopassive form from underlying baða (“to bathe”) + sik (“oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *baþōną and *sek. Doublet of English bathe.
Inflected forms:
form: basks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: basking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: basked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: basked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: basks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.
pos: verb
examples: to bask in the sun
The naked Negro, panting at the line, / Baſks in the glare, or ſtems the tepid wave, / And thanks his Gods for all the good they gave.
There will be no problems with visibility, or the highly changeable Highland weather, as Scotland basks in what is reported to be the country's hottest September day for more than a century.
gloss: To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (Usually followed by "in".)
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: to bask in someone’s favour
I basked in her love.
As President Obama turns his attention once again to filling out a cabinet and writing an Inaugural Address, this much is clear: he should not expect to bask in a surge of national unity, or to witness a crowd of millions overrun the Mall just to say they were there.
On this evidence they will certainly face tougher tests, as a depleted Newcastle side seemed to bask in the relative security of being ninth in the table
gloss: The act of bathing in warmth.
pos: noun
examples: Most cats enjoy a bask in the sunshine.
gloss: A group of crocodiles; the collective noun for crocodiles.
pos: noun
tags: collective
examples: The threat of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to health systems in subSaharan Africa (SSA) can be compared metaphorically to a lake in Africa infested with a bask of crocodiles and the saying “the eye of the crocodile.”
Derived words: abask
bask in the sunshine
Translations:
meningoencephalitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From meninges + encephalitis.
Inflected forms:
form: meningoencephalitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the brain and the meninges.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
vitriol
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English vitriol, from Old French vitriol, from Medieval Latin vitriolum (“sulfuric acid”), from vitrum (“glass”).
Inflected forms:
form: vitriols
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vitriols
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vitrioling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: vitriolling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: vitrioled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: vitrioled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: vitriolled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: vitriolled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: Any of various metal sulphates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: CRYSTALS of Venus or of copper, called also vitriol of Venus, is copper reduced into the form of vitriol by spirit of nitre, or by dissolving verdegris in good distilled vinegar, till the acid be saturated; it is very caustic and used to eat off proud flesh. It is also used by painters, and manufacturers, and sold under the name of distilled vinegar. See CHEMISTRY.
The association of the heavenly bodies with known metals and also with human organs and destinies goes back to ancient Chaldea, the land of astrologers. In Chaucer’s words: ‘The seven bodies eek, lo hear anon. Sol gold is, and Luna silver we declare; Mars yron, Mercurie is quyksilver; Saturnian leed; and Jubitur is tyn, and Venus coper, by my fathers kyn.’ […] Corresponding names were bestowed upon salts of these metals by the alchemists, and some of them have persisted down to the present day. Some examples are lunar caustic (silver nitrate); vitriol of Venus (copper sulphate); sugar of Saturn (lead acetate); and vitriol of Mars, or Martial vitriol (ferrous sulphate).
gloss: oil of vitriol (sulfuric acid).
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: Bitterly abusive language.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: For days, online forums sparked with outrage against politicians and race organizers, a tone that turned to vitriol against runners, even from some shaming other runners for being selfish.
gloss: To subject to bitter verbal abuse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dip in dilute sulfuric acid; to pickle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To vitriolize.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
Related words: vitreous
Derived words: blue vitriol
copper vitriol
elixir of vitriol
green vitriol
hurl vitriol
iron vitriol
oil of vitriol
red vitriol
Roman vitriol
salt of vitriol
spirit of vitriol
vitriolage
vitriolate
vitriol attack
vitriolic
vitriolize
vitriol of Mars
white vitriol
Translations:
bikeway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French bicyclebor.
English bicycleclip.
English bike
English way
English bikeway
From bike + way.
Inflected forms:
form: bikeways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bicycle lane or path.
pos: noun
examples: Efficient measures have been taken to combine with the native cultural elements. Further, walkways and guardrails are also constructed along the bikeway that has been planned by the county government in order to magnify the sightseeing momentum for Chutien Township.
Translations:
Paleolithic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πᾰλαιός (pălaiós)der.
English paleo-
English -lithic
English Paleolithic
From paleo- + -lithic.
Inflected forms:
form: palaeolithic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: palæolithic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: palaeolithical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: paleolithical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or referring to the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic period or Paleolithic age).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We find material evidences of magical practices in the European caves of the Palæolithic age[.]
gloss: Antiquated, antediluvian.
pos: adj
tags: excessive
not-comparable
examples: Stacked up against ChatGPT’s ability to instantly transform any image into a Studio Ghibli cartoon, Instagram’s photo filters are practically Paleolithic.
Translations:
Mesolithic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Hellenic *métsos
Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos)der.
English meso-
English -lithic
English Mesolithic
From meso- + -lithic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or referring to the Middle Stone Age (also the Mesolithic period or the Mesolithic age), a prehistoric period that lasted between 10000 and 3000 BC.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
co-branding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English branding
English co-branding
From co- + branding.
Inflected forms:
form: co-brandings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The combination of two or more well-known brands for marketing purposes, to strengthen one another's preference or purchase intentions, or to reach a broader audience.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
recidivism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From French récidivisme, from Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”). Compare recidivous, -ism. By surface analysis, recidive + -ism.
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: recidivisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Committing new offenses after a crime committed in the past.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The increase in criminal activity was attributed to recidivism.
Unintended mathwashing occurs when the algorithm is left unchecked, and, learning from historical data, amplifies social bias. The U.S. justice system uses an algorithm called COMPAS to determine a criminal's likelihood to re-offend. COMPAS has been proven by Pro Publica to predict that black defendants will have higher rates of recidivism than they actually do, while white defendants are predicted to have lower rates than they actually do.
gloss: Chronic repetition of criminal or other antisocial behavior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Returning to a negative behavior after having stopped it for a period of time.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: alcohol(ic) recidivism
Related words: recidivist
recidivize
three strikes and you're out
three-strikes law
zero tolerance
Translations:
flowing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English flowyng; equivalent to flow + -ing.
Base: flow
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: flowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more flowing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flowing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to flow
pos: noun
examples: the flowing of the river
gloss: Tending to flow.
pos: adj
gloss: Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
pos: adj
examples: a flowing dress
flowing prose
[T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
Synonyms: streaming
flowing
fluid
fluminous
fluxive
free-flowing
onrushing
quick
running
Antonyms: stagnant
standing
Related words: runny
Derived words: coflowing
downflowing
everflowing
flowingly
flowingness
full-flowing
inflowing
nonflowing
outflowing
thickflowing
unflowing
Translations:
snapshot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
computing
engineering
firearms
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
soccer
sports
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From snap + shot.
Compound parts: snap
shot
Inflected forms:
form: snapshots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snapshots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snapshotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snapshotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snapshotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity.
pos: noun
examples: He carried a snapshot of his daughter.
gloss: A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
pos: noun
examples: The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.
I hope you've enjoyed reading this series. As usual, it's just a snapshot because there's so much to say but only so many words can make it into print.
gloss: A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.
pos: noun
examples: This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.
gloss: A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
pos: noun
examples: Yet Revell misjudged his promising position in the area to put his point-blank snapshot wide from only six yards out.
gloss: A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
pos: noun
examples: How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!
gloss: To take a photograph of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As he did not appear disposed to move off, I took my camera and approached within about thirty yards, when I snapshotted him.
gloss: To capture the state of, in a snapshot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.
Derived words: Snapchat
snapshotist
snapshotlike
snapshotter
snapshottery
snapshottable
Translations:
sulfate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French sulfate, from New Latin sulphatum, taken from the expression acidum sulphatum (“sulfuric acid”), from sulphatus, from Latin sulphur (“sulfur”). The term was first used in 1787 by the French chemist L. B. G. De Morveau. Equivalent to sulf(ur) + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Base: sulfur
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: sulfates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sulphate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: sulfates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sulfating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sulfated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sulfated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sulphate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Another type, also common in the Taipei area has more chlorides than sulfates, and while it is also hot, its flavor is more salty than sour. The springs at Chinshan on the north coast are typical of this type.
Iatrogenic poisoning can result from the use of magnesium in the treatment of hypertension or of toxemia of pregnancy; deaths have been reported from the use of magnesium sulfate enemas in megacolon and from oral administration for purging.
The whole world's fighting over fresh water like a pack of starving dogs with one stripped bone among them, and then Brazil started shooting all those sulfates into the stratosphere and—well, it was turning out just like the environazis said, only way worse and way fucking faster.
The technique would involve spraying large amounts of sulfate particles into the Earth’s lower stratosphere at altitudes as high as 12 miles. The scientists propose delivering the sulfates with specially designed high-altitude aircraft, balloons or large naval-style guns.
McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated. The minerals include sodium phosphates, carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and fluorides, some of which are necessary to the formation of life.
gloss: To treat something with sulfuric acid, a sulfate, or with sulfur dioxide.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: To accumulate a deposit of lead sulfate.
pos: verb
tags: US
Translations:
hepatitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin hēpatītis, from hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”). By surface analysis, hepat- + -itis.
Inflected forms:
form: hepatitises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hepatitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the liver, sometimes caused by a viral infection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hepatitises B and C are the most important chronic viral infections of humans.
Translations:
walleye
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from walleyed.
Inflected forms:
form: walleyes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: walleye
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes.
pos: noun
gloss: An unusually pale eye.
pos: noun
gloss: A gamefish of species Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.
pos: noun
Derived words: walleye chop
walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus
walleye jump
Translations:
nephritis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
urology
Etymology: Internationalism. From nephr- + -itis.
Affixes: nephr-
-itis
Inflected forms:
form: nephritides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nephritises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the kidney.
pos: noun
Translations:
nephritic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English neufretic, from Medieval Latin nefreticus; compare Classical Latin nephrīticus; equivalent to nephritis + -ic = nephr- (“kidney”) + itis (“inflammation”) + -ic (“related”).
Base: nephritis
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more nephritic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nephritic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nephritick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nephritics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nephritick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or affected with nephritis or nephritic syndrome.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the kidneys.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Someone with nephritis.
pos: noun
Antonyms: nonnephritic
Derived words: antinephritic
perinephritic
postnephritic
prenephritic
pronephritic
Translations:
tuan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Wathaurong duwan.
Inflected forms:
form: tuans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), endemic to Australia.
pos: noun
Translations:
navigator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin nāvigātor. By surface analysis, navigate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: navigators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft.
pos: noun
examples: The increases kept many navigator groups, which help people pick policies, very busy.
At the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, 34 navigators helped up to 120 residents select plans each week during this open enrollment season, which ran from November 1 through January 16, said Daniel Bouton, vice president for health and wellness at the nonprofit group.
gloss: A sea explorer.
pos: noun
examples: He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.
gloss: A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
pos: noun
gloss: A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.
pos: noun
examples: Although the window looks like a view of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear here are called groups; they don't exist on disk. They appear in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […]
gloss: A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: navigate
navigation
Derived words: astronavigator
inertial navigator
nagavator
navigatress
navigatrix
Translations:
termination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin terminationem (accusative of terminatio).
Inflected forms:
form: terminations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At all terminal stations, where running speeds are low, fixed termination simple catenary equipment has been installed.
gloss: The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An end in time; a conclusion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An end in space; an edge or limit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An outcome or result.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Long indeed did that morning appear to Francesca—the longer as her anxiety was unexpressed; for it certainly does shorten a period of waiting not a little to spend it in talking over its various probabilities of termination, wondering what will happen, while we are consoled by the strong sympathy we excite in the listener.
gloss: The last part of a word.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1. Some adjectives of the third declension have three terminations in the nominative singular,—one for each gender; some two,—one for the masculine and feminine, the other for the neuter; and some, only one for all genders.
1. Verbs whose terminations are alike, are said to be of the same conjugation.
 2. Latin verbs are divided into four conjugations.
Women's names were formed in the same way as men's, but with feminine terminations […]
gloss: An induced abortion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A word, a term.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
rare
uncountable
examples: She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.
1808, Humphry Davy, The Bakerian Lecture, on some new Phenomena of chemical Changes produced by Electricity, particularly the Decomposition of the fixed Alkalis, and on the Exhibition of the new substances which constitute their bases; and on the general Nature of alkaline Bodies, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Part 1, p. 32.
[O]n this idea, in naming the bases of potash and soda, it will be proper to adopt the termination which, by common consent, has been applied to other newly discovered metals... Potasium and sodium are the names...
gloss: The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: terminate
Derived words: antitermination
extermination
hinge termination
nontermination
power of termination
pretermination
retermination
terminational
termination codon
termination dust
terminationless
termination shock
terminative
terminative case
Translations:
decipher
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: As decypher, but not retaining the y from the Old French etyma of cipher (cyfre, cyffre); the i spelling tends to be preferred etymologically, being consistent with its cognates, the French déchiffrer and the Italian decifrare, and with their common ancestor, the Medieval Latin cifra, cifera, ciphra. By surface analysis, de- + cipher.
Inflected forms:
form: deciphers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deciphering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deciphered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deciphered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: decypher
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: deciphers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: decypher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To convert a code or cipher to plain text.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To read text that is almost illegible or obscure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make sense of a complex situation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Truly, we need human infirmity to teach us human nature, and that to Louis had been as a sealed book; he had only seen the coloured and gilded outside: too late he had to decipher the rough and gloomy page within.
gloss: To find a solution to a problem.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A decipherment; a decoding.
pos: noun
examples: I enclose a letter which I received yesterday evening from the Marques de Monsalud, containing the decipher of a letter from the King to the Comte d'Erlon. I wish that the Marques had sent the ciphered letter here […]
Derived words: decipherability
decipherable
decipheration
decipherer
decipheress
decipherment
indecipherability
indecipherable
misdecipher
redecipher
undecipher
undecipherable
undeciphered
Translations:
nephrosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós
Proto-Hellenic *nekʷʰrós
Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós)
English nephro-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor.
New Latin -ōsislbor.
English -osis
English nephrosis
From nephro- + -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: nephroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A non-inflammatory disease of the kidneys that is characterised by the leaking of blood protein into the urine, swelling or oedema, and degenerative lesions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
oedema
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: oedemas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oedemata
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: edema
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: œdema
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Standard spelling of edema.
pos: noun
examples: 2004, Waltari, "What I Really Know", Rare Species.
Crazy Angelina / Is eating her own oedema / And I'm not here to take it anymore
However, several enterographic findings are associated with increased disease activity, including wall thickening greater than 4 mm, intramural and mesenteric oedema, mucosal hyperaemia, wall enhancement (and enhancement pattern), transmural ulceration and fistula formation, vascular engorgement and inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenhancement).
Translations:
nephrotic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more nephrotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nephrotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nephrotics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who has nephrosis.
pos: noun
Antonyms: nonnephrotic
Translations:
nephropathy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós
Proto-Hellenic *nekʷʰrós
Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós)
English nephro-
Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der.
Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos)
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ieder.
Middle English -ie
Middle English -y
English -y
English -pathy
English nephropathy
From nephro- + -pathy.
Inflected forms:
form: nephropathies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Damage to, disease of, or abnormality of the kidneys.
pos: noun
examples: The recorded causes of kidney disease were as follows: diabetic nephropathy (in 21% of the patients), nephroangiosclerosis and glomerulonephritis (18%), interstitial nephropathy (7%), hypertensive nephropathy (5%), polykystosis (5%) and other recorded diagnoses (hereditary disease, solitary kidney, dysglobulinemia, and systemic disease) (22%).
Translations:
cross-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more cross-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cross-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crosseyed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having both eyes oriented inward, especially involuntarily.
pos: adj
tags: UK
Translations:
Mafioso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mafioso, from Sicilian mafiusu.
Inflected forms:
form: Mafiosos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mafiosi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mafioso
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: maffioso
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Mafia.
pos: noun
examples: Phil put his arms around him. Drew him in close, pressed his cheek to Dane's the way the Mafiosi in the fifties would kiss somebody right before they punched his ticket.
“Sometimes, I swear you have no idea about the concept of money. Only you could give a one-of-a-kind ring to a female Mafioso, so casually.”
“As the library grows in popularity, the community gets stronger and she gets more powerful. She ultimately goes from this timorous lady to a local kingpin. Kind of like a female Mafioso. And then someone crosses her so she has a vengeance to play out.”
gloss: A member of the Mafia.
pos: noun
examples: The widow of one murdered Mafioso gave her son the bloody jacket that her husband had been killed in. […] So far there has not been a Mafiosa who has made it to the top on her own.
Is there a feminine for mafiosos? Mafiosas? Because apparently that’s what we are, the Mothers’ Mafia.
Ninetta had grown up in a Mafia village, her family was Mafia, and she had fallen in love with a Mafioso. And she was a Mafiosa herself.
Plotted from the beginning fitting a plan for a Mafioso dictator / Never deviating from the decision to be the first for a throwaway bride / Whims and whimsical thinking guides the denial of the Mafiosa.
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: мафіёзі
roman: mafijózi
lang: Bulgarian
word: мафиот
roman: mafiot
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 黑手黨成員 /黑手党成员
roman: hēishǒudǎng chéngyuán
lang: Czech
word: mafián
lang: Esperanto
word: mafiano
lang: Finnish
word: mafioso
lang: French
word: mafieux
lang: French
word: mafieuse
lang: Galician
word: mafioso
lang: Galician
word: mafiosa
lang: German
word: Mafioso
lang: German
word: Mafiosa
lang: Greek
word: μαφιόζος
roman: mafiózos
lang: Italian
word: mafioso
lang: Italian
word: mafiosa
lang: Italian
word: uomo d'onore
lang: Macedonian
word: мафија́ш
roman: mafijáš
lang: Polish
word: mafios
lang: Polish
word: mafioso
lang: Portuguese
word: mafioso
lang: Portuguese
word: mafiosa
lang: Romanian
word: mafios
lang: Romanian
word: mafioso
lang: Romanian
word: mafiot
lang: Romanian
word: mafioasă
lang: Russian
word: мафио́зи
roman: mafiózi
lang: Russian
word: мафио́зник
roman: mafióznik
lang: Spanish
word: mafioso
lang: Spanish
word: mafiosa
lang: Ukrainian
word: мафіо́зі
roman: mafiózi
barring
Part of speech: noun
prep
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
mining
sewing
textiles
Inflected forms:
form: barrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Bars; an arrangement or pattern of stripes or bars.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of fitting or closing something with bars.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The exclusion of someone; blackballing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Timber used for supporting the roof or sides of shafts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The sewing of a decorative bar or tack upon a fabric or leather.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Unless (something) happens; excepting; in the absence of.
pos: prep
examples: Barring any further red tape, we will finally be able to open the restaurant.
Barring any sudden storms, the plane should arrive on time.
Related words: barring-out
Derived words: barring engine
barring motor
crossbarring
Translations:
vesica
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
art
arts
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).
Inflected forms:
form: vesicas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vesicae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
pos: noun
gloss: The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.
pos: noun
Derived words: vesica biliaris
vesica fellea
vesical
vesica piscis
vesica urinaria
vesicle
vesicula
Translations:
lacy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lace
English -y
English lacy
From lace + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: lacier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: laciest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made of lace or decorated with it.
pos: adj
examples: lacy lingerie
gloss: Looking like lace.
pos: adj
Derived words: lacily
laciness
Translations:
Arthurian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Arthur
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Arthurian
From Arthur + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more Arthurian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Arthurian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the legend of Arthur, king of the Britons, and his court at Camelot.
pos: adj
examples: A reminder of the Arthurian legends comes with the next station, Camelford, where passengers alight for Boscastle and Tintagel with their fine coast scenery, and near to which is Slaughter Bridge, where King Arthur is supposed to have fought his last.
Translations:
bookmaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: gambling
games
Etymology: From Middle English bokmakere, boke maker, equivalent to book + maker. The gambling term came from the archaic phrase make book or make a book, used in 19th century England.
Base: book
Inflected forms:
form: bookmakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who prints or binds books.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who compiles books from the writings of others.
pos: noun
gloss: A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie.
pos: noun
Related words: make a book
sportsbook
betting shop
bookbinding
Translations:
urea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers-der.
Ancient Greek οὐρέω (ouréō)
Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron)der.
French uréeder.
New Latinder.
English urea
From New Latin, from French urée, from Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).
Inflected forms:
form: ureas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH₂)₂, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Five of them — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — supply more than a third of the world’s urea, an important nitrogen fertilizer, and nearly a quarter of another one, ammonia. […] Over the past week, the price of urea sold in Egypt, a market that economists track closely, climbed more than 35 percent.
gloss: Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R₁R₂N)CO(NR₃R₄).
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: carbamide
Related words: biuret
Derived words: alkylurea
alpha-naphthylthiourea
bisurea
bromerguride
bromovalerylurea
carbamylurea
carburazepam
diallylurea
dicyclohexylurea
dimethylurea
diphenylurea
glibornuride
glyburide
glycolylurea
hydroxyurea
imidazolidinyl urea
isourea
malonylurea
methylol urea
nitrosoethylurea
nitrosourea
nitrourea
nonurea
oligourea
phenylthiourea
polyurea
pseudourea
selenourea
sulfonylurea
sulfourea
suramin
tetramethylurea
thiourea
triurea
uraemia
urea cycle
urea-formaldehyde
ureagenesis
ureal
urealytic
ureameter
ureametry
urease
ureic
ureido-
uremia
Translations:
cycling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, cycle + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: cyclings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The activity of riding cycles, especially bicycles (for transport, sport, physical exercise, recreation, tourism...)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The activity of riding cycles, especially bicycles (for transport, sport, physical exercise, recreation, tourism...)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The sport of riding and racing cycles, especially bicycles.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In all my years as a cycling fan, I've never seen a breakaway like this.
gloss: Any cyclic action or process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The cycling of the water softener in the basement was faintly audible from the kitchen.
gloss: That undergoes a cyclic motion or process.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: anticycling
autocycling
cycling shorts
gravel cycling
microcycling
noncycling
overcycling
paracycling
road cycling
subcycling
thermocycling
track cycling
vehicular cycling
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رُكُوب الدَّرَاجَات
roman: rukūb ad-darājāt
lang: Czech
word: cyklistika
lang: Dutch
word: fietsen
lang: German
word: Radfahren
lang: German
word: Fahrradfahren
lang: Japanese
word: 自転車利用
roman: jitensha riyō
lang: Norman
word: pédal'lie
lang: Russian
word: езда́ на велосипе́де
roman: jezdá na velosipéde
lang: Russian
word: велоезда́
roman: velojezdá
lang: Tajik
word: дучархаронӣ
roman: dučarxaroni
bicycling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bicyclings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of riding a bicycle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted.
It was as if she had that morning been transferred back over forty years to her youth again, and was having the good times that she had longed for, such as other girls had—the swings, and the rides, and the skatings, and bicyclings.
Translations:
uric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French urique. By surface analysis, urine + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, contained in, or obtained from urine.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
freon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: A genericization of the Chemours trademark "Freon." According to Flood, the name was formed from freeze and the arbitrary suffix -on.
Affixes: -on
Inflected forms:
form: freons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Freon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several nonflammable refrigerants based on halogenated hydrocarbon including R-12, R-22, and R-23.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A gaseous ozone-depleting refrigerant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: A chlorofluorocarbon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
Related words: CFC
Translations:
feel-bad
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: feelbad
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Creating a feeling of anxiety or despair.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Yes, you get to see Cruise having a fight in his underpants, and doing another of his hanging-off-a-plane routines, but even so, it could be the feel-bad film of the summer.
Translations:
culpable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English culpable, from Old French culpable, from Latin culpābilis (“blameworthy”), from culpō (“to blame, condemn”), from culpa (“a fault, crime, mistake”). Compare also culprit.
Inflected forms:
form: more culpable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most culpable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty.
pos: adj
examples: I am culpable for stealing your money.
It would be […] impossible to list all the reasons why one might keep their sexuality hidden, and by no means is it culpable for a person to fear for their job or their family's esteem
Translations:
feel-good
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more feel-good
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most feel-good
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: feelgood
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Creating a feeling of happiness.
pos: adj
examples: Brilliant independent feature from first-time director Rose Troche, Go Fish is a feel-good movie aimed directly at lesbians but which has achieved an astonishing crossover appeal to straight audiences.
Personally, I think all of this upgraded, feel-good language is a further sign of America's increasing uncertainty about itself.
Wilson: An' if they don't, at least they get to see a beggin’-ass white man on his knees. Always a feel-good moment for the folks.
Translations:
zydeco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Louisiana Creole zydéco, compare French zarico; possibly from a metanalysis of French les haricots (“beans”) as French le zarico (“beans”) in a dance-tune title.
Inflected forms:
form: zarico
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zodico
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A form of Louisiana Creole music, characteristically performed by accordion and washboard bands, that combines Cajun and Creole roots music with elements of African American music.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Sunpie—in real life, a park ranger and an accordionist who leads a good zydeco band—taunted Harrison […].
Translations:
feminazi
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of feminist + Nazi, popularized in 1992 by conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Thomas Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term (1987).
Compound parts: feminist
Nazi
Inflected forms:
form: more feminazi
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most feminazi
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: femi-Nazi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: femme-Nazi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: feminazis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: femi-Nazi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: femme-Nazi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views, or a female chauvinist.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
gloss: A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks female superiority over men.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:feminazi.
Translations:
halogenation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, halogenate + -ion, or, by surface analysis, halogen + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: halogenations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The reaction of a halogen with something, especially the replacement of a hydrogen atom of an organic compound with a halogen one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations: