yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
tegmental
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tegmentum
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 tegmental
From tegmentum + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to tegmentum, or the ventral portion of the mesencephalon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The projections to the frontal lobe that are damaged in schizophrenia originate in the ventral tegmental area.
Translations:
sidewall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From side + wall.
Compound parts: side
wall
Inflected forms:
form: sidewalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The side of a tire.
pos: noun
examples: If the puncture had been in the tread I could have had the tire patched, but it was in the sidewall and they can't fix that: they have to replace the whole tire.
gloss: The wall forming the side of a structure; a side wall.
pos: noun
gloss: The wall forming the side of a structure; a side wall.
pos: noun
examples: The kill shot may also be used against balls weakly played off the sidewall
Mark flipped the ball to Jon for service. His high serve drifted perfectly down the left-hand court, and Mark's weakly hit return fell short off the sidewall.
Further, the grazing blow caused the ball to pick up a furiously wicked spin, making it a madly twirling object. The ball skimmed off the sidewall near the corner and into the lower-right corner of the front wall.
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 側牆 /侧墙
lang: Finnish
word: sivuseinä
lang: Māori
word: pakitara
lang: Swedish
word: sidovägg
lang: Swedish
word: gavel
silkscreen
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From silk + screen.
Compound parts: silk
screen
Inflected forms:
form: silkscreens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: silkscreens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: silkscreening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: silkscreened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: silkscreened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sheet of material (originally silk but now synthetic) with areas that are porous to ink and others that are non-porous to allow printing of images, such as on T-shirts.
pos: noun
gloss: To use a silkscreen to apply an image.
pos: verb
examples: The wall text accompanying Warhol’s small canvas with 12 electric-blue crucifixes silkscreened on a black background suggests that the repetition of crosses mirrors his Campbell’s soup cans, with the religious icon serving as “a commodity to be bought and sold.”
A year ago, if anyone had told Toronto designer Kingi Carpenter she would soon be silkscreening a U. S. president onto dresses, hoodies and scarves, she would have laughed in their face.
Translations:
sit-in
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A deverbal from sit in. By surface analysis, sit + -in (protest).
Inflected forms:
form: sit-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A peaceful form of protest in which people occupy an area and refuse to leave.
pos: noun
examples: Thousands of students marched in the streets and staged a sit-in at T’ien-an-men Square, chanting “Long live democracy! Long live freedom! Down with corruption!”
Local sources said a sit-in protest by hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims took place on Friday to defend the huge new mosque, which was built last year in the northern region of Ningxia.
gloss: Designed to be sat in.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a sit-in kayak
a sit-in bath
Translations:
soberness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sobernes, sobrenesse; equivalent to sober + -ness.
Base: sober
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: sobernesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being sober.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
sobering
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Causing more sober thought or concern.
pos: adj
examples: It was a sobering thought that I had almost killed myself. That was something I wouldn't soon do on purpose again.
For Chelsea coach Andre Villas-Boas, this was his most sobering moment in the Premier League and he looked stunned on the sidelines at the regularity with which Chelsea's defence was exposed.
Translations:
self-controlled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English controlled
English self-controlled
From self- + controlled.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-controlled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-controlled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Possessing self-control; having mastery of one's own desires.
pos: adj
Translations:
softbound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From soft + bound.
Compound parts: soft
bound
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With a cover of flexible paper rather than a rigid cardboard cover.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: hardback
hardcovered
Translations:
softener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English softener, equivalent to soften + -er.
Base: soften
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: softeners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, softens.
pos: noun
gloss: One who, or that which, softens.
pos: noun
gloss: One who, or that which, softens.
pos: noun
Derived words: stool softener
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: փափկացնող
roman: pʻapʻkacʻnoġ
lang: Marathi
word: मृदुकारी
roman: mŕdukārī
lang: Marathi
word: नरमवणारा
roman: narmavṇārā
lang: Marathi
word: नरमवणारी
roman: narmavṇārī
lang: Portuguese
word: suavizante
somberly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English somber
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English somberly
From somber + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more somberly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most somberly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: sombrely
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a somber manner.
pos: adv
tags: US
Translations:
somberness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English somber
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English somberness
From somber + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: sombernesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being somber.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
sonorously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sonorous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sonorously
From sonorous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sonorously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sonorously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sonorous way.
pos: adv
examples: Now old Falkenmeyer's fiddle feelingly quavered a few notes, then sonorously heralded the preliminary bass of the first set. Daddy Stein, standing in the middle of the room, clapped his hands for attention.
Cox’s thing is defending flimsy cases, and as he strode round the platform declaiming sonorously, like Rumpole on a particularly outrageous brief, it was easy to see why they pay him so well.
Translations:
soother
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English soothe
English -er
English soother
From soothe + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: soothers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soothers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soothering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soothered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soothered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, soothes.
pos: noun
gloss: A pacifier; a plastic device that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Ireland
examples: Customs earlier received a referral from a related organisation that suspected unsafe soother holders were being supplied on the market.
gloss: To soothe.
pos: verb
examples: And two great big lovely big tears coursing down his cheeks. It was all no use soothering him with no, nono, baby, no and telling him about the geegee and where was the puffpuff but Ciss, always readywitted, gave him in his mouth the teat of the suckingbottle and the young heathen was quickly appeased.
Translations:
unsuspected
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 suspected
English unsuspected
From un- + suspected.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not suspected; not having raised suspicion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The police uncovered his unsuspected drug dealing whilst investigating another matter.
At that time it was thought that the critical section, in which an irruption of water from the river was to be feared, lay under the Shoots, but this proved not to be the case. Indeed, relatively little trouble was experienced from the Severn. The very serious flooding, which twice submerged part of the works, came from an underground river, (now known as the Great Spring), the presence of which was unsuspected.
Translations:
blankly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blank
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English blankly
From blank + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more blankly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most blankly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a blank manner, especially showing no emotion or expression.
pos: adv
examples: His face was a fair weakness, his chin retreated, and his hair lay in crisp, almost flaxen curls on his low forehead; his eyes were rather large, pale blue, and blankly staring.
"Good heavens!" exclaimed Colonel Aynosforde, "there is a stone out. I knew nothing of this." As he spoke the solid block of masonry slid back into its place and the wall became as blankly impenetrable as before.
Whitely (that is, purely, blankly, and voidly), the moon cleanses the world of human industry — almost.
Translations:
solicitously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English solicitous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English solicitously
From solicitous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more solicitously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most solicitously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a solicitous manner.
pos: adv
examples: “Have another cup of coffee, mademoiselle?” said Poirot solicitously. “It will revive you. It is unparalleled for the mal de tête.” He jumped up and took her cup.
Translations:
carryall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare carriole, cariole.
Inflected forms:
form: carryalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large bag; a holdall
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A light, covered carriage drawn by a single horse
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
dated
gloss: Any of several types of automobile, usually a station wagon or van built on a truck chassis.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
carryover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English carry overdeverb.
English carryover
Deverbal from carry over.
Inflected forms:
form: carryovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something whose duration has been extended or that has been transferred to another time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The “Black Shoe” title is a carryover from the days of coal-burning ships […]
gloss: An amount, especially a sum of money, transferred to a new column in a ledger, or applied to a later time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: First, as a general rule, carryover stocks are, held in countries that have lower carrying costs, which are probably exporting countries because they enjoy lower prices.
gloss: The damaging condition where water droplets are carried out of a steam boiler along with the dry steam.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: hearing carryover
Translations:
cartage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Norse kartrbor.
Proto-Germanic *kradô
Proto-West Germanic *krat
Old English crætder.
Middle English cart
English cart
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English cartage
From cart + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: cartages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transport of goods by cart.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: wagonage
Railways are forming in one quarter of this earth, canals in another, much cartage is wanted
In these years, all long-distance freight went by rail, with local cartage by the railway's horses and carts.
gloss: Any vehicular transportation of goods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: shipping, carriage
I started general cartage work and hauling bagged cement to Pine Creek, south of Darwin.
gloss: A charge made for such transport.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: wagonage
1842 Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners - Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law
Two-thirds of the usual expense of street cleansing is the expense of cartage, which, with a proper adaptation of the sewers, is wholly unnecessary.
Translations:
carthorse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English carthors, cartehors, from Old English crætehors (“a carthorse”), equivalent to cart + horse.
Compound parts: cart
horse
Inflected forms:
form: carthorses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cart horse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cart-horse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large, strong horse used for pulling heavy loads.
pos: noun
examples: The blacksmith's forge shone bright on the opposite side of the way, and the proprietor had the hind-leg of a carthorse in his leather-coated lap.
He is not a man of independent fortune, for he works like a carthorse.
Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
Translations:
cartload
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cartlode, cartelode, equivalent to cart + load.
Base: cart
Inflected forms:
form: cartloads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount that a cart can carry.
pos: noun
examples: Two days of skirmishing outside the town were followed by a bold sortie headed by a dervish; and, as the result of this affair, a cartload of heads was sent as trophies to Constantinople.
The youngster put some cartloads of food into his bag and set out again.
gloss: Any large amount.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: . . . although a little apt to get buried under a cartload of written pleadings, . . .
gloss: A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
pos: noun
tags: historical
specifically
Derived words: as clever as a cartload of monkeys
Translations:
theo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From theoretical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The amount of a gambler's theoretical losses based on typical play.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: In a perfect world, a player would know the theo of the machine he's feeding. He would also know the percentage of the theo that the casino is giving back in comps.
Translations:
annulled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: cancelled or void
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
showtime
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From show + time.
Compound parts: show
time
Inflected forms:
form: showtimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: show time
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: showtime!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
form: show time
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The time at which an entertainment event is set to begin.
pos: noun
examples: Ushers announced movie showtimes from the moment the A picture started because the wraparound material was simply not the main attraction.
gloss: The time for action.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: "It's showtime," said Staff Sergeant Wallace Mains, a section leader in the 81mm mortar platoon, as he picked up his gear […]
gloss: A declaration that something is about to happen, particularly that the person speaking is about to act.
pos: intj
Translations:
vampirism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
mysticism
mythology
pathology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vampire
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English vampirism
From vampire + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: vampirisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vampyrism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Systemic lupus erythematosus (autoimmune disease)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of being a vampire.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Practices associated with vampires, in particular blood-drinking and the draining of a victim's life-force.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Extortion.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: Treason, delusion, vampyrism, scoundrelism, from Dan to Beersheba!
Translations:
defection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin dēfectiō (stem dēfectiōn-).
Inflected forms:
form: defections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or incidence of defecting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: military defection
political defection
mass defection
The general’s sudden defection shocked the government.
The party suffered another defection to the opposition.
Translations:
rounding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, round + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more rounding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rounding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: roundings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
pos: adj
examples: Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes— […] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
gloss: The act by which a numerical value is rounded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The numerical value obtained by this process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rounded surface; a curve.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the early Egyptian works, the relief was low, the surface flat, and but little if any attempt was made to show the roundings of the human figure, or to exhibit the inflexion of the human form.
gloss: In bookbinding, the shaping of the folded and sewed sheets into a convex form at the back.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: inrounding
outrounding
Derived words: bankers' rounding
broken rounding
convergent rounding
derounding
double rounding
Dutch rounding
floating-point rounding
Gaussian rounding
odd-even rounding
scaled rounding
statistician's rounding
stochastic rounding
unbiased rounding
Translations:
flapped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fitted with a flap.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
overland
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
Etymology: From over + land.
Compound parts: over
land
Inflected forms:
form: overlands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: overlands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overlanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overlanded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overlanded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: By or across land.
pos: adj
tags: especially
not-comparable
examples: Let's take the overland route.
So, sir. I desire of you
A conduct overland to Milford Haven.
gloss: Over, across, or by land.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: To prevent this, he practised that none of the Companies servauntes shuld be suffered to goe overland with letters.
The packet that was coming to us overland, and that left England in July, was cut off by the wild Arabs between Aleppo and Bussora.
Riding overland from Sydney to Brisbane, along the beautiful North Coast district of New South Wales, I tied my neddy up on the roadside and investigated a bark-shanty some little distance off in the Bush.
It is unclear whether the Peshin sayyid traveled overland or by ship to Bombay from where he accompanied the goods by sea to Karachi or one of the smaller ports in Sind, then overland to Bela, Kelat, Qandahar, Kabul, and Bukhara.
gloss: A trip by land between the UK and the Indian subcontinent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.
pos: noun
gloss: To transport (especially sheep or other farm animals) over land.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
transitive
examples: Not long after, in 1878, Nathaniel Buchanan overlanded cattle from Queensland to Glencoe and Daly River stations in the Northern Territory.
gloss: To travel across land.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
intransitive
gloss: To go on a recreational expedition to a remote destination, often with the aid of an off-road vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I don't think any of them had done the backpacker thing and certainly hadn't overlanded through Africa before, as we had.
Antonyms: overwater
Derived words: overlander
Translations:
singleplayer
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From single + player.
Compound parts: single
player
Inflected forms:
form: single-player
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: played by a lone (1) player
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
backflip
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From back- + flip.
Base: flip
Affixes: back-
Inflected forms:
form: backflips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: backflips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backflipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backflipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backflipped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.
pos: noun
examples: The gymnast performed a backflip on a trampoline.
gloss: A total reversal in policy or opinion.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Near-synonyms: backtrack, backpedaling
PM predicts water recycling backflips
gloss: To perform a backflip (rotation of body).
pos: verb
gloss: To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
pos: verb
examples: Near-synonyms: backtrack, backpedal, walk back
Related words: frontflip
Derived words: 360 backflip
backflipper
Translations:
fines
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fine particles, whether or not airborne.
pos: noun
gloss: Small particles of cereal at the bottom of a cereal box.
pos: noun
Translations:
cartographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cartography
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English cartographic
From cartography + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the making of maps.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This is important to the ends of tangible geography, as well in the construction and arrangement of tables, as in every description of cartographic composition.
However, both of these examples assume that no three dimensional data is available in the initial digital cartographic data or other data sets that precede the immediate operation.
Translations:
caseworker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From case + worker.
Compound parts: case
worker
Inflected forms:
form: caseworkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a social worker
pos: noun
examples: To help a family change the behavior or conditions that are causing the risk of maltreatment, the CPS caseworker must develop a positive relationship with the family.
Translations:
bullish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
stock-market
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bull
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English bullish
From bull + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more bullish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bullish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a muscular physique, built ‘like a bull’.
pos: adj
gloss: Aggressively self-confident or assertive; bullheaded.
pos: adj
examples: He was heavily criticised for his bullish behaviour.
Sitting on the edge of the stage at the show’s end, draped in a flag and singing You Need Me, a bullish screw-you written when he was 15, he didn’t look much like a man still plagued by nerves over headlining Glastonbury.
gloss: Optimistic, confident; overly or foolishly optimistic or hopeful.
pos: adj
examples: It [the plan] was bullish about the prospects for BR winning new business and retaining what it had, but recognised that this would depend on the extent to which equipment would enable improved services at lower costs.
This week, BlackRock's Larry Fink noted that sovereign wealth funds had bought the dip by snapping up bitcoin while it traded just above $80,000, in a sign that parts of the investment community remained bullish even as prices fell to their lowest level in eight months.
gloss: Characterized by rising value.
pos: adj
Related words: bull market
Derived words: bullishly
bullishness
overbullish
unbullish
Translations:
cashless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cash
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English cashless
From cash + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more cashless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cashless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Operating without the need for cash, such as by accepting nondigital, noncash forms of payment (e.g., chit, cheques, money orders) or (in the 21st century, usually) using digital payment methods (e-payment).
pos: adj
examples: cashless payment system
cashless restaurant
The benefits and dangers of the cashless society will become more apparent over the next decade . . .
It demanded taxes, which in a cashless society meant grain, cattle and, most tellingly, labor.
The rise of cashless establishments is happening amid continuing hype over the supposed dawn of a “cashless future” and agitation by some very powerful interests that would love to see cash disappear. The credit card companies love it, naturally, and tech industry associations have also pushed for the concept.
gloss: Having no money.
pos: adj
tags: dated
uncommon
examples: They were the same winged messengers that out-run cashless debtors, and cut short lovers' dreams.
When calls are made on cashless penceless men,
The case is wonderfully altered then!
Derived words: cashlessly
cashlessness
Translations:
casualness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English casual
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English casualness
From casual + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: casualnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being casual.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A relaxed and nonchalant attitude.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Johnson's blacks bluffed casualness along the sides of the room and Difalco's two whites peered inconspicuously from the door.
The controlled way in which Germans and other northern Europeans approach life is quite different from the casualness that characterizes American attitudes.
America insulted the rest of the planet, thought Malik Solanka in his old-fashioned way, by treating such bounty with the shoulder-shrugging casualness of the inequitably wealthy.
Translations:
aquarii
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin Aquarii
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a denomination, sect, church, or other group which professes to be Christian but uses water to administer the Eucharist instead of wine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
two-blocked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From nautical terminology for a ship's rigging or crane rigging in which two blocks are locked together, stopping the line.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Obstructed from proceeding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We're not making progress because we're two-blocked by the crane that has the road shut down.
Translations:
spheroidal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more spheroidal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spheroidal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spheroidals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Like a spheroid; roughly spherical.
pos: adj
examples: The buccal mass in milacids is spheroidal, and contains an oxygnathic jaw.
gloss: A spheroid
pos: noun
Translations:
rainstorm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rain + storm.
Compound parts: rain
storm
Inflected forms:
form: rainstorms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.
pos: noun
examples: Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
To make matters worse, we pass through a torrential rainstorm, which makes window-gazing almost impossible, leaving me glad that the trip is less than 30 minutes duration.
Translations:
Scotchman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Scotch
English -man
English Scotchman
From Scotch + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: Scotchmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man from Scotland.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A person from Scotland.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.
pos: noun
Synonyms: Scotsman
Scot
Translations:
slimming
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more slimming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slimming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: slimmings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Making a person seem or become slimmer.
pos: adj
examples: She bought the jeans without trying them on because the salesperson said they were slimming.
He's trying to lose weight by drinking slimming tea.
That dress is very slimming on you.
gloss: The process of making or becoming slimmer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We have become accustomed to Thatcherite slimmings of the system — massive ward closures punctuated from time to time by the royal opening of an Aids unit for ten patients, but here is something new.
Antonyms: fattening
Translations:
slave-driver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slave-drivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An overseer of slaves at work; a person who puts slaves to work.
pos: noun
examples: "That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago."
gloss: An employer or supervisor who demands excessive amounts of work from an employee.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
excessive
figuratively
usually
examples: He's such a slave-driver! I can't believe he wants us to come in on Saturday.
gloss: Anyone who requests an amount of work from others that is deemed unreasonable.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
excessive
figuratively
humorous
often
sarcastic
usually
examples: Mom, I need a break after doing homework! You're nothing but a slave-driver!
Synonyms: taskmaster
Translations:
smokehouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From smoke + house.
Compound parts: smoke
house
Inflected forms:
form: smokehouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A structure used to smoke food to preserve it and to add flavor.
pos: noun
examples: Snakes hang thick from the cypress trees / Like sausage on a smokehouse wall.
gloss: A structure in which freshly harvested tobacco is cured or preserved by smoking.
pos: noun
Translations:
bulak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bulaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bulaki
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Indian nose ring usually worn by married women.
pos: noun
Translations:
defensor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ecclesiastical
law
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Latin dēfēnsor.
Inflected forms:
form: defensors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: defensour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: one who defends; a defender
pos: noun
gloss: a defender or advocate in court; a guardian or protector
pos: noun
gloss: the patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church
pos: noun
Derived words: defensorship
Translations:
catbird
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cat + bird, because its cry is said to resemble that of a cat.
Compound parts: cat
bird
Inflected forms:
form: catbirds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cat bird
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An American passerine bird of the genera Dumetella and Melanoptila.
pos: noun
examples: The catbird’s note exactly resembles the voice of a kitten, that a stranger to it would instantly conclude that such an animal "had got bewildered in the branches".
I recall a catbird high in the water oak above, swinging like a rag amid the branches, jabbering and screeching [...].
gloss: Any of four species of Australasian bowerbirds of the genera Ailuroedus and Scenopoeetes.
pos: noun
examples: The cat bird had a forlorn cry, like a whimpering child or the animal it is named for.
gloss: A babbler-like bird from eastern Africa, Parophasma galinieri.
pos: noun
Related words: Dumetella carolinensis
Melanoptila glabrirostris
Ailuroedus
Scenopoeetes
Parophasma galinieri
Derived words: catbird grape
catbird seat
gray catbird
Translations:
Oxonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Oxōnia (“Oxford”) + -an.
Base: Oxōnia
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Oxonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Oxford or to the University of Oxford.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He worked with the Oxonian scholar for some time in developing the thesis.
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Oxford.
pos: noun
gloss: A student or graduate of the University of Oxford.
pos: noun
Translations:
intracerebral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁énterosder.
Latin *interus
Latin intrābor.
English intra-
English cerebral
English intracerebral
From intra- + cerebral.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: occurring or situated within the cerebrum.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
intraday
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁énterosder.
Latin *interus
Latin intrābor.
English intra-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-?
Proto-Germanic *dagaz
Proto-West Germanic *dag
Old English dæġ
Middle English day
English day
English intraday
From intra- + day.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: occurring during a single day.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
playfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English playful
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English playfulness
From playful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: playfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being playful.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.
Translations:
capitano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian capitano. Doublet of captain and chieftain.
Inflected forms:
form: capitanos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: capitanoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: capitani
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A head man.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the four stock characters of commedia dell'arte, who typically appropriated the name "captain" for himself but was not one; he was often a blowhard and a swaggerer who could maintain his self-important claims only if none of the locals knew him.
pos: noun
Translations:
aromatization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
geography
geology
microbiology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: aromatizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The conversion of aliphatic components of petroleum into aromatic compounds as part of the refining process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The enzymatic conversion of androgen hormones into estrogens by aromatase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: cycloaromatization
dearomatization
rearomatization
Translations:
arsenopyrite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃enyomder.
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰr̥Hanyam
Proto-Iranian *jr̥Hanyam
Old Median *zaranyam
Old Median *kā
Old Median *zaraniyakāder.
Middle Persian *zarnīkbor.
Classical Syriac ܙܪܢܝܟܐ (zarnīḵā)der.
Arabic الزَرْنِيخ (az-zarnīḵ)bor.
Byzantine Greek ἀρσενικόν (arsenikón)der.
Latin arsenicumder.
Middle French arsenicbor.
Middle English arsenik
English arsenic
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English arseno-
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Hellenic *pāwər
Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)
Ancient Greek πῠρῑ́της (pŭrī́tēs)bor.
Latin pȳritēsder.
Old French pyriteder.
English pyrite
English arsenopyrite
From arseno- + pyrite.
Inflected forms:
form: arsenopyrites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A silvery-grey ore of arsenic, a mixed arsenide and sulfide of iron, FeAsS.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
classis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
lifestyle
natural-sciences
religion
taxonomy
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin classis. Doublet of class.
Inflected forms:
form: classes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A class or order; sort; type; kind.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: […]declared his own opinion of that classis of men.
gloss: An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Dutch Reformed Church. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
pos: noun
examples: At Utrecht and Breda there was strong pressure from the Dutch Reformed Church to exclude from employment British preachers who refused to take membership in the classis.
gloss: A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below divisio and above ordo.
pos: noun
Translations:
frogged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having ornamental stripes or workings of braid or lace, usually on the breast of a uniform coat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
fishlike
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péysks
Proto-Germanic *fiskaz
Proto-West Germanic *fisk
Old English fisċ
Middle English fisch
English fish
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -like
English -like
English fishlike
From fish + -like.
Inflected forms:
form: more fishlike
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fishlike
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having some characteristics of a fish.
pos: adj
examples: fishlike scales
fishlike eyes
fishlike swimming ability
fishlike smell
His skin was as scaly as those of some fish I'd seen. His nose was distorted—flattened from having been broken several times—and that enhanced his fishlike appearance.
The most striking marine reptiles are the fishlike or porpoiselike ichthyosaurs.
Antonyms: unfishlike
unfishy
Translations:
cryptomeria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: cryptomerias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)
pos: noun
Translations:
ever-smoker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ever-smokers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ever smoker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who has ever (that is, at any time in their past) smoked tobacco (e.g., cigarettes, cigars, pipes).
pos: noun
gloss: More precisely, someone who has smoked more than 100 instances (e.g., cigarettes, cigars, pipe bowlfuls) in their lifetime.
pos: noun
Antonyms: never-smoker
Translations:
never-smoker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: never-smokers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neversmoker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: never smoker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who has never been a cigarette smoker or cigar smoker.
pos: noun
gloss: More precisely, someone who has smoked fewer than one hundred instances (e.g., cigarettes, cigars, pipe bowlfuls) in their lifetime.
pos: noun
Antonyms: ever-smoker
Translations:
handbell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English handbelle, hande belle, from Old English handbelle (“handbell”). By surface analysis, hand + bell.
Inflected forms:
form: handbells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small bell designed to be rung by hand.
pos: noun
examples: The bell sounded. It was a hand-bell, rung by a boy in the next class-room.
Translations:
globetrotter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From globe + trotter.
Compound parts: globe
trotter
Inflected forms:
form: globetrotters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: globe trotter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: globe-trotter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who travels often to faraway places.
pos: noun
examples: Word-painting has become a science, and almost every corner of the globe has been described and traversed by that genus homo, the inevitable "globe-trotter".
Globe-trotters who expect entertainment as a right, have, even within my memory, blunted this open-heartedness, but, none the less, to-day if you belong to the Inner Circle and are neither a bear nor a black sheep all houses are open to you and our small world is very kind and helpful.
“Any ship is that—for a reasonable man,” generalised Marlow in a conciliatory tone. “A sailor isn’t a globetrotter.”
Possibly perceiving an expression of dubiosity on their faces the globetrotter went on, adhering to his adventures. —And I seen a man killed in Trieste by an Italian chap. Knife in his back. Knife like that.
Translations:
hells
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of hell.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
sometimes
vulgar
examples: We rarely did the sort of things you lot seem to get landed in. Hells, you’ve all had more ‘adventures’ than me!
They know you. Your reputation among the nomads is . . . hells, you’re fucking feared. And with good reason.
Even if it means going against every wish in my heart crying out that he’s back, he’s not really. If I was the one in his place, I’d want to feel safe first. Build trust second. Hells, that’s how I learned to love him in the first place.
Translations:
catheterize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English catheter
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 catheterize
From catheter + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: catheterizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: catheterizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: catheterized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: catheterized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: catheterise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To insert a catheter into a cavity.
pos: verb
examples: These patients are taught to catheterize themselves at regular intervals.
Translations:
blinks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a herbaceous annual plant of species Montia fontana, in the family Montiaceae, formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
multiplexing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: multiplexings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The simultaneous transmission of multiple signals on the same channel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bedposts
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a 7-10 split
pos: noun
Translations:
miscommunication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English communication
English miscommunication
From mis- + communication.
Inflected forms:
form: miscommunications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An interaction between two parties in which information is/was not communicated as desired.
pos: noun
Translations:
mollycoddling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mollycoddlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of excessive pampering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Such prissy mollycoddlings of audience expectations were shortly to come under heavyweight siege from a variety of filmmakers in the 1950s – not least the aforementioned Otto Preminger.
Translations: