yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
suburb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French suburbe, subburbe, from Latin suburbium (from sub- (“under-”) + urbs (“city”)). Displaced native Old English underburg (literally “underborough”).
Base: urbs
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: suburbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.
pos: noun
examples: And the Lord spake vnto Moses in the plaines of Moab by Iordane, neere Iericho, saying,
Command the children of Israel, that they giue vnto the Leuites of the inheritance of their possession, cities to dwell in: and yee shall giue also vnto the Leuites suburbs for the cities round about them.
These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.
[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.
Canton is by no means the only great city in the province. Fo-chan, a kind of suburb to it, about twelve miles distant, has been represented as almost as large.
At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong. It has never been a big tourist draw, but in the decade since territorial control returned to China, this quintessentially Hong Kong neighborhood has had many more visitors — and important changes.
I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke.
gloss: The outer part; the environment.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: the suburbs […] of sorrow
the suburb of their straw-built citadel
gloss: Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
Derived words: bedroom suburb
boomburb
burb
ecoburb
Garden Suburb
slumburb
snoburbs
subtopia
suburban
suburbed
suburbia
suburbial
suburbian
suburblike
zoomburb
Translations:
swimsuit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From swim + suit.
Compound parts: swim
suit
Inflected forms:
form: swimsuits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A garment worn for swimming.
pos: noun
examples: Put on your swimsuit and let's go for a swim.
gloss: A tight-fitting one-piece garment worn by women and girls.
pos: noun
examples: Jade refused to go swimming with her brother until he helped her find her favorite swimsuit.
Synonyms: bathers
bathing suit
budgie smugglers
cossie
dookie
swimmers
swimming briefs
swim briefs
swimming costume
swimming trunks
swim trunks
togs
swimsuit
swimwear
bathing costume
Related words: bikini
boardies
board shorts
monokini
neck-to-knee
skinny dipping
swimming shorts
swimming trunks
swimwear
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Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class II § 225. Clothing -- the closest included
Derived words: swimsuited
Translations:
pubic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pubis
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English pubic
From pubis + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the area of the body adjacent to the pubis or the pubes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
maple
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mapel, from Old English *mapul (attested in mapultrēow and mapulder), from Proto-West Germanic *mapul.
See also Old Saxon mapulder, Old High German mazaltra, mazzaltra; also Old Norse mǫpurr, Middle Low German mapeldorn, dialectal Dutch meppel, German Masseller, Maßholder; also Old English mæsen (“maple”), Old Norse mǫsurr (“maple”), German Maser (“knob, offshoot”); also German Mase (“scar”), modern Maser (“speck, measle”). More at measles.
Inflected forms:
form: maples
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tree of the genus Acer, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They have a large maple in their yard.
gloss: Wood of such a tree, valued for its hardness and attractive appearance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This table is made of maple and also has some fruitwood inlays.
gloss: The flavor of such a tree's sap, or an imitation of that flavor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A: Mmm, this one is strawberry! What flavor is yours? B: This one is maple! I wonder if any of them will turn out to be pineapple!
Derived words: Amur maple
ashleaf maple
ash-leaved maple
big-leaf maple
bigleaf maple
bigtooth maple
bird's-eye maple
black maple
box elder maple
broad-leaf maple
bush maple
Canadian maple
Cappadocian maple
chalk maple
dwarf maple
English maple
field maple
Florida maple
flowering maple
ground maple
hard maple
hedge maple
Indian maple
Japanese maple
Japanese maple tree
Manitoba maple
maple ash
maple bark disease
maple bark stripper's disease
maple butter
Maple Creek
Maple Cross
mapled
maple fever
maple ham
Maple Heights
maple honey
maple key
maple leaf
maple-leaf
maple-leaved
maplelike
maple MAGA
maple molasses
maple pug
Maple Ridge
maple sugar
maple-sugar
maple syrup
maple taffy
mapletini
maple toffee
maple tree
mapley
maply
Montpellier maple
Montpelier maple
moose maple
mountain maple
Norway maple
Oregon maple
Pacific maple
paperbark maple
pointed-leaf maple
Queensland maple
red maple
river maple
rock maple
Rocky Mountain maple
scarlet maple
silver maple
snakebark maple
soft maple
striped maple
sugar maple
sugar maple
swamp maple
sycamore maple
sycamore maple tree
tiger maple
vine maple
white maple
Translations:
pubis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Genitive of Latin pubes (“the pubic hair”, collective). The noun was generalized from medical Latin os pubis, the pubic bone.
Inflected forms:
form: pubes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.
pos: noun
Translations:
meta-analysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor.
English meta-
English analysis
English meta-analysis
From meta- + analysis.
Inflected forms:
form: meta-analyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: metaanalysis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: metanalysis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any systematic procedure for statistically combining the results of many different studies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She began asking the question, “Were you friends with your partner before you became romantically involved?” in her other research and conducted a meta-analysis for this paper.
gloss: An analysis resulting from combining the results of diverse statistical studies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An analysis performed at a higher level of abstraction than that of basic analysis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: meta-analytic
metaanalytic
metanalytic
epistemology
metamethod
metaresearch
metascience
metasynthesis
metatheory
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: metaanàlisi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 元分析
roman: yuánfēnxī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 薈萃分析 /荟萃分析
roman: huìcuì fēnxī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 後設分析 /后设分析
roman: hòushè fēnxī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 統合分析 /统合分析
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 統合分析 /统合分析
roman: tǒnghé fēnxī
lang: Czech
word: metaanalýza
lang: Dutch
word: meta-analyse
lang: Estonian
word: metaanalüüs
lang: Finnish
word: meta-analyysi
lang: French
word: méta-analyse
lang: German
word: Metaanalyse
lang: Greek
word: μετανάλυση
roman: metanálysi
lang: Greek
word: μεταανάλυση
roman: metaanálysi
lang: Icelandic
word: safngreining
lang: Japanese
word: メタ分析
roman: metabunseki
lang: Japanese
word: メタ解析
roman: metakaiseki
lang: Japanese
word: メタアナリシス
roman: metaanarishisu
lang: Korean
word: 메타분석
roman: metabunseok
lang: Polish
word: metaanaliza
lang: Portuguese
word: metanálise
lang: Portuguese
word: meta-análise
lang: Spanish
word: metanálisis
infantilism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
medicine
pathology
sciences
sexuality
Etymology: Etymology tree
English infantile
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 infantilism
From infantile + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: infantilisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An emotional dependency on being treated as an infant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: An appearance like (that of) an infant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A craniopharyngioma may produce infantilism.
gloss: A paraphilia based on acting like a baby or toddler, sometimes involving being diapered.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: infantilist
infantility
Translations:
palmate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin palmātus (“hand-shaped, palm-leaf shaped”), from palma (“palm, palm-tree”). Equivalent to palm + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French palmé.
Base: palm
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: palmates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Although palmate leaves are typical of most Western maples, a number of species have leaves without lobes.
gloss: Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The horse chestnut, buckeye and hickory trees have palmate leaves. That is, the broad oval leaflets are all set around the tip of a common leaf stem, spreading in a circle, like the ribs of a palm leaf fan.
gloss: Having webbed appendage; palmated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
examples: The Palmate Newt is a common Western European amphibian.
gloss: Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
gloss: Any salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.
pos: noun
Related words: pinnate
Derived words: bipalmate
costapalmate
nonpalmate
palmately
palmate newt
palmation
semipalmate
subpalmate
totipalmate
Translations:
necrophile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
sexuality
Etymology: From necro- + -phile.
Base: necro
Inflected forms:
form: necrophiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is subject to necrophilia.
pos: noun
examples: He has seizures of erotic and macaberesque madness. He is a sort of necrophile. He has kept a journal in which he sets forth his disease with the utmost clearness.
gloss: One who engages in sexual acts with corpses.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Translations:
frond
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin frons, frond-bor.
English frond
Borrowed from Latin frons, frond- (“leafy branch”).
Inflected forms:
form: fronds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
pos: noun
examples: By the bank, fifty yards below Elm Island, stood the Master, looking into water six inches deep. A fern frond, knocked off the bank upstream, came down turning like a little green dragon in the clear water.
gloss: Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
pos: noun
examples: palm frond
Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.
Derived words: frondage
fronded
frondiferous
frondiform
frondless
frondlet
frondlike
frondous
frondy
Translations:
stackable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
commerce
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
retail
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stack
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English stackable
From stack + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: stackables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being stacked.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Capable of being combined with others on a single purchase.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: With a 10% stackable coupon I can get my cost down to ∼$625 shipped, taxed for the 15" DVI LCD […]
gloss: A network switch that can be set up to operate with other network switches.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonstackable
stackably
unstackable
Translations:
burgomaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partial calque of Dutch burgemeester with master. Compare also boroughmaster.
Inflected forms:
form: burgomasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: burghermaster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: burgomeister
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The mayor, or head magistrate, of a town in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and certain other countries.
pos: noun
Translations:
unfalsifiable
Part of speech: adj
noun
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 falsifiable
English unfalsifiable
From un- + falsifiable.
Inflected forms:
form: unfalsifiables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not able to be proven false, but not necessarily true.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Conspiracy theories are designed to be unfalsifiable: every criticism can be dismissed as "whitewashing by the conspirers", and every concerns can be summarized as "part of the greater conspiracy".
Popper introduced the so-called ‘demarcation problem’ of identifying what distinguishes pseudoscience from science. Popper's suggestion, as I explain below, is that, unlike real science, pseudoscience is unfalsifiable.
Unfalsifiability: The main problem with any particular conspiracy theory is not that it's wrong, but that it's inarguable; not that it's false, but that it is unfalsifiable.
gloss: A statement or argument that cannot be proven false, but is not necessarily true.
pos: noun
Translations:
exfoliant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From exfoliate.
Inflected forms:
form: exfoliants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An agent or substance used for the process of exfoliation
pos: noun
Translations:
turpitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French turpitude, from Latin turpitūdō (“baseness, infamy”), from turpis (“foul, base”).
Inflected forms:
form: turpitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I cannot, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.
gloss: An act evident of such depravity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: turpid
turpidly
turpitudinous
Derived words: moral turpitude
Translations:
lang: French
word: turpitude
izzard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English izod, ezod, ezed, probably from Middle French et zede (literally “and zed”), as spoken when reciting the alphabet.
Inflected forms:
form: izzards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The letter Z; zed, zee.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: ... [Reading.] Dear Sir,—ay, that's that. Then there's an M, and a T, and an S, but whether the next be an izzard, or an R, confound me, I cannot tell.
Translations:
baseness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Late Latin bassus
Old French basbor.
Middle English bas
English base
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 baseness
From base + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: basenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or condition of being base.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of being unworthy to hold virtues or value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: laaghartigheid
lang: German
word: Niedertracht
lang: Latvian
word: zemiskums
lang: Russian
word: ни́зость
roman: nízostʹ
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: رذالت
roman: rezâlet
lang: Ukrainian
word: ни́зькість
roman: nýzʹkistʹ
tryst
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French triste, tristre (“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse treysta (“to make safe, secure”), from traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *drū- (“to be firm, be solid”). Doublet of trust, see there for more.
Inflected forms:
form: trysts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trysts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trysting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trysted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trysted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
pos: noun
examples: And Vivien, like the tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile, / Made answer, either eyelid wet with tears: […]
A silence supreme and altogether European. Shutters drawn, shops barred. A red glow here and there to mark a tryst.
But, for the most part, we shall mark our progress to the dawn of life by the measure of those 40 natural milestones, the trysts that enrich our pilgrimage.
If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst, then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?
gloss: A mutual agreement, a covenant.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A market fair, especially a recurring one held on a schedule, where livestock sales took place.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
historical
gloss: To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He said he was jealous, and craved something to ease his care. 'It's but a small thing I ask,' says he, 'but it will make me a happy man, and nothing ever shall come atween us. Tryst wi' me for Beltane's E'en on the Sker sands, at the green link o' the burn where the sands begin, on the ebb o' the tide when midnight is by, but afore cockcrow. For,' said he, 'that was our forbears' tryst for true lovers, and wherefore no for you and me?'
Derived words: bide tryst
keep tryst
mistryst
Translations:
truckle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English trokel, trocle, trookyl, from Anglo-Norman trocle, from Medieval Latin trochlea (“a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys”); or from a diminutive of truck (“wheel”), formed with -le, equivalent to truck + -le.
Base: truck
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: truckles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: truckling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: truckled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: truckled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
pos: verb
gloss: To sleep in a truckle bed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
travail
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English travailen, from Old French travailler, from the noun (see above). Doublet of travel. Displaced native Middle English swinken (“to work”) (from Old English swincan (“to labour, to toil, to work at”)).
Inflected forms:
form: travails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: travailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: travailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: travailed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: travel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: travell
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To toil.
pos: verb
examples: [A]ll slothful persons, which will not travail for their livings, do the will of the devil.
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
Other poet travailing in this plain high-way of paſtoral know I none.
gloss: To go through the labor of childbirth.
pos: verb
examples: A woman when she traveyleth hath sorowe, be cause her houre is come: but as sone as she is delivered off her chylde she remembreth no moare her anguysshe, for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde.
And they iourneyed from Bethel: and there was but a litle way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel traueiled, and she had hard labour.
Translations:
arduously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin arduus
English arduous
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English arduously
From arduous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more arduously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most arduously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in an arduous manner
pos: adv
Translations:
tocsin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French toquesain (modern tocsin), from Old Occitan tocasenh, from tocar (“strike, touch”) + senh (“bell”).
Inflected forms:
form: tocsins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, originally especially with reference to France.
pos: noun
examples: At half-past one, on the sounding of the tocsin (or bell of the public-house) about fifteen persons were collected, when the Rev. J. Bromley was called to the chair.
The noise of drumming and trumpeting came from the Albany Street Barracks, and every church within earshot was hard at work killing sleep with a vehement disorderly tocsin.
As she entered the projection theatre the soundtrack reverberated across the sculpture garden, a melancholy tocsin modulated by Talbert’s less and less coherent commentary.
I'll ring the tocsin, I'll have Saint-Antoine out. I can put twenty thousand armed men on the streets, just like that.
Allen Ginsberg had sounded the tocsin for rescuing humanity from the deadening hand of modernity, which he saw in terms of capitalism, materialism, and monotony, each contributing to the crushing of the human spirit.
gloss: A bell used to sound an alarm.
pos: noun
Translations:
util
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
economics
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Clipping of utility.
Inflected forms:
form: utils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hypothetical unit measuring satisfaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A utility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: Where can I download free disk utils?
gloss: Utilities.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Boston, South End, ultra modern 1-2 bedroom apts. $260-270. Master TV antenna, burglar alarm, util not included.
Translations:
brackish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Scottish brack (from Middle Dutch brac (“brackish”)) + -ish. Cognate with Dutch brak (“brackish”), German Low German brack, brakerg, brakig (“brackish”), German brackig (“brackish”), Danish brak (“brackish”), Swedish bräck (“brackish”), Norwegian brakk (“brackish”). Perhaps a distant doublet of brook.
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more brackish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brackish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of water, salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
pos: adj
examples: ...by a low courſe and too long ſporting with the briny Ocean it taſts brackiſh and inſalubrious...
1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4.
On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Random House.
The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.
White Slough is a large tidal wetland full of brackish water from the Napa River that flows into the city of Vallejo from under Highway 37.
gloss: Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.
pos: adj
examples: Therefore the bread he had to eat
Seemed brackish, less like corn than tares;
gloss: Repulsive.
pos: adj
Derived words: brackishly
brackishness
brackish water
nonbrackish
unbrackish
Translations:
importantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English important
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English importantly
From important + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more importantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most importantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Used to mark a statement as having importance.
pos: adv
examples: These potentially ground-breaking discoveries need to be tempered by the knowledge that very high doses - the equivalent of 100-plus bottles of red wine daily - were given to mice. Importantly, after resveratrol is absorbed into the blood, it is broken down quickly and may have limited effect in humans.
More importantly and closer to life, slangs help build an instant intimacy and informality.
Importantly, apprenticeships provide an alternate route into employment, giving people from all backgrounds the chance to build in-demand skills and a career for life.
gloss: In an important manner.
pos: adv
examples: Even sitting in a restaurant, the person on a cell phone seems importantly busy and on the move.
Related words: self-importantly
Translations:
ethylene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *áitʰō
Ancient Greek αἴθω (aíthō)
▲
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)influ.?
Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr)der.
Latin aethērbor.
German Äther
German Ether
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
German -yl
German Ethylbor.
English ethyl
English eth-
English -ylene
English ethylene
From eth- + -ylene.
Inflected forms:
form: ethylenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The common name for the organic chemical compound ethene. The simplest alkene, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C₂H₄.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.
As a demonstration, we first establish the correctness of the Jacobian matrices for kinetic models of hydrogen, methane, ethylene, and isopentanol oxidation, then demonstrate the performance achievable on CPUs and GPUs using pyJac via matrix evaluation timing comparisons..
gloss: The divalent radical derived from ethane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: ethene
olefiant gas
Derived words: bromotrifluoroethylene
chloroethylene
chlorotrifluoroethylene
cocaethylene
dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene
diethylene
diphenylethylene
ethylenediamine
ethylenediaminetetraacetate
ethylenediaminetetraacetic
ethylene glycol
ethyleneimine
ethylene interpolymer
ethylene oxide
ethylene-vinyl acetate
ethylenic
etorphine
fluoroethylene
haloethylene
hexylene
iodoethylene
isopropylethylene
melene
methene
monoethylene
monoethylene glycol
nitroethylene
nonethylene
nonylene
oligoethylene
oxyethylene
pentaethylenehexamine
perchloroethylene
polyethylene
polyethylene terephthalate
polyoxyethylene
quartene
tetraacetylethylenediamine
tetrabromoethylene
tetrachloroethylene
tetrafluoroethylene
tetrylene
triethylene
triphenylethylene
Translations:
ethene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: ethenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The organic chemical compound ethylene. The simplest alkene, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C₂H₄
pos: noun
tags: IUPAC
countable
uncountable
gloss: Any alkene derived from ethylene
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: ethylene
olefiant gas
Derived words: ethenic
ethenide
ethenium
ethenolysis
ethenyl
iodoethene
polyethene
polythene
Translations:
irreverent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin irreverēns. By surface analysis, ir- + reverent.
Inflected forms:
form: more irreverent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irreverent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking respect; not having or not showing respect for or seriousness towards something that is usually treated with respect; going against conventional precepts.
pos: adj
examples: an irreverent new work
an irreverent examination of reviewing
Beyond the hut a clump of myalls loomed spectral and wraith-like, and round them a gang of crows cawed noisily, irreverent of the great silence.
Translations:
buy-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: Etymology tree
English buy indeverb.
English buy-in
Deverbal from buy in.
Inflected forms:
form: buy-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Support; agreement; blessing (in a secular sense).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To win, I need to get buy-in from the team to have alignment with our mission.
Let's show the idea around and get buy-in from marketing.
China’s newly minted national parks don’t just safeguard famous keystone species such as Siberian tigers, giant pandas and Hainan gibbons. They are also designed to preserve the shrinking ecosystems that support such iconic wildlife, ranging from sweltering (tropical jungles in the southern province of Hainan to the chilly maple forests of northern Heilongjiang and Jilin Provinces bordering Siberia. As in any country, getting human buy-in for such protected spaces is essential. Visitors and local populations need to comprehend—and support—the importance of setting aside lands for biodiversity.
gloss: A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The amount that a player buys in for
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When tournament players are eliminated but remain eager to win back their buy-in, side games often develop and upstage tournament play with limits exceeding those in the tournament.
Translations:
manor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English maner, manour; from Old French manoir, from earlier maneir, from Latin manēre. Doublet of maenor.
Inflected forms:
form: manors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A landed estate.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.
gloss: The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion.
pos: noun
gloss: A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.
pos: noun
gloss: The lord's residence and seat of control in such a district.
pos: noun
gloss: Any home area or territory in which authority is exercised, often in a police or criminal context.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: 'I'm a fatalist,' said Mr James Anderton, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester. [...] James Anderton in his suite of offices on the eleventh floor of the modern glass-and-concrete police building, looking out over his domain, his patch, his manor.
Dixon, who was finally promoted to sergeant in 1964, policed his 'Dock Green' manor until May 1976 and 'Evening, all' had become a national catchphrase.
On his release from prison in Holland, Warren returned to his Merseyside 'manor' to resume his role as' King of Coke'.
gloss: One's neighbourhood.
pos: noun
tags: London
slang
examples: Beckham was asked what it would mean for the Olympics to be held in his old neighbourhood.
"You mean my manor?" Beckham replied, in fluent East End argot. "I'm obviously from the East End, so it would be incredible for me if it was held there. It could go down as one of the best games in history."
And, Gold adds, he can understand that West Ham's famously dedicated supporters, Londoners though they themselves mainly are, may mistrust businessmen "coming into the club and talking about loyalty. But this is my manor. I worked on Stratford Market, where the Olympic Stadium sits now. I remember the bomb falling on West Ham football ground and thinking: my God, they're coming after me. West Ham is my passion."
Related words: feudalism
fief
Derived words: Briarcliff Manor
Leslie Manor
lord of the manor
manor house
manorial
manorialism
Manor Lakes
manorless
Manor Park
manorway
Ridge Manor
Ruislip Manor
to the manor born
Wilton Manors
Translations:
picky
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pick
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English picky
From pick + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: pickier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pickiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pickies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: piccy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
pos: adj
examples: I am very picky about the way my kitchen is laid out.
Most of the pickiest children were actually in the middle weight group, though a few were underweight and a few were overweight.
Singletons have become 'pickier' about their potential partners following the pandemic, one dating expert has claimed - insisting they are now even more concerned about the 'pink flags' that could lead to 'red flag scenarios'.
gloss: Of food or a meal: consisting of various small items from which the diner can pick and choose.
pos: adj
tags: UK
colloquial
not-comparable
examples: picky bits
picky tea
[…] a picky meal of bean-sprouts and humous […]
gloss: A picture.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: And who knows, I might do a few pickies of you - fully clothed, needless to say.
Synonyms: anal-retentive
choosy
finicky
fussy
particular
pedantic
Derived words: overpicky
pickily
pickiness
picky bit
picky tea
spicky plate
Translations:
searching
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more searching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most searching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: searchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Thorough.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Einstein's photoelectric equation has been subjected to very searching tests and it appears in every case to predict exactly the observed results.
gloss: Looking over closely; penetrating; severe.
pos: adj
examples: a searching gaze; searching criticism
‘So you are going out there. Famous. Interesting too.’ He gave me a searching glance, and made another note.
... a searching rain began to fall. In half an hour he was wet to the skin, and he fancied that Carteret, who sat amidships with the rain dripping from the light overcoat he had carried with him, could not be much drier.
gloss: Search; hunt.
pos: noun
examples: Her songs take us through many mood changes from lighthearted lovesongs and social commentary to a serious searching for answers and understanding.
Depending on whom you ask, Antony Flew is either a true convert whose lifelong intellectual searchings finally brought him to God or a senescent scholar possibly being exploited by his associates.
Translations:
cancerous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English cancerous, from Latin cancerōsus, from cancer (“crab; tumor, cancer”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, cancer + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more cancerous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cancerous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or affected with cancer.
pos: adj
examples: On Sunday at five they operated to remove the cancerous kidney.
A pilot study conducted in 2023 by the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the Erlangen University Hospital in Germany involved 104 patients and concluded that clinical breast examinations by MTEs who were visually impaired were as accurate in identifying potentially cancerous tumors as doctors trained in this procedure.
gloss: Growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Extremely unpleasant; detestable.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I love this show, but the fanbase is so toxic and cancerous.
Antonyms: noncancerous
Related words: cancer
Derived words: anticancerous
cancerously
cancerousness
noncancerous
paracancerous
pericancerous
precancerous
procancerous
uncancerous
Translations:
suspicious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French sospecious, from Latin suspiciosus, suspitiosus.
Inflected forms:
form: more suspicious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most suspicious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Arousing suspicion.
pos: adj
examples: His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.
If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.
gloss: Distrustful or tending to suspect.
pos: adj
examples: We know he has a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.
Betraide by fortune and ſuſpitious loue,
Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie,
Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge,
I ſtand agaſt: […]
gloss: Expressing suspicion
pos: adj
examples: She gave me a suspicious look.
Related words: suspect
suspicion
unsuspecting
sus
odd
strange
Derived words: non-suspicious
nonsuspicious
oversuspicious
supersuspicious
sus
suspiciously
suspiciousness
unsuspicious
Translations:
underling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English underling, from Old English underling. By surface analysis, under + -ling.
Inflected forms:
form: underlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subordinate, or person of lesser rank or authority.
pos: noun
examples: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
"I love not that underlings should perceive my wisdom."
His decision to stay at the compound in the face of possible assassination set an example, making it more difficult for his underlings to cut and run. “Anyone who left is a traitor,” Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, told its members a few hours after the invasion started.
So read the email from Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, and a billionaire many times over. It would be read by more than 1,000 of his underlings at the company.
gloss: A low, wretched person.
pos: noun
Synonyms: superior
Antonyms: overling
Related words: groundling
hireling
Translations:
undermentioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English mentioned
English undermentioned
From under- + mentioned.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: about to be specified or mentioned, especially in a document; following
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: aforementioned
Translations:
scoreboard
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-
Proto-Germanic *skurō
Old Norse skorder.
Old English scoru
Middle English score
English score
English board
English scoreboard
From score + board.
Inflected forms:
form: scoreboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large board that displays the score in a game or contest.
pos: noun
gloss: A similar board that also displays each batsman's score, and many statistics and pieces of information.
pos: noun
gloss: A listing of various similar entities along with their properties, such as status or rank.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: As a result of the Santiago Principles and other parallel efforts at education such as the SWF scoreboard that I have featured in my research, a substantial amount of distrust surrounding SWFs has been defused.
If you are curious about what each of those processes were doing last, just scroll down the page to the table and find the process of the correct number in the scoreboard.
gloss: A taunt that reminds someone that they are losing or have lost.
pos: intj
examples: Glenn Quagmire: And there's the Vietnam War memorial.
Peter Griffin: Hey, check out that Vietnamese guy giving the business to those Vietnam vets.
Vietnamese Civilian: [to a pair of American Vietnam War veterans] Scoreboard! Scoreboard! Aw, what happened to your friend? Hey, I know that guy. I kill him. He cry like a bitch! Vietnam! Undefeated!
."Scoreboard, baby! Scoreboard!" Bella taunted, pocketing her winnings as a red X went over K. C. Mack's mug shot.
When Neuheisel learned of Bellotti's comments, he offered a simple rebuttal: "Scoreboard, baby." Two words to end all arguments, two words to silence any complaint. Scoreboard, baby.
For the rest of the game, all I would say to him when he taunted me was "scoreboard." Every single word that came out of his mouth was met with my response of "scoreboard."
Derived words: conversational scoreboard
Translations:
underneath
Part of speech: adv
prep
adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English undernethe, undernethen, from Old English underneoþan (“underneath”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *underniþer. Equivalent to under- + neath.
Base: neath
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: underneaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Below; in a place beneath.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I can't take my sweater off: I amn't wearing anything else on underneath.
connected with it underneath, you see a very fine hair-spring.
gloss: On the underside or lower face.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: No insects exhibit, like them, what may be termed four net-work eyes. It is very easy to perceive them in looking at the animal from above, and then examining it underneath
gloss: Under, below, beneath.
pos: prep
examples: Underneath the water, all was calm.
We flew underneath the bridge.
We looked underneath the table.
gloss: Under the control or power of.
pos: prep
examples: There was little freedom underneath the Nazi jackboot.
gloss: Under, lower.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You can have the underneath bunk.
The mess in the kitchen was one thing. The way the place smelled was another—some sort of chemistry-lab stink on top, some other smell underneath it. He was afraid the underneath smell might be blood.
gloss: The bottom of something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The underneath of the aircraft was painted blue.
Nawnim yelped, heaved away, struck his head on the underneath of the bed, and rolled into view bawling.
It was a monolith of a golden color, opening at its base on to a cavern: its underneath was hollowed out by water.
I have been looking for an underneath I couldn't see.
they harden up a little as they cool, and they should be damp within; that's what makes them chewy, so don't worry that the underneaths of the macaroons look sticky.
gloss: A background radio sound track played during a specific announcement or program.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The underneath is music from the latest album by ….
Derived words: get underneath someone's skin
underneath one's breath
underneath the hood
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: alapuoli
lang: Finnish
word: alaosa
lang: French
word: dessous
lang: Hindi
word: निचला
roman: niclā
lang: Polish
word: spód
lang: Polish
word: dół
lang: Russian
word: ни́жняя сторона́
roman: nížnjaja storoná
lang: Spanish
word: bajos
lang: Turkish
word: altı
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آشاغی
roman: aşağı
undernourished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English nourished
English undernourished
From under- + nourished.
Inflected forms:
form: more undernourished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undernourished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Provided with insufficient nourishment to sustain proper health and growth.
pos: adj
Translations:
underpass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der.
Proto-Italic *pattus
Vulgar Latin passus
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Vulgar Latin -ereinflu.
Vulgar Latin -āre
Vulgar Latin *passāre
Old French passerbor.
Middle English passen
English pass
English underpass
From under- + pass.
Inflected forms:
form: underpasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A passage, especially for pedestrians, that crosses underneath a road, railroad or obstacle.
pos: noun
examples: Underpass / Underpass / Over all the bridges / Echoes in rows / Talking at the same time / Click click drone
And in the darkened underpass / I thought oh God, my chance has come at last / But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask
Translations: