yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
oozy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ooze
English -y
English oozy
From ooze + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: oozier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: ooziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the quality of something that oozes.
pos: adj
examples: A daughter?
Oh heauens, that they were liuing both in Nalpes
The King and Queene there, that they were, I wish
My selfe were mudded in that oo-zie bed
Where my sonne lies: when did you lose your daughter?
[The rain] fell with an oozy, slushy sound among the grass; and made a muddy kennel of every furrow in the ploughed fields.
1912, James Stephens, Mary, Mary (published in the UK as The Charwoman's Daughter), New York: Boni & Liveright, Chapter XXIV, p. 175, https://archive.org/details/marymary00stepiala
Her vocabulary could not furnish her with the qualifying word, or rather, epithet for his bigness. Horrible was suggested and retained, but her instinct clamored that there was a fat, oozy word somewhere which would have brought comfort to her brains and her hands and feet.
Each country is casting its net of espionage into the slimy bottom of the others, fishing for their secrets, the treacherous secrets which brew in the oozy depths of diplomacy.
[…] he gulped down a chill and glutinous slice of the ice-cream brick, and cocoanut cake as oozy as shaving-cream.
On birthdays and saints' days, Jewish musicians from the local community were invited to perform festive music and played "an extraordinary variety of music: potpourris of famous operas, military marches, Viennese waltzes, and the ooziest gypsy songs and Jewish dances, rampant with glissandos, tremolos, and tearful vibratos."
Translations:
ophthalmic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ophthalmicus, from Ancient Greek ὀφθᾰλμῐκός (ophthălmĭkós, “of or for the eyes”), from ὀφθᾰλμός (ophthălmós, “eye”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
Base: ὀφθᾰλμός
Affixes: -ῐκός
Inflected forms:
form: ophthalmick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the eyes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Eyedrops are an ophthalmic solution.
The ophthalmic surgeon attends Tuesdays and Saturdays, at half-past one.
In a clinic, a camera's lens probes the sensitive landscape of a human eye. McNally used a special ophthalmic camera to reveal the view a doctor would have during an eye exam.
gloss: Visionary, looking to the future.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronise me.
If Jack Yeats has made this ophthalmic adjustment, and if W.B. never really was so foolish as to look things between the eyes (until the Revolution grimaced at him), have the realistic novelists of our time been wise in their insistence on ruthless close-ups?
To Dechen Wangmo, and all the fiercely dedicated ophthalmic staff of Bhutan, my gratitude for your hospitality and patience with a foreigner's curiosity about your customs.
Related words: ophthalmo-
ophthalm-
ophthalmology
ophthalmologist
ophthalmoscope
Derived words: anophthalmic
exophthalmic
hygrophthalmic
interophthalmic
intraophthalmic
monophthalmic
nonophthalmic
ophthalmic acid
ophthalmically
ophthalmic artery
ophthalmic nerve
ophthalmics
paraophthalmic
preophthalmic
Translations:
overblown
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more overblown
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overblown
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.
pos: adj
examples: They went all that way just to be in some overblown conference?
Translations:
wanga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wangas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wanga
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ouanga
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A magic spell or charm.
pos: noun
examples: All magic is performed under his patronage, whether it be the medicinal, protective paquet, or the less benevolent wanga.
Not all wanga contain the enslaved spirits of the dead, but they work best if they do.
Love charms are the most common type of wanga.
Translations:
packinghouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From packing + house.
Compound parts: packing
house
Inflected forms:
form: packinghouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: packing house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A facility where harvested food is processed into a salable condition.
pos: noun
examples: The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.
gloss: A slaughterhouse wherein animals are slaughtered, and the meat is then processed into smaller cuts.
pos: noun
Translations:
peeress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan
Old English *pȳran
Middle English peren
English peer
Late Latin -issader.
Old French -essebor.
Middle English -esse
English -ess
English peeress
From peer + -ess.
Inflected forms:
form: peeresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A noblewoman married to a peer.
pos: noun
examples: But there were more than a score of peers there beside, with their peeresses in tall feathers, diamonds, and monstrous hoops.
gloss: A woman holding a noble title in her own right.
pos: noun
examples: [I]t is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.
Translations:
pellagra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Italian pellagra, from Latin pellis (“skin”) + Ancient Greek ἄγρα (ágra, “seizure, attack, catching”).
Inflected forms:
form: pellagras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain.
Mixing the alkali into the recipe in the right way chemically releases the otherwise unavailable niacin in the corn, which stops pellagra in its tracks, and allowed corn-based agricultural populations to grow and spread.
Translations:
periwig
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of Middle French perruque. Doublet of peruke.
Inflected forms:
form: periwigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: periwigs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: periwigging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: periwigged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: periwigged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: O, it
offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to
very rags, to split the ears of the groundling […]
Methinks she makes almost as fair a sign / As some old gentlewoman in a periwig.
[T]he sun
Grown stale, is to so low a value run,
That his dishevel'd beams and scattered fires
Serve but for ladies' periwigs and tyres
In lovers' sonnets […]
The floods in icie fetters bound.
Crusted earth. Every honey-headed twig
Wears his snowie Periwig,
And every bough his snowy beard.
From her own Head, Megwra takes
A Perriwig of twisted Snakes;
Which in the nicest Fashion curl'd,
Like Toupets of this upper World […]
[O]ur impetuous youth hearing himself reviled with the appellation of scoundrel, pulled off his antagonist's periwig, and flung it in his face.
gloss: To dress with a periwig, or with false hair; to bewig.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Discord periwigg'd with snakes
Translations:
bedstead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English bedsted, bedstede, bedestede, from Old English bedstede (“bedstead”), equivalent to bed + stead. Cognate with Dutch bedstede, bedstee (“closet-bed”).
Compound parts: bed
stead
Inflected forms:
form: bedsteads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The framework that supports a bed; the rigid structural components of a bed, excluding the mattress, box spring, etc; bedframe.
pos: noun
examples: To Benjamin Hinkley, of Utica, N. Y., for improvement in Bedstead Fastenings. Patented Dec. 2, 1846.
Translations:
byplay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: Etymology tree
English by-
English play
English byplay
From by- + play.
Inflected forms:
form: byplays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: by-play
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [...] there had been some amusing byplay with the enginemen as to what might be expected to happen if the engines failed to behave themselves properly.
The father-son byplay is occasionally overdone and tedious, but there is a genuine warmth in both the Oland-Luke and the Toler-Sen Yung teamings.
gloss: Any action, by supporting actor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
onstage
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From on + stage.
Compound parts: on
stage
Inflected forms:
form: on-stage
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: on stage
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: on-stage
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: on stage
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: On the part of a stage that is visible to the audience.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Taking place on the part of a stage that is visible to the audience.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The first is a special—a single lighting instrument that lights a particular spot on the stage. Specials generally have no color, or a more saturated color, allowing them to stand out through other lighting onstage.
Mr. Kirk sat onstage with his wife Friday night and drove home the weekend’s message.
Antonyms: offstage
Translations:
Dylanesque
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Dylan
French -esquebor.
English -esque
English Dylanesque
From Dylan + -esque.
Inflected forms:
form: more Dylanesque
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Dylanesque
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the style of, or reminiscent of the music or lyrics of Bob Dylan (born 1941).
pos: adj
examples: "No Tears For Johnny," a Dylanesque protest song against the Vietnam War.
Translations:
dooryard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From door + yard.
Compound parts: door
yard
Inflected forms:
form: dooryards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the yard near the front or back door of a house
pos: noun
tags: Atlantic-Canada
Maine
examples: In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash’d palings, / Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, […]
"You're soft, Jane," said Miranda once; "you allers was soft, and you allers will be. If 't wa'n't for me keeping you stiffened up, I b'lieve you 'd leak out o' the house into the dooryard."
Translations:
drowsing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: drowsings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who drowses.
pos: noun
examples: His drowsings were delicious, and he dreamed sweet dreams.
Translations:
mele
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hawaiian melebor.
English mele
Borrowed from Hawaiian mele.
Inflected forms:
form: mele
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: meles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chant in Polynesia, especially Hawaii, typically in praise of a leader or to commemorate some significant event.
pos: noun
examples: Lili‘u set to work assisting Fornander by translating mele and legends for him.
Translations:
reassurance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
insurance
law
Etymology: From re- + assurance.
Base: assurance
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: reassurances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: re-assurance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump’s election victory was “not the apocalypse”. By any definition, he was correct. But understood in the original sense of the Greek word apokálypsis, meaning “unveiling”, Obama could not give the same reassurance in 2025.
gloss: The act of confirming someone's opinion or impression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "The PM’s private reassurances are worthless given her track record of u-turns and her clear desperation to cling to power."
gloss: Reinsurance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: reassure
Translations:
tensing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tensings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making something tense.
pos: noun
examples: tensings of the muscles
Translations:
krump
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Early 21st century, probably an alteration of crunk.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Krumping: an energetic style of hip-hop dance
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Martin Douglas has several projects on the go, including a Monday evening basketball game with students and other teens in the community, as well as a weekly "krumping out crime" where students gather after school in the cafeteria to do homework, and then learn krump, the urban dance style.
Translations:
courthouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From court + house.
Compound parts: court
house
Inflected forms:
form: courthouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A public building housing courts of law.
pos: noun
gloss: The public building where most American counties have their county offices.
pos: noun
tags: US
Synonyms: court
courthouse
Related words: court of law
Derived words: Amelia Courthouse
Charlotte Court House
Gloucester Courthouse
King and Queen Court House
Spotsylvania Courthouse
Washington Court House
Translations:
badlands
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From earlier Bad Lands, calque of Canadian French mauvaises terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota Makȟóšiča (from makȟá (“land”) + o- (attributive prefix) + šíča (“bad”)).
Base: makȟá
Affixes: o-
Inflected forms:
form: badlands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: badland
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Bad Lands
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
pos: noun
examples: Not only do the Bad Lands present a most attractive field to the student of erosion and of the origin of earth forms, but their deathlike solitudes have been made to yield the most wonderful procession of strange extinct animals yet unearthed by geologists.
No one has ever described better the shaggy badlands and cabbage-patches round the edges of a city, where the debris of civilization piles up ramshackle suburbs in which starve and scheme all manner of human detritus.
Translations:
badman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bad + man.
Compound parts: bad
man
Inflected forms:
form: badmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A violence-prone man who has had run-ins with the law; especially one from the Old West days of U.S. history.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
examples: Billy the Kid was a badman.
gloss: A gangster.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
Related words: bad guy
gunslinger
Translations:
baptistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English baptistery, baptisterie, from Ecclesiastical Latin baptistērium, from Ancient Greek βαπτιστήριον (baptistḗrion); equivalent to baptism + -ry.
Base: baptism
Affixes: -ry
Inflected forms:
form: baptistries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: baptistery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed.
pos: noun
gloss: An indoor pool used for baptism by immersion.
pos: noun
Related words: baptism
baptist
baptize
Translations:
cannoli
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cannoli (plural of cannolo) or Sicilian cannoli (plural of cannolu); see there for more.
Inflected forms:
form: cannolis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cannoli
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cannolo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cannolu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tube of fried pastry, typical of Sicily, filled with ricotta or similar cream cheese, and flavorings, eaten as a dessert.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Translations:
huckle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From huck (from Middle English hoke (“hook”), hokebone, probably so called because of its round shape) + -le. See also hook.
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: huckles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: huckles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: huckling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: huckled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: huckled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The hip, the haunch.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: […] which approves a quick gathering up of his legs withoute pain, his huckle bones round and hidden, […]
At what time Don Quixote, who had very much bruis'd his Huckle-bone, with a Hipshot grace approaching the Lady fell upon his Knees […]
Next, the hand may be laid upon his huckle-bones, and if the parts there likewise feel firm, round, and plump, it may be safely concluded that he is well fed both externally and internally, — that is, both in flesh and tallow.
gloss: A bunch or part projecting like the hip.
pos: noun
gloss: A homosexual man.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
derogatory
examples: When moving into our present dwelling some 6 months ago..the puchase^([sic]) of a new bed was of primary importance.The puchase^([sic]) was completed by a right huckle who didn`t realise the importance of the "squeek"^([sic]) factor in the purchase of such an item.
He’s not! He can’t be! There's never been a huckle in the Osbourne family, and we can trace our lineage all the way back to the Second World War.
Sorry !
 Only into birds.
Why not get yourself along to the SOL. Plenty of huckles there.
gloss: To apprehend or arrest.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
examples: He was awakened by a couple of burly police officers and huckled out to a waiting van.
Then one day when I was at school, police with motorbike helmets came to the door with a big red battering ram and dragged Dad out of his bed while he was sleeping off a massive booze binge and huckled him downtown to read him his rights, throw the damn book at him and charge him for 'aggravated armed robbery'.
I could huckle your right now for what you've got in that top drawer.
Derived words: huckle bone
Translations:
mero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish merobor.
English mero
Borrowed from Spanish mero.
Inflected forms:
form: meros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several large groupers of warm seas.
pos: noun
Translations:
cassata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cassata (“cassata siciliana”), from Sicilian cassata, probably from Vulgar Latin *cāseāta, from cāseus (“cheese”). Compare Maltese qassata (“savoury pastry with ricotta filling”), confirming that the use of ricotta cheese is what unites all of the relevant dishes (and hence probably the original meaning).
Inflected forms:
form: cassatas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of tutti-frutti or Neapolitan ice cream with nuts and candied fruits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of cassata siciliana.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Pastafarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of pasta + Rastafarian.
Compound parts: pasta
Rastafarian
Inflected forms:
form: more Pastafarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Pastafarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Pastafarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Pastafarianism.
pos: adj
examples: Something flashed by Theo and he spun to see Gabe Fenton running hell-bent-for-leather at the window, holding before him a long stainless-steel pan full of lasagna, evidently intent upon diving through the window in a pastafarian act of self-sacrifice.
gloss: A claimed follower of Pastafarianism.
pos: noun
examples: "Pastafarians" — as followers call themselves — can also download computer screen-savers and wallpaper (one says: "WWFSMD?") and can sample photographs that show "visions" of the divinity himself.
Pirates are revered as the original Pastafarians, and Pastafarians facetiously assert that a steady decline in the number of pirates has resulted in a significant rise in global temperature.
Translations:
discreetly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English discreet
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English discreetly
From discreet + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more discreetly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most discreetly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Acting in a discreet manner; acting in a way that respects privacy or secrecy; quietly
pos: adv
examples: Mao was animated and following every nuance of the conversation, but I could see that he was also becoming very tired. Chou had been discreetly glancing at his watch with increasing frequency, so I decided that I should try to bring the session to a close.
gloss: inconspicuously
pos: adv
examples: And, placed discreetly among these commonplaces, a few pieces of genuine quality, bizarrely distinguished by craftsmanship from the vulgar products of the machine.
A Forest Trail and wild life hides lie 2 miles to the north-east. Blue hares, deer, wild geese, herons and duck can be discreetly observed from the hides.
Translations:
discretely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English discrete
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 discretely
From discrete + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more discretely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most discretely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: As a separate independent unit.
pos: adv
Translations:
retaining
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: retainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to something that retains something else, as with a retaining wall.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The act by which something or someone is retained; a retention.
pos: noun
examples: All retainings by indenture before that date were declared null and void 'other than to be the household servant or officer or of his [the lord's] council for lawful service done or to be done'.
Translations:
granita
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian granita, from granire (“to granulate”). Compare granite.
Inflected forms:
form: granitas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Italian dessert of fruit purée etc. on crushed ice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For summer, add a new one: granita (pronounced gra-KNEE-ta), a cold coffee concoction.
You're gonna think I'm insane, but that's actually delicious. It's kind of like a savory granita.
Translations:
follies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French folies.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A lavishly-produced theatrical revue characterized by major stars, huge casts, and opulent costumes and scenery.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
uncountable
examples: The most famous Broadway theatrical revues of all time were the Ziegfeld Follies.
Translations:
intussusception
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French intussusception, or directly from Latin intussusceptiō, from intus (“within”) + susceptiō (“susception”).
Inflected forms:
form: intussusceptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The invagination of one portion of a tubular anatomical structure (especially intestines or blood vessels) within the next.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Absorption.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
Translations:
bottler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English boteller, botullere, equivalent to bottle + -er. Piecewise doublet of butler.
Base: bottle
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: bottlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person, company, or thing who bottles, especially in bulk.
pos: noun
examples: They shall provide all bottlers with face guards,[…].
1994 May 30, Shawn Willett, PC tools help Coke add life to flat AS/400 data, InfoWorld, page 63,
Such data is of great value both to the bottlers and to Coca-Cola′s sales and marketing groups.
“When the bottler looks at this information, he might be interested in how a certain supermarket is performing, while we in the company are interested in how much, for example, McDonald’s is buying in the Southeast,” Aviles notes.
Note 8, “Noncontrolled Bottling Affiliates” (Appendix A), indicates that PepsiCo owns approximately 40 percent of the common stock of some of its bottlers.
Maritime Transport runs a train from the bottler of Cola-Cola in Tilbury, six days a week. It started in 2022, and the bottler says it will save four million road miles a year and 15,000 lorry journeys, moving 2.5 million cans and bottles on the train each day.
gloss: A truck used for transporting bottled goods in crates.
pos: noun
gloss: A person or group that fails to meet expectations, especially one prone to such failure. Frequently used in reference to the Cork senior hurlers.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: A Punchman's assistant who collects money ("bottle") from the audience.
pos: noun
Related words: butler
Derived words: water bottler
Translations:
hygroscopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French hygroscopique.
Inflected forms:
form: more hygroscopic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hygroscopic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Readily taking up and retaining water, especially from the atmosphere.
pos: adj
tags: physical
examples: The tissues of Ralfsia are dense and the cells are extremely hygroscopic. The plants may become almost crisp dry in the sun, yet remain alive and continue growth with the first splash of the incoming tide.
All fertilizers tested are drillable at relative humidities below 50 per cent, but no fertilizer remains drillable when exposed to a humidity above its hygroscopic point.
Translations:
inclosed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more inclosed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inclosed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: enclosed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Surrounded.
pos: adj
gloss: Contained within something.
pos: adj
examples: The grass was now long and green upon Guido's grave, and filled with small, pale wild flowers. A heavy cloud rested over the inclosed space, where the black yews waved dismally; while, far away, the sunshine reposed on the distant height.
Then dots of white and black told him there were cattle of other colors in this inclosed valley.
Derived words: uninclosed
Translations:
arthralgia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin arthralgia. By surface analysis, arthr- (“joint”) + -algia (“pain”).
Inflected forms:
form: arthralgias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Joint pain: pain in a joint, especially when not caused by arthritis.
pos: noun
Translations:
slapping
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more slapping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slapping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act of giving a slap or slaps
pos: noun
gloss: The slap bass technique
pos: noun
gloss: Very large; whopping.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: It remains to be seen whether she will retain her coat after whelping; if she does, then Americans will be able to admire a slapping great collie bitch — a matron of the robust kind yet retaining all those graces of the collie female of quality.
Translations:
top-level
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: top + level
Inflected forms:
form: top-levels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Highest.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Best.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Applied to domains at the highest level, such as .uk covering all sites for the United Kingdom.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
not-comparable
gloss: read-eval-print loop
pos: noun
Derived words: top-level domain
Translations:
advisory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Latin ad
Old French a
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *widēō
Latin videō
Latin vīsus
Old French vis
Old French avis
Old French aviserbor.
Middle English avisen
▲
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-(h₁)seti
Proto-Indo-European *wéydseti
Proto-Italic *weidsō
Latin visō
Late Latin advisōder.
English advise
English -ory
English advisory
From advise + -ory.
Inflected forms:
form: more advisory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most advisory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: advisories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to give advice.
pos: adj
examples: The advisory committee could only offer advice, but since that was almost always accepted they had real power.
gloss: Containing advice; advising.
pos: adj
examples: The consultant's advisory recommendations were selectively adopted.
gloss: A warning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The Coast Guard issued a small craft advisory, warning little boats to watch out for bad weather.
Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to Ogunquit, Maine, have been under advisories warning about water quality this week because of elevated levels of bacteria associated with fecal waste.
gloss: A warning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Supervision by an advisor.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
possibly
uncommon
uncountable
examples: Every morning, every 20 students on discipline, will [be under] the advisory of one teacher for 20 minutes.
After that, however, the village made steady progress in establishing a system of collective agriculture and communal organization under the advisory of the SERA.
Related words: adviso
aviso
Derived words: advisorily
advisory letter
advisory opinion
nonadvisory
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: предупреждение
roman: predupreždenie
lang: Finnish
word: tiedotus
lang: Finnish
word: varoitus
lang: French
word: alerte
lang: French
word: bulletin d'alerte
lang: Hungarian
word: figyelmeztetés
lang: Italian
word: avvertenza
lang: Russian
word: предупрежде́ние
roman: predupreždénije
lang: Spanish
word: alerta
lang: Spanish
word: aviso
lang: Spanish
word: informe
blackhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *blakaz
Proto-West Germanic *blak
Old English blæc
Middle English blak
English black
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
English blackhead
From black + head.
Inflected forms:
form: blackheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: See there! A son is born
And we pronounce him fit to fight
There are blackheads on his shoulders
And he pees himself in the night.
Wallace sees a cluster of tiny blackheads at the corner of his nose.
gloss: A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: blackheaded
Translations:
blacktop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From black + top.
Compound parts: black
top
Inflected forms:
form: blacktops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: black top
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: black-top
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: blacktops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blacktopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blacktopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blacktopped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: black top
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: black-top
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: Then I was around the hill on the blacktop and in another country.
gloss: A road so paved.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
gloss: A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
examples: At one time, students were able to play basketball on the blacktop behind the school building, and teachers were also able to park on campus. Now, teachers park on the streets, and there is no place for students to let off steam with casual, non-organized sports before or after school.
From the dismissive receptionist in the main office to the lines on the school blacktop for dropping off and picking up children, schools often make parents feel that they must justify their presence.
gloss: To pave with blacktop.
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: The county first blacktopped that road decades ago
Translations:
custodian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a shortening of Latin custōdiānātus, from Latin custōdia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custōs (“a keeper, watchman, guard”). By surface analysis, custody + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: custodians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person entrusted with the custody or care of something or someone; a caretaker or keeper.
pos: noun
examples: After their parents' death, their aunt became the children's custodian.
The building's custodian could fix nearly anything. The place always looked great!
The middle class is the. demitone of human society, custodian of the balance, and no fair social order could exist without the cooperation of this class.
Dr. Weber and her colleagues are the latest custodians of the Beal seed viability experiment: a multicentury attempt to figure out how long seeds can lie dormant in the soil without losing their ability to germinate.
gloss: An administrator.
pos: noun
gloss: A gaolkeeper.
pos: noun
gloss: A protector or guard.
pos: noun
gloss: A janitor; a cleaner.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Related words: custodial
custody
Derived words: cryptocustodian
custodianship
Translations:
unsettled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more unsettled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsettled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Disturbed, upset.
pos: adj
examples: I was unsettled by the sudden outburst, and since I didn't know what to do I just stood there, confused.
Universal Directory of Railway Officials and Railway Year Book, 1946-47. […] Although the preparation of the fifty-second edition of this well-known work proved a far from easy task, owing to the continuance of unsettled conditions in many parts of the world, the response to the endeavours of the publishers to obtain accurate and complete information has exceeded anything that would have been possible twelve months earlier.
gloss: Not in a steady condition, uncertain, subject to change.
pos: adj
gloss: Not populated, having no settlers or other inhabitants.
pos: adj
gloss: Unpaid.
pos: adj
examples: We need to settle this bill; even if you think the charge is too high we can't just leave it unsettled.
Translations:
nondenominational
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English denomination
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 denominational
English nondenominational
From non- + denominational.
Inflected forms:
form: non-denominational
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nondenom
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: non-denom
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nondenominationals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: non-denominational
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nondenom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: non-denom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having no denomination; not specific to a particular religion or sect.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There will be a nondenominational service, open to all, on Saturday beneath the redwoods.
gloss: One who does not belong to a specific denomination.
pos: noun
Translations:
wetware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wet
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Germanic *samþuz /*samftuz
Proto-Germanic *-jaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)
Old English sōfte
Middle English softe
English soft
Proto-Germanic *warō
Proto-West Germanic *waru
Old English waru
Middle English ware
English -ware
English softwarebf.
English -ware
English wetware
From wet + -ware (suffix denoting a type of software).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The human brain or mind, likened to a computer part.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: What is not understood is the power hunger that resides in what the psychiatrist Kenneth Colby calls the "wetware"— the human brain about which we know very little except that it is composed of about 75 percent water.
… cyberpunk dream to leave behind the fallible "meat" or "wetware" of the body by entering the datasphere ...
Over the weekend, an impressive crossword-solving computer program, called Dr. Fill, which I wrote about earlier, matched its digital wits against the wetware of 600 of the nation’s best human solvers at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn.
gloss: The human brain or mind, likened to a computer part.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncommon
uncountable
gloss: The underlying generative code for an organism, as found in the genetic material, in the biochemistry of the cells, or in the architecture of the body’s tissues.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
woundwort
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wound + wort.
Compound parts: wound
wort
Inflected forms:
form: woundworts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: liverwort
lungwort
spleenwort
toothwort
Derived words: clown's woundwort
corn woundwort
field woundwort
hedge woundwort
marsh woundwort
soldier's woundwort
Translations:
lang: German
word: Berufskraut
lang: German
word: Berufkraut
lang: German
word: Wundkraut
lang: Russian
word: око́пник
roman: okópnik
lang: Russian
word: костоло́мка
roman: kostolómka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ranjenica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: okopnik
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kostolomka
lang: Swedish
word: sårväxt
poultice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pultes, from Latin pultes, plural of puls. The phonological development from Middle English is regular; compare poultry.
Inflected forms:
form: poultices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poultices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: poulticing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: poulticed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: poulticed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A soft, moist mass, usually wrapped in cloth and warmed, that is applied topically to a sore, aching or lesioned part of the body to soothe it.
pos: noun
examples: The poultice relaxeth the pores.
Sties in the eye are irritating and disfiguring. Foment with warm water; at night apply a bread-and-milk poultice.
gloss: A porous solid filled with solvent, used to remove stains from porous stone such as marble or granite.
pos: noun
gloss: To treat with a poultice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: cataplasm
Derived words: bread poultice
poulticelike
poultice pavement
poulticewise
Translations:
well-born
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-born
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-born
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Noble; born into the upper classes.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: born to the purple, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, to the manor born
Translations:
stainless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stain
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 stainless
From stain + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing an alloy that is resistant to corrosion and discoloration.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Lead is used as part of the tumbler’s vacuum insulation and is covered by a stainless steel layer that protects consumers from lead exposure, according to the Stanley cup manufacturer, Pacific Market International.
gloss: Unmarked, spotless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Free from sin; morally pure.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: After that there were boastings in Hereot! Then did the warriors brag before their stainless queen.
Derived words: stainlessly
stainlessness
Translations:
exchequer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tek-
Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati
Proto-Iranian *xšáyati
Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ)
Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ)
Classical Persian شاه (šāh)bor.
Arabic شَاه (šāh)bor.
Medieval Latin scaccus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Medieval Latin -ārius
Medieval Latin -ārium
Medieval Latin scaccarium
Anglo-Norman eschekerbor.
Middle English escheker
English exchequer
From Middle English escheker, from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Medieval Latin scaccarium. This is because the cloth on which the treasurer counted money was chequered like a chessboard.
Inflected forms:
form: exchequers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: exchecker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: exchequers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exchequering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exchequered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exchequered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: exchecker
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An office of revenue taxation; a treasury.
pos: noun
gloss: An available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose.
pos: noun
examples: "A couple, eh, my girl?" he replied, fishing deeply into both his trouser pockets. "You don't mean tanners by any chance? Well, that's the state of the exchequer." Two sixpences and a few coppers were the result of his investigation.
gloss: To proceed against (a person) in the Court of Exchequer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: Exchequer
exchequer bill
exchequership
Translations:
trippy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trip
English -y
English trippy
From trip + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: trippier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: trippiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Strange, surreal, similar to the effects of a hallucinogen.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Someone says there's something more to pay
for sins that you committed yesterday;
it's really rather drippy
but something oh so trippy.
Something happened to me yesterday.
Arguably, without Jones, Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969-74) would not have revolutionised British TV comedy. He was key in developing the show’s distinctively trippy, stream-of-consciousness format, where each surreal set-up (the Lumberjack Song, the upper-class twit of the year show, the dead parrot, or the fish-slapping dance) flowed into the next, unpunctuated by punchlines.
Translations:
catwalk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: fashion
lifestyle
nautical
transport
Etymology: From cat + walk.
Compound parts: cat
walk
Inflected forms:
form: catwalks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel.
pos: noun
gloss: Any similar elevated walkway.
pos: noun
examples: The lengthening [of the District Line platforms] is being done so that passengers will no longer have to use the narrow catwalks to enter and leave the front and rear portions of eight-car trains.
gloss: A narrow elevated stage on which models parade.
pos: noun
gloss: The business of making clothes for fashion shows.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Derived words: catwalklike
Translations:
pulverise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English pulverizen, from Latin pulverizō, pulverizāre, from pulvis (“powder”). Compare French pulvériser. By surface analysis, pulver (“powder”) + -ise.
Inflected forms:
form: pulverises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pulverising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pulverised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pulverised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pulverize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To render into dust or powder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To defeat soundly, thrash.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: the stone pulverises easily
Synonyms: pulver
Related words: nebulize
vaporize
Derived words: pulveriser
Translations:
untranslatable
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 translatable
English untranslatable
From un- + translatable.
Inflected forms:
form: more untranslatable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most untranslatable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: untranslatables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not able to be translated.
pos: adj
examples: They referred to de Gaulle as a chienlit, a totally untranslatable term that suggests defecation in bed.
This glyph's data contains references to energy conversion or respiration; however, it may also be describing a transformation via some untranslatable process. It pays close attention to mass-energy equivalence, though the ratios are strange.
In translating untranslatable words, there is a need to use a sentence or phrase before the message can be passed across.
gloss: A word or phrase that is impossible to translate satisfactorily from one language to another.
pos: noun
Antonyms: translatable
Translations: