yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
regression
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
sports
statistics
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin regressio. Equivalent to regress + -ion.
The statistics sense comes from regression to the mean.
Base: regress
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: regressions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.
gloss: An action of travelling mentally back in time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have done past life regressions on my own through self-hypnosis techniques that I learned in Brian Weiss's book Many Lives, Many Masters as well as with past life regression tapes.
gloss: A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A social norm hypothesis [of crime] that focuses on the social meaning of order cannot be tested by a single time frame regression of neighborhood disorder and crime. That is simply asking too much of the data.
Supervised learning problems are categorized into "regression" and "classification" problems. In a regression problem, we are trying to predict results within a continuous output, meaning that we are trying to map input variables to some continuous function.
gloss: An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: progression
Derived words: age regression
angioregression
autoregression
regression testing
deregression
Down syndrome regression disorder
kitchen sink regression
metaregression
neuroregression
nonregression
pet regression
regressional
regressionary
regressionism
regressionist
regression toward the mean
regression tree
sleep regression
regression to the mean
vasoregression
proregression
Translations:
drugging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: druggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of giving a dose of drugs (to a person or animal), especially illicitly and improperly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: alleged druggings of horses
In a small handful of cases, courts have held that state horseracing authorities failed to establish that trainers were responsible for alleged druggings of horses while under their care[…]
gloss: The habit of using drugs; drug use.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: She finally quit all that drinking and drugging that was ruining her life.
Translations:
drugged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more drugged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most drugged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing one or more drugs; laced with drugs.
pos: adj
Translations:
hireling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hirlyng, from Old English hȳrling (“hireling, employee”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀijuling. Cognate with West Frisian hierling, Dutch huurling (“hireling, mercenary”), German Low German Hüürling,
German Heuerling. By surface analysis, hire + -ling.
Base: hire
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: hirelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
usually
examples: Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes alſo like the dayes of an hireling?
When my poor James was in the small-pox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?
gloss: Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
usually
examples: […]it may bee truely affirmed, that no kinde of men loue buſineſſe for it ſelfe, but thoſe that are learned; for other perſons loue it for profite; as an hireling that loues the worke for the wages;
These vain bickerings / Are spawn'd in courts by base intrigues and baser / Hirelings, who live by lies on good men's lives.
gloss: A horse for hire.
pos: noun
examples: In the afternoon they went to a neighbouring livery stables to look for hirellings.
gloss: A prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: flunky
lackey
mercenary
Related words: underling
Translations:
downwind
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English down-
English wind
English downwind
From down- + wind.
Inflected forms:
form: further downwind
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: farther downwind
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more downwind
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: furthest downwind
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: farthest downwind
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most downwind
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in the same direction as the wind is blowing
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: ... the aftermath of the dust-storm came up and caught us both, and drove us downwind like pieces of paper.
The six birds on their downwind leg have already started to get their "gear down," meaning they have partially rotated their legs forward in a position that will be vertical by the moment of touch down.
gloss: positioned relative to something in such a way that it can be smelled in the wind
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: I don't want to live downwind from a pig farm.
gloss: in the direction opposite that of landing in a traffic pattern
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
usually
Synonyms: leeward
Antonyms: upwind
windward
Derived words: downwinder
Translations:
cowpoke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cow + poke.
Compound parts: cow
poke
Inflected forms:
form: cowpokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cowhand (one who tends free-range cattle)
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: A 19th-century device used around the necks of cows and other livestock to prevent them from challenging fencing. The action of the device was to poke the cow when the device came into contact with the fence.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
Synonyms: cowhand
cowperson
cow-puncher
Translations:
well-spoken
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-spoken
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-spoken
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Eloquent and able with regards to speech.
pos: adj
examples: You give the well-spoken young man the time. The well-spoken young man, keeping well up with you, resumes: "I am aware sir that it is a liberty to intrude a further question on a gentleman walking for his entertainment […]
To get a minimum-wage employee, the company settled for a woman barely out of high school who was not well-spoken, and while she didn't cost much, the problem was that she was the first impression callers had of this multimillion dollar company.
However well spoken a lawyer might be and however powerful an orator he may be, at the end the judge will make a decision based on legal statutes.
They've obviously never met before, but are getting on like a house on fire. Both are well-spoken and versed in the Queen's English.
Translations:
crackerjack
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crack
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English jack
English crackerjack
From crack (“highly skilled, excellent”) + -er + jack (“man”).
Inflected forms:
form: more crackerjack
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crackerjack
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crackajack
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: crack-a-jack
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: cracker-jack
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: cracker jack
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: crackerjacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crackajack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: crack-a-jack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cracker-jack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cracker jack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Exceptionally fine or excellent; top-notch; high quality.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: cracking
gloss: Expert, top-rated or high-performing.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: cracking
gloss: An exceptionally fine or excellent thing or person.
pos: noun
gloss: An expert or top-rated individual (e.g., a marksman).
pos: noun
Translations:
well-meaning
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From well + meaning.
Compound parts: well
meaning
Inflected forms:
form: more well-meaning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-meaning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With good intentions, often used to reflect positively on a negative outcome or situation.
pos: adj
examples: The professor is well-meaning enough, but he usually ruins things one way or another.
In the first scene, he bites the arm of a well-meaning counselor at the group home and dashes out of the building, all in a vain attempt to locate the father who abandoned him.
Translations:
eventuate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: American English, from Latin ēventu(s) (“an event, happening”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), perhaps modeled after actuate.
Base: ēventus
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: eventuates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eventuating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: eventuated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: eventuated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To have a given result; to turn out (well, badly etc.); to result in.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the empancipation of the proletariat.
Enoch Powell appeared to insult the memory of Dr. King by making a speech warning that “colored” immigration to Britain would eventuate in bloodshed.
These efforts would eventuate in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, yet another piece of legislation that struck at a principle of the New Deal order.
gloss: To happen as a result; to come about.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Reconciliation cannot eventuate or materialise until the proper legal procedures have been followed, that is without interference from external forces.
Related words: event
eventualize
eventually
Translations:
well-thought-of
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-thought-of
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-thought-of
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Highly esteemed; well regarded.
pos: adj
examples: He is a well-thought-of and endearing old fellow.
Translations:
ravishingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ravishing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ravishingly
From ravishing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ravishingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ravishingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a ravishing or beautiful manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
crinoline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French crinolinebor.
English crinoline
Borrowed from French crinoline.
Inflected forms:
form: crinolines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A stiff petticoat made from this fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These standards have not just been oppressive but deadly. In the nineteenth century, stiff crinoline petticoats puffed out skirts so far that the cheap materials often brushed against open flames and caught fire. This arbitrary convention of dress caused three thousand women to be burned alive.
gloss: A skirt stiffened with hoops.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The various articles of a lady's apparel—dresses, skirts, crinolines, etc.—should be hung neatly away in the closet or wardrobe. The underclothing should be folded and placed in an orderly manner in the drawers of the dressing-bureau.
gloss: Any of the hoops making up the framework used to support cladding over a boiler.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Netting placed around ships to guard against torpedoes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: crinolette
crinolined
Translations:
crossfire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Germanic *fōr
Proto-West Germanic *fuir
Old English fȳr
Middle English fyr
English fire
English crossfire
From cross- + fire.
Inflected forms:
form: crossfires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An arrangement of two or more weapons so each can fire diagonally at something in front of a line between them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The danger to a third party passing between two belligerents firing at one another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The two factions were either side of the road. A civilian lorry was caught in the crossfire and became collateral damage
gloss: The danger to a third party passing between a gunman and his target.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A woman who was caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting in north London on Tuesday evening was not the intended target, police have said.
gloss: A heated confrontation between opposing factions.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Assamese
word: গুলীয়াগুলী
roman: guliaguli
lang: Bulgarian
word: кръ́стосан о́гън
roman: krǎ́stosan ógǎn
lang: Catalan
word: foc creuat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 交火
roman: jiāohuǒ
lang: Czech
word: křížová palba
lang: Danish
word: krydsild
lang: Finnish
word: ristituli
lang: French
word: feux croisés
lang: German
word: Kreuzfeuer
lang: Hebrew
word: אֵשׁ צוֹלֶבֶת
roman: esh tzolévet
lang: Hungarian
word: kereszttűz
lang: Italian
word: fuoco incrociato
lang: Japanese
word: 十字砲火
roman: jūjihōka
lang: Polish
word: ogień krzyżowy
lang: Portuguese
word: fogo cruzado
lang: Russian
word: перекрёстный ого́нь
roman: perekrjóstnyj ogónʹ
lang: Spanish
word: fuego cruzado
lang: Swedish
word: korseld
lang: Turkish
word: çapraz ateş
lang: Ukrainian
word: перехре́сний вого́нь
roman: perexrésnyj vohónʹ
nim
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English nimen, from Old English niman (“to take”), from Proto-West Germanic *neman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną (“to take”), from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to give or take one's due”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian nieme (“to take”), West Frisian nimme (“to take”), Dutch nemen (“to take”), Low German nehmen (“to take”), German nehmen (“to take”), Danish nemme (“to learn, grasp”). Related to numb and nimble.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A game in which players take turns removing objects from heaps.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
crosscurrent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
English current
English crosscurrent
From cross- + current.
Inflected forms:
form: crosscurrents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A turbulent stretch of water caused by multiple currents.
pos: noun
gloss: A current in a body of water running counter to the main current or direction of travel.
pos: noun
gloss: A situation in which there are conflicting opinions.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Related words: crosswind
Translations:
crosstown
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
English town
English crosstown
From cross- + town.
Inflected forms:
form: cross-town
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: cross-town
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Extending across a city or town.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
gloss: Connecting different areas of a city or town without passing through downtown.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1968 Simon and Garfunkel - "At the Zoo" on "Bookends"
But you can take the crosstown bus / If it's raining or it's cold, / And the animals will love it / If you do.
gloss: Situated at the other end of town.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The football team beat our crosstown rivals last night.
gloss: To the other side of a city or town.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: In 1979, what was to become PBG started as a rap group for Blacks that met regularly at the Gay Community Center, then housed in a modest building just off the artsy-craftsy South Street. […] The white man who ran the center gave the Black group increasingly smaller rooms in which to meet. […] When they gave the group a broom closet, the Blacks moved crosstown to the Friends Center; and PBG, Inc. was born.
Translations:
crosswind
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
English wind
English crosswind
From cross- + wind.
Inflected forms:
form: crosswinds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: xwind
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A wind blowing across a line of travel, especially perpendicularly.
pos: noun
examples: Correlation of the DFDR and CVR recordings disclosed that the flightcrew had set the flaps and stabilizer trim at 10° and about 5° aircraft noseup, respectively, for takeoff. A rolling takeoff was made, takeoff thrust was stabilized at 80 KIAS, and left rudder and right aileron were used to compensate for the right crosswind. The V₁ and V_R callouts were made about 2 sec after these speeds were recorded by the DFDR.
As part of its application, Macy's submitted "balloon control plans" describing how handlers, under the direction of a "pilot," were to navigate through intersections, where crosswinds can destabilize the balloons.
Translations:
cryosurgery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κρῠ́ος (krŭ́os)lbor.
English cryo-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōr
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr
Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər
Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír)
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Hellenic *wérgon
Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon)
Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós)
Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek χειρουργέω (kheirourgéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek χειρουργίᾱ̆ (kheirourgíā̆)bor.
Latin chīrūrgiader.
Old French surgie
Old French surgeriebor.
Middle English surgerie
English surgery
English cryosurgery
From cryo- + surgery.
Inflected forms:
form: cryosurgeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of a probe containing liquid nitrogen to freeze and thus destroy tissue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
culottes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French culottes f pl.
Inflected forms:
form: culotte
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: A type of loose shorts which look like a skirt; a divided skirt.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
Translations:
east-northeast
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: east northeast
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: east-north-east
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ENE
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: east northeast
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: east-north-east
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ENE
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: east northeast
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: east-north-east
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: ENE
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: The compass point halfway between northeast and east; specifically at a bearing of 67.5°.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of, in or pertaining to the east-northeast; east-northeastern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Situated toward or in the direction of the east-northeast; east-northeastward; east-northeasterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An east-northeast course.
gloss: Coming from the east-northeast; east-northeasterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An east-northeast wind.
gloss: Towards or in the direction of the east-northeast; east-northeastwards.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are travelling east-northeast at the moment.
Translations:
east-southeast
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: east southeast
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: east-south-east
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ESE
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: east southeast
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: east-south-east
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ESE
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: east southeast
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: east-south-east
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: ESE
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: The compass point halfway between east and southeast; specifically at a bearing of 112.5°.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of, in or pertaining to the east-southeast; east-southeastern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Situated toward or in the direction of the east-southeast; east-southeastward; east-southeasterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An east-southeast course.
gloss: Coming from the east-southeast; east-southeasterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An east-southeast wind.
gloss: Towards or in the direction of the east-southeast; east-southeastwards.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are travelling east-southeast at the moment.
Translations:
south-southeast
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: south southeast
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: south-south-east
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sou'-sou'-east
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: SSE
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: south southeast
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: south-south-east
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sou'-sou'-east
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: SSE
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: south southeast
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: south-south-east
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: sou'-sou'-east
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: SSE
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: The compass point halfway between southeast and south; specifically at a bearing of 157.5°.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of, in or pertaining to the south-southeast; south-southeastern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Situated toward or in the direction of the south-southeast; south-southeastward; south-southeasterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A south-southeast course.
gloss: Coming from the south-southeast; south-southeasterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A south-southeast wind.
gloss: Towards or in the direction of the south-southeast; south-southeastwards.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are travelling south-southeast at the moment.
Translations:
south-southwest
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: south southwest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: south-south-west
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sou'-sou'-west
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: SSW
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: south southwest
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: south-south-west
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sou'-sou'-west
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: SSW
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: south southwest
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: south-south-west
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: sou'-sou'-west
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: SSW
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: The compass point halfway between south and southwest; specifically at a bearing of 202.5°.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of, in or pertaining to the south-southwest; south-southwestern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Situated toward or in the direction of the south-southwest; south-southwestward; south-southwesterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A south-southwest course.
gloss: Coming from the south-southwest; south-southwesterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A south-southwest wind.
gloss: Towards or in the direction of the south-southwest; south-southwestwards.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are travelling south-southwest at the moment.
Translations:
west-southwest
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: west southwest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: west-south-west
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: WSW
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: west southwest
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: west-south-west
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: WSW
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: west southwest
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: west-south-west
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: WSW
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: The compass point halfway between southwest and west; specifically at a bearing of 247.5°.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of, in or pertaining to the west-southwest; west-southwestern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Situated toward or in the direction of the west-southwest; west-southwestward; west-southwesterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A west-southwest course.
gloss: Coming from the west-southwest; west-southwesterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A west-southwest wind.
gloss: Towards or in the direction of the west-southwest; west-southwestwards.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are travelling west-southwest at the moment.
Translations:
west-northwest
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: west northwest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: west-north-west
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: WNW
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: west northwest
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: west-north-west
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: WNW
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: west northwest
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: west-north-west
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: WNW
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: The compass point halfway between west and northwest; specifically at a bearing of 292.5°.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of, in or pertaining to the west-northwest; west-northwestern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Situated toward or in the direction of the west-northwest; west-northwestward; west-northwesterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A west-northwest course.
gloss: Coming from the west-northwest; west-northwesterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A west-northwest wind.
gloss: Towards or in the direction of the west-northwest; west-northwestwards.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are travelling west-northwest at the moment.
Translations:
cuckoldry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cuckold
English -ry
English cuckoldry
From cuckold + -ry.
Inflected forms:
form: cuckoldries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of adultery committed by a married woman against her husband.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: How many such-like cuckoldries are there in histories, procured by the Gods against seely mortall men?
gloss: The state of being a cuckold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By the end of 2017, it was clear that Homo politicus, like his allies in Hollywood and the media, tends not towards cuckoldry but a 21st-century equivalent of the droit du seigneur.
gloss: Among certain male fish, the practice of interrupting a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: adultery
cheating
cuckoldry
infidelity
promiscuity
two-timing
unfaithfulness
Antonyms: fidelity
faithfulness
Related words: cuckoldize
cuckold
cuckquean
cuckolder
Derived words: cuckoldize
Translations:
exhilarated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more exhilarated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exhilarated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a state of high spirits.
pos: adj
Translations:
tetrapod
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tetra- + -pod. Doublet of quadruped.
Base: tetra
Inflected forms:
form: tetrapods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any item with four arms or four feet, such as a light stand, a gun mount, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: Any item with four arms or four feet, such as a light stand, a gun mount, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of vertebrate animal
pos: noun
gloss: A type of vertebrate animal
pos: noun
gloss: A type of vertebrate animal
pos: noun
gloss: Having four limbs or feet
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: fishapod
nontetrapod
prototetrapod
Translations:
stereogram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stereo + gram.
Compound parts: stereo
gram
Inflected forms:
form: stereograms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stereoscopic image.
pos: noun
gloss: An early stereophonic music centre containing a gramophone and radio, and often storage space for records.
pos: noun
Derived words: autostereogram
hyperstereogram
Translations:
stereograph
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stereo- + -graph.
Base: stereo
Inflected forms:
form: stereographs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stereographs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stereographing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stereographed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stereographed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pair of stereoscopic images that give a three-dimensional effect when viewed through a stereoscope or similar device.
pos: noun
gloss: To create a stereograph of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
stereophonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From stereo- + -phonic, by analogy with stereoscopic.
Inflected forms:
form: more stereophonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stereophonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to sound reproduction using two or sometimes more channels played at different locations to simulate the separation of sources along at least one spatial dimension.
pos: adj
examples: […] this 1953 Hansel und Gretel is a classic example of how a well produced mono recording can seem more stereophonic than many of its later stereophonic rivals.
Translations:
stereopsis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stereo- + -opsis.
Base: stereo
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Stereoscopic vision.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
widow-maker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
forestry
government
medicine
military
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From widow + maker. For sense 4, compare German Witwenmacher.
Base: widow
Inflected forms:
form: widow-makers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: widow maker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: widowmaker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something which or someone who takes a person's life, particularly men; a lethal hazard that affects mostly men or is specific to a primarily male trade.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: O, it grieves my soul, / That I must draw this metal from my side / To be a widow-maker!
What is a woman that you forsake her, / And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, / To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
Finally, jobs that are 'widow-makers' should be rethought and restructured. In the heyday of the great sailing ships, around 1850, just before the coming of steam, every shipping company had a widow-maker on its hands once in a while. ... One typical 'widow-maker' has been the job of international vice-president in the large American company.
gloss: The detached or broken limb of a tree, a hazard to those walking underneath.
pos: noun
gloss: An occlusion of the left coronary artery or its anterior interventricular branch; which is likely to cause a fatal heart attack.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
tricot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French tricot, from tricoter (“to knit”).
Inflected forms:
form: tricots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soft knit fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Proto-Polynesian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *próder.
Ancient Greek πρό (pró)
Ancient Greek -ᾰτος (-ătos)
Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos)
Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-)lbor.
English proto-
English Polynesian
English Proto-Polynesian
From proto- + Polynesian.
Inflected forms:
form: Proto-Polynesians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who spoke the Proto-Polynesian language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Proto-Polynesian language, or the people who spoke it.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
screener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
basketball
business
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English screen
English -er
English screener
From screen + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: screeners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, screens.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: One who, or that which, screens.
pos: noun
gloss: An advance screening of a film sent to critics, awards voters, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A cinema having the specified number of screens.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: Movie buffs can indulge themselves at the Hollywood Cinema, a two screener showing second-run films at reduced prices, 5916 Hamilton Avenue.
gloss: A player setting a screen for a teammate in an offensive sequence.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: tarkastaja
house-sitter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English house-sit
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English house-sitter
From house-sit + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: house-sitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: house sitter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: housesitter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who house-sits.
pos: noun
Translations:
house-sit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From house + sit, formed by analogy to babysit.
Compound parts: house
sit
Inflected forms:
form: house-sits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: house-sitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: house-sat
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: house-sat
pos: verb
tags: past
form: house-sitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
uncommon
form: house-sitted
pos: verb
tags: past
uncommon
form: housesit
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: house sit
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To live temporarily in someone else's home, or to attend it regularly, for the purpose of protecting and tending to it in the owner's or tenant's absence.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I'm house-sitting for my friends while they're on vacation in France.
I’m house-sitting my uncle’s place in San Rafael for a few months.
Translations:
housetop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From house + top.
Compound parts: house
top
Inflected forms:
form: housetops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: house top
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: house-top
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The roof of a house.
pos: noun
examples: 26 Feare them not therefore: for there is nothing couered, that shall not be reueiled; and hidde, that shall not be knowen.
27 What I tell you in darkenesse, that speake yee in light: and what yee heare in the eare, that preach yee vpon the house tops.
Up on the housetop, reindeer pause. / Out jumps good old Santa Claus.
Not only did the distance to the The Pure Drop, the fully-licensed tavern at the further part of the dispersed village, render its accommodation practically unavailable for dwellers at this end; but the far more serious question, the quality of the liquor, confirmed the prevalent opinion that it was better to drink with Rolliver in a corner of the housetop than with the other landlord in a wide house.
Translations:
humanist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Etymology: From Middle French humaniste.
Inflected forms:
form: humanists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scholar of one of the subjects in the humanities.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who believes in the philosophy of humanism.
pos: noun
gloss: In the Renaissance, a scholar of Greek and Roman classics.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A secularist, especially an agnostic or atheist.
pos: noun
examples: Religious Census Figures Challenged by Humanists
Humanists do not believe in a God who gives us moral codes; nor do they believe in an afterlife, in which the good will go to heaven and the bad to hell.
gloss: Relating to humanism or the humanities.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a typeface: resembling classical handwritten monumental Roman letters rather than the 19th-century grotesque typefaces.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: nonhumanist
Derived words: antihumanist
humanistic
humanist minuscule
neohumanist
posthumanist
religious humanist
Translations:
peephole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From peep + hole.
Compound parts: peep
hole
Inflected forms:
form: peepholes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small hole, opening, or piece of glass, especially in a door, through which one can look without being seen.
pos: noun
examples: It’s a conjurer’s den. — I shouldn’t be surprised if cabby’s old gent is staring at us all the while from some peephole of his own.
Translations:
normed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: algebra
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English norm
English -ed
English normed
From norm + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a mathematical structure, endowed with a norm.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a data set that has been adjusted to a norm.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: normalise
normalize
Derived words: norm
normed linear space
normed ring
normed space
normed vector ring
normed vector space
unnormed
Translations:
woodchip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wood + chip.
Compound parts: wood
chip
Inflected forms:
form: woodchips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wood-chip
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wood chip
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small mechanically produced piece (chip) of wood, generally from 0.5 to 10 cm in diameter, used primarily as raw material for pulp, paper and construction boards, as well as fuel and mulch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small fibre of wood; especially such material as used to make ingrain wallpaper, aka woodchip wallpaper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Oh, Deborah, do you recall? / Your house was very small / With woodchip on the wall
Derived words: woodchipper
woodchipping
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: spaan
lang: Dutch
word: spaander
lang: Faroese
word: træflís
lang: Finnish
word: lastu
lang: Finnish
word: hake
lang: French
word: copeau de bois
lang: German
word: Holzschnitzel
lang: German
word: Holzhackschnitzel
lang: German
word: Holzspan
lang: Hungarian
word: fűrészpor
lang: Māori
word: kūkā
lang: Polish
word: zrębek
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: и̏ве̄р
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȉvēr
lang: Spanish
word: fragmento de madera
lang: Spanish
word: trozo de madera
lang: Swedish
word: träflisa
bungo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 文(ぶん)語(ご) (bungo, “writing language”).
Inflected forms:
form: Bungo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese written language established mainly during the Heian period, circa 900–1200 C.E., and commonly used until circa 1900.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
woodchipper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wood + chipper.
Compound parts: wood
chipper
Inflected forms:
form: woodchippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A machine for reducing wood to woodchips.
pos: noun
examples: Last February, Elon Musk boasted of “feeding USAID into the woodchipper” as President Trump kicked off his second term with an unanticipated assault on the agency.
Translations:
woodchopper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wood + chopper.
Compound parts: wood
chopper
Inflected forms:
form: woodchoppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who chops wood; a lumberjack
pos: noun
gloss: A person who woodchops as a sport
pos: noun
Translations:
nill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare Irish néal and Scottish Gaelic neul (“star, light”). Compare nebula.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.
pos: noun
gloss: Scales of hot iron from the forge.
pos: noun
Translations:
foreknowledge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fore-
English knowledge
English foreknowledge
From fore- + knowledge.
Inflected forms:
form: foreknowledges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Knowing beforehand.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The prosecution intends to prove that the defendant had foreknowledge.
[H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]
The mule knows the hidden pitfalls of the morass; the swallow feels the storm ere it comes upon the air, and wings to the quiet shelter of its nest—they foresee their dangers, and avoid them; while we blindly rush forward into the depths of the pit and the fury of the tempest; for we know not what evils await us. No kind foreknowledge gives us even the choice of avoidance.
But two bottles would alarm and confuse him, would lead to a conversation, so I smashed it merrily into a skip, buzzed and lit with the comforting foreknowledge of the second one on its way.
gloss: Knowing beforehand.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: foreknow
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: предвиждане
roman: predviždane
lang: Catalan
word: prenoció
lang: Dutch
word: voorkennis
lang: Finnish
word: ennakkotieto
lang: French
word: prénotion
lang: German
word: Voraussicht
lang: German
word: Vorauswissen
lang: German
word: Vorwissen
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πρόγνωσις
roman: prógnōsis
lang: Greenlandic
word: siumut ilisimassuseq
lang: Spanish
word: prenoción
lang: Turkish
word: önbilgi
lang: Woiwurrung
word: ngargoonin twarn
atomization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English atom
English -ization
English atomization
From atom + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: atomizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or an instance of atomizing.
pos: noun
gloss: The act or an instance of atomizing.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: normalization
Related words: atomize
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: atomització
lang: Galician
word: atomización
lang: German
word: Atomisierung
lang: Polish
word: atomizacja
lang: Portuguese
word: atomização
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: атомизација
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: atomizacija
lang: Spanish
word: atomización
stereotyped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a certain stereotype.
pos: adj
gloss: Printed from stereotype plates.
pos: adj
gloss: Unoriginal; stereotypical.
pos: adj
examples: Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and bloodcurdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.
There are too many gratuitous and insulting characters, like Mary Fisher's employee, a stereotyped Latino stud, and the old people in a nursing home who are presented as unindividuated and naively happy.
Derived words: nonstereotyped
unstereotyped
Translations:
trillium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: trilliums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Trillium, having flowers with three petals
pos: noun
Translations:
supremacist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English supremacy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English supremacist
From supremacy + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more supremacist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most supremacist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: supremacists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Supportive of supremacism, the belief that some groups should control others.
pos: adj
examples: Immediately following the First Contact War, an anonymous extranet manifesto warned that an alien attempt at human genocide was inevitable. The manifesto called for an army -- a Cerberus to guard against invasion through the Charon relay.
[…]Throughout the 2160s and 2170s, alleged Cerberus agents assassinated politicians, sabotaged starships bearing eezo, and conducted nightmarish experiments on aliens and humans. Denounced as human-supremacist, Cerberus calls itself human-survivalist.
gloss: An advocate of supremacism, a supporter of the belief that some groups should control others.
pos: noun
Derived words: white supremacist
black supremacist
Translations:
thermogenesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From thermo- + -genesis.
Affixes: thermo-
-genesis
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The generation of heat in an organism, especially by biochemical means.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Adaptive thermogenesis is when your metabolism adapts to your energy needs (study). For example, when people try to lose weight, they eat fewer calories, so their metabolism adapts, slowing down.
Translations: