yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
hiplife
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of hip-hop + highlife.
Compound parts: hip-hop
highlife
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Ghanaian style of music that fuses highlife and hip-hop.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Up the block at Nananom, a tiny music and sundries store, all the hiplife CDs were sold out.
Translations:
L-number
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for Loricariidae number.
Inflected forms:
form: L-numbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the identification numbers used in an informal system for classifying catfish before they have a scientific name.
pos: noun
Translations:
pixilation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pixie
Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos
Proto-Italic *anamos
Latin animus
Latin anima
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin animō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin animatiōlbor.
English animation
blend
English pixilation
Blend of pixie + animation.
Inflected forms:
form: pixilations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stop-motion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
azonto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Ghanaian style of music and dance with accompanying hand movements.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Q-value
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From communication value; coined by Dutch sociologist Abram de Swaan.
Inflected forms:
form: Q-values
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A measure of the communicative utility of a human language, computed as the product of the language's centrality and its prevalence.
pos: noun
Translations:
slit-scan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A photographic and cinematographic process where a moveable slide, into which a slit has been cut, is inserted between the camera and the subject to be photographed. It can be used to achieve blurriness or deformity, or in creating flowing animations.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
uncountable
Translations:
T-splice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From T + splice.
Compound parts: T
splice
Inflected forms:
form: T-splices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A method of joining the end of a metal wire to the middle of another by twisting the first around the latter.
pos: noun
Translations:
yuko
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
judo
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Japanese 有効.
Inflected forms:
form: yukos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The score for a throw that lands the opponent on his or her side.
pos: noun
examples: As with yukos, kokas are not accumulative, so no amount of kokas are deemed equal to or greater than a yuko.
Translations:
transbay
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trans- + bay.
Base: bay
Affixes: trans-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Crossing the San Francisco Bay.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He rode on BART and passed through the Transbay Tube from Oakland to San Francisco.
Translations:
Boasian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Boas + -ian.
Base: Boas
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Boasian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Boasian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Franz Boas (1858–1942), German-American anthropologist and linguist.
pos: adj
Translations:
linting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From lint + -ing.
Base: lint
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: lintings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of using a software tool to analyse source code and identify possible programming problems.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
Jewy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Jew + -y.
Base: Jew
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more Jewy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Jewy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Jewey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a Jew or the Jews; Jewish.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
humorous
informal
offensive
possibly
sometimes
examples: Oh my God, that weird, little Jewy guy!
I just met the new neighbors and, baruch Hashem, they're delightfully Jewy.
Translations:
Pre-U
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Etymology: Short for preuniversity.
Inflected forms:
form: Pre-Us
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A school-leaving qualification that is an alternative to A levels.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
sweet-toothed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sweet tooth + -ed.
Base: sweet tooth
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more sweet-toothed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sweet-toothed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fond of sweet, sugary foods.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
Translations:
topdeck
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From top + deck.
Compound parts: top
deck
Inflected forms:
form: topdecks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: topdecking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: topdecked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: topdecked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: top deck
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: top-deck
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To draw (a card) from one's deck and play it on the same turn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: opp [...] was one turn short of death, when he topdecked wrath... i topdecked skizzik, but he had counter...
gloss: To draw cards from one's deck and play them immediately turn after turn because one has no other cards to play.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I've countered, burned, destroyed pretty much everything he's played, but now I'm out of cards and so is he. So now it's a topdecking game.
Translations:
half-term
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the half term school holiday.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: The Roystones took advantage of the long half-term break and went to Paris.
Before 1974 the children of Lincoln were given an annual day's holiday for the mayor's birthday, but this is now calculated as part of the school Spring half-term holiday, so this seems the best location at which to place it.
The half-term trip to Nethercombe had to be postponed because of her funeral and John felt a new guilt.
The cartoon dog made its debut in half-term week in October, featuring on promotional children's tickets as well as fun children's activities such as colouring sheets and spot the difference.
Translations:
uber-fabulous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From uber- + fabulous.
Base: fabulous
Affixes: uber-
Inflected forms:
form: more uber-fabulous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uber-fabulous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: über-fabulous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: überfabulous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: uberfabulous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Exceedingly fabulous; beyond fabulous; super great.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: “This is Cristal the fabulous one enjoying an uberfabulous life. If you're calling you're not with me living it up too. Aw. Too bad. Too sad.”
“You see, honey,” Eva piped in, “when you change, yeah sure, you get amazing superhuman abilities like speed, strength, and maybe even the uber-fabulous potential to shape shift like myself, but just like in life, it all comes at a cost.”
And the celebrities. And the Europeans. And the supermodels. The old hotels were buffed and puffed, painted and pampered and neon-ed up, and South Beach blossomed again into a playground for the über-fabulous. Oh-so-very fabulous.
The companies on this list are not überfamous name brands, but they are über-fabulous!
Translations:
uber-famous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From uber- + famous.
Base: famous
Affixes: uber-
Inflected forms:
form: more uber-famous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uber-famous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: über-famous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: überfamous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: uberfamous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Exceedingly famous; super famous
pos: adj
examples: Coco's got the voice, but when it comes to the stage, can she out-sparkle her über-famous mom?
Isak Guerrere, the handsome, uberfamous fashion designer who had owned and lost his own line many times and had become single-name famous for being Isak more than anything else.
Translations:
uber-delicious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From uber- + delicious.
Base: delicious
Affixes: uber-
Inflected forms:
form: more uber-delicious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uber-delicious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: über-delicious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: überdelicious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: uberdelicious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: über delicious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: uber delicious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Very delicious.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: These patata pittas are like über-delicious potato knishes, the Eastern European Jewish pastries that are stuffed with potatoes mashed with onion.
Translations:
hand-for-hand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a poker tournament consisting of multiple tables, the requirement that each next hand be dealt only after all tables have finished the current hand, to prevent players from stalling near an increase in the prize payouts, and/or when there must be a definitive player ranking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
GRX
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: GPRS roaming exchange
pos: noun
Translations:
Scorps
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Scorpions, a German rock band founded in 1965.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
plural
plural-only
examples: You remember the heshers. Those guys who hung out in the back corner of the high-school parking lot, listening to the Scorps on the stereo in their souped-up Chevy Nova with the mag wheels and dual overhead cams.
gloss: The South Australian Scorpions, a cricket team.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
plural
plural-only
Translations:
karanga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Māori karanga.
Inflected forms:
form: karangas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In Māori culture, an exchange of calls that forms part of the pōhiri.
pos: noun
examples: A karanga expert from within the manuhiri ope responds to the first karanga of the tangata whenua and indicates who they are.
Translations:
anti-industrial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + industrial.
Base: industrial
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-industrial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-industrial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antiindustrial
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Opposing industry.
pos: adj
Translations:
antifragile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + fragile.
Base: fragile
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: more antifragile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antifragile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting or relating to antifragility.
pos: adj
Translations:
pre-theistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + theistic.
Base: theistic
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: more pre-theistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pre-theistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a point preceding the development of theism.
pos: adj
examples: If we look at the controlling source of its virtue, the potentially sacred substance of the human body, and compare the earliest forms of consecration, we see that the theory of anointing leads us back to pre-theistic and even pre-fetishistic times.
In order to demonstrate the pre-theistic or pre-deistic origin of religion from primitive simplicity, genealogical scholars elaborated a standard method of evolutionary stratification.
"Though not jeopardizing the human status of its practitioners, however, the lowest, dream-related form of animism was categorically pretheistic in Tylor's scheme, merely furnishing the ground upon which gods would later develop".
Translations:
softmax
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Coined by John S. Bridle in 1989, on the grounds of the function being "a differentiable generalisation of the 'winner-take-all' operation of picking the maximum value".
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A generalization of the logistic function that "squashes" a K-dimensional vector mathbf z of arbitrary real values to a K-dimensional vector σ( mathbf z) of real values in the range (0, 1).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
biliteracy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bi- + literacy.
Base: literacy
Affixes: bi-
Inflected forms:
form: biliteracies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The capability of reading and writing in two languages or writing systems.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The so-called “core” program where the majority of classes are taught in English is the least popular of all the school board’s options and is being abandoned by parents who demand immersion and biliteracy curriculum for their children.
Translations:
uber-good
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From uber- + good.
Base: good
Affixes: uber-
Inflected forms:
form: über-good
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: uber good
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Exceptionally or exceedingly good; beyond good.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: While there is some play on the noble versus savage dichotomy with the use of the uber-good hero and ultra-evil bad guy, this is an expected element in many traditional Native stories.
“This is all so unexpected.” “But good, right?” “Uber-good.”
The pictures are good. I know they're good. He knows they're good. And I know that he knows they're good. Über-good.
“Time for some serious bed play, uber good, guiltfree.”
Translations:
sertanejo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Portuguese sertanejo.
Inflected forms:
form: sertanejos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In Brazil, someone from the countryside; a backlander.
pos: noun
examples: Life in the open air had made him as tanned and weather-beaten as a sertanejo.
gloss: A type of Brazilian folk music.
pos: noun
examples: I hate sertanejo music. This has something to do with when I was a teenager and my dad liked sertanejo while I wanted to be totally different.
Translations:
dioctyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From di- + octyl.
Base: octyl
Affixes: di-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Two octyl groups in a molecule
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
uncountable
Translations:
multijunction
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From multi- + junction.
Base: junction
Affixes: multi-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to more than one junction.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
semi-informal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From semi- + informal.
Base: informal
Affixes: semi-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: partly informal, neither formal nor informal, semi-formal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
tober
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Romani.
Inflected forms:
form: tobers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The site where a fairground is set up.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
womanpower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From woman + power, modelled on earlier manpower.
Compound parts: woman
power
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The female workforce; the number of available female workers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: La Dame Blanche's three male leaders, fearing capture, deportation, or both, wanted a service that could run entirely on womanpower if necessary.
Translations:
quelch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of squelch, perhaps influenced in form by quench.
Inflected forms:
form: quelches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quelching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quelched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quelched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To squelch; to eliminate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We are proud to have had a part in quelching the evil ideologies that brought so much suffering to mankind.
gloss: To make a squelching sound.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
intransitive
Translations:
carnap
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From car + -nap, formed in allusion to kidnap based on an erroneous belief that the latter specifically refers to the kidnapping of children.
Base: car
Affixes: -nap
Inflected forms:
form: carnaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carnapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: carnaping
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
rare
form: carnapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: carnapped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: carnaped
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
rare
form: carnaped
pos: verb
tags: US
past
rare
Senses:
gloss: To steal a motor vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: Philippines
Translations:
twin-stick
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Controlled by two joysticks simultaneously, usually one moving the player character and the other firing a weapon directionally.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
interlocal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inter- + local.
Base: local
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between localities.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bare-boobed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of bare-breasted.
pos: adj
tags: childish
informal
not-comparable
Translations:
proto-oncogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From proto-oncogene + -ic; also, by surface analysis, proto- + oncogenic.
Affixes: proto-oncogene
-ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to proto-oncogenes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Volksraad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Volksraads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Volksraden
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A legislative assembly of various Dutch-speaking regions
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A legislative assembly of various Dutch-speaking regions
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A legislative assembly of various Dutch-speaking regions
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
e-volution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of e- + evolution.
Compound parts: e-
evolution
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The evolution or development of a system or practice as a result of computer technology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
eesh
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Expressing distaste, disgust, or trepidation.
pos: intj
examples: But her hair...eesh. She could, however, wash up and brush her teeth—bless her hide, Mel had bought them all toothbrushes and a few essential toiletries—even if the only makeup she had in her purse was lipgloss.
Eesh! she shook her head in disbelief. What just happened?
Eesh, she hated this apartment. Hated the ugly popcorn ceilings and the awkward floor plan. Why had she stayed?
Translations:
fuckbag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fuck + bag.
Compound parts: fuck
bag
Inflected forms:
form: fuckbags
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: idiot, nasty person
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: Evan (aged 7): What time is it?
Mr. George Miller: It's time for you to do what I tell you to do.
Evan (aged 7): Wrong answer, fuckbag. This is the very moment of your reckoning. In the next 30 seconds you're gonna open up one of two doors. The first door will forever traumatize your own flesh and blood.
Translations:
one-pot
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Taking place in a single reaction vessel
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
kelch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Kelch (“chalice”); refer to Wikipedia. Doublet of chalice and calyx.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A particular sequence of amino acids found in many proteins of eukaryotic and bacterial species
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Comparison in chromosome location was based on kelch motif ACBPs.
Translations:
parabellum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: For Latin parā bellum (“furnish war”), from the Latin adage sī vīs pācem, parā bellum (“if you want peace, prepare for war”).
Inflected forms:
form: parabellums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of cartridge used in some handguns.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of German semiautomatic pistol.
pos: noun
Related words: casus belli
bellicose
antebellum
interbellum
postbellum
Translations:
veche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
lifestyle
paganism
politics
religion
Etymology: From Old East Slavic вѣче (věče, “council”)
or modern Russian ве́че (véče)
Inflected forms:
form: veches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: a modern assembly of Rodnovers, atavistically based off the medieval veche.
pos: noun
Translations:
sinonasal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sino- + nasal.
Base: nasal
Affixes: sino-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the sinuses and the nose (or nasal cavity)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The lymphocytic infiltration did not reveal nodularity or lymphoepithelial lesions of the sinonasal gland ( Figure 2(a) ).
Translations:
drugged-out
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more drugged-out
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most drugged-out
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Under the influence of a narcotic drug.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: In my opinion, the drugged-out, spaced-out look on their faces is obviously because of the drugs they're taking.
Translations:
wiktionary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wiktionaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any online lexicon resembling Wiktionary, often one that can be edited by the public.
pos: noun
examples: However, with the increase in free resources like wiktionaries, or the increase in the number of translated materials available on the Internet
PanLex draws on various lexical resources, including dictionaries, wiktionaries, glossaries, lexicons, word lists, terminologies, thesauri, wordnets, ontologies, vocabulary databases, namedentity resources, and standards
This lower bound is logically determined – a wiktionary with fewer entries could never provide a full IDS list – and not meant to be realistic. We do not know how big a wiktionary has to be in order to provide, say, 75% of an IDS list, but it is likely that several thousands of entries are required for this.
gloss: Any of the free dictionaries produced by a collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
pos: noun
examples: In fact the English Wiktionary edition contains entries for more than 400 languages, so that out of this source, more language specific wiktionaries could be created than there are actually officially listed.
Translations:
Autolycus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αὐτόλυκος (Autólukos).
Inflected forms:
form: Autolycuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Autolyci
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thief or plagiarist.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: Each new era of prosperity requires and generally witnesses a new set of ingenious devices to throw dust in the eyes of investors, while the new race of Autolycuses are going through all the old tricks.
However virtuous, however single- minded their intentions, it is but a cruel thing these Autolyci do, these snappers up of unconsidered trifles.
Translations:
guayule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: guayules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Parthenium argentatum, a flowering shrub in the aster family.
pos: noun
examples: Interest in guayule as an alternative returned during World War II, when the Japanese cut off access to hevea-based rubber, spurring the Emergency Rubber Project, which involved thousands of scientists, technicians and laborers, some of them Japanese internees.
Translations:
lighter-than-air
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That is lighter than air, describing materials or aircraft.
pos: adj
tags: comparative-only
Translations:
geonet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From geo- + net.
Base: net
Affixes: geo-
Inflected forms:
form: geonets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A network of geocells sometimes forming a geospacer
pos: noun
Translations:
zarda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Hindi ज़र्दा (zardā); Urdu زردہ.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The flavoured tobacco used in paan.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Hookah samples collected from urban “hookah bars” from Bengaluru were found to contain nicotine content of 0.8 mg/g, while, in zarda, average nicotine was 20.35 mg/g.
gloss: A sweet South Asian dish of boiled rice with milk, sugar and spices.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: zerde
Translations:
ethnohistorical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ethno- + historical.
Base: historical
Affixes: ethno-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to ethnohistory.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ethnographic and ethnohistorical studies indicate the possibility that Huichols derive from various groups who settled in the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Translations:
limitans
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of membrana limitans.
pos: noun
Translations:
frictionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From frictional + -ly.
Base: frictional
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In terms of friction
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
wolfie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From wolf + -ie.
Base: wolf
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: wolfies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wolfy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A werewolf.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: If he pierced his skull he wouldn't be a vampy or a wolfie, he'd be a) dead. or b) a Redcap. heh heh heh
Werewolves are very much a part of modern fantasy literature and have been featured in many movies. They are ferocious and worthy adversaries, yet the X:WP writers have ignored wolfies for six years.
WoD werewolves can't turn other people into wolfies by biting them, either; you're born that way or you're not.
Translations:
photochrom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: photochroms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A colorized image produced from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
leave-in
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: leave-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To be left in the hair for a period, rather than being rinsed out at once.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: leave-in conditioner
gloss: A product of this kind.
pos: noun
Translations:
baseflow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From base + flow.
Compound parts: base
flow
Inflected forms:
form: baseflows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The portion of streamflow that comes from the sum of deep subsurface flow and delayed shallow subsurface flow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
psilocybe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: psilocybes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any mushroom of the genus Psilocybe.
pos: noun
examples: Another psilocybe, cubensis, is less potent than the Liberty Cap, but easier to grow and more popular.
Translations:
tiang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tiang
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of korrigum.
pos: noun
examples: The white-eared kob were joined by hundreds of thousands of mongalla gazelles and tiang, a species of antelope.
Translations:
ebru
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Turkish ebru.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A traditional marbled paper art of Turkey.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
trip-trap
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: triptrap
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: trip trap
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: trip-traps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trip-trapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trip-trapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trip-trapped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: triptrap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: trip trap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Representing the sound of walking on a hard surface.
pos: intj
examples: First of all came the youngest Billy-goat, and was going over the bridge. Trip trap, trip trap, went the bridge. "Who is that tripping over my bridge?" shouted the troll.
gloss: To make stomping or tapping noises while walking or running.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Ramona trip-trapped joyfully all the way to the parked car, and when she reached home she trip-trapped up and down the hall and all around the house.
gloss: To cause one to trip-trap.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: Her lips parted, Freeman was suddenly triptrapping, no, she was triptrapping him, and then they were triptrapping together […]
Translations:
trip-trapping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the sounds that goat hoofs make
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 2013, Tanya Landman, 100% Pig
And every now and then I got a snatch of that trip-trapping noise from somewhere behind me.
Translations:
Gila
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish Gila, from a native (Yuma?) name.
Inflected forms:
form: Gilas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Gila monster.
pos: noun
examples: The dealers in live Gilas were paying local trappers twenty-five to fifty cents an inch; in turn the lizards were being sold to out-of-state dealers at one to two dollars an inch.
gloss: A Gila trout.
pos: noun
examples: In addition, area streams containing Gilas provide potential for far more fishing than any brown trout water — first, because the Gilas ...
There were trout, they were small, and they were not Gilas.
Translations:
Gilas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Nickname for national basketball representative teams of the Philippines.
pos: noun
Translations:
pentel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From the name of the Japanese company Pentel Co., Ltd., which invented the non-permanent marker; ultimately from pen + tell.
Compound parts: pen
tell
Inflected forms:
form: pentels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A non-permanent marker pen.
pos: noun
examples: Failing this, a piece of hardboard with white Fablon from Woolworths makes a good surface for drawing with water-soluble pentels. The drawings can be removed with a damp cloth.
[…] 'Drawing the Line' invited spectators to write their reactions to the photographs and to the question of drawing the line, right on the walls. (Black pentels were supplied for this purpose.)
Translations:
philadelphus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Philadelphus, from Latin Philadelphus, Ancient Greek Φιλάδελφος (Philádelphos), φιλάδελφος (philádelphos).
Inflected forms:
form: philadelphuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Philadelphus of shrubs.
pos: noun
examples: No garden can afford to neglect the philadelphuses, because not only are the flowers full of refinement and beauty, but often most fragrant and arrive in June and July when the chief flowering period of shrubs is over.
Translations:
knee-jerky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From knee-jerk + -y.
Base: knee-jerk
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more knee-jerky
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most knee-jerky
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting or characteristic of a rash or automatic response.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Could you please resolve to control your knee-jerky impulse to give every Tom, Dick, and Harry (Kupfer?) a standing ovation?
Despite possessing a libertarian streak that's widening over time, Buzz doesn't get all knee-jerky in opposing new government regulation, even when politicians start messing with the Internet.
Yet when Carol called, my immediate reaction — “How sad” or words to that effect — was so inappropriate, so knee-jerky, that I'm embarrassed to report it.
Translations:
necro-bump
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From necro- + bump.
Base: bump
Affixes: necro-
Inflected forms:
form: necro-bumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: necro-bumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: necro-bumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: necro-bumped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: necrobump
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: necro bump
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: necro-bumps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: necrobump
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: necro bump
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To add a new message to a long-dormant conversation.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
gloss: The act of necrobumping.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
bronzini
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: European seabass
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Austinite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Austin + -ite (“native or resident of a specified place”).
Base: Austin
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: Austinites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or resident of Austin, Texas.
pos: noun
Translations:
Mustang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From mustang (“a horse of the North American west”).
Inflected forms:
form: Mustangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An American sports car, manufactured by Ford Motor Company from 1964 till present, a cultural icon and the longest-produced Ford nameplate.
pos: noun
gloss: The P-51 Mustang was a single-seat fighter plane designed by North American Aviation in 1940.
pos: noun
Translations:
shit-stirrer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From shit + stirrer. Compare the verb stir shit.
Compound parts: shit
stirrer
Inflected forms:
form: shit-stirrers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shit stirrer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who enjoys creating trouble for others by provoking controversy, for example by revealing facts that others would prefer to keep secret.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: Near-synonyms: shitmonger; troublemaker
Translations:
undroppable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From un- + droppable.
Base: droppable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: undroppables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unable to be dropped (from a team selection)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He will react in the way he generally does, training feverishly over the weeks ahead and attempting to make himself undroppable for the game on Merseyside.
gloss: A player who is unable to be dropped (from a team selection)
pos: noun
examples: United have two midfield undroppables vs RB Leipzig
Translations:
CO-oximeter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: CO-oximeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of spectrophotometer that is used to measure the relative amounts of oxyhemoglobin and carboxyhemoglobin in blood
pos: noun
Translations:
lefter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: lefters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One aligned with left.
pos: noun
Translations:
Rambouillet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French Rambouillet. Doublet of rumbullion.
Inflected forms:
form: Rambouillets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheep of a breed that originated in France.
pos: noun
Translations:
ratatat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: ratatats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rat-a-tat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rat-tat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A swiftly repeated knocking sound.
pos: noun
examples: A single narrow iron-clamped door formed the only means of entrance. On this our guide knocked with a peculiar postman-like rat-tat.
Translations:
redactional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From redaction + -al.
Base: redaction
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to redaction.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hemodilution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From hemo- + dilution.
Base: dilution
Affixes: hemo-
Inflected forms:
form: hemodilutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An increase in the fluid content of blood (and thus a diminution of the number of cells).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lumpia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partly from Tagalog lumpiya, partly from Malay lumpia, partly from Indonesian lumpia (also Indonesian lunpia), from Hokkien 潤餅 /润饼 (lūn-piáⁿ).
Compare Spanish lumpiá, Dutch loempia, Cebuano lumpya.
Inflected forms:
form: lumpia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lumpias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of spring roll.
pos: noun
tags: Indonesia
Philippines
Translations:
Patidar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A caste found primarily in the state of Gujarat, India.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Shunga
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from Sanskrit शुङ्ग (śuṅga, “fig tree”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the ancient Indian Shunga Empire that flourished between 187 and 78 B.C.E.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Under Shunga patronage, the core of the Great Stupa, thought to date from the era of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka (r. ca. 273–232 B.C.), was enlarged to its present diameter of 120 feet, covered with a stone casing, topped with a balcony and umbrella, and encircled with a stone railing.
Translations:
hefter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From heft + -er.
Base: heft
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hefters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who hefts something.
pos: noun
examples: With prize money at stake, and the boat from the bar around the corner victorious last week, the strongest and best hefters of sandbags were paid to crew.
Translations:
Dymaxion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dunamai
Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor.
French dynamiqueder.
English dynamic
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs
Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂ism̥mos
Proto-Italic *magisVmos
Latin maximusder.
French maximumder.
English maximum
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Proto-Indo-European *tend-der.
Proto-Italic *tendō
Latin tendō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin tēnsiōder.
Middle French tensionbor.
English tension
blend
English Dymaxion
Coined by Buckminster Fuller as a blend of dynamic + maximum + tension.
Compound parts: dynamic
maximum
tension
Inflected forms:
form: Dymaxions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A structure or device designed according to the futurist ideal of maximizing resource efficiency.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
Translations:
close-packed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Arranged according to close-packing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Glasgow's car-parking problem is one of the worst in the country and the frequency of the new electrified rail service ought to attract a big clientele from the city's close-packed suburbs.
Translations:
three-ball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A simplified game of pool in which players attempt to pot three object balls in as few shots as possible.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
J-Lo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From her first initial and the first syllable of her surname. As a noun, after the widely appealing features of Lopez's buttocks.
Inflected forms:
form: J-Los
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: JLo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: J.Lo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: J Lo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: J. Lo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Large buttocks, usually attractive ones.
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
examples: Ace gave her an endearing slap on her J-Lo, causing a little jump her on her way out. Juana by all appearances seemed to be fine.
Translations:
carnism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the Latin root carnis (“flesh, meat”), + -ism. Coined by American psychologist Melanie Joy as an antonym of vegetarianism.
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The human ideology that supports the slaughter of certain animals and the consumption of their meat or other products (leather from skin, etc).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Mass terms like “meat,” “hamburger,” and “leather” used instead of “dead animal,” “cow,” or “skin” encourage consumers to forget that they are eating or using a dead animal. ... The commercial influence of a pervasive and legalized meat industry is strong, which may account for why speciesism and the ideology of carnism are cultural values that Freeman found national news tends to impose on audiences, naturalizing and legitimizing the exploitation of farmed animals.
Francophobia and anti-popery were coupled with and then merged into this ideology of carnism. As Hogarth historian Jenny Uglow writes: '[t]he oozing red meat, the feasts and freedoms— like the wearing of leather shoes instead of wooden clogs—set the English against the feeble, starving peasants of the Continent'.
gloss: The practice of eating animal meat or using animal products (leather, etc).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Now we need a universal consensus about standards of decency toward ecosystems, individuals from other species, and Earth. We cannot do this unless we end carnism.
So violent systems such as carnism need to use a set of psychological and social defense mechanisms so that humane people participate in inhumane practices without fully realizing what they are doing. The primary defense of carnism is […]
Translations:
dabrafenib
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A drug for the treatment of cancers associated with a mutated version of the gene BRAF.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Incidentally, several drugs have been developed that treat cancers driven by BRAF, two of which, vemurafenib and dabrafenib, are now FDA approved for treatment of late-stage melanoma.
Translations:
uncared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + cared.
Base: cared
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not cared (for, about, etc.).
pos: adj
examples: Ursula knew that Palmer had been astir at dawn, but not to attend to his usual duties, for she pityingly had freed the thirsty, uncared for sheep; many of these were now bogged in the various water-holes along the river.
Thus, patients who are severely depressed and failing to improve may be more likely to feel misunderstood and uncared about by their therapists than patients who are improving more rapidly.
Translations:
fatu-liva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps named from the island of Fatu Hiva, which means "strange rock" in the Marquesan language.
Inflected forms:
form: fatu-livas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fictional bird invented as a hoax in the 1920s, said to lay cubical spotted eggs resembling dice.
pos: noun
Translations:
e-edition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + edition.
Base: edition
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-editions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An edition of a publication in electronic form.
pos: noun
examples: Despite these setbacks, some universities are encouraging students to use e-editions of required textbooks where these are available, as being more portable, and are encouraging publishers to sell widely used textbooks in this form.
Translations:
Young-Earther
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Young Earth + -er.
Base: Young Earth Creationism
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Young-Earthers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An adherent of Young Earth Creationism.
pos: noun
Translations:
churidar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Punjabi ਚੂੜੀਦਾਰ (cūṛīdār).
Inflected forms:
form: churidars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pair of tight-fitting trousers, worn by men and women in South Asia.
pos: noun
Translations:
go-together
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: go-togethers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of two or more objects that match, or combine well.
pos: noun
Translations:
live-together
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: live-togethers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who lives with their partner, though they are not married.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
Translations:
jataka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Sanskrit जातक (jātaka, “born under”).
Inflected forms:
form: jatakas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jataka
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Jataka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a large number of Indian tales concerning the previous lives of Gautama Buddha.
pos: noun
examples: In the centuries after the Buddha's life, many ordinary, non-literate Indians would have learned of him through Jatakas, popular morality tales about his imagined previous lives […]
Translations:
lakeport
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lake + port.
Compound parts: lake
port
Inflected forms:
form: lakeports
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A port located on a lake.
pos: noun
Translations: