yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
superannuated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Latin superannuatus (“more than one year old”), from super (“over”) (English super-) + annus (“year”) (English annual).
Inflected forms:
form: more superannuated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most superannuated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Obsolete, antiquated.
pos: adj
examples: In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.
The above, appearing in a publication now long ago superannuated and forgotten, is all that hitherto has stood in human record to attest what manner of men respectively were John Claggart and Billy Budd.
Your correspondent has a handful of superannuated computers lying around the home. The sprightliest of the bunch—a 400-megahertz Pentium II that came loaded with Windows NT4.0—has found a new lease on life as a Linux server.
To call the sexual politics of Ladette to Lady old-fashioned is an understatement. It's a horrifying revival of superannuated attitudes about women dressed up as an educational excursion into young womanhood that exploits its subjects by loading them up on alcohol when the cameras are rolling.
Files written fifteen or twenty years ago on superannuated computers and obsolete operating systems are for practical purposes irretrievable.
The 158 was a delicate and not especially sure-handling device, but by now its engine had been modified to produce 250 horsepower, which gave it a decisive speed advantage over the superannuated old clunkers that were predominately arranged against it.
Klein, Monbiot and Bill McKibben all insist that we cannot avert the ecological disaster that confronts us without loosening the grip of that superannuated zombie ideology.
gloss: Retired or discarded due to age.
pos: adj
examples: I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father’s will, and it is amazing how disagreeable she found it.
And yet I remember that it was that absurd, emaciated, superannuated cab-horse which held my gaze.
And overseeing them all, like a raddled old good-ish fairy, is Bill Nighy, playing a superannuated rocker hoping to get a Christmas number one with his cynically repackaged version of Love Is All Around.
Derived words: superannuate
unsuperannuated
Translations:
quondam
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quondam. Compare whilom.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Former; once; at one time.
pos: adj
tags: formal
not-comparable
examples: This is the quondam King; Let's ſeize vpon him.
Present him if you please in my name to [John] Henry, [William] Grayson and all our quondam acquaintances and be assured that any civilities he receives from you will be gratefully remembered by me.
However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
For the sleeper on the couch was not Akeley at all, but my quondam guide Noyes.
A few hundred pages after faintly praising me […] the book’s narrator (a quondam critic with nothing nice to say about Charlie Kaufman) challenges me to a barroom argument about cinema.
Translations:
supernal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French supernel or Medieval Latin supernālis, from Latin supernus, from superum (“celestial regions, heavenly bodies”).
Inflected forms:
form: more supernal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most supernal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to heaven or to the sky; celestial.
pos: adj
examples: […]and there, after due prayers to the gods who dwell in ether supernal, had taken solemn counsel whereby they might, if so be it might be, bring once more into honour among mortal men the winged speech of the seadivided Gael.
gloss: Exalted, exquisite, superlative.
pos: adj
examples: Even the sunlight assumed a supernal glamour, as if some special atmosphere or exhalation mantled the whole region.
Pig, not normally reticent in these matters, now acted like a mystic after a vision; unable, maybe unwilling, to put in words this ineffable or supernal talent of Panky’s.
For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler,
Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?
Antonyms: earthly
infernal
infernal
Derived words: supernally
Translations:
mildly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *mildijaz
Old English mildeder.
Middle English mildeder.
English mild
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English mildly
From mild + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: mildlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more mildly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: mildliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most mildly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a mild manner.
pos: adv
examples: Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.
gloss: To a mild degree; slightly.
pos: adv
examples: a mildly amusing joke
The aroma is mildly sweet and lagery with pleasant hops; very pale gold color; the taste is clean and fresh, mildly malty, with a touch of hops in both the middle and finish; a remarkably thin body and lots of carbonation.
Derived words: put it mildly
to put it mildly
Translations:
openly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English openli, from Old English openlīċe. By surface analysis, open + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more openly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most openly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an open manner; visibly.
pos: adv
examples: Nevertheless, without openly admitting it, he was devoted to Boxer;
The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.
We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.
Particular note, in this period, should be made of the actions of Joseph Denman, commander of the Northern Division of the Squadron, who went on an absolutely ruthless and systematic campaign along the African coast, burning so-called "slaving factories" to the ground and openly daring anyone who objected to try and stop him.
When a column of smoke appeared on Thursday over the Sitong Bridge overpass in the Haidian district of Beijing, it drew attention to a protester who had hung banners openly bashing China’s top leader by name and criticizing the country’s “zero Covid” policy, including one calling for “freedom and not lockdowns.”
Translations:
erosion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dentistry
mathematics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French erosion, from Latin ērōsiō (“eating away”), derived from ērōdō.
The first known occurrence in English was in the 1541 translation by Robert Copland of Guy de Chauliac's medical text The Questyonary of Cyrurygens. Copland used erosion to describe how ulcers developed in the mouth. By 1774 erosion was used outside medical subjects. Oliver Goldsmith employed the term in the more contemporary geological context, in his book Natural History, with the quote
: "Bounds are thus put to the erosion of the earth by water."
Inflected forms:
form: erosions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Father Ted: The cliffs were gone? How could they just disappear?
Dougal: Erosion.
Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.
gloss: The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: the erosion of a person's trust
trademark erosion, caused by everyday use of the trademarked term
No social system that isn’t built upon the belief to the divine, or morality and traditional values, can withstand the erosion and degeneration of humankind’s morality, including democracy.
gloss: Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊖); see Erosion (morphology).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: erode
Derived words: accelerated erosion
antierosion
bioerosion
circumerosion
electroerosion
erosional
erosionproof
erosive
mechanical erosion
microerosion
nonerosion
phonetic erosion
rill erosion
sheet erosion
splash erosion
trademark erosion
Translations:
surcease
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman surseser, from Old French sursis, past participle of surseoir, from Latin supersedēre. Spelling later influenced by association with unrelated cease, which likely also influenced the meaning. Related to supersede.
Inflected forms:
form: surceases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: surceases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: surceasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: surceased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: surceased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Cessation; stop, stopping; end. Respite, intermission.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And first of all, it is more then time, there were an ende and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writting latelie entertained, whereby matter of religion is handled in the stile of the stage.
It it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well / It were done quickly: if the assassination / Could trammel up the consequence, and catch / With his surcease success;
[…] vainly I had sought to borrow / From my books surcease of sorrow
[…] old age is still old age.
It is the waning, not the crescent moon,
The dusk of evening, not the blaze of noon:
It is not strength, but weakness; not desire,
But its surcease; not the fierce heat of fire,
The burning and consuming element,
But that of ashes and of embers spent […]
[…] the time came when he sickened of the whole affair, and withdrew his agent, and took whatever gain from it the actor apportioned him. He was apt to have these sudden surceases, following upon the intensities of his earlier interest […]
[Joe Stork, delivering a baby via taxiplane:] Why should I wear my wings out, when modern ingenuity offers surcease?
For the individual who wishes to live in his time, to be a part of the future, the super-industrial revolution offers no surcease from change.
gloss: To come to an end; to desist.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] this distilled liquor drink thou off; / When presently through all thy veins shall run / A cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse / Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:
1899, Zénaïde A. Ragozin, Frithjof, The Viking of Norway in Frithjof, The Viking of Norway and Roland, The Paladin of France, Tales of the Heroic Ages, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Chapter 9, p. 67,
And instantly the storm surceases, the heavens clear, the sun comes forth in splendour, as a king entering the audience-hall, and sheds the glory of his presence over ship and sea and land.
gloss: To bring to an end.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The vvaves obedient to theyr beheaſt, / Them yielded ready paſſage, and their rage ſurceaſt.
Death dvvels vvithin vs, and if gentle Peace / Diſcend not ſoone, our ſorrovves to ſurceaſe, / Latium (alreadie quaild) vvill be deſtroyd.
The Nations, over-avv'd, ſurceaſe the Fight, / Immoveable their Bodies, fix’d their Sight: […]
Translations:
ineffectual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English effectual
English ineffectual
From in- + effectual.
Inflected forms:
form: more ineffectual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ineffectual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ineffectuall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Unable or insufficient to produce effect.
pos: adj
examples: 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter II. "Stage-coach Views", page 16.
This coach was an exceedingly narrow one, but as there was a slight spherical excess over two on a seat, the driver waited till nine passengers had got in, without taking the measure of any of them, and then shut the door after two or three ineffectual slams, as if the fault were all in the hinges or the latch,—while we timed our inspirations and expirations so as to assist him.
Until the recent rash of North London line maps appeared on station billboards in the London area of BR, the service undoubtedly suffered from meagre and ineffectual publicity.
And this is where the larger problem lies: when states try to enforce impossible bans, everyone loses. 3D printing farragoes have all the hallmarks of the absolute worst kind of ineffectual ban: one which encourages overly draconian laws that carry huge side effects, and that ultimately to have little to no effect.
gloss: Worthless; ineffective.
pos: adj
gloss: Weak, indecisive; lacking forcefulness.
pos: adj
examples: Our group leader proved highly ineffectual, caving to every whim put forth by the other members.
Derived words: ineffectual dependent
ineffectuality
ineffectualize
ineffectually
ineffectualness
ineffectuate
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: tulokseton
lang: Finnish
word: hyödytön
lang: German
word: ineffektiv
lang: German
word: nutzlos
lang: German
word: fruchtlos
lang: German
word: vergeblich
lang: German
word: sinnlos
lang: German
word: vergebens
lang: German
word: unwirksam
lang: German
word: untauglich
lang: German
word: wirkungslos
lang: Greek
word: αναποτελεσματικός
roman: anapotelesmatikós
lang: Polish
word: bezskuteczny
lang: Polish
word: nieskuteczny
lang: Polish
word: nadaremny
lang: Polish
word: bezpłodny
lang: Sanskrit
word: विफल
roman: viphala
lang: Spanish
word: inefectual
lang: Spanish
word: ineficaz
psychrometric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From psychro- + -metric.
Base: psychro
Inflected forms:
form: more psychrometric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most psychrometric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: relating to the measurement or study of the thermodynamic properties of moist air.
pos: adj
gloss: From or relating to a psychrometer.
pos: adj
Derived words: psychrometrically
psychrometric chart
Translations:
coenzyme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English enzyme
English coenzyme
From co- + enzyme.
Inflected forms:
form: coenzymes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any small molecule that is necessary for the functioning of an enzyme.
pos: noun
examples: A coenzyme that exists in all living cells, NAD+ plays a central role in the body’s biological processes, such as regulating cellular energy, increasing insulin sensitivity and reversing mitochondrial dysfunction.
Translations:
revolting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: revoltings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more revolting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most revolting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: revolution; revolt
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.
gloss: repulsive, disgusting
pos: adj
examples: The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.
Why anyone should want such a revolting object had always been a mystery to me.
The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: "It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars."
Translations:
folding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
geography
geology
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, fold + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: foldings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Designed to fold
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair
gloss: The action of folding; a fold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have ſeen abundance of antique figures in Sculpture and Painting, with juſt the ſame turn in the lower foldings of the Veſt, when the perſon that wears it is in a poſture of tripping forward.
Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
gloss: The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Paper money, as opposed to coins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: He has written twelve of these fat sex and sword-play historical novels and every damn one of them has been on the best-seller lists. He must have made plenty of the folding.
Translations:
cack-handed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cag (“knob, stump”) + handed; cf. also cack (“excrement”).
Compound parts: cag
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more cack-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cack-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cackhanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: keck-handed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Clumsy; inept.
pos: adj
examples: Constance endeavoured to get eight little boys to dance also; but the little lads were to shy, what an old woman, speaking of her grandson, calls “too daffish and keck-handed to learn such aunty-praunty antics,” and all that Constance could get in the way of male support was to induce eight little lads to look on, bend their knees, and bow at intervals, whilst the maidens sang and danced.
There is the chairperson who will introduce you by saying that you need no introduction, and who will bring the session to a close with some cack-handed joke based on a phrase plucked from your talk.
‘Just bend your arms and cradle him on them,’ I told her. She was so cack-handed I could hardly watch. I was short with her when I said, ‘Have you never held a baby before?’
gloss: Left-handed.
pos: adj
examples: A left-handed child would be held up to ridicule, and the hand tied to prevent its use. In some parts of England left-handers are called “cack-handed” […]
gloss: Back-handed.
pos: adj
Derived words: cack-handedly
cack-handedness
Translations:
transact
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from transaction, or else from Latin trānsāctus, past participle of trānsigere.
Inflected forms:
form: transacts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transacting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transacted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transacted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To do, carry through, conduct or perform.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Therefore in hopes to defray ſome of the Charges he muſt be at, he bought a Sloop, loaded it with ſeveral ſorts of Goods, wherewith the Tinquineſe uſually trade to the neighbouring Iſlands, and putting fourteen Men on board, whereof three were of the Country, he appointed me Maſter of the Sloop, and gave me power to traffick for two Months, while he tranſacted his Affairs at Tonquin.
Since he understood that wherever business is conducted, those who transact it must dress accordingly, and that where men do not, business suffers, he judged it necessary to enact a strict dress code to reduce the bureaucracy to orderliness and obedience to the mayoral arm.
gloss: To carry over, hand over or transfer something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To conduct business.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
pos: verb
Related words: transaction
transactional
transactive
Derived words: mistransact
transactable
transactory
untransacted
Translations:
transaminase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transamination
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English transaminase
From transamination + -ase.
Inflected forms:
form: transaminases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze transamination.
pos: noun
Translations:
clumsy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Possibly from an alteration of clumsed (“benumbed”) or from clumse (“a stupid fellow; lout”) + -y. More at clumse.
Base: clumse
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: clumsier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: clumsiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: clumsies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.
pos: adj
examples: He's very clumsy. I wouldn't trust him with carrying the dishes.
gloss: Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety.
pos: adj
examples: It is a clumsy solution, but it might work for now.
What a clumsy joke
The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]
gloss: Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape.
pos: adj
gloss: A clumsy person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: On the stairs he met Ellen, the housemaid, and as he passed her he knocked the hot-water jug out of her hand. “Well, you are a clumsy,” said Ellen, as she bent down to mop up the water.
Derived words: beclumpse
clumsily
clumsiness
Translations:
transamination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: transaminations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the transfer of an amino group from an amino acid to another molecule
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
syndrome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin syndrome, from Ancient Greek συνδρομή (sundromḗ, “concurrence of symptoms, concourse”), from σύνδρομος (súndromos, “running together”), from συν- (sun-, “with”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running, course”).
Inflected forms:
form: syndromes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours, especially of a disease or medical or psychological condition.
pos: noun
examples: Down syndrome; acquired immune deficiency syndrome; restless-leg syndrome; battered-wife syndrome
A “zone of rarity” emerges when symptoms cluster neatly into syndromes and interforms are uncommon, although not altogether absent. Fuzzy boundaries and interforms are a special problem for PTSD […]
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
gloss: Any set of characteristics regarded as identifying a certain type, condition, etc., usually adverse.
pos: noun
examples: not-in-my-backyard syndrome; tip-of-the-tongue syndrome
My roommate, Tony, and I were sitting in our living room on a Saturday afternoon trying to decide what to do that night. You know the syndrome: Saturday night when everyone is supposed to do something exciting and have a great time. If you don't, you're likely to wake up on Sunday morning feeling weird and lonely.
Fledgling superstar Jimmy Carson couldn't bear another day in Edmonton living in the void created by the departure of Wayne Gretzky, whose brokenhearted fans never accepted his replacement. It was very difficult for me to play in Edmonton in the whole Gretzky syndrome," Carson said Thurs day after a six-player trade ...
Speaking of medicine, rationalizers seem to enjoy latching on health excuses. Syndromes are a fertile field. Let's say you're accused of being unable to accept responsibility or otherwise behaving like an adult. That's not your fault, you counter—you suffer from Peter Pan Syndrome. Can't get around to cleaning up your room or office cubicle? Of course not—you suffer from tertiary Bag Lady Syndrome.
Synonyms: syndrome
Derived words: syndromal
syndromed
syndrome X
syndromic
syndromics
Translations:
triangular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English triangulare, trianguler, triangulere, from Old French triangulaire, triangulier and Latin triangulāris. By surface analysis, tri- + -angular.
Inflected forms:
form: more triangular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most triangular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Shaped like a triangle.
pos: adj
examples: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, triangles.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a triangle as a base; as, a triangular prism, a triangular pyramid.
pos: adj
gloss: Having three elements or parties; trilateral, tripartite.
pos: adj
Synonyms: threeside
trigonal
Derived words: equitriangular
nontriangular
obtriangular
ovotriangular
quasitriangular
subtriangular
triangular colon
triangular division
triangular harp
triangular hebesphenorotunda
triangularine
triangularity
triangularization
triangularize
triangularly
triangular matrix
triangular number
triangular prism
triangular pyramid
triangular trade
triangulo-triangular
unitriangular
Translations:
transat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of transatlantic, from their use on transatlantic liners.
Inflected forms:
form: transats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of large deck chair with a footrest that can slide under the seat when not in use.
pos: noun
Translations:
footrest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From foot + rest.
Compound parts: foot
rest
Inflected forms:
form: footrests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A support on which to rest the feet.
pos: noun
Translations:
benny
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ben(zedrine)
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English benny
From ben(zedrine) + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: bennies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bennies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bennying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bennied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bennied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An amphetamine tablet.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
slang
examples: That night Marylou took everything in the books; she took tea, goofballs, benny, liquor, and even asked Old Bull for a shot of M, which of course he didn’t give her; he did give her a martini.
I've pitched pennies and downed bennies
“Whatchu got, man?” / “Reds, bennies, dexies, yellow jackets, demmies.” / “Yeah, demmies're good shit, man. I pay you. Fuck. I got money. I'm hurting inside. Got beat up. Where my money?”
gloss: To take amphetamines.
pos: verb
tags: slang
usually
examples: Bulldog's habit of "bennying up" for the ball games had become a humorous item among the players.
He had been on the road that long and so bennied up.
"If you guys got any brains," the tired and bennied driver said, "you'll keep your sweet fannies t'hell out of it.
Translations:
signora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian signorabor.
English signora
Borrowed from Italian signora.
Inflected forms:
form: signoras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mrs; madam; title of address or respect for women in Italy.
pos: noun
examples: I waited, half thinking that they would walk toward me on the waters, until the spell was broken by a knock upon my door. "Would the signoras of their good pleasure like to behold the dance of the tarantella?"
gloss: An Italian woman.
pos: noun
Translations:
signore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian signore. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, sir, and sire.
Inflected forms:
form: signores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: signor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A courtesy title for Italian men.
pos: noun
examples: When you walk in a dream
but you know you're not dreaming,
Signore,
scuzza me
but you see,
back in old Napoli,
that's amore!
Translations:
signorina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian signorinabor.
English signorina
Borrowed from Italian signorina.
Inflected forms:
form: signorinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: signorine
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A courtesy title for an unmarried woman of Italian origin.
pos: noun
gloss: maitake, hen of the woods (mushroom)
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Signorina Mushroom is an alternative name for Grifola Frondosa, the Maitake Mushroom, which is popular among Italian-Americans in the northeastern United States.
Translations:
isometry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin isometria, from Ancient Greek ἰσομετρία (isometría), from ἰσο- (iso-) + -μετρία (-metría), from ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) and μέτρον (métron, “measurement”) + -ια (-ia, “-y”). Equivalent to iso- + -metry.
Base: iso
Inflected forms:
form: isometries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A function between metric spaces (or on a single metric space) having the property that the distance between two images is equal to the distance between their preimages.
pos: noun
examples: Isometry is to metric spaces what isomorphism is to groups.
Translations:
extrude
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *trewd-der.
Proto-Italic *troudō
Latin trūdō
Latin extrūderebor.
English extrude
Borrowed from Latin extrūdere.
Inflected forms:
form: extrudes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: extruding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: extruded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: extruded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To push or thrust out.
pos: verb
examples: It is theorized that when the surface velocity is below certain minimum values the material at the interface between workpieces WP-1 and WP-2 rolls up and extrudes from the interface in the form of long twisted cylindrical projections which are sometimes referred to as "dingle-berries."
Fire salamanders, which are common on forested hillsides in southern and central Europe, extrude secretions onto their skin containing a neurotoxic alkaloid, Samandarin, when they think they are under attack.
When a printer is extruding and has open spaces in a layer, printers pull the filament back so that stringing does not occur.
Researchers at the University of Warwick have created conductive polycaprolactone (PCL)-based filament by mixing carbon black into melted plastic before it's extruded as filament; they call the result carbomorph.
gloss: To form or shape (a metal, plastic etc.) by forcing it through a die or an opening.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To expel; to drive off.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: extruder
extrusion
Derived words: coextrude
extrudability
extrudable
extrudate
extrudite
pultrude
unextruded
Translations:
extrusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Mid-16th century from Latin extrūdere, from ex- (“out”) + trūdere (“to thrust”).
Base: trūdere
Affixes: ex-
Inflected forms:
form: extrusions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A manufacturing process where a billet of material is pushed and/or drawn through a die to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An item formed by the process of extrusion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: extrude
Derived words: coextrusion
hydroextrusion
microextrusion
pultrusion
Translations:
moratorium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
law
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: New Latin from Late Latin morātōrium, noun use of the neuter of morātōrius (“moratory, delaying”), from Latin moror (“to delay”), from mora (“delay”), from Proto-Indo-European *mere (“to delay, hinder”). See also moratory.
Inflected forms:
form: moratoriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moratoria
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments.
pos: noun
gloss: A suspension of an ongoing activity.
pos: noun
examples: Canada may put a moratorium on cloning for research.
It so happened that at that time the moratorium on the death penalty caused by the Supreme Court decision in the Furman case was still in effect.
If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.
Proponents of an AI moratorium had argued that a patchwork of state and local AI laws is hindering progress in the AI industry and the ability of U.S. firms to compete with China.
gloss: A period of delay granted to someone, especially an adolescent or young adult, during which they are not yet required to take on adult obligations or make permanent commitments; an extended phase of identity exploration.
pos: noun
Synonyms: interruption
recess
Related words: moratory
Derived words: postmoratorium
Translations:
flavouring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flavourings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: British standard spelling of flavoring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
sambuca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: ]
Borrowed from Italian sambuca, from Latin sambūcus (“elder tree”), due to a similar 19th century liquor flavored with elderflower. Modern sambuca, which doesn't necessarily have elderberry, started being marketed in 1971.
Inflected forms:
form: sambucas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Italian liqueur made from elderberries and flavoured with licorice, traditionally served with 3 coffee beans that represent health, wealth and fortune (or past, present and future).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
elderberry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English eldre
English elder
Middle English berye
English berry
English elderberry
Compound of elder + berry.
Inflected forms:
form: elderberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any shrub or tree of the genus Sambucus;
pos: noun
gloss: The small, edible, purplish-black fruit of this plant, used in cooking and to flavour drinks etc.
pos: noun
Related words: sambuca
Derived words: elderberrying
elderberry wine
Translations:
mentally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós
Proto-Italic *məntom
Latin mentum
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English mental
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English mentally
From mental + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more mentally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most mentally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a mental manner; an idea thought out in one's mind, as opposed to an idea spoken orally.
pos: adv
examples: mentally capable
mentally ill
This is a problem that needs to be solved mentally, not with brute force.
The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.
Translations:
shimmy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
Etymology: A back-formation from chemise (mistaken for a plural).
Inflected forms:
form: shimmies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shimmies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shimmying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shimmied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shimmied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
pos: noun
gloss: A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
pos: noun
examples: The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco.
gloss: An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
pos: noun
gloss: A sleeveless chemise.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
pos: verb
examples: She wondered would he think her awful, and try to get fresh if she shimmied. Fellows often did. But he was so cute. And a girl had to something about that, and if she didn't shimmy, she might do something worse.
gloss: To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
pos: verb
examples: He shimmied up the flagpole.
The static made her dress shimmy up her leg.
gloss: To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They came in among earth-moving machines, a total absence of trees, the usual hieratic geometry, and eventually, shimmying for the sand roads, down in a helix to a sculptured body of water named Lake Inverarity.
gloss: To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
gloss: To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Jump up to the ledge on your right and shimmy around the corner.
Climb on top of the room and drop down to shimmy along its back ledge.
Derived words: shimmy shake
shimmy-shammy
shimmier
shimmy on down
Translations:
ope
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Representing oh pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /oʊp/, [oʊp̚]) (excrescent /p/). Compare yep, yup, nope, and welp.
Inflected forms:
form: opes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation of surprise; oops.
pos: intj
tags: Midwestern-US
US
examples: Ope! Sorry about that.
Ope, let me just squeeze past ya there.
We're Midwesterners. We like long walks through frozen cornfields. Ope! Watch out!
gloss: An alley or narrow passage (an opening between houses, buildings, etc).
pos: noun
tags: West-Country
examples: Tonkin's Ope
It formed part of the extensive network of opes across the city which used to carry dock workers down to the quay for work on the boats in the bustling Port of Truro.
Opes / A characteristic that Truro shares with other Cornish towns are the narrow passageways which often form shortcuts between streets. […] These include Roberts Ope, Tippet's Backlet (Tippet was the owner of a fulling mill), Coombe's Lane, Pearson's Ope, Tonkin's Ope, Swifty's Ope, Nalder's Court, Job's Court and Carne's Ope, although this last has now been blocked off by building extensions. Perhaps the most memorable is Squeeze Guts Alley (see separate entry).
Translations:
spur-of-the-moment
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See spur of the moment.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Spontaneous; impromptu.
pos: adj
examples: It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to buy the car.
Translations:
bushing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bush
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English bushing
From bush (“metal lining of the axle hole of a wheel or touch hole of a gun”) + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: bushings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of plain bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge.
pos: noun
gloss: An elastic bearing used as a type of vibration isolator, commonly made of rubber. An interface between two parts, damping the movement and the energy transmitted.
pos: noun
gloss: A threaded bushing: a fastener element that is inserted into an object, usually to add a threaded hole in a softer or thin material.
pos: noun
gloss: A lining for an opening through which a conductor passes, providing insulation and mechanical protection for the conductor.
pos: noun
gloss: An adapter for joining pipes of different size.
pos: noun
Translations:
butterfingers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From butter + fingers (suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things as if their hands are coated in slippery butter), from butterfingered.
Compound parts: butter
fingers
Inflected forms:
form: butterfingers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: butter fingers
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
informal
examples: I am such a butterfingers. That’s the third drink I’ve spilled today.
[A]t every bad attempt at a catch, and every failure to stop the ball, he launched his personal displeasure at the head of the devoted individual in such denunciations as—"Ah, ah!—stupid"—"Now butter-fingers"—"Muff"—"Humbug"—and so forth—ejaculations which seemed to establish him in the opinion of all around, as a most excellent and undeniable judge of the whole art and mystery of the noble game of cricket.
“[…] Please don't handle them [birds’ eggs], Me! They are very fragile, and I would’nt^([sic – meaning wouldn’t]) lose them for anything.” / “I must hold them—just this once,” persists Me. “Don’t think I shall be such a butter[-]fingers as to break them. I’ve handled heaps of eggs before these!”
gloss: One's fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
informal
examples: “I guess everyone’s got butterfingers around here,” Cole said with a sly smile. “Lucky for us, I’ve got fast reflexes.”
“That boy’s got butterfingers,” Connor went on. “That’s twice he’s dropped a tool. He’s got no place on a construction site.”
gloss: A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
informal
Related words: butterfingered
Derived words: butterfinger
Translations:
mushy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mush
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English mushy
From mush + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: mushier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more mushy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: mushiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most mushy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular.
pos: adj
examples: I don't especially like mushy oatmeal.
Today, some seafood experts say, the cheaper (though mushier) roe feeds 60 percent of the market.
gloss: Soft; squishy.
pos: adj
examples: The brake pedal is mushy sometimes when I step on it.
Compared with the excellent scroll wheels on the Basilisk V3 and G502 X, the G203’s scroll wheel feels less defined and mushier in its ratcheting.
gloss: Overly sappy, corny, or cheesy; sentimental, especially in a romantic way; maudlin.
pos: adj
examples: Skip the mushy, romantic scenes and get to the action.
I am sure the hostess will leave off her list men and women who usually drink too much, the woman who gets mushy and tries to steal all the handsomest husbands, the man who offensively would take this opportunity to try to build up sales contacts, […]
The day before she left for college, she and Vicki said goodbye. They exchanged mushy cards and promised to write frequently.
Those flower-bedecked cards being showered today on the male of the parental species may encourage one to ponder, in the mushiest language possible, what it means to be a dad.
Derived words: mushily
mushiness
mushy peas
unmushy
Translations:
full-fledged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English full
English fledged
English full-fledged
From full + fledged.
Inflected forms:
form: fully fledged
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having all its feathers; able to fly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having full qualification, credentials or preparation; entire; real.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: full-grown
After she passes the bar exam, she will be a full-fledged lawyer.
Ansible is not a full-fledged programming language, but it does have several programming language features, and one of the most important of these is variable substitution.
PIRG noted the European Union has a limit of 300 ppm for boron and that there should be a “full-fledged investigation to determine if limits should be established” in the US.
Related words: fledge
Derived words: full-fledgedly
full-fledgedness
Translations:
astrology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French astrologie, and its source, Latin astrologia (“astronomy”), from Ancient Greek ἀστρολογία (astrología, “telling of the stars”), from ἄστρον (ástron, “star, planet, or constellation”) + -λογία (-logía, “treating of”), a combination form of -λόγος (-lógos, “one who speaks (in a certain manner)”). Morphologically astro- + -logy.
Base: astro
Inflected forms:
form: astrologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: astrol.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements.
Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.
In some ways, astrology is perfectly suited for the internet age. There’s a low barrier to entry, and nearly endless depths to plumb if you feel like falling down a Google research hole.
Translations: