yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bulrush
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English bulrish, perhaps from bule (“bull”) (in the sense of "large") + rish (“rush”).
Inflected forms:
form: bulrushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bullrush
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A plant referred to in the story of Moses as growing along the banks of the Nile, which is believed to be the papyrus (Cyperus papyrus).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various tall, narrow-leaved plants growing near water, especially cattail or reedmace, in the genus Typha.
pos: noun
gloss: Sedges in the genera Bolboschoenus or Schoenoplectus (formerly considered Scirpus), having clusters of spikelets.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various reed-like plants growing near water, especially Typha domingensis and Typha orientalis; cumbungi, wonga.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: Explorers Eyre, Kreft, and George Moore all refer to the importance of bulrush starch in different parts of the continent.
Related words: rush
cattail
papyrus
reed
sedge
Derived words: bulrushlike
bulrushy
chairmaker's bulrush
great bulrush
green bulrush
Olney's bulrush
seek a knot in a bulrush
softstem bulrush
woolgrass bulrush
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: xunkth
lang: Albanian
word: kallame
lang: Bulgarian
word: папур
roman: papur
lang: Catalan
word: boga
lang: Dutch
word: bies
lang: Egyptian
word: H-Hn:n-i-M2
roman: ḥnj
lang: Finnish
word: kaisla
lang: French
word: scirpe
lang: French
word: jonc
lang: Galician
word: espadana
lang: Galician
word: canaveira
lang: Galician
word: carrizo
lang: German
word: Simse
lang: Hebrew
word: סוּף
roman: suf
lang: Hungarian
word: sás
lang: Hungarian
word: káka
lang: Hungarian
word: palka
lang: Hungarian
word: gyékény
lang: Ingrian
word: glaisa
lang: Italian
word: giunco di palude
lang: Japanese
word: イ
roman: i
lang: Korean
word: 골풀
roman: golpul
lang: Latin
word: scirpus
lang: Lushootseed
word: ʔulal
lang: Macedonian
word: рогоз
roman: rogoz
lang: Macedonian
word: шамак
roman: šamak
lang: Macedonian
word: шавар
roman: šavar
lang: Māori
word: kāpūngāwhā
lang: Māori
word: raupō
lang: Māori
word: wīwī
lang: Nyunga
word: tanjil
lang: Old English
word: ēarisċ
lang: Polish
word: sitowie
lang: Portuguese
word: junco
lang: Portuguese
word: taboa
lang: Quechua
word: tutura
lang: Romanian
word: papură
lang: Russian
word: рого́з
roman: rogóz
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: luachair-bhog
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rogoz
lang: Spanish
word: espadaña
lang: Spanish
word: gladio
lang: Spanish
word: anea
lang: Spanish
word: enea
lang: Spanish
word: boga
lang: Spanish
word: totora
lang: Spanish
word: aceña
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قوغهلق
roman: koğalık
lang: Venetan
word: bruła
lang: Welsh
word: clwbfrwynen
lang: Welsh
word: llafrwynen
secret-sacred
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In Australian Aboriginal culture, restricted to initiated men, or to women; not public knowledge.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 2001, Moira G. Simpson, Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era
Most major Australian museums now hold secret/sacred material in a separate storage area, with access restricted to specified curatorial staff and to those members of the relevant Aboriginal community who have the right to view such material.
2004, Robert Tonkinson, Individual Creativity and Property-Power Disjunction in an Australian Desert Society, in Property and Equality: Ritualization, Sharing, Egalitarianism
While it is true that, in some areas, women possessed secret-sacred knowledge and rituals, nowhere was this corpus considered more important for social reproduction than that held by mature men, who claimed they exercised their responsibilities for the society as a whole.
Translations:
refocus
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English focus
English refocus
From re- + focus.
Inflected forms:
form: refocuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refocusses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refocusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: refocussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: refocused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: refocused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: refocussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: refocussed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to focus on something else
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Labour frontbencher Louise Haigh (Shadow Transport Secretary for heaven's sake!) initially lambasted TOCs before the handful of specialist rail commentators fell on her tweets and she changed her tune, refocusing her fire on Government.
gloss: to change the focus of
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to refocus a microscope
These two sets of questions are interrelated in such a way that they often actually work to prevent productive discussion of the movie's politics. Just a few observations might make this point clear, and help to refocus the debate that has surrounded the film since its opening earlier this summer.
gloss: to change one's priorities
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: to come back into focus
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused.
Related words: focus
prioritize
Derived words: refocusable
refocuser
Translations:
experiencing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: experiencings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of undergoing an experience, or the experience itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As a still further alternative, there's the conjecture that […] our split-brain patient was engaged in not one, but two experiencings. Quite dramatically, during the differentially stimulating setup of the experimental situation, her experiencings were qualitatively very different, and not just numerically distinct.
Translations:
one-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English oneyed, on-eied, on-eiȝed, from Old English ānēġed (“one-eyed”), from Proto-Germanic *ainaugidaz, equivalent to one + eyed. Compare Old English ānīeġe (“one-eyed”), Scots ane-eit, aan eet (“one-eyed”), Saterland Frisian eenooged (“one-eyed”), West Frisian ieneagich (“one-eyed”), Dutch eenogig (“one-eyed”), German einäugig (“one-eyed”), Danish enøjet (“one-eyed”), Swedish enögd (“one-eyed”), Icelandic ein-eygður, ein-eygur (“one-eyed”).
Compound parts: one
eyed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having only a single eye, particularly when a greater number is normal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Being able to see out of only one eye.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
one-eyed jack
one-eyed king
one-eyed monster
one-eyed snake
one-eyed trouser snake
Translations:
warrigal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Dharug wuragalbor.
English warrigal
Borrowed from Dharug wuragal (“wild and undomesticated dingo”).
Inflected forms:
form: warrigals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: warragal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: warragle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: warragul
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A wild dingo.
pos: noun
gloss: A wild horse.
pos: noun
Derived words: warrigal cabbage
warrigal greens
Translations:
boong
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Suggested sources are
* Malay bung (“brother”),
* Indonesian dialectal bung (“brother”)
* A New Guinea native language
* An Aboriginal Australian language.
Previously the word Binghi was used widely in similar fashion to the present-day use of the term Negro for peoples of African ancestry; see titles from this booklist and also writings of Xavier Herbert (e.g. in Capricornia), for example.
Inflected forms:
form: boongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bung
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Australian Aboriginal person.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
ethnic
offensive
slang
slur
examples: I heard Bruce tell one of the drinkers he'd bought a place in Queensland where you could ‘still call a Boong a Boong’.
‘[…]I quit the feds because I didn't want to be a showpiece boong cop.’
“Yeah,” he said, “them boongs are a useless lot. The sooner they all die off, the better.”
“And why is that?” Bill asked.
“The Abos are nothing but a pack of boozers. All they wanna' do is get pissed.” The man glared at his beer. “Useless, they are.”
gloss: A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
dated
slang
examples: A couple of boongs came down and carried me up to the hut where our R.A.P. corporal was.
During the War the soldiers generally referred to Papua New Guineans as “Boongs,” a name also given to black Americans. It is not a nice word, but is fair to say that the Aussies held the boongs in quite some affection during the War.
[Department of Information cameraman Damien] Parer's views on mateship encompassed both the Papuans and the soldiers: at one point he wrote ‘“no boongs, no battle”, implying that natives and diggers were equal partners in their fight against the Japanese.’⁷¹
Translations:
baby-faced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more baby-faced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: babier-faced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
rare
form: most baby-faced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: babiest-faced
pos: adj
tags: rare
superlative
form: babyfaced
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: baby faced
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a face that appears childlike, innocent, or youthful.
pos: adj
examples: Michelle was of the opinion that all the best con artists were baby-faced, since that inspires trust in others.
[David] Caruso’s at his best in control of things as an island of calm fury. Here, looking like a babier-faced Alan Ladd, he’s hardly in charge even of his own destiny as an ex-petty thief who, forced by a cousin to do one more run, is caught, jailed, loses his wife in a car crash, and suffers the final indignity of having to turn police informer to secure permanent freedom.
“You know what? Fine. I’m going to give them the cutest, furriest, biggest-eyed, and babiest-faced mammal on the planet, and then I’m going to make it chomp venomous desert vipers to death. How about that?” “Yeah, they’re still going to think it’s cute.”
Translations:
backslider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English backslide
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English backslider
From backslide + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: backsliders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
pos: noun
examples: She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.
At night the Red Elephant Tusk boomed and groaned among the hills, and the faithful waked and said: ‘The God of Things as They Are matures revenge against the backsliders.’
The choice of unilateralism by the US also exposed it to charges that it is a backslider on its WTO commitments.
You say that you “lapse into coupledom” on occasion. Do you get grief from fellow militant singles for being a backslider?
gloss: One who will not do his work or shoulder his responsibilities.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Translations:
bagful
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bage-ful, bage full, baggeful, bagg-ful; equivalent to bag + -ful.
Base: bag
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: bagfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bagsful
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount that fills a bag.
pos: noun
examples: She carried a bagful of groceries into the house.
gloss: A large assortment.
pos: noun
examples: The politician had a bagful of humorous anecdotes she could interject into any spur of the moment stump speech.
They each had, it seemed, a bagful of sermons often preached with great authority, and brought souls low before the altar—like so many ears of corn lopped off by the hired laborer in his daily work […]
Translations:
upscale
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From up + scale, 1966 (adjective), 1963 (verb).
Base: up
Inflected forms:
form: more upscale
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most upscale
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: upscales
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upscaling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upscaled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upscaled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Expensive and designed to appeal to affluent consumers.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: For example, a good location for resale, such as an upscale suburb of new homes, will cost more money than a piece of land in an established neighborhood of small, postwar houses.
In Rio de Janeiro, thousands protested in a gritty area far from the city’s upscale seaside districts. In other cities, demonstrators blocked roads, barged into City Council meetings or interrupted sessions of local lawmakers, clapping loudly and sometimes taking over the microphone.
gloss: To increase in size, to scale up.
pos: verb
Translations:
glob
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Possibly a blend of blob + gob, or a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as glop, gop, lob, blob, lump, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.)
In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour.
Compound parts: blob
gob
Inflected forms:
form: globs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: globs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: globbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: globbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: globbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
pos: noun
examples: He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
gloss: A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
pos: noun
gloss: To stick in globs or lumps.
pos: verb
examples: […] paint globbed on the canvas, marring the careful shadowing he'd created on the snowbank. It was an amateurish mistake, completely unworthy of an artist of Teddy's skill.
Derived words: globby
oh my glob
Translations:
semisolid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
Latin solidusder.
Old French solidebor.
Middle English solide
English solid
English semisolid
From semi- + solid.
Inflected forms:
form: semisolids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having properties intermediate between those of a solid and a liquid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any substance with such properties.
pos: noun
gloss: A platform that one can pass through from below, but not from above.
pos: noun
Related words: semiliquid
colloid
Translations:
daisy-chain
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: The verb is derived from daisy chain (noun).
Inflected forms:
form: daisy-chains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: daisy-chaining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: daisy-chained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: daisy-chained
pos: verb
tags: past
form: daisychain
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: daisy chain
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To artificially increase (the price of a commodity; originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) by a group of dealers buying and selling it among themselves before it is sold to a party outside the group.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To connect (several computer devices or peripherals, or other components) in sequence with each other, usually such that the output of one component forms the input of another; also (followed by to), to connect (a computer device, peripheral, or other component) to another component in such a sequence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We daisy-chained several USB hubs to see if we could reach the far side of the room.
The jacks can be ‘daisy-chained’ and controlled as a synchronised set.
gloss: Of people, animals, etc.: to position in a line and move like a chain.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To artificially increase the price of a commodity (originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) by a group of dealers buying and selling it among themselves before it is sold to a party outside the group.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Especially of a computer device, peripheral, or other component: to be capable of being connected with other components in sequence.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: These peripherals are designed to daisy-chain easily with each other.
Derived words: daisy-chained
daisy-chaining
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: myydä edestakaisin hinnan nostamiseksi
unlink
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English link
English unlink
From un- + link.
Inflected forms:
form: unlinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unlinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unlinked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unlinked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: unlinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To decouple; to remove a link from, or separate the links of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To delete (a file).
pos: verb
tags: Unix
transitive
examples: That's because the permission to unlink a file doesn't depend upon the permission bits on the file itself; it's the permission bits on the directory that contains the file that matter.
gloss: A link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane.
pos: noun
Translations:
exclaiming
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more exclaiming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exclaiming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: exclaimings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Uttering an exclamation.
pos: adj
gloss: exclamation
pos: noun
examples: The singular half hour under the trees by the pool, spent, after the first hysteric moments were over, in vague exclaimings and questions […]
Translations:
foley
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From the surname Foley, itself from Irish Ó Foghlú and Old Irish Ó Foghladha (“plunderer”).
The meanings related to sound effects are named after sound effects pioneer Jack Foley.
Inflected forms:
form: foleys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The creation of sound effects, and their addition to film and TV images.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: A foley artist.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
gloss: A Foley catheter.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
Derived words: foley session
Translations:
gripped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: more gripped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gripped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: excited; mesmerized
pos: adj
gloss: Having a grip, or grips
pos: adj
gloss: Afraid; too anxious to continue a climb.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Derived words: ungripped
Translations:
dynamometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dynamo- + -meter.
Base: dynamo
Inflected forms:
form: dynamometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various devices used to measure mechanical power, force, or torque.
pos: noun
Translations:
chequebook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cheque + book.
Compound parts: cheque
book
Inflected forms:
form: chequebooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cheque book
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: checkbook
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: A folder or booklet containing preprinted cheques for use by the holder of a bank account.
pos: noun
Translations:
coppered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: more coppered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most coppered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: (of the hull of a wooden ship) sheathed below the waterline with thin sheets of copper to prevent the attack of teredo shipworms and limit the buildup of weed
pos: adj
Translations:
coracle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Of Celtic origin; related to Welsh corwg, Irish curach (“boat”) and Cornish gorhel (“ship”), from Proto-Celtic *kurukos (“boat”).
Inflected forms:
form: coracles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small circular or oblong boat made of wickerwork and made watertight with hides or pitch, propelled and steered with a single paddle and light enough to be carried on a person's back.
pos: noun
examples: The White Hart, overlooking the bridge, has a bar named after the coracles that may still be seen on this part of the Teifi.
Translations:
iora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ioras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of passerine birds, of the genus Aegithina, found in India and other parts of Asia
pos: noun
Translations:
wattmeter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English watt
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.
English -meter
English wattmeter
From watt + -meter.
Inflected forms:
form: wattmeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instrument for measuring electric power in watts.
pos: noun
Translations:
behaving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: behavings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Behaviour.
pos: noun
examples: After that, he watched the semichivalrous behavings of the three English with quiet amusement; he thought Fielding had been incredibly silly and weak, and he was amazed by the younger people's want of proper pride.
For any such thing can play the role in an individual life which philosophers have thought could, or at least should, be played only by things which were universal, common to us all. It can symbolise the blind impress all our behavings bear.
Translations:
extraordinarily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English extraordinary
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English extraordinarily
From extraordinary + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more extraordinarily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most extraordinarily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an extraordinary manner.
pos: adv
examples: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
With such a skewed probability, the quantum reasoning goes, we have long overlooked the tiny chance that the baseball can (and, on extraordinarily rare occasions, will) land somewhere completely different.
Translations:
nop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: nops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: NOP
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nopped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: NOP
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
pos: noun
examples: The MIPS instruction set is rich in nops, since any instruction with zero as a destination is guaranteed to do nothing.
2004, Patterson et al, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface
Notice that in computing CPI or IPC, we do not count any nops executed as useful instructions.
gloss: To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
pos: verb
examples: For example, if there is a CALL 3140 and we want to skip this call, we can NOP it out.
Worse, some patching can result in codes which cannot be executed: for example nopping the load which provides the value for the denominator of a division can result in a division by zero.
Translations:
Italianate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Italian
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English Italianate
From Italian + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: more Italianate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Italianate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Italianates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Italianating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Italianated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Italianated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Italian in style or character.
pos: adj
examples: "This was a residence designed for living on a grand scale, with gilt chandeliers dangling overhead, rich oil paintings adorning walls, and Italianate marble fireplaces in every room."
Charlbury, between Oxford and Worcester, is one of the few surviving Italianate stations designed by Brunel. Built in 1853, it is characterised by the broad overhanging hipped roof, providing shelter at front and rear.
gloss: Pertaining to a style of Latin pronunciation imitating the modern Roman dialect of Italian, originally popularized outside of Italy by ultramontane Roman Catholics in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
pos: adj
tags: specifically
examples: Work on how Latin would have sounded in music settings using the vernacular version of pronunciation is now under way and singers are beginning to adopt the appropriate sounds as far as these are known. The differences from Italianate Latin are often striking.
The Liber usualis of 1896 was eventually expanded to include pronunciation, and it resulted in the uniform adoption of an Italianate pronunciation of Latin throughout the Roman Catholic church.
W. W. Story, in his 1879 article “The Pronunciation of the Latin Language,” does not temper his thoughts on the emergence, then hegemony, of Italianate pronunciation of classical Latin: […]
gloss: To Italianize.
pos: verb
Translations:
tallish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tall
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English tallish
From tall + -ish.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: somewhat tall
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
decorating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: decoratings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: decoration
pos: noun
examples: Sometimes, at business meetings, bazaars, banquets, decoratings, celebratings, and what not, our animosities like wild tigers escape and create havoc in the flock.
Translations:
updating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: updatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is updated.
pos: noun
examples: Later manuals in the United States as best illustrated by Sabetti went through many revisions and updatings.
Translations:
redecorate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English decorate
English redecorate
From re- + decorate.
Inflected forms:
form: redecorates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: redecorating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: redecorated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: redecorated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To change the appearance of a place by altering the decor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Yeah, she said you had been helping her redecorate, that you had been to Parke Bernet, picking out a bureau.
gloss: To refurbish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: redecorator
Translations:
varnished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: coated or decorated with varnish
pos: adj
Translations:
tinned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Coated, or plated with tin.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Packed in a tin can; canned.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He lit a fire in the dining-room, and the chimney was damp and smoked abominably, so that when he had fed full on tinned meats he was fain to let the fire go out and to sit in his fur-lined overcoat by the becindered grate, now fast growing cold, and smoke pipe after pipe of gloomy reflection.
gloss: Previously prepared; not fresh or new
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: dried
Derived words: untinned
Translations:
sunbathed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Since the 1890s or earlier; figurative, conceiving sunlight as if it were a fluid that can bathe (immerse) something.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Well lit up by sunlight; brightly sunlit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: sunbathed landscape
Translations:
sunbathe
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sun + bathe.
Compound parts: sun
bathe
Inflected forms:
form: sunbathes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sunbathing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sunbathed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sunbathed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sunbathes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To expose one's body to the sun in order to relax or to obtain a suntan; to take the sun.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: A sunbathing session: a sunbath.
pos: noun
examples: Do you think it's warm enough outside for a sunbathe?
Translations:
afters
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros
Proto-Germanic *after
Old English æfter
Middle English after
English after
English -s
English afters
From after + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Dessert.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
uncountable
examples: What are we having for afters, Mum? I really want ice cream.
gloss: The festivities held after a wedding meal.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: To keep costs down at our wedding, we only had family at the banquet, but invited all our friends to the afters.
gloss: Fighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
uncountable
examples: 42-2: From the other end Strauss has a bit of afters with Morne Morkel after yet another bouncer raps him on the gloves.
Clarke was dismissed in the sixty-seventh minute ... for overly enthusiastic afters with one of the Wexford players.
gloss: An after-hours drinking session in a public house.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
uncountable
examples: The lights flashed when the landlord shouted, “Last round of drinks before bar closes. Here^([sic]) me folks, no 'Afters' tonight mates!”
It was an afters pub, which meant it closed at 11 p.m., doors bolted, but with us all inside.
gloss: After-school care service.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
shareable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English share
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English shareable
From share + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more shareable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shareable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sharable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: shareables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sharable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Suitable for sharing.
pos: adj
examples: Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
gloss: Anything, such as food or a social media post, suitable for sharing.
pos: noun
Translations:
electrometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From electro- + -meter.
Base: electro
Inflected forms:
form: electrometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device used to detect and measure static electricity; an electroscope.
pos: noun
gloss: A precision voltmeter that draws almost no current from the circuit.
pos: noun
Derived words: thermoelectrometer
Translations:
ergometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ergo-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.
English -meter
English ergometer
From ergo- + -meter.
Inflected forms:
form: ergometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dynamometer used to measure the work done by muscles
pos: noun
gloss: A rowing machine or ergocycle
pos: noun
Related words: ergometry
ergometric
Derived words: cycloergometer
spiroergometer
Translations:
hawking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hawkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Action of the verb to hawk.
pos: noun
examples: Boats shuttled to and fro, and the hawkings and peddlings of all sorts of wares helped to create an amazing scene of activity and prosperity.
Translations:
hawked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hawked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hawked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
pos: adj
Translations:
richness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English richenesse; by surface analysis, rich + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: richnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being rich; wealthiness, wealth, riches.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of having many examples or cases; abundance; profusion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: By using the same classification system for all the dictionaries surveyed, it was possible to compare the lexical richness of each against the other.
Describing us as multilingual emphasizes our achievements and that learning English adds to the richness of our identity.
gloss: The number of types in a community.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The result or product of being rich.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
Related words: enrichment
biodiversity
Translations:
truthfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English truthful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English truthfully
From truthful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more truthfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most truthfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a truthful manner
pos: adv
examples: He spoke truthfully.
The common gay does well being less concerned with joining the Great Gay Bandwagon […] and more concerned with living unostentatiously, honestly, truthfully, and quietly.
gloss: Frankly.
pos: adv
examples: Truthfully, I didn't suspect a thing.
Truthfully, I was kind of average until my life went from snooze to snazztastic in about sixty seconds.
Synonyms: sincerely
in point of fact
truly
Translations:
oxcart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ox + cart.
Compound parts: ox
cart
Inflected forms:
form: oxcarts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ox-cart
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cart designed to be drawn by an ox or oxen.
pos: noun
Translations:
cartwheel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Norse kartrbor.
Proto-Germanic *kradô
Proto-West Germanic *krat
Old English crætder.
Middle English cart
English cart
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Middle English whel
English wheel
English cartwheel
From cart + wheel.
Inflected forms:
form: cartwheels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cartwheels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cartwheeling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cartwheeled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cartwheeled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The wheel of a cart.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: wagon wheel, artillery wheel
gloss: A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
pos: noun
gloss: A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
obsolete
slang
examples: Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
gloss: A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
obsolete
slang
gloss: To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.
pos: verb
gloss: To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.
pos: verb
examples: The race car hit a bump and cartwheeled over the finish line.
Derived words: cartwheeler
cartwheel hat
splitwheel
Translations:
klepto
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more klepto
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most klepto
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: kleptos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an individual who suffers from kleptomania.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: A kleptomaniac.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
ecdysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔκδυσις (ékdusis, “stripping”), from ἐκδύω (ekdúō, “I take off”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) + δύω (dúō, “I get in”).
Inflected forms:
form: ecdyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ecdysises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The stripping off of an outer layer of skin by snakes and certain other animals; typically in accommodation to growth or wear-and-tear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The shedding of an exoskeleton, as in insects and crustaceans.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: ecdyse
ecdysiast
ecdysiotropic
ecdysone
Derived words: ecdysoid
Translations:
Pythagoreanism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Pythagorean
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English Pythagoreanism
From Pythagorean + -ism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Only two Greek philosophies, Pythagoreanism and neo-Platonism, might be called basically religious. Even early Pythagoreanism prior to 450 B.C. had a strong religious strain.
gloss: Vegetarianism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: Pythagorean
Derived words: Neopythagoreanism
Translations:
anaerobe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French anaérobie.
Inflected forms:
form: anaerobes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An anaerobic organism; one that does not require oxygen to sustain its metabolic processes.
pos: noun
Translations:
kinetically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kinetic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
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
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English kinetically
From kinetic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a kinetic manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Concerning kinetics.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: chemokinetically
optokinetically
Translations:
offhand
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *ofhande, *ofhende, from Old English ofhende (“absent, lost”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *abahandijaz. Equivalent to (and re-formed as) off- + hand. Cognate with Icelandic afhendur. Compare onhand.
Base: hand
Affixes: off-
Inflected forms:
form: more offhand
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most offhand
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: off-hand
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more offhand
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most offhand
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: off-hand
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Without planning or thinking ahead.
pos: adj
examples: She gave an offhand speech.
He must also be fluent in obscenity, offhand in sex. Most important of all, he must play tough.
gloss: Careless; without sufficient thought or consideration.
pos: adj
examples: He doesn't realise how hurtful his offhand remarks can be.
In September 2019, on the papal plane en route to Mozambique, Francis acknowledged the sharp opposition he faced from conservative detractors in the United States in an offhand remark. He said, it was “an honor that the Americans attack me.”
gloss: Curt, abrupt, unfriendly.
pos: adj
examples: She was quite offhand with me yesterday.
gloss: Right away, immediately, without thinking about it.
pos: adv
examples: Offhand, I'd guess that that's a yellow-bellied sapsucker.
We will have no more of this shilly-shallying! Call the Archbishop, and let the Prince and Princess be married offhand!
gloss: In an abrupt or unfriendly manner.
pos: adv
Synonyms: extemporaneous
off-the-cuff
Related words: off the top of one's head
Translations:
kinescope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kine-
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scope
English kinescope
From kine- + -scope.
Base: scope
Affixes: kine-
Inflected forms:
form: kinescopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kinescopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kinescoping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kinescoped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kinescoped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A recording of a television broadcast made by filming the screen of a monitor; a telerecording.
pos: noun
gloss: An early television receiver tube.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To record (a television broadcast) by filming the screen of a monitor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: kinescopic
kinescopy
Translations:
anaerobically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
French anaérobie
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English anaerobic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
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
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English anaerobically
From anaerobic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more anaerobically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most anaerobically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an anaerobic manner; in a way that does not require oxygen. Generally used of metabolic processes.
pos: adv
examples: Humans can metabolize both aerobically and anaerobically, the latter generally in high stress situations.
Translations:
antihero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English hero
English antihero
From anti- + hero.
Inflected forms:
form: antiheroes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anti-hero
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals.
pos: noun
examples: Alienation: A stage on the downside of the passage wherein the holdfast and the antihero take actions which bring about a disintegration of personality.
JK Rowling says that “girls are very apt to romanticise” the antihero, and reveals that she had been forced to pour “cold common sense” on the startling number of readers who fall for the arrogant, unscrupulous bully Draco Malfoy in her Harry Potter books.
The Deadpool fly is a species of Robber fly, which are “assassins of the insect world” – fitting for the mercenary antihero.
Fictional male antiheroes like television’s crime patriarchs Tony Soprano and Walter White have reigned for some time, but the antiheroine has only more recently had the opportunity to rise up – and become the cause of her own downfall. […] Grayson serves as an archetype for a female antihero not driven by much except for her own ambition, and she’s quite fine with that.
The latest act in the Madness of King Donald drama playing globally on every channel underlined the increasingly delusional world the anti-hero inhabits, his fantasies fed and indulged by a cast of sycophants, lackeys and straight grifters, all in it for what they can get.
Translations:
animator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From Latin animātor. By surface analysis, animate + -or. Piecewise doublet of animateur.
Inflected forms:
form: animators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: animater
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who creates an animation or cartoon; a cartoonist.
pos: noun
examples: In recent years, animators using computer rendering have largely superseded artists working by hand.
gloss: One who animates something; one who brings something to life or the appearance of life.
pos: noun
examples: The android turned to gaze at its animator.
Translations:
batterie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from French batterie, from battre (“to hit”). Doublet of battery.
Inflected forms:
form: batteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brilliant display of virtuosity in which the dancer's legs open and close rapidly while in the air, with the illusion of striking together and rebounding.
pos: noun
gloss: The percussion section of an orchestra or band, the battery; marching instruments in a drumline, as opposed to the pit.
pos: noun
Derived words: batterie de cuisine
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