yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
substratum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin substrātum, nominalisation of the neuter of Latin substrātus, perfect passive participle of substernō. By surface analysis, sub- + stratum.
Inflected forms:
form: substrata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A layer that lies underneath another.
pos: noun
gloss: The underlying cause or basis of something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: However exaggerated an estimate this might be, the substratum of truth was solid and auriferous enough to dazzle the imagination.
gloss: A substrate.
pos: noun
Related words: substratal
Derived words: substrate
Translations:
grapple
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *grapplen (“to seize, lay hold of”), from Old English *græpplian (“to seize”) (compare Old English ġegræppian (“to seize”)), from Proto-Germanic *graipilōną, *grabbalōną (“to seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to take, seize, rake”), equivalent to grab + -le.
Cognate with Dutch grabbelen (“to grope, scramble, scrabble”), German grabbeln (“to rummage, grope about”) and grapsen, grapschen (“to seize, grasp, grabble”). Influenced in some senses by grapple (“tool with claws or hooks”, noun) (see below). See further at grasp.
Base: grab
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: grapples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grappling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grappled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grappled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: graple
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: grapples
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: graple
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To seize something and hold it firmly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To wrestle or tussle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: to grapple with one's conscience
Class 4 2-6-4T No. 42098 grapples with the 1 in 63 to Troutbeck at the head of the "Lakes Express".
Fear of death is a universal human concern with which all thinking people at some point grapple.
The frictionless appearance of a box on the doorstep is such a seductive notion. We have come to rely on it in such a brief period that we have not been able to grapple fully with the scale or the meaning of home delivery.
gloss: A close hand-to-hand struggle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of grappling. (uncountable)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: gaffle
grapplehook
grapplement
grappler
grapplesome
grapple with
ungrapple
grapple plant
Translations:
greatcoat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-der.
Proto-Germanic *grautaz
Proto-West Germanic *graut
Old English grēat
Middle English grete
English great
Proto-Germanic *kuttôbor.
Latin cotta
Old French cottebor.
Middle English cote
English coat
English greatcoat
From great + coat.
Inflected forms:
form: greatcoats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heavy overcoat.
pos: noun
examples: The members quietly rose from the board and took their hats from the hat-pins, and the geggee took down his greatcoat, and, with the most satisfied air possible, buttoned it across his breast.
Translations:
stele
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
architecture
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “upright rock; pillar; column”), plural form στῆλαι (stêlai). Doublet of stela.
Inflected forms:
form: steles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stelai
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stélé
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stelè
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
pos: noun
examples: A superior class of members...had their names inscribed upon a marble stélé or column.
It appears, that when any one of the family died, a stelè to his memory was added to the tomb.
In Egypt [obelisks] belonged to the class of steles (commemorative pillars).
The Australian stele, or grave-pillar.
gloss: Any carved or engraved surface.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: Two large hieroglyphed steles incised upon the face of a projecting mass of boldly rounded cliff.
gloss: An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated.
Synonyms: stela
Related words: orthostat
Derived words: astelic
bistelic
gamostele
monostele
polystele
Translations:
Gregorian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Gregory
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Gregorian
From Gregory + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Gregorians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a person named Gregory, especially any of the popes of that name.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Gregorian calendar.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An average Gregorian year is 365.2425 days.
gloss: Of or relating to James Gregory (mathematician), inventor of the Gregorian telescope.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory.
pos: noun
Derived words: Gregorian calendar
Gregorian chant
Gregorianism
Gregorianist
Gregorian mode
Gregorian reform
Gregorian staff
Gregorian telescope
Gregorian tone
Gregorian year
Translations:
estrogen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂-der.
Ancient Greek οἶστρος (oîstros)der.
Latin oestrusbor.
English estrus
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English estro-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor.
French -gènebor.
English -gen
English estrogen
From estro- (estrus) + -gen (“a producer of”).
Affixes: estro-
-gen
Inflected forms:
form: estrogens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oestrogen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: œstrogen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of steroids that are secreted by the ovaries and function as female sex hormones.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: secondly, in many hormone-target organ interactions including the effect of estrogen on rat uterus, growth hormone and hydrocortisone on rat liver and thyroid hormone on toadpole liver, newly formed microsomes have been isolated which have increased protein synthesizing ability (Tata, 1968).
It is known as Hatschek's pit and has been found to react positively to antibodies against substance P, met-enkephalin, cholecystokinin (CCK), mammalian luteinizing hormone (LH), and the enzyme aromatase (P450ₐᵣₒ), which converts certain androgens into estrogens (see Chapter 3).
Amies Oelschlager said in a statement that oral contraceptives that contain estrogen may cause side effects such as headaches, nausea, and breast tenderness.
Translations:
shredded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: more shredded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shredded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cut or torn into narrow strips or small pieces.
pos: adj
gloss: Having very pronounced muscular definition.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: jacked, ripped
Derived words: nonshredded
shredded wheat
shredduce
unshredded
Translations:
bodybuilding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-
Proto-West Germanic *bodag
Old English bodiġ
Middle English bodi
English body
English building
English bodybuilding
From body + building.
Inflected forms:
form: body-building
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sport in which the aesthetics of muscular development is the basis for competition.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Like those activities, bodybuilding is an obsession, a living (for a few), and a way of life for the people involved in it—a subculture, in a word, with its own values, aesthetics and vocabulary.
gloss: Work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
examples: In my day, if you filled out your shirt, people assumed you played football or wrestled. The term bodybuilding had more to do with cars than lifting weights.
Related words: bodybuilder
Derived words: powerbuilding
Translations:
defined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: more defined
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most defined
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a definition or value.
pos: adj
gloss: Having extreme muscle separation as a result of low body fat.
pos: adj
Antonyms: undefined
Related words: definition
Derived words: definedness
nondefined
regiodefined
stereodefined
underdefined
Translations:
weightlifter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
Etymology: From weight + lifter.
Compound parts: weight
lifter
Inflected forms:
form: weightlifters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: weight lifter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who uses weights to train the muscles of the body, usually for strength or for improved performance in a sport.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: vzpěrač
lang: German
word: Gewichtheber
lang: Māori
word: kaimōhiki
bodybuilder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-
Proto-West Germanic *bodag
Old English bodiġ
Middle English bodi
English body
Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan
Old English bytlan
Middle English bylden
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
Middle English byldere
English builder
English bodybuilder
From body + builder.
Inflected forms:
form: bodybuilders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who uses diet and exercise to build an aesthetically muscular physique, in order to compete in bodybuilding.
pos: noun
examples: Physique of powerful bodybuilder (below) is like piece of sculpture. Buffs strive for the well-rounded body, disdain the professional weightlifter, who merely develops a number of very specialized muscles.
Because it is necessary for a muscle to rest while it grows and because of the importance of balanced development, most competitive bodybuilders train on a split routine; they work certain parts of the body one day and rest those muscles the next while they work the others, alternating like that six days a week.
In the competitions, bodybuilders go through "mandatories"—a set of mandatory poses—in the morning, where the judges compare the body parts of the builders.
Related words: bodybuilding
gym rat
mass monster
muscle god
muscle morph
Translations:
volumizer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English volumize
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 volumizer
From volumize + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: volumizers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cosmetic product that adds volume to the hair.
pos: noun
gloss: A dietary supplement that increases water uptake in muscle cells, causing the muscles to temporarily swell.
pos: noun
Translations:
bulky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English bulki, boulky, equivalent to bulk + -y.
Base: bulk
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: bulkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bulkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being large in size, mass, or volume; big, fat or muscular.
pos: adj
examples: Action such as this, filmed under great difficulty with a bulky, hand-cranked camera, revealed the possibilities of the movies and was quite startling in those early days.
Needless to say, one's seat must be booked in advance and a platoon of urbane officials, one to each door of the train, awaits passengers to usher them to their seats and relieve them of their bulkier baggage.
The captain did a safety drill. This covered where the emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) was located, how to make a mayday call, and where the fire extinguishers were. A crew member demonstrated how to put on an immersion suit. These survival suits are waterproof full-body garments with a hood and integral three-finger gloves and boots. They are bulky and hard to get on but far more likely to save your life in cold water than a lifejacket.
gloss: Unwieldy.
pos: adj
gloss: Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
pos: adj
Derived words: bulkily
bulkiness
bulky refuse
bulky waste
nonbulky
overbulky
superbulky
unbulky
Translations:
mesomorph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Derived from mesoderm + -morph by William Herbert Sheldon. Equivalent to meso- + -morph.
Base: mesoderm
Affixes: -morph
Inflected forms:
form: mesomorphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person with pronounced muscular development and low body fat.
pos: noun
examples: They found that endomorphs had significantly greater asymmetry in arm fat than mesomorphs and ectomorphs. […] They can also achieve mesomorph qualities through resistance training (which builds muscle) and a balanced diet rich in protein.
gloss: Theoretical body type in which a person naturally has lower body fat and greater ability to achieve muscular development than average.
pos: noun
Related words: ectomorph
endomorph
Derived words: mesomorphic
mesomorphous
mesomorphy
Translations:
fullness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English fulnesse, from Old English fulnes, fylnes, fyllnis (“completeness; abundance”), equivalent to full + -ness. Cognate with Old High German folnissi (“fullness”).
Base: full
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: fullnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fulness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: fulnesse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Being full; completeness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: feel a sense of fullness
The actor enjoyed the fullness of his success.
She lived life in all its fullness.
gloss: The degree to which a space is full.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The degree to which fate has become known.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: in the fullness of time
fullness of life
gloss: A measure of the degree to which a muscle has increased in size parallel to the axis of its contraction. A full muscle fills more of the space along the part of the body where it is connected.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: whole
Derived words: fullness of time
Translations:
pumped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bodybuilding
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: more pumped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pumped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pumped up; excited.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I'm feeling pumped for the game on Friday.
gloss: Pumped up; having muscles in an engorged state following exercise.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Wearing pumps (the type of shoe).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: All the young gentlemen, tightly cravatted, curled, and pumped, and with their best hats in their hands, having been at different times announced and introduced, Mr Baps, the dancing-master, came, accompanied by Mrs Baps, to whom Mrs Blimber was extremely kind and condescending.
gloss: Very tired, especially when too fatigued to grip handholds well.
pos: adj
examples: I was so pumped by the end of the climb that I could barely hold onto the jugs.
Related words: pumped hydro
pumped-up
unpumped
Translations:
distended
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Past participle of distend.
Inflected forms:
form: more distended
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most distended
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
pos: adj
gloss: gravid.
pos: adj
Derived words: distendedly
hyperdistended
overdistended
undistended
Translations:
dama
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare Turkish dama, Northern Kurdish دامە (dame).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The game of Turkish draughts.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
bak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Korean 박 (bak).
Inflected forms:
form: baks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wooden clapper used in Korean courts and rituals
pos: noun
Translations:
vill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman vill, from Old French vile (“farm, country estate”) (French ville (“town”)), from Latin vīlla. Doublet of villa and ville.
Inflected forms:
form: vills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The smallest administrative unit of land in feudal England, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and the modern parish.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A villa; a country residence.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Sometimes the kings in their country vills and seats of pleasure or retirement built a place of worship, which was the origin of royal free chapels.
Translations:
pils
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: pils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pilsner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
Translations:
buckwheat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Ultimately from Middle Low German bōkwête (“beech-wheat”) (so called because of its triangular seeds, which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut from the beech tree, and the fact that it is used like wheat), probably via Middle Dutch boecweit, boecweite. Compare German Buchweizen.
Despite the name, buckwheat is not related to wheat, as it is not a grass.
Inflected forms:
form: buckwheats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I'll need a few things. I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana. I'll need some buckwheat flapjack mix.
gloss: Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
pos: noun
tags: US
Western
uncountable
usually
gloss: A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: Mafia mythology has many believe that the method used to eliminate a person is often a reflection of the respect for that individual. In this case, the Profaci gunman must have witnessed a "buckwheat's" execution, where an example is being made of the victim by inflicting pain for a prolonged period.
Mob murders are seldom buckwheats, being instead simple business matters. An exception is made, however, for murders of example, such as in the case of informers, or mobsters who hold out on gang revenues […]
gloss: Curly hair of a black person.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slur
uncountable
usually
gloss: Pubic hair.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
Derived words: buckwheat cake
buckwheat coal
buckwheater
buckwheatlike
buckwheat note
buckwheat tree
buckwheat vine
buckwheaty
California buckwheat
climbing buckwheat
common buckwheat
Conejo buckwheat
false buckwheat
hedge buckwheat
Mount Diablo buckwheat
naked buckwheat
nude buckwheat
saffron buckwheat
sulfur buckwheat
tall buckwheat
Tartar buckwheat
Tartarian buckwheat
Tartary buckwheat
true buckwheat
wild buckwheat
Wright's buckwheat
Translations:
ZOMG
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A variant of OMG, presumably from excited users accidentally hitting the Z key while attempting to press shift, or from conscious imitation of such excitement.
The term is said to have been coined (likely in the early 2000s) by a Something Awful user named “Rick_Feynman”, in an ICQ chat between him and fellow user “Hannibal” (see also his Usenet message quoted below), though it was already in use before that. Usage of the term on the boards of Something Awful and 4chan has greatly contributed to its popularization.
Inflected forms:
form: zOMG
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: zomg
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An emphatic form of OMG (“oh my God”).
pos: intj
tags: Internet
examples: HAY CHRSI! WAHT"S GOING ON IN LAKERLAND? ^([sic])
ZOMG!
I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said that my initial reaction to this machine went something like: ZOMG it's an overgrown Blackberry.^([sic])
My fellow Tweeters were supportive, bless their hearts, but I know I was getting annoying constantly tweeting stuff like: "ZOMG I JUST BURNED 1K CALORIES!!11!"
What was he doing pursuing me? He didn't seem happy about it, like, ZOMG, I met my soul mate and now my life can begin! It was more like he was being compelled against his will.
Translations:
hexagonal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
crystallography
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From hexagon + -al. Piecewise doublet of sexagonal.
Base: hexagon
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having six edges, or having a cross-section in the form of a hexagon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Nuts in engineering are generally hexagonal.
If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.
gloss: Having three equal axes which cross at 60° angles, and an unequal axis which crosses the others at 90° angle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: sexagonal
Derived words: dihexagonal
hexagonal chess
hexagonality
hexagonally
hexagonal number
hexagonal prism
hexagonal water
nonhexagonal
orthohexagonal
pseudohexagonal
quasihexagonal
semihexagonal
subhexagonal
trihexagonal
Translations:
suffering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, suffer + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: sufferings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.
pos: adj
examples: Her last night was very suffering, the anodyne she took gave her no relief, and for the first time she lay till near noon.
My heart is full, but my body too suffering to go on.
I said that Miss Kinney opened the wound; I had not seen the burn then, myself; I was too ill and too suffering to rise up to see the whole surface of it; this was on Thursday morning, the morning after the operation, that I complained of such pain I must have something to relieve it, so she brought these strips of bandages and vaseline, and then she examined the wound, and without saying anything she took this brass pin and pricked it in several places;
Just to hear them was very suffering ... It must have been so unbearable to have to yell like that.
I was listening her because she was telling me she was very suffering and that she was praying for her pains, for sinners, for poor, for ill people and for afflicted.
gloss: The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. She claimed the microwave was accidentally turned on by one of the cats after the kitten got inside. But Knutton said the kitten was too small to even get onto the work surface.
Derived words: longsuffering
nonsuffering
suffering catfish
suffering cats
suffering centipedes
suffering Moses
suffering Sappho
suffering succotash
Translations:
didact
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διδακτός (didaktós).
Inflected forms:
form: didacts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A didactic person.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: teacher, instructor, preceptor, pedagogue
gloss: A person gifted, trained, or intending to instruct.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: teacher, instructor, preceptor
gloss: Any teacher.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Related words: autodidact
autodidactic
autodidacticism
autodidaction
autodidactism
didactic
didactical
didactically
didactician
didacticism
didacticist
didactics
didaction
nondidactic
undidactic
Translations:
polyurethane
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English urethane
English polyurethane
From poly- + urethane.
Inflected forms:
form: polyurethanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polyurethanes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: polyurethaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: polyurethaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: polyurethaned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of various polymeric resins containing urethane links; used in many industrial and domestic applications.
pos: noun
examples: Firefighters were hampered by toxic fumes from polyurethane mattresses and overstuffed furniture.
gloss: To coat (a floor etc.) with polyurethane.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
nomad
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anthropology
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle French nomade, from Latin Nomas (“wandering shepherd”), from Ancient Greek νομάς (nomás, “roaming, wandering, esp. to find pasture”), from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “pasture”). Compare Numidia.
Inflected forms:
form: nomads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more nomad
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nomad
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
pos: noun
examples: The life of the people called the Nomads or Grazyers...
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
gloss: Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A person who changes residence frequently.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Once again Judy was a nomad, moving to yet again another destination.
I made my exit down I-75, heading south. After a 40-year odyssey as a media nomad, I will be closing the circle in a place where my life had never been better.
Poise is the posture of the nomad, moving while always at home.
gloss: A player who changes teams frequently.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: With the recruitment of South Australian football nomad, and eventual legend of the game, Phil Matson, Subiaco would improve considerably in 1912.
Unlike players who were often traded, baseball nomads who carried a hobo's bindle rather than a bat on their shoulders, Musial stayed put in St. Louis.
Between 1996 and 2003, Lewis was a baseball nomad. At various times he signed contracts with San Diego, Detroit, Oakland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, the New York Mets, Cleveland, and the Chicago Cubs.
gloss: A dragonfly of Afroeurasia, Sympetrum fonscolombii.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of nomadic.
pos: adj
Derived words: digital nomad
gray nomad
grey nomad
nomade
nomadian
nomadic
nomadical
nomadism
nomadistic
nomadity
nomadization
nomadize
nomadness
nomadology
nomadship
nonnomad
seminomad
technomad
tech-nomad
Translations:
harlequinade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French arlequinade.
Inflected forms:
form: harlequinades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pantomime-like comedy featuring the harlequin or clown.
pos: noun
gloss: Any comical or fantastical procedure or playfulness.
pos: noun
examples: Away up the gorge all diurnal fancies trooped into the wide liberties of endless luminous vistas of azure sunlit mountains beneath the shining azure heavens, the ranges and valleys changing with every mood of the atmosphere, with the harlequinade of the clouds and the wind.
Related words: commedia dell'arte
Translations:
Shavian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Shavi(us) + -an (a Latinized form of Shaw), named after George Bernard Shaw.
Base: Shavius
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Shavians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Possibly more than any other Shavian character, Undershaft engenders critical disagreement and discussion, even among the other characters in the play who call him “wicked” and “immoral” and refer to him in Devilish terms such as “Mephistoles” and “The Prince of Darkness”.
Speaking as someone who supports the Shavian argument that monarchy is a bulwark against dictatorship, I found it a dignified occasion and a reminder that, as a nation, we seem to be infinitely better at staging public spectacles than at governing the country.
gloss: Of or relating to the Shavian alphabet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As late as the 1960s, Shaw's own Androcles and the Lion was published in his revised alphabet—but the fact that few people have even heard of the Shavian spelling reform shows how futile the effort has been.
gloss: An admirer of Shaw, or an advocate of his ideas.
pos: noun
Translations:
hardihood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From hardy + -hood. Compare Dutch hardigheid (“hardness, callousness”), German Hartigkeit (“hardness”).
Base: hardy
Affixes: -hood
Inflected forms:
form: hardihoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hardihead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calamity; intrepidness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] he came to impart other news; to prepare the Earl for death; for the morrow was appointed for his execution. He received the intelligence with the firm hardihood of indignant virtue, disdaining to solicit, and disdaining to repine […]
Their talk, however, was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage; there was not an atom of foresight or of serious intention in the whole batch of them, and they did not seem aware these things are wanted for the work of the world.
Once endured it is enjoyed as my owndom. Elsewhere I refer to this process of enduring hardship as the only possible source of hardihood.
gloss: Excessive boldness; foolish daring; offensive assurance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] that God should enact a dispensation for hard hearts to do that wherby they must live in priviledg’d adultery, however it go for the receav’d opinion, I shall ever disswade my self from so much hardihood as to beleeve:
I have not the hardihood to dare to be vilely dishonest.
I began to realise the hardihood of my expedition among these unknown people.
I had not the arrogance—or the hardihood—to test my power again, but I put on hope, as a naked man welcomes rags in a winter storm.
gloss: Of a plant, an ability to withstand extreme conditions, hardiness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cheapness and hardihood of the musk-plant and marigold, to say nothing of their peculiar odour, has made them the most popular of “roots” […]
Now, as green sap ascends the steepled wood,
Each hedge with such white bloom astounds our eyes
As sprang from Joseph’s rod, and testifies
How best beauty’s born of hardihood.
It’s hardihood that thrives,
As when a screw pine that the gale has downed,
Shooting new prop-roots from its trunk, survives
In bristling disarray by change of ground,
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: смелост
roman: smelost
lang: Bulgarian
word: решителност
roman: rešitelnost
lang: Finnish
word: rohkeus
lang: Irish
word: crógacht
lang: Irish
word: dánacht
lang: Irish
word: dolbacht
lang: Irish
word: miotal
lang: Polish
word: wytrwałość
lang: Polish
word: wytrzymałość
lang: Polish
word: odporność
humic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin humusbor.
English humus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English humic
From humus + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: humics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to humus (the natural substance, not the food).
pos: adj
gloss: A derivative of humic acid.
pos: noun
examples: For waters with low concentrations of aquatic humics, the coagulant dose is controlled not by the humics but by the properties of the coagulant (pH and solubility for metal coagulants).
A number of recent publications […] claim previous studies have overestimated the importance of the aromatic moieties present in humics […]
Freshwater chemists learned that rather than manipulate large volumes of water through a complex procedure in order to extract a few milligrams of humics or fulvics, a simple adsorption column of certain resins could collect […]
Translations:
Frenchy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *frankô
Proto-West Germanic *Frankō
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Proto-West Germanic *Frankisk
Old English Frencisċder.
Middle English Frensch
English French
English -y
English Frenchy
From French + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: Frenchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: Frenchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Frenchie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Frenchies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Frenchie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: With an exaggerated French manner.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: A native or resident of France, or a francophone, or a person of French lineage.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
sometimes
examples: They seek him here, they seek him there, / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. / Is he in heaven—is he in hell? / That damned elusive Pimpernel?
Translations:
visitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
ecology
law
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. By surface analysis, visit + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: visitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Existing visitor facilities for both frontcountry areas experience crowding during the summer season, when the park receives most of its visitation, […]
Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
gloss: An official visit to inspect or examine something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But when the blow comes down in the fulness of expectation; when the bough is smitten while green, and the flower cut down in its spring; when the young and lovely perish, while the eyes, full of light, were fixed on the future,—then, indeed, is the visitation heavy to bear.
gloss: The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: conjugal visitation
Nun of the Visitation
Translations:
insertion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English insert
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English insertion
From insert + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: insertions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of inserting, or something inserted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The surgeon performed the insertion of a pacemaker.
The insertion of new text changed the meaning of the document.
The book contained the insertion of several illustrations.
gloss: The distal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will be moved by the muscle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The addition of a nucleotide to a chromosome by mutation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of going from subcritical to prompt critical.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: deletion
antonym(s) of
deletion
Derived words: deinsertion
disinsertion
do-insertion
indel
insertional
insertion order
insertion reaction
insertion sort
insertion time
leaf insertion
microinsertion
misinsertion
noninsertion
plane of insertion
postinsertion
postinsertional
preinsertion
preinsertional
reinsertion
Schensted insertion
self-insertion
Translations:
inconsolable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Middle French inconsolable, from Latin inconsolabilis; by surface analysis, in- + consolable, or, by surface analysis, in- + console + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more inconsolable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inconsolable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not consolable; unable to be consoled or comforted, usually due to grief, disappointment, or other distress.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: miserable, despondent; see also Thesaurus:sad
Salah looked inconsolable as he was led from the pitch and Sergio Ramos had some nerve offering a sympathetic hug on the way off.
Translations:
fiducial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin fīdūciālis, from fīdūcia (“trust, reliance”) + -ālis, from fīdō (“to trust”).
Inflected forms:
form: more fiducial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fiducial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fiducials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Accepted as a fixed basis of reference.
pos: adj
examples: Rulers and coins make good fiducial markers in photographs.
gloss: Based on having trust.
pos: adj
gloss: In photography, a familiar reference object used to show size or scale, such as a ruler or a coin; a fiducial marker.
pos: noun
gloss: In manufacturing, a small mark on a circuit board used to align components; a fiducial point.
pos: noun
Derived words: fiducialization
fiducially
Translations:
selling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Action of the verb to sell.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: buyings and sellings
gloss: Skill at salesmanship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You've got to work on your selling.
Derived words: best-selling
bookselling
consultative selling
direct selling
flag-selling
host selling
inertia selling
megaselling
nonselling
panic selling
pyramid selling
sellingly
selling on
selling plate
selling-plater
selling point
selling price
short selling
slopselling
switch selling
teleselling
top-selling
Translations:
mycology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, myco- + -logy; diachronically, the term may be naturalized from French or German, from a New Latin form.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of fungi.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
isomorphic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ῐ̓́σος (ĭ́sos)lbor.
English iso-
Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -morphic
English isomorphic
From iso- + -morphic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Related by an isomorphism; having a structure-preserving one-to-one correspondence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Let A, B be the ordered sets in Figure 10.3. Let C be the direct product of infinitely many copies of the two element chain 2. Then A^C is isomorphic to B^C, but A is not isomorphic to B.
gloss: Having a similar structure or function to something that is not related genetically or through evolution.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The fact that different structures can be shown to be functionally isomorphic implies that they are analogous, not homologous.
gloss: Having identical relevant structure; being structure-preserving while undergoing certain invertible transformations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For example, in so far as written and spoken English are isomorphic (i.e. have the same structure), they are the same language: there is nothing but their structure that they have in common.
gloss: Able to run either client-side or server-side.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an isomorphic JavaScript app
Antonyms: anisomorphic
nonisomorphic
Related words: isomorph
isomorphism
isomorphous
Derived words: anisomorphic
isomorphically
unisomorphic
Translations:
tithing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English tithyng, from Old English tēoþung or tēoðung, from tēoða (“a tithe”) + -ing (suffix forming patronymics and diminutives) and tēoþian (“to tithe”) + -ung (suffix forming verbal nouns). Equivalent to tithe + -ing.
Base: tithe
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: tithings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
pos: noun
examples: I prayed for the sick and saw some of them healed under my hands. I was given tithings of money and food by people who had not enough to eat themselves.
gloss: A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
pos: noun
gloss: A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
pos: noun
gloss: Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor).
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
examples: I see the boys of summer in their ruin / Lay the gold tithings barren, / Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils
gloss: A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: tenth and tithe
Derived words: tithing-barn
tithing days
tithingman
tithing-man
tithing-penny
tithing port
tithing-sheaf
tithing-system
tithing table
tithing-time
Translations:
indecent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From in- + decent.
Base: decent
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more indecent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indecent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Offensive to good taste.
pos: adj
examples: indecent comment
indecent videos
gloss: Not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest, or unseemly.
pos: adj
gloss: Generally unacceptable for public broadcasting but not legally obscene.
pos: adj
Related words: decency
Derived words: indecency
indecent assault
indecent exposure
indecent liberty
indecently
indecentness
Translations:
desertification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English desert
English -ification
English desertification
From desert + -ification (“process of becoming”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process by which a geographic region becomes a desert, resulting from natural changes in climate or by human activity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
fossilisation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fossilisations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: UK standard spelling of fossilization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bajra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi बाजरा (bājrā). Compare bajri from Gujarati બાજરી (bājrī).
Inflected forms:
form: bajre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bajree
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bajri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bajury
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, syn. Pennisetum glaucum).
pos: noun
tags: India
North
uncountable
examples: When food was scarce, the children would subsist on a lump of jaggery and one bajra roti each.
Translations:
blackthorn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of black + thorn.
Inflected forms:
form: blackthorns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa, that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.
pos: noun
gloss: A stick or staff taken from this tree.
pos: noun
Synonyms: sloe
Related words: shillelagh
Derived words: blackthorn winter
Translations:
escadrille
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French escadrille, from Middle French, from Spanish escuadrilla, from Latin exquadrare (“to square off”).
Inflected forms:
form: escadrilles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small squadron.
pos: noun
gloss: A unit of (usually) ten or more aircraft in World War I France.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
loofah
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic لُوفَة (lūfa)bor.
English loofah
Borrowed from Arabic لُوفَة (lūfa).
Inflected forms:
form: loofahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loofa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: luffa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: loofahs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: loofahing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: loofahed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: loofahed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: loofa
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: luffa
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd.
pos: noun
gloss: The dried fibrous interior of such a plant, used as a sponge for bathing.
pos: noun
gloss: Any bath sponge; a sponge on a handle.
pos: noun
gloss: To clean or scrub with a loofah.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: And she took good care of my feet, massaging them and loofahing the calluses away.
I may have snuck in showering myself—plus shaving, loofahing, hair blow-drying, reapplying makeup, changing my outfit five times, and winding up in what I started out with.
Derived words: angled loofah
smooth loofah
Translations: