yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
swordsman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sword
English -s-
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
English man
English swordsman
From sword + -s- + man.
Inflected forms:
form: swordsmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swordman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person skilled at using swords in sport or combat; a fencer.
pos: noun
examples: He is a remarkable swordsman.
gloss: A person who fights with a sword.
pos: noun
examples: Archers attempted to take down an unknown swordsman.
gloss: A man who is a skillful or enthusiastic practitioner of sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Jennifer Aniston is in control . . . and getting what she needs from a notorious swordsman eight years her junior.
Derived words: swordsmanship
Translations:
brimful
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From brim + -ful.
Base: brim#Etymology_2
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: brimfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Filled to maximum capacity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: So weighty was the cup, / That being propos'd brimful of wine, one scarce could lift it up.
And better still come back cried Sydney (how often she remembered that valediction later on!). And then she hovered, as blithe as a bee, about the doctor, beguiHug him into tales of when he and his Moll were young, and what a pretty woman she was, till by-and-by Mary came smiliug back, reporting her mother gone off looking better already, and an eloquent clasp of Sydney's fingers sent the girl away so brimful of contentment she could almost have cried for gratitude over her golden thousands.
“The volume is an exceedingly useful one, brimful with engineer's notes, memoranda, and rules, and well worthy of being on every mechanical engineer's bookshelf.” “Brimful of useful information, stated in a concise form, Mr. Hutton's books have met a pressing want among engineers. The book must prove extremely useful to every practical man possessing a copy.”
A still more recent New England production is the book of stories by Mary E. Wilkins, ‘‘A Humble Romance’’; vigorous work, brimful of human nature.
gloss: The maximum amount a container can hold.
pos: noun
examples: If the glass is cracked, it cannot contain a brimful of water; and if and only if the water is calm enough, it can reflect the moon in the sky without distortion.
As I listened to the words as they were coming out of my mouth, I realized that I sounded like Ozzy Osborne after three brimfuls of Merlot and a handful of Vicodin .
gloss: A large amount.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Brimful of Asha on the forty-five / Well, it's a brimful of Asha on the forty-five
Such a suggestion—even a timid one in her own head—would have been met with a brimful of scorn.
Translations:
adorably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English adorable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English adorably
From adorable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more adorably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most adorably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an adorable manner.
pos: adv
examples: She always said that preschoolers danced adorably, so it was no wonder that she opened a dance school for them.
Translations:
boudin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French boudin. Doublet of pudding. Cf. also poutine.
Inflected forms:
form: boudins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of blood sausage in French, Belgian, Luxembourgish and related cuisines.
pos: noun
examples: Eurohucksters will find it difficult to wean the sausage lovers of Liége away from their bursting black Belgian boudins and toward Birmingham's humble bangers. Beer hawkers should fare no better.
The principal French boudin competition is held every year at Mortagne-au-Perche in Normandy, attracting hundreds […]
In general the softer, mousse-like texture of French boudins is the more appropriate in this instance.
gloss: A sausage in southern Louisiana Creole and Cajun cuisine, made from rice, ground pork (occasionally crawfish), and spices in a sausage casing.
pos: noun
gloss: A structure formed by boudinage: one or a series of elongated, sausage-shaped section(s) in rock.
pos: noun
examples: Formation of boudins
Although the shape of the greenstone bodies resembles in many ways that of boudins as described elsewhere (Cloos, 1946, 1947; Ramberg, 1955; Jones, 1959), the shape of the greenstone bodies is believed to be ...
However, discordant dykes, locally disrupted in boudins, attest to both late dykes and post-crystallization movement of the carbonate rocks. Some of those boudins are interpreted as immiscible silicate blebs in carbonatitic melt […]
Small bodies of mafic to ultramafic rocks occur as boudins or sills up to 7 km long within the gneiss.
The blocks do not penetrate the leucogneiss foliation that surrounds them, and the result is a single boudin with a composite core.
Derived words: boudin blanc
boudin noir
Translations:
affordable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English afford
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 affordable
From afford + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more affordable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most affordable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be afforded; inexpensive or reasonably priced.
pos: adj
examples: an affordable vacation in the local area
The bill seeks to make IVF treatment more affordable by mandating coverage for fertility treatments under employer-sponsored insurance and certain public insurance plans.
Antonyms: cheap
expensive
Translations:
aeronautic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English aeronaut
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English aeronautic
From aeronaut + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more aeronautic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aeronautic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having to do with aerial navigation
pos: adj
Translations:
aeronaut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From aero- + -naut, from the French aéronaute; compare the Italian aeronauta.
Affixes: aero-
-naut
Inflected forms:
form: aeronauts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aëronaut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who travels through the air in an airship or balloon.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Gale, the aeronaut, witnessed a phenomenon during one of his aerial voyages, which is said to be unprecedented....
"Well, what is it that he does that I don't do? Just say the word, - teetotal, vegetarian, aeronaut, theosophist, superman."
Translations:
clock-watcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: clock-watchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clock watcher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who is eager for time to pass (e.g., at work or school), especially when faced with an undesirable task.
pos: noun
examples: The teacher had a heart-to-heart talk with the student who was a clock-watcher, stressing the importance of putting his mind to his schoolwork.
Translations:
Yukon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From Gwich'in ųųg han, contraction of chųų gąįį han (“white water river”). See Wikipedia's name section for details.
Inflected forms:
form: Yukons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A GMC Yukon automobile.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
poussin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French poussinbor.
English poussin
Borrowed from French poussin.
Inflected forms:
form: poussins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chicken reared to be eaten at a few weeks of age.
pos: noun
gloss: A Cornish game hen.
pos: noun
Translations:
year-end
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: On or happening at the end of the year (e.g., late December).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His year-end taxes were supposed to be postmarked by December 30.
The 21 January FUJIAN DAILY reports that the average income for the peasants from the year-end distribution on (Paijiang) [Paichiang] No 12 team of (Xinan) [Hsinan] commune in Xiapu [Hsiapu] County reached 220 yuan, and that (Jukou) [Chukou] commune in Jianyang [Chienyang] County has abolished its erroneous decision on limiting the size of peasants' incomes, with the result that on more than 20 production teams the average income per person exceeds 130 Yuan.
Translations:
sporadically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sporadic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English sporadically
From sporadic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At an occasional, infrequent, or irregular frequency.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Valencia threatened sporadically in the first half with Miguel having a decent effort deflected wide by Ashley Cole, while Jordi Alba's near-post cross was flicked into the sidenetting by Pablo Hernandez.
Translations:
kittenish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kitten
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English kittenish
From kitten + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more kittenish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most kittenish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the qualities or likeness of a kitten.
pos: adj
examples: She was kittenish in her manners, wearing generally an air of soft and fluffy innocence.
Sleeping, Myra appeared cuddly, kittenish. Girls, Gordon thought to himself. Girls can really drive you crazy.
gloss: Playful, sometimes with overtones of female sexuality.
pos: adj
Derived words: kittenishly
kittenishness
Translations:
entranced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English entrance
English -ed
English entranced
From entrance + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more entranced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most entranced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Placed in a trance.
pos: adj
examples: There sate a Spirit in the vault,
In shape, in hue, in lineaments, like life,
And by him couch’d, as if intranced,
The hundred-headed Worm that never dies.
gloss: Held at attention, as if by magic.
pos: adj
examples: The entranced spectator was cut off from reality as long as the adventure lasted; it was as if he lived a dream yet believed he was awake.
Synonyms: bedazzled
bewitched
fascinated
hypnotized
mesmerized
spellbound
Derived words: entrancedly
unentranced
Translations:
stereoscopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to stereoscopy; three-dimensional.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is remarkable because its three-dimensional world is even more stereoscopic than the real world.
gloss: Of or relating to the stereoscope.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Designed to be used by both eyes simultaneously, or obtained by imaging from two viewpoints simultaneously.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: macrostereoscopic
nonstereoscopic
orthostereoscopic
stereoscopically
stereoscopic microscope
stereoscopic vision
telestereoscopic
Translations:
stepparent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-
Proto-Germanic *steupa-
Proto-West Germanic *steupa-
Old English stēop-
Middle English step-
English step-
English parent
English stepparent
From step- + parent.
Inflected forms:
form: stepparents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: step-parent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One's parent's spouse who is not one's biological parent.
pos: noun
examples: The age at which a stepparent entered a child’s life, and whether they lived together and for how long, influences the quality of the relationship, studies show. […] As parents age, “there’s a lot of negotiation and uncertainties,” Dr. Silverstein said. “Who has the right to make decisions for stepparents becomes murky.”
Translations:
unnaturally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unnaturelly, equivalent to unnatural + -ly and/or un- + naturally.
Base: unnatural
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unnaturally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unnaturally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unnatural manner; to an unnatural extent.
pos: adv
examples: Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.
Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
Translations:
severed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Separated, cut off or broken apart.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a severed limb
Translations:
routed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English route
English -ed
English routed
From route + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: assigned a route
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
Translations:
azeotrope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “no”) + ζέω (zéō, “to boil”) + τρόπος (trópos, “state”).
Inflected forms:
form: azeotropes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: azeotropes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: azeotroping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: azeotroped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: azeotroped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A mixture of two or more substances whose liquid and gaseous forms have the same composition (at a certain pressure); the substances cannot be separated by normal distillation.
pos: noun
examples: The formation of azeotropes due to deviations from Raoult's law was discussed in Section 1.3. An azeotrope is a mixture that, at a given pressure (the azeotropic pressure), boils at a constant temperature (the azeotropic temperature), and has the same composition (the azeotropic composition) in the equilibrium vapor and liquid phases. Homogeneous azeotropes are those that form one liquid phase at equilibrium with the vapor; heterogeneous azeotropes are those that form two liquid phases at equilibrium with each other and the vapor.
When a ternary azeotrope does exist, the curves intersect at the same point.
The presence of a unitary azeotrope curve is not a prerequisite for the generation of a ternary azeotrope.
As the boiling point of HCl–H₂O azeotrope is lower than that of azeotrope (HNO₃–H₂O), hydrochloric acid can be eliminated efficiently by successive evaporations with nitric acid.
gloss: To create a mixture of this kind.
pos: verb
Translations:
vanpool
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From van + pool.
Compound parts: van
pool
Inflected forms:
form: vanpools
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vanpools
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vanpooling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vanpooled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vanpooled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The transport of a pool of commuters in a shared van.
pos: noun
gloss: To transport people in a vanpool.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be transported in a vanpool.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
ridesharing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From ride + sharing economy.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of commercial transportation in which, through social media, clients call a driver who privately owns his vehicle, and proceed in their trip as passengers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sarsaparilla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish zarzaparrilla. The first element may ultimately derive from Basque; see Spanish zarza (“blackberry bush”) for more. The usual pronunciation of the first part of the word as /sæsp-/ or /sɑːsp-/ may be due to dissimilatory loss of the first of two r sounds (compare governor /ˈɡʌvənɚ/ and February /ˈfɛb.juˌɛɹi/). Occasionally this word is pronounced with a schwa between the s and the p, or without a schwa between the p and the r.
Inflected forms:
form: sarsaparillas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sarsparilla
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sasaparilla
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sasparilla
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various tropical (Central and South) American vines of the genus Smilax, such as Smilax aspera, which have fragrant roots.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Dried roots of these plants, or a flavoring material extracted from these roots.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A beverage (soft drink) flavored with this root, such as root beer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “[…]If Cassidy goes around shooting their fingers off, how are they going to lift their sarsaparilla?” “Rustlers don't drink sarsaparilla,” came the reply, ending the conversation and throwing me back inside my twenty-yard line.
Many root teas taste delightful and the old American drink, sarsaparilla, was made on the lines of a decoction, while its pleasant taste was known by most of Victorian Britain.
Say, friend, you got any more of that good sarsaparilla?
gloss: Any of several North American plants, of the genus Aralia, having umbels and small white flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An American vine of species Nephroia diversifolia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bristly sarsaparilla
false sarsaparilla
Honduran sarsaparilla
Indian sarsaparilla
Jamaican sarsaparilla
Mexican sarsaparilla
native sarsaparilla
Para sarsaparilla
sarsaparilla tree
sarsaparillin
sweet sarsaparilla
Virginia sarsaparilla wild sarsaparilla
Translations:
powwow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From an Eastern Algonquian language, probably Massachusett pauwau (“he uses divination; he practices magic or sorcery”) or Narragansett powwáw (“sorcerer, shaman”), ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *pawe·wa (“one who dreams”).
Inflected forms:
form: powwows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pow wow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pow-wow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pau wau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: powwows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: powwowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: powwowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: powwowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pow wow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: pow-wow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: pau wau
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A ritual conducted by a Native American shaman.
pos: noun
gloss: A Native American shaman.
pos: noun
gloss: A Native American council or meeting.
pos: noun
gloss: A short, private conference.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: While the powwow was going on the big woman came back again. She was consider'ble rumpled and scratched up, but there was fire in her eye.
gloss: A large gathering during which Indigenous songs and dances are showcased for an audience, essentially a recital or concert. Often also doubles as a fundraiser, or can be held in conjunction with a non-indigenous fair or exhibition in order to attract a large crowd, as at the Calgary Stampede and K-Days.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: On the way out, Octavio handed me a flyer for the powwow that listed the prize money in each dance category.
gloss: A tradition of folk magic practiced by the Pennsylvania Dutch.
pos: noun
gloss: To hold a meeting; to gather together in council.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [The] Indians saw everything that happened and powwowed all night, needing more than anything else the presence of Tecumseh. The most aggressive element was the Winnebagos, who insisted on attacking.
gloss: To conduct a ritual in which magic is used.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Maybe no one— except possibly Leah— powwowed anymore.
gloss: To hold a private conference.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
offensive
often
Derived words: powwower
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: индиански знахар
roman: indianski znahar
lang: Navajo
word: atsʼos bee alzhishí
lang: Ojibwe
word: niimi'idiwin
lang: Swedish
word: rådslag
jesting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jestings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more jesting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jesting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: joking
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings.
What an extraordinary mental delusion jesting is; that sort of laboured vivacity which fancies it is pointed when it is only personal; and more extraordinary still, it is always the resource of stupid people.
gloss: bantering; ridicule
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: mocking
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: facetious
pos: adj
gloss: humorous
pos: adj
examples: He will find that these are no jesting matters.
gloss: playful; mocking
pos: adj
gloss: jeering
pos: adj
Derived words: jestingly
unjesting
Translations:
bantering
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: banterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more bantering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bantering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: teasing
pos: noun
examples: Her smiles were distributed among the tourists, and she learned to give keen answers to their good-humored banterings.
gloss: joking; jesting
pos: noun
gloss: That teases
pos: adj
Translations:
sulfuryl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin sulpur
Latin sulfur
Latin sulphur
Anglo-Norman sulfrebor.
Middle English sulphur
English sulfur
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English sulfuryl
From sulfur + -yl.
Inflected forms:
form: sulfuryls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sulphuryl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: the divalent radical and functional group SO₂=
pos: noun
Translations:
telemarketing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of telephone + marketing.
Compound parts: telephone
marketing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The business of selling products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The newspaper started a telemarketing campaign to boost its subscriptions by calling non-subscribers.
Translations:
acaricide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English acarid
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der.
Proto-Italic *kaidō
Latin caedō
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
Proto-Italic *-ā
Latin -a
Latin -cīdader.
Middle French -cidebor.
English -cide
English acaricide
From acarid + -cide (“killer”).
Inflected forms:
form: acaricides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any substance which kills acarids (mites and ticks).
pos: noun
examples: “Twelve pesticides commonly applied to citrus groves are slated for study in the project’s plots,” reports Tom S. Bellows, UC Riverside assistant entomologist. They include four acaricides (Morestan, Kelthane, Pictran, Vendex), four thripsicides (Cygon, Carzol, Orthene, Sabadilla), and four scalicides (Parathion, Supracide, Lorsban, Sevin).
Diagnostic doses of six acaricides (fenothiocarb, endosulfan, chlorfenapyr, tebufenpyrad, cyenopyrafen and cyflumetofen) resulted in a 68.0~71.8% mortality rate (on average) in the test mite populations, whereas the remaining six acaricides (monocrotophos, omethoate, bifenthrin, abamectin, etoxazole and bifenazate) caused slightly reduced mortality rates (on average 36.5~59.3%).
Translations:
sulfatase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sulfate
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English sulfatase
From sulfate + -ase.
Inflected forms:
form: sulfatases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sulphatase
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several enzymes, in animals and bacteria, which catalyze the hydrolysis of organic sulfates
pos: noun
Translations:
sulfated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sulfated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sulfated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sulphated
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Treated, or reacted with sulfuric acid or a sulfate.
pos: adj
examples: Cat. lluquet 'bundle of dry and sulfated twigs or straw that easily catches fire'
Translations:
repossess
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English possess
English repossess
From re- + possess.
Inflected forms:
form: repossesses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repossessing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repossessed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repossessed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To reclaim ownership of property for which payment remains due.
pos: verb
gloss: To gain back possession of.
pos: verb
tags: dated
reflexive
examples: to repossess oneself of something lost
Derived words: repossessor
unrepossessed
Translations:
defaulting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: defaultings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or result of being defaulted, especially a failure to meet a financial obligation.
pos: noun
Translations:
concours
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French concours. Doublet of concourse.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A competitive examination, especially in medicine.
pos: noun
Translations:
thraldom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English thraldom, þraldom. Compare Danish trældom, Norwegian trelldom, Swedish träldom. By surface analysis, thral(l) + -dom.
Inflected forms:
form: thraldoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thraldome
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thralldom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For ye into like thraldome me did throw,
And kept from complishing the faith which I did owe.
Beauteous Penthea […] is novv ſo yoak'd / To a moſt barbarous thraldome, miſery, / Affliction, that [s]he ſauors not humanity.
The wretched thraldom was over,—and what had it left?
Translations:
aeronautical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)
Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der.
English aero-
English nautical
English aeronautical
From aero- + nautical.
Inflected forms:
form: more aeronautical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aeronautical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the scientific study of flight
pos: adj
examples: If anybody snickers, put 'em in their place by reminding them that the annular wing is a very old aeronautical principle.
Translations:
gofer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From go + fer (for), as in “go for coffee” or “go for that document” etc. Possibly also a pun on the rodent gopher, animals known for both their vast tunneling and their hoarding activities.
Compound parts: go
fer
Inflected forms:
form: gofers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: go-fer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gopher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that work except as secretaries and "go-fers".
More and more people agreed to help with the mailings, the hand-distribution of flyers, and telephonings. Others agreed to be gofers and fetchers.
Translations:
Quixote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After Don Quixote.
Inflected forms:
form: Quixotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but idealist.
pos: noun
examples: I had once determined to fix the terrible Name of some Man of War in the Front of your History, a perfect Hero, that should like another Quixot defend your Reputation right, or wrong [...].
Few things can more inflame / This far too combative heart / Than the intellectual Quixotes of the age / Prattling of abstract art.
But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.
Translations:
garret
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English garett, garite, from Old French garite, guerite (“watchtower”), from garir, guarir (“to defend, protect”) (compare English garrison), ultimately of Germanic origin (see English garage). Doublet of guerite.
Inflected forms:
form: garrets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
pos: noun
examples: This morning (we living lately in the garret,) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them.
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
I was in the main garret, with huge beams and rafters over my head, great spaces around me, a door here and there in sight, and long vistas whose gloom was thinned by a few lurking cobwebbed windows and small dusky skylights.
While a boon to garret-living, financially struggling young musicians, the library has caught the attention of music publishers.
Translations:
parboiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more parboiled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most parboiled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: partially boiled
pos: adj
Translations:
monolingual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mender.
Proto-Hellenic *mónwos
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
Latin linguālislbor.
English lingual
English monolingual
From mono- + lingual.
Inflected forms:
form: more monolingual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most monolingual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: monolinguals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Knowing or using a single language; written or spoken in a single language.
pos: adj
examples: Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English. As far as linguistic landscapes go, this is a case of extreme monolingual dominance in a multilingual setting.
gloss: a person who knows or uses only a single language; a monoglot
pos: noun
Translations:
inky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Ancient Greek ἐν (en)
Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-)
Proto-Indo-European *keh₂w-?
Proto-Hellenic *káyyō
Ancient Greek καίω (kaíō)
Ancient Greek καυστός (kaustós)
Ancient Greek ἔγκαυστον (énkauston)bor.
Late Latin encaustumder.
Old French enquebor.
Middle English ynke
English ink
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English inky
From ink + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: inkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: inkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
pos: adj
examples: One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]
Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds.
We see documentary footage (the trudging homeless) and an animated map—an inky line movies from Paris to Marseilles, from there to Oran, and finally to Casablanca, where the lucky ones escape via Lisbon and the rest “wait…and wait…and wait.”
gloss: Spattered or stained with ink.
pos: adj
gloss: Dark-skinned; black.
pos: adj
tags: literary
obsolete
examples: The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea.
Antonyms: bright
clear
whitened
Related words: India-inky
inky-dinky
Derived words: inkily
inkiness
inky cap
Translations:
knavery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English knave
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English knavery
From knave + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: knaveries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The antics or tricks of a knave; boyish mischief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] Harry Monmouth, being in his right wittes and his good iudgements, turn'd away the fat Knight with the great belly doublet: he was full of ieſts, and gypes, and knaueries, and mockes; I haue forgot his name.
The young Oxonian, on the contrary, had led out one of his maiden aunts, on whom the rogue played a thousand little knaveries with impunity; he was full of practical jokes, and his delight was to tease his aunts and cousins; yet, like all mad-cap youngsters, he was a universal favourite among the women.
gloss: An unprincipled action; deceit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Caſsio’s a proper man, let me ſee now, / To get his place and to make vp my will, / A double knauery—how, how,—let me see, […]
[A]s our little Traffick with the Natives was hitherto upon the Faith of their firſt Kindneſs, we found ſome Knavery among them at laſt; for having bought ſome Cattel of them for our Toys, […] one of our Men differing with his Chapman, truly they huff’d him in their Manner, and keeping the things he had offered them for the Cattel, made their Fellows drive away the Cattel before his Face, and laugh at him; […]
He conſider'd juſtly, that it was not requiſite, in order to reject a Fact of this Nature, to be able accurately to diſprove the Teſtimony, and to trace its Falſhood, thro' all the Circumſtances of Knavery and Credulity, which produc'd it.
O, Hang 'em—no—wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities; and to make them drink would only be to whet their Knavery.
How much is conveyed in those two short words—"The Parish!" And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune, and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated!
I esteem the modern error, That all goes by self-interest and the checking and balancing of greedy knaveries, and that, in short, there is nothing divine whatever in the association of men, a still more despicable error, natural as it is to an unbelieving century, than that of a ‘divine right’ in people called Kings.
Derived words: Scandiknavery
Translations:
broma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βρῶμα (brôma, “food”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A light form of prepared cocoa, or the drink made from it.
pos: noun
gloss: Aliment; food.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: bromatotoxism
Translations:
daftness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English daft
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English daftness
From daft + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: daftnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Property of being daft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There's no end to their daftness if they once start on that track. A lawfu' trade's a lawfu' trade, says I, and it's contrary to public policy to pit it at the mercy of wheen cranks. D'ye no agree, sir? By the way, I havena got your name?
gloss: Something that is daft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
sulu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sulus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An all-purpose skirt-like garment worn by men and women in Fiji.
pos: noun
Translations:
inclement
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin inclēmēns (“unmerciful, severe”), from in- (“not”) + clēmēns (“mild, placid”).
Inflected forms:
form: more inclement
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inclement
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stormy, of rough weather; not clement.
pos: adj
examples: inclement weather
Starless exposed, and ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round, inclement sky; / Save on that side which from the wall of Heaven, / Though distant far, some small reflection gains / Of glimmering air less vexed with tempest loud.
How much more, if we pray him, will his ear / Be open, and his heart to pitie incline, / And teach us further by what means to shun / Th’ inclement Seasons, Rain, Ice, Hail and Snow, / Which now the Skie with various Face begins.
The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour. He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called crow’s-nests, in which the look-outs of a Greenland whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas.
From that time, in all weathers, she waited there two hours. As the clock struck two, she was there, and at four she turned resignedly away. When it was not too wet or inclement for her child to be with her, they went together; at other times she was alone; but, she never missed a single day.
The man was elderly and infirm. We can understand his taking an evening stroll, but the ground was damp and the night inclement. Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten minutes, as Dr. Mortimer, with more practical sense than I should have given him credit for, deduced from the cigar ash?
gloss: Merciless, unrelenting.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri. And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab’s soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
gloss: Unmercifully severe in temper or action.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
Antonyms: clement
Related words: inclemency
inclemently
Derived words: inclementness
Translations:
mimetic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: education
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin mīmēticus or its etymon Ancient Greek μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”). By surface analysis, mime + -etic.
Inflected forms:
form: more mimetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mimetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mimetick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
form: mimetics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mimetick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting mimesis.
pos: adj
examples: No enthusiasm recalled by mimetic art could hold poise with the intensity of the actual exultation of the Athenians on that day when they saw the Persian fleet hacked to pieces in the narrow strait.
gloss: Imitative.
pos: adj
examples: This is a planned city, built wholesale from scratch, and coloured with a mimetic sense of humour. Lusail has a replica Place Vendôme. Lusail has a fake Beverly Hills (still under construction).
gloss: Something mimetic or imitative.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of mnemonic in the form of a picture.
pos: noun
gloss: A substance with similar pharmacological effects as another substance or as a lifestyle intervention such as diet or exercise.
pos: noun
examples: caloric restriction mimetic
exercise mimetic
serotonin mimetic
Antonyms: nonmimetic
phonomimetic
Related words: memetic
Derived words: adrenomimetic
allelomimetic
amylinomimetic
andromimetic
anthropomimetic
antimimetic
bacteriomimetic
betamimetic
biomimetic
calcimimetic
cannabimimetic
cholinomimetic
comimetic
estromimetic
ethnomimetic
glycomimetic
glycopeptidomimetic
gynemimetic
immunomimetic
membrane mimetic chemistry
mimetically
mimetic desire
mimeticism
mimeticist
mimeticity
morphinomimetic
mucomimetic
neuromimetic
non-mimetic
non-mimetic fiction
osteomimetic
pathomimetic
peptidomimetic
phagomimetic
pharmacomimetic
phosphomimetic
phosphopeptidomimetic
physiomimetic
proteinomimetic
proteomimetic
psychomimetic
psychotomimetic
radiomimetic
sympathomimetic
thanatomimetic
thyromimetic
vagomimetic
zoomimetic
Translations:
fenestrated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Latin fenestro, from the noun fenestra (“window”).
Inflected forms:
form: more fenestrated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fenestrated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having windows.
pos: adj
gloss: Having perforations through the leaves or fistulate/hollow/tubular stems/trunks.
pos: adj
Derived words: multifenestrated
nonfenestrated
unfenestrated
Translations:
imploring
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more imploring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most imploring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: implorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: The act of one who implores; imploration.
pos: noun
examples: But on the night that Nekhludov seduces Maslova, he forces his way past doors, implorings, and physical resistance.
Translations:
Amrita
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sanskrit अमृत (amṛta)bor.
English Amrita
Borrowed from Sanskrit अमृत (amṛta, “immortal”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Anglicization of Sanskrit अमृत (amṛta, “immortal”)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sassafras
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish sasafrás, possibly from Latin saxifragus (“stone-breaking”) from the habit of certain plants growing in cracks in boulders. If this etymology is correct, it is a doublet of saxifrage.
Inflected forms:
form: sassafrases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saxefras
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sassafrass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tree of species Sassafras albidum of the eastern United States and Asia having mitten-shaped leaves and red, aromatic heartwood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A tree of any species in the genus Sassafras.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The bark of the root of this plant, used for medicinal and (mostly historically) culinary purposes and formerly a main ingredient in root beer.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: our allowance was somewhat bettered, by a daily proportion of Bisket, which the sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, Saxefras, furres, or love.
Derived words: Australian sassafras
blackheart sassafras
black sassafras
Brazilian sassafras
Chilean sassafras
Chinese sassafras
grey sassafras
New Zealand sassafras
northern sassafras
Oliver's sassafras
red sassafras
sassafras nut
scentless sassafras
silky sassafras
socket sassafras
southern sassafras
swamp sassafras
white sassafras
yellow sassafras
Translations:
hovering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hoverings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who hovers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.
Translations:
anthropometric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anthropometry
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English anthropometric
From anthropometry + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to anthropometry
pos: adj
examples: The first laboratory visit involved a familiarisation session, anthropometric measurements, and baseline 1RM testing for isometric and dynamic concentric and eccentric contractions using an electromechanical dynamometer (System 4 Pro, Biodex Medical Systems, New York, USA).
Translations: