yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
entangle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English entanglen (“to involve [someone] in difficulty”, “to embarrass”). Equivalent to en- + tangle.
Base: tangle
Affixes: en-
Inflected forms:
form: entangles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: entangling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: entangled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: entangled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: entangel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: intangle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The dolphins became entangled in a fishing net.
gloss: To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To ensnare.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: But when I turn away, / Thou, willing me to stay, / Wooest not, nor vainly wranglest; / But, looking fixedly the while, / All my bounding heart entanglest, / In a golden-netted smile; […]
gloss: To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or perplexing circumstances, interests, demands, etc.; to hamper; to bewilder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The story entangles the facts with value judgments.
Related words: entanglement
entangler
entangling
Derived words: entangleable
entanglon
hydroentangle
interentangle
unentangle
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: enredar
lang: Czech
word: zapříst
lang: Czech
word: zaplést
lang: Danish
word: forvikle
lang: Dutch
word: verstrikken
lang: Dutch
word: verwikkelen
lang: Esperanto
word: impliki
lang: Finnish
word: kietoa
lang: Finnish
word: sotkea
lang: Galician
word: enredar
lang: Galician
word: ensarillar
lang: Galician
word: embrollar
lang: Latin
word: illaqueō
lang: Lithuanian
word: įpainioti
lang: Polish
word: wikłać
lang: Polish
word: uwikłać
lang: Polish
word: wplątywać
lang: Polish
word: wplątać
lang: Romanian
word: a vârî în bucluc
lang: Romanian
word: încurca
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: amail
lang: Slovak
word: popliesť
lang: Slovak
word: dopliesť
lang: Spanish
word: intrincar
mischance
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman meschance, Old French meschance, meschaunce.
Inflected forms:
form: mischances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mischances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mischancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mischanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mischanced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Bad luck, misfortune.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But let this same be presently perform'd / Even when men's minds are wild, lest more mischance / On plots and errors happen.
I write gaily enough, for there is no use in bewailing such a hopeless mischance.
gloss: A mishap, an unlucky circumstance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He doth miraculously protect from thieves, incursions, sword, fire, and all violent mischances […]
gloss: To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Derived words: mischanceful
mischancy
Translations:
footer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot + -er.
Base: foot
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: footers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: footers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: footering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: footered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: footered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: foutre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: fouter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A footgoer; pedestrian
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)
pos: noun
gloss: Something that measures a stated number of feet in some dimension.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: The new boat is a six-footer.
Both of my sons are six-footers.
gloss: Someone who has a preference for using a certain foot.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: a right-footer
gloss: To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
Scotland
slang
Antonyms: header
Related words: left-footer
right-footer
seven-footer
six-footer
ten-footer
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: futis
lang: French
word: foot
lang: Hungarian
word: foci
lang: Indonesian
word: bola kaki
bashful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 16th-century apheresis of abashed + -ful (“full of”).
Base: abashed
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more bashful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bashful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bashfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Shy; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.
pos: adj
gloss: Indicating bashfulness.
pos: adj
examples: a bashful look
“Have you done something to your hair?”
“I just ran a comb through it,” shrugged the vicar.
“Well, it looks delightful.”
“How delightful of you to say so.” Auntie Flip and the vicar shared bashful grins. Frank had never witnessed his babysitter behave like this before.
Synonyms: shy
blushful
sheepish
Derived words: bashful bladder
bashfully
bashfulness
overbashful
unbashful
Translations:
mutineer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French mutinier.
Inflected forms:
form: mutineers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mutineers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mutineering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mutineered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mutineered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Someone who participates in mutiny.
pos: noun
gloss: To mutiny.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
indignity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin indignitās, indignitātem. Equivalent to indign + -ity.
Base: indign
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: indignities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: degradation, debasement or humiliation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: public indignity
humiliating indignity
He suffered the indignity of being ignored.
The prisoners endured many indignities.
gloss: an affront to one's dignity or pride
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: indign
indignant
indignation
dignity
Translations:
debasement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English debase
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English debasement
From debase + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: debasements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering or degradation, especially in character or quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His large water-dog was acquainted with the fact, and upon the approach of his master, betrayed his sense of inferiority by a sanctity of deportment, a debasement of the ears, and a dropping of the lower jaw not altogether unworthy of a dog.
She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses.
There's something ugly and fascinating about reading such intimate tales of debasement and depression and failure and self-doubt.
gloss: The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
repulse
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin repulsus, from repellere (“to drive back”), from re- (“back”) + pellere (“to drive”).
For spelling, as in pulse, the -e (on -lse) is so the end is pronounced /ls/, rather than /lz/ as in pulls, and does not change the vowel (‘u’). Compare else, false, convulse.
Inflected forms:
form: repulses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repulsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repulsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repulsed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: repulses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To repel or drive back.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy
If we fail to repulse the enemy within the gates--unemployment, poverty, disorganized agriculture and the like--from whence may we expect the united strength and clear purpose to repulse any outside force?
gloss: To reject or rebuff.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to repulse a suitor
At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness. She was not repulsed, but her reception was cold; and this hurt her almost as badly.
gloss: To cause revulsion in; to repel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The smell of rotting food repulsed me.
I find your conduct reprehensible, disgusting, and it repulses me, the way a mongoose repulses a snake.
gloss: The act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
pos: noun
gloss: Refusal, rejection or repulsion.
pos: noun
Related words: repel
repellent
repulsion
repulsive
pulse
Derived words: chemorepulse
repulser
repulsor
repulsor beam
Translations:
twinkling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English twynkelynge, equivalent to twinkle + -ing.
Base: twinkle
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more twinkling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most twinkling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: twinklings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sparkling intermittently.
pos: adj
gloss: A shining with fast intermittent light.
pos: noun
gloss: A very short period, notionally the time it takes to blink the eyes.
pos: noun
examples: The housework was done in a twinkling.
Derived words: in the twinkling of a bedpost
in the twinkling of a bedstaff
in the twinkling of an eye
Translations:
infirmity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English infirm
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English infirmity
From infirm + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: infirmities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: physical infirmity
mental infirmity
suffer from an infirmity
He bore the weight of old age and physical infirmity.
Despite her infirmity, she remained mentally sharp.
gloss: A moral weakness or defect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
varlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From Middle English varlet, varlette, from Old French varlet, variant of vadlet, vallet, vaslet. Doublet of valet.
Inflected forms:
form: varlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A servant or attendant.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The varlet, or follower of the merchant, who was still a youth, though his vigorous frame and embrowned cheek denoted equally severe exercise and rude exposure, started and reddened at this free inquiry, which was enforced by a hand slapped familiarly on his knee, and such a squeeze of the leg as denoted the freedom of the camp.
The Winchester Manorhouse has fled bodily, like a Dream of the old Night […]. House and people, royal and episcopal, lords and varlets, where are they?
gloss: Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: [T]here was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.
gloss: A rogue or scoundrel.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: [W]hen the worlde is fraughted with ſo manye varlettes, that it will be a long time ere a man ſhall diſcerne the faythful from the Hipocrites.
My lady to be called a nasty Scotch wh–re by such a varlet!—To be sure I wish I had knocked his brains out with the punchbowl.
He was false, cunning, vulgar, ignoble; the cheapest kind of human product […] The white, puffy mother, with the high forehead, in the corner there, looked more like a lady; but if she were one, it was all the more shame to her to have mated with such a varlet, Ransom said to himself, making use, as he did generally, of terms of opprobrium extracted from the older English literature.
gloss: The jack.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
trumpery
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English trompery, from Middle French tromperie (“deceit”).
Inflected forms:
form: trumperies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have ſold all my Tromperie: not a counterfeit Stone, not a Ribbon, Glaſſe, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape, Gloue, Shooe-tye, Bracelet, Horne-Ring, to keepe my Pack from faſting: […]
PROSPERO.^([To Ariel]) / This was well done, my bird. / Thy shape invisible retain thou still: / The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither / For stale to catch these thieves.
gloss: Nonsense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now upon the coming of Chriſt, very much, tho' not all, of this idolatrous Trumpery and Superſtition was driven out of the World: […]
gloss: Deceit; fraud.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 1640, Richard Greenwey, The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie, publ. by Richard Whitaker, 182.
Agrippina after this, more mad and wilfull then ever, gave out threatning and thundring ſpeeches: yet not forbearing the Princes eares, but crying, that Britannicus was now growen to mans eſtate : a true and worthy plant to receive his fathers Empire, which a grafted ſon by adoption now poſſeſſed by the injury and trumpery of his mother.
In that case there is no need for me to write about the trumpery scandal by which I was the sufferer—the innocent sufferer, I positively assert.
gloss: Gaudy but worthless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He earnestly exhorted them all to be earnest in their studies, and to think nothing beneath them. Let them not pass over any cases as unimportant; for they must remember that some of the greatest principles of the law had been enunciated out of the most apparently trumpery cases that had come before the judges.
I also remember the old Royal Mews that stood on the site of the present trumpery National Gallery, with its too suggestive pepper-boxes; […]
“Of all the trumpery moonshine!” Mr Wilkins exploded. “What do you think you're playing at, Jennings!”
Derived words: trumperiness
Translations:
bascule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From French bascule, from earlier French bacule, from Old French bacul, from Old French battre + cul, from Latin battuō (“beat”) + cul (“bottom”).
Inflected forms:
form: bascules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A counterbalanced structure having one end that rises as the other lowers.
pos: noun
examples: In the late eighties and early nineties several new types of movable spans were advocated, including the pull-back draw, the jackknife span, the bob-tail swing, the horizontal-folding draw, the shearpole draw, the gyratory lift, the transbordeur, the double-cantilever swing, several types of bascule, and the vertical lift.
The study sample contains nine rolling-lift bascules of the type invented by Chicago engineer William Scherzer in 1893 , and refined by the engineering staff of the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company, also of Chicago.
Look at those towering structures. It’s the first combination of bascule and suspension bridge ever attempted. Most innovative. [In reference to w:Tower Bridge.]
gloss: The portion of a breech-loading firearm that pivots open in order to allow access to the chamber.
pos: noun
examples: A device for coupling and releasing the trigger mechanism in a bascule of a gun
Related words: bacule
Derived words: basculation
bascule bridge
Translations:
seesaw
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Probably a frequentative imitative of rhythmic back-and-forth, up-and-down or zigzagging motion, such as teeter-totter, zigzag, flip-flop, ping pong, etc., under the umbrella term of reduplication; also likely influenced by the verbs see and saw of either present or past tense.
Inflected forms:
form: seesaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: see-saw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: seesaws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seesawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seesawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: seesawed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: see-saw
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: more seesaw
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most seesaw
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: see-saw
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
pos: noun
gloss: A series of up-and-down movements.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A series of alternating movements or feelings.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a see-saw between the hypothesis and the fact.
Manchester Citykept up their unbeaten start to the Premier League season with victory over QPR in an entertaining see-saw encounter at Loftus Road.
gloss: An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
gloss: A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.
pos: noun
gloss: To use a seesaw.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fluctuate.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
intransitive
examples: When I think of your kisses / My mind see-saws
gloss: To cause to move backward and forward in a seesaw fashion.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: He see-saws himself to and fro.
gloss: Fluctuating.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Derived words: seesawlike
seesawy
Tipper and See-Saw Time
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: друсане
roman: drusane
lang: Czech
word: houpání
lang: Finnish
word: keinuminen
lang: Korean
word: 널뛰기
roman: neolttwigi
lang: Macedonian
word: клацкање
roman: klackanje
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: iobalag obalag
lang: Spanish
word: balanceo
fluctuate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in the 1630'; borrowed from Latin flūctuātus, perfect passive participle of flūctuō (“(of the sea) to surge, swell; (of man) to waver, fluctuate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: fluctuates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fluctuating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fluctuated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fluctuated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To vary irregularly; to swing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To undulate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: One of them, at great Expence of Algebra, proves, that the Motes, which in Scotomias, we seem to have in our Eyes, are not real Bodies fluctuating in them.
gloss: To be irresolute; to waver.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I fluctuated between wishing he was back home and wishing I'd never met him.
gloss: To cause to vary irregularly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
literally
rare
Related words: fluctuant
fluctuation
Derived words: cofluctuate
Translations:
Tridentine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Etymology: From Latin Tridentīnus (“pertaining to Trent”).
Inflected forms:
form: more Tridentine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Tridentine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Tridentines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to Trent, Italy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to the Council of Trent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to the form of Mass promulgated at the Council of Trent, often called the Tridentine Mass.
pos: adj
gloss: Aligned with the traditionalist Catholic movement.
pos: adj
gloss: A strong follower of the Tridentine Creed established at the Council of Trent.
pos: noun
Translations:
deviancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: deviancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being deviant, abnormal or anomalous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
degenerative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English degenerate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English degenerative
From degenerate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more degenerative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most degenerative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by or causing degeneration.
pos: adj
Translations:
tits
Part of speech: intj
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tits
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tits
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Used to express dismay or annoyance.
pos: intj
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
vulgar
examples: "Oh tits, a slight mishap, I've taken his fuckin' feet off!"
"Oh, tits. We can't do anything with those."
gloss: Used to express excitement.
pos: intj
tags: US
slang
vulgar
examples: 2000, "The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000" (season 4, episode 1), South Park
Eric Cartman: Alright! Kenny's in, you guys! Tits!
gloss: Very good; awesome; amazing.
pos: adj
tags: US
predicative
slang
vulgar
examples: Ah, man, I dunno what you're talking about, to me, beef broccoli pizza is tits!
2000, "The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000" (season 4, episode 1), South Park
Eric Cartman: Yeah! This is so tits!
Ms. Cartman: Don't say "tits", Eric. Cartman: Oh, I mean this is so cool!
2003, The Venture Bros., Dean Venture,
"This place is tits!"
Translations:
focused
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more focused
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most focused
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: focussed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Senses:
gloss: Directing all one's efforts towards achieving a particular goal.
pos: adj
gloss: Dealing with some narrowly defined aspects of a broader phenomenon.
pos: adj
Synonyms: determined
single-minded
centered
focused
inspissated
intensive
telic
intent
Antonyms: distracted
broad
unfocused
aimless
comprehensive
decentered
desultory
diffuse
disconnected
flounderish
haphazard
unmethodical
uncentered
vague
Related words: methodical
Derived words: body-focused repetitive behavior disorder
electrofocused
focused deterrence
focusedness
hyperfocused
laser-focused
trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy
trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy
tri-focused
underfocused
Translations:
wheatgrass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wheat + grass.
Compound parts: wheat
grass
Inflected forms:
form: wheatgrasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum, used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A grass of the genus Agropyron, commonly known as crested-wheat grass.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: crested wheatgrass
Translations:
cycloheximide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Formed with cyclo-.
Affixes: cyclo-
Inflected forms:
form: cycloheximides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An agricultural fungicide produced by the bacterium Streptomyces griseus, widely used in biomedical research.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
cyclopentadiene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: cyclopentadienes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an unsaturated alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₅H₆; it forms complexes with some transition elements
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cyclophosphamide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kŭ́klos)der.
Late Latin cyclusbor.
Middle English cicle
English cycle
▲
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor.
Classical Latin cyclicuslbor.
Middle French cyclique
French cycliquebor.
▲
Classical Latin cyclicusbor.
English cyclic
English cyclo-
English phosphamide
English cyclophosphamide
From cyclo- + phosphamide.
Inflected forms:
form: cyclophosphamides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An immunosuppressive, antineoplastic drug used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and certain other forms of cancer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The patient was treated with methylprednisolone, cyclophosphamide, and azathioprine, as well as burn center protocol care with daily tankings.
Translations:
cyclorama
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: From cyclo- + -rama (as in panorama).
Affixes: cyclo-
-rama
Inflected forms:
form: cycloramas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A panoramic image displayed on the inside of a cylindrical canvas.
pos: noun
examples: Robert Loo sat, quite content, behind the counter, against a cyclorama of tins of milk and corned beef.
gloss: A building or room designed to show this image.
pos: noun
tags: metonymically
gloss: A large, often concave, backdrop, hung upstage in a theater.
pos: noun
Derived words: cycloramic
Translations:
biopic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: Clipping of biographical picture; synchronically bio + pic.
Base: bio
Inflected forms:
form: biopics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people).
pos: noun
examples: This truism helps explain why the music biopic is stuck in such a compromising loop. […] Between 2000 to 2019, 55% of leading actor and actress Oscars went to performances in a biopic. Over the past four years, the genre has been responsible for 63 Oscar nominations. Yet at the same time, hagiography has resurfaced as a pre-requisite for success. […] While one might have supposed the advent of the internet could render biopics redundant – if facts and archive footage are readily accessible, why bother making stuff up?
Translations:
biographical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía)
Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)der.
New Latin biographiabor.
English biography
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English biographical
From biography + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more biographical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most biographical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of or relating to an account of a person's life
pos: adj
Translations:
pimping
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, pimp + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more pimping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pimping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pimpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Little or petty.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Puny; sickly.
pos: adj
tags: US
dialectal
obsolete
gloss: Consisting of or having the qualities of a pimp.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: The practise of managing and hiring out prostitutes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His young adult life was marked by a series of robberies, forgeries, pimpings, assaults, and incarcerations at increasingly tougher institutions. The FBI had investigated him under the Dyer Act for the interstate transport of stolen cars.
gloss: The process of modifying a vehicle (usually a car), predominantly focusing on its appearance and audiovisual system as opposed to performance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
Synonyms: pandering
poncing
procuration
procuring
procurement
proxenetism
Translations:
zymosan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: zymosans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an insoluble carbohydrate, obtained from the cell walls of yeast, used in the bioassay of blood serum
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
insoluble
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English insolible, from Middle French insoluble, from Latin insolūbilis, from in- + solūbilis. Piecewise doublet of insolvable and unsolvable. By surface analysis, in- + soluble.
Base: solūbilis
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more insoluble
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most insoluble
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: insolubles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That cannot be dissolved.
pos: adj
tags: physical
examples: Petroleum is largely insoluble in water.
gloss: That cannot be solved.
pos: adj
examples: The reason Fisher concluded that the problem is likely insoluble is that the ability of real-world agents to act on new perceived opportunities of arbitrage – including those that turn out to be incorrect – makes stability impossible to demonstrate without additional strong (and unrealistic) assumptions.
gloss: That cannot be explained.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: unexplained, mysterious; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible, Thesaurus:mysterious
gloss: That cannot be broken down or dispersed.
pos: adj
gloss: Any substance that cannot be dissolved.
pos: noun
examples: As there is a partial vacuum inside the drum, the liquid is sucked inside the drum and the insolubles are deposited on the outer surface of the membrane filter.
Derived words: insolubility
insolubilize
insolubleness
insolubly
Translations:
penthouse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman pentiz (“pentice”), from apendiz (“appentice”), ultimately from a suffixed form of Latin appendō (“to append”). Altered by folk etymology to appear to be a compound of house. Doublet of appentice and pentice.
Inflected forms:
form: penthouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: penthouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: penthousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: penthoused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: penthoused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A structure or annexe (especially one with a sloping roof) extending from the side of a building, sometimes as protection from the weather.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: At length, recommending himself to God, he let go one end of his cord, and suffered himself to fall down upon an old shed or penthouse, which, with the weight of his body, fell in with great noise.
gloss: Something forming a shelter or canopy over something; an awning, shelter, etc.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
broadly
examples: The proboscis […] is doubled up by means of the joint, and in that position lies secure under a scaly penthouse.
gloss: Any of the sloping roofs at the side of a real tennis court.
pos: noun
examples: 2005, Tony Collins (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Traditional British Rural Sports, Routledge, page 262,
An odd derivative of real tennis lasted until the latter part of the eighteenth century at Rattray in Perthshire. It was played in the churchyard by two pairs of men, and the method for starting the play was to throw the ball onto the church roof, using it like the sloping penthouse of the tennis court.
gloss: An apartment or suite found on an upper floor, or floors, of a tall building, especially one that is expensive or luxurious with panoramic views.
pos: noun
examples: Night of January 16th is the story of a woman on trial for pushing her wealthy boss-lover from a Manhattan penthouse.
gloss: To provide with a penthouse, shelter by means of a shed sloping from a wall, or anything similar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: penthouselike
Translations:
zookeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From zoo + keeper.
Compound parts: zoo
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: zookeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zoo-keeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person employed at a zoo to attend to the animals.
pos: noun
Translations:
zonally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English zonal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English zonally
From zonal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more zonally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most zonally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in zones.
pos: adv
gloss: in a manner related to, associated with, or similar to zones.
pos: adv
Translations:
mimsy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of miserable + flimsy.
Compound parts: miserable
flimsy
Inflected forms:
form: mimsier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: mimsiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mimzy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mimsies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mimzy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky
pos: adj
tags: nonce-word
examples: ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wade^([sic – meaning wabe]); / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.
Down he sank in a chair—ran his hands through his hair— / And chanted in mimsiest tones
gloss: The vagina.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: It seems plastic surgery for men is catching up in the lunacy stakes with the world of female plastic surgery, a place where you can fly to LA and get the shape of your vagina changed: what constitutes an appealingly shaped mimsy is something else to be filed under "unanswered questions", next to the one about who wants a huge pair of balls.
Translations:
carpetbagger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
history
human-sciences
politics
sciences
Etymology: From carpetbag + -er, because many carried their belongings in cheap luggage made from carpet fabric.
Base: carpetbag
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: carpetbaggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carpet bagger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A migrant from the Northern to the Southern States after the American Civil War of 1861–5, especially one who went South to gain political influence.
pos: noun
tags: US
offensive
examples: “You are way behind the times,” he said. “There is no Klan in Atlanta now. Probably not in Georgia. You’ve been listening to the Klan outrage stories of your Scallawag and Carpetbagger friends.”
The carpetbagger remains one of the most enduring symbols of the Reconstruction era. Technically, a carpetbagger was simply a northerner who went South in the wake of the Civil War and took part in Republican Party politics. For most of its lifespan, however, the term has been an epithet, denoting a lowly, immoral northern opportunist, a demagogue who preyed on the defeated South, perverted sectional peace, and rose to power by deceiving African American voters.
gloss: One who comes to a place or organisation with which they have no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
derogatory
examples: By the tenth century, out of the diversity of these Christianized Anglo-Saxon kingdoms emerged one of the most coherent political units in Europe, a single monarchy of England, with a precociously centralized government which eventually fell like a ripe plum into the grateful hands of Norman carpetbaggers in 1066.
A large number of estates, and all the most important offices, were taken over by incoming Russian officials, adventurers and carpetbaggers. At the head of them were figures like General Alexander Rimsky Korsakov (1753–1840),[…]
Related words: carpetbag
Translations:
clipping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: American-football
ball-games
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
football
games
hobbies
human-sciences
journalism
lifestyle
linguistics
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
sports
Etymology: By surface analysis, clip + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: clippings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is clipped (in any sense).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A piece of something removed by clipping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a clipping of hair
grass clippings
I use a mulching mower and usually let the clippings go back to the lawn, but sometimes I'll gather clippings for mulching in the vegetable garden.
gloss: An article clipped from a newspaper (especially) or from a magazine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: When a 90-year-old yellowed clipping appeared one day at my feet, an implausible new mystery entered my life.
gloss: A process of word formation involving shortening by removal of syllables, often terminal ones.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A short form (of a longer word) created by removing syllables, often terminal ones.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The word "ad" is a clipping of "advertisement".
> --Lia
An unusual clipping! -or is it not short for Julia?
gloss: The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Falling, rolling, or throwing one's body on the back of an opponent's legs after approaching from behind.
pos: noun
tags: Canadian
uncountable
Derived words: nailclipping
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: кастрене
roman: kastrene
lang: Bulgarian
word: подрязване
roman: podrjazvane
lang: Finnish
word: leikkaaminen
lang: Finnish
word: leikkaus
lang: German
word: schneidend
lang: German
word: abschneidend
lang: German
word: beschneidend
lang: Polish
word: przycinanie
lang: Portuguese
word: cortado
lang: Portuguese
word: recortado
lang: Ukrainian
word: стри́жка
roman: strýžka
synchronic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -ic; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Occurring at a specific point in time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The three texts that contain a more modern selection of lexis, Sengupta, Nihalani et al, and Mahal, being entirely synchronic, also suffer from a lack of historical perspective.
Related words: synchronous
synchronical
Derived words: asynchronic
hypersynchronic
nonsynchronic
synchronically
synchronicity
Translations:
depraved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more depraved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most depraved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
pos: adj
examples: a depraved killer
The driver who speeds with reckless disregard for the consequences to others but without any intent to harm the darting child may receive jail time but is often treated far differently from the depraved killer who sets out with a purposeful plan to murder the child.
gloss: Violating principles of rectitude or given standards of decency.
pos: adj
examples: You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.
gloss: Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]
There was a constant dripping of urine from the penis, a depraved appetite and meninguria. On examination, two calculi were easily felt, and I advised the owner that an operation was all that would save his animal […]
Related words: deprave
depravity
Derived words: depraved-heart murder
depraved-indifference murder
depravedly
depravedness
undepraved
Translations:
unsavory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English savory
English unsavory
From un- + savory.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsavory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsavory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unsavoury
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Not savory; without flavor.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: Of bad taste; distasteful.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: The little Pieces of Beef vvere like Plums in our Hodg-podg. Indeed 'tvvas not fit to be eaten any other vvay; for tho' it did not ſtink, yet it vvas very unſavory and black, vvithout the leaſt ſign of Fat in it: […]
gloss: Making an activity undesirable.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: Disreputable, not respectable, of questionable moral character.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: His unsavory reputation as a mobster came back to haunt him when he ran for mayor of New York.
[G]ood ſalt cannot relyſh in ſo vnſauory a mouth, […]
The case against Khela rested primarily on the testimony of two unsavoury witnesses, [who] had lengthy criminal records and [...] were members of a prison-based gang.
Translations:
lesbo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lesb(ian)
English -o
English lesbo
From lesb(ian) + -o.
Inflected forms:
form: lesbos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lezbo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more lesbo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lesbo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lezbo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lesbian.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
derogatory
gloss: Lesbian.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
derogatory
Translations:
iru
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Yoruba irúbor.
English iru
Borrowed from Yoruba irú.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A West African condiment made from fermented locust beans.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pittance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pitaunce, from Old French pitance, pitence, from Medieval Latin *pietāntia, from Latin pietās (“piety”).
Inflected forms:
form: pittances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
pos: noun
gloss: A meagre allowance of money or wages.
pos: noun
examples: In the very prime of life, Mr. Glentworth found every prospect gone; he had only a meagre pittance, compared to his former expenditure; but he had neither the habits nor the opportunity of increasing it.
So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.
Dad was forced to claim benefit money from the government. It was a pittance, barely enough to live on.
gloss: A small amount.
pos: noun
examples: The former residents of Fraguas, who sold up for a pittance, have swung behind the resettlement, happy to see life return to the narrow lanes where they grew up.
Derived words: pittance payment
pittancer
Translations:
culet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French culet, diminutive of cul (“bottom”), from Latin culus (“arse”).
Inflected forms:
form: culets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The Turk prosecuted his advantage to the uttermost of his power; yet the other[…]not onely avoided the Turkes violence, but having drawne his Faulchion, pierced the Turke so under the Culets thorow backe and body, that although he alighted from his horse, he stood not long ere hee lost his head, as the rest had done.
gloss: A small, flat face often cut at the base of a brilliant-cut gemstone.
pos: noun
examples: 1999, John W. Kenney, III, 7. Pressure Effects on Emissive Materials, D. Max Roundhill, John P. Fackler Jr. (editors), Optoelectronic Properties of Inorganic Compounds, Plenum Press, page 234,
The common diamond cut for high pressure work is the modified brilliant cut (see Fig. 1) in which the point of a brilliant cut diamond (i.e., the type of diamond commonly found in an engagement ring) is lopped off to provide a flat surface, called a culet, for pressure transmission. Two opposed diamond culets, separated by a thin, extrudable metal gasket into which a small sample hole is drilled, are squeezed together mechanically to reduce the volume of a hydrostatic medium and thereby increase the pressure of the sample as shown in Fig. 1.
2006, Antoinette Leonard Matlins, Diamonds: The Antoinette Matlins Buying Guide, LongHill Partners (GemStone Press), 2nd Edition, page 85,
The culet looks like a point at the bottom of the stone, but it is normally another facet—a tiny, flat, polished surface. This facet should be small or very small. A small or very small culet won't be noticeable from the top. Some diamonds today are actually pointed. This means that there really is no culet, that the stone has been cut straight down to a point instead. The larger the culet, the more visible it will be from the top. The more visible, the lower the cost of the stone. Stones described as having a large or "open" culet, such as old-European or old-mine cut diamonds (see chapter 5), are less desirable because the appearance of the culet causes a reduction in sparkle or brilliance at the very center of the stone. For the same reasons, a broken or chipped culet will seriously detract from the stone's beauty and significantly reduce the cost.
2012, Samuel T. Weir, Yogesh K. Vohra, Chapter 4: Advances in Customized Diamond Anvils, John Loveday, High-Pressure Physics, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 68,
A final step is to polish the rough as-grown diamond layer on [the] culet of the designer anvil to smooth the surface and shape the culet so that is suitable for high-pressure experiments.
Translations: