yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
hill-troll
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From hill + troll. Compare Danish bjergtrolde.
Compound parts: hill
troll
Inflected forms:
form: hill-trolls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A troll that lives in or under a hill.
pos: noun
examples: There is a hill on the lands of Skjelverod near Bingsted called Kirsten's-hill (Kirsten's Bjerg). In it there lived a Hill-troll whose name was Skynd, who had from time to time stolen no less than three wives from a man in the village of Englerup.
"What shall I do now? he said. As soon as the king had had time to consider, he told him that he must go the hill-troll, who had taken his grandfather's sword.
Translations:
rolloff
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Deverbal from roll off.
Inflected forms:
form: rolloffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be rolled off (and later, rolled back onto) the bed of a flatbed truck (flatbed lorry) in a motorized way, using a winch and cable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: rolloff dumpster
gloss: A sudden large uncommanded roll to the left or right experienced by an aircraft entering a stall, resulting from one wing stalling slightly before the other and exacerbated by the reduction in aileron control authority at high angles of attack.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The Learjet does not possess sufficient inherent prestall buffet characteristics at low speeds to provide the pilot with a clear warning that the aircraft is stalled before it enters a flight condition from which a normal recovery cannot be accomplished. Therefore, the aircraft is equipped with an artificial stall warning system which incorporates a stickshaker and stickpusher to provide a prestall warning in order to prevent an abrupt wing rolloff. The system includes a stall vane on each side of the nose of the aircraft, two angle of attack indicators, two stall warning lights, and a computer.
gloss: A rolloff dumpster.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There's so much junk to be removed that we ordered a rolloff.
Related words: roll-on
roll-on roll-off
rollabout
rolldown
roll-up
dumpster
dump truck
dumptruck
Translations:
single-O
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: single-Os
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A carnival sideshow featuring only one performer or attraction.
pos: noun
Translations:
cross-curricular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cross- + curricular.
Base: curricular
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
form: more cross-curricular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cross-curricular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crosscurricular
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Spanning more than one curriculum.
pos: adj
Translations:
schmeck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: schmecks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A smell or a taste; a nip of a drink etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
Cheetoh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
form: Cheetohs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A domestic cat of a breed with distinctive spots and rosette patterning.
pos: noun
Translations:
bottom-end
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the lower gears on a geared engine, especially in a motor vehicle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The lack of bottom-end grunt presents as a particular problem in hilly terrain where the five-speed manual gearbox really earns its keep.
Translations:
top-end
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of high-end (“sophisticated or expensive”).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the higher gears on a geared engine, especially in a motor vehicle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pasuk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew פָּסוּק.
Inflected forms:
form: p'sukim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pasuq
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: passuk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A verse of the Torah
pos: noun
Translations:
half-grown
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not fully grown or matured; roughly halfway through its growth cycle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The tendency to mimic is particularly strong in half-grown puppies.
Translations:
dysreflexia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dys- + reflex + -ia.
Base: dys
Inflected forms:
form: dysreflexias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of having overresponsive or underresponsive reflexes
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Yaka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An African ethnic group of the southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Yaqui
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Uto-Aztecan-speaking indigenous people of Mexico.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
yashiro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 社 (yashiro).
Inflected forms:
form: yashiro
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Shinto temple.
pos: noun
Translations:
Yavapai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Native American tribe of Arizona.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
year-bird
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the old idea that a new wreath was added to its casque every year. Compare Dutch jaarvogel.
Inflected forms:
form: year-birds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Blyth's hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus)
pos: noun
Translations:
Yquem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French, itself from Occitan Iquem, variant of Eiquem (French: Eyquem), from Latin Achelmus/Aichelmus, ultimately from Germanic.
Inflected forms:
form: Yquems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Château d'Yquem, a prestigious wine produced in Sauternes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
fish-basket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fish-baskets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A basket used by anglers to carry caught fish.
pos: noun
examples: I called to the boy, who was still standing on the bank, to take the fish-basket, which I had left behind, and follow me over the barrier[.]
Translations:
Norridgewock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Norridgewocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Norridgewock
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a band of the Abenaki, occupying an area in the interior of Maine.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Nupe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Nupe Nupe.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic group native to the Middle Belt of Nigeria.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
d-note
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: d-notes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One thousand dollars.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
Translations:
Donskoy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Donskoys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cat of a hairless breed of Russian origin.
pos: noun
Translations:
pitch-tar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A thick liquid or pitch-like form of tar.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The man knew very well it was the goblin who had his hand in this, and one evening when he went to the mill, he took a big pot full of pitch-tar with him and put it on the fire.
Translations:
Whitsun-night
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Whitsun-nights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The night of Whitsunday.
pos: noun
examples: There was a farmer who had a mill that was burnt down two Whitsun-nights in succession.
Translations:
accra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yoruba àkàrà or a neighboring West African language. Doublet of akara.
Inflected forms:
form: accras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: akra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A spicy fritter, originally from Ghana but now typically from Haiti.
pos: noun
Translations:
ill-spent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of money, not spent wisely.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In recent years the defeat of the U.S. long-distance passenger train by its competitors has often been quoted as a lesson to Britain. Dieselisation did not save it: therefore, it is argued (without reference to the very different conditions of inter-city travel in this country), modernisation of main-line B.R. passenger services is money ill-spent.
Translations:
long-ranging
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: longer-ranging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more long-ranging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: longest-ranging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most long-ranging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Persisting in its effect or influence for a long time.
pos: adj
examples: the long-ranging consequences of smoking
Translations:
double-hat
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: double-hats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: double-hatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: double-hatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: double-hatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To serve in two roles simultaneously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
triple-hat
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: triple-hats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: triple-hatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: triple-hatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: triple-hatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To serve in three roles simultaneously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
cross-questioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cross-questionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cross-examination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Once bring in the police and what is inevitably bound to follow? There will be calls and interrogations and cross-questionings […]
Translations:
after-hatch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: after-hatches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hatch located towards the aft of a vessel.
pos: noun
examples: Rasmus sat in the after-hatch at the helm, while the boy was now forward, now aft, as circumstances required.
Translations:
wind-cloud
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wind-clouds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cloud that is associated with wind, or is believed to presage windy weather.
pos: noun
examples: "Last night, at sunset, there were plenty of the most respectable wind-clouds, but now there isn't a capful."
Translations:
chalker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From chalk + -er.
Base: chalk
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: chalkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who chalks.
pos: noun
examples: Sometimes they will accept a flier or even take a stick of chalk and join in. The center of the project is the trust placed directly with the chalker. There is no organizational meeting.
Translations:
chainer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From chain + -er.
Base: chain
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: chainers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who chains.
pos: noun
Translations:
boot-grease
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: boot-greases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various greasy preparations designed to be applied externally to leather footwear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was much pleased at the prospect of the oil he would get from him, turned the heavy creature from one side to the other, fondled him like a baby, and assured me he was a "stunning fat sea-cub," which should be welcomed at home for boot-grease and lamp-oil.
Translations:
drug-naive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From drug + naive.
Compound parts: drug
naive
Inflected forms:
form: drug naive
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: drug-naïve
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: drug naïve
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking tolerance to or dependence on the pharmacological effect of a drug.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: D-Amphetamine improved information processing but had no effect on inhibitory control in drug-naive controls.
To address these issues, they recorded electroencephalographic sleep in 20 drug-naive schizophrenic patients, 20 drug-free but previously medicated schizophrenic patients, and 15 normal controls.
Translations:
ibadah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Inflected forms:
form: ibada
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ibadat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ‘ibadat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Islamic worship and the associated submission and obedience.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
NFT
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
Inflected forms:
form: NFTs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: NFTing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: NFTed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: NFTed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: NFT'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: NFT'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To associate a non-fungible token (NFT) with.
pos: verb
tags: neologism
transitive
examples: Typically, the art object that gets NFT’d is a digital file — maybe a JPEG image or an MP4 video — that lives on some hard drive, and that looks or sounds precisely the way it would have in the decades before NFTs came along.
Translations:
well-planned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Carefully designed or arranged, with plenty of forethought, so that it functions satisfactorily.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
Translations:
Coquille
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French coquille.
Inflected forms:
form: Coquilles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Coquille
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ko-Kwel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Ko'Kwel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Native American people who historically lived in the Coquille River watershed and nearby coast south of Coos Bay.
pos: noun
Translations:
sea-reach
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sea-reaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The final reach of a river that connects with the ocean; the part of a river from which the sea is visible.
pos: noun
examples: The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.
Translations:
high-necked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more high-necked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most high-necked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: highnecked
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Closed up to the neck. (of a garment)
pos: adj
Translations:
hyperconverged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From hyper- + converged.
Base: converged
Affixes: hyper-
Inflected forms:
form: hyper-converged
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Implemented within a hypervisor
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
CxO
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: management
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of CXO.
pos: noun
examples: The CIO role may be a bit more technical than some other CxO roles, and Drivers are the most technical type.
Translations:
jesuitical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more jesuitical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jesuitical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Jesuitical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Jesuitic.
pos: adj
examples: Their prosperity appeared to prove that honesty after all was not the best policy. What should I do then? How should I begin the jesuitical business of committing evil that good, personal good, might come of it?
Translations:
philo-Semite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: philo-Semites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: philosemite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A philo-Semitic person.
pos: noun
examples: So I have found it to be a good rule of thumb that anyone who identifies as a philosemite is to be treated with the same amused contempt as anyone who says they love “the African people”.
Translations:
Susquehannock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of Algonquian origin, said to mean "people of the muddy river."
Inflected forms:
form: Susquehannocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Susquehannock
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a group of Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans who lived in areas adjacent to the Susquehanna River and its tributaries.
pos: noun
Translations:
bull-dagger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bull-daggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A masculine or butch lesbian. (See usage notes about dyke (“lesbian”).)
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
Alexian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the name of Alexius of Rome, with whose chapel they were associated, + -ian.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Alexians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an Augustinian Catholic religious institute or congregation specifically devoted to caring for the sick, and which originated in Europe at the time of the Black Death.
pos: noun
Translations:
bitch-made
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A pun on the term tailor-made.
Inflected forms:
form: more bitch-made
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bitch-made
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bitchmade
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Submissive in a contemptible way.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: I'ma let my lil homies ride on all you bitch-made ass Bad Boy bitches.
Translations:
Nacionalista
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: Nacionalistas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Nacionalista Party (Filipino: Partido Nacionalista), the oldest political party in the Philippines, founded in 1907.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-stimulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From self- + stimulation. Autism-related sense common since around 1970, before which other terms were also used.
Base: stimulation
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Repetitive behavior intended to stimulate one's senses.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Masturbation.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
rare
uncountable
examples: [see title]
Related words: stim
stimming
self-stim
stereotypy
Translations:
four-stroke
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: four-strokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a design of internal combustion engine in which the pistons perform four strokes per engine cycle: intake, compression, power, exhaust.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This motorbike has a four-stroke engine.
This is a 16-cylinder unit with the cylinders arranged in vee formation, operating on the four-stroke cycle and pressure-charged by four Napier exhaust gas-driven turbo-chargers.
gloss: A four-stroke engine.
pos: noun
gloss: A vehicle or machine powered by a four-stroke engine.
pos: noun
Translations:
fence-mending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Social assistance given to a community in order to retain popularity with the electorate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In summary, the recognition of the mandate of a group by government is useful not only to the group's leaders but to government as well. The existence and operations of organized groups introduce an element of stability into the political process; […] they enable government to carry on a continuous process of “fence mending” by continually drawing attention to the fences which require mending; […]
Patronage and political fence mending had come to bore him.
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fence, mend.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: mend fences
Translations:
white-telephone
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Adjective form of white telephone.
Inflected forms:
form: more white-telephone
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most white-telephone
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: white telephone
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of the Italian genre of film called white telephone; suggesting consequence-free lives of privilege.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
often
examples: Astaire and Rogers were fortunate: they embodied the swing-music, white-telephone, streamlined era before the Second World War, when frivolousness wasn't decadent, and when adolescents dreamed that 'going out' was dressing up and becoming part of a beautiful world of top hats and silver lamé.
Translations:
onii-chan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese お兄(にい)ちゃん (onii-chan).
Inflected forms:
form: onii-chans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Older brother
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
childish
endearing
often
term-of-address
Translations:
Houyhnhnm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels as a humorous, onomatopoeic play on the sound made by horses.
Inflected forms:
form: Houyhnhnms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of a fictional race of exceptionally civilized creatures, who look exactly like horses, inhabiting the same land as the brutish Yahoos.
pos: noun
examples: I retain in my Mind the Lectures and Example of my noble Maſter and the other illuſtrious Houyhnhnms of whom I had ſo long the Honour to be an humble Hearer.
"The Squire says you know a good deal about horses, so I suppose you understand the Houyhnhnm language? I'm learning it, and it is very nice," laughed Miss Celia, as Chevalita gave a little whinny and snuffled her nose into Ben's pocket.
”The moment he called me his ‘gentle and reasonable Houyhnhnm,’” an archivist notes, “I should have known that the man was deranged.”
Certainly the philosopher was not a pessimistic luncheon companion. He […] loped off in the direction of the London Library, leaving me with an impression of twinkling eyes, laughter lines (he whinnies like a donnish Houyhnhnm), and a sensibility genuinely focused on what will happen in the next five minutes - or five years - albeit one steeped in knowledge of the past.
Translations:
bring-and-braai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bring-and-braais
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A braai (barbecue event) to which guests bring their own food and drink.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
Translations:
ten-shun
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Eye dialect spelling of attention.
Inflected forms:
form: 'ten-shun
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to bring a marching band or group of soldiers to attention.
pos: intj
tags: US
examples: Company, 'ten-shun—(More violently.) 'ten-shun, please... (He draws himself up exaggeratedly.) Stand straight, like soldiers!
Translations:
at-ten-shun
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Respelling of attention to emphasize the syllables.
Inflected forms:
form: a-ten-shun
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to bring a marching band or group of soldiers to attention.
pos: intj
tags: US
examples: "At-ten-shun !" commanded he, with that peculiar inflexion only attainable after considerable service.
At-ten-SHUN! ¶ The United States Marine Corps wants your children.
Translations:
Brummagem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A dialectal variant of Birmingham.
Inflected forms:
form: Brummagems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Birmingham.
pos: noun
gloss: A counterfeit coin.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
Translations:
road-rail
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to both road(s) and railway(s).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [...] the main road movement is alongside the most heavily occupied sections of railway, so that road-rail competition is inescapable.
gloss: Accommodating both road and railway.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a combined road-rail bridge
A proposal to construct it as a road/rail bridge was considered but ultimately rejected on the grounds of cost.
gloss: Occurring between road and rail.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Intensive study is being devoted to finding a cheaper and quicker means of road-rail transfer and to improving the payload/tare weight of containers, and there will be more containers of special types.
gloss: Of a vehicle, able to be driven on both road and rail, being fitted with retractable railway wheels.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "We have some areas on the Mallaig line where you have no road access at all," Phil explains. "This is where the road-rail vehicles come into their own."
Derived words: road-railer
road-rail vehicle
Translations:
Mexicana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish mexicana.
Inflected forms:
form: Mexicanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A store that sells Mexican products.
pos: noun
gloss: A spicy pizza with Mexican-style ingredients.
pos: noun
examples: Overall she thought the Supremo was the best and she was glad she had ordered two. But the two Mexicanas were tasty and the Three Cheeses with thick crust also had something to recommend it.
Rachael took a bite of her pizza. She had ordered a Mexicana with extra chilli and the peppery heat made her nose run.
We'd have a Mexicana and a Fiorentina, she said. If ever Catherine orders a pizza for you, it's best not to interfere, even if you're not hungry.
gloss: A female Mexican.
pos: noun
Translations:
Tahltan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Tāłtān
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group who live in northern British Columbia around Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake, and Iskut. They constitute the fourth division of the Nahane (People of the West).
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Tangipahoa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Native American tribe that lived just north of Lake Pontchartrain and between the Pearl River and the Mississippi River.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
hot-stage
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hot-stages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hot-staging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hot-staged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hot-staged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To light the engine(s) of a rocket stage while still attached to the stage beneath it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Proton's second stage avoids ullage issues by hot-staging, allowing the engines to ignite while still being pushed by the first stage, but this necessitates the use of a special open trusswork in the interstage area to prevent the superheated second-stage exhaust from blowing up the rocket.
Translations:
summer-tower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: summer-towers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: movable tower used in sieges
pos: noun
examples: Scales, ladderes, & somertoures [L. ad capiendos muros scalae vel machinae] and alle suche gynnes..ben Iordeyned to clymbe vp walles & toures.
Translations:
summer-piece
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Inflected forms:
form: summer-pieces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a horizontal load-bearing beam in a building or other structure; (in later use) spec. the main beam supporting the girders or joists of a floor (or occasionally the rafters of a roof).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: a fireboard
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
gollop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gollops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: golloping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: golloped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: golloped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To eat greedily or quickly.
pos: verb
tags: England
colloquial
Translations:
crew-served
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a weapon system: requiring a crew or more than one individual to function due to its high operational complexity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A heavy machine gun, anti-materiel rifle, or rocket launcher might be crew-served.
Translations:
SOX
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
joma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Cantonese 組媽 /组妈 (zou² maa¹).
Inflected forms:
form: jomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: female group leader in orientation camps
pos: noun
tags: Hong-Kong
Translations:
quarterman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From quarter + man.
Compound parts: quarter
man
Inflected forms:
form: quartermen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A foreman in a shipyard
pos: noun
Translations:
Progress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Прогресс (Progress), from прогресс (progress).
Inflected forms:
form: Progresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.
pos: noun
Translations:
slow-motional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From slow motion + -al.
Base: slow motion
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or relating to slow motion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having the use of slow motion in film for increased, emotional impact.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: When a dramatic scene is in slow motion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dexy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dex(edrine) + -y.
Base: dexedrine
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: dexies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dexys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tablet of dexedrine.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
slang
examples: Jake popped a dexy into his mouth, chewed it like a peanut, then offered the prescription bottle to Harry, who declined.
You could be bone tired, out on your feet, and a “dexy” would snap you out of your lethargy in minutes, fill you with pep and energy. It seemed like everyone in Hollywood was on dexys.
During the last month before finals, I started popping more dexies than before. They seemed to give me the energy I needed to get through classes and homework.
“Whatchu got, man?”
“Reds, bennies, dexies, yellow jackets, demmies.”
“Yeah, demmies're good shit, man. I pay you. Fuck. I got money. I'm hurting inside. Got beat up. Where my money?”
Translations:
arm-chest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: arm-chests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A portable chest for storing weapons or tools on a ship.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: This Disappointment chagreen’d the Ship’s Company, who were very intent upon their Market; which was reported to be an Arm-Chest full of Gold, and kept with three Keys;
[…] as soon as he had taken charge of the deck, he saw Mr. Hayward, the mate of his watch, lie down on the arm-chest to take a nap;
[…] there being no line-and-sinker at hand, I sent Jarl to hunt them up in the arm-chest on the quarter-deck, where doubtless they must be kept.
[…] he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass.
Translations:
quick-setting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That sets (hardens) relatively quickly
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bluestreak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From blue + streak.
Compound parts: blue
streak
Inflected forms:
form: bluestreaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Lestoidea (not to be confused with superfamily Lestoidea), endemic to Australia.
pos: noun
Translations:
sea-duty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sea duty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Duty at sea undertaken by personnel in the armed forces or other uniformed services of the United States.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
light-duty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Designed to withstand relatively moderate use, load, or stress.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Less physically or mentally demanding than the usual kind.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Women should not be penalized or forced out of the workplace simply because they become pregnant. UPS, in fact, has come around to that position. It now offers light-duty accommodations to pregnant women who need them.
Derived words: light-duty vehicle
Translations:
evidence-based
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Based only on actual evidence, rather than tradition, etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the last decade, the health care field has been under the spell of evidence-based medicine—a social movement aimed to strengthen the scientific base of health care and determine the effectiveness of clinical interventions.
He told the GWPF Australia needed “evidence-based policy rather than policy-based evidence” and took aim at a 2013 study that showed that 97% of scientists agree humans are driving climate change, “as if scientific truth is determined by votes rather than facts”.
The spectacle of a prominent vaccine sceptic and wellness crank as secretary of health and human services goes beyond an abandonment of truth; it feels like an assault on human progress. Bans on fluoride in tap water, passed by legislators in Utah and Florida at Robert F Kennedy Jr’s behest, mark a new hostility to the very idea of evidence-based government.
Translations:
bed-closet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bed-closets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a closet opening off a bedroom
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: a small bedroom
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
closet-chapel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Inflected forms:
form: closet-chapels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a closet used for private devotion; a private or small chapel.
pos: noun
Translations:
closet-keeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: closet-keepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: closetkeeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a person charged with keeping or maintaining the contents (esp. valuable items) of a closet.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
cleaner-upper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From clean up + -er. Compare Australian slang cleaner-upperer.
Base: clean up
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: cleaner-uppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person responsible for cleaning or tidying up.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I want to know how you became a cleaner-upper! A custodian of man's material junk!
If we were to consider the role of a parent who is totally responsible during the day for children of varying ages, with no assistance, the job description would read in part: Diaper changer, bottle feeder, bottle washer, rocker, laundress, clothes putter-upper, ironer, dishwasher, meal-planner and cook, grocery shopper, hugger, plaground mate, track star, safety oordinator, sympathizer, story reader, clown, nurse, checker player, artist, tutor, rule maker, disciplinarian, supporter and encourager, teacher, activities chairman, religious educator, car pooler, cheerleader at games, cookie maker, party planner, seamstress, clothes shopper, librarian, transportation director to the doctor, school, soccer, museum, or park, mess cleaner-upper, mediator, friend supervisor, bathroom supervisor, bath supervisor, toothbrush director, medicine giver, manners chairman and reminder, schedule maker, TV critic, pet feeder, taker of pets to vet, judge, arbitrator, role model, gardener, and toilet trainer.
This professionalization is a psychological defense of the housewife against being a general “cleaner-upper” and menial servant for her family in a day and age of general work emancipation.
Translations:
darkfall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dark + fall, modelled after nightfall.
Compound parts: dark
fall
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The time of day when it becomes dark.
pos: noun
examples: They stopped long enough to put on warmer jackets and continued the arduous climb, hoping to find a sheltered spot for the darkfall.
At darkfall I heard only one instrument like a glorified Jew's harp.
But we did catch Turosh skulking around the Shiso last darkfall.
Well after darkfall, Jane parked at the head of their long driveway, shielded from the sight of the house by the colonnades of California live oaks.
Translations:
ashfield
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ash + field.
Compound parts: ash
field
Inflected forms:
form: ashfields
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A field that is covered in ash.
pos: noun
examples: The ashfield of ten square miles above Nicolosi, created by the eruption of 1669, which was entirely barren in 1835, is now planted with vines almost to the summits of Mone Rosso, at a height of three thousand feet.
Components of oil-shale ash deposited on ashfields, consumed or ejected with exhaust gases.
His mind was a field of ashes, most of his hope gone. But there were hot coals of anger under the ashfield, and any indication that she still respected him as an adversary would feed his ego and fan flames from those coals.
Translations:
Achakzai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Pashto اڅکزی.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A particular Pashtun tribe.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
user-worked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a level crossing, one where a railway crosses a right of way such as a road on private land, a footpath or a bridleway. Any gates or barriers provided often need to be operated manually, with some crossings requiring users to telephone a signaller to check that it is safe to cross.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: A near-miss between a Greater Anglia Class 755 and two cars on a user-worked level crossing near Wroxham is being investigated by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB).
Translations:
stainedglass
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stained + glass.
Compound parts: stained
glass
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Made of stained glass.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The stainedglass windows were dark with night and the candlelight was soft and wavy and Nick sat with his hands folded in his lap.
Translations:
shig
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shigs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shigging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shigged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shigged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: At a competitive barbecuing event, to visit a rival's barbecue area in order to snoop on their cooking techniques.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
Translations:
briar-root
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: briar-roots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: briarroot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The root of the briar (Erica arborea).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The wood of this root used to make tobacco pipes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
pine-moss
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pine-mosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any species of moss that grows on pine trees.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "You must then make yourself a wig of pine-moss and go up to the king's palace, which is close by; there you must ask for service."
Translations:
anti-castration
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + castration.
Base: castration
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: anticastration
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In opposition to castration; acting against castration.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
lime-tree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lime-trees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree.
pos: noun
examples: His impassioned words buzzed about my ears like cockchafers round the top of the lime-trees.
gloss: Any of various trees of the genus Citrus that bear limes.
pos: noun
Translations:
B-sider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From B-side + -er.
Base: B-side
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: B-siders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A song released as a B-side.
pos: noun
examples: […] a full-throttled B-sider about a trucker fighting bad weather and windy roads to get to his favorite truck stop and waitress.
Translations:
porridge-stick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: porridge-sticks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wooden stick used to stir porridge when cooking.
pos: noun
examples: When they came past the kitchen, the door was open and the cook was just boiling porridge, but when she saw Hans and his train after him, she rushed out of the door with the porridge-stick in one hand and a big ladle full of boiling porridge in the other, and she laughed till her sides shook; but when she saw the smith there as well she thought she would have burst with laughter.
Translations:
snuff-horn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: snuff-horns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A container for snuff made from an animal's horn.
pos: noun
examples: When the coffee was drunk, and the cup was put away with many thanks and blessings, she went demurely to the hearth, and pulled out a snuff-horn.
Translations:
Amex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Amexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An American Express credit card.
pos: noun
examples: They both have their Amexes if they get hungry or if they need anything. They must not buy jewelry, bicycles, or anything over one thousand dollars.
The world was ending, and I had a ten thousand dollar limit on my Amex.
Translations:
straw-bottomed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a chair, having a seat of woven cane or with cushioning of straw.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Two women, one fat and the other slim, sat on straw-bottomed chairs, knitting black wool.
gloss: Of a bottle, having a straw covering around the base, as traditional Chianti bottles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hypercard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hyper- + card.
Base: card
Affixes: hyper-
Inflected forms:
form: hypercards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shape, used in magic tricks, made by cutting and folding a playing card.
pos: noun
Translations:
hypoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hypoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Describing gear wheels whose axes are offset from each other.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any of a set of gear wheels whose axes are offset from each other.
pos: noun
Translations:
soft-dotted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a character: having a dot that is removed when an accent is applied, as for example with the character i becoming í.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
non-bogie
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From non- + bogie.
Base: bogie
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not mounted on bogies; having wheels and axles not incorporated in bogies.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A limit of 75 m.p.h., therefore, is reasonable—and will give wagon designers enough to keep them busy, he thinks, as the problems of stability for all categories of freight traffic are far from being solved at present, especially with non-bogie wagons.
Translations:
mini-manifesto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mini- + manifesto.
Base: manifesto
Affixes: mini-
Inflected forms:
form: mini-manifestos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minimanifesto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: minifesto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A brief manifesto.
pos: noun
Translations:
after-action
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From after + action.
Compound parts: after
action
Inflected forms:
form: afteraction
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Written retrospectively on a given sequence of goal-oriented actions previously taken, especially if by the author himself. (of a report, analysis, etc.)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: More than a dozen after-action evaluations have been completed, looking at how police departments responded to the demonstrations — some of them chaotic and violent, most peaceful — that broke out in hundreds of cities between late May and the end of August.
Translations:
goal-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From goal + oriented.
Compound parts: goal
oriented
Inflected forms:
form: more goal-oriented
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most goal-oriented
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: goal-orientated
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Focused on reaching a particular objective or serving a particular purpose.
pos: adj
examples: Like many films of the indie realist strain - and unlike Lost in Translation — Welcome to the Dollhouse eventually abandons its slack, episodic pattern of narration for more goal-oriented suspense.
Translations: