yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
spelunker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From then-obsolete spelunk (noun) + -er. Coined by New England cave explorer Roger Charles Johnson in the 1930s.
Base: spelunk
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: spelunkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who explores caves; one who spelunks.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: I took to fishing, on mountain brooks and lakes, and finally I was inveigled into becoming a spelunker. A spelunker is a human worm who crawls into caves ("splunca" is Latin for cave) and explores them.
gloss: An amateur or inadequately prepared caver.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: I am officially a spelunker – but not yet a caver. The dictionary definition of spelunking is “exploring caves for sport.” Serious enthusiasts shun the term, however. They are cavers. A spelunker is an inexperienced amateur. On this dry and balmy mid-November Saturday, our group contains three spelunkers and two cavers.
But the scariest of all’s the witless caver;
Spelunker is the name that he goes by.
He caves alone with just one light,
A worn-out rope, and boots too tight,
Looking for a cave in which to die.
it is a truth that every caver was once a spelunker with a flashlight and a tangled ball of string.
“‘Cavers,’” the editor notes, “generally consider ‘spelunkers’ to be people who have no real knowledge or understanding of caves and caving safety, but who decide to enter a cave anyway, usually without proper equipment.”
Derived words: spelunk
spelunking
Translations:
fishy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fishi, fischey, equivalent to fish + -y.
Base: fish
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: fishier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fishiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fishie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or similar to fish.
pos: adj
examples: What is that fishy odor?
The ſwifteſt Ship beneath with ſudden Chains / In mid Career the fiſhy Bank detains. / The Wind all uſeleſs in the Canvas roars, / In vain the Sailors tug the ſticking Oars. / Fixt as a Rock the ſteady Throng abides; / The Ship as anchor'd in her Harbour rides.
[William] Dampier. The Fleſh of both young and old is lean and black, yet very good Meat, taſting neither fiſhy nor unſavoury: A Diſh of Flamingo's Tongues being fit for a Prince's Table. They are large, having a large Knob of Fat at the Root, which is an excellent Bit.
Few eyes have escaped the pictures of mermaids; that is, according to Horace's monster, with a woman's head above, and fishy extremity below; and these are conceived to answer the shape of the ancient sirens that attempted upon Ulysses. Which notwithstanding were of another description, containing no fishy composure, but made up of man and bird: […]
gloss: Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me.
Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
There was something more to this than met the eye, and he had the distinct feeling that the marshal had just snookered him into a corner. But he couldn't very well refuse, and it would look fishy if he demanded they march now.
gloss: Of a drag queen or a trans woman: appearing very feminine and resembling a cisgender woman.
pos: adj
examples: One day I dressed up all out fishy to go to my mother's place. I knocked and started walking in past her. She was like 'Can I help you?' I said, 'Ma?' and she was like OMG! She actually thought I was one of her boyfriend's hoochie [mamas].
Related words: fishify
Derived words: fishily
fishiness
fishy queen
smell fishy
unfishy
Translations:
quibble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Possibly from quib (“quibble”, noun) + -le (diminutive ending). Quib is probably from Latin quibus (“in what respect? how?”), which appeared frequently in legal documents and came to be suggestive of the verbosity and petty argumentation found therein; or perhaps an alteration of quip. Alternatively, perhaps related to dialectal Dutch kwebbelen (“to speak quickly and continuously, chatter”). Compare also Scots wheebele (“a quibble”).
Base: quib
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: quibbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quibbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quibbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quibbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quibbled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An argument or objection based on an ambiguity of wording or similar trivial circumstance; a minor complaint.
pos: noun
examples: He harped on his quibble about how the dark red paint should be described as carmine rather than burgundy.
Quibbles […]have no place in the search after truth.
As the two railways were to meet end-on, providing a continuous line from Parkside to Lancaster, it would have been expected that they would work together harmoniously for their common interests, but the quibble over the connection strained the relationship from the beginning.
Toward the end of “Galatea,” there are a few missteps: […] All in all, though, these are minor quibbles.
Essentially, we want a commitment to no-quibble refunds, without admin fees, if people who have already paid decide not to travel because of the virus.
gloss: A pun.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Is it a quibble, or play upon words?
This is a quibble between council and counsel. The latter word is still used to imply secrecy; as in the phrase, "keep your own counsel."
gloss: To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: They are constantly quibbling over insignificant details.
“Oh, if you talk in that sense!” said Mr. Standish, with as much disgust at such non-legal quibbling as a man can well betray towards a valuable client.
“I dog no one, Mr. Temple,” I replied bitterly. “We'll not quibble about words,” said he.
Mr. Musk has shown a disdain toward Twitter’s previous corporate culture. He has quibbled with the number of bird references in the company’s internal team names and products.
gloss: To contest, especially some trivial issue in a petty manner.
pos: verb
tags: informal
rare
transitive
examples: The customer quibbled the bill.
Synonyms: squabble
Derived words: outquibble
quibbler
quibblesome
quibblingly
quibbly
unquibbled
unquibbling
Translations:
knockoff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: Etymology tree
English knock offdeverb.
English knockoff
Deverbal from knock off.
Inflected forms:
form: knockoffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knock-off
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knock off
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An imitation of something, particularly a well-known product, usually of lower quality and price than the original.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
examples: It's not a name-brand bag; it's just a cheap knockoff.
He tried to sell us some knockoff watches.
But then there's knockoffs of famous brands like Pizza Huh, Sunbucks, McDnoald's. OFC!? Wow, that's wrong on so many levels. Well, at least this Apple store looks like it has something good to eat.
gloss: A device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.
pos: noun
Related words: knock
knock off
shanzhai
Derived words: knockbuster
Translations:
kava
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wakaʀ
Proto-Oceanic *kawaʀ
Proto-Polynesian *kawa
Tongan kavader.
English kava
From Tongan kava, in turn from Proto-Polynesian *kawa.
Doublet of ʻawa, ava, kawa, and yava.
Inflected forms:
form: kavas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ava
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kawa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ʻawa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yava
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A plant from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The roots produce a liqueur called kava. Kava has a mild aphrodisiac effect.
The Nationals MP suffered the consequences of drinking an entire shell of sakau – a traditional Micronesian kava with sedative qualities made from the root of the pepper plant – in one hit, thinking it was similar to South Pacific kava. […] While not alcoholic, sakau – like other kavas served throughout the Pacific region – is known for its narcotic sedative effect.
Related words: kavakava
Derived words: kavaic acid
kavalactone
kavapyrone
Translations:
knockout
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English knock outdeverb.
English knockout
Deverbal from knock out.
Inflected forms:
form: knock-out
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Rendering someone unconscious.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He delivered a knockout blow.
gloss: Amazing; gorgeous; beautiful.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You should have seen her knockout eyes.
If the same model has beautiful hair, white teeth, glowing skin, a fit body, good hands and legs, a great wardrobe, and a knockout comp, her value on the "bookability meter" goes sky high.
gloss: Designating an organism in which a particular gene has been removed or deactivated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The result is a so-called knockout mouse, reared with a single gene silenced, the better to reveal that gene's true purpose.
gloss: Causing elimination from a competition.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Rodolph Austin delivered the knockout blow from close range 20 minutes from time, after Aidan White had given Leeds a dream start after four minutes.
Related words: knock one's socks off
knock out
technical knockout
TKO
Translations:
stereolithography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ster-der.
Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós)
Ancient Greek στερεο- (stereo-)der.
English stereo-
English lithography
English stereolithography
From stereo- + lithography.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A means of rapid prototyping in which a laser hardens successive layers of a photopolymer to create a part with a shape defined by a computer model.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
cheque
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tek-
Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati
Proto-Iranian *xšáyati
Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ)
Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ)
Classical Persian شاه (šāh)bor.
Arabic شَاه (šāh)bor.
Medieval Latin scaccusder.
Old French eschecbor.
Middle English chek
English check
▲
English exchequerinflu.?
English cheque
From check, possibly influenced by exchequer. First attested in the 1790s.
Inflected forms:
form: cheques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: check
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: A written order directing a bank to pay money to a person or entity.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a cheque for the amount.
They do not, however, all deal with the same banker, and when A gives a cheque to B, B usually pays it not into the same but into some other bank.
1999, Sam Seunarine, Office Procedures for the Caribbean, 2nd edition, reprinted 2001, page 126,
Sometimes abbreviations are used (which would be explained on the statement) and only the last three figures of the cheque number may be given. ‘Sundries’ are cash or cheques paid into the account.
You can avoid dealing with paper cheques — written or printed — by paying your bills online.
2009, R. Rajesh, T. Sivagnanasithi, Banking Theory Law & Practice, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, page 206,
The daily cheque clearings began around 1770 when bank clerks met at the Five Bells (a tavern in Lombard Street in the City of London) to exchange all their cheques in one place and settle the balances in cash.
Translations:
mushroom
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ballistics
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Middle English muscheron, musseron, from Anglo-Norman musherum, moscheron, from Old French moisseron, of obscure origin: probably derived from Old French mosse, moise ("moss"; whence also French mousse), as the use first applied to a type of fungus which grows in moss, from Frankish *mosu (“moss”) or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), akin to Old High German mosa (“moor, swamp”), Old High German mos (“moss, bog”), Old High German mios (“moss, mire”), Old English mēos (“moss”), Old English mōs (“bog, marsh”), Old Norse mosi (“moss”), Old Norse myrr (“bog, mire”), from Proto-Germanic *musą, *musô, *miuziz (“mosses, bog”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“mosses, mold, mildew”). Displaced native Old English swamm. More at mire. Alternatively, the Old French may be of pre-Roman origin. See Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”). Doublet of moss and mousse.
Inflected forms:
form: mushrooms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mushrooming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mushroomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mushroomed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: mushroom cloud
gloss: To grow quickly to a large size or rapidly increase in scope or scale.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The town’s population mushroomed from 10,000 to 110,000 in five years.
In Beilu Village of Liucun Town in Yaodu District, Linfen, abnormal illnesses continued to emerge, as a result of clusters of highly-polluting enterprises mushrooming in the vicinity.
The world's population of ultra-high-net-worth individuals, a super-elite with assets of at least $30m, has now mushroomed beyond 250,000 people, all in need of somewhere to store their wealth.
It has its own global news gathering and sharing platforms, like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. […] In recent years, all these platforms have mushroomed.
gloss: To gather mushrooms.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We used to go mushrooming in the forest every weekend.
gloss: To form the shape of a mushroom.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Excessive spot weld time may cause the electrode tips to mushroom, resulting in no focus of current and a weak weld.
gloss: To form the shape of a mushroom.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
Brabant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch Brabant.
Inflected forms:
form: Brabants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A draft horse of a strong, heavy breed originating from the Brabant region of modern Belgium.
pos: noun
Translations:
bergen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Shortened from Bergen rucksack, possibly named after their creator, Norwegian Ole F. Bergan, combined with the name of the Norwegian city of Bergen.
Inflected forms:
form: bergens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large rucksack.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Their bergens were already stuffed almost to bursting point, as were their belt kits, with rations, water, radios and spare batteries, ammunition, personal equipment, sleeping bags, waterproofs, medical packs, survival kits, and much more.
Translations:
clover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English clovere, claver, from Old English clāfre, earlier clǣfre, from Proto-West Germanic *klaibrā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kleeuwer, Low German Klaver, Klever, Dutch klaver, all “clover”. More distantly also related with German Klee.
Inflected forms:
form: clovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: claver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.
pos: noun
examples: He Raine upon her [the Earth's] boſom poures; / His ſvvelling clouds abound vvith ſhoures: / […] / The Deſert with ſvveet claver fills; / And richly ſhades the joyfull Hills.
gloss: The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck.
pos: noun
Derived words: Bokhara clover
brown clover
bush clover
Caucasian clover
clover clamp
Cloverdale
clovered
Clover Flat
clover grass
cloverleaf
cloverlike
clover louse
clover mite
clover weevil
clover worm
clovery
Cooper clover
crimson clover
Dutch clover
Egyptian clover
four-leaf clover
four-leafed clover
four-leaved clover
hart's clover
heart clover
hop clover
in clover
jackass clover
Japan clover
Japanese clover
kura clover
lemon clover
like a bee in clover
like a pig in clover
like pigs in clover
lucky clover
lupine clover
Menindee clover
mountain carpet clover
owl's clover
prairie clover
rare as a four-leaf clover
red clover
rolling in clover
round-headed bush clover
snail clover
Spanish clover
strawberry clover
sub clover
subterranean clover
suckling clover
sweet clover
sweet-clover
water clover
white clover
Translations:
vanish
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English vanyshen, evaneschen, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (modern French évanouir), from Vulgar Latin *exvanire (“to vanish, disappear, to fade out”), from Latin evanescere, from vanus (“empty”). By surface analysis, Latin van- + -ish (“verb suffix”). Doublet of evanesce.
Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).
Inflected forms:
form: vanishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vanishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vanished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vanished
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vanishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.
The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
I realize sometimes / In a web of passion we all get caught / But understand / All the hurt and all the pain / It's gonna vanish just like the rain
gloss: To become equal to zero.
pos: verb
examples: The function f such as f(x)#61;x² vanishes at x#61;0.
gloss: To disappear; to kidnap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And as if to prove it, one of his friends was vanished and was never seen again. The guy got in a taxi one night, and no one ever saw him ever again.
It was whispered that men had been “vanished” by the Line and returned everted. Turned inside out.
gloss: The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
pos: noun
examples: a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill.
o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanish of oo as in foot.
The median stres may also on a protracted quantity , slightly resemble respectively that of the radical and of the vanish , by sudenly enlarging in the course of the prolongation and gradualy diminishing ; and by the reverse
gloss: A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.
pos: noun
examples: The French drop is a well-known vanish involving sleight of hand.
gloss: A disappearance; a vanishment.
pos: noun
Synonyms: disappear
Related words: vain
glide
Derived words: angle of vanishing stability
Kodaira vanishing theorem
vanishing foam
vanishing fraction
vanishing ideal
vanishing point
vanishing spray
vanishing testes syndrome
vanishing twin
vanishing twin syndrome
vanish into thin air
vanish to the four winds
Translations:
visible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English visible, from Old French visible, from Late Latin visibilis (“that may be seen”), from Latin videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see vision. Displaced native Old English ġesewenlīċ.
Inflected forms:
form: more visible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most visible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be seen.
pos: adj
examples: When the sun rises, the world becomes visible.
It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
Participants perceived strength training as improving many aspects of their physical and mental health. Many appreciated the visible improvements in muscular strength and body composition.
Antonyms: hidden
invisible
Translations:
shiny
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shine
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English shiny
From shine + -y (adjectival suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: shinier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more shiny
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shiniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most shiny
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shinies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Reflecting light.
pos: adj
examples: He was wearing a new, fawn-coloured summer suit and a new straw hat—his trousers the creasiest and his shoes the shiniest. Yet he seemed not to be taking the usual infantile satisfaction in a very smart, correct costume.
Commercially produced yarn, such as rayon, produces a cloth with a smoother, shinier look than hand-spun cotton, but the uneven, rugged look of hand-spun cotton can be quite appealing.
gloss: Emitting light.
pos: adj
gloss: Excellent; remarkable.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: We're shiny, Okay?
gloss: Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.
gloss: Anything that glitters; a trinket.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A desirable collectible.
pos: noun
Synonyms: gleamy
glisteny
mirrorlike
mirrory
relucent
shining
shiny
splendent
zazzy
Antonyms: dull
glossless
matt
matte
mirrorless
nonshiny
opaque
sheenless
unshiny
Related words: sunshiny
specular
Derived words: bite my shiny metal ass
bright shiny object
nonshiny
shalpha
shinily
shininess
shiny bum
shiny cowbird
shiny-floor
shinyleaf
subshiny
unshiny
Translations:
transportability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communication
communications
government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transport
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English transportability
From transport + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: transportabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of equipment, devices, systems, and associated hardware that permits their being moved from one location to another to interconnect with locally available complementary equipment, devices, systems, associated hardware, or other complementary facilities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The capability of materiel to be moved by towing, self-propulsion, or carrier via any means, such as railways, highways, waterways, pipelines, oceans, and airways.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
promo
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: promos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: promoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: promoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: promoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To promote; to publicize.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Translations:
radiologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radiology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English radiologist
From radiology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: radiologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is skilled in or practices radiology.
pos: noun
Translations:
varna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit वर्ण (várṇa, “colour, tint, dye, pigment, appearance, aspect”), from verbal root वृणोति (vṛṇoti, “to choose, select”).
Inflected forms:
form: varnas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
Translations:
amorphous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
set-theory
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄμορφος (ámorphos, “without form, shapeless, deformed”) (itself from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form”) + -ous. By surface analysis, a- + -morphous.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more amorphous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amorphous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking a definite form or clear shape.
pos: adj
examples: amorphous blob
The enormous pile of spaghetti landed on the floor in an amorphous heap.
gloss: Being without definite character or nature.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands. Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street.
And people talking all the time about the AfD is just what it wants: to foster the impression that the others are ganging up against it. The “authentic” voice of “real people” v the amorphous elite.
gloss: Lacking organization or unity.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: In the non-crystalline solid state of, or being a non-crystalline counterpart to, a crystalline solid.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: noncrystalline
Glass is an amorphous solid, but some glass is called "crystal" because it looks crystalline and has been called crystal since before humans even understood molecular structure at all.
gloss: Infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.
pos: adj
Synonyms: amorphic
amorphous
formless
shapeless
unshaped
unshapely
Antonyms: misshapen
shapely
Derived words: amorphism
amorphous carbon
amorphously
amorphousness
phosphopeptide-amorphous
polyamorphous
Translations:
foible
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: 1640–50, from Early Modern French foible (“feeble”) (contemporary French faible). Doublet of feeble.
Inflected forms:
form: foibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A quirk, idiosyncrasy, frailty, or mannerism; an unusual habit that is slightly strange or silly.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Try to look past his foibles and see the friendly fellow underneath.
He knew that this was like the sudden impulse of a madman—incongruous even with his habitual foibles.
Marguerite Blakeney was, above all, a woman, with all a woman’s fascinating foibles, all a woman’s most lovable sins.
They made up for the respect with which unconsciously they treated him by laughing at his foibles and lamenting his vices.
Final fillip in the Vice-President's study has been a boning up on Premier Khrushchev's favorite foible, proverbs. The bibulous Russian leader likes to throw out homely homilies in his speeches and conversations[…]
gloss: A weakness or failing of character.
pos: noun
examples: Jesus is reverenced as the one man who has lived unspotted by the world, free from human foibles, able to redeem mankind by his example.
gloss: Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte.
pos: noun
Related words: feeble
Derived words: foibled
Translations:
quirk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: First attested in the 1540s. Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *querk, from Old Norse kverk (“a bend or angle, especially below a cross-beam or below the chin, the bight of an axe", also "throat, gullet”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerkō (“throat, gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour; maw”). Cognate with Scots querk (“throat", also "any hollow in the body, such as an armpit, groin, instep, etc.”), Icelandic kverk (“interior angle”). Also partially from dialectal quirk, querk (“a whim, fancy, fuss, huff, complaint", also "to peevishly grumble, grunt, sigh, croak, die”), from Middle English querken, *quirken (“to choke”), from Old Norse kvirkja (“to choke, strangle”), from the same origin above. Related to dialectal querken, quirken (“to choke”). Likely not related to queer.
Inflected forms:
form: quirks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quirks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quirking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quirked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quirked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.
pos: noun
examples: The car steers cleanly, but the gearshift has a few quirks.
gloss: An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a molding and a soffit.
pos: noun
gloss: A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Had you no quirk / To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature?
Let us not be too curious in prying into Gods arke, leaſt vve ſmart like the flie fluttering about the candle, for God is a conſuming fire to thoſe that vvill be ſporting themſelves in the quirks of their vvit about his ſacred myſteries.
gloss: To (cause to) move with a wry jerk.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: He quirked an eyebrow.
The corners of her mouth quirked.
He quirked his lips playfully.
gloss: To furnish with a quirk or channel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To alter in a unique and unusual way.
pos: verb
examples: But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.
gloss: To use verbal tricks or quibbles.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: I have stung her and wrung her,
The venom is working;—
And if you had hung her
With canting and quirking,
She could not be deader than she will be soon
Related words: querk
querken
quirkle
Derived words: quirkful
quirkish
quirkless
quirk of fate
quirks mode
quirksome
quirky
Translations:
bobbin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French bobine, recorded in English since 1530.
Inflected forms:
form: bobbins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
pos: noun
examples: Ignition coils using a bobbin molded from high-performance polyester withstand open-circuit bench tests to 70kV.
gloss: In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
pos: noun
examples: Wind the bobbin, place it in the machine, and raise the thread.
gloss: The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
pos: noun
examples: She went from the linhay and boldly pulled the bobbin of the fuel-house door.
Put the bobbin and the latch will go up
gloss: A fine cord or narrow braid.
pos: noun
Derived words: bobbin-and-fly frame
bobbinet
bobbin lace
bobbinless
bobbinlike
bobbin tank
bobbinwork
Translations:
quirky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quirk
English -y
English quirky
From quirk + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: quirkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: quirkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute.
pos: adj
examples: She has a quirky laugh.
Translations:
pallbearer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pall + bearer.
Compound parts: pall
bearer
Inflected forms:
form: pallbearers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One called upon to carry or bear the coffin or the casket at a funeral.
pos: noun
examples: It took ten pallbearers to carry her coffin.
They are likely displeased with the viral videos showing policemen attempting to tear the Palestinian flags from Abu Aqleh’s coffin while beating pallbearers with clubs, causing her coffin to almost fall to the ground.
gloss: One who carries a corner of the pall over a coffin or casket.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: arkunkantaja
lang: German
word: Sargträger
lang: Greek
word: συνοδός φερέτρου
roman: synodós ferétrou
lang: Greek
word: νεκροπομπός
roman: nekropompós
lang: Gujarati
word: ખાંધિયો
roman: khāndhiyo
lang: Gujarati
word: નસેસલો
roman: naseslo
lang: Hungarian
word: koporsóvivő
lang: Icelandic
word: líkmaður
lang: Japanese
word: 死人担
roman: shibito katsugi
lang: Russian
word: носильщик гроба
roman: nosilʹščik groba
lang: Russian
word: похоронный носильщик
roman: poxoronnyj nosilʹščik
lang: Spanish
word: portador de féretro
lang: Spanish
word: portador del féretro
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: dragiman
lang: Swedish
word: kistbärare
diagenesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Coined in the 18th century from greek meaning "Across Generation", dia- + genesis from Ancient Greek δια- (dia-, “through”) + γένεσις (génesis, “origin, creation”).
Base: genesis
Affixes: dia-
Inflected forms:
form: diageneses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: All the chemical, physical, and biological changes sediment goes through during and after lithification, not including weathering or other surface changes.
pos: noun
Translations:
treff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From German Treff (“meeting point”).
Inflected forms:
form: treffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A covert meeting.
pos: noun
examples: The Moscow experts on treffs perform their duty with ponderous, often ridiculous, awkwardness. Before the atomic spy Allan Nunn May left Canada to go to London, a treff in London had to be arranged for him and another agent.
Translations:
pneumoconiosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Alteration of pneumonoconiosis, after pneumo- (“lung”). Compare French pneumoconiose. By surface analysis, pneumo- + coniosis (“disease caused by the inhalation of dust”).
Inflected forms:
form: pneumoconioses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disease of the lungs caused by inhalation of particulate matter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Zhang Haichao was twenty-eight when he got pneumoconiosis. He was fit and well before he started working at an abrasive-materials factory in Xinmi, not far from Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, where he comes from. On the job, he inhaled a huge amount of dust every day. In the second half of 2007, he began to cough and felt short of breath.
Wu Dengfan, a 40-year-old farmer from Gulang county in Gansu who worked at a gold mine close to the Mongolian border from 1996 to 2006, had a similar experience.
“We even preferred not to wear masks inside the mine, because it made breathing even more difficult,” said Wu, who has stage II pneumoconiosis. “When we finished our work and came out of the mine, each of us was completely covered in dust.”
Translations:
biennial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bienni(um) (“two-year period”) [from bis, bi- (“twice”) + annus (“year”)] + -al (suffix forming adjectives). By surface analysis, bi- + -ennial.
Inflected forms:
form: biennials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Happening every two years.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This is a marked difference from the task force’s previous guidance, which was to start biennial mammograms by age 50.
gloss: Lasting for two years.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A plant that requires two years to complete its life-cycle, germinating and growing in its first year, then producing its flowers and fruit in its second year, after which it usually dies.
pos: noun
gloss: An event that happens every two years.
pos: noun
examples: The famous Biennial was won by Earl of Dartrey, a light, peacocky horse, who was, perhaps, better than he looked.
Synonyms: biennary
biannual
Related words: biennium
biennially
biannual
semiannual
annual
triennial
quadrennial
quinquennial
sexennial
septennial
octennial
novennial
decennial
vicennial
centennial
bicentennial
quincentennial
millennial
perennial
Derived words: bienniality
quasi-biennial oscillation
Translations:
diaphanous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs), from δια- (dia-, “through”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine, appear”).
Inflected forms:
form: more diaphanous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diaphanous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
pos: adj
examples: The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marsh was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
Adam requires a touch of feminine lace and a whisper of diaphanous silk, not a direct vision of the gaping maw of the human vulva.
But nonetheless the purpleness of the imagined purple cow will almost certainly be meaner, more diaphanous, more fleeting than any real-life purple that you ever saw: to imagine a purple cow is just not the same thing as to have a purple sensation (or at least a purple sensation worth the name).
The evening mist, drifting among the leafless poplars, veiled their silhouettes with a violet film, paler and more translucent than the most diaphanous gauze that might have caught in their branches.
gloss: Of a fine, almost transparent, texture; gossamer; light and insubstantial.
pos: adj
examples: 1951, Robert Frost, Unpublished preface to a collection, 2007, Mark Richardson (editor), The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, page 169,
The most diaphanous wings carry a burden of pollen from flower to flower.
1963, Hermann Weyl, quoted in 1985, Floyd Merrell, Deconstruction Reframed, page 67,
What is amazing is that "a concept that is created by mind itself, the sequence of integers, the simplest and most diaphanous thing for the constructive mind, assumes a similar aspect of obscurity and deficiency when viewed from the axiomatic angle" (Weyl, 1963, 220).
gloss: Isorefractive, having an identical refractive index.
pos: adj
Related words: diaphanously
diaphanousness
Derived words: adiaphanous
semidiaphanous
undiaphanous
Translations:
fructify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French fructefier.
Inflected forms:
form: fructifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fructifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fructified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fructified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Atop the [Palmito] tree is a pith, in taſte better then Cabbage; and eating it takes avvay the future benefit of grovvth or fructifying, theſe and the Date-tree thriue not, except the male and female be vnited, and haue copulation: the ſhe is only fruitfull.
Then one evening early in November Beedel rang Mr Carrados up. The blind man happened to take the call himself, and at the first words he knew that the dull, patient shadowing of weeks was about to fructify.
It is good to detect hints of a more aggressive attitude from the B.T.C. in face of constant reminders of accumulated deficits and niggling for economies before modernisation schemes have had a chance fully to fructify […].
gloss: To make productive or fruitful.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When fruit trees are to be planted it is good practice to plant alternate rows of different varieties of the same fruit, because the pollen of one variety is often wanted to fructify or fertilise the flowers of another.
He slew the Bull (symbol of the gross Earth which the sunlight fructifies).
Derived words: unfructified
unfructifying
Translations:
mien
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French mine (“appearance”) (whence also Danish mine and German Miene), perhaps from Breton min (“face of an animal”), or from Latin minio (“to redden”).
Inflected forms:
form: miens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Gentlest Guardians marked serene / His early hope, his liberal mien; […]
Beauty, like all divine gifts, is everywhere to be seen by the eye of the faithful admirer of nature; and, like all spirits, she is scarcely to be described by words. Her countenance and mien, her path, her hue and carriage, often surpass expression, and soothe the enthusiast into reverie and silence.
Jenny's coming o'er the green, / Fairer form was never seen, / Winning is her gentle mien; / Why do I love her so?
[T]aking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.
Although still young at heart and head, he looks more and more like his old friend Archimedes, increasingly bearded and increasingly grey, with an otherworldly mien – a look that should earn him a spot in the online quiz featuring portraits of frumpy old men under the rubric “Prof or Hobo?”
gloss: A specific facial expression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It’s hard to say which is worse: the press-on smiles favored by many a ballet dancer, or the stony “I’m going to pretend this isn’t happening to me” miens often found in contemporary troupes like White Road.
Derived words: miened
Translations:
delirious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From delirium + -ous; see also Latin delirus (“silly, doting, crazy”).
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more delirious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most delirious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being in the state of delirium.
pos: adj
examples: ⁠Or has the shock, so harshly given,
[…] made me that delirious man
⁠Whose fancy fuses old and new,
⁠And flashes into false and true,
And mingles all without a plan?
[…]the angelic form of a creature whose very existence was a gigantic balm of Gilead to the lacerated body of our hero, and, in a half delirious state of mind, he felt like leaping mountains to raise prostrate female forms, and to become blessed with hymeneal joys of the most glorious character; but, his imagination soon forsook him, and a raging fever, accompanied by the most violent deadly delirium, ensued, which lasted a fortnight.
gloss: Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.
pos: adj
examples: delirious with joy
Derived words: deliriously
deliriousness
nondelirious
semidelirious
undelirious
Translations:
barnet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Rhyming slang, from Barnet Fair, an annual horse and pleasure fair in Barnet, North London.
Inflected forms:
form: barnets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: hair (on one's head)
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
slang
examples: Boris [Johnson], it seems, is taking it in this spirit, joshing beneath his ever-redeeming barnet that Labour's opposition to military action in Syria is a fey stance that he, as GQ politician of the year, would never be guilty of.
Rather than banging on about my barnet, I’d ask friends about theirs.
Translations:
criminologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English criminal
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English criminology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English criminologist
From criminology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: criminologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who practices criminology.
pos: noun
examples: I have the strongest suspicion that the whole incident is a ridiculous mare's nest, bred in the fantastic imagination of an enthusiastic criminologist.
Not according to professor James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston who has been studying mass murder for the past three decades.
When he finished his stint in Brooklyn, Weisburd decided to team up with Larry Sherman, another young criminologist.
Derived from the Latin words "scelero" — which means crime or wickedness — and "phobos" meaning fear — scelerophobia is coined by both criminologists and psychologists as the fear of burglars, according to Ayla Faisal, a clinical psychologist and a PhD scholar at the Institute of Clinical Psychology at the University of Karachi.
Translations:
endocrinologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endocrinology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English endocrinologist
From endocrinology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: endocrinologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is skilled at, or practices, endocrinology.
pos: noun
examples: Some endocrinologists argue that our core understanding of T, as a fundamentally male sex hormone, is inherently flawed.
They standardize the terminology that professionals should use with patients and reaffirms the role that an endocrinologist should play in the patient’s broader individualized care.
Translations:
estado
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish estado (“Spanish fathom, state, status”), from Latin stātus (“standing, state, status”). Doublet of state, status, estate, and stade.
Inflected forms:
form: estados
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 1.67 m.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations: