yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
canopied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English canopy
English -ed
English canopied
From canopy + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: covered overhead with (or as if with) a canopy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1854, Edward Lewes Cutts, An Essay on Church Furniture and Decoration, London: John Crockford, “Wood-Work,” pp. 32-3,
In the seal of Edward III. and Richard II. the king is seated in a niche, which is canopied and pinnacled in the usual style of niches in architectural work.
He slept there from time to time, in the fantasy of the canopied bed, with its countless pillows.
Translations:
cantonal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English canton
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English cantonal
From canton + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The cantonal governments are all republics, more or less democratic.
Translations:
canvasback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From canvas + back.
Compound parts: canvas
back
Inflected forms:
form: canvasbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, popular as a game bird.
pos: noun
examples: 1857 The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster
Yesterday, I received a great present from Mr. Webster, from Washington; a large basket of canvasback ducks and a large turkey.
The native State of Patrick Henry Hanway was a moss-grown member of the republic and had been one of the original thirteen. It possessed with other impedimenta a moss-grown aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless tow in summer, clung to the duello, and talked of days of greatness which had been before the war.
Translations:
capillarity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French capillarité.
Inflected forms:
form: capillarities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The interaction between the surfaces of a solid and liquid in contact that distorts the normal geometry of the liquid surface; especially the rise or fall of a liquid in a fine tube.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hence the allowance to be made for diminution of the height of a mercurial column, owing to capillarity, is determined by two considerations — the diameter of the tube and versed sine of the corresponding meniscus.
Translations:
capital-intensive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more capital-intensive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most capital-intensive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: capital intensive
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Needing a relatively large expenditure on capital, especially when compared to that spent on labour.
pos: adj
examples: Petroleum is the most productive and capital-intensive industry while apparel is the least productive and least capital intensive.
Antonyms: labor-intensive
work-intensive
Translations:
capitalistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From capitalist + -ic, probably after German kapitalistisch. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-.
Base: capitalist
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more capitalistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most capitalistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to capitalism or to capitalists.
pos: adj
examples: This gloomy view of the capitalistic production system envisioned ceaseless warfare among the major powers.
In other words, the workers will overthrow the capitalistic class and establish a so-called dictatorship of the proletariat, which will finally become a classless society.
gloss: Organised on a capitalist basis.
pos: adj
Synonyms: capitalist
Antonyms: anticapitalist
anti-capitalist
anti-capitalistic
anticapitalistic
noncapitalist
non-capitalist
noncapitalistic
non-capitalistic
Socialist
socialist
socialistic
Derived words: anarcho-capitalistic
anticapitalistic
capitalistical
capitalistically
neocapitalistic
noncapitalistic
precapitalistic
protocapitalistic
technocapitalistic
uncapitalistic
Translations:
capriciousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English capricious
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English capriciousness
From capricious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being capricious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: To employ always the same witnesses, he would excite speculation, and expose himself to the imputation of fickleness or capriciousness.
Translations:
capsular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English capsule
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -ārisbor.
English -ar
English capsular
From capsule + -ar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a capsule.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Four muscles are destined to move the os humeri, and to strengthen the capsular ligament.
Researchers are pursuing vaccines made of capsular polysaccharide types 5 and 8, […]
Translations:
captaincy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From captain + -cy. Piecewise doublet of chieftaincy.
Base: captain
Affixes: -cy
Inflected forms:
form: captaincies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rank or status of a captain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The jurisdiction of a captain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An administrative division of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: He obtains a captaincy in the Catalonian army
The territory bathed by this river belongs to the captaincy of Benito Maciel the father.
Derived words: cocaptaincy
donatary captaincy
subcaptaincy
Translations:
captivation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English captivate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English captivation
From captivate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: captivations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of captivating or the state of being captivated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But the test of an oration is not only its immediate effect; there are tricks of elocution, a jugglery of manner, and even a personal captivation that so win the senses as to bewilder the judgment.
Translations:
polypoid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English polyp
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English polypoid
From polyp + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: more polypoid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polypoid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a polyp.
pos: adj
gloss: Marked by the presence of lesions suggesting polyps.
pos: adj
Derived words: polypoidal
nonpolypoid
Translations:
reductive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
economics
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French réductif, from Late Latin reductivus, from the participle stem of Latin reducere (“to reduce”).
Inflected forms:
form: more reductive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reductive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something.
pos: adj
gloss: That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form.
pos: adj
examples: On the relative reductive powers of different classes of American coals, as demonstrated by the experiments with oxide of lead.
It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
gloss: That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
historical
examples: But then beside the primary and direct sense of the text, the ancients commonly supposed that there was a reductive or anagogical meaning, in which it might be taken.
gloss: That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist.
pos: adj
Antonyms: oxidative
Derived words: bioreductive
cytoreductive
nonreductive
reductive animation
reductive dechlorination
reductive grammar
reductive group
reductively
reductiveness
reductivism
reductivist
unreductive
Translations:
anorthosite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: anorthosites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A phaneritic, intrusive igneous rock characterized by a predominance of plagioclase feldspar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The second, or Labrador series is characterized, as already remarked, by the predominance of great beds of anorthosite, composed chiefly of triclinic feldspars […]
Translations:
shockproof
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shock
English -proof
English shockproof
From shock + -proof.
Inflected forms:
form: more shockproof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shockproof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shockproofs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shockproofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shockproofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shockproofed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Made sturdily enough to withstand knocks and shocks without being damaged.
pos: adj
examples: My shockproof watch stood up to everything it reasonably could be expected to and kept ticking; but dropping it down an elevator shaft is asking too much.
gloss: Protected from imparting electric shocks.
pos: adj
gloss: To protect from imparting electric shocks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
shivery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shiver
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English shivery
From shiver + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: shiverier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shiveriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Given to shivering; tending to shiver.
pos: adj
examples: The cold night made me all shivery.
Within are the ferret hutches, warm and dry; for the ferret is a shivery creature, and likes nothing so well as to nozzle down in a coat-pocket with a little hay.
gloss: Easily broken; brittle, flaky.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
Derived words: shiveriness
Translations:
shoddily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shoddy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English shoddily
From shoddy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more shoddily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most shoddily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a shoddy manner; lacking quality and done poorly, usually in a cheap and low quality way.
pos: adv
Translations:
spin-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spin offdeverb.
English spin-off
Deverbal from spin off.
Inflected forms:
form: spin-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spinoff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An offshoot.
pos: noun
examples: We are about to broach the fraught saga of the Circle Line, but there is another Metropolitan spin-off that comes first, one that has always appealed to me by the baleful beauty of its name: the City Widened Lines or 'The Widened Lines' for short.
gloss: An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off.
pos: noun
examples: Space research often provides a spin-off for everyday technology.
gloss: A by-product.
pos: noun
gloss: A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same setting, often in a different aspect.
pos: noun
examples: "Frasier" was a spin-off from the sitcom "Cheers".
The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates.
gloss: The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
pos: noun
Synonyms: derivate
descendant
Related words: spindown
spinout
spin-up
spinup
carveout
subseries
tie-in
Derived words: spinquel
Translations:
benzocaine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic لُبَان (lubān)
Proto-Indo-European *yew-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *yéwos
Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas
Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.?
Proto-Austronesian *zawa
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawabor.?
Old Javanese jawa
Old Javanese -i
Old Javanese Jawi
Javanese ꦗꦮꦶ (jawi)der.
Arabic جَاوَة (jāwa)
Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)
Arabic جَاوِيّ (jāwiyy)
Arabic لُبَان جَاوِيّ (lubān jāwiyy)bor.
Catalan benjuíder.
Middle French benjoinder.
English benzoin
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English benzoic
English -ate
English benzo(ate)
German Kokain
German -kainbor.
English -caine
English benzocaine
From benzo(ate) + -caine (“local anesthetic”).
Inflected forms:
form: benzocaines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A local anesthetic commonly used as a topical pain reliever.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
circle-A
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The symbol is an acronym of the slogan "Anarchy is order", coined by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A symbol consiting of an overstruck A surrounded by a circle, representing anarchism.
pos: noun
Translations:
trapezius
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Unknown but likely derived from Ancient Greek τράπεζα (trápeza).
Inflected forms:
form: trapezii
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trapeziuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large vertebrate skeletal muscle divided into an ascending, descending, and transverse portion, attaching the neck and central spine to the outer extremity of the scapula; it functions in scapular elevation, adduction, and depression.
pos: noun
examples: The trapezius muscle resembles a trapezium (trapezoid in American English), or diamond-shaped quadrilateral. The word "spinotrapezius" refers to the human trapezius, although it is not commonly used in modern texts. In other mammals, it refers to a portion of the analogous muscle.
Translations:
serialization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English serial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English serialize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English serialization
From serialize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: serializations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: serialisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process or action of converting something in a serial or into serial form.
pos: noun
gloss: The process of serializing.
pos: noun
Synonyms: deflating
marshalling
Antonyms: deserialization
Derived words: reserialization
Translations:
silty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English silt
English -y
English silty
From silt + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: siltier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: siltiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a noticeable amount of silt.
pos: adj
examples: The silty river needed its channel dredged periodically to remain navigable.
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of silt.
pos: adj
Derived words: siltily
siltiness
unsilty
Translations:
sinuosity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sinuous
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English sinuosity
From sinuous + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: sinuosities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being sinuous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meander is a Riuer in Lycia, a Prouince of Natolia, or Aſia minor famous for the ſinuoſitie and often turning thereof, […]
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
gloss: That which is sinuous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tretinoin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English tr(ans)-
English retino(ic acid)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English tretinoin
From tr(ans)- + retino(ic acid) + -in.
Inflected forms:
form: tretinoins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The all-trans isomer of retinoic acid that is applied to the skin to treat severe acne and reduce facial wrinkles, roughness, and pigmented spots.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
intersubjective
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English subjective
English intersubjective
From inter- + subjective.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Involving or occurring between separate conscious minds.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The search for certainty about the exact nature of colonial social arrangements — fascinating and important though it may be — is in many ways beyond the scope of my project, which is more concerned with the intersubjective processes of boundary making and marking than it is with objectifying social relations in a sociohistorical manner.
gloss: Accessible to or capable of being established for two or more subjects.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: intersubjectively
intersubjectiveness
intersubjectivity
Translations:
plethysmography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The diagnostic use of a plethysmograph.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
plethysmograph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Late 19th century: from Ancient Greek πληθυσμός (plēthusmós, “enlargement”) + -graph.
Affixes: -graph
Inflected forms:
form: plethysmographs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instrument for measuring changes in volume within an organ or whole body (usually via fluctuations in the amount of fluid it contains).
pos: noun
Translations:
small-bore
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more small-bore
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most small-bore
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a small caliber.
pos: adj
gloss: insignificant or trivial.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
Translations:
pruinose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Latin pruīnōsus, from pruīna.
Inflected forms:
form: more pruinose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pruinose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a very fine whitish powder (bloom) on a surface.
pos: adj
gloss: Covered with a very fine whitish layer of wax particles.
pos: adj
Antonyms: epruinose
Related words: pruina
Derived words: pruinosed
pruinosely
pruinosity
subpruinose
Translations:
mortifying
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more mortifying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mortifying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mortifyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing.
pos: adj
gloss: mortification; abstinence
pos: noun
examples: mortifyings of the flesh
Translations:
paradoxical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English paradox
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English paradoxical
From paradox + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more paradoxical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most paradoxical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having self-contradictory properties.
pos: adj
examples: It is the ambiguity of language only which can make this proposition appear either doubtful or paradoxical. When properly explained and understood, it is almost self-evident.
It sounds paradoxical, but I am inclined to think that the weakness and insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man.
By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
It was tightly fitted with a cap of the same substance, and bore engraved figurings of an evidently decorative and possibly symbolic nature - conventional designs which seemed to follow a peculiarly alien, paradoxical, and doubtfully describable system of geometry.
The new civilizationism is a paradoxical combination of “identitarian” Christianity, secularism, philo-Semitism, Islamophobia, and even some elements of liberalism such as support for gender equality and gay rights.
Antonyms: self-consistent
self-evident
Translations:
payslip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pay + slip.
Compound parts: pay
slip
Inflected forms:
form: payslips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pay slip
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small document, included with an employee's wage or salary, giving details of money earned and tax and insurance paid.
pos: noun
Translations:
preform
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English form
English preform
From pre- + form.
Inflected forms:
form: preforms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pre-form
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: preforms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: preforming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: preformed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: preformed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pre-form
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
pos: noun
gloss: The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
pos: noun
gloss: A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.
pos: noun
examples: Trask notes that Bq. gorosti could have had *goloztri as a pre-form, in which case the presence of -r- in the Sardinian forms might be original.
gloss: To shape something before some other operation.
pos: verb
Translations:
deflagration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin dēflagrātiō, from dēflagrāre.
Inflected forms:
form: deflagrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of deflagrating; an intense fire; a conflagration or explosion. Specifically, combustion that spreads subsonically via thermal conduction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If, for example, the mixture of oxygen and hydrogen was twenty volumes, and three volumes of oxygen remained after the deflagration, the mixture consisted of six volumes of hydrogen and six volumes of oxygen.
Black powder . . . It produces a relatively fast burn or deflagration rather than a detonation and is classified as "low explosive".
Antonyms: detonation
Translations:
deflector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deflect
English -or
English deflector
From deflect + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: deflectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which deflects something else, especially a stream of fluid or particles.
pos: noun
examples: 1992 Nasa Patents Available for Licensing from the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
The deflector assembly contains a plurality of vanes which change the direction of the solar energy to the vertical, while constantly keeping the same side of the deflector facing the sun.
gloss: A diaphragm in a lamp, stove, etc. by which the flame and gases are brought together to improve combustion.
pos: noun
gloss: A force field; an invisible barrier used as a protective shield.
pos: noun
examples: The blasters are those beams of ravening destruction which take care of recalcitrant meteorites in a spaceship's course when the deflectors can't handle them.
Deflectors say there's something there, sensors say there isn't. Density negative. Radiation negative. Energy negative.
PICARD: If the Romulans have returned to this sector we should know about that. Mister Worf, any further activity?
WORF: Negative, sir.
PICARD: Slow to half impulse.
LAFORGE: Going to one half impulse. ... Now entering quadrant nine-zero-seven, mark three.
PICARD: Shields and deflectors up. Go to Yellow Alert.
Derived words: smoke deflector
wind deflector
Translations:
deflowering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: deflowerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The breaking of the hymen of a virgin.
pos: noun
examples: Some adulterers are impelled by the cupidity of deflowering virgins, and thence also of deflowering young girls in their harmleſs age: […]
2005 Muhammad Khalid Masud et al - Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and Their Judgements
If a midwife testifies that the wound is old, then deflowering may have occurred prior to the husband's initial penetration of his wife.
Translations:
distorting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more distorting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most distorting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That distorts.
pos: adj
examples: It's like looking in a distorting mirror at the fair.
However, the procedure has been applied only to those below the threshold and who might move up, and not to those just above, who might move down. This has had a very distorting effect on the distributions.
This is somewhat counter-intuitive, and indeed goes against the double-dividend argument that in economies with very distorting tax systems we should raise pollution taxes and lower other taxes.
Translations:
rassemblement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: French
Inflected forms:
form: rassemblements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The bringing together of both feet, with the body upright, in order to outreach an opponent.
pos: noun
Translations:
dilly
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dill
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English dilly
From dill + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more dilly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dilly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dillies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Redolent of dill (the herb).
pos: adj
gloss: Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual.
pos: noun
examples: You're the most impossible man I ever met. And I've met some dillies.
Seriously, I mean it: From Russia, With Love is a real wowser, a lulu, a dilly and a smasheroo.
Translations:
Sheetrock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sheet + rock.
Compound parts: sheet
rock
Inflected forms:
form: Sheetrocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sheetrocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Sheetrocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Sheetrocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Sheetrocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Drywall; plasterboard; a building material comprising a layer of gypsum plaster sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any of the various thicknesses and grades of such material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A wall made of this.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To install and finish Sheetrock.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
historiographical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English historio-
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor.
French -graphieder.
English -graphy
English historiography
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English historiographical
From historiography + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more historiographical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most historiographical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Related to historiography
pos: adj
Translations:
Proustian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French Proust + -ian.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Proustian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Proustian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or reminiscent of Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist, or his works.
pos: adj
examples: The character played by French female lead Lea Seydoux is even called Madeleine Swann, a name whose Proustian double resonance can only be deliberate.
gloss: Derived from personal memory, as it often happens in the works of Proust (for example, in the experience of the madeleine).
pos: adj
examples: D'Costa's poems so far published also reverberate with an awareness of the past, and a gently Proustian pleasure, as in the elegiac “In Memorandum”.
Derived words: Proustian moment
Translations:
steeplejack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English steeple
English jack
English steeplejack
From steeple + jack.
Inflected forms:
form: steeplejacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person whose job involves climbing tall structures like steeples in order to make repairs.
pos: noun
examples: Whether it's a rigger or steeple jack or window washer or any person who has strong nerves and a skilled body.
Translations:
steelworks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From steel + works.
Compound parts: steel
works
Inflected forms:
form: steelworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place where steel is manufactured and/or shaped.
pos: noun
Translations:
steelworker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From steel + worker.
Compound parts: steel
worker
Inflected forms:
form: steelworkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: steel-worker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: steel worker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who works in a steel mill.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: steelman
The steelworkers went on strike that year, and so did the autoworkers.
The steelworkers union has been joined by members from the teachers, hotel, and postal workers unions in getting out the vote for Lamb. […] Denny Cregut is a former steelworker who now works for the United Steelworkers Union.
gloss: A person employed to build steel structures.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: The steelworkers and electricians went on strike, halting construction.
Related words: blacksmith
millwright
Translations:
ironworker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From iron + worker.
Compound parts: iron
worker
Inflected forms:
form: ironworkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A skilled construction worker who assembles the metal frame of buildings, especially large commercial ones such as warehouses and skyscrapers.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: erector
Many people believe that growth will only continue. “We’re gonna need stadiums full of electricians, heavy equipment operators, ironworkers, HVAC technicians,” Dwarkesh Patel and Romeo Dean, AI-industry analysts, wrote recently.
gloss: A person employed to manufacture and shape iron or to do other (related) labor within an ironworks.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Near-synonym: roughneck
Related words: ironfounder
ironmonger
ironware
wrought iron
Translations:
educated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English educate
English -ed
English educated
From educate + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more educated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most educated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having attained a level of higher education, such as a college degree.
pos: adj
gloss: Based on relevant information.
pos: adj
examples: an educated guess
No matter what strategies you employ as you dissect each multiple-choice question and arrive at an educated answer, remember that you are looking for the best response, not only a correct one.
gloss: Knowledgeable.
pos: adj
examples: She cast an educated eye over the antiques.
an educated opinion
Antonyms: noneducated
uneducated
Derived words: educated beyond one's intelligence
educated guess
educated incapacity
educatedness
hypereducated
ineducated
my very educated mother just served us nachos
my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas
my very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins
my very educated mother just served us noodles
noneducated
overeducated
over-educated
self-educated
semieducated
under-educated
undereducated
uneducated
well-educated
Translations:
split-second
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From split (adjective) + second (noun), from split second(s) hands: see sense 1.
Compound parts: split
second
Inflected forms:
form: split-seconds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: split second
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stopwatch with two second hands, each of which may be stopped separately to time the intervals of a race by a sportsperson, or to time more than one sportsperson.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
gloss: A fraction of a second; hence (figurative, also attributive) a very short time period; an instant, a moment.
pos: noun
examples: It's very dangerous, though, when a man thinks for a split second that he understands death.
I was in the gutter, sitting my bike, willing them to die, […] or otherwise obliterated because this demanded split-second timing.
It appears [Simon] Cowell has been taking notes from South Korea, as his next talent show Walk The Line, coming later this year, has also been game-ified: it will see singers perform, then have to make the split-second decision of whether to take a cash prize or risk advancing in the competition instead.
Related words: nick of time
Translations:
pinnace
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle French pinasse, from Spanish pinaza, from pino (“pine”) + -aza.
Inflected forms:
form: pinnaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A light boat, traditionally propelled by sails, but sometimes a rowboat, and usually serving to carry messages among the larger ships of a fleet.
pos: noun
examples: I cast my eyes to the ship, and there she rode, within little more than half a mile of the shore; for they had weighed her anchor as soon as they were masters of her, and, the weather being fair, had brought her to an anchor just against the mouth of the little creek; and the tide being up, the captain had brought the pinnace in ...
Translations:
preprocessor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English processor
English preprocessor
From pre- + processor.
Inflected forms:
form: preprocessors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program
pos: noun
Translations:
proteomic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to proteomics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In spite of the methodological, computational, and ethical obstacles faced in biomolecular analyses, of which there are many, genetic, genomic, and proteomic studies have captured the presence of pathogenic bacteria […]
Translations:
unsalted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English salted
English unsalted
From un- + salted.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: To which salt has not been added.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The antipasto often features fettunta—thin slices of Tuscan bread toasted and salted (the bread itself is unsalted) and perhaps rubbed with garlic (you may prefer to rub it on for yourself, or not if you're due to discuss Uganda or have an interview with Silvio Berlusconi)
gloss: Without a cryptographic salt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: salted
Translations:
capelet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cape + -let. Piecewise doublet of caplet.
Base: cape
Affixes: -let
Inflected forms:
form: capelets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small cape worn over the shoulders by women.
pos: noun
Translations:
alleging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: allegings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: allegation
pos: noun
examples: The archbishop said to me, All these allegings that thou bringest forth, are nothing else but proud presumptuousness.
Translations:
nanophotonics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor.
Latin nānusbor.
English nano-
English photonics
English nanophotonics
From nano- + photonics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The science that studies the behaviour of light, and of optical devices, on a nanometre scale.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
distinctness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English distinct
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English distinctness
From distinct + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: distinctnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property or degree of being distinct.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In New York a Bohemian criminal is such a rarity that the case of two firebugs of several years ago is remembered with damaging distinctness.
Translations:
confusedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From confused + -ly.
Base: confused
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more confusedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most confusedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: confusedlie
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a confused manner.
pos: adv
examples: He wanted Pikes to ſet before his Archers: / Inſtead whereof, ſharpe Stakes pluckt out of Hedges / They pitched in the ground confuſedly, / To keepe the Horſemen off, from breaking in.
Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson] they say 's turned Epigrammatist, / Soe think not I, believe it they that list. / Peruse his booke, thou shalt not find a dram / Of witt befitting a true Epigram. / Perhaps some scraps of play-bookes thou maist see, / Collected heer & there confusedlie, / Which piece his broken stuffe; if thou but note, / Iust like soe many patches on a cote.
Now ye have the Kingis letter and this ſupplicatioun both coppeit; read and conſidder both the ane and the uther, with the Counſallis anſuer ſent to the ſaid ſupplicatioun, quhilk is ſo ſtrangelie and confuſedlie ſet down that I can not wnderſtand the ſamen perfectlie weill.
After the prayer, Mr. Byfield the ſcribe, reads the propoſition and the Scriptures, whereupon the Aſſemblie debates in a moſt grave and orderlie way. No man is called up to ſpeak; bot who ſtands up of his own accord, he ſpeaks ſo long as he will without interruption. If two or three ſtand up at once, then the divines confuſedlie calls on his name whom they deſyre to hear firſt: On whom the loudeſt and manieſt voices calls, he ſpeaks.
A Svveet diſorder in the dreſſe / Kindles in cloathes a vvantonneſſe: / […] / A Cuffe neglectfull, and thereby / Ribbands to flovv confuſedly: / […] / Do more bevvitch me, than vvhen Art / Is too preciſe in every part.
The womb of Nature, and perhaps her Grave, / Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, / But all theſe in their pregnant cauſes mixt / Confus’dly, and which thus muſt ever fight, [...]
There were women weeping around—I hung over it, and joined my sad tears to theirs—all this time no distinct idea presented itself to my mind; but my thoughts rambled to various subjects, reflecting confusedly on my misfortunes, and their cause.
She heard confusedly the busy, indifferent voices around her, and wished her mind could flow into that easy, babbling current.
And though I have turned the talk by hook or crook / Until her praise should be the uppermost theme, / A woman spoke of some new tale she had read, / A man confusedly in a half dream / As though some other name ran in his head.
Translations:
overload
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English load
English overload
From over- + load.
Inflected forms:
form: overloads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overloading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overloaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overloaded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: overloads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To load excessively.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide too much power to a circuit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fail due to excessive load.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: An excessive load.
pos: noun
examples: If this last verbal overload has proven anything, it is that Rocko's Modern Life played better than it reads.
gloss: The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.
pos: noun
gloss: An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.
pos: noun
examples: We did haul overloads sometimes[.]
gloss: An overloaded version of a function.
pos: noun
examples: Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.
Related words: overloading
Derived words: overloadability
overloadable
overloader
information overload
progressive overload
sensory overload
Translations:
tautomer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From taut- + -o- + -mer.
Base: taut
Affixes: -o-
Inflected forms:
form: tautomers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the multiple forms of a tautomeric compound.
pos: noun
Translations:
oligomeric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From oligomer + -ic.
Compound parts: oligomer
-ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or being an oligomer.
pos: adj
Translations:
telecommunication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French télécommunication. Equivalent to tele- + communication.
Base: communication
Affixes: tele-
Inflected forms:
form: telecommunications
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: telecommunications
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The science and technology of the communication of messages over a distance using electric, electronic or electromagnetic impulses.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A message so transmitted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Systems used in transmitting such signals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: Oct. 1 is “U-Day,” when Myanmar officially will adopt the new system. From then on, all electronic communication from government offices, telecommunications companies, banks and media must be in Unicode, by law.
A part of the nervousness at Chelsea involves whether any more sponsors will follow the telecommunications and internet service provider Three in withdrawing support, at least temporarily.
Synonyms: telecom
telecoms
Derived words: radiotelecommunication
telecommunicational
telecommunications tower
Translations:
chemotactic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English -tactic
English chemotactic
From chemo- + -tactic.
Inflected forms:
form: chemiotactic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or exhibiting chemotaxis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Altogether, the present data show that the Toxoplasma-induced hypermigratory phenotype in a 3D matrix is consistent with integrin-independent amoeboid DC migration with maintained responsiveness to chemotactic and chemokinetic cues.
Translations:
meaningfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English meaningful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English meaningfully
From meaningful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more meaningfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most meaningfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a meaningful or significant manner.
pos: adv
examples: Because of this, SSDs are one of the first technologies to meaningfully demonstrate just what synesthesia – or at least one kind of it – might feel like to those who have never had it.
Translations: