yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
jocund
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French jocond, from Latin iūcundus (“pleasant, agreeable”). Doublet of jucund.
Inflected forms:
form: more jocund
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jocund
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
pos: adj
examples: Nights candles are burnt out, and iocond Day / Stands tiptoes on the myſtie mountaine tops.
Thou mak'ſt me merry: I am full of pleaſure, / Let vs be iocond. Will you troule the Catch / You taught me but whileare?
There was once a widdow faire, young, free, rich, and withall very pleaſant and iocund, that fell in loue with a certaine round and well-ſet ſeruant of a Colledge: […]
First in his train is jocund Health,
Content, who o'er her distaff sings,
And from the plough that honest Wealth
Which scorns the tear-bought robe of kings.—
I was feeling blithe, almost jocund.
Kunana, where we enjoyed a peace and Prosperity that were unequalled anywhere; where our cattle waxed fat along the green valleys and bred like so many wild animals; where our flocks with the jocund lambs around their dams would frolic, while the she-goats fed from two to three kids each, till we were forced to increase and extend our outposts to give them more and still more space to roam about; Kunana, where maidens sang and danced in the moonlight and made life merry with their mirth; Kunana, our former home, but now, one of the Matebele outposts.
Translations:
superjumbo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English jumbo
English superjumbo
From super- + jumbo.
Inflected forms:
form: superjumbos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The largest passenger airliner, the Airbus A380.
pos: noun
Translations:
fructus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin frūctus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In Ancient Roman law, any product originating either from a natural source (such as fruits grown or animals bred) or from legal transactions (e.g. interest on a loan).
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
Translations:
Nordic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
skiing
sports
ufology
Etymology: From French nordique, from nord (“north”).
Inflected forms:
form: more Nordic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Nordic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nordic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Nordics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nordic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Nordic countries.
pos: adj
examples: The aim of the bill is to introduce temporary measures which curb migrants from entering the Nordic nation, in response to what Helsinki sees as “hybrid warfare” from Russia.
gloss: Of or relating to the light colouring and tall stature of Nordic peoples.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the family of North Germanic languages.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to cross-country skiing or ski jumping.
pos: adj
gloss: A person of Nordic descent or having features typical of Nordic people.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a race of extraterrestrials similar in appearance to Nordic humans.
pos: noun
examples: Coordinate term: Pleiadean
Called “Nordics,” the aliens are human-like in appearance, of average height, and often have long, flowing hair. Contactees are typically struck by the beauty of the Nordics, as was Howard Menger (1959): “She seemed to radiate and glow,” Menger explains,
But the third most common alien is called a Nordic, or humanoid.
Known as Nordics, these extraterrestrials are said to have blond hair, blue eyes, and pale skin and are anywhere from 6 to 8 feet (183cm to 244cm) tall.
Translations:
zoospore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷyéh₃-w-os
Proto-Hellenic *ďōwós
Ancient Greek ζωός (zōós)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)
Ancient Greek ζώϊον (zṓïon)
Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōîon)der.
English zoo-
English spore
English zoospore
From zoo- + spore.
Inflected forms:
form: zoospores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motile asexual spore of some algae and fungi.
pos: noun
Translations:
setpoint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From set + point.
Compound parts: set
point
Inflected forms:
form: setpoints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The command signal or value which is fed into a controller to establish the target or desired position or state of the controlled device or process.
pos: noun
Translations:
G-string
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from girdle-string, attested from the 19th century, but uncertain.
Inflected forms:
form: G-strings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: G string
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A scanty covering for the genitalia, with a thin strip of fabric that passes between the buttocks.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of loincloth or breechcloth.
pos: noun
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:G-string.
Translations:
demi-vegetarian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Italic *meðjos
Latin medius
Latin dīmidius
Vulgar Latin *dimediusder.
Anglo-Norman demibor.
Middle English demi
English demi-
Middle English vegetable
English vegetable
English -arian
English vegetarian
English demi-vegetarian
From demi- + vegetarian.
Inflected forms:
form: demi-vegetarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who eats fish but not meat.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who eats seafood and poultry.
pos: noun
gloss: A demitarian; a person who makes conscious effort to reduce meat consumption largely for environmental reasons
pos: noun
Translations:
hypomethylation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó)
Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der.
English hypo-
English methylation
English hypomethylation
From hypo- + methylation.
Inflected forms:
form: hypomethylations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a decrease in the epigenetic methylation of cytosine and adenosine residues in DNA
pos: noun
Antonyms: hypermethylation
Translations:
attending
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English attend
English -ing
English attending
From attend + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: attendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Attendant, concomitant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Because so much of the character's self-loathing is manifested around his sexuality — his need to degrade the women with whom he identifies, the almost compulsive need to seduce a straight male actor, his malignant neglect of his lover — the casting of a woman in the part doubles, or even quadruples the attending implications and ironies.
gloss: A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: She's an attending in gastroenterology at Mass General.
All the new interns had heard of his operative speed, his finesse under the attending's glare, and his memorization of the current surgical literature.
All too often when taking a history, residents and attendings in a hurry will simply use the cut-and-paste function to save time and bypass asking potentially important questions that have been asked before.
Derived words: attendingly
nonattending
unattending
Translations:
unbleached
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English bleached
English unbleached
From un- + bleached.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not bleached.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: unbleached sheets
There are traditional dishes such as Mopani worms, mogodu or unbleached tripe; and umngqusho, which is braised beef shin with maize porridge, billed as former President Nelson Mandela's favourite dish.
Translations:
Doric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Δωρικός (Dōrikós, “related to Dorians”). The senses referring to dialects of Scottish are thought to have come from the Scots’ rusticness associated with the Athenians’ view of Dorians as uncivilised.
Inflected forms:
form: more Doric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Doric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Dorick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Dor.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to one of the Greek orders of architecture, distinguished by its simplicity and solidity.
pos: adj
examples: It is certainly my personal favourite, for it was by way of Hardwick’s great Doric arch that I first sampled the roar and clatter of London streets, the trip being a boyhood reward for achieving (unexpected) success in a school examination!
gloss: Of or pertaining to the dialect of Scots spoken in the northeast of Scotland, predominantly Morayshire and Aberdeen areas.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek dialect group once spoken in the north-west of Greece.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of Dorian; of or relating to the region of Doris in Asia Minor or the Dorians
pos: adj
gloss: Belonging to a certain mode of Ancient Greek music, the Dorian mode.
pos: adj
Related words: Dorian
Doris
Derived words: Dorically
Doric Greek
Doricism
Doric order
hyperdoric
hyper-Doric
hyperdoricism
hyper-Doricism
protodoric
proto-Doric
Translations:
monophasic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mender.
Proto-Hellenic *mónwos
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
English phase
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English phasic
English monophasic
From mono- + phasic.
Inflected forms:
form: more monophasic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most monophasic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of, related to or affected with monophasia
pos: adj
gloss: having a single phase
pos: adj
Related words: polyphasic
Derived words: pseudomonophasic
Translations:
seminary
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin sēminārium, from sēmen (“seed”). Compare seminar. In the ground sense, from Middle English semynair, semynary.
Inflected forms:
form: seminaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
pos: noun
gloss: A private residential school for girls.
pos: noun
examples: Three little maids who, all unwary,
 Come from a ladies' seminary
gloss: A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
pos: noun
tags: Mormonism
gloss: A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
pos: noun
examples: I shall first begin with the Seminary and Nursery, as what is the first Work to be taken care of where you have not the opportunity of buying Trees
[B]ut if you draw them [seedlings] only for the thinning of your Seminary, prick them into ſome empty Beds at one foot interval, leaving the reſt at two or three.
gloss: The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Seeing then there is indeed a twofold Seminary or stock in nature, from whence are deriv’d the issues of love and hatred distinctly flowing through the whole masse of created things, and that Gods doing ever is to bring the due likenesses and harmonies of his workes together, except when out of two contraries met to their own destruction, he moulds a third existence, and that it is error, or some evil Angel which either blindly or maliciously hath drawn together in two persons ill imbarkt in wedlock the sleeping discords and enmities of nature lull’d on purpose with some false bait, that they may wake to agony and strife, later then prevention could have wisht, if from the bent of just and honest intentions beginning what was begun, and so continuing, all that is equall, all that is fair and possible hath been tri’d, and no accommodation likely to succeed, what folly is it still to stand combating and battering against invincible causes and effects, with evill upon evill, till either the best of our dayes be linger’d out, or ended with some speeding sorrow.
the Seminary or Promptuary that furnisheth forth Matter for the Formation and Increment of Animal and Vegetable Bodies
gloss: Seminal state or polity.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The hand of God that first created the Earth, hath with variety disposed the principles of all things; wisely contriving them in their proper seminaries
gloss: A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
pos: noun
examples: I shall not need to instance in the effects which this bull produced; the treason of Watson and Cleark, two English seminaries, are sufficiently known
gloss: An academic seminar.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Of or relating to seed; seminal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: seminar
Derived words: proseminary
seminarian
seminarist
Translations:
hangout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hang + out, as a deverbal from hang out.
Compound parts: hang
out
Inflected forms:
form: hangouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place for hanging out; an informal meeting-place.
pos: noun
examples: Every Friday, Geoff and his group of friends all met at their favorite hangout to talk and have a good time.
My connection to gay men and lesbians in Cuba came about through the help of a straight man, Rafael, whom I'd met in old Havana. A day after I told him of my search, he came to me with names of three tea houses known to be gay/lesbian hang-outs. We went together and found a mix of gay and straight people.
gloss: A casual meeting for informal chat.
pos: noun
Related words: hang out
hang with
hang around
limited hangout
Translations:
hypermethylation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
English methylation
English hypermethylation
From hyper- + methylation.
Inflected forms:
form: hypermethylations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an increase in the epigenetic methylation of cytosine and adenosine residues in DNA.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: hypomethylation
Translations:
methylation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *médʰu
Proto-Hellenic *métʰu
Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu)
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
German -yl
German Methylbor.
English methyl
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 methylation
From methyl + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: methylations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The addition of a methyl group to a molecule.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The addition of a methyl group to cytosine and adenine residues in DNA that leads to the epigenetic modification of DNA and the reduction of gene expression and protein production.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: ethylation
methylate
Derived words: automethylation
biomethylation
demethylation
dimethylation
hemimethylation
hydromethylation
hypermethylation
hypomethylation
methylational
mismethylation
monomethylation
multimethylation
nonmethylation
overmethylation
permethylation
remethylation
transmethylation
undermethylation
unmethylation
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: metilació
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 甲基化
roman: jiǎjīhuà
lang: Finnish
word: metylaatio
lang: French
word: méthylation
lang: Georgian
word: მეთილირება
roman: metilireba
lang: German
word: Methylierung
lang: Hebrew
word: מתילציה
lang: Indonesian
word: metilasi
lang: Italian
word: metilazione
lang: Japanese
word: メチル化
roman: mechiruka
lang: Kazakh
word: метилдеу
roman: metildeu
lang: Korean
word: 메틸화
roman: metilhwa
lang: Malay
word: pemetilan
lang: Polish
word: metylacja
lang: Portuguese
word: metilação
lang: Russian
word: метилирование
roman: metilirovanije
lang: Spanish
word: metilación
lang: Urdu
word: میثائلیت
teste
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: So called from Latin teste, ablative of testis (“a witness”), because this was formerly the initial word in the clause.
Inflected forms:
form: testes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A witness.
pos: noun
gloss: The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; said of a writ, deed, etc.
pos: noun
Related words: testes
Translations:
pesky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from pesty. Compare similar alteration between nasty and nasky.
Inflected forms:
form: peskier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: peskiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Stay out of my yard, you pesky kids!
That pesky dog is barking again.
Again, 26 KxB can be answered by that pesky ...RxB†.
Translations:
doolally
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From doolally tap (“camp fever; (by extension) eccentricity; madness”), with doolally interpreted as an adjective. Doolally is derived from the Deolali transit camp, a former British army camp about 100 miles (160 kilometres) northeast of Bombay, India, used as a transit station for soldiers awaiting transport back to Britain; while tap (“Indian malarial fever”) is from Persian or Urdu تب (tab, “malarial fever”), ultimately from Sanskrit ताप (tāpa, “fever; heat; pain, torment”).
Inflected forms:
form: more doolally
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most doolally
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Eccentric; insane, mad.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
examples: "Will you write me an Essay on Corsets?" / "On what?" I asked incredulously—knowing that he had been a distinguished soldier, and suspecting that he had suddenly developed what the soldiers describe as "a touch of the doolally."
"When you've got any God's amount of brains," said Frobisher, "you can pretend to be doolally;[…]"
Doolally tap. It's the strain see – and it gets the doolally lads first.
They were all doolally of course, except Philomela.
[H]e took three sleeping-pills in the night, so he says, and he's all doped and doolally now. I need your help to move him.
"Now you're being silly. Promise you'll put me in a home when I get really doolally." / "If you're really doolally you won't know if I have or not." / "So promise."
The cat scrap at the bridal bash only made him more doolally.
But then, doolally as this enterprise clearly is, I've had the most pleasant day I can remember having in a long time.
Likewise, the menopause market is obsessed with muscle wastage, and the possibility that if women don't eat enough protein after the age of 40 their minds will go doolally and their bones will turn to dust.
gloss: Carried away by enjoyment, excitement, etc.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
broadly
slang
examples: You are there to entertain. Education is something we like doing. That's not actually the biggest thing on the night, when people are queuing to get in and paying their money. They want to go doolally to their favourite records.
'I've never had a pet before,' Darkus gazed happily at Baxter [a beetle]. 'Thank you.' / 'That's all right, lad.' Uncle Max threw his hands up in defeat. 'I can hardly say no, when I know Barty would say yes.' / Darkus looked up, surprised. 'He would?' / 'Of course! A handsome hexapod like this? He'd be doolally about it!'
Australia went doolally for the visit: the Queen [Elizabeth II] waved away flies in 57 towns over 58 days; inspected an endless row of sheeps' arses in Wagga; ate Australia-shaped sandwiches with Vegemite borders at a reception in Rockhampton; and said hello to a bedridden woman in Hobart who was trundled four miles for the meeting.
Translations:
phenomenal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)
Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor.
Late Latin phaenomenonder.
English phenomenon
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
▲
Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor.
French phénomène
▲
Old French -al
Middle French -al
French -al
French phénoménalbor.
English phenomenal
From phenomenon + -al, after French phénoménal.
Base: phenomenon
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more phenomenal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most phenomenal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: phænomenal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Very remarkable; highly extraordinary; amazing.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: phenomenal effort
phenomenal musician
phenomenal success
phenomenal victory
But he added: "In many places it is likely that battery-electric trains and partial electrification will be more cost-effective than full electrification," describing the costs of full electrification as "phenomenal" while battery costs fall.
gloss: Perceptible by the senses through immediate experience.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to the appearance of the world, as opposed to the ultimate nature of the world as it is in itself.
pos: adj
Derived words: epiphenomenal
extraphenomenal
hyperphenomenal
isophenomenal
macrophenomenal
metaphenomenal
microphenomenal
nonphenomenal
paraphenomenal
phenomenal consciousness
phenomenalism
phenomenalist
phenomenalistic
phenomenality
phenomenalize
phenomenally
phenomenalness
phenomenal world
protophenomenal
superphenomenal
symphenomenal
transphenomenal
unphenomenal
Translations:
contracting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: contractings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the contractings of his muscles
gloss: Work done on a contract basis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ve
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Russian вэ (vɛ)bor.
English ve
Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).
Inflected forms:
form: ves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
pos: noun
Translations:
eyebrow-raising
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: eyebrow-raisings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That causes surprise, wonder or disbelief.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Guardiola switched to a 5-5-0 formation in the 76th minute following the eyebrow-raising decision to haul off Haaland and send on defensive midfielder Nico Gonzalez - a tactical manoeuvre which could have come right out of the Jose Mourinho playbook.
gloss: An expression of surprise, wonder, or disbelief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
idiomatic
uncountable
gloss: An instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: countable
idiomatic
uncountable
Related words: hair-raising
Translations:
Eurocentric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Euro- + -centric.
Base: Euro
Inflected forms:
form: more Eurocentric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Eurocentric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: eurocentric
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Focused on Europe or the people and culture of Europe.
pos: adj
examples: The present curriculum / I put my fist in 'em / Eurocentric every last one of 'em / See right through the red, white, and blue disguise / With lecture I puncture the structure of lies / Installed in our minds and attempting to hold us back / We've got to take it back / Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears / One-sided stories for years and years and years
Typologies of African religious movements, the authors remind us, cannot feed Eurocentric dialogues and disputes.
Translations:
percolator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English percolate
English -or
English percolator
From percolate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: percolators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds.
pos: noun
examples: She heard the percolator bell ring.
gloss: A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
pos: noun
Derived words: perk
Translations:
enquiring
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: enquirings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inquiring
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more enquiring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enquiring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inquiring
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An instance of making an enquiry; an asking.
pos: noun
examples: We are thankful for what God has already wrought; for those thousands who now acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ; […] for the earnest enquirings after true religion which are found in some; […]
gloss: Curious, inquisitive or investigative.
pos: adj
Translations:
semi-deponent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó
Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-der.
Proto-Italic *sinō
Proto-Italic *pozinō
Old Latin *poznō
Latin pōnō
Latin dēpōnō
Latin dēpōnēnsder.
English deponent
English semi-deponent
From semi- + deponent.
Inflected forms:
form: semideponent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: semi-deponents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: semideponent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a verb whose present system is normal but whose perfect system is deponent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A verb of this kind.
pos: noun
Translations:
enervated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more enervated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enervated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Weakened, debilitated or deprived of strength or vitality.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: In Conte Chelsea have something different, a manager who inherited a messy, enervated squad fresh from the worst title defence in 25 years and threw a lightning bolt through pretty much the same group of players to create a fresh champion team.
gloss: Synonym of denervated.
pos: adj
tags: uncommon
Derived words: unenervated
Translations:
eyeless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English eyles, eieles, equivalent to eye + -less. Compare West Frisian eachleas (“eyeless”), Dutch oogloos (“eyeless”), German augenlos (“eyeless”), Swedish ögalös (“eyeless”), Icelandic augnalaus (“eyeless”).
Base: eye
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having no eyes (organs of sight).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Huge eyeless crabs roam the ocean floor around hydrothermal vents.
I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise. I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw; but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm.
gloss: Having no sight; blind.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having no eye: having no hole.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
uncommon
examples: eyeless needle
Derived words: eyelessly
eyelessly
eyelessness
eyelessness
Translations:
lang: Turkish
word: kör
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كور
roman: kör
endwise
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English end
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-s-ós
Proto-Germanic *wīsaz
Proto-Germanic *-wīsaz
Proto-West Germanic *-wīs
Old English -wīs
Middle English -wis
English -wise
English endwise
From end + -wise.
Inflected forms:
form: more endwise
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most endwise
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more endwise
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most endwise
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Upright, or standing on end.
pos: adv
gloss: With the end towards the front or towards the observer.
pos: adv
gloss: Towards the ends.
pos: adv
gloss: On-end; upright; pertaining or relating to the end.
pos: adj
examples: ... modes to the exclusion of either radial arms or any specific curve, my invention not referring to these modes, but to neutralising the endwise pressure on the axis, as more particularly stated hereinafter in my claim of invention.
But the same slender member in bending and not in endwise compression can stand an extreme fiber stress several ...
Synonyms: endways
lengthwise
sideways
sidewise
edgeways
Translations:
dongle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Unknown. Likely a descendant of dangle, reflecting that electronic accessories such as computer peripherals often are plugged in via a flexible cable (although wirelessness is also often relevant). Claims that the word comes from a man named "Don Gall" were made up by an advertisement. First usage 1980-1985.
Inflected forms:
form: dongles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any small device that plugs into an electronic device, typically a computer, and alters its functionality. Common examples include wireless modems, digital media players, software copy protect devices, and adapters.
pos: noun
examples: FreedomPop will offer three different flavors of broadband: a USB dongle that allows you to connect your computer to the internet, a WiFi hotspot device, and an iPhone case that allows you to override the phone's existing network and use it as a FreedomPop hotspot.
gloss: A hardware device used by a specific application for purposes of copy protection.
pos: noun
examples: Take the dongle, for example. It is the summit of copy protection, an explicit melding of software and hardware. Without the right hardware key—the dongle—plugged into the machine's parallel port, the software won't run.
Derived words: disability dongle
Donglegate
Translations:
training
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: trainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Action of the verb to train.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
gloss: The result of good social upbringing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The recording of multiple samples of a user's voice to aid pattern recognition.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: auditory integration training
autogenic training
basic training
borstal training
circuit training
conflict training
cross-training
cross training
cybertraining
ear training
e-training
field training officer
functional training
high-intensity interval training
high intensity training
home training
interval training
jump training
large group awareness training
large-group awareness training
personal training
physical training
posttraining
potty-training
potty training
pretraining
quenouille training
remote training collar
resistance training
self-training
spring training
strength training
teletraining
toilet training
trainasium
training area
training bib
training bra
training camp
training collar
training complex
training exercise
training ground
training pants
training school
training session
training ship
training shoe
training wall
training wheel
training wheels
voice training
weight training
Translations:
tranquillity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tranquil + -ity, from Middle English tranquillite, from Old French tranquillite, tranquilité, from Latin tranquillitas.
Base: tranquil
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: tranquillities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tranquility
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being tranquil; peacefulness, the absence of disturbance or stress; serenity; calm.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity.
Translations:
arms
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English armes, from Old French armes, from Latin arma (“weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo-, a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to fit together”), hence ultimately cognate with etymology 2.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Weaponry, weapons.
pos: noun
tags: plural
gloss: A visual design composed according to heraldic rules, normally displayed upon an escutcheon and sometimes accompanied by other elements of an achievement
pos: noun
tags: plural
examples: The arms of England are: gules, three lions passant gardant or.
The Metropolitan Electric trams bore the three seaxes of the Middlesex arms, with a crown above the shield, on a blue circle.
Derived words: antiarms
armsbearing
arms dealer
armshouse
armsmaker
arms trafficking
Berney Arms
Bronwydd Arms
coat of arms
Craven Arms
equality of arms
feat of arms
Holland Arms
in arms
passage at arms
pursuivant at arms
Translations:
comes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin comes (“a companion”). Doublet of comte, conte, and count.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.
pos: noun
Translations:
contentment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French contentement. By surface analysis, content + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: contentments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or degree of being contented or satisfied.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: […]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
Then they got out their boat from the boat-house, sculled down the river home, and at a very late hour sat down to supper in their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy and contentment.
gloss: Happiness in one's situation; satisfaction
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: discontent
discontentment
dissatisfaction
Translations:
Wilma
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A substitute for wilco when used for the phonetic W.
pos: intj
Translations:
transliterated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Represented in the characters of another alphabet
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
lacking
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more lacking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lacking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The absence of something that is desirable or otherwise ought to be present.
pos: noun
examples: Cagliostro, however, whatever his moral lackings, did not lack spirit; he was not the man to succumb to this kind of coercion.
gloss: Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).
pos: adj
examples: This cheese is lacking in pungency.
The team was lacking in stamina and lost the match decidedly.
A few of the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle are lacking.
Antonyms: present
Translations:
crazily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crazy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English crazily
From crazy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more crazily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most crazily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a crazy manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Very, extremely.
pos: adv
examples: Word is the club's crazily rich Middle Eastern owner's have got wind of the player's sorrow and, according to Maxifoot, are preparing an offer "worthy of a pharaoh" for Ronaldo, who has long been considered a mummy's boy.
With this crazily brilliant, pocket-sized hotel clinging like an eagle's lair to the cliffs just outside Sorrento, owner Marco DeLuca has created somewhere that's so much more than just a place to sleep.
We have worked crazily long hours and it has been gruelling, exhausting.
Translations:
vide
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of divide.
Inflected forms:
form: vides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: viding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: divide (separate into parts, cleave asunder)
pos: verb
tags: US
gloss: Divide (ordering the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups (the ayes and the nays) for the counting of the members’ votes)
pos: verb
tags: imperative
Translations:
Giemsa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: After Gustav Giemsa.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A complex of stains used to investigate chromosomes; a mixture of eosin and methylene blue in glycerol and methanol.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Gibson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Gibb + -son.
Base: Gibb
Affixes: -son
Inflected forms:
form: Gibsons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cocktail made with gin (or vodka) and vermouth, garnished with cocktail onions.
pos: noun
examples: "I doubt it, Tommy," the Majority Leader said, coming up behind him so unexpectedly that the little Justice jumped and almost spilled his Gibson.
I found Willie in the airport bar drinking a Gibson.
gloss: An acoustic or electric guitar made by the Gibson company.
pos: noun
examples: Many older Gibsons have become collector's items: […] But older Gibsons are also good player's guitars.
We'd like to think that his spirit lives on under the western sky he so loved, strumming his Gibson somewhere and belting out a Woody Guthrie ballad to an audience of coyotes and rabbitbrush.
Translations:
Gamay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Gamays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gamay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several varieties of red grape used for making Beaujolais and other red wines.
pos: noun
examples: Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.
Translations:
goit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gote (“channel, stream”), from Old English *gotu (“channel, gutter, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *gutō (“gutter, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- (“to pour”). Cognate with Scots gote, goit, goate (“trench, ditch, watercourse”), Dutch goot (“gutter”), Middle Low German gote (“ditch”). More at gote.
Inflected forms:
form: goits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small artificial channel carrying water. Usually used with respect to channels built to feed mills.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: We use watter as goes daan t'goit yonder for t'grinnelstuns.
Translations:
linked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more linked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most linked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Connected, either with links, or as if with links.
pos: adj
gloss: Having links (between modules, records, etc).
pos: adj
Derived words: aforelinked
belinkedness
blue-linked
credit-linked note
cross-linked
cross-linked polyethylene
doubly-linked
endowment-linked mortgage
index-linked
intralinked
linked list
linkedness
multilinked
nonlinked
phospholinked
red-linked
sex-linked
sexlinked
underlinked
unlinked
X-linked
X-linked gene
X-linked trait
Y-linked
Translations:
meninges
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mēningēs, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek μῆνιγξ (mêninx, “membrane”).
Inflected forms:
form: meninx
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
Translations:
iwa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻiwa (“frigatebird”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A great frigatebird (Fregata minor).
pos: noun
Translations:
immunogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From immuno- + -genic.
Base: immuno
Inflected forms:
form: more immunogenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most immunogenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: that produces a reaction from the immune system; antigenic.
pos: adj
Translations:
affectivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English affective
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English affectivity
From affective + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: affectivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ability to experience affects: feelings, emotions, judgement, motivations, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At the same time, the kinds of affectivities evoked in us, such as fear and gratitude, also depend partly on how we envision and interpret the objects in question.
Translations:
knowledgeable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English knowledge
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English knowledgeable
From knowledge + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more knowledgeable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most knowledgeable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: knowledgable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: knowledgeables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knowledgable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: Having knowledge, especially of a particular subject.
pos: adj
examples: a knowledgeable man
gloss: Educated and well-informed.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who has knowledge; an informed party.
pos: noun
tags: India
Antonyms: unknowledgeable
Derived words: knowledgeability
knowledgeableness
knowledgeably
self-knowledgeable
techknowledgeable
Translations:
Pentecostal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Pentecost
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 Pentecostal
From Pentecost + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: Pentecostals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to Pentecost.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, or relating to a Christian religious movement that emphasizes the Holy Spirit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of a Pentecostal church.
pos: noun
examples: The Pentecostals had drowned them with their discotheque music, frenzied dancing and ecstatic prayer.
gloss: An offering formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: Bapticostal
Holiness-Pentecostal
neo-Pentecostal
Pentecostally
Translations:
intermittency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English intermittent
English -ency
English intermittency
From intermittent + -ency.
Inflected forms:
form: intermittencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being intermittent; periodicity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
airbus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From air + bus.
Compound parts: air
bus
Inflected forms:
form: airbusses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: airbuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one.
pos: noun
examples: Before he and my mother were killed together in a holiday air-bus crash five years later, they had seen the new companies drive all competing oils off the market and those of us who had been in at the beginning apparently well set for life.
Translations: