yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
traumatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English traumatic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English traumatically
From traumatic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more traumatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most traumatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a traumatic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
tranquilly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tranquil
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English tranquilly
From tranquil + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more tranquilly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tranquilly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tranquil manner.
pos: adv
examples: When we see a party looking tranquilly up to heaven, unconscious that his body is shot through and through with arrows, we know that that is St. Sebastian.
Translations:
tortuously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tortuous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English tortuously
From tortuous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more tortuously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tortuously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tortuous manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
touchingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English touching
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English touchingly
From touching + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more touchingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most touchingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a touching manner.
pos: adv
examples: a touchingly pathetic plight
She felt a melancholy satisfaction in gazing for the last time on a scene so indelibly impressed with Madame de Mercœur's image. How many instances of her sweet and gentle temper rose so touchingly to memory!
Translations:
tongue-lash
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tongue-lashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tongue-lashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tongue-lashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tongue-lashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To scold, to chew out.
pos: verb
Translations:
topflight
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From top + flight.
Compound parts: top
flight
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: best, A-one, superior.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
teach-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From teach + -in, modeled after sit-in.
Base: teach
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: teach-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extended session of lectures, debates or discussions on a matter of public interest, usually social or political, as a form of protest.
pos: noun
examples: Bomb threats and pickets disrupted an all-night "teach-in" tonight at Michigan State University.
A more direct example of linkages between elite dissent and mass protest is the "Teach-In" movement which began in March 1965 at the University of Michigan (Menashe and Radosh, 1967).
He was a cohost of our Johannesburg teach-in and helped orchestrate a conclusion to the teach-in that was even more memorable than its beginning.
Translations:
tramper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
manufacturing
nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tramp
English -er
English tramper
From tramp + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: trampers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who tramps.
pos: noun
gloss: A recreational hiker.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
examples: It's a popular spot for hikers, or trampers as they call them here.
gloss: A mechanism which pounds material into a more compact form for further processing; found for example in cotton gins and trash processors.
pos: noun
examples: The purpose of the tramper is to pack the lint into the press box under the restraining dogs near the top end of the press box.
gloss: A ship, typically a bulk freighter, which does not travel on a fixed route; compare liner.
pos: noun
examples: A Greek ship wants 30 pounds of feta cheese, a British tramper requests five cases of steak and kidney pies, a Japanese auto carrier orders 75 pints of boiled octopus, […]
Translations:
tragically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tragic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English tragically
From tragic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more tragically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tragically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tragic manner.
pos: adv
examples: "Oh, Inspector Beedel!" There was obvious disappointment in her voice. "He is very kind and promises—but nothing comes of it, and the days go on, the days go on," she repeated tragically.
Yes. Though based on my thorough sampling of the trend, cold pork pies are tragically absent from girl dinner plates. Perhaps because, as noted by many TikTok users – and over the weekend both Today and the New York Times – many of these girl dinners are “suspiciously low cal”.
The history of cast iron in railway bridges is much more grimly chequered. Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (once a monument to cast iron, now a memorial to many lives lost).
Translations:
purifying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: purifyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of purification.
pos: noun
examples: These ritual purifyings have taken place for thousands of years.
Translations:
tut-tut
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tut-tuts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tut-tutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tut-tutted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tut-tutted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An expression of annoyance or impatience.
pos: intj
gloss: To express such a sound, especially as a mild reproof
pos: verb
Translations:
yourn
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English youren. Displaced in standard speech by the -s form, yours. See also ourn, hern. Cognate with West Flemish joen (“yourn”).
Inflected forms:
form: your'n
pos: pron
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Yours.
pos: pron
tags: Appalachia
especially
examples: When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men's and women's faces wos like, I see yourn.
Your room's in there, back of the office, an' you'll find some clothes there that the last man forgot to take with him. You ken have 'em, an' from the looks o' yourn you need 'em.
Translations:
Janner
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from Cousin Jan (the Devonian form of John). See Janner on WikipediaWikipedia for further explanation.
Inflected forms:
form: Janners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone from Plymouth.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: Member of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
slang
gloss: Describing Plymouth's lower classes.
pos: adj
tags: UK
derogatory
not-comparable
slang
sometimes
Translations:
crenellated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more crenellated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crenellated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crenelated
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having crenellations (battlements).
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: castellated
She could see the town below her, nestled on top of a low hill, surrounded by a crenellated wall from the Middle Ages.
gloss: Having a series of indentations (usually square or squarish).
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: castellated
Derived words: crenellated moulding
Translations:
subinterval
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English interval
English subinterval
From sub- + interval.
Inflected forms:
form: subintervals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several smaller intervals into which a larger one is divided
pos: noun
Translations:
propellent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From propel + -ent; originally from Latin prōpellēnt-, from prōpellēns, from prōpellō. Less common than propellant despite being more correct from an etymological viewpoint.
Base: propel
Affixes: -ent
Inflected forms:
form: more propellent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most propellent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of propelling.
pos: adj
examples: 1845, The Lancet snippet only
and directed the abstraction of blood for its removal, after which the pains became more propellent, […]
whereas if more propellent force is required, an explosive lower in the table should be selected.
Translations:
propagator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English propagate
English -or
English propagator
From propagate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: propagators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who disseminates news or rumour
pos: noun
gloss: A person who propagates plants
pos: noun
gloss: A covered, sometimes heated container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings
pos: noun
gloss: A function that represents the quantum propagation of a subatomic particle
pos: noun
Related words: propagatrix
Derived words: propagatress
Translations:
propagandize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-
Latin prōpāgō
Latin prōpāgandus
New Latin prōpāgandader.
English propaganda
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 propagandize
From propaganda + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: propagandizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: propagandizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: propagandized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: propagandized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To use or spread propaganda.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To tell propaganda to someone in an attempt to influence one's views.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After we'd managed to make ourselves comfortable in this garret, my new friends began to propagandize me. All they knew about me was that I was a student […]
gloss: To use something or someone in propaganda purposes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He propagandized this panacea with single-minded determination throughout the revolutionary period and even managed to establish a People's Bank for a short time before his arrest in 1849.
Derived words: counterpropagandize
propagandization
propagandizer
Translations:
proofreader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From proof + reader.
Compound parts: proof
reader
Inflected forms:
form: proofreaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: proof reader
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: proof-reader
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who proofreads.
pos: noun
gloss: A person whose occupation is to proofread.
pos: noun
Synonyms: corrector
reviser
printer's reader
Related words: proof
proofread
proofreading
Translations:
pro-nuclear
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pro-
English nuclear
English pro-nuclear
From pro- + nuclear.
Inflected forms:
form: more pro-nuclear
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pro-nuclear
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In favor of the use of nuclear energy and the building of nuclear power plants.
pos: adj
gloss: In favor of nuclear weapons.
pos: adj
Related words: pronuclear
Translations:
pronged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prong
English -ed
English pronged
From prong + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more pronged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pronged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having (a specified number or type of) prongs
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: a three-pronged fork
Translations:
workability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English workability
From work + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: workabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ease with which something can be worked or fashioned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of being workable; practical capacity to succeed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I dispute the workability of the new plan.
Translations:
topographer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English topography
English -er
English topographer
From topography + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: topographers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a person who studies or records topography
pos: noun
Translations:
tractor-trailer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tractor-trailers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tractor trailer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large truck consisting of an engine and cab section (the tractor) and a cargo-carrying semi-trailer or trailer.
pos: noun
tags: Northeastern
US
Translations:
triennially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English triennial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English triennially
From triennial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Occurring at intervals three years apart.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
shaming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shamings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The activity by which somebody is shamed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
track-and-field
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: referring to track and field athletics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He is a track-and-field athlete, he's a sprinter.
Translations:
true-life
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Based on fact; real, true.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
tie-dyeing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process of making tie-dyed material
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
tie-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tie indeverb.
English tie-in
Deverbal from tie in.
Inflected forms:
form: tie-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tie in
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that is related or connected to another thing.
pos: noun
gloss: An authorized product based on a media property, such as a film or video game, by way of cross-promotion.
pos: noun
examples: So while it might be pretty neat to see yourself as one of The Young Ones, as Dirty Den, Cobra, Rambo, Scooby or any of a hundred others, it's not really enough to cover up for the real problem with tie-in games.
Brand new for this season! I got the unrecognizable summer movie tie-in sammich!
gloss: An association or connection between things.
pos: noun
examples: There was really important and unavoidable tie-ins between the two movements. Sexism is the thing that prevents women from achieving equal status in the world and indeed it's sexism that creates most of the homophobia — the fear of people not playing their proper sex roles.
Translations:
tie-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tie updeverb.
English tie-up
Deverbal from tie up.
Inflected forms:
form: tie-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity.
pos: noun
examples: The tie-up hit at the height of the wheat harvest and trade spokesmen said any delays in moving the grain to storage could be disastrous.
gloss: The act of tying up (or immobilizing) a capital.
pos: noun
examples: Goods values increase as businesses limit their stocks in order to reduce capital tie-up.
gloss: The connection of a loom's treadles to its shafts, used in combination with the threading and treadling to create a pattern.
pos: noun
examples: Fancy tie-ups and treadlings can be designed that weave the ordinary symmetrical point twill like an 8-pointed star or some other motif.
Translations:
toed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English toe
English -ed
English toed
From toe (“digit of a foot”) + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more toed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most toed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having (a specified number or type of) toes.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: narrow-toed
a three-toed sloth
Translations:
Armagnac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French Armagnacbor.
English Armagnac
Borrowed from French Armagnac.
Inflected forms:
form: Armagnacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: armagnac
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A brandy made in the region of Armagnac.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tokenism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English token
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English tokenism
From token + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: tokenisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A policy of formally complying with efforts to achieve a goal by making small, token gestures; especially to hire a minimal number of ethnically diverse or disadvantaged people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We know the prime minister regards environmental matters as mere tokenism. But we at least expected his ritual once-a-year speech on the issue.
Contemporary museums, they need to stop tokenism. Collect an Iranian artist here, a South African artist there or whatever. They need to really begin to try to properly take on … what is contemporary culture today?
This has to be meaningful contribution and participation – tokenism will only come to bite us in the future.
Translations:
tole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French tôle (“sheet iron”), from dialectal French taule (“table”), from Latin tabula. Doublet of table.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
tongueless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tongeles, tunglees, equivalent to tongue + -less. Cognate with Old Norse tungulauss (“tongueless”).
Base: tongue
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having no tongue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: tongueless amphibians
gloss: Having no tongue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: tongueless plow
gloss: Lacking speech; mute.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Making no sound; silent, speechless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Expressed without speech; wordless, unspoken.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: untongued
Derived words: tongueless frog
tonguelessly
tonguelessness
Translations:
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄγλωσσος
roman: áglōssos
lang: Latin
word: ēlinguis
lang: Persian
word: بیزبان
toothy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tooth
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English toothy
From tooth + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: toothier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: toothiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having prominent teeth.
pos: adj
examples: Their ties were tidier, their houndsteeth toothier … they ended up looking more Windsorian than Windsor.
Throughout the period, toothy giants persisted in the oceans. Perhaps the most spectacular was the megalodon shark.
Frances Tiafoe is coming for tennis once more. The tongue-wagging and the fist-pumping and the glare; the toothiest you-know-what-eating grin in the game; the high-energy vibes that can bring any tennis crowd into his corner.
gloss: With the fellator's teeth scraping the fellatee's penis.
pos: adj
examples: Hot take, maybe I'm a bit of a masochist but I enjoy some toothy head from time to time.
Derived words: toothily
toothiness
Translations:
tootle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From toot + -le, frequentative.
Base: toot
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: tootles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tootling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tootled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tootled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tootles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make a soft toot sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Now the scythe the morn salutes,
In the meadow tinkling soon;
While on mellow-tootling flutes
Sweetly breathes the shepherd’s tune.
We know the old lady is upstairs and that she is quite alone in the house and therefore it would be perfectly useless for her to tootle on her bedroom bell.
Their booth did not have so many customers as did the other booths where the tootling laugh of Maybelle Merriwether sounded and Fanny Elsing’s giggles and the Whiting girls’ repartee made merriment.
During the night, some of the locomotives began to tootle to one another, and then to move.
gloss: To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A young, fresh-faced man, sitting by the driver, tootled a tandem horn.
[…] Cecil can tootle a pretty fair sax, at that, if the play happens to come up.
gloss: To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: I suppose we’d better tootle back to the ballroom.
‘When my old bike comes I shall tootle up and down the drive! Some swank!’
I was about to go, I thought I’d tootle down to the Coleherne perhaps, then I wouldn’t be too far away if the bleep went.
gloss: To transport (someone somewhere).
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: […] he would just see if his shover had enough in the tank to tootle them down to Warborough […]
Say I pick you up and tootle you over with your hens.
gloss: A soft toot sound.
pos: noun
examples: 1891, Thirteen Essays on Education, London: Percival & Co., E. W. Howson, “The Teaching of Music in Public Schools,” p. 37,
No one, least of all those with a musical ear, can take a form or even read a book in close proximity to the ineffectual tootle of a flute, the maddening squeaks of a raw fiddler, or the spasmodic grunts of a euphonium.
The glamour of the sawdust world, the cheers of the crowd, the smell of hot dogs and cotton candy, the blare and tootle of the midway—he envied the gypsy family, here today and gone tomorrow.
One blast [of the trumpet], and [the sheep] would go here, two and they would go there, some tootles and they would run up the hill, a high note and they would stop short […]
gloss: A trip or excursion.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: In between, is Granny May’s only daughter Juliet. A wonderful character who still joins me on the odd tootle.
On weekends you can take a short tootle over to itsy-bitsy Pelican Island on a free ferry […]
Derived words: tootler
Translations:
top-dress
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: top-dresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: top-dressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: top-dressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: top-dressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cover a surface with loose material; especially to cover newly-sown seeds with a light dressing of soil or fertilizer
pos: verb
Translations:
topicality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English topical
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English topicality
From topical + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: topicalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being topical.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With the return to monthly publication it is our intention to extend the variety of subjects dealt with, and it will also be possible to attain greater topicality.
A documentary about gun violence that has its premiere on HBO on Monday has been given extra topicality by the massacre in Charleston, S.C.
Translations:
top-ranking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of the highest rank
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
top-secret
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: top secret
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having one of the highest secrecy classifications, "top secret".
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
topspin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
publishing
television
Etymology: From top + spin.
Compound parts: top
spin
Inflected forms:
form: topspins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: topspins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: topspinning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: topspun
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: topspun
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A rotational motion, especially that given to a ball, in which the upper surface spins in the direction of motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The tennis star was famed for her topspin.
gloss: An edgy, quirky or otherwise engaging quality that holds the interest of the audience.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Well remembered as a visual comedienne, she also had the verbal knack of putting all sorts of topspin on a line.
Flashdance had a quality known as top spin, in which the casting, the concept and the look and sound of the movie all come together.
2016, Quentin Letts, "A Very English Scandal: sex, lies and a murder plot at the heart of the establishment by John Preston - review" (in Evening Standard, 28 April 2016) https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/a-very-english-scandal-sex-lies-and-a-murder-plot-at-the-heart-of-the-establishment-by-john-preston-a3236271.html
This fluent, readable book has certainly been polished with a fair degree of what Fleet Street feature editors once called topspin: “Give it some topspin, old boy. Make the copy sing.” In this John Preston more than succeeds.
gloss: To spin (a ball) with this motion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He could keep winning through attrition, with a relentless barrage of topspinning ground strokes and a tireless defense of his own side, where would-be winners go to die.
Synonyms: forespin
Antonyms: backspin
Derived words: top-spinner
Translations:
torchbearer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From torch + bearer.
Compound parts: torch
bearer
Inflected forms:
form: torchbearers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who carries a torch (flaming brand).
pos: noun
gloss: The leader of a campaign, or one who gives inspiration to others.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: One who carries on a movement or organization from someone else.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The Roman Empire could be considered the torchbearer of Ancient Greek knowledge and wisdom.
Derived words: Olympic torchbearer
Translations:
torsional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English torsion
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 torsional
From torsion + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or achieved using torsion
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
touchable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English touchable, toucheable, equivalent to touch + -able.
Base: touch
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more touchable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most touchable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being touched; tangible or palpable.
pos: adj
Translations:
toughly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English toughli, touȝly, equivalent to tough + -ly.
Base: tough
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more toughly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most toughly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tough manner.
pos: adv
examples: Christina and Mark Rotondo of Camillus started the court proceedings this month and filed evidence of five toughly worded notices they served their son, starting in February.
Translations:
trackball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From track + ball.
Compound parts: track
ball
Inflected forms:
form: trackballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pointing device consisting of a ball housed in a socket
pos: noun
Translations:
tragicomic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of tragic + comic.
Compound parts: tragic
comic
Inflected forms:
form: more tragicomic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tragicomic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tragicomedic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: comitragic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or resembling tragicomedy; having both tragic and comic aspects.
pos: adj
examples: The pirates threatened to kill Captain Phillips if attacked, and the result was tragicomic: the world’s most powerful navy vs. a lifeboat.
Translations:
trailblazing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From trail + blazing.
Compound parts: trail
blazing
Inflected forms:
form: more trailblazing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trailblazing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: trail-blazing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a trailblazer; innovative or pioneering.
pos: adj
examples: One can only wonder what led Rothstein to claim that Neville was such a trail-blazing pornographer.
The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.
Traditional social codes can sometimes prove as strict as any government diktat. Late last year, Chinese e-commerce giant JD faced a boycott by customers infuriated by its casting of trailblazing woman comedian Yang Li in a promotional live stream.
Translations:
trainman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.?
Latin trahere
Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre
Old French traïnerder.
Old French trainder.
Middle English trayne
English train
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English trainman
From train + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: trainmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who works on trains on a railway / railroad.
pos: noun
examples: Fourth, if there is a shortage of motive power or of trainmen, it is generally the lower orders of freight train which have to be curtailed or cancelled altogether.
gloss: A brakeman.
pos: noun
tags: US
Related words: trainwoman
Translations:
transvestism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
clinical-psychology
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transvest(ite)
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English transvestism
From transvest(ite) + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: transvestisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being a transvestite.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Transexualism. Where the compulsive urge reaches beyond female vestments, and becomes an urge for gender ("sex") change, transvestism becomes "transexualism." The term is misleading; actually, "transgenderism" is meant, because sexuality is not a major factor in primary transvestism. Psychologically, the transexual often differs from the simple cross-dresser; he is conscious at all times of a strong desire to be a woman, and the urge can be truly consuming.
gloss: A paraphilia typically found in heterosexual males characterized by compulsively seeking and deriving sexual arousal from cross-dressing, especially if the urges and behavior cause the patient distress or social impairment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: sexual mimicry
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
Synonyms: transvestitism
Related words: Transvestic fetishism
Translations:
tribalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tribal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English tribalism
From tribal + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: tribalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being tribal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A feeling of identity and loyalty to one's tribe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The tendency among human beings to form socially cohesive groups within which there exists social pressure upon the individual to conform to either common behaviors, customs, habits, mores and/or norms, and which groups exhibit greater or lesser degrees of exclusivism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If we put an end to regionalism and normalize the flow of great energies in the body of Kyrgyzstan, then there will be a very rapid healing of the whole country and people, who have been vegetating in a semi-paralyzed state for many decades due to the grave illness of tribalism and regionalism.
Antonyms: cosmopolitanism
Related words: groupthink
hyperpartisanship
ingroup and outgroup
parochialism
the Other
us versus them
Derived words: neotribalism
Translations:
trickle-down
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
economics
marketing
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That flows, especially in limited quantity, from the highly placed to others.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His name is Harry E Thompson and his Trickle-Down solar heating system is the basis for this book.
gloss: Describing the theory that financial benefits given to the wealthy will somehow be passed down to the poor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In addition, it examines the trickle-down effects of economic development as espoused by market theorists in the urban economic development literature. Policymakers in Rockford used the trickle-down logic of market theory to justify a […]
While the trickle-down mechanism is based on market optimism (in a well-functioning economy, the poor will benefit automatically from any growth), proponents of direct and indirect policies targeting the poor are market-pessimists, in which […]
On the surface, the Kuznets curve seems to justify laissez-faire economics and trickle-down policies.
gloss: Describing a model of product adoption that flows vertically from the upper classes to the lower classes within society.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Trickle-down patterns are very common for technological innovations, especially when new gadgets come to market with high price tags. The first black-and-white televisions cost more than some automobiles.
Related words: tinkle-down
Derived words: trickle-down hypothesis
Translations:
trigonometrical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or obtained using trigonometry
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
tripper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trip
English -er
English tripper
From trip + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: trippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who trips or stumbles.
pos: noun
examples: Most trippers and fallers I know fall forward, but it could have happened. He could have gone out for a midnight walk, he could have wanted to commune with the moon from the middle of the log, he could have tripped and fallen backward […]
gloss: A person experiencing a hallucinogenic trip.
pos: noun
gloss: Gonorrhea.
pos: noun
gloss: A tourist.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: Synonym of tripman.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: cheap tripper
day-tripper
power-tripper
road tripper
round-tripper
tripperish
Translations:
honoree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English honor
English -ee
English honoree
From honor + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: honorees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who receives an honor or award.
pos: noun
examples: It was perhaps the most public example of the “manterruption” – that is, a man interrupting a woman while she’s trying to speak (in this case, on stage, by herself, as an award honoree) and taking over the floor.
The 18 honorees included some of the Democratic Party’s best-known leaders and boosters: Hillary Clinton, the philanthropist and major Democratic donor George Soros, and Robert F. Kennedy, who was given the recognition posthumously.
Antonyms: honorer
Translations:
unconvincingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unconvincing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unconvincingly
From unconvincing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unconvincingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unconvincingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unconvincing manner.
pos: adv
examples: The speaker argued unconvincingly.
Translations:
mazza
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mazzas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mazzaleen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Madness; something that is mad; a crazy situation.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
countable
uncountable
examples: Must have thought I was one of the paigons / Left a trace and my yard got raided / It's a mazza / He was talking tough 'till I chased man down with a ladder
Translations:
tenga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tengas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The currency of Bukhara before 1920, divided into 10 falus.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
sited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
sit-and-go
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
poker
Inflected forms:
form: sit-and-goes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of poker tournament which has no scheduled start time and begins once a set number of players have entered the tournament.
pos: noun
examples: This sit-and-go starts once 14 people have entered the tournament. The money is awarded to the last 3 players.
Translations:
estadio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese estádio, from Latin stadium (“stadium, Roman stade”), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “stadium for footraces, stadion”). Doublet of stade, stadium, and stadion.
Inflected forms:
form: estadios
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Portuguese unit of distance, variously equivalent to about 185.2, 231.5, or 257.2 m depending on the number of leagues per equatorial degree.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
humanness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From human + -ness. Piecewise doublet of humaneness.
Base: human
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: humannesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition or quality of being human.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Too often, children become an "it" in their homes and their humanness is devalued.
Though he had no hard data, his intuition was that increasing humanness in a robot was positive only up to a certain point.
These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves […]
Translations:
financer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English finance
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English financer
From finance + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: financers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An entity that provides financing
pos: noun
examples: And only a select few borrowers with pristine credit can secure the most attractive rates: for the week that ended Jan. 15, rates on a 30-year fixed mortgage sank to 5.12 percent, the 11th consecutive weekly drop and the lowest rate since the big mortgage financer Freddie Mac began tracking them in 1971.
Translations:
razzing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: razzings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Teasing or heckling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: The stand-up comedian was able to deal with any insults and razzings that came his way.
Translations:
razzed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more razzed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most razzed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of energy or enthusiasm.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
discerner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English discern
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English discerner
From discern + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: discerners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, or judges.
pos: noun
examples: a discerner of truth, of right and wrong
A great observer and discerner of men's natures.
Translations:
double-cross
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: First recorded in 1834 from thieves' slang cross (or on the cross) to refer to something dishonest, a play on straight or square: a crook going back on his partners would therefore be crossing the crossers, or double-crossing.
Inflected forms:
form: double-crosses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: double-crossing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: double-crossed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: double-crossed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: double-crosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To betray or go back on; to deceive someone after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were being aided.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you double-cross us, we'll track you down and kill you.
I've been double crossed / By a double dealin', double winnin' / Looks like I'm the one who lost.
gloss: Of breeding, to cross twice in hybridization, as (A × B) × (C × D); for example, in commercial hybrid seed corn, A through D are classically inbreds, and their grandoffspring is the seed for sale.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An act or instance of deliberate betrayal or deceit, especially in which one party violates a prior agreement or trust with a collaborator.
pos: noun
examples: The only problem is that Cosmo accidentally double-crosses the double-cross: By sheer luck he succeeds at the murder and gets away, which leaves the mob in the uncomfortable position of having to do the dirty work of rubbing him out themselves.
gloss: Of a breeding, the hybrid product of double-crossing.
pos: noun
Derived words: double-crosser
Translations:
monohull
Part of speech: noun
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 hull
English monohull
From mono- + hull.
Inflected forms:
form: monohulls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boat that has a single hull.
pos: noun
Antonyms: multihull
Translations:
agrestic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin agrestis (“rustic, boorish, wild”) (from ager (“a field, a farm”)) + -ic
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more agrestic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agrestic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: agrestick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the fields; rural; rustic, unpolished
pos: adj
examples: The author's early days were filled with agrestic surroundings.
With agrestic charm / It’s humid in the midwest
Translations:
propertied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English property
English -ed
English propertied
From property + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more propertied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most propertied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Owning property, especially land or real estate that yields an income.
pos: adj
examples: The Bolsheviks organized unity and class solidarity of the workers and peasants in the oppressed and oppressing nations to fight the propertied classes that exploited their labor.
Translations:
prophetical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more prophetical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prophetical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: prophetic
pos: adj
examples: Why la; I knew't, this Propheticall tongue of mine never faild me; my mother was halfe a witch, never any thing that ſhe foreſpake, but came to paſſe: […]
Translations:
pro-lifer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pro-life
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English pro-lifer
From pro-life + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pro-lifers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prolifer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person with pro-life views, or who advocates such policies
pos: noun
Translations: