yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cresset
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cresset, from Old French crasset, cresset (“sort of lamp or torch”); perhaps of Old Dutch or Old High German origin, and akin to English cruse and/or French creuset (“crucible”), the latter being from Gallo-Roman Vulgar Latin *croceolus.
Inflected forms:
form: cressets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Of Starry Lamps and blazing Creſſets fed ¶ With Naphtha and Aſphaltus yeilded light
And as a Cresset true that darts its length ¶ Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength;
gloss: A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:
pos: noun
examples: 1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII
We reach'd the lofty turret's base, our eyes / its height ascended, where we mark'd uphung / two cressets and another saw from far
Related words: brazier
fire basket
Translations:
dramatize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek δράω (dráō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă)bor.
Late Latin drāmabor.
English drama
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 dramatize
From drama + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: dramatizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dramatizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dramatized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dramatized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dramatise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To adapt a literary work so that it can be performed in the theatre, or on radio or television.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: dedramatize
docudramatize
dramatizable
dramatizer
melodramatize
overdramatize
redramatize
underdramatize
undramatized
Translations:
radiobiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radio-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
New Latin -logia
New Latin biologialbor.
English biology
English radiobiology
From radio- + biology.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of the effects of ionizing radiation on living organisms
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The use of radioactive labels to study biological processes
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: actinobiology
radiation biology
Translations:
radiocommunication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radio-
English communication
English radiocommunication
From radio- + communication.
Inflected forms:
form: radiocommunications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any means of communication using radio or other electromagnetic waves
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
radiopaque
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
English radi-
English opaque
English radiopaque
From radi- (staff) + opaque. First attested in 1917.
Inflected forms:
form: more radiopaque
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most radiopaque
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Impenetrable to X-rays and other radiation.
pos: adj
examples: We may coin the word ‘radiopaque’, and it would definitely mean ‘impervious to the X-ray’.[…]. From radiopaque we would likewise have the useful term radiopacity.
Translations:
radiogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From radio- + -genic.
Base: radio
Inflected forms:
form: more radiogenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most radiogenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or caused by radioactivity.
pos: adj
Translations:
scrupulosity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From scrupulo(u)s + -ity, from Latin scrupulositas.
Base: scrupulous
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: scrupulosities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being scrupulous; excessive attention to scruples.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So then the whole scripture of God, being true, whence soever this be delivered and gathered, it skilleth not: And it is of us to be taken without curious scrupulosity, as sacred and undoubted scripture, seeing it was written by the holy apostle, into whom the holy Ghost was inspired, as is witnessed.
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
Why should an auctioneer and appraiser thirty years ago, who had as good as forgotten his free-school Latin, be expected to manifest a delicate scrupulosity which is not always exhibited by gentlemen of the learned professions, even in our present advanced stage of morality?
His queer air of listening to himself, the way he had of responding to his own idea in a complex sequence of feelings by a wavering, then pinched smile and a line of doubt drawn on his forehead—such scrupulosity vaguely irritated me.
Translations:
sculptured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sculpture
English -ed
English sculptured
From sculpture + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more sculptured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sculptured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made like a sculpture.
pos: adj
gloss: Attractively formed.
pos: adj
examples: His sculptured features drew appreciative looks.
Related words: sculpted
Derived words: sculptured painting
sculptured tortoise
Translations:
sculpted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sculpted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sculpted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Well shaped, as a good sculpture is.
pos: adj
examples: While cyclists often focus on crank-crushing quads or sculpted calves, all you have to do is realize, as Kita did, that the heart is not some mysterious, beating organ, but rather pure, powerhouse muscle.
Translations:
seafront
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sea + front.
Compound parts: sea
front
Inflected forms:
form: seafronts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The seashore, the coast.
pos: noun
examples: Visit the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in the UK, and ammonite road signs greet you at every town and city and even the lampposts on the seafront feature a familiar coiled shell.
gloss: The waterfront of a seaside town.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: oceanfront
A new £3.6 million footbridge has reconnected residents of Cleethorpes with the seafront, after the level crossing was closed in April 2019 for safety reasons.
Translations:
screechy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English screech
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English screechy
From screech + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: screechier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: screechiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a screech.
pos: adj
examples: a screechy sound
Where these Atlantics fell from acoustic grace, however, was in their feeble screechy little whistle, so different from the N.B.R. mellow standard pattern.
gloss: Given to screeching.
pos: adj
examples: She has a screechy voice that really grates on my nerves, like a dentist's drill.
Translations:
scrunchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scrunch
English -y
English scrunchy
From scrunch + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: scrunchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: scrunchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Scrunched up; creased or wrinkled.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Translations:
screwworm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From screw + worm.
Compound parts: screw
worm
Inflected forms:
form: screwworms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A larva of a blowfly of species Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World screwworm fly) or Chrysomya bezziana (Old World screwworm fly), of tribe Chrysomyini, parasitic in animals and sometimes humans, distinctive in eating living flesh of mammals, unlike most maggots, which eat only dead flesh.
pos: noun
examples: A sample of screwworms collected in the morning are displayed at a veterinary clinic in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico on 4 July 2025. […] The government’s confirmation of a screwworm case comes just over a week after US Department of Agriculture (USDA) secretary, Brooke Rollins, traveled to Texas to announce plans to build a sterile fly facility there as part of efforts to combat the pest.
Translations:
myiasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa, “fly”) + -iasis.
Inflected forms:
form: myiases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The infestation of a living vertebrate by maggots.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
hypersexual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.
Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder.
Proto-Italic *seksus
Latin sexus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sexuālisbor.
English sexual
English hypersexual
From hyper- + sexual.
Inflected forms:
form: more hypersexual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hypersexual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hypersexuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessively interested in sex.
pos: adj
examples: Add to this pornographic films, which have done more not only to objectify women but also to give men the idea that women are hypersexual and welcome their advances.
gloss: Of or relating to hypersexuality.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who is hypersexual.
pos: noun
Antonyms: hyposexual
Derived words: hypersexually
Translations:
full-time
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From full + time.
Compound parts: full
time
Inflected forms:
form: fulltime
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: fulltime
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Involving a full amount of time spent on some activity, especially a job.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I have a full-time job, working five days a week.
Bringing up a child is a full-time activity.
Recently in Sydney we met a male witch who claimed that witchcraft was his full-time occupation.
"I finished full-time work in 2005 and then switched to part time, because I liked working and it seemed a shame to leave something I enjoyed.
gloss: Spending a full amount of time.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: to work full-time
Area Boards are wholly part-time, but their Chairmen are members of the Commission and may work full-time in that capacity.
Antonyms: part-time
Translations:
radioimmunoassay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
English radio-
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
Proto-Italic *moinos
Latin mūnus
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin -is
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnisder.
Middle French immunbor.
Middle English
English immune
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English immuno-
English assay
English immunoassay
English radioimmunoassay
From radio- + immunoassay.
Inflected forms:
form: radioimmunoassays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: RIA
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
form: radioimmunoassays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: radioimmunoassaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: radioimmunoassayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: radioimmunoassayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A procedure that uses the binding of a radioactively labeled substance to an antibody in order to analyze minute amounts of biological compounds.
pos: noun
gloss: To assay by this process.
pos: verb
Translations:
radioactively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
French radio-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
▲
Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.
Latin āctīvusbor.
Old French actif
French actif
French radioactifbor.
English radioactive
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
English -ly
English radioactively
From radioactive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more radioactively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most radioactively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using a radioactive substance
pos: adv
gloss: Concerning radioactivity
pos: adv
Derived words: nonradioactively
Translations:
radioimmunotherapy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radio-
English immunotherapy
English radioimmunotherapy
From radio- + immunotherapy.
Inflected forms:
form: radioimmunotherapies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: immunotherapy using antibodies labelled with radioisotopes
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
radioiodine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radio-
English iodine
English radioiodine
From radio- + iodine.
Inflected forms:
form: radioiodines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The radioactive isotope of iodine, 13153I, having a half-life of 8 days; used as a medical tracer
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thyroid cells, in contrast to other cells, have the capability to organify iodine, which increases the time radioiodine can deposit energy.
Translations:
radiotracer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radio-
English tracer
English radiotracer
From radio- + tracer.
Inflected forms:
form: radiotracers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A radioactive tracer; a radiolabel
pos: noun
Translations:
radiolarian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Translingual Radiolaria
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English radiolarian
From Translingual Radiolaria + English -an.
Inflected forms:
form: radiolarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many marine amoeboid protozoa, of subclass Radiolaria, having filamentous pseudopodia; they have intricate silica skeletons.
pos: noun
examples: Water wells inkblack in the streets repeating the polelamps in glozy rosettes that dish and slide in the wash like radiolarians pale with phosphorous on a midnight sea.
Translations:
radiolaria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From subclass name Radiolaria.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The members of the taxonomic subclass Radiolaria; radiolarians.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Radiolaria, which are single-celled plankton, are abundant in all regions of the world ocean and older than multicellular life.
Translations:
preconscious
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English conscious
English preconscious
From pre- + conscious.
Inflected forms:
form: preconsciouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Prior to consciousness.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: (of memories) that one is not aware of, but which can be recalled through conscious effort
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The sum of these memories
pos: noun
Derived words: preconsciously
Translations:
drap
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See drop.
Inflected forms:
form: draps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To drop.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
Translations:
nonfinancial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English finance
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English financial
English nonfinancial
From non- + financial.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not financial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not directly related to the finance industry.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Bruner asks if the current global financial system, which is built upon an exchange network of national currencies backed by their respective governments, seems to work well. Why would one central entity need to control currency? The reason, as with many other Controligarch schemes, is that a centralised digital currency also is put forward as the solution to many nonfinancial problems— from climate change to cyberattacks to the rise of so-called disinformation.
Derived words: nonfinancial debt
Translations:
jonesing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jonesin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: jonesin'
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: jonezing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: jonezin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: jonezin'
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Suffering from withdrawal, or otherwise being in a desperate, addictionlike need of a substance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bestand
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bistanden, bestanden, from Old English bestandan, from Proto-West Germanic *bistandan, from Proto-Germanic *bistandaną (“to surround, support”). Equivalent to be- (“around, by”) + stand.
Base: stand
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: bestands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bestanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bestood
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bestood
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To stand by or near; stand around.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To beset; stand around in hostility; harass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [...] that is my lord and uncle King Arthur, for he is full straitly bestood [sore beset] with a false traitor, which is my half brother Sir Mordred, [...]
gloss: To surround; encompass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Wherefore the Brittishe bisshops, bestood with weapons and enemies, when thei coulde not execute all functions, and perceaved that the prelates their neighbours weare prompte to assiste them, [...]
gloss: To serve; be of service to; be ready to serve or aid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [...] and, inherited Puritan crust of stiffness that rarely left him, and which bestood him well under the ceremonials of his mission, whether at London (1846- 49) or later (1867-74) in Berlin.
Would not children come kindly to such out-of-door lessons, and to such practical knowledge as would always bestand them well?
Translations:
recept
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin receptum (“thing received”), neuter singular of receptus, perfect passive participle of recipiō (“take back; receive”). Doublet of receipt.
Coined by G.J. Romanes in 1888.
Inflected forms:
form: recepts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An idea that is formed by the repetition of percepts.
pos: noun
Translations:
radioligand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radio-
English ligand
English radioligand
From radio- + ligand.
Inflected forms:
form: radioligands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any molecule that has a radioactive tracer attached, especially one used for radioimmunoassay
pos: noun
Translations:
radiolocation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radio-
English location
English radiolocation
From radio- + location.
Inflected forms:
form: radiolocations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The detection and locating of distant objects using microwave radiation; especially radar
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The locating of an object that is fitted with a radio tag
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A location so identified
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
radiologic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radiology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English radiologic
From radiology + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to radiology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
radiological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radiology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English radiological
From radiology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to radiation, radioactivity or nuclear weapons.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
radiolucent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
English radio-
English -lucent
English radiolucent
From radio- + -lucent.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: transparent to X-rays
pos: adj
Antonyms: radiopaque
Translations:
radiolysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From radio- + -lysis.
Base: radio
Inflected forms:
form: radiolyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The dissociation of a molecule as a result of radiation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
radion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radius
Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?
Latin carbōlbor.
French carbonebor.
English carbonbf.
English -on
English radion
From radius + -on.
Inflected forms:
form: radions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The radius modulus of an extra dimension in a compactification. Coined in 1998 by Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, and John March-Russell in the paper "Stabilization of Sub-Millimeter Dimensions: The New Guise of the Hierarchy Problem".
pos: noun
Translations:
radionics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From radio- (“pertaining to rays or radiation”) + -onics.
Affixes: radio-
-onics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any of several techniques supposed to detect and modulate "life forces" and to provide healing using various electric black boxes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Tiller observes that pendulums, dowsing rods and radionics devices all serve to reduce the signal/noise ratio. They help the average individual who is not blessed with the gifts of concentration that are apparently inherent in gifted healers […]
Translations:
second-stringer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English second string
English -er
English second-stringer
From second string + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: second-stringers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: second stringer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who plays second string. A person who is kept on a sports team as a backup in case a "first-string" player is unavailable.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who is not good enough to be considered proficient but may be useful as a backup.
pos: noun
Translations:
secularist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English secular
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English secularist
From secular + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: secularists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who believes in or supports secularism.
pos: noun
Antonyms: biblicist
religionist
Translations:
secularization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From secularize + -ation.
Base: secularize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: secularizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: secularisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious (or "irreligious") values and secular institutions.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The deconsecration of a church.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of becoming secular.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
examples: Wojtyla and Mazowiecki come from the same Krakow intellectual circles that advocated the secularization of politics and led the recent efforts for Polish-Jewish dialogue.
[C]onservative Christian organizations have pushed back against what they describe as the secularization of Christmas.
[H]e took advantage of several developments: the ongoing secularization of art and painting’s growing attention to actual people, and its rising status as portable market commodity.
Synonyms: deconfessionalization
deconsecration
desacralization
laicization
Antonyms: desecularization
Related words: secular
secularizable
secularize
secularizer
Translations:
secularize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English secular
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 secularize
From secular + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: secularizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: secularizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: secularized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: secularized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: secularise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make secular.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
Translations:
semipermeable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
English permeable
English semipermeable
From semi- + permeable.
Inflected forms:
form: more semipermeable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most semipermeable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Permeable to some things and not to others, as a cell membrane which allows some molecules through but blocks other substances.
pos: adj
Translations:
sensuousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sensuous
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English sensuousness
From sensuous + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: sensuousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being sensuous.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The product or result of being sensuous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
sensualist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sensual
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English sensualist
From sensual + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: sensualists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who believes in enjoying sensuality and the experience of pleasant sensations.
pos: noun
gloss: One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.
pos: noun
Synonyms: bon viveur
epicure
epicurean
hedonist
high-stepper
lapling
lotus-eater
pleasure seeker
pleasurist
sensualist
softling
sybarite
voluptuarian
voluptuary
Antonyms: abstinent
anhedonic
ascetic
puritan
Related words: sensation
sense
sensual
sensualism
sensuality
pleasure
Translations:
sensuously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sensuous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sensuously
From sensuous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sensuously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sensuously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sensuous manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
sequestration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French sequestration, from Late Latin sequestrātiō, from Latin sequestrō (“sequester”).
Inflected forms:
form: sequestrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the sequestration of juries
In possession of ample property, it was not from motives of retrenchment he had quitted the frequented scenes of life; sequestration during the first months of marriage had been his choice, equally as that of his partner;[…]
At that time there was no rigid sequestration on the islands, and lepers, if they chose, were allowed to go free.
gloss: A budget cut resulting from a separation of funding mechanisms.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
metonymically
uncountable
examples: The company took a revenue hit when sequestration dried up some of its best contracts.
Derived words: biosequestration
carbon sequestration
cryosequestration
desequestration
geosequestration
immunosequestration
leukosequestration
nonsequestration
resequestration
Translations:
shallowly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shallow
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English shallowly
From shallow + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a shallow manner, without depth.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sharer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English share
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 sharer
From share + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sharers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who shares.
pos: noun
examples: […] the true gamesters pretended to be ill, and refused their glass, while they plied heartily two young fellows, who were to be afterwards pillaged, as indeed they were without mercy. Of this plunder I had the good fortune to be a sharer, though I was not yet let into the secret.
He was densely distressed—and perhaps I should have sympathized with him if I had been able to detach my mental vision from the unsuspected sharer of my cabin as though he were my second self. There he was on the other side of the bulkhead, four or five feet from us, no more, as we sat in the saloon.
Job sharers find that they can approach the job in a fresher and more positive manner because they are only working for a part of the week, as opposed to a complete week.
gloss: A dish at a restaurant, etc. intended to be shared between several people.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Can we order the seafood platter as a sharer?
Derived words: filesharer
flatsharer
needle sharer
nonsharer
ridesharer
time-sharer
Translations:
shouter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shout
English -er
English shouter
From shout + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: shouters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who shouts.
pos: noun
gloss: A singer with an expressive, loud vocal style seen as reminiscent of shouting.
pos: noun
gloss: A song performed in this manner.
pos: noun
examples: It certainly had merit as a punkish shouter with its machine-gun-spatter underbeat.
Translations:
shovelful
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shovel + -ful.
Base: shovel
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: shovelfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shovelsful
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount that can be moved at once with a shovel.
pos: noun
examples: One shovelful of dirt makes a molehill; a million shovelfuls make a mountain.
Two workers each had a shovelful of snow. There were two shovelsful of snow.
As to the fireman, the sight of him at work, swinging round with his shovelful of coal and at the same moment lightly depressing his right heel and so working the pedal which causes the steam-operated firedoors to open like magic in front of the shovel, was always a pleasure.
The doors are at the right level for firing, which normally is down one side of the firebox at a time, unlike our own practice, which is to fire each side of the firebox with alternate shovelfuls.
Translations:
shutterbug
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From shutter + bug, from their tendency to work the camera's shutter frequently.
Compound parts: shutter
bug
Inflected forms:
form: shutterbugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes a hobby of photography.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Aerial photography was coming into its own, and flying shutterbugs pushed the envelope, striving to outsnap each other.
She was contrite, but presented herself as just another frustrated shutterbug with access to Photoshop.
Translations:
douchebaggery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English douchebag
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English douchebaggery
From douchebag + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: douchebaggeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Contemptible or obnoxious behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
humorous
slang
uncountable
vulgar
examples: This kind of douchebagery deserves no reply...
Perhaps he imagines that by planting this request and filling it so conveniently, those who have been downloading mp3s will fall for it. In this way he can "get" us and "teach us a lesson." A very immature and obvious attempt by the king of douchebagery.
Watkins obviously promotes low life douche baggery.
Mr Al doesn't quite suit you... seems to elicit that used car dealer odor.
The only way for you to do that is to support your position. Agressive[sic] douchebaggery and asserting that your position is unquestionable won't work on me.
I don't know why i don't just turn the page whenever i see the name jonathan valania in the byline. I just don't, OK? I read it, I get annoyed at the incessant douchebaggery, and I come over here to piss all y'all off
Unless the daughter was in on it, it's remarkable douchebaggery.
So basically what this asshole wants is a minstrel show for a lily white audience.... I've seen a lot of douchebaggery in this biz, but that one takes the cake.
Actually, with a better centre back who won't be pushed around by Drogba's douchebaggery in the box, Bayern would have a better chance.
Then there's another typical whackjob republican, JD "Heartbeat Away" Vance. He's also just the kind that his voters love, dumb, psychotic, and a real user, not to mention the usual racist douchebaggery that always seems to go with being a republican.
Translations:
radiopharmaceutical
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
English radio-
English pharmaceutical
English radiopharmaceutical
From radio- + pharmaceutical.
Inflected forms:
form: radiopharmaceuticals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any radioactive substance used as a pharmaceutical.
pos: noun
Translations:
gabi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tagalog gabi, from Proto-Philippine *gabi.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
pos: noun
gloss: Food from a taro plant.
pos: noun
Translations:
hemophiliac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From hemo- + -philiac.
Base: hemo
Inflected forms:
form: hemophiliacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haemophiliac
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hæmophiliac
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person with hemophilia.
pos: noun
gloss: A person with an attraction to blood.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: Wasn't the vampire really the haemophiliac of today? He certainly got some kind of a thrill from sucking blood
She is, it quickly transpires, a haemophiliac vampire who, after being transported to the mother ship, sets about killing the crew one by one
Likewise, in Immortality (a.k.a. The Wisdom of Crocodiles, Po-Chih Leong, 1998), a hemophiliac vampire, Steven Grlscz, tries to restrain his bloodlust for Anne, whom he loves.
Translations:
good-natured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more good-natured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: better-natured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most good-natured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: best-natured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: good natured
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: goodnatured
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having or showing an amicable, kindly disposition.
pos: adj
examples: “It is singular,” said the Lady, addressing Warden; “the animal is not only so good-natured to all, but so particularly fond of children.[…]”
For the people who were shovelling away on the house-tops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball—better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest—laughing heartily if it went right, and not less heartily if it went wrong.
There are a good many of these girls whom it is quite enough to spoil the temper of the best-natured woman in the world to have in the house with them.
Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of a good-natured expression.
However, the immediate howls of outrage from the industry were in many cases less than good-natured.
I had a rival for Marcel’s affections, a boy who later became the king of recorded classical music and confrère of Herbert von Karajan. I was vile to this poor chap who, like a cheerful Papageno, was much better-natured than I was.
Translations:
saber-toothed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having long, sharp, curved fangs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
three-fourths
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: three fourths
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Three of four equal parts (3/4, ¾, 0.75).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: three-fourths of a ton is too much
a three-fourths majority
Translations:
hydrocele
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French hydrocèle or Latin hydrocēlē, from Ancient Greek ὑδροκήλη (hudrokḗlē), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + κήλη (kḗlē, “tumour”).
Inflected forms:
form: hydroceles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An abnormal build-up of fluids at a site in the body, especially in the membranes around a testicle.
pos: noun
examples: For while he refers to his gout (a good disease), he does not mention the complaint which indirectly killed him, his hydrocele – an enlargement of the scrotum.
Translations:
radioprotection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radio-
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-
Late Latin pro-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-der.
Proto-Italic *tegō
Late Latin tegō
Late Latin prōtegō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Late Latin -tiō
Late Latin prōtēctiōder.
Old Frenchbor.
Middle English
English protection
English radioprotection
From radio- + protection.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any form of protection against the harmful effects of ionizing radiation, especially caused by artificial sources.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
radioresistance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radio-
English resistance
English radioresistance
From radio- + resistance.
Inflected forms:
form: radioresistances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any form of resistance that an organism has to protect itself against the harmful effects of ionizing radiation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
radiosensitive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
English radio-
English sensitive
English radiosensitive
From radio- + sensitive.
Inflected forms:
form: more radiosensitive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most radiosensitive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a certain amount of radiosensitivity
pos: adj
Translations:
radiosensitivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radio-
English sensitivity
English radiosensitivity
From radio- + sensitivity.
Inflected forms:
form: radiosensitivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The relative sensitivity of cells or organisms to any form of radiation, but especially to the harmful effects of ionizing radiation
pos: noun
Translations:
radiosurgery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
English radio-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōr
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr
Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər
Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír)
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Hellenic *wérgon
Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon)
Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós)
Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek χειρουργέω (kheirourgéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek χειρουργίᾱ̆ (kheirourgíā̆)bor.
Latin chīrūrgiader.
Old French surgie
Old French surgeriebor.
Middle English surgerie
English surgery
English radiosurgery
From radio- + surgery.
Inflected forms:
form: radiosurgeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of a directed beam of X-rays or other ionizing radiation to destroy diseased tissue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
radiotelephony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radio-
English telephony
English radiotelephony
From radio- + telephony.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the transmission of sound (in both directions) using modulated radio waves rather than wires
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
topos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”). Compare topic.
Inflected forms:
form: topoi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toposes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
pos: noun
examples: The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.
gloss: A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site).
pos: noun
gloss: A toilet.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: -topia
topic
Translations:
teletypewriter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
English tele-
English typewriter
English teletypewriter
From tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) + typewriter.
Inflected forms:
form: teletypewriters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of teletype (“telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols”).
pos: noun
Translations:
mashing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mashings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is mashed or beaten to pulp.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the culinary process, there are none of those peelings and washings as in the case of potatoes and turnips, […] none of those squeezings and mashings and choppings, before the worthless mess can be got upon the table.
gloss: The action of soaking malted barley etc., in order to convert starch into sugars as part of the brewing process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: More hot water is added, and the mashing process repeated, until the grain has been wholly deprived of its saccharine matter, which is generally accomplished by three, or at the most, four mashings[…]
gloss: The process of preparing tea in a teapot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: button mashing
Translations:
spirulina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name Spirulina.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A food supplement prepared from blue-green algae of the genus Arthrospira found in soda lakes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Another interesting factor in Spirulina is its effect upon appetite. Either it is so concentrated that the body signals a satisfaction feeling from the digestive tract where Spirulina has a remarkable 85% digestibility […]
Research by the meat and dairy industries has been slanted. New discoveries show that B12 can be found in numerous non-meat sources, such as olives, mushrooms, bananas, spirulina, bee pollen, concord grapes, […]
Translations:
dog-ear
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: The noun is a variant of dog's-ear, from dog + -’s + ear, due to the similarity of their appearance to the folded ears of certain dogs.
The verb is either:
* directly from dog + ear;
* a back-formation from dog-eared; or
* a variant of dog's-ear (verb).
Compound parts: dog
-'s
ear
Inflected forms:
form: dog-ears
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dog ear
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dogear
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dog's-ear
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dog-ears
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dog-earing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dog-eared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dog-eared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dog ear
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dogear
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The folded corner of the page of a book or other publication, either due to having been read many times or intentionally as a sort of bookmark.
pos: noun
gloss: To fold (the corner of the page of a book or other publication).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His eyes went to his book and stayed there long enough to finish a paragraph. He dog-eared it and put it down.
Translations: