yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
stereochemistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ster-der.
Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós)
Ancient Greek στερεο- (stereo-)der.
English stereo-
English chemistry
English stereochemistry
From stereo- + chemistry.
Inflected forms:
form: stereochemistries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the branch of chemistry that involves the spatial arrangement of the atoms of molecules, and studies how this affects the physical and chemical properties of such species
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: the effect of such spatial arrangement on the chemistry of a particular compound
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: stereochemical
Translations:
endodermis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dóm
Proto-Hellenic *éndon
Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon)der.
English endo-
English dermis
English endodermis
From endo- (“within”) + dermis (“skin”).
Inflected forms:
form: endodermises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: endodermides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a plant stem or root, a cylinder of cells that separates the outer cortex from the central core. The endodermis controls flow of water and minerals within the plant. In most plants, this tissue is restricted to the roots.
pos: noun
gloss: The deepest layer of the skin.
pos: noun
Related words: endoderm
Translations:
effete
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin effētus (“exhausted”, literally “that has given birth”), 1620s.
Inflected forms:
form: more effete
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most effete
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: effœte
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Nature is not effœte, as he saith, or so lavish, to bestow all her gifts upon an age, but hath reserved some for posterity, to shew her power, that she is still the same, and not old or consumed.
gloss: Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
pos: adj
examples: Amid the effete monarchies and princedoms of feudal Europe, morally and materially exhausted by the Thirty Years' War, the only hope of resistance to France lay in the little Republic of merchants, Holland.
They used rock'n'roll as a weapon against itself. With all instruments but guitar, bass, drums, and voice written off as effete, as elitist accoutrements of a professionalist cult of technique, it was music best suited to anger and frustration, […]
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete core of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals (Spiro Agnew, October 1969)
Most writers merely produce effete works on paper, you might say, but Kerouac went and wrestled with the tree itself.
For the President, the EU is an essentially effete project – a civilian power that likes to see itself as human rights based and collegiate, but with no hard power of its own.
gloss: Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
pos: adj
examples: In fact, one obvious project of the MLF […] is to counter the idea that lobster is unusually luxe or unhealthy, suitable only for effete palates or the occasional blow-the-diet treat.
gloss: Affected, overrefined.
pos: adj
examples: The Port Washington players all wear matching socks and shorts and tucked-in shirts. They look sharp but effete, a mannequinish aspect to them.
Derived words: effetely
effeteness
noneffete
uneffete
Translations:
pilled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
Inflected forms:
form: more pilled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pilled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pilled-up, intoxicated on pills.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Remember when I was bumming around Chelsea on the purple hearts! The chicks there thought I was God's gift to their little bohemia. A real devil. ‘I'm pilled to the gills,’ I'd tell them and their little eyes would grow as big as plates.
I never give these randy bastards a second glance when I'm dancing because when I'm pilled sex is too slow and anyway my legs are like rubber and I feel like I can out-dance anyone.
gloss: Of woven fabric: having formed small matted balls of fiber.
pos: adj
Derived words: black-pilled
pilled out
unpilled
Translations:
tardiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tardy
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 tardiness
From tardy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: tardinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being tardy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Some ten years ago, an evening excursion train from the Walsall area to Manchester, when travelling well over the heavily-graded Walsall-Rugeley line, was brought to a stand at a level crossing at Hednesford by the tardiness of a gatekeeper, who was pottering about in his garden instead of attending to his duties.
gloss: The result or product of being tardy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: tardity
Antonyms: earliness
punctuality
Translations:
interferometry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English interfere
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -μετρία (-metría)der.
Latin -metriader.
Old French -métrieder.
English -metry
English interferometry
From interfere + -o- + -metry.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The design and use of optical or radio interferometers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rodman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English *rodd
Middle English rodde
English rod
English -man
English rodman
From rod + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: rodmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of rodsman.
pos: noun
Translations:
druggie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English drug
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
▲
Scots -ieinflu.
English -ie
English druggie
From drug + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: druggies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: druggy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A drug addict or abuser.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: All up and down the promenade outside King's Cross, druggies are making eye contact with one another.
I’ve tried repeatedly, over the course of my life, to become a druggie.
Translations:
pneuma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Gnosticism
entertainment
lifestyle
music
religion
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma, “wind, breath, spirit”), from πνέω (pnéō, “I blow, breathe”). Doublet of neume.
Inflected forms:
form: pneumas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pneumata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A neume.
pos: noun
examples: With swaying arms they wail in pneuma over the recreant Bloom.
gloss: The spirit or soul.
pos: noun
examples: But bound to reach out and beyond this flesh. / Become Pneuma
gloss: One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul.
pos: noun
Derived words: dasy pneuma
pneumasis
pneumatic
pneumatism
psilon pneuma
Translations:
interferometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English interfer(e)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.
English -meter
English interferometer
From interfer(e) + -o- + -meter.
Inflected forms:
form: interferometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several instruments that use the interference of waves to determine wavelengths and wave velocities, determine refractive indices, measure small distances, temperature changes, stresses, and many other useful measurements.
pos: noun
Translations:
intermetallic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English metallic
English intermetallic
From inter- + metallic.
Inflected forms:
form: intermetallics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, acting between, or comprising two or more metals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An intermetallic compound must be present, the high freezing-point of which indicates that it is formed from its components with the liberation of a large amount of energy.
gloss: An intermetallic compound.
pos: noun
Translations:
pottle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English potell, potel, from Old French potel, diminutive of pot; see more at pot.
Inflected forms:
form: pottles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pottles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pottling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pottled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pottled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot or drinking vessel of around this size.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead drunk; he sweats not to overthrow your Almain; he gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle can be filled.
c. 1605, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore Part 2, London: Nathaniel Butter, 1630,
a pottle of Greeke wine
And yonder sate Desborough with a dry pottle of sack before him, which he had just emptied, and which, though the element in which he trusted, had not restored him sense enough to speak, or courage enough to look over his shoulder.
gloss: A small food container, usually made of plastic or cardboard, typically used for containing hot chips, yoghurt or other foodstuffs.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
examples: Outside, I ripped open the bag to reveal the chips were sitting inside a paper pottle. A pottle!
Did you know that the six and four-pack pottle yogurts – the kind we buy for lunches – can’t be recycled.
In recent weeks, he’s been taken aback by the price of the fresh fruit and vegetables they use for their pottles of raw fish.
gloss: A small pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Strawberry pottles are often half cabbage leaves, a few tempting strawberries being displayed on the top of the pottle.
He had a paper-bag under each arm and a pottle of strawberries in one hand, and was out of breath.
2005, Dan Keding and Amy Douglas (eds.), English Folktales, World Folklore Series, Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, →ISBN, page 21,
"I was wondering whether you’ve got such a thing as a pottle of brains to spare?"
gloss: To place in a pottle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: pottleful
pottlepot
Translations:
prebendary
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin praebendārius, from Late Latin praebenda (“literally ‘things to be supplied’; prebend”), neuter plural of gerundive of praebeō (“supply”), from prae- (“pre-”) + habeō (“have, hold”).
Inflected forms:
form: prebendaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An honorary canon of a cathedral or collegiate church.
pos: noun
examples: Among the prebendaries have been men eminent for their learning and piety: as Lancelot Andrews, bishop of Winchester, Dr. Sherlock, Archdeacon Paley, and the Rev. William Beloe, B.D. well known by his translation of Herodotus.
Wolverhampton church, dedicated to St. Mary, was a collegiate establishment, with a dean as president, and a number of prebendaries or canons who were “secular” priests, and not brethren of any of the regular “orders of monks.” […] A prebendary, it may be explained, is one who enjoys a prebend or canonical portion; that is, who receives in right of his place, a share out of the common stock of the church for his maintenance.
The great church, the residences of the dean and the two prebendaries, the choir and its appurtenances, were all intact and in working order.
gloss: Pertaining to the office or person of a prebendary; prebendal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This is at least a third of the way up the career path to being a saint. Conscientious men (and women for that matter) often hear a sort of susurration in their ears when they achieve this prebendary status.
gloss: Of or relating to official positions that are profitable for the incumbent, to the allocation of such positions, or to a system in which such allocation is prevalent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: While in the cloth, all clerics, regardless of social origins, were members of privileged class, exempt from corvée and taxes and sharing the government’s prebendary benefices of land and conscript labor.
Following Max Weber, I define the prebendary state as a regime where those who hold state power live off politics. In addition to their salaries, the rulers and officials of the state benefit from the perquisites of office, either in the form of bribes or outright appropriation of public monies from the various government agencies and state enterprises for private ends (Weber 1968, 86-95, 206-9). […] Under a prebendary regime, a fraction of the middle or dominant class controls the state by allying itself with a supreme ruler or dictator.
In the contemporary world prebendary income for officials can be found in all third world countries where public revenues are inadequate to cover salaries at a sufficiently high level to enable bureaucrats to sustain what they regard as a proper standard of living. […] However, in societies where traditional bureaucratic practices are well remembered, and where a “formalistic” dichotomy between what is officially prescribed and what is actually practiced prevails, it is scarcely surprising if the real (prebendary) income of many, if not most public officials, should far exceed their formally prescribed salary levels.
Translations:
made-for-TV
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Produced for or originally distributed by a television network as opposed to being shown in cinemas.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
copywriter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: advertising
business
marketing
Etymology: From copy + writer.
Compound parts: copy
writer
Inflected forms:
form: copywriters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who writes advertising copy (the text used in advertisements).
pos: noun
Translations:
bodacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Southern American slang, implied by bodaciously, 1837, either from bodyaciously (“bodily, totally, root and branch”, antebellum South Carolina)
or a blend of bold and audacious.
Inflected forms:
form: more bodacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bodacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bardacious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: boldacious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bowdacious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Audacious and unrestrained.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: If you’re going to lie, you might as well tell a bodacious lie.
1898, Emma M. Bachus, “Tales of the Rabbit from Georgia Negroes” in Journal of American Folk-Lore (Vol 12, No 45), page 115. Google Book page link.
Then that bodacious Brer Rabbit, he go softly through the bresh, and just creep inside that pig and lay hisself down, and he lay out to keep he eye open and watch out for the cart, but ’fore he know hisself he fall asleep.
As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were ‘baaaaaad’. The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.
Bodacious living is evident everywhere, but it's easy not to notice the remarkable people and happenings that are present all around.
Modestly titled ‘Appeal’ with a more particular subtitle, Walker’s text was probably the most bodacious expression of cultural discontent and disavowal of slavery that American society had ever known.
gloss: Incorrigible and insolent.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: You, sir, are a bodacious scoundrel.
gloss: Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
US
slang
examples: bodacious - Extremely strong, as in reference to an incoming signal.
Twenty meters in diameter to match the bore of the huge Japanese ore drilling machines, the floor had been leveled by an equally bodacious milling robot, and the shiny metallic walls seemed to stretch on to infinity.
You can find the most bodacious barbecue and a library designed by noted postmodernist architect Michael Graves.
gloss: Sexy, attractive.
pos: adj
examples: [Patrick] Stewart has “been named The Most Bodacious Man on TV by the readers of TV Guide (1992), one of the 10 Sexiest Men by Playgirl (1995), and one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine (1995)”. Asked how he felt about TV Guide’s readers voting him “The Most Bodacious Man on TV,” Stewart replied, “It still astonishes me. It is truly incomprehensible to this day. But it’s very pleasant.”
Bill Ward has always been known for drawing the biggest, bustiest, most bodacious babes to strut across a comic book or cartoon panel.
Derived words: bodaciously
bodaciousness
bodalicious
Translations:
coeducation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
Latin ēducātiōder.
English education
English coeducation
From co- + education.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the education of male and female students in the same institution
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
conjugative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conjugate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English conjugative
From conjugate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more conjugative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conjugative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or producing combination or conjunction; combinative or connective.
pos: adj
Translations:
Cycladic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Cycladic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Cycladic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the Cyclades.
pos: adj
Translations:
dysmorphic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dys- + -morphic.
Base: dys
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relative to, producing, or having dysmorphism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The first clue to possible genetic disease is usually the appearance of the infant, who does not ‘look right’ – in other words, he is dysmorphic.
Much of the suffering experienced by disabled or dysmorphic people is socially determined and value laden.
Unfortunately, while disabled people can often avoid “taking it personally,” it may be more difficult for nondisabled audiences to dissociate dramatic portrayals inside film and theatre from the real experience of dysmorphic features off the stage and screen and their personal experiences with dysmorphic people.
gloss: Usually body dysmorphic: Having or relating to dysmorphia, also known as body dysmorphic disorder.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Body weight and weight change can highlight psychological and control issues, lack of confidence and body dysmorphic tendencies, all of which accompany the potential stress related to infertility.
“The patient spoke once or twice about a nightmare. Perhaps there was some mention of mirrors, and while some counsel removing mirrors to avoid encouraging dysmorphic tendencies, we find that such a practice might create greater harm,” said Hughes, now very much the polite and civilized man of medicine responding in ten-dollar words to a worried relative.
My therapist asked me if I had any ideas of what might have changed for me between ninth grade and eleventh grade; between being a blissfully unaware pubescent girl and becoming a body dysmorphic teenager suffering from severe anemia.
Derived words: body dysmorphic disorder
money dysmorphic
nondysmorphic
Translations:
elocution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English elocucioun, ellocucioun, from Late Latin ēlocutiōnem. Doublet of elocutio.
Inflected forms:
form: elocutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art of speaking, especially public speaking, with expert control of gesture and voice, diction (articulation and word choice), and usage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: perfect elocution
elocution training
study elocution
She took elocution lessons to improve her public speaking.
His elocution was precise and clear.
Translations:
workplace
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
English place
English workplace
From work + place.
Inflected forms:
form: workplaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The place where someone works.
pos: noun
examples: Meronyms: workspace, workstation
in the workplace
professionalism in the workplace
The catalyst was the introduction of the Health & Safety at Work Act in 1974. While it applied to all workplaces, it gradually brought about a sea change in the attitude towards death and injury. Accidents were no longer accepted as 'inevitable'.
It [the West Midlands Rail Executive] also notes that some people are choosing to live further from their workplace and commute less often.
In a workplace where everyone wears company-branded jackets and attends the monthly team happy hour, the otrovert might go occasionally, but their sense of self is untouched by whether they participate or not.
Translations:
wah
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: weh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cry of fright, distress, etc. (especially of an infant or young child)
pos: intj
gloss: A cry of amazement, delight, etc.
pos: intj
examples: ‘Wah! Wah! Wah!’ they shouted and threw up their arms in delight.
Translations:
drained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-der.
Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *draugiz
Proto-Germanic *drauhnōną
Proto-West Germanic *drauhnōn
Old English drēahnian
Middle English *dreinen
English drain
English -ed
English drained
From drain + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more drained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most drained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking motivation and energy; very tired; knackered.
pos: adj
examples: I felt so drained after that three-hour exam that I wanted to sleep for the next week.
gloss: Of a battery, empty of charge; discharged.
pos: adj
Derived words: nondrained
undrained
Translations:
medic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin medicus m (“of or belonging to healing, curative, medical; as a noun, medicus, masculine, a physician, doctor, surgeon”), Late Latin medica f (“a female physician, midwife”), from mederi (“to heal”).
Inflected forms:
form: medics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to medicines; medical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A physician.
pos: noun
gloss: A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military.
pos: noun
gloss: A medical student.
pos: noun
Related words: medical
medicament
medicate
medication
medicinal
medicine
premedication
Derived words: premedic
Translations:
hotline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hot
Middle French lignerbor.
English line
English hotline
From hot + line.
Inflected forms:
form: hotlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hot line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hotlines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hotlining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hotlined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hotlined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hot line
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A telephone line that is always staffed and able to give immediate assistance.
pos: noun
examples: If you've got any problems with the product, ring our hotline.
[M]any mobile phone companies have nuisance call hotlines, to which you can report a bully's phone number.
Suicidal people can have discussions about suicide on pro-life peer-to-peer forums and hotlines without fear of judgment or intervention.
Tim McIntyre, executive vice president of communication for Domino’s, said in an email the company has developed other features to help disabled customers, like voice-activated ordering devices and a hotline that customers with screen-readers can use to report difficulties with the site.
Increasing access to mental health services in remote and rural areas, where suicide rates tend to be higher, is a priority, and the 988 hotline is a useful bridge to those communities, Dr. Crawford said.
gloss: A direct line between two people, especially one between heads of state to be used in an emergency.
pos: noun
gloss: To communicate over a telephone hotline.
pos: verb
Derived words: crisis hotline
hotliner
Translations:
gunpoint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gun + point.
Compound parts: gun
point
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A location in the front of the muzzle of a gun.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Threat or coercion by display or aiming a firearm or similar weapon.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: knifepoint
point blank
Derived words: at gunpoint
Translations:
mascot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French mascotte, from Occitan mascòta (“sortilege”), feminine diminutive of masca (“witch”), from Old Occitan masca, from Medieval Latin masca (“specter, nightmare”). More at mask.
Inflected forms:
form: mascots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mascotte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: mascots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mascoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mascoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mascoted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mascotte
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Something thought to bring good luck.
pos: noun
examples: I keep this red stone as a lucky mascot and always put it on my desk in exams.
gloss: Something, especially a person or animal, used to symbolize a sports team, company, organization or other group.
pos: noun
examples: Tommy the Tyke is the mascot of Barnsley FC.
gloss: A person engaged by an organization to portray its mascot in costume.
pos: noun
examples: He's been working as a mascot at local hockey games.
gloss: A personality type characterized by reliance on humor and positivity to wish away conflicts and attempt to defuse potentially violent situations.
pos: noun
gloss: To act as a mascot (for).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The seniors were “mascoted” by two little girls dressed in green dresses […]
Unlike the popular, sunny Van Zelst, McLoon was a sassy, hard-boiled kid who had been mascoting for various athletic teams and prize fighters […]
Bennett then signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, whom he mascoted to the 1921 pennant and two wins in the first three games of the World Series, which were played at home.
Derived words: desktop mascot
mascot horror
mascotism
mascotry
Translations:
transversely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transverse
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 transversely
From transverse + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: transversally
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a transverse manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first.
Translations:
hecka
Part of speech: det
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A euphemism for hella, using heck, a euphemism for hell. Slang meaning “very” or “a lot of”
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of hella.
pos: det
examples: There are hecka bugs on the floor.
gloss: very
pos: adv
tags: slang
Translations:
discourteous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English courteous
English discourteous
From dis- + courteous.
Inflected forms:
form: more discourteous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most discourteous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Impolite; lacking consideration for others.
pos: adj
examples: Kirk, who succeeded Drumright, had an unusually short tour of duty in Taipei—only about a year. Despite the shortness of his duty, he left the impression of being an old sea captain who would have felt more at home barking his orders from the bridge than heading an important diplomatic mission. There was nothing civil or gentle about him, and even in talking to President Chiang, he sounded gruff and blunt. I could see that the President really didn't enjoy the envoy's company, but he remained unperturbed and discussed in a calm and friendly manner whatever had prompted the Ambassador to seek the audience. Once I heard him remark half to himself: "How could anyone be so discourteous?"
Antonyms: courteous
Translations:
pedagogic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1781. From French pédagogique, from Latin paedagōgicus, pēdagōgicus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγικός (paidagōgikós), from παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós, “teacher, tutor”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”) + ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”).
Inflected forms:
form: more pedagogic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pedagogic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: paedagogic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pædagogic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of pedagogical.
pos: adj
Translations:
pedagogical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pedagogic
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 pedagogical
From pedagogic + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more pedagogical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pedagogical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: paedagogical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: pædagogical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to pedagogy; teaching.
pos: adj
examples: As we look back into the early collections of qin notations, known as qinpu, we find an interesting collection of pictures in the pedagogical sections of several important qinpu.
The value of pedagogical material informed by objective methodological procedures developed in corpus linguistics is widely recognized.
She also noted that the administration, in a letter in April, “specifically conditioned funding on agreeing to its ten terms, only one of which related to antisemitism, while six related to ideological and pedagogical concerns, including who may lead and teach at Harvard, who may be admitted, and what may be taught.”
gloss: Haughty and formal.
pos: adj
Derived words: orthopedagogical
pedagogical dictionary
pedagogically
unpedagogical
Translations:
preteen
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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 teen
English preteen
From pre- + teen.
Inflected forms:
form: pre-teen
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: preteens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pre-teen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or designed for, or being children between the ages of approximately 10 and 12.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A child between approximately 10 and 12 years of age, at the onset of adolescence.
pos: noun
Translations:
maceration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Latin mācerātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: macerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of macerating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] proposed that the small size of the teeth […] implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.
Translations:
changeability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English change
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
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 changeability
From change + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: changeabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being changeable; changeableness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, page 9 (2001 Perennial Edition).
It was chilly that April, with the awkward changeability of English spring.
Translations:
macerator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English macerate
English -or
English macerator
From macerate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: macerators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A machine that reduces solids to small pieces.
pos: noun
Translations:
byre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bire, bier, byr, from Old English bȳre.
Inflected forms:
form: byres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: It was here in the kitchen, in the passage,
In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market-place [...]
’Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’
The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns.
Translations:
massy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English massy; equivalent to mass + -y.
Base: mass
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: massier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: massiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Heavy; massive.
pos: adj
examples: Their plumed helmes are wrought with beaten golde, / Their ſwords enameld, and about their neckes / Hangs maſſie chaines of golde downe to the waſte, / In euery part exceding braue and rich.
Eevning approachd / (For we have alſo our Eevning and our Morn, / We ours for change delectable, not need) / Forthwith from dance to ſweet repaſt they turn / Deſirous, all in Circles as they ſtood, / Tables are ſet, and on a ſudden pil'd / With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows: / In Pearl, in Diamond, and maſſie Gold, / Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heav'n.
This utter'd, ſtraining all his nerves he bow'd, / As with the force of winds and waters pent, / When Mountains tremble, thoſe two maſſie Pillars / With horrible convulſion to and fro, / He tugg'd, he ſhook, till down they came and drew / The whole roof after them, […]
Brown accompanied his jolly landlord and the rest of his friends into the large and smoky kitchen, where this savoury mess reeked on an oaken table, massy enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry-men.
And the true art for such popular display is to contrive the best forms for appearing to say something new, when in reality you are but echoing yourself; to break up massy chords into running variations; and to mask, by slight differences in the manner, a virtual identity in the substance.
We develop a set of six coupled equations governing the modal amplitudes and phase angles (mode-center offsets) for the flat, piezoelectric plate resonator with massy electrodes of unequal thickness.
Translations:
matting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
Inflected forms:
form: mattings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mats, a collection of ground coverings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His departure oppressed me with melancholy, and, re-entering the dwelling, I threw myself almost in despair upon the matting of the floor.
The doorways had a transverse mat well with a 1½in thick floor mat. In service it was discovered that the matting absorbed moisture which eventually resulted in corrosion of the steel.
gloss: Coarse fabric, of the kind used to make mats.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ... the sails are of Matting and are made narrow at the head and Square at the foot,...
Besides Cloth they [Tahitians] make several different sorts of matting, both better and finer than any we have in Europe; the stuff they make it on is the Produce of the Palm tree.
gloss: A dull surface, often used for surrounding pictures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: Canton matting
China matting
coconut matting
image matting
India matting
Russia matting
Translations:
orgiastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀργιαστικός (orgiastikós, “exciting”), from ὀργιαστής (orgiastḗs, “orgy celebrator”), from ὀργιάζειν (orgiázein, “to celebrate orgies”), from ὄργια (órgia).
Inflected forms:
form: more orgiastic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most orgiastic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to an orgy; uncontrolled, wild.
pos: adj
examples: 1919, Sax Rohmer, Dope
Dancing was in progress, or, rather, one of those orgiastic ceremonies which passed for dancing during this pagan period.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther … And one fine morning—
Translations:
contraception
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: contraceptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of a device or procedure to prevent conception as a result of sexual activity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
ghostbuster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ghost + buster, popularized by the 1984 film Ghostbusters.
Compound parts: ghost
buster
Inflected forms:
form: ghostbusters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ghost buster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ghost-buster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who purports to rid a place of ghosts.
pos: noun
Translations:
discretionary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From discretion + -ary (“pertaining to”). Compare French discrétionnaire.
Base: discretion
Affixes: -ary
Inflected forms:
form: more discretionary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most discretionary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Available at one's discretion; able to be used as one chooses; left to or regulated by one's own discretion or judgment.
pos: adj
examples: discretionary income
discretionary powers
The new normal: Will demand quickly return to pre-COVID levels?
Unlikely, if only because with the country (and the world) in deep recession, many younger people will be in serious financial difficulty. A lack of disposable income simply won't allow them much discretionary travel.
Translations:
entitlement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English entitle
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English entitlement
From entitle + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: entitlements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The right to have something, whether actual or perceived.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The auxiliary members of the royal family often have the greatest capacity to inflame public scepticism about monarchy, and Prince Harry once seemed determined to personify the entitlement and pointlessness that could have jeopardised the continuity of the crown.
gloss: Power, an authority to do something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something to which one is entitled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A legal obligation on a government to make payments to a person, business, or unit of government that meets the criteria set in law, such as social security in the US.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: disentitlement
overentitlement
underentitlement
Translations:
untimely
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English untymely (also earlier untimliche), equivalent to un- + timely. First attested in the early 13th century. Compare Middle Danish utimelig, Old English untídlic (“unreasonable”).
Base: timely
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: untimelier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more untimely
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: untimeliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most untimely
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more untimely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most untimely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: At an inopportune time.
pos: adj
examples: untimely remarks
gloss: Early; premature.
pos: adj
examples: an untimely death
The heroes of literary as well as civil history have been very often no less remarkable for what they have suffered, than for what they have atchieved^([sic]); and volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned, and relate their unhappy lives, and untimely deaths.
Untimely blossom! Poor, impatient thing, / ⁠That, starting rashly from the sheltering mould, / ⁠Bravest the peevish wind and sullen cold, / ⁠Mistaking thine own ardors for the spring
gloss: Prematurely.
pos: adv
examples: Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb / Untimely ript.
They light fires under fruit trees to keep the fruit from falling untimely.
Couldst thou go from us, in thy beauteous June, / Leaving a sense of joy untimely perished, / ⁠Of music stilled too soon?
Synonyms: untimeless
ill-timed
intempestive
inopportune
mistimed
timeless
unseasonable
untime
untimely
untimeous
Antonyms: opportune
timely
Related words: untimeliness
inopportunely
Derived words: untimelily
untimeliness
Translations:
appointee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: French appointé, from appointer.
Inflected forms:
form: appointees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a person who is appointed
pos: noun
examples: The ambassador is a political appointee, not a career diplomat.
Translations:
low-key
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Topics: art
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
Etymology: From low + key.
Compound parts: low
key
Inflected forms:
form: more low-key
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most low-key
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lowkey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: low key
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: lowk
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: LWK
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: lwk
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more low-key
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most low-key
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: lowkey
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: low key
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: lowk
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: LWK
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: lwk
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Dark; characterized by dark tones and muted colors.
pos: adj
examples: The classic example of low key photography is a black cat in a coal cellar. […] The most popular use of low-key photography is in making portraits of celebrities or theatrical personalities. These people demand either dignity or drama, and this type of lightning is appropriate for both.
gloss: Restrained, subtle, not trying to attract attention.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: She deserves an Oscar for her low-key performance in that movie.
For a low-key, somewhat predictable meal, dinner at Basem's offers good value.
[David Blaine's] deceptively low-key, ultracool manner leaves spectators more amazed than if he'd razzle-dazzled.
From the Samba band and colourfully-clad dancers that made a lap of Wembley before kick-off - even prompting some neat moves from one or two Brazilian journalists - to the roars of delight every time Neymar got on the ball, it was still a night that contained entertainment despite the increasingly low-key fare on the pitch.
The relatively low-key opening was attended by Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram, who declared "We have a brand-new station serviced with brand-new lines and new publicly owned trains.
[Senator Todd] Young is a low-key Indiana lawmaker with an enthusiasm for wonky, but important national security issues. He's a protégé of the late Sen. Richard Lugar, a low-key Indiana lawmaker who had an enthusiasm for wonky but important national security issues.
gloss: Used as a downtoner; kind of.
pos: adv
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
examples: I'm low key salty about the way that nigga did you but it seems like he still cares about you.
Before I open the messages, I disable the activity notification so no one will know I'm low-key obsessed with a party I didn't get to attend.
“Is this a social experiment? I’m 95 percent sure it is,” said Alex Feinstein, an accountant. “I low-key think it’s an N.Y.U. production.”
gloss: Actually; seriously.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
examples: Lowkey if you talk about any woman like this you gotta die
gloss: In a low-key or surreptitious manner; secretively; understatedly; on the down-low.
pos: adv
tags: slang
Related words: a little
literally
Translations:
paramilitary
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Hellenic *pərai
Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ́ (părắ)
Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ- (pără-)der.
English para-
English military
English paramilitary
From para- + military.
Inflected forms:
form: paramilitaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: para-military
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: para-military
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion, but which do not represent the formal forces of a sovereign power.
pos: noun
examples: From the start of its operations in Colombia, the company was on guard against the decadeslong civil strife in the country between left-wing guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups, witnesses have testified.
Cossack paramilitaries operate in Ukraine and southern Russia. […] Before he entered eastern Ukraine, Girkin led paramilitary groups in Crimea and negotiated with Ukrainian military officers in attempts to induce them to defect to Russia.
gloss: A member of a paramilitary group.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: Relating to a paramilitary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: