yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
transparency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
computing
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
photography
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārentia, equivalent to transparent + -cy.
Base: transparent
Affixes: -cy
Inflected forms:
form: transparencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being transparent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Openness; accessibility to scrutiny.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.
Donald Trump has lashed out against his own supporters, calling them gullible “weaklings” for questioning the transparency of a secretive government inquiry into the late high-profile socialite and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
gloss: A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: According to Bray (Life of Stothard, p. 50), the silversmiths Rundell and Bridge displayed a large transparency by Thomas Stothard, painted in thin oils on canvas and lit from behind, in front of their house on Ludgate Hill in honour of the King's Jubilee in 1810.
It soon came: as they were on their way to a transparency of their majesties, not a little larger than life—with Bellona, in a very handsome helmet, on one side, and Peace, with a cornucopia and a full blown wreath of roses, on the other—the path was interrupted by a little knot of gentlemen.
gloss: A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining light through it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Something transparent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: John Lehmann's narrator Jack Marlowe is such a transparency, and his fiction is totally formless.
gloss: Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: intransparency
nontransparency
overhead transparency
phototransparency
radiotransparency
referential transparency
semitransparency
Translations:
flagstone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From flag + stone.
Compound parts: flag
stone
Inflected forms:
form: flagstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flat, rectangular piece of rock or stone used for paving or roofing.
pos: noun
examples: Grass sprouted between the pebbles and a greenish stain lay upon the flagstones.
In 1946, several of the heavy flagstones, which form the decking of the viaduct, were replaced or reseated, and manholes were provided in the decking, to facilitate access to the inner walls.
gloss: One of several types of rock easily split and suitable for making flagstones.
pos: noun
Related words: flag
Derived words: flagstoned
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: liuske
lang: French
word: dalle
lang: Galician
word: lousa
lang: Japanese
word: 組石
roman: kumiishi
lang: Russian
word: плитня́к
roman: plitnják
lang: Spanish
word: pizarra
transpiration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
physiology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French transpiration, from Medieval Latin transpiratio, from transpiro, from Latin trans + spiro.
Inflected forms:
form: transpirations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants, especially through the stomata; accompanied by a corresponding uptake from the roots.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The passage of gases through fine tubes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: transpire
Derived words: evapotranspiration
hypertranspiration
transpirational
Translations:
transplantable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transplant
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English transplantable
From transplant + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more transplantable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most transplantable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: able to be transplanted
pos: adj
Translations:
transpolar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trans-
English polar
English transpolar
From trans- + polar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: extending across, or crossing one of the poles, or a polar region
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
transponder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of transmitter + responder.
Compound parts: transmitter
responder
Inflected forms:
form: transponders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A radar or radio transceiver that transmits some signal in response to receiving a predetermined signal.
pos: noun
examples: 36 MHz transponder providing a pool of 794 reallocatable frequencies.
Adult animals were implanted with E-Mitter transponders intraabdominally to record body temperature and locomotor activity continuously.
Translations:
transportable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transport
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English transportable
From transport + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more transportable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most transportable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: transportables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being transported; easily moved.
pos: adj
gloss: Incurring the punishment of transportation or exile to another place.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: a transportable offence
gloss: A semi-permanent building, such as a portable classroom in a school, or accommodation for fly-in fly-out workers.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: A portable computer or telephone.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: In some cases, the heavier transportables are replacing desktop PC models — but they are not leaving the office.
Related words: portable
Derived words: nontransportable
transportability
transportableness
untransportable
Translations:
transporter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
literature
media
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transport
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 transporter
From transport + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: transporters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which transports.
pos: noun
gloss: One who, or that which transports.
pos: noun
gloss: One who, or that which transports.
pos: noun
gloss: One who, or that which transports.
pos: noun
gloss: A carrier.
pos: noun
Derived words: autotransporter
biotransporter
car transporter
countertransporter
enterotransporter
nanotransporter
neurotransporter
personal transporter
supertransporter
teletransporter
transporter bridge
transporterome
transtainer
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: siirtäjä
lang: Finnish
word: siirrin
lang: French
word: transporteur
lang: French
word: transporteuse
lang: Galician
word: transportista
lang: Portuguese
word: transportador
lang: Spanish
word: transportista
lang: Swahili
word: msafirishaji
transposable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transpose
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English transposable
From transpose + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: able to be transposed (in any sense)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
transposase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transpose
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English transposase
From transpose + -ase.
Inflected forms:
form: transposases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An enzyme required for the transposition of transposons
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
transposon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transpose
English -on
English transposon
From transpose + -on.
Inflected forms:
form: transposons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to the genome of another species.
pos: noun
examples: 2002, Ahmet Ipek, Introduction of an Ac/Ds Based Two-element Transposon Tagging System and Trans-activation of Ds in Carrot (Daucus Carota L.), University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 44,
Transposon tagging is a powerful technique to identify and clone genes. The successful application of transposon tagging requires previous identification and cloning of a transposon in the species under consideration.
An alternative approach to the use of retroviruses was to use a DNA transposon to integrate DNA into zebrafish chromosomes.
Our genome also contains stretches of genetic material called transposons that, at least in some cases, are thought to have been introduced long ago by viruses.
Translations:
transputer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Blend of transistor + computer.
Compound parts: transistor
computer
Inflected forms:
form: transputers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A single chip with CPU, memory and communications capability, used in grids to form parallel processing computers.
pos: noun
examples: One of the most intriguing advances has been the development of the transputer, a single-chip computer developed by Inmos Ltd.
Translations:
transubstantiation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Medieval Latin trāns-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Medieval Latin sub
Medieval Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *staēōder.
Medieval Latin stō
Medieval Latin substantis
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Medieval Latin -ius
Medieval Latin -ia
Medieval Latin substantia
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Medieval Latin -ō
Medieval Latin trānsubstantiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Medieval Latin -tiō
Medieval Latin trānsubstantiātiōbor.
English transubstantiation
Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānsubstantiātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: transubstantiations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The doctrine holding that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are essentially transformed into the body and blood of Jesus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I was openly dismissive about transubstantiation, by which the host is consecrated, and according to Catholic doctrine, literally turns from mere bread into the body of Christ. “But all the atoms stay the same!” I would insist. “That makes no sense!”
gloss: Conversion of one substance into another.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Related words: transubstantial
transubstantiate
stercoranism
Derived words: transubstantiationism
transubstantiationist
Translations:
transuranic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
English uranic
English transuranic
From trans- + uranic.
Inflected forms:
form: transuranics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of an element: lying beyond uranium in the periodic table; having an atomic number greater than 92.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any element lying beyond uranium in the periodic table.
pos: noun
Translations:
archivist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρχή (ărkhḗ)
Ancient Greek *ἀρχεῖος (*arkheîos)
Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon)bor.
Latin archīvumbor.
French archives
French archiveder.
English archive
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 archivist
From archive + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: archivists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing and organising archives.
pos: noun
examples: The billionaire’s will established a trust to create a staff of archivists that would chronicle and preserve his rise to prominence.
Translations:
mishap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mishap, myshappe, myssehappe, equivalent to mis- + hap.
Base: hap
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
form: mishaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An accident, mistake, or problem.
pos: noun
examples: Since the mishap with the banana peel, he watches his step.
He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.
“Israel deeply regrets the tragic mishap that occurred today at the Nasser Hospital,” the office said in a statement. It went on to say that “Israel values the work of journalists, medical staff and all civilians.”
gloss: Ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
pos: noun
examples: Rome’s readiest champions, repose you here in rest,
Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!
He ſvvet and ſvvet againe vvith ſuch exceſſiue ſvvoonings, as not only himſelfe, but likevviſe all the beholders, did verily deeme, that his life vvas ending. This ſtorme and miſhappe endured about ſome tvvo hovvres, after vvhich hee remayned not cured as his Maſter, but ſo vveary and indiſpoſed, as hee vvas not able to ſtand.
There are certain ceremonies which are observed once a year by a whole community or village, and are intended to safeguard its members from dangers of the forest, and from sickness and mishap during the coming twelve months.
Translations:
hoise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch hisen (modern Dutch hijsen) or Middle Low German hissen. Compare hoist, the modern form.
Inflected forms:
form: hoises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hoising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hoised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hoised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hoist
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hoist
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hoist.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hoist, be raised.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Translations:
tipple
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: Unknown but possibly from a Scandinavian source (see Norwegian tipla), or from tip + -le.
Base: tip
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: tipples
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tipples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tippling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tippled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tippled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Alternative form: tippler
gloss: Any alcoholic drink.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: The comedian would have divers bottles of tipple hidden under bushes and in crannies around his house, and would select guests to embark on his idea of a treasure hunt.
What's your tipple?
I know nothing about vino nero, and have always vaguely thought it a tipple from Sicily. I have never associated it with Venice.
But not a drop to drink … Love Islanders are limited to two tipples a day.
gloss: To sell alcoholic liquor by retail.
pos: verb
gloss: To drink too much alcohol.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.
gloss: To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fall over; to topple.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The men had only moved the trailer about a yard when suddenly it tippled over on its side, and bales of cotton fell on Howarth.
After taking a few moments to recover he turned and meandered towards the closest Supergun, ramming it from the side and watching as it tippled over.
Derived words: tippler
tipply
Translations:
favourable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English favourable, from Old French favorable, from Latin favōrābilis, from favor. By surface analysis, favour + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more favourable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most favourable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: favorable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Apt to win favour; pleasing.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: The candidate wearing the business suit made a favourable impression.
gloss: Expressing or indicating favour or goodwill; approving, encouraging.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: The proposal has received many favourable comments.
The batteries were supplied by Chloride Batteries Limited, under favourable terms, and the stationary charging plants at Aberdeen and Ballater were similarly supplied by Bruce Peebles Limited.
gloss: Useful or helpful.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: We made quick progress, due to favourable winds.
So draw him home to those that mourn
⁠In vain; a favourable speed
⁠Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead
Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn.
Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.
gloss: Convenient or at a suitable time; opportune.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: The rain stopped at a favourable time for our tennis match.
gloss: Auspicious or lucky.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: She says that she was born under a favourable star.
Related words: favour
favourably
favourite
Derived words: disfavourable
favourableness
unfavourable
Translations:
servitor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English servitour, borrowed from Latin servītor, from servīre (“to serve”).
Inflected forms:
form: servitors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who performs the duties of a servant.
pos: noun
examples: The button-covered servitor had no doubt but that his sovereign's answer would be in reply, "Then he may go;" but he was mistaken, for Lady Anne had discovered that she looked well in her beautiful lace nightcaps, as most people do when their flesh has fallen away, and they are verging to the lantern jaw;...
1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida
You'll find no sizars here, or servitors / or other cruel distinctions meant to draw / a line 'twixt rich and poor
Several days passed by, and to all appearance we had quite forgotten our poor old servitor, – so heartless in remembrance is weak humanity to its nearest and dearest, – when, in course of time, it got to be New Year's eve, and we were sitting in our study, awaiting the cook's preparations for dinner, when suddenly we heard a noise as of much tramping.
He heard Rogers' voice raised in the reception room; he stepped to the doorway and saw his servitor arguing with an elderly and trampish man who had got in somehow.
gloss: One who serves in an army; a soldier.
pos: noun
gloss: An undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: servitorship
servitress
Translations:
paraphrase
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French paraphrase.
Inflected forms:
form: paraphrases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paraphrases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paraphrasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paraphrased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paraphrased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning or from memory rather than verbatim.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: paraphrasis
close paraphrase
The article included a brief paraphrase of the speech.
gloss: One of a certain number of Scripture passages turned into verse for use in the service of praise.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
countable
uncountable
gloss: To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase. To repeat a written or spoken phrase/quote using different words, often in a simpler and shorter form, or sometimes in a humorous context.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: She asked the student to paraphrase the passage.
Related words: Etymology of translation
metaphrase
Derived words: paraphrastic
paraphrastical
paraphrastically
Translations:
isotropic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From iso- + -tropic, from Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”).
Base: iso
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having properties that are identical in all directions; exhibiting isotropy
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having the same components in all rotated coordinate systems
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: anisotropic
Related words: coisotropic
isotrope
isotropic helicoid
isotropism
isotropy
semiisotropic
omnidirectional
Derived words: isotropically
isotropize
nonisotropic
pseudoisotropic
semi-isotropic
unisotropic
Translations:
trivia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tréyes
Proto-Indo-European *tri-
Proto-Italic *tri-
Latin tri-
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-
Proto-Italic *wijā
Latin via
Latin -ius
Latin trivius
Latin trivia
English trivia
From Latin trivia, plural of trivium (“place where three roads meet”). The term came to be used for any public place, and then for anything commonplace. Furthermore, because the beginners' course at university was called trivium, the word came to be used only for anything basic, simple and trivial.
Inflected forms:
form: trivia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trivias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These trivia take up too much of the day.
This trivia takes up too much of the day.
There is the story of the famous Hollywood glamour photographer who cooled his heels around Washington for three months while waiting for one of our leading commanders, and then was granted exactly 15 minutes for the sitting. […] Our military leaders simply don't have time for such trivia. Thank God!
gloss: A quiz game that involves obscure facts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I joined the trivia club this semester!
Related words: trivial
triviality
trivialize
Derived words: administrivia
triviaholic
triviaphile
Translations:
dib
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variation of dip and/or dab.
Inflected forms:
form: dibs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dibbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dibbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dibbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dibs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for the purpose of planting a bulb or seed.
pos: verb
gloss: To move in a rapid, cautious manner; especially, with movement like a mouse or rat.
pos: verb
gloss: A dibber (gardening tool).
pos: noun
gloss: One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.
pos: noun
Related words: dibber
dibbing
dibs
Translations:
infinitesimal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin īnfīnītēsimus + -al. Displaced earlier coordinate term fluxion.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more infinitesimal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most infinitesimal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: infinitesimals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute; vanishingly small.
pos: adj
examples: Do you ever get the feeling that you are but an infinitesimal speck, swallowed by the vastness of the universe and beyond?
"You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus."
Then you could say that the doorway exploded. But the particular verb doesn't do the action justice. Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces.
gloss: Of or pertaining to non-zero quantities whose magnitude is less than any positive rational number.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Very small.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: A non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it is not a real number).
pos: noun
gloss: Something infinitesimally small.
pos: noun
examples: It occurred to the hearer, who was accustomed to glean much of his knowledge from the infinitesimals of tone, that there was a spice of "It is my duty and I will" in this praiseworthy resolve which fell short of the ecstatic resolution of the Saturday Nora.
Antonyms: infinite
enormous
Derived words: infinitesimal analysis
infinitesimalness
noninfinitesimal
infinitesimal calculus
infinitesimally
Translations:
anisotropic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English an-
English isotropic
English anisotropic
From an- + isotropic.
Inflected forms:
form: more anisotropic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anisotropic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having properties that differ according to the direction of measurement; exhibiting anisotropy.
pos: adj
examples: The crystal has an anisotropic structure, as it is stronger along its length than laterally.
The obtained low and anisotropic thermal conductivity, and feasibility of synthesis, in addition to other reports on high electron mobility, make arsenene a promising material for a variety of applications, including thermal management and thermoelectric devices..
Translations:
preservative
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French preservatif, from Medieval Latin praeservativus.
Inflected forms:
form: preservatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any agent, natural or artificial, that acts to preserve, especially when added to food.
pos: noun
examples: Salt, sugar, and acid all act as preservatives when making pickles.
gloss: Tending to preserve.
pos: adj
examples: The curators took preservative actions to maintain the ancient collection.
Derived words: biopreservative
cryopreservative
Translations:
dibber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dib
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 dibber
From dib + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dibbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tool with a handle on one end and a point on the other, used in the garden to poke holes in preparation for planting seeds, bulbs, etc.
pos: noun
examples: In dry weather, when plants are drawn out of the seed bed, and planted with a common dibber, receiving daily dribblings of water, many will perish, and all are materially injured.
gloss: One who dibs.
pos: noun
Related words: widger
Translations:
vermicelli
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian vermicelli, plural of vermicello (“little worm”), from verme (“worm”), from Latin vermis + -cello (“diminutive suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: vermicellis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Long, slender pasta, similar to spaghetti, only thinner.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him,) who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.
A favourite old cookbook (and a pile of parsley to use up) inspire this simple salsa verde – parsley, anchovies, capers, olives – in a fairytale tangle of vermicelli[.]
gloss: Any type of long, thin noodles, as in rice vermicelli.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Super-thin rice noodles, or vermicelli, are de rigueur here, but as with pad thai the secret is all in the preparation.
gloss: Chocolate sprinkles.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
usually
Translations:
clarinet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian clarinetto, diminutive of clarino (“trumpet”) (as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet), from Latin clarus.
Alternatively, the word may come from French clarinette, diminutive form of clarine (“bell”), from clarin, from clair (“clear”), from Latin clarus.
Inflected forms:
form: clarinets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).
pos: noun
Translations:
eleventh-hour
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: eleventh hour
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Just before the moment that it is too late; in the nick of time; last-minute.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: Eleventh-hour executive changes are not unique to this outgoing Administration — President Bill Clinton launched a number himself before leaving office.
Cal State Fullerton students Chenglin Lee and Samuel Ortiz saved me with eleventh-hour bibliographic assistance.
Translations:
shoestring
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: American-football
ball-games
baseball
cooking
food
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: The noun is derived from shoe + string. The adjective is derived from the noun, while the verb is derived from terms such as shoestring catch and shoestring tackle.
Compound parts: shoe
string
Inflected forms:
form: shoestrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shoestrings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shoestringing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shoestringed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shoestringed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The string or lace used to secure a shoe to the foot; a shoelace.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Your shoestring is untied.
I am ſure ſhe is not half ſo beautiful, and vvill even venture to ſay, that ſhe is not vvorthy to tie her majeſty's ſhoe-ſtrings.
gloss: An object that is long and thin, like a shoestring (sense 1).
pos: noun
tags: attributive
figuratively
often
gloss: An object that is long and thin, like a shoestring (sense 1).
pos: noun
tags: attributive
figuratively
often
examples: shoestring French fries
gloss: Chiefly in on a shoestring: very little money; a tight budget.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
figuratively
often
examples: He was able to organize the event on a shoestring.
As the 80s cult classic starring Madonna as a gorgeous grifter returns, director Susan Seidelman recalls capturing the zeitgeist on a shoestring budget[.]
gloss: Of a catch or tackle: made near the ground, close to a player's shoes.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
gloss: To tackle (a player) using a shoestring tackle (“one made near the ground, close to a player's shoes”).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To catch (a ball) using a shoestring catch (“one made near the ground, close to a player's shoes”).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We didn't score in our half of the eighth, but it was only because Ernie's line drive was shoestringed by the Giant left fielder, with Rusty Howarth on second.
Most outfielders say that short-hopping a ball so that it looks as if it was caught is more an accident than an art form, but Coach Joe Nossek of the Indians actually tells his charges to hold up the ball after shoestringing it on the off chance that the umpire might be fooled.
Derived words: devil's shoestring
on a shoestring
prairie shoestring
shoestring annexation
shoestringer
shoestring fern
shoestring French fry
shoestring fry
shoestring fungus
shoestring mushroom
shoestring necktie
shoestring tie
shoestring potato
shoestring root rot
shoestring rot
shoestring tackle
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: pitkulainen
anisotropy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English an-
English isotropy
English anisotropy
From an- + isotropy.
Inflected forms:
form: anisotropies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being directionally dependent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Velvet exhibits anisotropy when rotated about its geometric normal.
gloss: The degree to which this property is exhibited.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: isotropy
Derived words: anisotropic
anisotropy energy
bianisotropy
fluorescence anisotropy
magnetic anisotropy
Translations:
isotropy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From iso- + -tropy.
Base: iso
Inflected forms:
form: isotropies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being identical, or having the same physical properties, in all directions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: down this road, as they watched, came a wagon, then a couple of riders, then a coach and another wagon, in daylight which slowly lost its stark isotropy and was flowed into by clouds and chimney smoke and even episodes of weather
Antonyms: anisotropy
Translations:
navette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French navette. By surface analysis, Latin nav- + -ette.
Inflected forms:
form: navettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shuttle bus in France.
pos: noun
examples: To catch the Roissybus from Terminal 1, take the navette from door 22 (line 2)[…]
To address this, we explore the case of the navettes, informal vans that operate in the unlikely and unfriendly formal transport landscape of Brussels.
gloss: A kind of grape that grows in summer.
pos: noun
examples: The summer Navette is less cultivated than the Coleseed, being less prolific, the seeds being much smaller.
gloss: Rapeseed
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A lenticular piece of jewelry.
pos: noun
Translations:
pilose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin pilōsus, from pilus (“hair”).
Inflected forms:
form: more pilose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pilose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pilous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Covered with fine hair.
pos: adj
examples: An icy chill runs down the back of your exoskeleton as the name enters your mind, your very animus shuddering at the sound of it. Something about its form, its essence… it is far too lissom. Too pilose. Too disturbingly… feline.
Translations:
sideboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: card-games
fishing
furniture
games
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: From side + board.
Compound parts: side
board
Inflected forms:
form: sideboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sideboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sideboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sideboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sideboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food.
pos: noun
examples: He procured himself a glass of water from the sideboard, drank half of it and began to pace the room nervously as he talked.
gloss: A board or similar barrier that forms part of the side of something.
pos: noun
examples: Fleming watched the sideboarded truck diminish down the rolling hillside, the stackers atop the hay clutching the sideboards and swaying and bouncing toward the barn.
gloss: A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.
pos: noun
examples: Cards can only be exchanged between the playing deck and the sideboard on a one-to-one basis between duels or matches, and any number of cards, up to fifteen, can be exchanged at once.
Many of your best chances to overcome opposing decks lie in the development of a strong sideboard.
If you plan on playing in tournaments, you'll want to construct a sideboard for your deck.
They can have a 15-card sideboard or no sideboard. The sideboard can be used to replace cards in the deck after each game.
gloss: A restriction on using the right to catch a certain number of fish that was granted in relation to a different fishery.
pos: noun
examples: Conversely, in fisheries with increasing sideboards, economic benefit could be denied to the sideboarded sectors.
gloss: To include (a card) in one's sideboard.
pos: verb
examples: Hopefully you now have a strong grasp on how to sideboard effectively.
This will cause an opponent to suffer from a number of his newly sideboarded cards, now useless to him.
Frantic Purification can be sideboarded to destroy an enchantment, but it shouldn't be drafted unless you have no choice.
gloss: To add sideboards to.
pos: verb
examples: Wood used at the Natioual Guard camps will include flooring for tents. Tents will also be sideboarded for a distance of about three feet up from the ground.
The additional load capacity made available by sideboarding is gained by making the scraper bowl taller without increasing the bowl width.
The Missouri, that grand, sprawling, unpredictable serpent has been sideboarded and tamed, its occasional venom squeezed for the foreseeable future from its muddy fangs.
Related words: buffet
china cabinet
credenza
pie safe
Translations:
beanbag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bean + bag.
Compound parts: bean
bag
Inflected forms:
form: beanbags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bean bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bean-bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: beanbags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beanbagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beanbagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beanbagged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bean bag
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bean-bag
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A piece of soft furniture consisting of a leather or vinyl covering stuffed with dry beans or other similar pellets.
pos: noun
gloss: A small cloth bag filled with dry beans, used as a toy or for exercising the hands.
pos: noun
examples: Does it bounce around like a superball in a hollow cavity? Or does it rapidly lose its force, like a beanbag hitting a pillow?
gloss: A type of juggling ball usually made from leather or cloth stuffed with dry beans.
pos: noun
gloss: A testicle.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
slang
gloss: An idiot.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To shoot with a baton round consisting of a bag of shot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I've beanbagged people before, and nobody has ever just stood right back up, even from a glancing blow.
Synonyms: beanbag chair
Derived words: bean-bag baton
bean-bag chair
beanbag chair
Sacco chair
beanbag race
Translations:
coalescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French coalescence and its etymon Latin coalēscentia. Doublet of coalescency. By surface analysis, coalesce + -ence.
Inflected forms:
form: coalescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coalescency
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of coalescing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The merging of two segments into one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: electrocoalescence
incoalescence
recoalescence
yod coalescence
Translations:
trivium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
education
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
Borrowed from Latin trivium.
Inflected forms:
form: triviums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trivia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The lower division of the liberal arts in a medieval university; grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Surely some demon must possess the lad, / Who showed more wit than ever school-boy had, / And learned his Trivium thus without the rod; / But Alcuin said it was the grace of God.
As to the nature of his studies, there can be no doubt that he [Dante] went through the trivium (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy) of the then ordinary university course.
We find in a broad survey of schools in general that there has also been a disposition to develop a special training in thought and expression either in the mother tongue (as in the Roman schools of Latin oratory), or in the culture tongue (as in Roman schools of Greek oratory), and we find the same element in the mediaeval trivium.
The riddle of existence is the college curriculum that was laid before the Pharaohs, that was taught in the groves by Plato, that formed the trivium and quadrivium, and is to-day laid before the freedmen’s sons by Atlanta University.
gloss: The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
pos: noun
Related words: trivialis
quadrivium
Derived words: trivia
trivial
Translations:
windbag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind + bag.
Base: wind
Inflected forms:
form: windbags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: windbags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: windbagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: windbagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: windbagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Someone who talks excessively.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
mildly
examples: Some windbag. Hell, ain't I seen your kind before? ... Some bag of wind. You're just hot air, that's all.
"Do you hear that, Ryan? Your mommy is being a pontificating windbag."
gloss: The lungs.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: Bellows for an organ.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: To talk pompously or excessively.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
intransitive
Synonyms: gasbag
bag of wind
bloviator
Translations:
lanthanide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lanthanium
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English lanthanide
From lanthanium + -ide.
Inflected forms:
form: lanthanides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the 15 rare earth elements from lanthanum to lutetium in the periodic table; because their outermost orbitals are not filled, they have very similar chemistry; below them are the actinides.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the 14 rare earth elements from lanthanum to ytterbium (lutetium is excluded by some authors as it is a d-block rather than an f-block element).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the 14 rare earth elements from cerium to lutetium (lanthanum having been excluded because it was thought to be a d-block element in the past).
pos: noun
tags: dated
Synonyms: lanthanate
lanthanoid
lanthanon
rare-earth element
Related words: lanthanum
cerium
praseodymium
neodymium
promethium
samarium
europium
gadolinium
terbium
dysprosium
holmium
erbium
thulium
ytterbium
lutetium
Derived words: lanthanide contraction
lanthanide series
nonlanthanide
radiolanthanide
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: lantanied
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鑭系元素 /镧系元素
roman: lánxì yuánsù
lang: Finnish
word: lantanidi
lang: Finnish
word: lantanoidi
lang: French
word: lanthanide
lang: German
word: Lanthanoid
lang: Greek
word: λανθανίδιο
roman: lanthanídio
lang: Hungarian
word: lantanoida
lang: Icelandic
word: lanþaníð
lang: Icelandic
word: lantaníð
lang: Italian
word: lantanide
lang: Japanese
word: ランタノイド
roman: rantanoido
lang: Romanian
word: lantanidă
lang: Russian
word: лантано́ид
roman: lantanóid
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: lantanoid
lang: Spanish
word: lantánido
lang: Turkish
word: lantanit
actinide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From actin- + -ide.
Base: actin
Inflected forms:
form: actinides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the 15 radioactive elements of the periodic table from actinium to lawrencium that are positioned under the lanthanides, to which they have similar chemistry.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the 14 elements from actinium to nobelium (lawrencium is excluded by some authors as it is a d-block rather than an f-block element).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the 14 elements from thorium to lawrencium (actinium having been mistakenly excluded because it was thought to be a d-block element in the past).
pos: noun
tags: dated
Related words: actinium
thorium
protactinium
uranium
neptunium
plutonium
americium
curium
berkelium
californium
einsteinium
fermium
mendelevium
nobelium
lawrencium
Derived words: actinidic
nonactinide
organoactinide
radioactinide
superactinide
transactinide
Translations:
salle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French salle. Doublet of sala and sale.
Inflected forms:
form: salles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fencing school.
pos: noun
examples: Your local fencing salle is a good place to relax and unwind and let the cares of the day take a backseat for a while. Meeting someone on the fencing strip, blade in hand, can become your only concern for two or three hours a couple of times a week.
Translations: