yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
prologue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
cycling
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English prologue, prologe, from Old French prologue, from Latin prologus, from Ancient Greek πρόλογος (prólogos). Equivalent to pro- + -logue.
Affixes: pro-
-logue
Inflected forms:
form: prologues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prolog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: prologues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prologuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prologued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prologued
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prolog
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
pos: noun
tags: rhetoric
examples: “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”
gloss: One who delivers a prologue.
pos: noun
examples: And hither am I come, / A Prologue arm’d, but not in confidence / Of Authors pen, or Actors voyce;
gloss: A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
pos: noun
gloss: An individual time trial before a stage race, used to determine which rider wears the leader's jersey on the first stage.
pos: noun
gloss: A liturgical book containing daily readings, including hagiography.
pos: noun
gloss: To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
pos: verb
tags: rhetoric
examples: […]harbindgers preceading ſtill the fates
and prologue to the Omen comming on[…]
Antonyms: epilogue
epilog
Derived words: prologetic
prologuelike
prologuise
prologuize
Translations:
karmic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From karma + -ic.
Base: karma
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: karmaic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to karma.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ken Kesey was one who supported abortion only to save the life of the mother, arguing that society needed to care about everyone, including “the un-dead old [and]^([sic]) the un-born young.” As he put it, “Abortions are a terrible karmic bummer.”
Raymond Gunt is not a nice person. He might just be, as more than one character in Douglas Coupland’s 14th novel remarks, the Worst. Person. Ever. He’s far-fetchedly horrible. A grotesque. A supernova of bad karmic energy.
Translations:
C-suite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: management
Etymology: From C in chief + suite.
Inflected forms:
form: C-suites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The group of officers of a business organization who have the word chief in their titles.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: CXO
THE customer is king. So some firms have started appointing chief customer officers (CCOs) to serve the king more attentively. These new additions to the (already crowded) C-suite are supposed to look at the business from the customer’s point of view.
gloss: Senior headquarters executives: the chiefs and their immediate subordinates.
pos: noun
Translations:
overfull
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: From Middle English overful, overfulle, from Old English oferfull (“overfull”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *uberfullaz; equivalent to over- + full. Cognate with German übervoll (“overfull”), Swedish överfull (“overfull”).
Base: full
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overful
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: overfulls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: excessively filled; full to overflowing
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A full house that beats someone else's full house.
pos: noun
examples: […] let's say the flop comes 9-9-8, with the open pair on top. One player has J-T-9-8 for the overfull—9s full of 8s for the nut full house—while another player has 8-8-7-6 for 8s full of 9s and the "underfull". The player with the underfull is both getting smashed and drawing dead.
Antonyms: underfull
Translations:
top-heavy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more top-heavy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most top-heavy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: having a high centre of gravity, and liable to topple
pos: adj
examples: Legion: Your new platform is inefficient. It has low-volume hydraulics and is top-heavy.
gloss: having an excessive number of administrators or managers
pos: adj
gloss: Having a significant portion of the plan assets allocated to key employees to the detriment of lower-wage employees.
pos: adj
examples: A defined benefit plan is top-heavy if[…] the present value of the accrued benefits (PVAB) under the plan for the key employees exceeds 60 percent of the PVAB under the plan for all employees.
gloss: having a disproportionately large upper body, especially the bust
pos: adj
examples: "My figure is topheavy, and I always thought a woman with a large bust had to look mature. Now I know better." An all-in-one girdle is a lifesaver for women like Miss B.
The top-heavy woman finished her whisky. She left fatty finger marks on the glass.
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: He who confines his drink to the same level as that of the poor unreasoning soul-less animals, who never take too much and are never “top-heavy,” cannot avoid irritation.
Derived words: top-heavy fraction
top-heavy with drink
Translations:
topical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
pharmacology
philately
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English topic
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 topical
From topic + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more topical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most topical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: topicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a particular topic or subject.
pos: adj
examples: The book is divided into topical chapters.
gloss: Relating to a topic or subject of current interest.
pos: adj
examples: Fair trade has become quite a topical issue.
gloss: Local to a particular place.
pos: adj
gloss: Applied to a localized part of the body.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Applied externally (to the surface of the skin or eye).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Terbinafine is available in 250 mg tablets and in a topical 1% ointment. There is no parenteral form available.
gloss: Arranged according to topic or theme; thematic.
pos: adj
gloss: A substance, especially a medication, applied externally (to the surface of the skin or eye).
pos: noun
examples: Small amounts of potent ingredients can, in theory, mean far less skin irritation, as one might get with a one-time high dose of retinol. And with topicals, there is a more uniform delivery of product to the skin’s surface.
"This is a great introductory line to first-time cannabis users because two of the items are topicals, which don't get you high," says Elisabeth, who prides herself and her growers on having a well-balanced and chemical-free strand.
gloss: A substance, especially a medication, applied externally (to the surface of the skin or eye).
pos: noun
gloss: A joke dealing with current events or topical subjects.
pos: noun
examples: You can’t do a show at an audience – you have to do a show with an audience and structure the act so that you start with the “hello” gags, then the topicals, then the surreal stuff.
gloss: A postage stamp depicting a particular theme or subject (such as birds or trains), potentially sought out by topical stamp collectors.
pos: noun
examples: beautiful Pictorials, topicals, commemoratives, airmails. Introductory selection 40% discount. Ralph Rice, 15 Longlane, West Hartford 7, Conn.
Related words: toponymic
Derived words: atopical
hodotopical
nontopical
orthotopical
ototopical
phonotopical
polytopical
retinotopical
subtopical
topicalisation
topicality
topicalize
topically
untopical
Translations:
topically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English topic
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 topical
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 topically
From topical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more topically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most topically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a topical manner.
pos: adv
gloss: (Applied) to a localized part of the body.
pos: adv
examples: If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.
Derived words: chronotopically
spatiotopically
Translations:
top-up
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
education
insurance
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: top-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That serves as an addition
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: English university students will have to pay top-up fees.
gloss: An addition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Energy will be generated from solar panels, water will be recycled and extracted from soil and the astronauts will grow their own food - they will also have an emergency ration and regular top-ups as new explorers join every two years.
gloss: A serving of drink used to top up an existing glass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An additional premium paid over the initial premium in order to increase benefit values.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Additional credit purchased for a mobile phone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I added a $20 top-up on my cellphone's data plan.
gloss: A dose of epidural anesthetic added to previously injected spinal anesthetic in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The reinforcement of anesthesia by an epidural “top-up” in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia may be explained by a dual mechanism: a volume effect compressing the dural sac and a local anesthetic effect.
gloss: The situation where a student who holds a qualification equivalent to part of a degree course is then accepted onto a degree course at an intermediate point, without having to start it from the beginning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
toreador
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
Etymology: From Spanish toreador, from torear (“to fight bulls”), from toro (“bull”), from Latin taurus.
Inflected forms:
form: toreadors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toreadores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bullfighter, especially one on horseback.
pos: noun
examples: Such figures formed part of some ivory model of the Bull Ring, and are meant to suggest the toreadors who loom so large in the art and the traditions of Knossos. We can imagine the associations which such young toreadors would suggest, hung in the air by fine gold chains above the back of an ivory bull, when we look at a scene painted on one of the frescoes.
Translations:
Torontonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Toronto
English -n-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Torontonian
From Toronto + -n- + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more Torontonian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Torontonian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Torontonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to the city of Toronto, Canada.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Toronto.
pos: noun
Translations:
dibs
Part of speech: noun
intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Since the early 19th century, of disputed origin. Most commonly thought to be from dibstones (“counters used in a game with the same name”). Also from dib (“to tap”) or related to northern English dip (“small depression in the ground”), or a shortened version of divide.
Inflected forms:
form: dibses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dibsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dibsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dibsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: I call dibs on the hammock!
He called dibs on batting first.
Who's got dibs on the chips?
Del Valle has the blessing of a garage, so he doesn't have to claim “dibs” on shoveled street spots himself, he said.
It aims to give unionized California government workers "more workplace discipline protections and first dibs on state government work," as the Sacramento Bee put it.
gloss: Used to claim this right.
pos: intj
tags: informal
gloss: To claim a temporary right to (something); to reserve.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Translations:
Stacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Stacys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Stacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stacy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An attractive, popular woman who is sexually active, often conceived as the female counterpart of a Chad.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
derogatory
sometimes
examples: Incels scoff at Beckys, hoping to score exclusively with Stacys because Stacys alone are the sexual currency that will lead to admiration.
While incels rant against Stacys for only paying attention to alpha men, they desire and despise them at the same time for being, according to the incel stereotype, attractive, spoiled, successful, and promiscuous all at once.
Yet, incels want nothing more than to finally be desired by and be with a Stacy.
Translations:
edges
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The fine hairs at the edge of someone's (usually a black woman's) hairline; baby hairs.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: i never could keep my edges and kitchen / straight / even after / supercool/straighterPerm had burned / whiteness onto my scalp
Her edges were thick and dry and the ends of her hair just as thirsty.
Translations:
tortoiseshell
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tortoise + shell.
Base: tortoise
Inflected forms:
form: tortoiseshells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The horny, translucent, mottled covering of the carapace of the hawksbill turtle, used as a veneer etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The hawksbill turtle.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A domestic cat (or a rabbit, guinea-pig, etc.) whose fur has black, brown and yellow markings.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of several butterflies, mostly of the genera Nymphalis and Aglais that have similar markings.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%).
gloss: Made of the covering of carapace of hawksbill turtle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having markings resembling covering of carapace of hawksbill turtle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Speaking of round sunglasses, these lightweight polarized ones and come in two shades of tortoiseshell as well as black and bronze.
Derived words: large tortoiseshell
small tortoiseshell
torbie
tortoise-shell bamboo
tortoiseshell bracket
tortoiseshell cat
Translations:
enacting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: enactings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Enactment.
pos: noun
examples: We have said all this: all this we say, and will continue to say; and we have talked, too, and shall talk, about the divers most curious votings and enactings of this House […]
Translations:
totality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English total
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English totality
From total + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: totalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being total.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There are a number of SCPs and tales that look at potential apocalypses, but rarely with such totality as SCP-2935, a parallel dimension in which death prevailed.
gloss: An aggregate quantity obtained by addition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the totality of your offspring
gloss: The phase of an eclipse when it is total.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: entirety
totalness
Derived words: in its totality
in totality
path of totality
totalitarian
totality of the circumstances
Translations:
totem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ojibwe (o)doodem(an)bor.
English totem
Borrowed from Ojibwe (o)doodem(an).
Inflected forms:
form: totems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family; the representation of such an object or creature.
pos: noun
gloss: The clan whose kinship is defined in reference to such an object or creature.
pos: noun
examples: The totem members were forbidden to eat the flesh of the totem animal, or were allowed to do so only under specific conditions.
These meanings flow from bear-like characteristics imprinted on totem members. Members of the bear clan may have dispositional, cognitive, and physical capabilities similar to those of bear.
gloss: A symbol or personification.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: “She became a totem,” he added. “She became the personification of a particular response to the pandemic, which people in the far-flung margins of the internet and the not so far-flung margins used against her.”
gloss: An arbitrarily chosen object serving as a reminder to check whether one is awake or not, to aid in having lucid dreams.
pos: noun
examples: The best way to determine if you are dreaming or not is to have a totem in your lucid dreams that does not exist in reality. Inducing yourself is as easy as waking up during the night and practicing as you fall back asleep. Say, "I will be aware I am dreaming while I am dreaming by seeing my totem."
gloss: A tall object resembling a totem pole.
pos: noun
examples: Out the front of the Drive-in rose the town’s main tourist attraction, a totem of signs to bizarre places with impossible distances such as Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and so on.
Derived words: subtotem
totemic
totemical
totemically
totemics
totemism
totemist
totemistic
totemistically
totemite
totemize
totem kin
totemlike
totem pole
totem stone
totem tennis
Translations:
tottering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tottering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tottering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: totterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
pos: adj
gloss: Unstable, insecure or wobbly.
pos: adj
gloss: The movement of one who totters.
pos: noun
examples: Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train[…]
Derived words: totteringly
untottering
Translations:
tourmaline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French tourmaline, ultimately from Sinhalese තෝරමල්ලී (tōramallī, “carnelian”)
Inflected forms:
form: tourmalines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: turmaline
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A complex black or dark-coloured borosilicate mineral, compounded with various chemical elements and considered a semi-precious stone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
gloss: A transparent gemstone cut from it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: luxulyanite
Mohrenkopf
Derived words: tourmalinic
tourmaliniferous
tourmalinize
Translations:
supercharge
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
physical-sciences
physics
politics
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós
Proto-Celtic *karros
Gaulish *karrosbor.
Late Latin carrus
Late Latin -ico
Late Latin carricō
Late Latin carricāre
Old French chargierder.
Middle English chargen
English charge
English supercharge
From super- + charge.
Inflected forms:
form: supercharges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: supercharging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: supercharged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: supercharged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: supercharges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the crankshaft.
pos: verb
gloss: To make faster or more powerful.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Graphene could change the electronics industry, ushering in flexible devices, supercharged quantum computers, electronic clothing and computers that can interface with the cells in your body.
Instead of three co-equal branches acting as a check on each other, power has become increasingly concentrated over the years in the White House – a trend that is now being supercharged under Mr. Trump in ways that, to critics, raise the specter of authoritarianism.
gloss: To recharge a battery cell/pack at an extremely rapid pace.
pos: verb
gloss: A charge borne upon an ordinary or other charge.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of supercharging.
pos: noun
Related words: supercharger
surcharge
forced induction
Translations:
borosilicate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Persian *bōragbor.
Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq)der.
Medieval Latin boraxder.
Anglo-Norman boreisbor.
Middle English boras
English borax
English boro-
English silicate
English borosilicate
From boro- + silicate.
Inflected forms:
form: borosilicates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various minerals whose structure is formally that of a dual salt of boric and silicic acids.
pos: noun
Translations:
pyrex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Genericized trademark from Pyrex.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A kind of heat-resistant borosilicate glass, made by mixing a high concentration of boron oxides into the molten glass to reduce its thermal expansion coefficient.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This steel tube slips into the pyrex glass focus tube, which is jacketed by a vacuum
There is half of a yesteryear's tin of baked beans in a pyrex bowl
I tiptoed into the kitchen, turned on the fluorescent light over the stove, and peered into the oven. It was still warm, though the gas had been turned off. My dinner was there, in a pyrex dish with a cover.
gloss: Any borosilicate glass.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
gloss: Any glass capable of withstanding high temperatures, such as tempered glass suitable for cooking.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
Related words: corningware
-ex
pyro-
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: بيركس
lang: Bulgarian
word: пирекс
roman: pireks
lang: Czech
word: pyrex
lang: Danish
word: pyrex
lang: Dutch
word: pyrex
lang: Finnish
word: pyrex
lang: French
word: pyrex
lang: German
word: pyrex
lang: Hungarian
word: pyrex
lang: Italian
word: pyrex
lang: Norwegian
word: pyrex
lang: Polish
word: pyrex
lang: Portuguese
word: pirex
lang: Romanian
word: pirex
lang: Russian
word: пирекс
roman: pireks
lang: Slovak
word: pyrex
lang: Spanish
word: pyrex
lang: Spanish
word: pírex
lang: Spanish
word: vidrio pírex
lang: Swedish
word: pyrex
lang: Turkish
word: payreks
supercharger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English charger
English supercharger
From super- + charger.
Inflected forms:
form: superchargers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle).
pos: noun
examples: The grey Bentley convertible, the 1933 4½-litre with the Amherst-Villiers supercharger, had been brought round a few minutes earlier from the garage where he kept it and the engine had kicked directly he pressed the self-starter.
gloss: An inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle).
pos: noun
gloss: A device that can rapidly recharge a battery cell/pack.
pos: noun
Related words: supercharge
supercharged
supercharging
air compressor
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: компресор
roman: kompresor
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 机械增压器
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 超级增压器
lang: Finnish
word: ahdin
lang: Polish
word: sprężarka mechaniczna
lang: Spanish
word: supercargador
lang: Turkish
word: süperşarj
lang: Turkish
word: kompresör
turbocharge
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English turbo-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós
Proto-Celtic *karros
Gaulish *karrosbor.
Late Latin carrus
Late Latin -ico
Late Latin carricō
Late Latin carricāre
Old French chargierder.
Middle English chargen
English charge
English turbocharge
From turbo- + charge.
Inflected forms:
form: turbocharges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: turbocharging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: turbocharged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: turbocharged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To increase the power of (an internal combustion engine, either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the exhaust air (through using a turbocharger).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make faster or more powerful.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: Six weeks after that moment, in a darkened classroom at Oceanside Community College, I would learn via an anger management class video about the cardiology, neurology, and endocrinology of rage—about how, as I reached for that wrench, my hypothalamus was instant-messaging my adrenal glands to secrete cortisol and adrenaline. How stored fat was dumping into my bloodstream for an energy turbocharge. How my heart was pumping overtime, sending a surge of blood to my muscles and lungs in preparation for what that instructional video called "the evolutionary miracle of fight-or-flight." That morning, I saw Hay and took the former option.
6 turbocharge your turkey Commit yourself to healthy, varied lunches, and start by topping your turkey club sandwich with broccoli sprouts. Compared with mature broccoli, these have up to 100 times the potent compound sulforaphane, which is shown to fight cancer.
Two scholars who are not here are William Baude of the University of Chicago law school and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. Minn., whose article “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” turbocharged the disqualification debate when it was posted online last August.
The idea of an alleged Epstein "list" was turbocharged by Trump's own inner circle, most notably by Bondi herself. In a February interview with Fox News, she claimed, "The list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients is sitting on my desk." Her remark, quickly amplified by right-wing influencers, fueled weeks of speculation online and in MAGA circles.
Related words: e-turbo
supercharger
turbocharger
turbosupercharger
twincharger
supercharge
Translations:
turbocharger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Contraction of turbosupercharger.
Inflected forms:
form: turbochargers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle), powered from the exhaust air.
pos: noun
examples: This is a 16-cylinder unit with the cylinders arranged in vee formation, operating on the four-stroke cycle and pressure-charged by four Napier exhaust gas-driven turbo-chargers.
Translations:
tourniquet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).
Inflected forms:
form: tourniquets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tourniquets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tourniqueting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tourniquetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: tourniqueted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tourniqueted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tourniquetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: tourniquetted
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
Senses:
gloss: A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
pos: noun
examples: His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].
[…] Bull was in the bathroom taking his fix, clutching his old black necktie in his teeth for a tourniquet and jabbing with the needle into his woesome arm with the thousand holes;[…]
After he was done, Lillehei's assistants released the tourniquet around Gregory's venae cavae, allowing blood to return.
gloss: Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
pos: noun
gloss: A turnstile.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To apply a tourniquet bandage.
pos: verb
Translations:
tousled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tousled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tousled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: touzled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt.
pos: adj
examples: His shoes were covered with mud, and he was looking very rough and touzled; but then he had never been a very smart man, the Badger, at the best of times.
An instant later the maid, who looked as tousled and bewildered as if she had that instant been aroused from the deepest sleep, appeared with a card upon a tray.
Translations:
towboat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From tow + boat.
Compound parts: tow
boat
Inflected forms:
form: towboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tugboat.
pos: noun
gloss: A squat powerful boat designed to push barges.
pos: noun
gloss: A vessel constructed for being towed, such as a canal boat.
pos: noun
gloss: A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.
pos: noun
Related words: tugboat
Derived words: towboater
Translations:
tugboat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From tug + boat.
Sense 2 from monthly tugboat, a reference to the saying "our ship has come in," here referring to a small, "reliable" "tugboat" instead of a large windfall.
Compound parts: tug
boat
Inflected forms:
form: tugboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tug-boat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tug boat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.
pos: noun
gloss: A Social Security Disability Insurance payment; monthly tugboat
pos: noun
tags: Internet
euphemistic
rare
Derived words: monthly tugboat
tugboater
tugboatman
Translations:
towpath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tow + path.
Compound parts: tow
path
Inflected forms:
form: towpaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A path alongside a canal or river, originally for draft animals towing barges, now more often used as a footpath, nature trail, etc.
pos: noun
examples: From the 1960s, various local authorities became increasingly involved in improving the neglected waterway, and towpaths were progressively reopened as footpaths.
Translations:
Unitarian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Related to New Latin ūnitārius (from Latin ūnitās (“unity”)) -an. First documented as unitaria religio, in a decree of the Diet of Lécfalva (1600). In English since 1687
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Unitarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Unitarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to Unitarianism.
pos: adj
examples: It was no less than whether the psychic movement in Britain was destined to take a Unitarian or a Trinitarian course.
Translations:
viscoelastic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English visco-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁elh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₂-tósder.
Ancient Greek ἐλᾰστός (elăstós)
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
New Latin -icus
New Latin elasticusbor.
French élastiquebor.
English elastic
English viscoelastic
From visco- + elastic.
Inflected forms:
form: more viscoelastic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most viscoelastic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: viscoelastics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Viscous and elastic.
pos: adj
gloss: Such a material.
pos: noun
Translations:
Afro-pessimism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin Āfri
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English Afro-
English pessimism
English Afro-pessimism
From Afro- + pessimism.
Inflected forms:
form: Afropessimism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pessimism or weariness over the chances of solving the political and social problems that Africa faces.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: If “Afropessimism” is not to take hold, African nations still mired in autocracy, bureaucracy, and corruption must begin to democratize their political systems.
He and other African journalists warned that "Afro-pessimism" in the western media affected the way Africa was perceived, with knock-on effects on the continent's politics, tourism, and aid from western countries.
I wanted to examine the so-called “Afro-pessimism” that outsiders often feel concerning Haiti, because the country is seen as a chunk of that easily misunderstood continent, floating in the wrong seas.
Translations:
shirtless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shirt
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English shirtless
From shirt + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more shirtless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shirtless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without a shirt.
pos: adj
examples: a shirtless wardrobe
shirtless sunbathing
gloss: Not wearing a shirt; having a bare torso, barechested
pos: adj
gloss: Very poor.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
Derived words: scared shirtless
shirtlessly
shirtlessness
Translations:
Anishinaabe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Ojibwe anishinaabe /ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ. Doublet of Nishnaabe (from Odawa and Eastern Ojibwe) and Neshnabé (from Potawatomi).
Inflected forms:
form: Anishinaabe
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Anishinaabes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Anishinaabeg
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Anishinaabek
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Anishinabe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Nishnaabe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
derived
form: Neshnabé
pos: noun
tags: alternative
derived
Senses:
gloss: An Ojibwe, Nipissing, Algonquin, Potawatomi, or Odawa person.
pos: noun
examples: In speaking about these non-Indian authors, there are a couple of more points I should make concerning my identity as an Anishinaabe scholar, both of which are related to the picture I paint of Anishinaabe culture.
The Anishinaabe people are American Indians who have historically been associated with the Great Lakes region of what is now called Canada and the United States. The Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes include the Odawas (also known as the Ottawas), the Chippewas (also known as the Ojibwes), and the Potawatomis (also known as the Bodéwadmis)—three interrelated groups that are sometimes collectively referred to as the Three Fires Confederacy.
gloss: An Ojibwe, Nipissing, Algonquin, Potawatomi, or Odawa person.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
examples: In Deborah McGregor's chapter, she relates key personal and professional experiences regarding Aboriginal Environmental Knowledge (AEK), based upon her own life as an Anishinaabe, as well as on conversations and interactions ...
gloss: Synonym of Anishinaabemowin (“Anishinaabe language(s)”)
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncommon
Translations:
truncation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin truncātiō, from Latin truncāre, past participle truncātus (“to cut off”). By surface analysis, truncate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: truncations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each vertex.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: truncate
truncated
Derived words: antitruncation
bitruncation
cantitruncation
omnitruncation
runcicantitruncation
runcitruncation
tritruncation
truncational
Translations:
Chippewa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ojibwe ojibwe (“Ojibwe”)/ᐅᒋᑉᐌ, specifically an eastern dialect with a reduced initial vowel. Compare earlier Ojibwa. Attested in English from the mid 18th century.
Inflected forms:
form: Chippewas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chippewa
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chippeway
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Chippewe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Ojibwe people.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The Anishinaabe people are American Indians who have historically been associated with the Great Lakes region of what is now called Canada and the United States. The Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes include the Odawas (also known as the Ottawas), the Chippewas (also known as the Ojibwes), and the Potawatomis (also known as the Bodéwadmis)—three interrelated groups that are sometimes collectively referred to as the Three Fires Confederacy. […] The Bureau observed a considerable decrease between 1910 and 1930 in the number of Chippewa reported for Michigan.
Translations:
sicken
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English sekenen, equivalent to sick + -en. Cognate with Danish sygne (“to pine”), Swedish sjukna (“to fall ill; become sick”), Norwegian sykne, Icelandic sjúkna (“to sicken; become sick”).
Base: sick
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: sickens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sickening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sickened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sickened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make ill.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.
gloss: To become ill.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I will sicken if I don’t get some more exercise.
The judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those that attended,[…] sickened upon it and died.
gloss: To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His arrogant behaviour sickens me.
In announcing the review, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary, said in a statement that “antisemitism — like racism — is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues.”
gloss: To lower the standing of.
pos: verb
examples: Whenever I get booed by opposition fans it only makes me more determined to sicken them.
But instead of giving up, the Rangers team managed to grab a dramatic later winner from Kenny Miller to sicken St Mirren and lift the cup
City took control, pinning a tiring Celtic back and threatening to sicken them with a winner.
gloss: To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.
gloss: To become disgusting or tedious.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.
gloss: To become weak; to decay; to languish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.
Derived words: sickened
sickener
sickening
unsicken
Translations:
sawmill
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From saw + mill.
Compound parts: saw
mill
Inflected forms:
form: sawmills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sawmills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sawmilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sawmilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sawmilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A machine, building, or company used for cutting (milling) lumber or (rarely) other hard materials such as stone.
pos: noun
examples: He brought his portable sawmill and turned the old beams into interesting flooring.
The old sawmill still has its waterwheel but they took the saw away years ago.
The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners.
When I came to the saw-mill at Brække, the sky was overcast, it was already growing dark, only above the level of the north-western horizon there appeared a streak of light, which threw a subdued glimmer on the tranquil surface of the mill-pond.
My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.
gloss: To process (lumber) in a sawmill.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
sawdust
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From saw + dust.
Compound parts: saw
dust
Inflected forms:
form: sawdusts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sawdusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sawdusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sawdusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sawdusted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Food that is unpleasantly powdery and tasteless.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
uncountable
usually
examples: I have a hard time looking at green cylinder Parmesan, the scentless sawdust inside practically mocking Giorgio Cravero's Parmigiano-Reggiano […]
gloss: To sprinkle with sawdust.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.
Derived words: plait sawdust
sawdust circuit
sawdustish
sawdust joint
sawdustlike
sawdust pudding
sawdust trail
sawdusty
sea sawdust
spit-and-sawdust
Translations:
sawing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sawings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is sawn.
pos: noun
examples: As said, these investigations generally do not pay attention to saw kerf width and green size of sawn timber. These studies have mainly been made by practical test sawings and subsequently checked by geometric calculations.
gloss: A shaving or fragment of sawn material.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: We find that from a sample of sawings of the usual size a button or small bar fairly representing the sample can be cast from about 2,000 grains.
Translations:
brevet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Inherited from the Middle English brevet (“official letter”), from the Anglo-Norman diminutive of bref (“letter”), from the Latin brevis (“short”), whence brief.
Inflected forms:
form: brevets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brevets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brevetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: breveting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brevetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brevetted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: breveted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: breveted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay.
pos: noun
gloss: A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity, as in France.
pos: noun
gloss: A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity, as in France.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Delightful inducements to embark, fine chance for promotion, it seems—aye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.
They came over to Massachusetts Bay in another vessel, and thus escaped the onus of that brevet nobility under which the successors of the Mayflower Pilgrims had descended.
gloss: An organized, long-distance bicycle ride — not a race, but a test of endurance — which follows a designated but unmarked route passing through check points.
pos: noun
gloss: To promote by brevet.
pos: verb
Derived words: brevetcy
Translations:
milling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: millings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A circular or random motion of a herd or a crowd.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: comilling
high milling
ion milling
low milling
micromilling
milling cutter
milling frolic
milling machine
paper-milling
watermilling
Translations:
minting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mintings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which money is minted.
pos: noun
examples: A question of interest here is whether the silver contents in the four mintings are different.
Translations: