yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
martially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English martial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English martially
From martial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more martially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most martially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a martial manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
masterwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From master + work.
Compound parts: master
work
Inflected forms:
form: masterworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece done to prove possession of skill sufficient to be ranked a master.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of quality, indicative of having been made by a master; a masterpiece.
pos: noun
gloss: An act of primary importance.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A main drain or irrigation channel.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
vesical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin vesica (“bladder”). By surface analysis, vesic- + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the urinary bladder.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:vesical.
Translations:
bioweapon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English weapon
English bioweapon
From bio- + weapon.
Inflected forms:
form: bioweapons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bio-weapon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any weapon designed to be used in biological warfare.
pos: noun
examples: And (Wouter) Basson (who had worked on South Africa's clandestine bioweapons program) was there, too.
“Hey, Rick.” “Oh, hey, kiddo. How's your Saturday?” “You know, super chill. W-W-Whatcha doin'?” “Eh, nothing adventurous. You know that race of Underground Dwelling Cannibal Horse People that we're always fighting?” “Yeah, the CHUDs. W-W-What about 'em? “Well, don't tell anybody, but I'm working on a bioweapon to use against them, so I got this barrel of horse semen from your mom's hospital and I'm just gonna, you know, subject it to some otherworldly forces.”
Translations:
quizzically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quizzical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English quizzically
From quizzical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more quizzically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most quizzically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a quizzical manner; as if puzzled or asking a question.
pos: adv
examples: The bogan looked at Gretchen quizzically, wondering if she was having trouble reading the English alphabet.
Translations:
quits
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.
pos: adj
tags: UK
colloquial
not-comparable
examples: Here's the last of the money you lent me. We're quits now, right?
Translations:
vitrify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French vitrifier, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).
Inflected forms:
form: vitrifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vitrifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vitrified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vitrified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To convert into glass or a glass-like substance by heat and fusion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be converted into glass, especially through heat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A large percentage of all Late Horizon fragments at this site was overfired, to the point where many were vitrified, black to dark brown, and misshapen, some with blistered surfaces.
Her work was endless, she carried tubs and cauldrons and pails of heat-blasted sand, sand blasted into liquid glass, up the ladder that had vitrified where her bucket splashed, and tipped the liquid glass into the swimming pool, where, at the touch of the water, it turned into her huge, solid tears.
Related words: vitrification
vitrifaction
vitrifacture
vitreous
Translations:
profiteer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English profit
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -ierder.
English -eer
English profiteer
From profit + -eer.
Inflected forms:
form: profiteers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: profiteers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: profiteering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: profiteered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: profiteered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent-seeker.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.
pos: verb
Translations:
ghyll
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gille, gylle, from Old Norse gil, from Proto-Germanic *gilją.
Inflected forms:
form: ghylls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gill
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A ravine.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
Translations:
trews
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic triubhas, from Middle Irish triubus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Trousers, especially if close-fitting and tartan.
pos: noun
tags: UK
plural
plural-only
Translations:
quibbler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quibble
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 quibbler
From quibble + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: quibblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Somebody who quibbles.
pos: noun
Translations:
ruination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ruin
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English ruination
From ruin + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: ruinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As our tour has shown, the state of ruination of castle sites was a key factor in their fate when the railways came through.
gloss: The act of ruining or wrecking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The cause of being ruined, destroyed or lost.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A loss of reputation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yet also thanks largely to Trump, a parallel disaster is unfolding across the world: the ruination of America’s reputation as a safe, trustworthy, competent international leader and partner.
Antonyms: foundation
construction
building
Related words: ruin
ruinate
ruining
Translations:
waddy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: waddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: waddies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: waddying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: waddied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: waddied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: waddie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cowboy.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: This is how it was with the old waddies, aint it?
If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies that says he never drank from a horse track I think I will shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar.
gloss: To strike or beat with a waddy.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
transitive
Translations:
leftward
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English left
Proto-Indo-European *wert-der.
Proto-Germanic *wardaz
Old English -weard
English -ward
English leftward
From left + -ward.
Inflected forms:
form: more leftward
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most leftward
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more leftward
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most leftward
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To or from the left.
pos: adj
examples: This is seen as abnormal rapid leftward motion of the septum during preejection followed by rightward (paradoxical) motion.
Yes, the Democratic Party's sharp leftward pivot might have nuked the Never Trump movement all on its own, because it is leaving no sane alternatives to [Donald] Trump.
gloss: To or from the left.
pos: adv
examples: Rightward and leftward rise the rocks
Antonyms: rightward
Translations:
easting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English east
English -ing
English easting
From east + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: eastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The distance east of a standard reference meridian.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A distance traveled eastward.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was very tiring and slow work, yet I did visibly gain ground; and as we drew near the Cape of the Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point, I had still made some hundred yards of easting.
gloss: A turning towards the east.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had, in truth, drunk very little - not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings or genuflections; but the weakness of Sir John's constitution made mountains of his petty sins in this kind.
Related words: northing
Derived words: false easting
Translations:
methanogenesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English methane
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis
Proto-Hellenic *génetis
Ancient Greek γένεσῐς (génesĭs)der.
Latinbor.
English -genesis
English methanogenesis
From methane + -o- + -genesis.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The generation of methane by anaerobic bacteria.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
methanogen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English methane
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor.
French -gènebor.
English -gen
English methanogen
From methane + -o- + -gen.
Inflected forms:
form: methanogens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various archaebacteria capable of methanogenesis.
pos: noun
Translations:
northing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nér
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *nŕ̥t(e)ros
Proto-Germanic *nurþraz
Proto-West Germanic *norþr
Old English norþ
Middle English north
English north
English -ing
English northing
From north + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: northings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The distance north of a standard reference latitude.
pos: noun
gloss: A distance traveled northward.
pos: noun
Related words: easting
latitude
Derived words: false northing
Translations:
preferring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: preferrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præferring
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A preference; the choice of something preferred.
pos: noun
examples: He gives our preferrings the bad name of the machinery of motives, but they are just what we feel in ourselves when we decide.
Translations:
microbiota
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English biota
English microbiota
From micro- + biota.
Inflected forms:
form: microbiotas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: microbiota
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The microbial community that inhabits a multi-cellular organism, whether the entire organism or a specific body surface.
pos: noun
examples: Your body’s microbiome is all the genes your microbiota contains, however colloquially the two terms are often used interchangeably.
Caesarean babies eventually acquire the same mix of microbes as those born vaginally — by a year, their microbiota are usually indistinguishable.
Translations:
microbial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English microbe
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English microbial
From microbe + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: microbials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or caused by microbes or microorganisms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.
Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
This type of bio-inspired material utilizes microbial calcite precipitation to heal cracks that develop autonomously, thereby enhancing the material’s durability and reducing maintenance costs.
gloss: Small; tiny; minuscule.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As I say, one must not blame the Christians too much for all this - partly because, after the communal periods which I have just mentioned, Christianity was evidently deeply influenced by the rise of Commercialism to which during the last two centuries it has so carefully and piously adapted itself; and partly because - if our view is anywhere near right - this microbial injection of self-consciousness was just the necessary work which (in conjunction with commercialism) it had to perform.
gloss: A microbe or bacterium.
pos: noun
Derived words: amicrobial
antimicrobial
electromicrobial
endomicrobial
geomicrobial
immunomicrobial
intermicrobial
microbial clock
microbial fuel cell
microbialite
microbially
monomicrobial
multimicrobial
nonmicrobial
paucimicrobial
perimicrobial
polymicrobial
promicrobial
pseudomicrobial
rhizomicrobial
sociomicrobial
Translations:
microflora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English flora
English microflora
From micro- + flora.
Inflected forms:
form: microflorae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Microscopic life, especially the bacterial colonies found in the gut of normal, healthy animals and humans.
pos: noun
examples: Deionized water was also used to avoid the influence of naturally presented microflora in tap water on the experiment.
Translations:
mikan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 蜜柑 (ミカン, mikan), short for 温州蜜柑 (うんしゅうミカン, Unshū mikan, literally “honey citrus of Wēnzhōu”).
Inflected forms:
form: mikans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An orange seedless citrus fruit Citrus unshiu, originating from Japan, about the size of a tangerine.
pos: noun
Translations:
harch
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From march.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A command to move forwards, issued by the drum major of a marching band.
pos: intj
examples: Forward harch!
Translations:
micrometeorite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From micro- + meteorite (micro- + meteor + -ite).
Base: meteorite
Affixes: micro-
Inflected forms:
form: micrometeorites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an extraterrestrial particle, less than a millimeter in size, that has survived entry into the atmosphere without melting
pos: noun
Translations:
micrometeoroid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English meteor
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English meteoroid
English micrometeoroid
From micro- + meteoroid.
Inflected forms:
form: micrometeoroids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an extraterrestrial particle less than a millimeter in size
pos: noun
Translations:
micropaleontology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English paleontology
English micropaleontology
From micro- + paleontology.
Inflected forms:
form: micropalæontology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: micropalaeontology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The branch of paleontology dealing with the fossilized microscopic organic remains (microfossils) of the geologic past, including their structure, biology, relationships and distribution.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
microfossil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English fossil
English microfossil
From micro- + fossil.
Inflected forms:
form: microfossils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A microscopic fossil.
pos: noun
Translations:
heterothallic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
English thallic
English heterothallic
From hetero- + thallic.
Inflected forms:
form: heterothallics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Producing male and female reproductive structures in different plants
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Such an alga or fungus
pos: noun
Antonyms: homothallic
Translations:
waul
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wraulen, wrawlen (“cry like a cat; roar”). Compare Danish vræle, vråle, Swedish vråla (“to bellow; roar; howl; yell”). See also wrawl.
Inflected forms:
form: wauls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wauling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wauled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wauled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wrawl
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To wail, to cry plaintively.
pos: verb
examples: Thou know’st, the first time that we smell the air, / We waul, and cry.
The Catapult wauled, "What if some poor man's dog was saved, — it was his comfort and defence; — he shared with the faithful creature his bread and butter: and when he dies, who watches his grave, — who, if we may so say, sheds a tear for the departed? — who, who, but his dog?[…]"
A cattish ghost-familiar wauls from a monument's bronze shoulder, seeing him see it, and he shrieks back in its own language, pulling a face so horrible that pedestrians scatter out of his path, their white cottons flapping.
Translations:
sparrow-fart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sparrow + fart. In the dawn sense, apparently from a UK dialect (Yorkshire) from before 1828.
Compound parts: sparrow
fart
Inflected forms:
form: sparrow-farts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sparrowfart
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sparrow fart
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sparrow's fart
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A time very early in the day; dawn.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
slang
uncountable
examples: “I was sick of working from sparrow fart as station cook and general dogs-body.”
‘Took a girl to the flicks, had to get her back to Birkenhead, some goon in a tin hat and armband ordered us to take shelter in the Underground. No bloody option. So I didn′t get her home until sparrow-fart and her father didn′t believe us, turned quite nasty.’
It felt unnaturally early, sparrowfart time of day by the feel and sound of it.
‘Tomorrow. Sleep over, then off at sparrow-fart. And the car will have plates.’
gloss: A person or thing of no consequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […] Miss This Miss That Miss Theother lot of sparrowfarts skitting around talking about politics they know as much about as my backside […]
‘The hell with the talented sparrowfarts who write delicately of one small piece of one mere lifetime, when the issues are galaxies, eons, and trillions of souls yet to be born.’
Synonyms: crack of dawn
sunrise
sunup
morning
loser
waste of space
Translations:
pasturage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French pasturage (modern French pâturage). By surface analysis, pasture + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: pasturages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pasture; land that is used for pasture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock and found in a pasture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The right to graze livestock on a pasture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: pastoralist
pasturable
common land
Translations:
paranoiac
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English paranoia
English -ac
English paranoiac
From paranoia + -ac.
Inflected forms:
form: more paranoiac
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most paranoiac
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: paranœac
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
form: paranoic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: paranoiacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paranœac
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
form: paranoic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or exhibiting, paranoia.
pos: adj
examples: Calm yourselves. The hysteria and opulent paranoiac fantasies that have spread over GCN’s pages in the wake of the general election constitute a reaction both shortsighted and silly.
gloss: Somebody who has paranoia, a paranoid person.
pos: noun
examples: "Prove to me that I'm wrong when I say you are all just like person X from your group!" This is the cry of the bigot, the paranoiac, the pigeonholer, the witchhunter. Why need we prove what is self-evident?
Translations:
medfly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: medflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Medfly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Mediterranean fruit fly.
pos: noun
examples: Our efforts are directed against species of African origin because these include several notorious pests (such as medfly, Ceratitis capitata), as well as some of the most poorly known ones (species of Dacus feeding on cucurbits).
Translations:
outspan
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From out + span. Compare Afrikaans uitspan.
Compound parts: out
span
Inflected forms:
form: outspans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outspanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outspanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outspanned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: outspans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To release oxen from a harness.
pos: verb
tags: South-Africa
transitive
examples: We had outspanned on in a flat covered with close grass about two feet high…The wagons, four in number, were drawn up off the road two abreast.
gloss: The place where one releases oxen from a harness.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: At the outspan or on the road or footpath he shouldered them aside as one walks through standing corn, not aggressively, but with the superb indifference of right and habit unquestioned.
gloss: An area on a farm kept available for travellers to rest and refresh their animals.
pos: noun
Translations:
bushveld
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bush + veld, partial calque of Afrikaans bosveld.
Base: bush
Inflected forms:
form: bushvelds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bushveldt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A terrain characterized by thick scrubby trees and dense thickets of bush, interspersed with grassy groundcover.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: When I first arrived at the site, the pair of Bateleur eagles were sitting quietly watching life unfold on the bushveld beneath them.
Translations:
Wyandotte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Wyandot Wendat.
Inflected forms:
form: Wyandottes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wyandotte
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wendat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wyandot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wyandott
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Guyandotte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Wyandotte people.
pos: noun
gloss: A breed of poultry.
pos: noun
examples: The adaptable Harris picked out Mr. Carrados's most substantial rug and went to sleep, to dream of a wayside cycle shop and tea-rooms where he could devote himself to pedigree Wyandottes.
The Wyandotte is the classic example of a fine breed which has been spoiled through over-concentration on eggs to the detriment of other characteristics.
Translations:
cushty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Romani kushto, kushti (“good”). Perhaps influenced by cushy.
Inflected forms:
form: more cushty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cushty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cushdy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: cushdie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: cushti
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: kushti
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Excellent, very good.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
examples: "That's right," said Tom. "You'll be all right, though. The old dame says as how she'll be able to do it cushty. She wouldn't be doing it otherwise. You see, if anything was to happen she'd get done fer murder."
I hadn't felt that cushty since the time I went down Our Lady of the Divine Rosary for confession. As I told Father O'Keith, I'd bought some gear off Sunglasses Ron and Paddy the Greek that wasn't entirely kosher.
A blackmailer who bragged on Facebook of his “cushty” life in prison has had time added to his sentence.
Looking back at the season, it’s been a hell of a year for us. I’ve learned a hell of a lot, the team’s learned a hell of a lot and it’s only going to help us moving forwards into next season with a stronger car and a stronger driver. It’s going to be cushty!
The Roodee feature has been a happy hunting ground for jump trainers in recent seasons and Alan King looks to have found a cushty opportunity for his five-year-old who was last seen running a blinder in the Coral Cup at the Cheltenham festival.
Translations:
Marans
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Marans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small breed of chicken originating in France popular for poultry shows and its eggs, rather than for its meat.
pos: noun
examples: The Marans breed deserves inclusion in this review of utility poultry, because of the superb rich brown colour of its eggs.
Translations:
destitution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French destitution, from Latin dēstitūtiō (“abandoning”), from dēstituō.
Inflected forms:
form: destitutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of deserting or abandoning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Discharge from office; dismissal.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: The condition of lacking something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He requires of his fellow man obedience to a very creditable code of morals, but he observes without shame or disapproval his God's utter destitution of morals.
gloss: An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Destitution forces many asylum seekers to end up working for extremely low wages in catering, cleaning and construction, for example, without any protection against unscrupulous employers.
Related words: destitute
Translations:
stinginess
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sting
English -y
English stingy
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English stinginess
From stingy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: stinginesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being stingy: a lack of generosity; excessive parsimony.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonyms: cheapness, tightness, miserliness
Translations:
babbitt
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is derived from Babbitt, the surname of the American inventor Isaac Babbitt (1799–1862) who invented the alloy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: babbitts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: babbitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: babbitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: babbitted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: babbit
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To line (something) with babbitt metal to reduce friction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The main bearings were babbitted and line-bored.
The caps for these journal-boxes or bearings may be Babbited by this same jig, and they would, of course, exactly conform to the other portions of the bearings in the frame. […] This drilling jig is a negative of the interior of the frame. It has two sets of bearings, c d and e f, which are at right angles to each other, and which set in the longitudinal and transverse bearings that have been made and "Babbited" in the cast frame, and thus steady and hold it.
These bearings, with their caps, are babbitted with metal of the finest quality, a jig representing the shafting being used to locate and regulate the proportion of the bearing precisely.
The work of babbitting bearings offers considerable opportunity for the use of different forms of fixtures that are capable of making a material increase in the efficiency with which this operation can be carried on.
The common way may be described as babbitting one-half of the bearing at a time: then by means of pasteboard liners between the halves, making the other half complete. […] It takes half the time required to babbitt the bearings in halves.
To babbitt any kind of box, first chip out all of the old babbitt and clean the shaft and box thoroughly with benzine. […] In babbitting a solid box cover the shaft with paper, draw it smooth and tight, and fasten the lapped ends with mucilage.
Translations:
bacchante
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bacchantes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bacchante
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A priestess of Bacchus.
pos: noun
gloss: A female bacchanal.
pos: noun
examples: “… There was a man who always painted marble seats and another who did nothing but sheep. So a fellow I knew determined only to paint backs. Men's backs, women's backs, girls' backs and boys backs. […] his best known bacchante was described by a critic as all back and no ante, but his backs became famous. […]”
Translations:
bacchic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
Etymology: From Latin Bacchicus.
Inflected forms:
form: more bacchic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bacchic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Bacchus.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: Dionysiac, Dionysian
gloss: By extension, drunken.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchian; dionysiac, dionysian
gloss: Relating to a bacchius.
pos: adj
Related words: dionysiac
Translations:
capon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon), from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō).
Inflected forms:
form: capons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: capons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caponing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caponed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: caponed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
pos: noun
examples: […] And then, the Iustice / In faire round belly, with good Capon lin'd,
[…] You cannot feed capons so.
“With vegetables in it, you know. Then turbot with thick sauce, then ... roast beef; and mind it’s good. Yes, and capons, perhaps, and then sweets.”
gloss: To castrate; to make a capon of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
Bacharach
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
tortious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English torcious, from Anglo-Norman torcious. By surface analysis, tort + -ious.
Inflected forms:
form: more tortious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tortious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wrongful; harmful.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […]
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.
pos: adj
Related words: tort
Derived words: nontortious
tortious interference
tortiously
tortiousness
Translations:
Arianism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Eponym from its chief proponent Arius, a priest in Alexandria circa 323 CE: Arian + -ism.
Base: Arian
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Christological doctrine, condemned as heretical by the First Council of Nicaea, which holds that Jesus was created by God, rather than being God himself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
orchidaceous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Orchidaceae; equivalent to orchid + -aceous.
Base: orchid
Affixes: -aceous
Inflected forms:
form: more orchidaceous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most orchidaceous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to orchids.
pos: adj
examples: In keeping with the orchidaceous theme of the wedding, the decorator draped the walls with lavenders and pinks.
gloss: Exotic in a rare, mysterious, alluring, or sensual way.
pos: adj
examples: These stories were variously received. […] J. D. found them “charged with Corvonian idiosyncrasy, a jumble-jargon composed of modern slang, old English, Latin, Italian and Greek,” adding: “The Corvo vocabulary is orchidaceous.”
Translations:
Rolls-Royce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The original company was established in 1904 by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.
Inflected forms:
form: Rolls-Royces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Rolls Royce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A car made by this manufacturer.
pos: noun
examples: ‘What is the most expensive car?’ she had once asked Stan. ‘A cad – Cadillac or a Rolls,’ Stan had said, and sometimes Raoul had a Cadillac, sometimes a Rolls-Royce.
And she pondered the first of Miss Seeton’s sketches, the one Delphick had been coerced into showing her: the sleek cat reflected in the mirror, with the ram—the ram from the wrong, confusing case—beneath it on the bonnet of the Rolls-Royce in which Ferencz Szabo, of the Stentorian voice, rode so proudly.
gloss: Anything that is the best of its type; the best quality product possible.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
examples: the Rolls-Royce of chocolate
But for an aspiring animation cartoonist, getting a job at Walt Disney was like hitting the major leagues—the Rolls Royce of animation. Now here we were walking down Dopey Drive and making a right at Mickey Avenue.
Translations:
hafnia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: hafnium oxide, HfO₂
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
maladroit
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French maladroit, from mal- (“bad, badly”) + adroit (“skilful”).
Inflected forms:
form: more maladroit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most maladroit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: maladroits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not adroit; awkward, clumsy, inept.
pos: adj
examples: Like the maladroit boy himself, the director does not believe in warming his audience up with narrative foreplay, and it's the same story when we cut to the family home of Julio's girlfriend, whose parents allow him into her bedroom to help her look for her passport, and she gleefully wrenches her tracksuit bottoms down.
Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to recuperate?
gloss: Somebody who is inept, or lacking in skill, or talent.
pos: noun
Translations:
debauched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more debauched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most debauched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: deboist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.
pos: adj
examples: When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage.
He was a man made for the exteremes of life; from the most debauched of men he had become the most ascetic.
Translations:
latitudinal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin lātitūdin- + -al, from oblique stem of Latin lātitūdō, from lātus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, latitude + -al.
Base: -al
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to latitude.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
lawmaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From law + making.
Compound parts: law
make
Inflected forms:
form: lawmakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of passing or enacting laws; legislation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
learning-disabled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a condition that impedes learning.
pos: adj
Translations:
left-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English left-handed
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English left-handedness
From left-handed + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: lefthandedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being left-handed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
vilely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English vyly, vileliche, fijlliche, villiche, equivalent to vile + -ly.
Base: vile
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more vilely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most vilely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a vile manner, evilly, despicably.
pos: adv
examples: We broke off diplomatic relations with Russia
Ukraine is defending itself and will not give up its freedom, no matter what Moscow thinks[...]
Russia vilely and suicidally attacked our state in the morning
Just like fascist Germany did during the Second World War
gloss: Terribly, awfully.
pos: adv
examples: The chauffeur must, as it seemed to me, have been a novice or else have lost his nerve in this disturbance, for he drove vilely on the way to the station.
Translations:
saurian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
zoology
Etymology: From Sauria (suborder of lizards) + -an (suffix forming adjectives), under influence from earlier French saurien.
Compound parts: Sauria
-an
Inflected forms:
form: saurians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more saurian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most saurian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A reptile of the suborder Sauria.
pos: noun
examples: I took heart, however, as I recalled a conversation between Challenger and Summerlee upon the habits of the great saurians.
gloss: Any large reptilian animal, including crocodiles and reptilian aliens.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: After dinner we all went on deck and watched the unfamiliar scenes of a Capronian night--that is, all but von Schoenvorts. There was less to see than to hear. From the great inland lake behind us came the hissing and the screaming of countless saurians. Above us we heard the flap of giant wings, while from the shore rose the multitudinous voices of a tropical jungle--of a warm, damp atmosphere such as must have enveloped the entire earth during the Palezoic and Mesozoic eras.
Good evening, fellow saurians, and welcome once again to the Tri-Sports Arena! I'm your host, Raz Charkov...
gloss: A lizardlike person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: He was one of the very few larger saurians in the émigré marshes.
gloss: Of or related to the members of the suborder Sauria.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of lizardlike or reptilian.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Translations:
Wyandot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Wyandot Wendat (“islander”).
Inflected forms:
form: Wyandots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wyandot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wendat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wyandott
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wyandotte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Guyandotte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Guyandot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Native American people, formed from the Huron confederacy, that lived in and around Ohio.
pos: noun
Translations:
redbrick
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From red + brick.
Compound parts: red
brick
Inflected forms:
form: red-brick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to a red brick university
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: made of red brick
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And stolid, True Blue, Protestant Rangers in their redbrick cotadel south of the Clyde.
Translations:
micromolar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English molar
English micromolar
From micro- + molar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a concentration of one millionth of a mole per litre
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
millimolar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Indo-European *smih₂
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
Proto-Indo-European *-lom
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom
▲
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂
Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂
Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī
Latin mīlleder.
French milli-
English milli-
English molar
English millimolar
From milli- + molar.
Inflected forms:
form: mM
pos: adj
tags: abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Having a concentration of one thousandth of a mole per litre
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
clachan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Scottish Gaelic clachanbor.
English clachan
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic clachan.
Inflected forms:
form: clachans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small village or hamlet, especially in the Highlands or Western Scotland.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: ‘Now, Penpunt, you may tell me all that passed between you and the wives of the clachan.’
But if you looked south in the dusty forenoon or at hot midday, you saw the far-off glimmer of a white road, the roofs of the ugly little clachan of Kilmaclavers, and the rigging of the fine new kirk of Threepdaidle.
Of the miserable Highland clachan, to which Sir Walter Scott brought Bailie Nicol Jarvie and Frank Osbaldistone for their meeting with the redoubtable Rob Roy, little or nothing remains, and Aberfoyle is now a bright and clean holiday resort, standing on historic ground, where the Highlands and Lowlands meet.
Translations:
adventurously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English auntreousliche, equivalent to adventurous + -ly.
Base: adventurous
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more adventurously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most adventurously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an adventurous manner.
pos: adv
examples: In a short time, however, philosophy gave way to humanity, and he zealously and adventurously employed his galley in saving the inhabitants of the various beautiful villas which studded that enchanting coast.
Having lived adventurously, fate placed the pair of them in situations which would secure their unique notch in our imaginations.
Translations:
Lovecraftian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Lovecraft + -ian, in reference to H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives.
Base: Lovecraft
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Lovecraftian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Lovecraftian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Lovecraftians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Frighteningly monstrous and otherworldly, sometimes with terrifyingly unnatural anatomy.
pos: adj
examples: The tip of the thing was equipped with long whiplike appendages that writhed around a loose, drooling, toothless mouth large enough to swallow a man whole...Perhaps this was the only thing that the escaping Lovecraftian entity had thus far been able to extrude between the opening Gates — this one finger.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
pos: adj
examples: Lovecraftian horror
Lovecraftian fiction
The present story, "Born of the Winds", is one of the best. For one thing, the vision of the story is pure Lovecraftian cosmic pessimism.
That abandonment, incidentally, compelled Sam’s mother to fill her young son’s head with H. P. Lovecraftian horror-style lies about the interior of Emily Dickinson’s house, lies that motivated her son’s break-in to begin with.
gloss: A fan of American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
pos: noun
examples: For zealous Lovecraftians there are a few choice tidbits—a short autobiography, his commonplace book, and his “History and Chronology of the Necronomicon.”
Finally, we can draw a definitive fourth circle, at the absolute heart of HPL’s myth, which contains what most rabid Lovecraftians continue to call, almost in spite of themselves, the “great texts.”
Everyone is a “creative anachronist,” but we Lovecraftians, like our cousins in other Buddha-fields of fandom, have elected to live a minority, sectarian existence in what sociologists Berger and Luckmann (The Social Construction of Reality) call a “finite province of meaning.”
Translations: