yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
searchlight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From search + light. Compare West Frisian sykljocht (“searchlight”), Dutch zoeklicht (“searchlight”), Danish søgelys (“searchlight”), Swedish sökarljus (“searchlight”).
Base: search
Inflected forms:
form: searchlights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: searchlights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: searchlighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: searchlighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: searchlighted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: searchlit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: searchlit
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction, generally for military use.
pos: noun
gloss: The light from the above source.
pos: noun
gloss: To scan or sweep across like a searchlight.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A dozen air corps of fireflies searchlighted the spot for an instant.
Translations:
notched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more notched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most notched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having notches
pos: adj
Antonyms: flat
nonserrated
nontoothed
smooth
straight
unnotched
unserrated
untoothed
Translations:
nonny
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A meaningless word used in refrains, especially in old English ballads and glees.
pos: intj
examples: Then sigh not so,
But let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Translations:
newsgroup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From news + group.
Compound parts: news
group
Inflected forms:
form: newsgroups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A repository on a computer network where people can post messages, usually about a single subject.
pos: noun
examples: “Most of it’s garbage and we’re not even bothering to translate it. There’s also a substantial amount of material downloaded from the alt.anarchy and alt.chaos.communist Internet newsgroups. Interesting reading but not exactly pertinent,” Brognola said.
Some of the users are 'old timers'; they have been around in the newsgroup for several years[…]
Translations:
puna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish puna, from Quechua puna.
Inflected forms:
form: punas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Puna
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population.
pos: noun
examples: The overwhelming majority of maca roots are dried after harvest. In the cold, dry atmosphere of the puna the dried roots remain edible for several years. A minor proportion of the freshly harvested roots are roasted in huatias, earthen ovens […]
Translations:
virial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin vīs (vīs has a hidden "r" that shows in forms such as the genitive plural, vīrium).
Inflected forms:
form: virials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the interactive forces between molecules or particles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: One-half of the product of the stress of attraction or repulsion with the distance between two particles.
pos: noun
examples: The quantity 1/2 Rr, or half the product of the attraction into the distance across which the attraction is exerted, is defined by Clausis [Prof. Clausis of Bonn] as the virial of the attraction. (In the case of pressure or repulsion, the virial is negative.)
Translations:
vociferously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vociferous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English vociferously
From vociferous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more vociferously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most vociferously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a vociferous manner.
pos: adv
examples: He won that night. All were for him, the lubras vociferously in his favour.
Translations:
feeble-minded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman feblebor.
Middle English feble
English feeble
English mind
English -ed
English minded
English feeble-minded
Inflected forms:
form: more feeble-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: feebler-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most feeble-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: feeblest-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Weak in intellectual power; lacking firmness or constancy; lacking intelligence.
pos: adj
examples: Wading through history, he noted that some eugenicists believed that the “distinction between the fit and the unfit could be drawn along racial lines,” and others would define a person as “feeble-minded.”
Translations:
carbonaceous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?
Latin carbōlbor.
French carbonebor.
English carbon
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂-k-s
Proto-Italic *-āks
Latin -āx
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Indo-European *-éyos
Proto-Italic *-ejos
Proto-Italic *-eos
Latin -eus
Latin -aceus
New Latinbor.
English -aceous
English carbonaceous
From carbon + -aceous.
Inflected forms:
form: more carbonaceous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most carbonaceous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, rich in, or yielding carbon, or a compound of carbon.
pos: adj
Translations:
chondrite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros, “grain”) + -ite. By surface analysis, chondr- + -ite.
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: chondrites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A meteorite consisting of rock containing chondrules.
pos: noun
Translations:
Haken
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
Etymology: For Wolfgang Haken, who studied these manifolds.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Irreducible, compact, and containing a non-∂-parallel incompressible surface (besides a sphere or disk).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
surcharge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
hobbies
law
lifestyle
philately
Etymology: From Middle French surcharge, from Old French. By surface analysis, sur- + charge. Doublet of supercharge.
Inflected forms:
form: surcharges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: surcharges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: surcharging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: surcharged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: surcharged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.
pos: noun
examples: Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
gloss: The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.
pos: noun
gloss: An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
pos: noun
gloss: An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
pos: noun
gloss: A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
pos: noun
gloss: A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
pos: noun
gloss: An excessive load or burden.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: A Numerous Nobility, cauſet Pouerty, and Inconuenience in a State: For it is a Surcharge of Expence;
gloss: The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To apply a surcharge.
pos: verb
gloss: To overload; to overburden.
pos: verb
examples: to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon
My heauy hart I feare will breake in twaine,
Surcharged with a heauie loade of thoughts.
Your head reclin’d, (as hiding grief from view,) / Droops, like a Roſe ſurcharg’d with morning Dew.
The threat was soon fulfilled; the evening came on, prematurely darkened by clouds that seemed surcharged with a deluge.
The first, on January 1, 1883, was attributed to the overlay becoming surcharged with water, due to insufficient drainage, and causing a slip.
gloss: To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
pos: verb
examples: Another diſturbance of common is by ſurcharging it; or putting more cattle therein than the paſture and herbage will ſuſtain, or the party hath a right to do.
gloss: To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
pos: verb
examples: The Idle multitude surcharge their laies
Antonyms: discount
Related words: surtax
surcharged
supercharge
Derived words: victim surcharge
surchargeable
surchargement
Translations:
packrat
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: packrats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: packratting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: packratted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: packratted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hoard things.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
colloquial
Translations:
needlepoint
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From needle + point.
Compound parts: needle
point
Inflected forms:
form: needlepoints
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: needlepoints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: needlepointing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: needlepointed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: needlepointed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A craft involving pulling yarn, thread, or floss through a canvas mesh to produce a decorative design.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An object made using that craft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To produce a decorative design by this means.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: needlepointer
Translations:
flared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of trousers, etc., widening towards the lower parts of the legs; bell-bottomed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She was wearing a black and white striped slack-suit with flared bottoms.
Translations:
Katy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Katies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Catie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Caty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Katie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An apple cultivar from Sweden.
pos: noun
Translations:
Jody
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From a blend of Jo or Joe with Jody or Judy. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna in relation to most derivations of Jo as a female name.
Inflected forms:
form: Jodies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Jodi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Jodie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The man who seduces a soldier or inmate's wife or girlfriend during his absence.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Even today in the Marine Corps or the Army, one calls a jody, not a marching chant. For the trainee, Jody is the clever civilian who brutally divorces the soldier from the civilian world by appropriating all his possessions and loved ones.
Ain't no use in callin home.
Jody's on your telephone.
Ain't no use in lookin' back.
Jody's got your Cadillac.
Ain't no use in goin' home.
Jody's got your girl and gone.
Ain't no use in feelin' blue.
Jody's got your sister too.
“What is Jody? a Jody is the guy back home with your wife or your girlfriend. That is what a Jody is,” Harris explained.
Translations:
metaphorically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English metaphor
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English metaphoric
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 metaphorical
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 metaphorically
From metaphorical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more metaphorically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most metaphorically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a metaphorical manner; not literally; by means of metaphor.
pos: adv
examples: He conveyed his teachings metaphorically.
[…] as, for example, in the present case of throwing herself, metaphorically speaking, at Mr Casaubon's feet, and kissing his unfashionable shoe-ties as if he were a Protestant Pope.
Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.
Thinking more metaphorically, his American contemporary James Russell Lowell wrote: “It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.” Had he lived to the year 2021, he might have changed his mind.
gloss: Used to draw attention that what follows is a metaphor, not to be taken literally
pos: adv
examples: Metaphorically, he was crushed.
Antonyms: literally
Translations:
pharmacognosy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pharmaco- + -gnosy.
Affixes: pharmaco-
-gnosy
Inflected forms:
form: pharmacognosies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A branch of pharmacology that studies medical substances that are derived from natural sources, and their recognition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
carminative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin carminō (“to card, hence to cleanse”), from carmen (“a card for freeing wool or flax from the coarser parts, and from extraneous matter”).
Inflected forms:
form: more carminative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most carminative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: carminatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relieving the discomfort of gas in the digestive tract, either by reducing its production (by the gut microbiota) or by inducing its expulsion (whether as belches [upper GI action] or as flatus [lower GI action]).
pos: adj
examples: If too much milke be the cauſe, then the Nurſe ſhall not give the childe ſucke ſo often, nor in ſuch plenty: If it proceed from wind, and that doe cauſe the childe to be thus troubled, it ſhall be diſcuſſed with Fomentations applied to the belly and navell; and with Carminative Cliſters, which ſhall bee given him, […]
They used to give me cinnamon when I had a cold—quite useless, but not disagreeable. […] On the label was a list of its virtues, and among other things it was described as being in the highest degree carminative. I adored the word.
gloss: A drug or substance that relieves the discomfort of gas in the digestive tract, either by reducing its production (by the gut microbiota) or by inducing its expulsion (whether as belches [upper GI action] or as flatus [lower GI action]).
pos: noun
examples: “A mental carminative,” said Mr. Scogan reflectively. “That's what you need.”
But Master Nathaniel was indifferent to these manifestations of unpopularity. Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.
Translations:
suction
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dentistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin sūctiō, attested since Late Latin and derived from sūgō (“to suck”). Attested in English since the early 17th century.
Inflected forms:
form: suctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: suctions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suctioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suctioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suctioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A force which pushes matter from one space into another because the pressure inside the second space is lower than the pressure in the first.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A force holding two objects together because the pressure in the space between the items is lower than the pressure outside that space.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The process of creating an imbalance in pressure to draw matter from one place to another.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The first-named group — the insects that live by suction — include the scale insects, aphides, and sucking bugs[…]
gloss: A device for removing saliva from a patient's mouth during dental operations, a saliva ejector.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: influence; "pull".
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
examples: He's got some kind of suction with the Mayor's office.
gloss: To create an imbalance in pressure between one space and another in order to draw matter between the spaces.
pos: verb
gloss: To draw out the contents of a space.
pos: verb
Antonyms: unsuction
Derived words: exsuction
liposuction
microsuction
minisuction
nonsuction
suctional
suction cleaner
suction cup
suction curettage
suction gun
suctionless
suction pad
suction pit
suction point
suction stop
suction tip
suction valve
suctiony
thrombosuction
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: засмуквам
roman: zasmukvam
lang: French
word: sucer
lang: German
word: lutschen
lang: Italian
word: succhiare
lang: Persian
word: مکیدن
roman: makidan
lang: Portuguese
word: sugar
lang: Spanish
word: succionar
lang: Spanish
word: chupar
kiang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tibetan རྐྱང (rkyang, “wild ass”).
Inflected forms:
form: kiangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kiyang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kyang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau.
pos: noun
Translations:
ministerial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ministeriel, equivalent to minister + -ial. Doublet of minstrel and ministerialis.
Base: minister
Affixes: -ial
Inflected forms:
form: more ministerial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ministerial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ministerials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Related to a religious minister or ministry.
pos: adj
gloss: Related to a governmental minister or ministry.
pos: adj
examples: In over a quarter of a century of writing this column, there has been no end of scandals, mishaps, errors and general cock-ups resulting from ministerial incompetence.
gloss: Having the power to wield delegated executive authority.
pos: adj
gloss: Serving as an instrument or means (i.e., procedural or ancillary, not substantive).
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: Filling out the form under the direction of a lawyer is a ministerial task performed by a legal secretary.
gloss: A member of the mediaeval estate or caste of unfree nobles.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: By the time of the Nibelungenlied the word was used to denote a wide variety of usually ecclesiastic or royal administrators, from the lowest, unfree ministerial to an enfeoffed judge.
gloss: A meeting of government ministers from partner countries.
pos: noun
examples: The NATO ministerial was attended by the defence ministers of all member states.
Related words: minister
ministerium
ministry
prime ministerial
Derived words: antiministerial
interministerial
intraministerial
ministerial box
ministerial code
ministerialist
ministerialitis
ministerially
ministerialness
nonministerial
pseudoministerial
subministerial
unministerial
Translations:
marvelous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested from 1300 as Middle English merveilous, from Old French merveillus, from merveille (“a wonder”), equivalent to marvel + -ous.
Base: marvel
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more marvelous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most marvelous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: marvellous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: I went to a marvelous party last week.
The fifty little brown musicians rendered difficult selections with marvelous accuracy and gingersome dash and artistic enjoyment of the work.
At first glance, importance sampling seems like a marvellous solution to any posterior simulation problem.
Translations:
pussyfoot
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pussy (“feline”) + foot; because of the light and careful tread of cats.
Compound parts: pussy
foot
Inflected forms:
form: pussyfoots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pussyfooting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pussyfooted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pussyfooted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To move silently, stealthily, or furtively.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To act timidly or cautiously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: — So are you going to practice what you’re preaching and stop pussyfooting around with Faye?
— Hey, I’m 0 for 1 when it comes to practicing what I preach. These feet stay pussied for the time being.
The TSSA union said the Government should "stop pussyfooting around" and place Euston at the heart of the transformative rail project.
gloss: To use euphemistic language or circumlocution.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Then you talk up! And plain! What's there to be so pussyfooting about?"
Derived words: pussyfooter
pussyfootism
Translations:
pampas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From (plural of) American Spanish pampa, from Quechua pampa (“land, ground”).
Inflected forms:
form: pampas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pampa
pos: noun
tags: singular
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: The extensive plains of South America south of the Amazon.
pos: noun
tags: plural
singular
examples: The pampas are flat, and present no significant barriers to the building of roads or railways. Even more important, the pampas are close to the major Argentine ports of Buenos Aires, Rosario, and Bahia Blanca.
The pampas is an ecological wonderland, teeming with life and natural beauty. The pampas is renowned for its sprawling grasslands, which are home to unique species of grasses, including Paspalum, Aristida, and Stipa.
[…] that the pampa is above all, fit for the cereals. […] that is to say, on plains without trees analogous to our pampas, as also the maize on the savannahs which are the pampas of Louisiana, […] the soil of the pampa is "excessively fertile," and […]
Translations:
charmer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English charmer, charmere, equivalent to charm + -er.
Base: charm
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: charmers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A charming person; one who charms or seduces; a smoothie.
pos: noun
examples: And "Juno" is the kind of movie all indie comedies wish they could be: light and lovable, perhaps a bit too pleased with the cleverness of its dialogue, but a small charmer nonetheless.
gloss: An enchanter or magician.
pos: noun
gloss: A rude or unpleasant person.
pos: noun
tags: ironic
examples: What a charmer, Karl Lagerfeld
Related words: charm
charming
snake charmer
Derived words: charmeress
Translations:
potassic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English potassium
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English potassic
From potassium + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Containing potassium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
fissionable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fission
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English fissionable
From fission + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: fissionables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of undergoing nuclear fission; fissile.
pos: adj
gloss: Any fissile or fissionable substance.
pos: noun
examples: If one nation seized the fissionables within its borders, this would “serve as a danger signal” to other nations. The wrongdoer's gain would be short-lived because other nations would take defensive action in kind.
Antonyms: nonfissionable
Translations:
footling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English footle
English -ing
English footling
From footle + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more footling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most footling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: footlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: trivial, silly and irritating.
pos: adj
examples: He was explaining to her things about the air service. . . . "Isn't it rather dangerous work?" she asked. She felt it was a footling question even as she asked it.
Only a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling.
For 28 footling days the 58-nation General Assembly had been debating the now-famous U.S. afterthought: to postpone partition and substitute a U.N. trusteeship for Palestine.
They are electrically hauled, and travel at over 70 m.p.h. between stops, but they make five stops at footling little country towns and take two hours for the 98-mile run.
“Why did you persist in writing hurlothrumbo romances of the footling sort favored by mooncalfs?”
gloss: A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its foot or feet will emerge first. A type of breech birth.
pos: noun
examples: In 1999 my fourth child (third daughter) made an unexpected footling breech presentation.
Translations:
subgraph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English graph
English subgraph
From sub- + graph.
Inflected forms:
form: subgraphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A graph or network that makes up part of a larger graph or network.
pos: noun
Translations:
lapa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sotho lelapabor.
English lapa
Borrowed from Sotho lelapa.
Inflected forms:
form: lapas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An open structure in South Africa, typically a thatched roof supported by wooden poles.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
Translations:
gitty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gitties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jitty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A narrow pedestrian passageway in a residential area, between high brick walls, wooden fences, hedges, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Midlands
Translations:
fulling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fulling, fullynge, from fullen, fulwen (“to baptise”), equivalent to full + -ing.
Base: full
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Baptism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
vax
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the phonetic spelling of the clipping of vaccine, vaccination or vaccinate.
Inflected forms:
form: vaxxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vaxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vaxxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vaxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vaxxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vaxxed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vaxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vaxed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vaxx
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To vaccinate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: In late April, Hazelton organized a protest in Trenton demanding to “open New Jersey now,” saying into a bullhorn: “We have the right not to be tested, not to be tracked, not to be vaxxed.”
Translations:
mado
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mados
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any fish in the genus Atypichthys, in Australia mostly Atypichthys strigatus and in New Zealand Atypichthys latus.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
uncountable
usually
Translations:
mura
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Etymology: From Japanese 斑 (mura, literally “blemish, fluctuation”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Nonuniformity in the luminance of a display device.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Major classes of LCFPD defects encountered at the final inspection are often pixel defects or wide-area pixel defects (also known as Mura defects).
Software Simulates Sight: Flat Panel Mura Detection
gloss: A form of waste, or deviation from optimal allocation of resources, that occurs when inventory is required but not immediately available.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
ethoxide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: ethoxides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the anion CH₃CH₂O⁻ derived from ethanol by the loss of a proton
pos: noun
gloss: any salt of this anion
pos: noun
Synonyms: ethanolate
Translations:
nuc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: nucs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nuke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
pos: noun
examples: I have to take brood from established hives to set up nucs, as I did the previous week[…]
Translations:
souper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English soup
English -er
English souper
From soup + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: soupers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who, during the Irish famine, supplied food such as soup to Catholics who converted to Protestantism.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
historical
gloss: A (former) Catholic who converted to Protestantism in order to gain such food.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
historical
examples: Croghan Soupers
Related words: pea-souper
souperism
soup kitchen
soupmaker
petit souper
stewer
Translations:
ratite
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin ratis (“raft”) + -ite; ratites (unlike other birds) lack a keel on their sternum, and rafts are vessels that lack keels.
Base: ratis
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: ratites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to running, flightless birds with no keels on their sternums (as opposed to carinate).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Against what was probably the general expectation, it became undeniable that New Zealand was indeed the home of huge ratite birds.
gloss: A member of a diverse group of mostly large, running, flightless birds that lack keels on their sternums, mostly extinct such as the elephant bird and the moa, but including the extant cassowaries, emu, kiwi, ostrich, and rhea; formerly grouped together in the order Struthioniformes, and including the Paleognathae except the tinamous.
pos: noun
Translations:
proofreading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: proofreadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: proof-reading
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which a document is proofread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We gave the document two proofreadings, to make absolutely sure that no errors would remain.
Translations:
reconnaissance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French reconnaissance (“recognition”). Doublet of recognizance.
Inflected forms:
form: reconnaissances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: recce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: recon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reconnoissance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The third member, Sergeant Pieter Rousseau, had been with the back-up teams at the Hub; he was an expert on space reconnaissance instrumentation, but on this trip he would have to depend on his own eyes and a small portable telescope.
Translations:
gunsmith
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gun + smith.
Compound parts: gun
smith
Inflected forms:
form: gunsmiths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A manufacturer of guns.
pos: noun
examples: In New York, state lawmakers announced legislation on Monday that would require makers of ghost guns to have a gunsmith license and register the firearms.
gloss: A person skilled in the repair and servicing of firearms.
pos: noun
Synonyms: armourer
armorer
Translations:
gatekeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From gate + keeper.
Compound parts: gate
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: gatekeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
pos: noun
examples: The sources the citations are drawn from are significant, being printed books or newspapers subject to editorial processes and gatekeepers of language standards, as opposed to unedited texts such as blogs, chatroom logs or student writing.
gloss: A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
pos: noun
examples: […]“Here,” he said, stepping forward and handing twopence to the gatekeeper; “let the young woman pass.”
At each station is a level crossing, in addition to others away from stations, and, as both the road and rail traffic are heavy, the gatekeepers (mostly signalmen) are quite busy and have acquired well-merited mention for reducing delays to road traffic to a minimum.
gloss: A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
pos: noun
gloss: In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
pos: noun
gloss: One who gatekeeps.
pos: noun
gloss: A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)
pos: noun
Derived words: gatekeeperism
gatekeepership
gatekeepery
Translations:
bistre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French bistrebor.
English bistre
Borrowed from French bistre.
Inflected forms:
form: bistres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bister
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A brown pigment made from soot, especially from beech wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mid-to-dark brown color resembling the pigment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [O]h! what an object he was! The rings round his eyes were of the colour of bistre […]
Derived words: bistred
Translations:
recce
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Clipping of reconnaissance.
Inflected forms:
form: recces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: recco
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reccy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: recces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recceing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: recce'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recce'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: recceed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recceed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: recco
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: reccy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Reconnaissance.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 1953, J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross, The Weeping and the Laughter: A Chapter of Autobiography
Visiting the town on what in the more recent war we called a recce, she arranged a tennis-match with Dolly, guessing that the girl would be a bad loser.
As he climbed into the car, his recce of the space behind the seats was still a little too obvious despite best efforts at subtlety.
I'm afraid you two will have to go on a bit of a recce sometime soon.
He'd be over at Christmas to do a proper sort-through of Velerie's things, but in the meantime could Shannon have a quiet recce and make sure everything was secure?
Rona disappeared into the little kitchenette and Nicol made a recce of the room.
1946, United States. Congress. American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
There appears a captured photograph showing cruiser or battleship recovery of an old Jap float recce plane.
These record imagery from all three recce sensors - IR, EO and SAR.
Reconnaissance (recce) patrols were the most effective solution that the British and Indian Army designed to identify Japanese units and their intentions, as these could move through the jungle without alerting the enemy to their presence.
gloss: Reconnoitre.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: I told the boys to stock up with all they could, and went back to the village to recce for someone to pay as per orders.
Take him down there with Entry Two and recce first. If he can't confirm it, we pull out.
Translations:
counter-terrorism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *komterosder.
Proto-Italic *komterād
Latin contrāder.
Old French contre-
Anglo-Norman countre-bor.
Middle English counter-
English counter-
Proto-Indo-European *tres-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti
Proto-Italic *trozeō
Latin terreō
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin terrorbor.
Old French terreur
Middle French terreur
French terreur
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French terrorisme
English terrorism
English counter-terrorism
From counter- + terrorism.
Inflected forms:
form: counterterrorism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Measures intended to combat or reduce terrorist activities.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
recon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Contracted form of reconnaissance.
Inflected forms:
form: recons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: recons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reconning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reconned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reconned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: reconnaissance.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: During a scan of the Phoenix system asteroid field, you detected an odd energy reading that Tali determined was quarian in nature. She led a recon team into the asteroid field, where she discovered an abandoned freighter.
gloss: reconnoiter.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
Translations:
molybdate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English molybdic acid
English -ate
English molybdate
From molybdic acid + -ate (“a derivative, a salt or ester”).
Inflected forms:
form: molybdates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The anion MoO₄²⁻.
pos: noun
gloss: Any salt of molybdic acid.
pos: noun
Related words: molybdenate
molybdenyl
metamolybdate
trimolybdate
Derived words: dimolybdate
heptamolybdate
oxythiomolybdate
paramolybdate
pentamolybdate
phosphomolybdate
tetramolybdate
thiomolybdate
Translations:
rorqual
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Norwegian Nynorsk røyrkval, from Old Norse reyðarhvalr (“fin whale”).
Inflected forms:
form: rorquals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any whale of family Balaenopteridae, with longitudinal skin folds running from below the mouth to the navel, allowing the capacity of the mouth to expand greatly when feeding.
pos: noun
examples: Now then, the biggest whales, those rorqual whales that frequent the waterways of the Aleutian Islands, have never exceeded a length of 56 meters--if they reach even that.
Translations:
biconical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek κωνῐκός (kōnĭkós)lbor.
English conic
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 conical
English biconical
From bi- + conical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: consisting of two cones placed together apex to apex
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cairn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scots cairn, from Scottish Gaelic càrn, from Old Irish carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).
Compare Welsh carn, Cornish carn. Doublet of carn and horn.
Inflected forms:
form: cairns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
pos: noun
examples: "Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: / Why speak ye no word!"—said Glenara the stern.
gloss: A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
pos: noun
examples: After fifteen minutes of this we were glad to reach a high saddle on which former travellers had piled little cairns of commemoration and thankfulness.
gloss: A cairn terrier.
pos: noun
Derived words: cairned
cairnless
cairnlike
cairn terrier
Cairn Water
Cairnwood
cairny
Clava cairn
Tate's Cairn
Translations:
wolfberry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wolf + berry.
Compound parts: wolf
berry
Inflected forms:
form: wolfberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of flowering species of the genus Lycium.
pos: noun
gloss: Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense
pos: noun
gloss: The berry of this plant.
pos: noun
gloss: The western snowberry, Symphoricarpos occidentalis, a shrub native to nothern and central North America.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: عَوْسَج
roman: ʕawsaj
lang: Arabic
word: لُسَاس
roman: lusās
lang: Belarusian
word: ліцы́й
roman: licýj
lang: Bulgarian
word: лициум
roman: licium
lang: Catalan
word: escambró
lang: Catalan
word: cambronera
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 枸杞
roman: gǒuqǐ
lang: Danish
word: bukketorn
lang: Dutch
word: boksdoorn
lang: Finnish
word: pukinpensas
lang: French
word: lyciet
lang: Galician
word: escambrón
lang: German
word: Bocksdorn
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ῥάμνος
roman: rhámnos
lang: Japanese
word: クコ
roman: kuko
lang: Japanese
word: 枸杞
roman: kuko
lang: Macedonian
word: плетиплотка
roman: pletiplotka
lang: Malay
word: kauki
lang: Malay
word: koki
lang: Navajo
word: haashchʼéʼédą́ą́ʼ
lang: Polish
word: kolcowój
lang: Russian
word: дереза́
roman: derezá
lang: Russian
word: замани́ха
roman: zamaníxa
lang: Spanish
word: escambrón
lang: Spanish
word: cambronera
lang: Spanish
word: cambrón
lang: Spanish
word: spino cambrón
lang: Swedish
word: bocktörne
lang: Tibetan
word: འདྲེ་ཚེར་མ
roman: 'dre tsher ma
lang: Turkish
word: teke dikeni
lang: Ukrainian
word: дереза́
roman: derezá
lang: Ukrainian
word: пові́й
roman: povíj
lang: Vietnamese
word: củ khởi
yuba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Japanese 湯葉, ゆば (yuba)
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Dried tofu skin; the film that forms on top of a vat of boiling soy milk.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
yarraman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Suspected to be from an Australian language of coastal New South Wales, but the term was used by white settlers as a pidgin for communicating with the indigenous people and was rapidly adopted into their languages (preceding actual arrival of horses in some cases), making an origin difficult to ascertain. Each may well have believed they were using the other's word! (Reference: R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, →ISBN.)
Inflected forms:
form: yarramans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yarramen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: horse
pos: noun
Translations:
roquet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: roquets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: roquets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roqueting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roqueted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roqueted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In croquet, the act of hitting another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.
pos: noun
gloss: In croquet, to hit another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.
pos: verb
Translations:
uncharted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + charted. Piecewise doublet of uncarded.
Base: charted
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more uncharted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncharted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not surveyed or mapped.
pos: adj
examples: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
John Wesley Powell ... the one-armed Civil War veteran led nine men in four wooden dories down the untamed and uncharted Colorado River and into the equally untamed and uncharted Grand Canyon.
Translations:
salicylate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English salicylic acid
English -ate
English salicylate
From salicylic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Inflected forms:
form: salicylates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salicylates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: salicylating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: salicylated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: salicylated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of salicylic acid.
pos: noun
gloss: To combine or treat with salicylic acid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
keratoconus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From kerato- + Latin conus.
Affixes: kerato-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A degenerative noninflammatory disorder of the eye in which structural changes within the cornea cause it to thin and change to a more conical shape than its normal even curve.
pos: noun
Translations: