yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
microscopy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scopy
English microscopy
From micro- + -scopy.
Inflected forms:
form: microscopies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of microscopes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”
Nematodes are transparent. It is one of the features that make them an ideal model organism, amenable to microscopy.
A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).
Derived words: biomicroscopy
colpomicroscopy
copromicroscopy
cryomicroscopy
endomicroscopy
fluoromicroscopy
heliomicroscopy
immunomicroscopy
intravital microscopy
nanomicroscopy
otomicroscopy
photomicroscopy
spectromicroscopy
submicroscopy
supermicroscopy
telemicroscopy
ultramicroscopy
videomicroscopy
Translations:
natality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: demographics
demography
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From natal + -ity, perhaps after mortality. Compare French natalité (“birthrate”) and Middle English natalyte (“birth”). Philosophical usage introduced by Hannah Arendt.
Base: natal
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: natalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The human ability to create new ideas, institutions and frameworks out of nothing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: natimortality
Translations:
remaining
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, remain + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Which remains, especially after something else has been removed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: May I have the only remaining cake?
Last year, the company eliminated hundreds of jobs and asked some of the remaining staff to take on the responsibilities of those who were let go.
Translations:
negative-sum
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a situation in which there is a net loss.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
newsstand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From news + stand.
Compound parts: news
stand
Inflected forms:
form: newsstands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: news stand
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An open stall, often on a street, where newspapers and magazines are on sale to the public.
pos: noun
Translations:
novelization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Italic *nowos
Latin novus
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Latin novellus
Vulgar Latin *novella
Italian novellabor.
English novel
English -ization
English novelization
From novel + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: novelizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The writing of a novel based on fact; fictionalization
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A text novel that is an adaptation of a story from a visual medium such as film
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
yellowhammer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An alteration (influenced by hammer) of the earlier yelambre, yelamber, from Middle English *yelwambre, from yelwe (“yellow”) + *ambre (“yellowhammer”), from Old English amore, related to Old High German amaro (“yellowhammer”) (see modern German Ammer).
Inflected forms:
form: yellowhammers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yellow-ammer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yellow-hammer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of western Eurasia, which is mainly yellow in colour.
pos: noun
gloss: The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus, a woodpecker with yellow underwings and undertail and often other yellowish underparts; one of its ways of feeding is to hammer on trees to find insects (adults and larvae) to eat.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A native or resident of the American state of Alabama.
pos: noun
Related words: a little bit of bread and no cheese
Translations:
injun
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of Indian. Compare Cajun. First attested in the 1805–15.
Inflected forms:
form: injuns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Injin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Injun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Native American.
pos: noun
tags: US
offensive
slang
examples: We'll kill ourselves an injun, and maybe two or three!
You want a problem, well I guess we got one now / I really don't know how / There's injuns over every goddamn hill
Instead of grudgingly admitting the “Injuns” weren’t so bad after all, it actually explores the conflicted culpability of individual white Americans.
Translations:
incurable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.
Inflected forms:
form: incurables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.
gloss: Irremediable, incorrigible.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: an incurable romantic
gloss: One who cannot be cured.
pos: noun
examples: Heatherlegh, the Doctor, kept, in addition to his regular practice, a hospital on his private account — an arrangement of loose-boxes for Incurables, his friends called it — but it was really a sort of fitting-up shed for craft that had been damaged by stress of weather.
Synonyms: uncurable
Antonyms: curable
Related words: incurability
terminal
Derived words: incurableness
incurably
radioincurable
Translations:
manufacturing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: manufacturings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transformation of raw materials into finished products, usually on a large scale.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The industry in which such products are made.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Used in manufacturing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
Derived words: additive manufacturing
antimanufacturing
biomanufacturing
discrete manufacturing
micromanufacturing
nanomanufacturing
nonmanufacturing
process manufacturing
Translations:
sandpiper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sand + piper.
Compound parts: sand
piper
Inflected forms:
form: sandpipers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small waders of the family Scolopacidae.
pos: noun
examples: Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs (setting up the sandpipers[.]
Translations:
redwing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From red + wing.
Compound parts: red
wing
Inflected forms:
form: redwings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small thrush, Turdus iliacus, native to Eurasia, with a white eye stripe and red under-wing feathers.
pos: noun
Translations:
redpoll
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From red + poll.
Compound parts: red
poll
Inflected forms:
form: redpolls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various finches in the genus Acanthis (syn. Carduelis), which have characteristic red markings on their heads.
pos: noun
gloss: A redhead.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: Arctic redpoll
common redpoll
Greenland redpoll
hoary redpoll
Icelandic redpoll
lesser redpoll
Translations:
redstart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English *redstert; equivalent to red + start (“tail”). Compare Dutch roodstaart, Danish rødstjert.
Compound parts: red
start
Inflected forms:
form: redstarts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various insectivorous ground-feeding birds, mainly of the genus Phoenicurus. Many of the species have a red tail.
pos: noun
gloss: A species of warbler native to the Americas, Setophaga ruticilla, only distantly related to Phoenicurus.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Derived words: American redstart
black redstart
blue-capped redstart
blue-fronted redstart
common redstart
Daurian redstart
Eversmann's redstart
Güldenstädt's redstart
Hodgson's redstart
Luzon water redstart
Moussier's redstart
plumbeous water redstart
Przevalski's redstart
water redstart
white-capped redstart
white-throated redstart
Translations:
redshank
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From red + shank.
Compound parts: red
shank
Inflected forms:
form: redshanks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: red shank
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of two species of Old World wading bird in the genus Tringa that have long red legs.
pos: noun
examples: Saltings ringing with the redshank's cry.
gloss: Any of species Ceratodon purpureus of moss
pos: noun
gloss: Lady's thumb or redleg (Persicaria maculosa), an herb in the buckwheat family.
pos: noun
gloss: A bare-legged person; one of the Scottish Highlanders, who wore kilts.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
obsolete
examples: Much worse then the former; for who that is experienced in those partes and knoweth not that the Oneales are neerely alied unto the Mac Oneales of Scotland, and to the Earle of Argill, from whom they use to have all ther succors of those Scottes and Redshanks?
Related words: redshanks
greenshank
Derived words: common redshank
dusky redshank
panicled redshank
redshanks
scarce redshank
spotted redshank
Translations:
greenshank
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From green + shank.
Compound parts: green
shank
Inflected forms:
form: greenshanks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wading bird, Tringa nebularia, that has long greenish legs and is native to Eurasia.
pos: noun
Translations:
spoilsport
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the verbal expression spoil sport (“ruin the amusement”).
Inflected forms:
form: spoilsports
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spoil-sport
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more spoilsport
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spoilsport
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spoil-sport
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who puts an end to others' fun, especially harmless fun.
pos: noun
examples: I know I am a sad spoilsport, but it would make me wretched.
He looks a spoilsport. There are men in whose presence it is impossible to have any fun: men who are a sort of walking conscience.
gloss: Like a spoilsport.
pos: adj
examples: It may seem somewhat spoilsport to focus in on this negative after another important victory but to ignore it would be delusion. Southgate will not be letting it escape his attention.
Antonyms: life and soul of the party
life of the party
live wire
party animal
Translations:
mayday
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the distress signal mayday, from French m'aider, short for Venez m'aider! (“Come to help me!”). The term was conceived in the early 1920s by Frederick Stanley Mockford, officer-in-charge of radio at Croydon Airport in England. He had been asked to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency. Since much of the air traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he proposed the term "mayday," the phonetic equivalent of the French m'aider.
Inflected forms:
form: maydays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mayday
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An international distress signal used by shipping and aircraft.
pos: noun
examples: "Odd that she hasn't sent out a Mayday."
"That is curious. Her radio must be disabled."
The captain did a safety drill. This covered where the emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) was located, how to make a mayday call, and where the fire extinguishers were. A crew member demonstrated how to put on an immersion suit. These survival suits are waterproof full-body garments with a hood and integral three-finger gloves and boots. They are bulky and hard to get on but far more likely to save your life in cold water than a lifejacket.
Translations:
aider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English aid
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 aider
From aid + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: aiders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who aids or assists.
pos: noun
examples: The capitaines of the toune seyng theire pillers borken, and their chief ayders discomfited, rendered the toune to the duke of Somerset,
[…] arte is neither an aider nor a surmounter, but onely a bare immitatour of natures works, following and counterfeyting her actions and effects […]
[…] being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—[…]—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, […]
The woman in question had, as she said, been a close friend of Margaret’s, and, as such, an aider in her habits of intemperance.
gloss: A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.
pos: noun
examples: As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.
Related words: aide
first-aider
Translations:
long-term
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: longer-term
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: longest-term
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: long term
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: longterm
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: longer-term
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: longest-term
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: long term
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: longterm
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Becoming evident after a relatively long time period.
pos: adj
examples: Time will tell what the long-term impact of the Beijing Olympics will be. But history shows that once people get a taste of freedom, they eventually want more.
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.
gloss: Extending over a relatively long time period.
pos: adj
examples: Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
Asari Cultural VI: Due to our lifespan-sometimes reaching 1,000 years of age-we are patient in our decisions, and prefer long-term solutions over short-term gains.
Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
gloss: Over a relatively long period of time.
pos: adv
examples: These alternatives to sugar, when consumed long term, do not serve to reduce body fat in either adults or children, the W.H.O. said in a recommendation, adding that continued consumption could increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and mortality in adults.
Antonyms: short-term
Related words: take the long view
Derived words: long COVID
long-termism
longtermism
longtermist
long-termly
long-termness
on long-term sick
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: երկարաժամկետ
roman: erkaražamket
lang: Danish
word: langtids-
lang: Finnish
word: pitkän aikavälin
lang: French
word: à long terme
lang: Galician
word: a longo prazo
lang: Georgian
word: გრძელვადიანი
roman: grʒelvadiani
lang: German
word: Langzeit-
lang: Greek
word: μακροπρόθεσμος
roman: makropróthesmos
lang: Māori
word: pae tawhiti
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: langtids-
lang: Polish
word: długoterminowy
lang: Portuguese
word: a longo prazo
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dugoročan
lang: Spanish
word: a largo plazo
lang: Swedish
word: långtids-
lang: Thai
word: ระยะยาว
lang: Turkish
word: uzun vadeli
Lysenkoism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Lysenko + -ism.
Compound parts: Lysenko
-ism
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The doctrine that maintained that environmentally acquired characteristics could be inherited; Lamarckism.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
gloss: The use of pseudoscience in furtherance of an ideology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: Lysenkoan
Lysenkoite
epigenetics
Translations:
flotation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
mining
Etymology: Etymology tree
English float
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 flotation
From float + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: flotations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: floatation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A state of floating, or being afloat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ability (as of a tire or snowshoes) to stay on the surface of soft ground or snow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A process of separating minerals by agitating a mixture with water and detergents etc; selected substances being carried to the surface in air bubbles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The launching onto the market of a tranche of stocks or shares, usually a new issue.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Derived words: bioflotation
centre of flotation
electroflotation
flotate
flotational
flotation collar
flotation cost
flotation tank
flotation therapy
froth flotation
personal flotation device
reflotation
vibroflotation
Translations:
biophilia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From bio- + -philia.
Base: bio
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Hypochondria.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
uncountable
examples: HYPOCHONDRIASIS, SOLICITUDE ABOUT THE HEALTH, HYPOCHONDRIA. Melancholia. Hypochondriaca. Biophilia. §63. 1. Descriptions of the disease.
gloss: The biological drive to preserve oneself; love of life.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Biophilia (βίος, life; φιλία, love). The instinct of self-preservation common to man and the lower animals.
gloss: The love of or empathy with nature and all living things.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Our deepest needs stem from ancient and still poorly understood biological adaptations. Among them is biophilia: the rich, natural pleasure that comes from being surrounded by living organisms, not just other human beings but a diversity of ...
Translations:
feeding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, feed + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: feedings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of giving food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: premium blend for feeding of dairy herds
gloss: An instance or session of giving food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: the morning feeding might differ from the evening feeding in protein content
optimal intervals between feedings for neonates with weak esophagogastric sphincter
[…] they are nevertheless always like the lion's keeper, who, when by long patience, a thousand feedings, and a thousand clawings, he hath made a fierce lion familiar, yet never gives him meat, but with pulling back his hand, always in fear […]
gloss: The act or process of eating.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: feeding from round bales is necessary here in winter, when pasturage is ebbed
gloss: An instance or session of eating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: picked up hardware disease during a feeding outside the intended pasture
gloss: That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: caution in the feeding of the No. 3 mill
Derived words: acquisition feeding time
allofeeding
antifeeding
care and feeding
feeding bottle
feeding chair
feeding frenzy
Feeding Hills
feeding stuff
feedingstuff
feeding tube
like feeding time at the zoo
nonfeeding
postfeeding
tube feeding syndrome
unfeeding
Translations:
unc
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of uncle.
Inflected forms:
form: more unc
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unc
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unk
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Old; no longer versed in or relevant to current youth culture.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
examples: Millennials’ very existence has become so embarrassing to Gen Z-ers that they’ve coined a phrase for it: “millennial cringe.” […] We are now unc and frequently also washed.
Those qualities make it more accessible to a range of people who struggle to keep up in faster games while maintaining a skill range in other disciplines: timing, positioning, and perception. It's fairly easy to track targets, but you're still rewarded for nailing headshots, taking the high ground, and utilizing shell abilities. Does that make Marathon an unc game? You decide, but as a freshly minted literal uncle, it does speak to me.
What the heck is an unc game? It didn’t take me long to discover that “unc” (short for uncle) is the latest semi-disparaging gen Z name for anyone over about 30. Further back, it originated as AAVE slang. “Uncslop” refers to the implicitly terrible games beloved by this older generation of players; basically anything made in the 1990s or 2000s, from Knights of the Old Republic to World of Warcraft. An unc game, then, is a game predominantly played by millennials (and older) – and Marathon is one of them. A week or so later, I read Emanuel Maiberg’s article for 404 Media, which dug into the game’s unc credentials.
Translations:
agrarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros
Proto-Italic *agros
Latin ager
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -arius
Latin agrāriusder.
Middle French agrarienbor.
English agrarian
From Middle French agrarien, from Latin agrarius (“of the land”), from stem of ager (“field”) + -arius.
Inflected forms:
form: more agrarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agrarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: agrarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.
pos: adj
gloss: Agricultural or rural.
pos: adj
gloss: Wild; said of plants growing in a cultivated field.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who advocates the political interests of working farmers.
pos: noun
Derived words: agrarianisation
agrarianism
agrarianization
agrarianize
agrarianly
agrarianness
agrarian party
agrarian scissors
antiagrarian
nonagrarian
superagrarian
unagrarian
Translations:
agrarianism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin agrāriusder.
Middle French agrarienbor.
English agrarian
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 -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English agrarianism
From agrarian + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: agrarianisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A social and political philosophy that advocates an equitable distribution of land.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
agonistes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a contestant in the public games”), from ἀγών (agṓn, “contest, struggle”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A person engaged in a struggle.
pos: noun
Translations:
airflow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From air + flow.
Compound parts: air
flow
Inflected forms:
form: airflows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: air flow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any flow of air, especially the motion of air around a moving aircraft or aerofoil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
short-lived
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From short + lived (“having a life, lifed”), equivalent to short + life + -ed. Compare Middle English short-livi, sort-levi (“short-lived”).
Base: short
Inflected forms:
form: shorter-lived
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shortest-lived
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shortlived
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Alive or existent for only a short period of time.
pos: adj
examples: But his joy was short-lived, for his fortunes soon changed.
The prosperity was short-lived, and in 1828 the salt pans closed and the railway extension was lifted.
At the end of 1927 the Communists were "purged" from the Kuomintang, and although in 1928 a short-lived soviet government had been proclaimed at Hsunyi, it was crushed by General Feng Yu-hsiang's pro-Nanking troops.
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The London & North Western that became part of the LMS actually consisted of the older LNWR and the Lancashire & Yorkshire. Their merger came into effect on January 1 1922 to create the biggest but most short-lived "pre-Grouping' company.
gloss: Of a radioisotope (or by extension radioelement): having a short half-life.
pos: adj
Antonyms: long-lasting
long-lived
Related words: brief
fleeting
momentary
Derived words: sharp short-lived head pain
short-livedness
Translations:
deep-dish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a pie or pizza: baked in a dish or pan with high sides.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Very thorough or intricate.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: The best gossip on Broadway these days is nothing you can read in the tabloids. You'll have to hear it in person, and believe me, you'll want to. This is very deep dish — layered with malice and kindness, truth and conjecture, and all the mixed motives that make human beings such endlessly intriguing subjects of speculation.
Related words: deep-pan
Derived words: deep-dish pizza
Translations:
peeping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: peepings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to peep.
pos: noun
examples: You will know them by their sly looks; their skulkings, peepings, watchings, and the snares they lay;—by the great papers, with great seals, that they carry; […]
Yet, terrible as was the danger we incurred, the attraction of peeping was for both of us irresistible.
Translations:
garnishee
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English garnish
English -ee
English garnishee
From garnish + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: garnishees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: garnishees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: garnisheeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: garnisheed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: garnisheed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The person whose money is garnished.
pos: noun
gloss: To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Her bank account was garnisheed to pay an outstanding tax debt.
Translations:
mooing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mooings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb moo; a mooing sound.
pos: noun
examples: Her piteous mooings caught the ear of a hungry old he-bear which was hunting in the woods near by.
gloss: Very rare.
pos: adj
tags: humorous
not-comparable
Translations:
rutted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rut
English -ed
English rutted
From rut + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more rutted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rutted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Marked or grooved with ruts.
pos: adj
examples: It was as much as part of her days as stale bread and the blisters on her toes after a long day of walking the hard, rutted road.
Translations:
antipathetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin antipatheticus.
Inflected forms:
form: more antipathetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antipathetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or showing a strong aversion or repugnance.
pos: adj
gloss: Opposed in nature or character; antagonistic.
pos: adj
gloss: Causing a feeling of antipathy; repugnant.
pos: adj
gloss: Not easily united by grafting.
pos: adj
Synonyms: antipathic
antipathical
antipathetical
antipathous
Derived words: antipathetical
antipathetically
antipatheticalness
Translations:
mohair
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Earlier mocayre, from Middle French mocayart and Italian mocaiardo, mocaiarro, both from Arabic مُخَيَّر (muḵayyar, “choice”), past participle of خَيَّرَ (ḵayyara, “to choose”). Form influenced by hair through folk etymology. Doublet of moire; compare mockado.
Inflected forms:
form: mohairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Yarn or fabric made from the hair of the angora goat, often as mixed with cotton or other materials.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The long, fine hair of the Angora goat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An Angora goat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: mohair goat, mohair kid
Translations:
poontang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Likely from French putain (“prostitute”). Compare Jamaican Creole punani (“female genitalia”); also Tagalog putang ina (“contemptible person”, literally “prostitute-mother”) from Spanish puta (“prostitute”).
Inflected forms:
form: poontangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pootang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
countable
uncountable
vulgar
gloss: Sexual intercourse with a woman.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
vulgar
examples: That must have been some poontang you got last night.
gloss: A woman, especially when discussed from a heavily sexualized, sexist, and misogynist perspective.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
dated
derogatory
offensive
slang
uncountable
vulgar
Synonyms: tang
punani
cooch
coochie
clam
vagina and Thesaurus:vulva
poon
pussy
ass
tail
Translations:
bicuspid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
English cuspid
English bicuspid
From bi- + cuspid.
Inflected forms:
form: bicuspids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Synonym of premolar, a two-pointed tooth between the cuspids and molars.
pos: noun
Translations:
rugal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: folded
pos: adj
Translations:
sealskin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From seal + skin.
Compound parts: seal
skin
Inflected forms:
form: sealskins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seal-skin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of fabric made from the skin of seals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The coat is double, dense and silky, and like sealskin to the touch.
gloss: Any fabric manufactured to resemble sealskin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An item of clothing made from sealskin (whether real or imitation).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: sealskin cloth
sealskinned
sealskin tent
Translations:
quantize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
telecommunications
Inflected forms:
form: quantizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quantizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quantized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quantized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: quantise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To associate a given set of numbers with a set of numeric values in another encoding or numerical system (e.g. in a discrete mathematics).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: dequantize
quantizability
quantizable
quantization
quantizer
requantize
Translations:
prosecution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Equivalent to prosecute + -ion, from Middle French prosecution, from Late Latin prōsecutio, from Latin prōsequor (“follow, pursue”), from pro- (“onward”) + sequor (“follow”) (English sequel). Compare persecution, and see more at prosecute.
Base: prosecute
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: prosecutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The prosecution of the war fell to Winston Churchill.
Many apartheid perpetrators escaped prosecution for their persecution of black Africans and political dissidents.
gloss: The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
The justices declared that the statute does not establish an age of consent, and declared that in future prosecutions of persons charged with "indecent assault and battery" the state will have to prove that the alleged victim did not consent to the act.
gloss: The prosecuting party.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."
gloss: In many countries, a legal body and institution, usually part of the state apparatus, empowered to perform prosecution. Prosecutor's Office. See Prosecutor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Backed by public outrage, the prosecution requested the death penalty to be imposed on the murderer.
Related words: persecution
prosecute
sequence
Derived words: antiprosecution
criminal prosecution
deferred prosecution agreement
malicious prosecution
nonprosecution
overprosecution
prosecutional
prosecution association
prosecution history
Translations:
Vega
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish vegabor.
English Vega
Borrowed from Spanish vega (“meadow, fertile lowland”).
Inflected forms:
form: Vegas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An automobile that was manufactured by Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors Corporation from 1970 to 1977.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Lom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Related to Rom and Dôm.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A nomadic people related to the Rom and Dom, with origins in India, who reside in Transcaucasia; Caucasian Gypsies.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
excretory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English excrete
English -ory
English excretory
From excrete + -ory.
Inflected forms:
form: excretories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to excretion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A duct that helps to receive and excrete matter.
pos: noun
Translations:
dopaminergic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dopamine
English -ergy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -ergic
English dopaminergic
From dopamine + -ergic.
Inflected forms:
form: dopaminergics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Containing, involving, or transmitting dopamine; involving dopamine receptor agonism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The nucleus accumbens is one of the most studied nuclei in the dopaminergic system.
gloss: Any substance that affects the production of dopamine or is a dopamine receptor agonist.
pos: noun
Translations:
garderobe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English garderobe, from Middle French garderobe (from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe (“dress”)). Doublet of wardrobe.
Base: garder
Inflected forms:
form: garderobes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: garde-robe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A storeroom or wardrobe.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A lavatory, especially in a castle and built into the outer wall, with vent directly over the moat or midden.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He splashed some tepid water on his face from the basin beside his bed and took his time squatting in the garderobe, the night air cold on his bare skin.
In the early medieval period (1066-1300), the solution in huge stone castles was garderobes: small rooms that jutted out over the walls with a hole covered by a seat. Castle builders tried to site garderobes over a stream or a moat, but this was not always possible.
Even with the seat, most garderobes in castles did not encourage long stays.[…]Despite the unappealing and unsanitary nature of garderobe shafts, besieging forces on more than one occasion successfully entered castles by having men climb up the shafts.
Related words: reredorter
Translations:
tetraploid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετραπλός (tetraplós) + Ancient Greek είδος (eídos), equivalent to tetra- + -ploid.
Affixes: tetra-
-ploid
Inflected forms:
form: tetraploids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having four sets of chromosomes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In potato, crosses between the tetraploid cultivated species Solanum tuberosum, and some clones of the diploid wild-type species S. phureja, constitute a method of producing maternal dihaploids.
gloss: A tetraploid cell.
pos: noun
gloss: A tetraploid organism.
pos: noun
examples: The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheat tetraploids .
Related words: diploid
polyploid
Derived words: autotetraploid
heterotetraploid
Translations:
terracotta
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian terra (“earth”) + cotta (“baked”).
Inflected forms:
form: terracottas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: terra cotta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: terra-cotta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: terra cotta
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: terra-cotta
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hard red-brown unglazed earthenware, used for pottery and building construction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Among her busts in terra cotta are those of John Brown, Charles Sumner, Lincoln, and Longfellow.
gloss: A reddish brown colour, like that of terra cotta.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Of the colour of terracotta.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A dull red or terracotta brown is far better, and sets off the foliage of Palms or Ferns to greater advantage.
She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
But let's not judge them by the content of their character. Let's judge them by the colour of their skin, which is terracotta.
Derived words: terracottalike
Translations:
tenesmus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowing from Medieval Latin tēnesmus, from Ancient Greek τεινεσμός (teinesmós, “vain endeavor to evacuate”), from τείνω (teínō, “to stretch, to pull tight”) + -εσμός (-esmós, nominal suffix).
Base: τείνω
Affixes: -εσμός
Inflected forms:
form: tenesmuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A continual or recurrent but ineffectual inclination to evacuate the bowels, caused by disorder of the rectum or other illness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The general complaints of disease among us, were a dizziness in the head, great weakness of the joints, and violent tenesmus, most of us having had no evacuation by stool since we left the ship.
Translations:
gurney
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from Gurney cab, a type of horse-drawn cab on wheels named after Theodore Gurney, the US inventor credited with creating and patenting it in about 1883. For the surname, see Gurney.
Inflected forms:
form: gurneys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stretcher having wheeled legs.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The death row convict was strapped into the gurney in order to be given the lethal injection.
Yet her vision has narrowed strangely (good, for she was in a medical facility, if she were having a hemorrhage or a stroke it could not be happening at a more convenient time) so that she was able to see little in the fluorescent-lit space except the man who lay motionless on a gurney beneath the strongest of the lights.
I’m pretty sure I didn’t actively steer towards the tree, but… I don’t know. I just remember that wave of despair and then the EMTs pulling me out of the car and putting me on a gurney.
Translations:
tanked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tanked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tanked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: And at a bar in Dolores I met a lady, a very tanked lady, who introduced herself as Miss E. X. Love. How delicious the lies we told!
[…] and mingled some and then he started buying shots. We did a lot or at least I did. We got into a serious conversation about my troubles. I told him the whole story. After getting very tanked I realized the place had become empty.
Translations:
taillight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tail + light.
Compound parts: tail
light
Inflected forms:
form: taillights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tail-light
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tail light
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of a pair of red lights mounted on the rear of a vehicle, so it can be seen from the rear at night.
pos: noun
examples: All moved to the front street, where Grierson snibbed on his tail-light and turned to ask the trooper, "They've got the main road ploughed up farther on, haven't they?"
Translations:
thematically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thematic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English thematically
From thematic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more thematically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most thematically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a thematic manner.
pos: adv
gloss: In terms of a theme.
pos: adv
Translations:
thorny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English thorny, þorny, þorni, from Old English þorniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þornag. By surface analysis, thorn + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: thornier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: thorniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having thorns or spines.
pos: adj
tags: literally
examples: Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.
gloss: Troublesome or vexatious.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: thorny issues
the steep and thorny way to heaven
Westcott doesn’t even consider the thornier question of fan fiction based on real and often living people, for instance, the “bandslash” or “bandfic” phenomenon built around rock-star characters and often homoerotic subplots.
Six weeks into the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the thorniest issues surrounding the pact remain unresolved.
Museums have recently begun to confront the same thorny question, with several issuing public apologies for collecting the remains of people believed or known to have been enslaved.
Station capacity in London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam remains a thorny issue, as does obtaining suitable Channel Tunnel-compliant trains.
Mr. [Jake] Sullivan noted that turning away from thorny global issues like climate change would not stop them from posing a threat to the United States, and the world.
gloss: Aloof and irritable.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Come, Jo, don't be thorny. After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting, and ought to get it.
Derived words: giant thorny-headed worm of swine
thornily
thorniness
thorny broom
thorny devil
thorny lacewing
thorny oyster
thorny restharrow
thorny trefoil
thorny worm
unthorny
Translations:
threadlike
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thread
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -like
English -like
English threadlike
From thread + -like.
Inflected forms:
form: more threadlike
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most threadlike
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: thread-like
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having the form of a thread.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling a thread in length or thinness.
pos: adj
Translations: