yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
kickable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kick
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 kickable
From kick + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more kickable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most kickable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable or deserving of being kicked.
pos: adj
examples: The home side were showing adventure, running from deep in their own half and booting a kickable penalty to touch.
I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, […] fitter to be kickt, if ſhee vvere of a kickable ſubſtance, than either honoured or humoured.
Kickable people are of various descriptions. Amongst these are your kickable subjects prima facie;—those whose provocatives are visible and external, whose incentives to you to kick them lie chiefly in manner and bearing.
All sorts of kickable objects were used from ancient times until today's inflated ball, with a leather casing between 27 and 28 inches in circumference, was adopted.
The weekend inventor has five U.S. patents and three more pending for inspirations such as a kickable Frisbee, a clothes-ironing mitt and a leak-proof shower curtain.
gloss: Incurring kicking.
pos: adj
examples: Insolence of office is pre-eminently kickable. Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive hauteur by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick him rising strong within him? […] Petty tyranny is also eminently kickable.
The first serious outbreak and renewal of hostilites ^([sic]) occurred when Dolly—who was now out of the doctor's hands—one morning sent his footman off at a moment's notice, for gross impertinence of the severest kickable kind.
What if the very things you like in me now—you'd hate sometime. What if the things I think are strong and stunning in you now, I'd think were pig-headed and kickable after a while?
Derived words: unkickable
Translations:
thermochemistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der.
Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der.
English thermo-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chimiabor.
Middle French chymie
French chimie
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istabor.
French -iste
French chimistebor.
English chemist
Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye
English -ry
English chemistry
English thermochemistry
From thermo- + chemistry.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of the thermodynamics of chemical reactions.
pos: noun
tags: physical
uncountable
Translations:
thermocouple
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der.
Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der.
English thermo-
English couple
English thermocouple
From thermo- + couple.
Inflected forms:
form: thermocouples
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A transducer consisting of two different metals welded together at each end; a voltage is produced that is proportional to the difference in temperature between the two junctions (one of which is normally held at a known temperature)
pos: noun
Translations:
thermoregulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der.
Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der.
English thermo-
English regulation
English thermoregulation
From thermo- + regulation.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The maintenance of a constant internal temperature of an organism independent of the temperature of the environment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Since vasodilatation is a side effect of diuretics but also occurs in thermoregulation, diuretics should be reduced in meteoropathic individuals to prevent extremely dangerous situations [38, 39].
. “If you’re allocating all of the blood and all the glucose to parts of your brain that are focused on thermoregulation, it seems like it’s very plausible that you just wouldn’t have enough left for some of these kind of higher cognitive functions,” Dr. Meidenbauer said.
Translations:
thermotherapy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der.
Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der.
English thermo-
English therapy
English thermotherapy
From thermo- + therapy.
Inflected forms:
form: thermotherapies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of heat to treat disease
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bevelled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: beveled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a bevel, especially at an edge
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
expressionistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expression
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English expressionist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English expressionistic
From expressionist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more expressionistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most expressionistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Expressionist.
pos: adj
Translations:
extempore
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ex (“immediately after”) + tempore, ablative singular of tempus (“time", "opportunity", "occasion”).
Inflected forms:
form: more extempore
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most extempore
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ex tempore
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more extempore
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most extempore
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: ex tempore
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: extempores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ex tempore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Carried out with no preparation.
pos: adj
gloss: 1833 January, “Pandemonic Revels”, in The Royal Lady’s Magazine, and Archives of the Court of St. James’s, number XXV, London, page 15
pos: adj
gloss: 1833 January, “Pandemonic Revels”, in The Royal Lady’s Magazine, and Archives of the Court of St. James’s, number XXV, London, page 15:
Sheets, tablecloths, white gowns, and pocket-handkerchiefs were instantly in demand, and every one, as has been seen, entered, con amore, into the extempore entertainment of Pandemonic Revels.
pos: adj
gloss: Without preparation; extemporaneously.
pos: adv
gloss: Something improvised.
pos: noun
Translations:
extendable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English extend
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 extendable
From extend + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more extendable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most extendable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: extendible
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being extended.
pos: adj
examples: The extendable boom of the arm is designed to reach out 10 feet and have a lateral range of 120 degrees.
Translations:
externalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English external
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English externalize
From external + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: externalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: externalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: externalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: externalized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make something external or objective.
pos: verb
gloss: To represent something abstract or intangible as material; to embody.
pos: verb
gloss: To attribute emotions etc to external circumstances; to project.
pos: verb
gloss: To direct to others, as costs or benefits.
pos: verb
examples: Offering high-quality software as open-source externalizes benefits to a large community, but also externalizes much of the cost of testing and further development.
Operating a low-cost, high-pollution manufacturing process externalizes costs in the form of adverse human health consequences and ecosystem effects.
Derived words: externalizable
externalization
externalizer
unexternalized
Translations:
extinguisher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English extinguish
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 extinguisher
From extinguish + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: extinguishers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, extinguishes something.
pos: noun
gloss: One who, or that which, extinguishes something.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Antonyms: generator
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пожарогасител
roman: požarogasitel
lang: Danish
word: slukker
lang: French
word: extincteur
lang: German
word: Löschgerät
lang: German
word: Gluttöter
lang: Kazakh
word: сөндіруші
roman: söndıruşı
lang: Macedonian
word: гасилник
roman: gasilnik
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: slukker
lang: Spanish
word: extintor
lang: Spanish
word: extinguidor
lang: Swedish
word: släckare
retouch
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French retoucher.
Inflected forms:
form: retouches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retouching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: retouched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: retouched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: retouches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand;
Retouch your figures with his ripening hand;
Mellow your colors, and imbrown the teint;
Add every grace, which time alone can grant;
To future ages ſhall your fame convey,
And give more beauties than he takes away.
gloss: To colour the roots of hair to match hair previously coloured.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To modify a flint tool by making secondary flaking along the cutting edge.
pos: verb
gloss: The act of retouching.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonretouched
retouchable
retouching frame
retouchment
unretouched
Translations:
geometrics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A design made from geometric figures
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The geometric characteristics of something
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
bifacial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Latin -iēs
Latin faciēs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Medieval Latin faciālisbor.
English facial
English bifacial
From bi- + facial.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having two faces or opposing surfaces.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having two sharp cutting edges.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: biface
Derived words: bifacial core
bifacially
isobifacial
Translations:
erosional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English erosion
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 erosional
From erosion + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to erosion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When the island finally reaches close to sea-level there will no longer be sufficient elevation to produce the rainfall that drives the erosional machine.
Translations:
interstadial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English stadial
English interstadial
From inter- + stadial.
Inflected forms:
form: interstadials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Between developmental stages.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the interstadial transmission of disease
gloss: Of or pertaining to a temporary period of thaw in the middle of an ice age.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Such a period.
pos: noun
Derived words: interstadially
Translations:
foliated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
entertainment
geography
geology
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a structure of thin layers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Decorated with foliage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having notes added above or below, as in a plain-song melody.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: quinquefoliated
unfoliated
Translations:
cherimoya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chirimoya, from Quechua chirimuya.
Inflected forms:
form: cherimoyas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cherimoyer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chirimoya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A subtropical tree, of species Annona cherimola, native to mountainous areas of South America.
pos: noun
gloss: A conical fruit with white flesh from that tree.
pos: noun
examples: To some it tastes like a pina colada without rum; to others, a cross between a strawberry and a pineapple. For natives of the Caribbean the cherimoya is a fruit that can be plucked from backyard trees for nothing.
Mark Twain called the cherimoya "deliciousness itself," though others have described this heart-shaped, fist-sized fruit with pale-green leathery skin as "reptilian," like a "fossil artichoke" or "the finial for a giant four-poster bed."
Translations:
instanter
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Medieval Latin īnstanter (“immediately”), originally “vehemently” in Classical Latin.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: immediately; instantly; without delay.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: "They're another reason why I've got to get my girl and start instanter.
They lifted him onto the deck where he lay in his wet seersucker suit and his lemoncolored socks, leering walleyed up at the workers with the hook in his face like some gross water homunculus taken in trolling that the light of God's day had stricken dead instanter.
I cleared my throat & bade all good morning, at which our amicable captain swore, 'You can better my morning, by b—ing off, instanter!'
Translations:
tanged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tanged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tanged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a tang (projecting part of an object for securing it).
pos: adj
examples: Sandars identifies two varieties, tanged and tangless. The blades with tangs or short “necks,” where the handles are attached with two rivets, seem to be more common in LM III Crete.
Translations:
pedunculate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin pedunculātus.
Inflected forms:
form: more pedunculate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pedunculate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pedunculates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a peduncle or stalk
pos: adj
examples: a pedunculate flower
A lobster has a pedunculate eye.
gloss: Such a flower
pos: noun
Translations:
interglacial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English glacial
English interglacial
From inter- + glacial.
Inflected forms:
form: interglacials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Occurring between glaciations (colloquially known as ice ages).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Palaeoenvironmental evidence from northwest Europe indicates that the oligocratic phase of the interglacial cycle (Fig. 3.1) had begun by ca. 5K years BP.
gloss: The relatively warm period between glacial periods.
pos: noun
examples: The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.
Translations:
reevaluation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English evaluation
English reevaluation
From re- + evaluation.
Inflected forms:
form: reevaluations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: re-evaluation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reëvaluation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A second or subsequent evaluation or rating
pos: noun
Translations:
Acheulean
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French acheuléen, from Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens where the first tools from this period were found.
Inflected forms:
form: Acheulian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Assuming that language ability extends back to the hominids, we see a slow process of cultural development over millions of years, and then in the Acheulean period of Homo erectus, about three hundred thousand years ago, we find the first engraved tool.
When early modern humans – the ones who would eventually become us – started to move out of Africa something over a hundred thousand years ago, Acheulean tools were the technology of choice.
Translations:
outwash
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From out- + wash. Compare Middle English outwashen (“to wash out; rinse”).
Base: wash
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outwashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sediment (mostly sand and gravel) deposited by water flowing from a melting glacier.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
unidentifiable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English identifiable
English unidentifiable
From un- + identifiable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unidentifiable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unidentifiable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Difficult, if not impossible, to identify or name
pos: adj
Translations:
collaborator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French collaborateurbor.
English collaborator
Borrowed from French collaborateur.
Inflected forms:
form: collaborators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: collaborateur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A person who works with others towards a common goal.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who cooperates traitorously with an enemy.
pos: noun
Synonyms: collaborationist
collaborator
collaboratress
collaboratrix
jackal
quisler
quisling
Related words: collaborate
collaboration
fifth columnist
Derived words: collaboratress
telecollaborator
Translations:
toehold
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: climbing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: From toe + hold.
Compound parts: toe
hold
Inflected forms:
form: toeholds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toe-hold
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: toe hold
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A foothold small enough to support just the toe.
pos: noun
gloss: Any small advantage which allows one to make significant progress; a slight footing or foothold.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Were Herat to fall to the Persians, this would give the Russians a crucial and dangerous toe-hold in western Afghanistan.
The tiny old houses and flats of this once impoverished quarter had mostly been refurbished into toeholds for young Atlantans from all around the Anglosphere, poor in equity but rich in expectations, who had come to the great city to incubate their careers.
One in three "adult-kids" who have not left the parental nest say they are still living at home because they cannot afford to get a toehold on the property ladder by buying or renting.
Strachey argued that the Raj was bad for Britain and the British. In Inglorious Empire, Shashi Tharoor argues, with equal passion, that it was much worse for India and the Indians. In 1700, when the British were mere traders clinging on to a few coastal toeholds, the Emperor Aurangzeb ruled over a country that accounted for a quarter of the world’s economy.
gloss: A hold in which the aggressor bends back the opponent's foot.
pos: noun
Related words: foothold
Translations:
trencher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English trenchour, from Anglo-Norman trenchour and Old Northern French trencheor (French tranchoir), from trenchier (“to cut, to carve”). See trench (verb).
Inflected forms:
form: trenchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plate on which food is served or cut.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
historical
examples: Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]
gloss: Someone who trenches; especially, one who cuts or digs ditches.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine for digging trenches.
pos: noun
examples: The milling action of the bucket line enables the trencher to cut through difficult materials, such as stone rubble and brick filling, and to leave a good trench with clean side walls.
Derived words: fruit-trencher
lick-trencher
spin the trencher
trencher cap
trencher-fed
trencher fly
trencher friend
trencherful
trencherlike
trenchermaker
trencher-man
trencherman
trencher mate
trencherwoman
Translations:
thymosin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: thymosins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polypeptide hormone, secreted by the thymus, that stimulates the development of T cells as part of the immune system
pos: noun
Translations:
calcitonin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin calx
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Italic *-om
Latin -umder.
English -ium
English calcium
English calci-
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *tónos
Proto-Hellenic *tónos
Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek τονῐκός (tonĭkós)
English tonic
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English calcitonin
From calci- + tonic + -in.
Inflected forms:
form: calcitonins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thyrocalcitonin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A polypeptide hormone secreted by the thyroid gland that has the effect of lowering blood calcium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Intriguingly, the rat C1b isoform of the calcitonin receptor (CTR) (see Section VI-B) has very little interaction with the thyroidally derived form of calcitonin.
gloss: A synthetic or recombinant form of calcitonin used to treat Paget disease of bone and postmenopausal osteoporosis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: procalcitonin
salcatonin
Translations:
thyroxine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-der.
Proto-Hellenic *tʰurā
Ancient Greek θῠ́ρᾱ (thŭ́rā)
Ancient Greek -εος (-eos)
Ancient Greek θῠρεός (thŭreós)
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Ancient Greek θῠρεοειδής (thŭreoeidḗs)bor.
New Latin thyreoīdēsbor.
English thyroid
English thyr-
English ox-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English thyroxine
From thyr- (“thyroid”) + ox- (“oxygen”) + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: thyroxines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: T4
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A thyroid hormone, with the chemical formula C₁₅H₁₁I₄NO₄, that regulates cell metabolism and growth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
titanite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: titanites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mixed calcium and titanium neosilicate, CaTiSiO₅, once known as sphene.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
suer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sue
English -er
English suer
From sue + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: suers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who sues; a suitor.
pos: noun
examples: He was the most interesting of all the suers for her hand.
Translations:
doucher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English douche
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 doucher
From douche + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: douchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A douchebag; a contemptible person.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
slang
Translations:
tige
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Borrowed from French tige (“stem”), from Latin tibia (“shin bone, leg”). Doublet of tibia.
Inflected forms:
form: tiges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A steel pin in early rifles.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A stem.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: The tige is either simple, as in the White Lily, or branching, as in the Geranium; the branching is the most common form; […]
Translations:
employable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English employ
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English employable
From employ + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more employable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most employable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: employables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be employed.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: ‘We can give you the skills you’re missing to make you highly employable,’ Julian smiled.
gloss: A person who is fit for employment.
pos: noun
Antonyms: unemployable
Translations:
sacrificially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sacrificial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sacrificially
From sacrificial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a sacrificial manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sardonically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sardonic
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 sardonically
From sardonic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more sardonically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sardonically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sardonic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Her floppy hat came down to the tip of her nose, revealing only a long chin and a wide tight mouth, twitched up at the corners by a nervous contraction of her cheek muscles, which gave her an unexpected air of smiling sardonically in the recesses of her hat.
Translations:
satisfyingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English satisfying
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English satisfyingly
From satisfying + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more satisfyingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most satisfyingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a satisfying manner.
pos: adv
examples: [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
Translations:
saucily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English saucy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English saucily
From saucy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more saucily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most saucily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a saucy manner; impudently or impertinently.
pos: adv
examples: She walked off saucily and I watched, entranced, until she turned the corner; then I ran after her to ask her for a date.
The Clown put his hands in his pockets, and after puffing out his cheeks and nodding his head at them saucily he said, “My lady fair, / Why do you stare / At poor old Mr. Joker? / You’re quite as stiff / And prim as if / You’d eaten up a poker!”
'What do you want?' she called saucily from the top of the stairs.
Translations:
sawed-off
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sawed-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Shortened by sawing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.
gloss: Short, as though truncated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: He was a sawed-off runt, just a little guy, but he packed so much attitude into that little package that no one was going to make anything about it.
gloss: A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: When I'm called off, I got a sawed-off / Squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off
Translations:
saxifrage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French saxifrage, from Late Latin saxifraga, from Latin saxifragus (“stone-breaking”). Doublet of sassafras.
Inflected forms:
form: saxifrages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant in the genus Saxifraga.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
sauciness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English saucy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English sauciness
From saucy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: saucinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being saucy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An instance of saucy behavior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
scentless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scent
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English scentless
From scent + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not having a scent, odorless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: olfactible
Translations:
epicentral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: epicentrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an epicentre
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An epicentral bone
pos: noun
Translations:
e-waste
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- (electric) + or e- (digital) + waste.
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Discarded electrical and electronic equipment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Following up news articles and e-mails from mainland China, BAN was directed to an e-waste processing area known as Guiyu on the Longdong River near the city of Shantou in the northeast [of] Guangdong Province, four hours by car from Hong Kong. In the course of three intensive days in and around Guiyu's four villages, the small investigative team witnessed firsthand what passes for recycling of e-waste in Asia.
In June of last year, the Thai Ministry of Industry announced with great fanfare the ban on foreign e-waste. The police made a series of high-profile raids on at least 10 factories, including New Sky Metal. […] Since the e-waste ban, 28 new recycling factories, most dealing with electronic refuse, began operations in one province east of Bangkok, Chachoengsao, where Koh Khanun is located, according to provincial statistics.
gloss: Electrical and electronic equipment of poor quality.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
uncountable
Translations:
saw-toothed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a jagged edge like a saw.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But afterwards three of their Companie were slaine, who in seeking food for life, found death at the hand of naked Sauages, whose weapons were Saw-toothed Darts, which if they entred, must be cut out of the flesh.
[…] everywhere between the poplar stems the saw-toothed outline of the western forts cuts the blue sky.
Craning our necks, we could see that what we had taken for the shore-line on that side was actually a high, thin, saw-toothed ledge of rock […]
To the south the landscape changes and the gradient profile immediately becomes saw-toothed, as the line rises and falls with the rolling undulations of this rich farming countryside; [...].
Hours later, having brought in the yellow raft laden with supplies to the green shore, then hidden them in the saw-toothed tall grass, an exhausted Cohn followed Buz into the forest.
Translations:
saver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós
Proto-Italic *salawos
Latin salvus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin salvō
Latin salvāre
Old French sauverbor.
Middle English saven
English save
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 saver
From save + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: savers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who saves.
pos: noun
examples: a saver of souls
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
gloss: One who keeps savings more than usual.
pos: noun
examples: He’s a saver and she’s a spender; you’d think the marriage would be doomed, but he keeps them from going into bankruptcy and she makes sure they have a lot of fun.
gloss: A ticket or coupon that offers a discount.
pos: noun
examples: Tickets are cheaper the younger you are—snag a youth ticket (if you're twenty-five or under) for a 35 percent discount. If both you and your travel partner are twenty-six or older, the Small Group Saver will knock off 15 percent.
Derived words: face-saver
flavor saver
flavour saver
labor-saver
labour-saver
lifesaver
multisaver
package saver
pizza saver
rail saver
screen saver
screensaver
string saver
supersaver
timesaver
time-saver
wine saver
Translations:
savable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English savable, from Middle French sauvable, from Old French salvable, sauvable, from Medieval Latin salvābilis; equivalent to save + -able.
Base: save
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being saved.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: recoverable, reparable, rescuable, retrievable
Translations:
sackful
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sack (“bag”) + -ful.
Base: sack
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: sackfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sacksful
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount a sack will contain.
pos: noun
examples: A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.
If I be not so rich, as to sowe almes by sackfulls, euen my Mite, is beyond the superfluity of wealth: and my pen, my tongue, and my life, shal (I hope) helpe some to better treasure, then the earth affoords them.
Potatoes were getting very scarce. If you got a sackful you could take them down to the cook-house and swap them for a water-bottleful of coffee.
You live until you die, and it doesn’t matter how you go; dead’s dead. So why carry on like a sackful of sick cats just because Herb Clutter got his throat cut?
gloss: A large number or amount (of something).
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: what can the Pope say more for his sackfull of traditions?
[…] away we went home again fraught with a Sackful of news to tell our Master.
1853, uncredited translators, German Popular Tales and Household Stories: Collected by the Brothers Grimm, New York: C.S. Francis, Volume I, 74. “The Fox and the Cat,” p. 381,
[…] I understand a hundred arts, and have, moreover, a sackful of cunning!
Day and night the poor fellow raved, and always about that confounded orchid, the loss of which seemed to weigh upon his mind as though it were a whole sackful of unrepented crimes.
1986, Hanif Kureishi, “Bradford” in Granta 20, Winter, 1986, p. 163,
He received sackfuls of hate mail and few letters of support.
Translations:
safeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English savenes; equivalent to safe + -ness.
Base: safe
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The property of being safe.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The safeness of the new drug hadn't been proven, so it could only be used experimentally, and you had to sign a waiver accepting the risks.
Translations:
sartorially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sartorial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sartorially
From sartorial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sartorially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sartorially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With regard to good clothing or skilled tailoring.
pos: adv
examples: The success rate of the shade varied wildly. Those who qualified for the pale and sartorially interesting included Cotillard, whose dress worked mainly from the back, and Carmen Ejogo, whose sequin slip gown was almost blasé in its simplicity.
Translations:
hooah
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The official yell of the US Army.
pos: intj
tags: US
examples: Platoon Leader: Listen up, gentlemen - tomorrow's a rest and refit day, hooah?
Soldiers: Hooah!
Translations:
saprophytic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English saprophyte
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English saprophytic
From saprophyte + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to saprophytes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sappiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sapines, equivalent to sappy + -ness.
Base: sappy
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The property of being sappy.
pos: noun
examples: It was an old love song playing on the radio, full of sentiment and sappinesss. It made me feel alone and sad.
Translations:
safe-deposit
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: safety-deposit
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: safe-deposits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: safety-deposit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Safe enough to store valuables securely.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A safe-deposit box.
pos: noun
Translations:
scribbler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scribble
English -er
English scribbler
From scribble + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: scribblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who scribbles; a hasty or untalented writer or artist.
pos: noun
examples: The scribbler, pinch'd with hunger, writes to dine.
"That's what I have been talking to you, sir - scientific gibberish! Did you think you could match cunning with me - you with your walnut of a brain? You think you are omnipotent, you infernal scribblers, don't you? That your praise can make a man and your blame can break him?"
You speak as if Lady Whistledown were to be held in higher regard than Her Majesty the Queen herself. You give far too much credit to some anonymous scribbler.
gloss: A machine for coarse carding or teasing of wool.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A ruled notebook or exercise book, especially in grade school.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
dated
Derived words: scribbleress
Translations:
scribal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scribe
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English scribal
From scribe + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to scribes and their work.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
scrapheap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From scrap + heap.
Compound parts: scrap
heap
Inflected forms:
form: scrapheaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scrap-heap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: scrap heap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pile in which junk is discarded.
pos: noun
examples: By Easter, "Princess Royal" Pacifics Nos. 46211/2 were in the scrap line at Crewe works and Nos. 46204/5/7/10 were gathered at Crewe South shed, no doubt to follow to the scrapheap.
gloss: A junkyard.
pos: noun
gloss: A collection of discarded or rejected items or ideas.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Translations:
scripted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more scripted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scripted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Planned; something written or prepared before it is read or performed.
pos: adj
examples: It was a carefully scripted meeting, just to allow Tom to meet Jane.
gloss: Trite, banal, hackneyed, predictable.
pos: adj
Translations:
scrambler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scramble
English -er
English scrambler
From scramble + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: scramblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that scrambles (in various senses).
pos: noun
examples: May it comfort us latter-day scramblers up that fine old mountain to know that Le Conte found it "difficult and fatiguing in the extreme."
Want an egg sunny-side up? Just crack one into a container, nuke it for 30 seconds, extract it with the handy-dandy Egg Remover, and enjoy a soft yolk breakfast. If you want it scrambled, insert the gridded Egg Scrambler […]
gloss: A vine that does not attach itself to its supports.
pos: noun
examples: Scramblers and palms that climb with the aid of hook-bearing leaves or modified inflorescences (i.e. Desmoncus and the lepidocaryoid rattans) climbed most successfully in dense clusters of small diameter supports, such as occur on the edge of treefall gaps.
gloss: A device that makes messages intentionally, but reversibly, unintelligible for reasons of privacy or security.
pos: noun
examples: In the movies spies are always talking over cell phones with built-in scramblers.
gloss: A motorcycle used for motocross.
pos: noun
Antonyms: descrambler
unscrambler
Derived words: descrambler
unscrambler
Translations:
reversibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reversible
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 reversibly
From reversible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more reversibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most reversibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a way that can be undone.
pos: adv
gloss: Relating to something that is reversible.
pos: adv
examples: In order to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut back and held up in places with a concrete retaining wall.
Derived words: irreversibly
Translations:
seniority
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English senyoryte, from Medieval Latin senioritas, from Latin senior (“elder”).
Inflected forms:
form: seniorities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A measure of the amount of time a person has been a member of an organization, as compared to other members, and with an eye towards awarding privileges to those who have been members longer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It's an old-fashioned company, with parking spaces and other perks doled out on the basis of seniority.
Translations:
sensationalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sensation
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 sensational
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English sensationalize
From sensational + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: sensationalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sensationalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sensationalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sensationalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sensationalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To glorify or inflate the importance of a piece of news; to artificially create a sensation.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
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