yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
gloxinia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name (sense 1). Sense 2 was formerly classified in that genus; senses 3 and 4 are named for their resemblance to it.
Inflected forms:
form: gloxinias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the three species of South American plants of the genera Gloxinia in family Gesneriaceae.
pos: noun
gloss: Brazilian gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa), a plant species formerly classified in the genus Gloxinia, in the family Gesneriaceae.
pos: noun
gloss: Creeping gloxinia (Lophospermum erubescens), in the family Plantaginaceae.
pos: noun
gloss: Hardy gloxinia (Incarvillea delavayi), in the family Bignoniaceae.
pos: noun
Translations:
lightwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From light (noun) + wood (noun).
Base: light
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any wood used to light a fire; kindlings; especially, very resinous pine wood.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
uncountable
Translations:
shipbroker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From ship + broker.
Compound parts: ship
broker
Inflected forms:
form: shipbrokers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An intermediary who negotiates between shipowners and people wanting to charter shipping
pos: noun
Translations:
shiplap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ship + lap.
Compound parts: ship
lap
Inflected forms:
form: shiplaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shiplaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shiplapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shiplapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shiplapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of wooden board that has rabbets to allow them to be overlapped, commonly used for the exterior siding of buildings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He stood on the horse and located several long pieces of one-by-eight shiplap and pulled them down.
gloss: To overlap boards by this means.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
suncream
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sun + cream.
Compound parts: sun
cream
Inflected forms:
form: suncreams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sunscreen.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: On sunny days like today we need to wear suncream to make sure we don't burn.
Translations:
sunlounger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der.
Proto-Germanic *sunnô
Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ
Proto-West Germanic *sunnā
Old English sunne
Middle English sonne
English sun
English lounge
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 lounger
English sunlounger
From sun + lounger.
Inflected forms:
form: sunloungers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sun lounger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An extended deck chair used for sunbathing or relaxing, typically by the sea or a pool.
pos: noun
Translations:
sunray
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sun + ray.
Compound parts: sun
ray
Inflected forms:
form: sunrays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A beam of sunlight; a sunbeam.
pos: noun
gloss: A beam of artificial light, especially one rich in ultraviolet.
pos: noun
gloss: A plant, Enceliopsis nudicaulis, that has a broad, yellow flower head.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various Australian plants of the genus Rhodanthe.
pos: noun
Translations:
talbot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: After Henry Fox Talbot, a 19th-century pioneer of photography.
Inflected forms:
form: talbots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An mks unit of luminous energy, exactly corresponding to the SI lumen second.
pos: noun
Translations:
vibrio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: vibrios
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vibriones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several bacteria, of the genus Vibrio, shaped like a curved rod.
pos: noun
examples: "He dips it into the poison and they are gone. Our Gardener is, in my opinion, about to dip the solar system, and the human bacillus, the little mortal vibrio which twisted and wriggled upon the outer rind of the earth, will in an instant be sterilized out of existence."
Translations:
plasmacytoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From plasmacyte + -oma.
Base: plasmacyte
Affixes: -oma
Inflected forms:
form: plasmacytomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A malignant tumour of plasmacytes
pos: noun
Translations:
unprinted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + printed.
Base: printed
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not (yet) printed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
stearyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From stearic + -yl.
Base: stearic
Affixes: -yl
Inflected forms:
form: stearyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The univalent radical CH₃(CH₂)₁₇- derived from stearyl alcohol
pos: noun
Translations:
faw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the surname Faa.
Inflected forms:
form: faws
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gypsy.
pos: noun
Translations:
lectotype
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λέκτος (léktos, “chosen”), from λέγειν (légein, “to choose”) + τύπος (túpos, “blow, impression”).
Inflected forms:
form: lectotypes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A biological specimen or illustration later selected to serve as definitive type example of a species or subspecies when the original author of the name did not designate a holotype.
pos: noun
examples: Where the original diagnosis is without illustrations or is accompanied by figues based on two or more specimens, the first subsequent author is at liberty to select from these cotypes a type for the old species, adhering, as far as can be ascertained to the intention of the original author. Such a type speciment is to be designated as a lectotype...
The lectotype and paratype, which are before me, are both iron-stained, predominantly internal composite molds of left valves in a fine-grained, white quartzite matrix.
Lectotype designation is justified under article 74.1.1 of the ICZN (1999) in order to fix the status of this specimen as the sole name-bearing type of this species.
Translations:
semi-algorithm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From semi- + algorithm.
Base: algorithm
Affixes: semi-
Inflected forms:
form: semi-algorithms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A step-by-step procedure, like an algorithm, but which is not guaranteed to halt on all inputs.
pos: noun
Translations:
sideway
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English side-way, side-wei, equivalent to side + way.
Compound parts: side
way
Inflected forms:
form: sideways
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more sideway
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sideway
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more sideway
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sideway
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A footpath near a road.
pos: noun
gloss: A byway.
pos: noun
gloss: sidelong
pos: adj
gloss: sideways
pos: adv
Translations:
stochastics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From stochastic + -ics.
Base: stochastic
Affixes: -ics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of statistics that deals with stochastic systems
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pleuron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλευρόν (pleurón, “rib, side”).
Inflected forms:
form: pleura
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lateral sclerite of a thoracic segment of an arthropod between the tergum and the sternum.
pos: noun
Translations:
pythonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From python (“snake of the family Pythonidae”) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives from nouns). Python is derived from Latin Pȳthōn, from Ancient Greek Πῡ́θων (Pū́thōn, “Python, mythical serpent which lived at Delphi”), from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ, “Pytho, ancient name of Delphi; Python, the mythical serpent”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep; dark (?); unclear (?)”) or *puH- (“foul, rotten”)) + -ων (-ōn, suffix forming possessives).
Base: python
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more pythonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pythonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to, or resembling, a python (“large constricting snake of the family Pythonidae”); pythonlike.
pos: adj
examples: The blue glitter of Mr Kelly's eyes in the uttermost depths of their orbits became fixed, then veiled by the classical pythonic glaze.
Translations:
stoneground
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stone + ground.
Compound parts: stone
ground
Inflected forms:
form: stone-ground
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: stone ground
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of flour: ground with millstones rather than steel rollers
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
whiptail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From whip + tail.
Compound parts: whip
tail
Inflected forms:
form: whiptails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many New World lizards, of the family Teiidae, that have long, slender tails.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fish, blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One of the most popular is the hoki, or whiptail, a bug-eyed specimen found far down in the waters around New Zealand and transformed into a major export.
gloss: A leaf-distorting disorder in the cauliflower, caused by molybdenum deficiency.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A pretty-faced wallaby (Macropus parryi).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Social status may be less important to red-necked wallabies, which, unlike whiptails, are "essentially solitary" (McEvoy 1970).
gloss: A catfish of species Dasyloricaria filamentosa.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: Central American whiptail
Christmas Island whiptail skink
globehead whiptail
Laredo striped whiptail
New Mexico whiptail
orange-throated whiptail
Texas spotted whiptail
whiptail disease
whiptail disorder
whiptail gulper
whiptail stingray
whiptail wallaby
Translations:
collectin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of collagen + lectin?
Compound parts: collagen
lectin
Inflected forms:
form: collectins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of lectin derived from collagen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
immunomodulating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From immuno- + modulating.
Base: modulating
Affixes: immuno-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That leads to immunomodulation
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sublingually
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sublingual + -ly.
Base: sublingual
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Under the tongue.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The medicine was administered sublingually.
Translations:
bucker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
business
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From buck + -er.
Base: buck
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: buckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horse or other animal that bucks.
pos: noun
gloss: A holder-up; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet which is heated if necessary till it is soft, while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.
pos: noun
gloss: One who bucks ore.
pos: noun
gloss: A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
pos: noun
Translations:
descrambler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From descramble + -er.
Base: descramble
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: descramblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that descrambles; a device for decoding a scrambled signal.
pos: noun
Antonyms: scrambler
Translations:
saros
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σάρος (sáros), from Akkadian 𒊹 (šar₂ /⁠šār⁠/, “3600, total, many, a great quantity or measure”).
The modern astronomical usage is attributed to Edmond Halley, who based it on the word σάρος, defined in the Suda as "a measure and a number among Chaldeans. For 120 saroi make 2222 years according to the Chaldeans' reckoning, if indeed the saros makes 222 lunar months, which are 18 years and 6 months."
Inflected forms:
form: saroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saroi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Saros
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years.
pos: noun
gloss: A period of 223 synodic months (approximately 18 years 11 days 8 hours), after which the relative positions of the earth, sun and moon recur, used to predict eclipses.
pos: noun
examples: Suidas’ system (the lunar system) is as follows: reckoning a round 30 days per lunar month, 1 saros ... = 222 lunar months ... rather than 3600 years, as in the solar system, the neros ... being one sixth of that ... instead of 600 years, as in the solar system, and the sossos ... one tenth of a neros ... instead of 60 years
Related words: saronic
neros (600)
sossos
Translations:
animatic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: animatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An animated storyboard used as a rough preview of a film or advertisement.
pos: noun
gloss: An animated storyboard, especially one set to music, intended as a final product, not a work-in-progress.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: An animation set to music.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
broadly
Related words: Leica reel
Derived words: digimatic
liveamatic
photomatic
ripamatic
Translations:
compounder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From compound + -er.
Base: compound
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: compounders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
pos: noun
examples: a compounder of medicines
gloss: One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
pos: noun
examples: Compounders in politics.
gloss: One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
pos: noun
examples: Religious houses made compounders / For the horrid actions of their founders.
gloss: One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
examples: 1691–92, Anthony Wood (antiquary), Athenæ Oxonienses
The first of these two was a compounder, the other who was an accumulator, was lately made provost of Trin. coll. near Dublin, and on the 31st of March 1692 was nominated bish. of Kilmore.
gloss: A Jacobite who favoured the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
Derived words: noncompounder
Translations:
diam
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay diam. For some Chinese speakers, this word is reanalysed as a loan from Hokkien 恬 (tiām, “silent”) or Teochew 恬 (diam⁷, “silent”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Be quiet.
pos: intj
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
informal
examples: Diam lah, you have no gal let alone have a son or daughter.
If the answer is affirmative, then he is qualified to talk to us. Otherwise, diam lah.
So diam lah, baruah bangsat!
Translations:
submucosa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From sub- + mucosa.
Base: mucosa
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: submucosas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: submucosae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A layer of connective tissue beneath a mucous membrane
pos: noun
Translations:
frontoparietal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From fronto- + parietal.
Base: parietal
Affixes: fronto-
Inflected forms:
form: frontoparietals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Frontal and parietal (relating to such bones or lobes).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The frontal bone and parietal bone considered as a unit.
pos: noun
Translations:
ingestive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ingest + -ive.
Base: ingest
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to ingestion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pallidum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin pallidus (“pale yellow-green”).
Inflected forms:
form: pallida
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pallidums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The globus pallidus.
pos: noun
Translations:
bimanual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bi- + manual.
Base: manual
Affixes: bi-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Involving or using both hands
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pepperidge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pepperidges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Nyssa sylvatica, a medium-sized deciduous tree of North America.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In America we want things different; hedge-rows full of bright-berried bushes and varied autumn colors; meadows full of pepperidges, liquidambars, and thorns[…].
“There used to be a charming little house here on a heavily wooded lot, with pepperidge and cedar and some beech trees,” said Kevin Kobs, a longtime resident of the neighborhood who stopped to watch the last stages of the clearing and grading of a lot bought by a home builder last year.
Simonds listed the plants brought in for this new area, mostly natives: elms, oaks, maples, ashes, lindens, cherries, hackberries, pepperidges, and hawthorns.
Translations:
miasmic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From miasma + -ic.
Base: miasma
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more miasmic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most miasmic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Filled with miasma; containing noxious vapors.
pos: adj
examples: Will thought of the shadowy miasmic forest they would all soon move into, a way of living that was an inversion of all their values.
gloss: Composed of or resembling vapors.
pos: adj
examples: Such experiences were unlike dreams, or any of the miasmic apparitions that arise in the natural psyche, below the mind.
Claire and I met Mr. and Mrs. M., “Phil ‘n’ Irene,” one delicious day months ago when we looked over the fence and were assaulted by miasmic wafts of smoke and a happy holler from Mr. M. wearing a dinner’s on apron.
Derived words: miasmically
Translations:
movability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin movēre
Old Northern French moverbor.
Middle English moven
English move
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English movability
From move + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: movabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being movable; ability or capacity to be moved.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ability to move (oneself).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His progressive improvement will be best indicated by noting briefly the increase in his movability. When admitted, 15th April, he could barely put his hands to his mouth; 17th, was able to turn on his back; 20th, could partly raise himself […]
Helping him through months of physiotherapy, trying to help him regain his memory as well as his movability. […]
Translations:
watchkeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From watch + keeper.
Compound parts: watch
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: watchkeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lookout (person who keeps watch).
pos: noun
Translations:
mycophenolic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From myco- + phenolic.
Base: phenolic
Affixes: myco-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to mycophenolic acid or its derivatives
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
white-trashy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From white trash + -y.
Base: white trash
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more white-trashy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most white-trashy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of white trash.
pos: adj
Translations:
ambulacral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an ambulacrum
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sit-up-and-beg
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
transport
Etymology: From sit up + and + beg, likening the position to a dog sitting up on its hindquarters and begging by holding its front paws out.
Inflected forms:
form: sit-up-and-begs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a posture adopted by a person steering a vehicle (such as an aeroplane, car, or motorcycle): sitting up straight, not bent forward or leaning back.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: The pilot is thus in a sit-up-and-beg attitude and so seriously exposed to the elements that, as Wing Commander Wallis admits, a hailstorm would probably mean a forced landing.
Handlebars and other controls are supposed to improve control and comfort, they say. Motorcycles are supposed to fit people, not bend the rider into a shape dictated by the whim of fashion. The sit-up-and-beg posture keeps you hanging on against the wind and it's tiring.
gloss: Of a bicycle: having handlebars that are rather high and curve backwards, so that the rider sits upright rather than hunching forward; also, of the handlebars of a bicycle: rather high and curving backwards, thus requiring the rider to sit upright.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
specifically
examples: Manufacturers introduced many incremental improvements, […] By 1930 these changes extended the range of cycles that manufacturers could offer from the ‘roadster’ (steel frame, three-speed hub gears, level-operated brakes and ‘sit-up-and-beg’ handlebars) to lightweight racing bikes (alloy steel frames, ten or more derailleur gears, cable-operated brakes and aluminium alloy drop handlebars).
The four boys, now safely sitting on the plinth of the War Memorial, turned their attention to the sight of the Vicar who was cycling along the street on his sit-up-and-beg bicycle.
To replace my first (secondhand sit-up-and-beg) bike, he insisted that I had another, bigger one. He'd painted it bright blue, the colour of the cover to this book.
There are no specialist cycle-tour companies based in the northeast, but you can find bicycles for hire for local sightseeing. Expect to pay Rs30 to Rs100 per day for an Indian-made sit-up-and-beg bike.
gloss: A bicycle having handlebars that are rather high and curve backwards, so that the rider sits upright rather than hunching forward; a roadster.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: I hadn't even found a proper bike shop – the one I did come across was full of the equivalent of our sit-up-and-begs.
Studying my bike in detail he then said, 'That's a good sit-up you've got.' For a moment I thought he thought I was riding a sit-up-and-beg when really I had a touring steed complete with drop handlebars. And then I realised my stumbling block. He had pronounced a very Kiwi sit-up for set-up.
Bicycles over many years have been bought / Something the inventor would never have thought! / From the sit up and begs that left you all shaken / From the old penny farthings did cycles awaken!
Translations:
taraf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi तरफ़ (taraf).
Inflected forms:
form: tarafs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tarf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tarruf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: taruf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: terf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: teruf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A division of land in India, usually a (small) subdivision of a pargana.
pos: noun
Translations:
firestop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: From fire + stop.
Compound parts: fire
stop
Inflected forms:
form: firestops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fire stop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fire block.
pos: noun
gloss: Any multi-component system designed to stop fire and smoke from migrating through openings around piping, wiring, ductwork, cable trays, bus ducts, etc., as well as through movement joints in walls and floors that are required to have a fire-resistance rating.
pos: noun
Translations:
nug
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From dialectal nug, nog, knog (“a knot, lump, block, a misshapen mass of anything, peg, linchpin”), also found in Scots nug, nugg, nogg (“small block of wood, peg, pin”), of uncertain origin. Probably from earlier *knug, *knugg, *knogg, related to dialectal Norwegian knugg (“knot, knob”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knuk- (“to ball up, mass together”), making it further related to English knock and knuckle.
Inflected forms:
form: nugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nudge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nugg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nogg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lump; a block.
pos: noun
tags: West-Country
Translations:
coner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cone + -er.
Base: cone
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: coners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A marijuana cigarette tapered to a conical shape.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Ireland
slang
examples: When I lit my spliff
Just met my cat with the fattest coner
Just wanna go home and smoke coners
Translations:
bicolour
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin bicolor; also analyzable as bi- + colour.
Base: colour
Affixes: bi-
Inflected forms:
form: bicolor
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
form: bicolours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bicolor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Having two colours
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A flower, cat etc., that has two colours.
pos: noun
gloss: A flag with such colours, consisting of two stripes that are either vertical or horizontal.
pos: noun
examples: The national flags of Algeria, Bahrain, Indonesia, Malta, Monaco, Poland, Portugal, Ukraine and the Vatican City are all bicolours.
Translations:
chafer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English chaufour, chafour, from Anglo-Norman chaufour, from Latin calefactōrium; equivalent to chafe + -er.
Base: chafe
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: chafers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who chafes.
pos: noun
gloss: A vessel for heating water; hence, a dish or pan.
pos: noun
examples: A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons.
gloss: A vessel for holding burning coals or hot water used as a warmer.
pos: noun
examples: Enter Mephoſtophilis with the Chafer of fire. / Meph. See Fauſtus here is fire, ſet it on.
Translations:
rosaline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A type of needlepoint.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Thulite.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Rosaline thulite (pink zoisite). Rose quartz […]
Translations:
rosebay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rosebays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Oleander.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Rosebay willowherb.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: rosebay rhododendron
rosebay willow herb
Translations:
yarborough
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: After the second Earl of Yarborough (b. 1809), who supposedly bet 1,000 to 1 that such a hand would not occur.
Inflected forms:
form: yarboroughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hand, in bridge or whist, that has no card with a value greater than nine (and no aces), though in some circles it is no card above a ten.
pos: noun
Translations:
toothbrushing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: toothbrushings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of brushing the teeth.
pos: noun
examples: Dentists recommend several toothbrushings per day.
Translations:
biofiltration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bio- + filtration.
Base: filtration
Affixes: bio-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A technique for pollution control using living material to capture and biologically degrade process pollutants.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
olay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tamil ஓலை (ōlai).
Inflected forms:
form: olays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ola
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ollah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ollay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a steel-tipped stylus
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the Peninsula of India, the Olay are prepared from the leaves of the palmyra palm.
Translations:
Khasi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Khasis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Khasi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an Indian tribe, the majority of whom live in Meghalaya.
pos: noun
Translations:
antimycin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: antimycins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several lactone antibiotics, some of which are used for controlling fungi in fish farms
pos: noun
Translations:
replantation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From re- + plantation.
Base: plantation
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: replantations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Replanting (of plants, fields, or landscaping).
pos: noun
gloss: The reattachment of a severed body part (for example, an avulsed tooth or fingertip).
pos: noun
Translations:
photocard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From photo + card.
Compound parts: photo
card
Inflected forms:
form: photocards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A card bearing a photograph, often a photograph of the cardholder for identification purposes.
pos: noun
gloss: A card bearing a photograph of an idol, sold as collectible merchandise or fanmade.
pos: noun
Translations:
nursie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From nurse + -ie.
Base: nurse
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: nursies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nursey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A nurse.
pos: noun
tags: childish
mainly
term-of-address
examples: “Bravo, Nursie!” cried Marway. “There ain't a flunkey of you all could do it better!” Clare said nothing, finished the job, and stood up.
Translations:
septicemic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From septicemia + -ic.
Base: septicemia
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Typical of or pertaining to septicemia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
coopetition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of cooperation + competition. Compare coopete.
Compound parts: cooperation
competition
Inflected forms:
form: coopetitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cooperation between commercial competitors for their mutual advantage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Conflict over how to divide up the benefits produced by cooperation, as for example in labor-management relations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
exilic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From exile + -ic.
Base: exile
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more exilic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exilic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to exile.
pos: adj
Translations:
odontology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From odonto- + -logy.
Base: odonto
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of the structure and development of teeth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The branch of dentistry dealing with abnormalities of teeth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: gerodontology
odontological
odontologist
pedodontology
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: odontologia
lang: Finnish
word: odontologia
lang: French
word: odontologie
lang: Galician
word: odontoloxía
lang: Ido
word: odontologio
lang: Irish
word: ódónteolaíocht
lang: Italian
word: odontologia
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: odontologi
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: odontologi
lang: Polish
word: odontologia
lang: Portuguese
word: odontologia
lang: Russian
word: одонтоло́гия
roman: odontológija
lang: Spanish
word: odontología
lang: Swedish
word: tandvetenskap
lang: Swedish
word: odontologi
psychologism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: psychologisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A view that metaphysical or other important facts or properties are reducible to or explainable in psychological or subjective terms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
vicomtesse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French vicomtesse. Doublet of viscountess.
Inflected forms:
form: vicomtesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A French noblewoman having a rank equivalent to a viscountess
pos: noun
Translations:
crossflow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cross- + flow.
Base: flow
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
form: crossflows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crossflows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crossflowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crossflowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crossflowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A crosswise flow.
pos: noun
gloss: To flow across, or in a contrary direction.
pos: verb
examples: his cross-flowing course
Translations:
epididymitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From epididymo- + -itis (“inflammation”).
Base: epididymo
Inflected forms:
form: epididymites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: epididymitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: inflammation of the epididymis
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
ergogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ergo- (“work”) + -genic.
Base: ergo
Inflected forms:
form: more ergogenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ergogenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That enhances physical performance (especially in sports or exercise).
pos: adj
Antonyms: ergolytic
Translations:
indapamide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A particular sulphonamide diuretic drug
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
risedronate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From risedronic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Base: risedronic acid
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: risedronates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The conjugate base, or any salt or ester, of risedronic acid, used as a medication to inhibit bone loss in disorders of bone metabolism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
adda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali আড্ডা (aḍḍa).
Inflected forms:
form: addas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An informal meeting place for conversation.
pos: noun
tags: Bangladesh
India
gloss: A session of chat.
pos: noun
tags: Bangladesh
India
Translations:
harewood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: airwood
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hairwood
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: stained sycamore maple wood, used in cabinet making
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
aggrecan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From aggre(gating)-(proteogly)can.
Inflected forms:
form: aggrecans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A proteoglycan, containing chondroitin sulfate, that is a major component of cartilage
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
choriocarcinoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
Etymology: From chorio- + carcinoma.
Base: carcinoma
Affixes: chorio-
Inflected forms:
form: choriocarcinomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: choriocarcinomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A malignant, trophoblastic cancer, usually of the placenta.
pos: noun
examples: When it occurs, choriocarcinoma is thus a double tragedy: an abnormal pregnancy compounded by a lethal malignancy, birth tipped into death.
Translations:
geodata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From geo- + data.
Base: data
Affixes: geo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Geographical data.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Statistical quality control as applied to industrial output is a method that can also be used for the control of geodata.
Translations:
rezident
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Russian резиде́нт (rezidént). Doublet of resiant and resident.
Inflected forms:
form: rezidents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: resident
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The head spy in a rezidentura.
pos: noun
Translations:
postherpetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From post- + herpetic.
Base: herpetic
Affixes: post-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Following infection with herpes
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dishwasher-safe
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dishwasher-safe
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dishwasher-safe
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dishwasher safe
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being washed in a dishwasher without being damaged.
pos: adj
Translations:
toe-curling
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more toe-curling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most toe-curling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing feelings of acute embarrassment.
pos: adj
examples: toe-curling embarrassment
Toe-curling for some, split-toe shoes have recently been seen in the most high fashion places.
It was toe-curling, not-knowing-where-to-look bad television reminiscent of Trump appearing with women who accused Bill Clinton of rape and unwanted sexual advances before he debated Hillary.
gloss: Causing feelings of arousal or excitement (especially sexual).
pos: adj
examples: He sipped his wine, flashed a toe-curling smile at the waitress as she picked up his uneaten plate, then gave me a somewhat darker look.
Derived words: toe-curlingly
Translations:
gambusia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: gambusias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several livebearing freshwater fish, of the genus Gambusia, that feed on the larva of mosquitos and are used to control them.
pos: noun
Translations:
gelsemium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: gelsemiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Gelsemium, many of which are poisonous.
pos: noun
Translations:
helenium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: heleniums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Helenium, the dried leaves of which were once used to make a form of snuff.
pos: noun
examples: Amongst the herbs to be administered when the charm was sung over him were a yew-berry, lupin, helenium, marsh mallow, dock elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves.
Heleniums mostly have an upright habit, though the taller ones may need staking in spring or cutting back by half in early summer to stay that way.
Translations:
hypericum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name, translingual Hypericum, itself from Latin hypericum, from Ancient Greek ὑπερικόν (huperikón), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + ἐρείκη (ereíkē, “heath”).
Inflected forms:
form: hypericums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many flowering plants of the genus Hypericum, St. John's worts.
pos: noun
Translations:
salpingectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: gynaecology
medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From salping- (“of or relating to the salpinx”) + -ectomy (“surgical removal”).
Affixes: salping-
-ectomy
Inflected forms:
form: salpingectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Surgical removal of one or both Fallopian tubes.
pos: noun
Translations:
shockable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From shock + -able.
Base: shock
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more shockable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shockable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be shocked.
pos: adj
examples: One answer comes from the fact that it takes a great deal of force to shock quartz. Indeed, until recently, it wasn’t believed that quartz was shockable.
gloss: Easily shocked.
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of being treated by defibrillator.
pos: adj
examples: shockable rhythm
Ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) are considered shockable and thus require defibrillation.
Derived words: nonshockable
unshockable
Translations:
superelevation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder.
▲
Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.?
Proto-Italic *leɣʷis
Latin levis
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin levō
Latin ēlevō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin ēlevātiō
Old French elevation
English elevation
English superelevation
From super- + elevation.
Inflected forms:
form: superelevations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The angle that a gun must be elevated above the line of its target to allow for the effect of gravity on the projectile.
pos: noun
gloss: The cant of a railway track; the difference in elevation (height) between its two edges, as on a curve.
pos: noun
examples: In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce.
Translations:
syringa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch or Middle Low German from Latin sȳrinx from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pan pipes”).
Inflected forms:
form: syringas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sweet mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Any of the several flowering plants of the genus Philadelphus, such as now in the Western United States Philadelphus lewisii.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the several flowering plants, of the genus Syringa, such as the lilacs.
pos: noun
Translations:
parenchymatous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From the stem of Koine Greek παρέγχυμα (parénkhuma) + -ous. Compare parenchymal, parenchymous, parenchymatic.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of or pertaining to parenchyma; parenchymal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Consisting of or relating to the cellular tissue making up the softer parts of leaves, pulp of fruits, bark and pith of stems, etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The great fertility of the Cotton-plant in these fine flexile threads, whilst those from Flax, Hemp, and Nettles, or from the bark of the Mulberry-tree, require a previous putrefaction of the parenchymatous substance, and much mechanical labour, and afterwards bleaching, renders this plant of great importance to the world.
gloss: Affecting the parenchyma.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: intraparenchymatous
nonparenchymatous
pseudoparenchymatous
Translations:
Nemean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Nemea + -an.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Nemean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Nemean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Nemeans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Nemea, ancient site in the Peloponnese in Greece, associated with certain myths.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Nemea.
pos: noun
Translations:
noctuid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From translingual Noctuidae, from Latin noctua (“owl”, literally “nocturnal one”) + -id.
Affixes: -id
Inflected forms:
form: noctuids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any moth in the species-rich family Noctuidae or the superfamily Noctuoidea.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. H. McKnight, who resides at Goldstream, took a number of noctuids in September, feeding on hops.
The total wing area of these moths were essentially the same (geometrids = 3.8 cm²; noctuids = 3.6. cm²). Consequently, wing-loading of the noctuids was about twice as high as in the geometrids.
Noctuids are renowned for their propensity for carnivory in general, and for cannibalism in particular (Gould et al. 1980).
Translations:
tectonism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tectonisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The deformation of the Earth's crust due to tectonic activity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Next Reports Climatic Limits on Landscape Development in the Northwestern Himalaya Nicholas Brozovi, * Douglas W. Burbank, Andrew J. Meigs The interaction between tectonism and erosion produces rugged landscapes in actively deforming regions.
Furthermore, changes in continental weathering and riverine contributions to the oceans may also be linked with climate, and hydrothermal inputs vary with tectonism.
The thick lithosphere predicted by these models appears to be inconsistent with even a low level of ongoing volcanism and tectonism.
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