yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
entangled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more entangled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most entangled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tangled or twisted together.
pos: adj
gloss: Confused or complicated.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
pos: adj
Related words: quantum entanglement
Derived words: entangledly
entangledness
equientangled
hyperentangled
nonentangled
quantum-entangled
Translations:
manservant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English man servant, man servaunt; equivalent to man + servant.
Base: man
Inflected forms:
form: manservants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: menservants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: man servant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: man-servant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A male servant.
pos: noun
examples: I asked my manservant to attend to the washing and cleaning.
Sixe dayes thou ſhalt labour, and doe all thy worke. But the ſeuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou ſhalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy ſonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man ſeruant, nor thy maid ſeruant, nor thine oxe, nor thine aſſe, nor any of thy cattel, nor thy ſtranger that is within thy gates, that thy man ſeruant and thy maid ſeruant may reſt as well as thou.
"A great people were they. They conquered till none were left to conquer, and then they dwelt at ease within their rocky mountain walls, with their man servants and their maid servants, their minstrels, their sculptors, and their concubines, and traded and quarrelled, and ate and hunted and slept and made merry till their time came."
But a man who holds so tightly to what he calls his rights over what he calls his debts will hold tightly also to what he calls his rights over her whom he calls his wife. No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his manservant or his maidservant or his jackass. / —Or his jennyass, Buck Mulligan antiphoned.
Translations:
decreasing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: Etymology tree
English decrease
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English decreasing
From decrease + -ing (participial suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: decreasings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: On the decrease.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A decrease.
pos: noun
examples: The number of stitches between the decreasings decreases with every round, so that the decreasings form slanting lines meeting in a point.
Antonyms: increasing
Translations:
detailing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: detailings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thorough description or explanation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Less successful are the flotsam-y parts of the book — the arbitrary releases about Ebbesmeyer’s career struggles or the detailings of one too many garbage finds.
gloss: An assignment to someone to undertake a particular task.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An ornamentation or decoration on something that has been constructed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a dress with elaborate neck detailings
Provided are matching satin ribbon detailings, topped with an embroidered floral bouquet in delicate contrasting shades.
Terrific, new detailings including see-through full length walkway and platforms with special tank train end couplings
In 1963, the Penrose owners traded up to a giant DeRaffele unsurpassed in exaggerated detailings, including a towering, steel A-frame entryway and crinkle-cut, folded-plate eaves.
Early homes, such as Jacob Julian’s Second Empire–style mansion boasted a lot of Romantic influences with elaborate detailing.
In the next few minutes, Molly tossed dress after dress aside, oohing and aahing at the varied fabrics, the elaborate detailing of each one, until she found a dress that was— / Breathtaking.
gloss: A careful and thorough cleaning and refurbishing of an automobile, aircraft, boat, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
differing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: differings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more differing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most differing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: difference
pos: noun
examples: I knew nothing then of the great differings and philosophizings, the setting up and tearing down of fine lines technically and aesthetically between the two that had been going on among the devotees of each […]
It is the differings and deferrings of language that produce meanings, truths and values […]
gloss: unlike, dissimilar, distinct; that which differs
pos: adj
examples: A priority for the new pope will be to strengthen the church’s unity amid differing views and expectations within the institution and growing polarisation in the wider world.
Translations:
effecting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From effect + -ing. The adjective likely follows from the verb, perhaps with influence from effective, affecting, or both.
Base: effect
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more effecting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most effecting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causative, effective.
pos: adj
Translations:
enhancing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: enhancings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more enhancing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enhancing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act of enhancing; enhancement.
pos: noun
examples: Evidence is sought for rebutting, not for confirming; and so, of course, little gets established; and even where facts are incontestable, the principles on which they were performed—the views of the agents—the objects aimed at—the palliatives—the enhancings— are all matter of contention; and neither party will give up an inch, lest the outworks should involve the citadel.
Because how can it be defnitively proven that an enhancing in our degree of emulating was in fact caused by the conditioning from employing some type of sensory enhancing mindset.
In addition to targeting risks and vulnerabilities associated with crises and upheavals, the enhancing of social protection must be mindful of the structural elements that place social groups in a situation of vulnerability in the first place.
gloss: Acting or tending to enhance.
pos: adj
examples: A few sounds were consistently more enhancing, while most were consistently more detracting.
Similarly, successful attack operations in cyberspace with few tracks back to the host government can be very enhancing to one's internal reputation.
It's obvious that this is more enhancing.
Translations:
ejecta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Neuter plural of Latin ējectus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Material which has been ejected, especially from a volcano or an impact crater.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Distal ejecta are, by definition, those ejecta that occur at considerable distances from the source crater (>5 crater radii from the crater rim; see, e.g., Melosh 1989). They either consist of (usually fine-grained) rock and mineral fragments or are of glassy consistency.
Translations:
filleting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Inflected forms:
form: filletings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.
pos: noun
gloss: The material of which fillets are made.
pos: noun
gloss: Fillets collectively.
pos: noun
Derived words: filleting knife
Translations:
coxy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
Etymology: Phonetic respelling of a clipping of coccidiosis.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Coccidiosis.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Now your laying birds, too, can have protection against cecal coccidiosis. AMPROL* SOLUTION can be safely given to all chickens at the first sign of coxy or when a diagnosis of coccidiosis has been made.
Translations:
shithead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From shit + head. Dysphemistically modelled after dickhead.
Compound parts: shit
head
Inflected forms:
form: shitheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shathead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shitehead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: s**thead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shith**d
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stupid or contemptible person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
offensive
slang
vulgar
examples: Unfortunately Todd is a dummy, but what's worse is that Harvey is a shithead.
He goes, The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don't listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.
Suck my spinning steel, shithead!
gloss: A card game, the aim of which is to lose one's cards.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
vulgar
gloss: A person who uses the drug cannabis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
vulgar
examples: Reynolds tensed his jaw, “we have a lot less shitheads in the LoC than they do over here. You wanna know why? Cuz it's all legal. We got farmers growin' marijuana. Poppies. Coca. Instead of shitheads we got cokeheads and dope heads. […]
Related words: shitheaded
shit for brains
Derived words: shitheadery
Translations:
pratique
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Originated 1600–10. Borrowed from Middle French practique, pratique, from Medieval Latin prāctica. Doublet of practice.
Inflected forms:
form: pratiques
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is here a cuſtome ſtrictly obſerued (as alſo elſevvhere vvithin the Streights belonging to the Chriſtians) not to ſuffer any to trafficke or come aſhore before they haue a Pratticke from the Signoirs of Health: vvhich vvill not be granted vntill forty dayes after their arriuall, […] Notvvithſtanding, they vpon requeſt vvill carry you to the Lazaretto (vvhich is in the nature of a Peſt-houſe) there to abide vntill the date be expired. But if any fall ſicke amongſt them in the meane ſeaſon, their Pratticke is accordingly prolonged. A great inconuenience to the Merchants, but at Venice intollerable: vvhere vvhen they haue Pratticke, they are enforced to vnlade at the Lazaretto.
gloss: Practice; habits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Whereas in private teaching, their company is either superiors, inferiors, and if equals, but a few, without the liberty and variety of pratique as in a populous school.
Translations:
peniche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From French péniche.
Inflected forms:
form: peniches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An engine-powered steel ship or vessel, larger than 15 meters, used for inland water transportation, and often modified in order to act as a docked restaurant or hotel.
pos: noun
gloss: Material inserted between a half-model, often of an airplane, and the wall of a wind tunnel.
pos: noun
Translations:
troller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English troll
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 troller
From troll + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: trollers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who fishes by trolling.
pos: noun
gloss: An engine-powered fishing boat, used for moving slowly while fishing lines drag behind, sometimes able to sail in shallow water.
pos: noun
gloss: A troll; a user who maliciously provokes others.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
nonstandard
examples: Troller is looking for a response...ANY response, and he will chum the waters with complaints, insults, compliments, and inflammatory tidbits hoping that someone...ANYONE, will take the bait.
Related words: trawler
Translations:
dira
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic ذِرَاع m (ḏirāʕ, “cubit”), from ذِرَاع f (ḏirāʕ, “arm”).
Inflected forms:
form: diras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dirah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: diraa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Arabian cubit, whose value varied by place, time, and item from about 25–75 cm (10 in–2 ft 5½ in).
pos: noun
examples: 13·3—This measure does not seem to belong to very early times, and it may probably have originated in Asia Minor... And it may well be the origin of the dirá‘ Stambuli of 26·6, twice 13·3.
Translations:
punters
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The general public, a body of customers.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: If there's one thing I've learned in this business, it's that you've got to give the punters what they want.
Translations:
plagiarized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more plagiarized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plagiarized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: produced using plagiarism
pos: adj
Translations:
plagiarizing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: plagiarizings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of plagiarism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Sammie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Sam
English -ie
English Sammie
From Sam + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: Sammies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sammy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sami
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Samoyed (a breed of dog)
pos: noun
Translations:
feigned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being a pretense, simulation, or counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I have discovered that a feigned familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less. For great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them. So the fisher provides bait for the trout, roach, dace, &c., that they may be food to him.
"I have passed my word," said Jowl with feigned reluctance, "and I'll keep it. When does this match come off? I wish it was over. -- To-night?"
And yet another marvel, the nether side of the canopy over the high seats was encrusted with lapis lazuli, and in that feigned dome of heaven burned the twelve signs of the zodiac, every star a diamond that shone with its own light.
Translations:
dismounted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having gotten off one's horse, or been removed from its usual mounting, as with a statue off its pedestal, a framed picture from a wall, or a chandelier hanging from a ceiling.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Amalek
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew עֲמָלֵק (ʾĂmālēq).
Inflected forms:
form: Amalec
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The nation said to be descended from him, living mostly in the Negev and some later migrating to Israel.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
jarring
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jar
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English jarring
From jar (“to clash, conflict, disturb”) + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more jarring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jarring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: jarrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.
pos: adj
examples: The rings of iron that on the doors were hung / Sent out a jarring sound
The large cement works nearby are served by sidings, and strike a sudden jarring industrial note in the midst of the rural downland scene.
Slackware does not include a graphical installer. Its package manager does not perform any dependency resolution. This can be jarring for new users, particularly within the last few years, but it also enables a deeper understanding of the system.
I could probably take your chick
But I just wouldn't 'cause she's jarrin'
gloss: Storage in jars.
pos: noun
examples: The jarring of peaches took place at the end of the season.
gloss: A feeling or movement that jars or jolts.
pos: noun
examples: The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles.
Translations:
walled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a wall; surrounded by a wall
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a walled garden
The town of Ch’u-hsiung is walled, rather long, and possesses about 15,000 inhabitants. In the Han dynasty Ch'u-hsiung belonged to the territory of I Chou.
Being located about four kilometers from the Yellow River and twenty-three kilometers northwest of Cheng-chou, the early walled site at Hsi-shan lies in the core cultural area.
gloss: Pertaining to something which has been placed into a wall, i.e., immured.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: brick walled
smooth-walled
walled community
walled garden
walled plain
Translations:
cloistered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more cloistered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cloistered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.
pos: adj
examples: Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.
In cloister'd state let selfish sages dwell, / Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.
gloss: Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.
pos: adj
examples: […]“The Vegan” is a less cloistered book, with bigger, more universal themes.
gloss: Naive, lacking in worldliness.
pos: adj
gloss: Furnished with cloisters.
pos: adj
examples: both the Greeks and Romans […]had commonly two cloiſtered open Courts, one serving for the Womens ſide, and the other for the Men
Translations:
refs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law-enforcement
police
Etymology: Short for refreshments.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A scheduled meal break during a shift.
pos: noun
tags: British
slang
Translations:
peerless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English pereles, perles; equivalent to peer + -less.
Base: peer
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more peerless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most peerless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without peer or equal; unparalleled, nonpareil. Of the highest quality, best.
pos: adj
examples: Let's after him, / Whoſe care is gone before, to bid vs welcome: / It is a peerleſſe Kinſman.
Having now seen himself mistaken in supposing Elfride to be peerless, nothing on earth could make him believe she was not so very bad after all.
After wearying oneself with the acres of stuffy, sappy, expressionless babies that populate the canvases of the Old Masters in Italy, it is refreshing to stand before this peerless child and feel that thrill which tells you you are at last in the presence of the real thing.
Telegram! Malachi Mulligan, The Ship, lower Abbey street. O, you peerless mummer! O, you priestified Kinchite!
“Would you go into the dragon's lair, my peerless Wiglaf?”
Foden has also grown into this World Cup, having scored against Wales and creating two goals here. England's midfield and attack is taking shape with perfect timing for what will be the sternest of tests against France and the peerless Mbappe.
Translations:
unparalleled
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 paralleled
English unparalleled
From un- + paralleled.
Inflected forms:
form: more unparalleled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unparalleled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unparallelled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Having no parallel; without equal; lacking anything similar or worthy of comparison.
pos: adj
examples: The candidate experienced unparalleled support in the last election.
Experience had taught me, that woman's falsehood was no unparalleled marvel; but it had coupled with this conviction, that nothing in after life can atone for the bitterness of our first rude awakening.
“Let us go out and drink to the very good health of Monsieur Tarzan in some of old Plancon’s unparalleled absinth; not forgetting that the Count de Coude is one of the best swordsmen in Paris, and by far the best shot in all France.”
Such equipment has had to bear the unparalleled stress of wartime operation without the maintenance and renewal it would have received under the far easier conditions of peacetime working.
Translations:
starchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English starch
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English starchy
From starch + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: starchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more starchy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: starchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most starchy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to starch.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing starch.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
pos: adj
examples: Beds were made, the dinner-table set, and then we got into our very starchiest and most uncomfortable clothes for church.
gloss: Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.
pos: adj
Related words: cornstarchy
Derived words: nonstarchy
non-starchy
pseudostarchy
starchily
starchiness
unstarchy
Translations:
parentage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French parentage.
Inflected forms:
form: parentages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I am a Lord, for so my deedes ſhall prooue,
And yet a ſhepheard by my Parentage: […]
English gentlemen, after all, do not discriminate against each other on the grounds of parentage, only of breeding.
gloss: The social quality of one's class in society.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My fortunes parentage — good parentage — To equal mine! — was it not thus? What say you?
Mr. Worthington. Second son. We shall find better. He is of dubious parentage.
gloss: Origin; derivation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Related words: parentship
parentdom
Derived words: mixed parentage
Translations:
cossie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English costume
English -ie
English cossie
From costume + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: cossies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cozzie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A swimming costume.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
examples: “Let's not bother with cossies Jack. Let′s pretend it′s years ago.”
She remembered the times they had swum at Eleni beach totally naked, the moon and stars lighting the little waves as they rolled slowly to shore.
I struck off boldly, but soon found myself unaccountably labouring. The reason became abundantly clear when I stood up, clad only in two three-foot-long shoulder straps, with two stone of waterlogged cossie round my ankles.
She would just change now very quickly and then run down to Lingerie and—no, she thought, I won′t; I′ll go to the cossies first, because I don′t want anyone to see me carrying that parcel from Lingerie (which used a different patterned wrapping paper, printed with a lace and ribbom design) because they might guess what′s in it, or they might ask. So I′ll just go to the cossies first.
Translations:
outrigger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
rowing
skiing
sports
transport
Etymology: Modification of earlier outligger after rig (“to fit out”); equivalent to out- + ligger.
Base: ligger
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outriggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: out-rigger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various projecting beams or spars that provide support for a sailing ship's mast.
pos: noun
gloss: A long thin timber, pontoon, or other float attached parallel to a canoe or boat by projecting struts as a means of preventing tipping or capsizing.
pos: noun
examples: The Sentinelese hunt in the rainforest and fish in the coastal waters using spears, bows and arrows, as well as homemade narrow outrigger canoes, according to Survival International.
gloss: An outrigger canoe or boat.
pos: noun
gloss: An iron bracket or brace for an oarlock projecting from the side of a rowing boat.
pos: noun
gloss: An extension mechanism, often retractable when not in use, on a boat, vehicle, or structure which helps to stabilize it to keep it from tipping over.
pos: noun
examples: From the cowcatcher hung the outrigger of the tricycle, leaping about as though in the grip of death itself, beating against the iron that had shattered it, striking the road, sending the gravel flying.
These piles supported long lengths of hard timber (approximately 2-ft. square section) which provided a firm anchorage for the outriggers supporting the cranes.
The cranes are supplied with outriggers and jacks for use when lifting heavy loads or when working at extended radii.
gloss: A type of ski pole, with skis attached at the bottom, instead of the spike/pick found on a normal pole. It is used in downhill skiing variants of para-skiing, especially those that use a sit-ski, such as the monoski.
pos: noun
Related words: inrigger
outrigged
Derived words: outriggered
outriggerless
Translations:
lang: Bislama
word: nasama
lang: Catalan
word: batanga
lang: Dutch
word: uitlegger
lang: Dutch
word: drijver
lang: German
word: Ausleger
lang: Hawaiian
word: ama
lang: Indonesian
word: cadik
lang: Raga
word: hama
lang: Samoan
word: ama
lang: Spanish
word: batanga
lang: Tok Pisin
word: saman
lang: Tongan
word: hama
minstrelsy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English minstralcie, from 13th century Anglo-Norman menestralsie, menestralcie, from Old French menestrel (“minstrel”), itself from Medieval Latin ministralis (“servant, jester, singer”), from Late Latin ministerialis (“imperial household officer, one having an official duty”), from the adjective ministerialis (“ministerial, servants”), from Latin ministerium (“service”).
Inflected forms:
form: minstrelsies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The musical and other art and craft of a minstrel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Orfeo makes his way into this palace, and so charms the king with his minstrelsy, that he gives him back his wife.
They, of course, would change, but not again could she; henceforth no music for her in the Bush birds' minstrelsy, no pleasure in rivalry with buttercups for the butterflies' kiss.
gloss: A group of minstrels.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any similar modern group performing song and verse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A collection of minstrel ballads.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: minstrelry
Translations:
misconstruction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English construction
English misconstruction
From mis- + construction.
Inflected forms:
form: misconstructions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Our attention has been called to the possibility of misconstruction in our reply given under the above heading in the December issue concerning track circuit through busy stations normally entered at low speeds.
gloss: Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a misconstruction of the law
gloss: Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncommon
uncountable
Related words: eggcorn
Translations:
snagging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: snaggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of something becoming snagged.
pos: noun
examples: Collisions were not often the cause of major disasters for, as in the case of snaggings, the sinking of the boat did not lead to many casualties unless it took place in deep water.
Translations:
snagged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more snagged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most snagged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of snags; snaggy.
pos: adj
Translations:
fielded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
not-comparable
Translations:
filmed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Covered with a film.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A gleam burst through his filmed eyes.
gloss: Covered with a film of (a specified type or substance).
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: No words, that I know of, will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. How is one to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green,—the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass,—the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, 100 burnished through every fibre into fitful brightness and glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace.
White roses and daedal creepers, that Miss Carnot had first adorned the walls with, spread now luxuriantly over the lichen-filmed tiles of the roof, and in slender graceful sprays timidly invaded the ghostly cobweb-draped apartments.
Do you mean to tell me there should be no fissure?
No glittering, compact drops of dawn?
Do you mean it is wrong, the gold-filmed skin, integument, shown ruptured?
Derived words: biofilmed
nonfilmed
unfilmed
Translations:
flanked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more flanked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flanked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a particulary kind of flank.
pos: adj
Translations:
workable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English workable
From work + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more workable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most workable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of functioning.
pos: adj
examples: They came up with a workable solution, until they could think of something better.
Penrhyn Quarry vertical-boilered 0-4-0 locomotive "George Henry," built by De Winton & Company in 1877. It is the last survivor of its class, and is still in workable condition.
The point was also made that the size and diversity of GWR's network and the number of services that are not capable of having reservations (Thames Valley, many branch lines, and so on) has meant a mandatory reservation system is not a workable system for them.
gloss: Able to be worked or fashioned
pos: adj
Antonyms: non-workable
nonworkable
unworkable
Translations:
borgo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian borgo. Doublet of borough.
Inflected forms:
form: borgos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small Italian village.
pos: noun
examples: The borgo’s five acres and five dilapidated structures were part of an estate once owned by the Borghese family, and overlooked a valley of hills and vineyards.
Translations:
Britisher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English British
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 Britisher
From British + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: Britishers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Briton.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
India
US
examples: "Why now, I expect," said the American, "you would not shoot me in cold blood, although you are a Britisher, I guess."
[…] and as he spoke, there was just a soupçon of foreign accent in the pronunciation of the French vowels, a certain drawl of o's and a's, that would have betrayed the Britisher to an observant ear.
French newspapers carried today a notice that all Britishers between the ages of 15 and 65 have been interned in special camps. Women and sick men have not been interned.
Even in the heart of London, Britishers boast you're never far from the countryside—only a few stories up!
From what we've heard, some of the gayest, hottest and most unusual bedroom scenes have resulted from a stewardess accepting the stiff and proper advance of a Britisher.
A lot of people have made the very valid point that it is a bit rich for a Britisher to criticise Indian food as being bland!
gloss: The British colonial authorities; a European member of the British Raj, especially an officer from the colonial authorities.
pos: noun
tags: India
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: брыта́нец
roman: brytánjec
lang: Belarusian
word: брыта́нка
roman: brytánka
lang: French
word: Britannique
lang: Galician
word: británico
lang: Hindi
word: ब्रिटिशर sg or m or
roman: briṭiśar
lang: Hindi
word: बरतानवी
roman: bartānvī
lang: Italian
word: britannico
lang: Italian
word: britannica
lang: Marathi
word: ब्रिटिशर sg or m or
roman: briṭiśar
lang: Punjabi
word: ਬ੍ਰਿਟਿਸ਼ਰ sg or m or
roman: briṭiśar
lang: Punjabi
word: ਬਰਤਾਨਵੀ
roman: bartānavī
lang: Romanian
word: britanic
lang: Romanian
word: britanică
herdsman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English herd
English -s-
English -man
English herdsman
From herd + -s- + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: herdsman feminine: herdswoman
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: herdsmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep; especially, the foreman among a group of such farmworkers, usually with more knowledge and experience.
pos: noun
Translations:
Umwelt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Umwelt (“environment”).
Inflected forms:
form: Umwelts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Umwelten
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: umwelt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One's surroundings or environment; the outer world as perceived by organisms within it.
pos: noun
examples: It seems that these S-E-A-Values are all about what ethnologists call the Umwelt — the area of alarm around members of the brute creation, such as human beings.
Still, a pigeon's worldview -- its Umwelt, ...
... a fragment snipped from the perplexing umwelt of Homo sapiens, our innumerable temporary enclosures.
Translations:
horsebox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From horse + box.
Compound parts: horse
box
Inflected forms:
form: horseboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motor vehicle for transporting horses.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A container for transporting horses in, whether by road, rail, or sea.
pos: noun
gloss: A van-type railway vehicle specially built for the carriage of horses.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
examples: On October 31 [...] Laira "Grange" No. 6871 passed through Wolverhampton with a Holyhead-Didcot horsebox special.
Translations:
lang: French
word: van
lang: Italian
word: box
lang: Swedish
word: hästtransport
lang: Swedish
word: hästsläp
stormtrooper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: A calque of German Sturmtruppen, from Sturm (“storm”) + Truppen (“troops”), equivalent to storm + trooper.
Compound parts: storm
trooper
Inflected forms:
form: stormtroopers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: storm trooper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: storm-trooper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A soldier trained in special infiltration tactics.
pos: noun
examples: Indeed, the infantry battle on the desolate ridgeline above Darwin would probably have seemed remarkably familiar to a World War I stormtrooper.
As you'll recall, the idea of the stormtrooper arose from the effort to break out of the trench warfare of World War I.
When he came upon such a scene he went up to a stormtrooper to protest.
gloss: A member of the Sturmabteilung, a Nazi street militia.
pos: noun
Derived words: Imperial Stormtrooper
Starmtrooper
Stormpilot
Translations:
Siberian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
ethnology
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Siberia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Siberian
From Siberia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Siberians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Siberia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person from Siberia.
pos: noun
gloss: A long-haired domestic cat breed.
pos: noun
Translations:
entrant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French entrant, present participle of entrer.
Inflected forms:
form: entrants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A participant who enters something, such as a contest.
pos: noun
examples: Any attempt by an entrant to influence the result or subvert the contest will lead to immediate disqualification.
gloss: A newcomer.
pos: noun
Derived words: new entrant
nonentrant
reentrant
Translations:
toasted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cooked by toasting.
pos: adj
examples: Would you like a toasted sandwich?
gloss: Very hot.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: We got absolutely toasted on the beach today.
gloss: Drunk or stoned.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Night after night we cheerfully drank, squinting there in the dark like bulb-eyed lemurs, and once or twice even got toasted, waking up the next day on a dark, cold morning with the numbed, palsied tongue of dead vodka.
Synonyms: stoned
Derived words: nontoasted
overtoasted
toasted cheese
toasted ravioli
toasted special
undertoasted
untoasted
Translations:
finality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French finalité. equivalent to final + -ity.
Base: final
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: finalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being final; the condition from which no further changes occur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The finality of my father's death suddenly hit me: there would be no more bedtime stories, no more games of catch in the back yard.
By way of contrast there is an air of finality about the closure of the Welsh Highland Railway.
Antonyms: nonfinality
Translations:
touchpad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From touch + pad.
Compound parts: touch
pad
Inflected forms:
form: touchpads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flat surface which is sensitive to touch, used mostly in laptop computers to control an on-screen cursor.
pos: noun
Translations:
Dominique
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French Dominique. Doublet of Dominic.
Inflected forms:
form: Dominiques
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An American breed of chicken with a rose comb and a heavy plumage of irregularly striped black-and-white feathers.
pos: noun
Translations:
refuser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English refuse
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 refuser
From refuse + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: refusers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who refuses.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: recusant, defier, decliner, objector, protester, dissenter, iconoclast, maverick, nonconformist, rebel, renegade
Translations:
millwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mill + work.
Compound parts: mill
work
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Components for buildings, produced by milling, such as doors and windows (especially prehung ones) and wood or woodlike trim with decorative cross-sections involving curves, beads, grooves, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any wooden object manufactured at a lumbermill (sawmill).
pos: noun
tags: US
uncommon
uncountable
Related words: cabinetwork
millworks
woodwork
molding
Translations:
mirabilia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin mīrābilia. Doublet of marvel.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wonderful or extraordinary things; marvels.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
mirabilis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name, from Latin mīrābilis. Doublet of mirable.
Inflected forms:
form: mirabilises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the plant genus Mirabilis; a four-o'clock.
pos: noun
Translations:
mitogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mitogen + -ic or mito- + -genic.
Base: mitogen
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more mitogenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mitogenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a mitogen.
pos: adj
gloss: Causing mitosis.
pos: adj
examples: Cell-mediated immunity is impaired after burn injury, including documented delays in allograft rejection, impairment in mitogenic and anogenic responsiveness of lymphocytes, burn-size-related suppression of graftversus-host activity, suppression of delayed cutaneous sensitivity tests, and diminution of peripheral lymphocytes and thoracic duct lymphocyte concentration.
Derived words: antimitogenic
comitogenic
hepatomitogenic
hypermitogenic
mitogenically
mitogenicity
promitogenic
submitogenic
supramitogenic
Translations:
drafted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of a certain depth required to float (said of a vessel); used comparatively with shallow, deep, etc.
pos: adj
examples: A johnboat is a shallow drafted boat favored by fishermen.
gloss: conscripted
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: I hope you get drafted / I hope you carry a gun / When you come back with no arms or legs / Then you can say war is fun / 'Cause you don't care / What happens to me / As long it don't happen to you / As the world becomes a bomb factory / Your attitude becomes smug / This just creates an atmosphere of war / A world without any love / You know, / I hope you get drafted / I hope you burn and die
Related words: draughted
drawn
Derived words: nondrafted
undrafted
Translations:
filleted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more filleted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most filleted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Gutted; very disappointed or let down.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: I was filleted to be honest. It had taken its toll on me ... I'd probably had enough myself by that time in terms of being manager.
Translations:
gunned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Equipped or bedecked with guns.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She was armored and gunned and ready for action.
Translations:
bedecked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bedecked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bedecked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered; encrusted; arrayed.
pos: adj
examples: The general's uniform was so bedecked with medals that he began leaning to one side.
A Class 158 relegated from express duties turns up to transport me via the flower-bedecked Brighouse station to the trans-Pennine main line at Bradley Junction and onwards to Huddersfield.
Translations:
signalling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
form: signallings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: signaling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The use of signals in communications, especially the sending of signals in telecommunications.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The signals and associated equipment required for their operation.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Derived words: cab signalling
hedgehog signalling pathway
in-band signalling
neurosignalling
nonsignalling
osmosignalling
signalling event
signalling pathway
virtue signalling
Translations:
clambering
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: clamberings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more clambering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most clambering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who clambers.
pos: noun
examples: It was his hope that he should find something of archaeologic compensation for his clamberings. He found Noah's Ark.
gloss: Climbing
pos: adj
examples: Its hills of smiling green swelled gently one above another, crowned with lofty trees of luxuriant growth; some pointing their tapering foliage towards the clouds, which were gloriously transparent; and others loaded with a verdant burthen of clambering vines, bowing their branches to the earth, that was covered with flowers.
The panes are ruddy through the clambering vines
And blushing leaves, that Summer intertwines
In warmer tints than e'er luxuriant Spring,
O'er flower-embosom'd roof led wandering.
Translations:
sniffy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sniff
English -y
English sniffy
From sniff + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: sniffier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sniffiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Disdainful; haughty.
pos: adj
examples: some regard Hanks with a sniffy attitude, seeing his middlebrow Hollywood fare as unfashionable (yes) and reactionary (no).
gloss: Characterised by sniffing.
pos: adj
examples: a sniffy cold that turned into a sore throat
Derived words: sniffily
sniffiness
Translations:
paving
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pavings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The hard durable surface placed directly atop the ground, as on a street or sidewalk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Interior pavement, as in a cathedral.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Pertaining to the material used for pavement, or to the surface itself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: crazy paving
paving slab
paving stone
paving tile
tactile paving
Translations: