yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
contemporaneous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin contemporāneus (“contemporary”), from con- (“with”) + tempus (“time”) + -aneus (“of or pertaining to”) (compare Late Latin temporāneus (“opportune, timely”)).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Existing or created in the same period of time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Look in other contemporaneous works to see whether that idea was common then.
Let AE and ae be two Lines indefinitely extended each way, along which two moving Things or Points may paſs from afar, and at the ſame time may reach the places A and a, B and b, C and c, D and d, &c. and let B be the Point, by its diſtance from which, the Motion of the moving thing or point in AE is eſtimated; so that — BA, BC, BD, BE, ſucceſſively, may be the flowing Quantities, when the moving thing is in the places A, C, D, E. Likewiſe let b be a like point in the other Line. Then will — BA and — ba be contemporaneous Fluents, as alſo BC and bc, BD and bd, BE and be, &c. […] [T]he contemporaneous parts AB and ab, BC and bc, CD and cd, DE and de are of the ſame length in both caſes. And thus in Equations in which theſe Quantities are repreſented, the contemporaneous parts of Quantities are not therefore changed, notwithſtanding their abſolute magnitude may be increaſed or diminiſhed by ſome given Quantity.
In ancient times, as was formerly remarked, every event that excited any degree of interest, was wrought up in verse by the poets, and transmitted, by the aid of memory, from one generation to another. Other circumstances of a public nature, which gave less scope to the imagination, or could scarcely admit of amplification, were engraven on brass or marble, or stamped upon medals. In these different ways the memory of some ancient occurrences was imperfectly preserved, and afforded the means and materials, when writing came into use, to secure contemporaneous events from perishing for ever, and of making them more generally known.
You know that Meroïtic is an ancient Nubian writing system of the third, or fourth century B.C., and is a script which conceals a typically African language. […] [I]f this script is deciphered, we will have in that respect the testimony of an African language which goes back 2,400 years, that is to say [back to a period] fairly contemporaneous with Latin and other languages of antiquity.
Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
In contrast, Holmes has also tried to adopt a firmly contemporaneous view, to ensure the GCR is fit to face current and emerging challenges.
Translations:
transcriber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transcribe
English -er
English transcriber
From transcribe + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: transcribers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who transcribes; a transcriptionist.
pos: noun
gloss: A device or program that transcribes data.
pos: noun
Related words: transcribe
transcription
Derived words: transcribbler
Translations:
lymphosarcoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lympho-
English sarcoma
English lymphosarcoma
From lympho- + sarcoma.
Inflected forms:
form: lymphosarcomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lymphosarcomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A diffuse malignant lymphoma.
pos: noun
Translations:
monosyllabic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin monosyllabicus, from Latin monosyllabus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μονοσύλλαβος (monosúllabos). By surface analysis, monosyllable + -ic or mono- + syllabic.
Base: syllabic
Affixes: mono-
Inflected forms:
form: monosyllabics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of one syllable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: monosyllabic word
gloss: Using monosyllables, speaking in monosyllables; curt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: monosyllabic responses
Hardy is perfect. He’s physical and monosyllabic.
gloss: A word consisting of one syllable.
pos: noun
Antonyms: polysyllabic
Derived words: monosyllabically
nonmonosyllabic
Translations:
monosyllable
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mender.
Proto-Hellenic *mónwos
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
English syllable
English monosyllable
From mono- + syllable.
Inflected forms:
form: monosyllables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A word of one syllable.
pos: noun
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:monosyllable.
gloss: A euphemism for the word cunt
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
Related words: monosyllabic
Derived words: hypermonosyllable
monosyllabled
Translations:
unenviable
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-
Old French enviebor.
Middle English envie
English envy
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English enviable
English unenviable
From un- + enviable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unenviable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unenviable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant; not to be envied.
pos: adj
examples: Valjean was in the unenviable position of either living with the knowledge an innocent would suffer for his crime or revealing his true identity and going back to prison.
There might be a 'train captain' on board, as on the Docklands Light Railway, but this would be an unenviable role on our packed Tube: the train captain would be condemned to live in a permanent rush hour.
Antonyms: enviable
Translations:
enviable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French enviebor.
Middle English envie
English envy
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English enviable
From envy + -able (suffix meaning ‘able or fit to be done’ forming adjectives).
Base: envy
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more enviable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enviable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Arousing or likely to arouse envy.
pos: adj
examples: Sundrie other Gent[lemen] reſt beholden to this hundred, for their dvvellings, vvho, in an enuiable mediocritie of fortune, do happilie poſſeſſe themſelues, and communicate their ſufficient means to the ſeruice of their prince, the good of their neighbours, and the bettering of their ovvn eſtate: […]
In the course I have taken, I have met, and do daily meet, so many vexations, that I may with truth assure you, that my situation is anything rather than enviable, though it is my happiness to act with those that are far the best that probably ever were engaged in the public service of this country at any time.
To superficial observers it might well seem that William [III of England] was, at this time, one of the most enviable of human beings. He was in truth one of the most anxious and unhappy.
He [Douglas William Jerrold] had achieved many enviable dramatic successes before this time.
This quarter of the city had at that time anything but an enviable reputation. To venture there at night was considered so dangerous that the soldiers from the outlying forts who came in to Paris with permission to go to the theatre, were ordered to halt at the barrière, and not to pass through the perilous district excepting in parties of three or four.
As enviable as summer in the Hamptons can be -- stunning weather, beaches, greenery, produce, and yes, people -- autumn is when the east end of Long Island becomes truly magical.
Translations:
clinometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clino-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.
English -meter
English clinometer
From clino- + -meter.
Inflected forms:
form: clinometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clinometre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An apparatus for measuring a vertical angle, a slope, or the height of a large object (e.g. a tree).
pos: noun
Translations:
Manichaean
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Manichaeus
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Manichaean
From Manichaeus + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Manichaeans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Manichean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Manichæan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Manichee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: Manichean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Manichæan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Manichee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A follower of Manichaeism.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to Manichaeism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Through them passed not only the traders of the Silk Route[…] but also lone Buddhist monks carrying precious cargoes of scrolls in their backpacks, white-robed Manichean sages from Iran and austere Nestorian clerics who founded Christian monasteries even in remote Tibet.
gloss: Of or concerning a Manichaean.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to a worldview of distinct good and evil, especially to the exclusion of other possible categories.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: Detractors of Mr. Nixon will decry the book's [1999: Victory Without War] obsession with potency and winning[…] as well as with a Manichaean view of a world that he sees as divided between the bad Soviet Union and the good United States.
Barack Obama spoke of a world without these Manichean dualities. He dismissed the notion of “red” and “blue” America.
Once again, we see a Manichean world not unlike that of conspiracists: you can be good or you can be evil.
gloss: Using light and dark to represent good and evil.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
Translations:
dualistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dual
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -istic
English dualistic
From dual + -istic.
Inflected forms:
form: more dualistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dualistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to dualism.
pos: adj
examples: A second difficulty that has distanced Mary from the communion of saints […] is the strategy that casts her as the feminine ideal and thus sets her up as the model for all other women. Those who take this approach invariably use a dualistic anthropology that divides male and female into watertight compartments, elevating sex to an ontological principle that results in virtually two types of human nature.
Translations:
dualism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
human-sciences
lifestyle
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
religion
sciences
theology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dual
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English dualism
From dual + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: dualisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Duality; the condition of being double.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative
gloss: The view that the world consists of, or is explicable in terms of, two fundamental principles, such as mind and matter or good and evil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces, such as good and evil; the belief that man has two basic natures, the physical and the spiritual.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The same conflict between the monism of temporal theorists and the dualism of ecclesiastical thinkers—the same opposition of organic to symbiotic union—occurred in the ninth century.
gloss: The legal doctrine that international law must be transposed into domestic law to have effect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and having opposite chemical or electrical affinities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
Related words: dual
duality
monism
nondualism
Derived words: antidualism
Cartesian dualism
Gelasian dualism
German dualism
predicate dualism
property dualism
substance dualism
Translations:
traduce
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin trādūcō (“carry over; lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō (“to lead”). Doublet of transduce, from Latin trānsdūcō.
Inflected forms:
form: traduces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: traducing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: traduced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: traduced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This heauy headed reueale eaſt and weſt / Makes vs traduſt, and taxed of other nations, / They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition […]
Well I'll not debate how far Scandal may be allowable—but in a man I am sure it is always contemtable.—We have Pride, envy, Rivalship, and a Thousand motives to depreciate each other—but the male-slanderer must have the cowardice of a woman before He can traduce one.
I am earnestly desirous then, my dear Sir, that you should let the world into the traits of your genuine character, as civil broils may otherwise tend to disguise or traduce it.
“The chief men of the Jews became his enemies and traduced him to the principal persons in the town, hoping to make him ashamed or afraid.”
Clayton interrupted him. “Stop!” he cried. “Stop! What manner of cur are you that you traduce the character of a good woman whom we believe dead! God! I was a fool ever to let you live—you are not fit to live even in this vile land.”
Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
Now, I hold no candle for the train operators, and I think that in the main they have been far too craven about any government proposals. But in this instance, they have been badly traduced, led up the hill, and then chucked back down it.
gloss: To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son […].
gloss: To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved Macbaeth to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of Hamlet, and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones.
Related words: transduce
Derived words: traducement
traducer
traducible
traducing
traducingly
traduction
untraduced
Translations:
malign
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English maligne, from Old French maligne, from Latin malignus, from malus (“bad”) + genus (“sort, kind”). Compare benign.
Inflected forms:
form: more malign
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most malign
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: maligns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: maligning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: maligned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: maligned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
pos: adj
examples: Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits.
It may be true that such running is exceptional rather than normal; there are still innumerable checks of one kind or another, many of them, alas, directly or indirectly the result of engine failures; and bad coal has often a malign influence.
gloss: Malevolent.
pos: adj
examples: He was sure they [the stars] were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance.
gloss: Malignant.
pos: adj
examples: a malign ulcer
malign ulcers
gloss: To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling.
The obvious joy of England's players and supporters after that dramatic finale was another indicator that the Uefa Nations League, mocked and maligned at its inception, is capturing the public's imagination.
Yet, even as Democratic party leadership has decried this mass deportation plan and even as the bill maligns Democrats as victimizing Americans through its policy of “open borders,” 48 Democratic members of Congress voted for this GOP-backed bill.
gloss: To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them.
Antonyms: benign
Related words: malignant
Derived words: malignancy
maligner
malignify
malignly
malignment
unmalign
Translations:
defamatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French diffamatoire (altered after the prefix de-), from Medieval Latin diffāmātōrius.
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: more defamatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most defamatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue.
pos: adj
examples: defamatory statement
defamatory allegation
sue for defamatory comments
The journalist sued for defamatory remarks.
Translations:
cloture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law
politics
Etymology: Borrowed from French clôture (“closure”). Doublet of closure and clausure.
Inflected forms:
form: clotures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clôture
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: clotures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cloturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clotured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clotured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In legislative assemblies that permit unlimited debate (that is, a filibuster): a motion, procedure or rule by which debate is ended so that a vote may be taken on the matter. For example, in the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority vote of the body is required to invoke cloture and terminate debate.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Now, a filibuster typically begins when a Senator or group of Senators signals their intent to filibuster – which can be done by a private conversation with the majority leader or by quietly placing a bill or nomination on hold. Given the modern Senate's scarce floor time, this threat is usually enough to table the disputed issue until the dissenting Senators cave or until there are definitely enough votes to invoke cloture.
gloss: To end legislative debate by this means.
pos: verb
Translations:
grackle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From translingual Gracula, from Latin graculus (“jackdaw”).
Inflected forms:
form: grackles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grakle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Any of several passerine birds of the genera Quiscalus, Hypopyrrhus, Lampropsar and Macroagelaius, of the Americas, having iridescent plumage.
pos: noun
examples: Outside, a gang of grackles combed the landscaped lawn like a homicide squad dragging a field for evidence.
gloss: Any of several Asian myna birds of the genus Gracula.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Derived words: boat-tailed grackle
Carib grackle
common grackle
golden-tufted grackle
greater Antillean grackle
great-tailed grackle
mountain grackle
Nicaraguan grackle
red-bellied grackle
slender-billed grackle
velvet-fronted grackle
Translations:
myna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā) / Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana).
Inflected forms:
form: mynas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mino
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: mynah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mina
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.
pos: noun
Translations:
transcriptase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transcript
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English transcriptase
From transcript + -ase.
Inflected forms:
form: transcriptases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polymerase that catalyzes the transcription of DNA to RNA.
pos: noun
Translations:
polymerase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English polymer
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English polymerase
From polymer + -ase.
Inflected forms:
form: polymerases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various enzymes that catalyze the formation of polymers of DNA or RNA using an existing strand of RNA or DNA respectively as a template.
pos: noun
Translations:
synthesize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From synthesis + -ize. First attested in 1830.
Base: synthesis
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: synthesizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: synthesizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: synthesized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: synthesized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: synthesise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To combine two or more things to produce a new product.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: synthesize data
synthesize information
Her theory synthesizes ideas from several different disciplines.
gloss: To be combined producing a new, more complex product.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To produce a substance by chemical synthesis.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The lab was able to synthesize a new compound.
gloss: To be produced by chemical synthesis.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: electrosynthesize
missynthesize
neosynthesize
osteosynthesize
oversynthesize
photosynthesize
radiosynthesize
resynthesize
semisynthesize
synthesist
synthesizability
synthesizable
synthesization
synthesizer
synthetist
Translations:
grumpy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grump
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English grumpy
From grump + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: grumpier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: grumpiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: grumpies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dissatisfied and irritable.
pos: adj
examples: The old man was grumpy because he couldn’t find his glasses.
gloss: A dissatisfied and irritable person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: "Bunch of grumpies, always scowling and muttering," complained the new employee.
"Dear me, I'm afraid you'll find the same type of people here," the foreman responded.
Translations:
astronomically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English astronomical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English astronomically
From astronomical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more astronomically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most astronomically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to astronomy.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In the extreme, very (typically very large).
pos: adv
tags: comparable
examples: The calculated answer was astronomically large.
Translations:
astrometry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From astro- + -metry.
Base: astro
Inflected forms:
form: astrometries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The branch of astronomy that deals with the measurement of the positions and motions of celestial bodies, particularly stars.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
transduce
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
information
natural-sciences
Etymology: 1949, back-formation from transducer, from Latin trānsdūcō, from Latin trans (“across”, preposition) + dūcō (“lead, guide”).
Inflected forms:
form: transduces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transducing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transduced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transduced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To convert energy from one form to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Five different types of sensory receptors are classified according to the energy they transduce in creating the different senses. These include mechanoreceptors, chemoreceptors, photoreceptors, thermoreceptors, and electroreceptors.
gloss: To transfer or copy genetic material from one cell or virus into another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After the transducing phage DNA is introduced into the recipient cell genome, the cell acquires, in addition to phage genes, genetic information that originated from the phage's previous host. Thus, in specialized transduction, the phage serves as a vector for transferring genes from one cell to another; only cellular genes that are close to the viral genome integration site are transducible by this mechanism.
gloss: To transfer or convert information from one form or medium to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Much as computers must transduce input information, the nervous system must transduce sensory information before it can be analyzed internally.
Information is also collected by an animal’s nervous system as it lives its life. When the ear transduces sound into neural firings, the two physical processes—vibrating air and diffusing ions—could not be more different. But thanks to the correlation between them, the pattern of neural activity in the animal’s brain carries information about the sound in the world. From there the information can switch from electrical to chemical and back as it crosses the synapses connecting one neuron to the next; through all these physical transformations, the information is preserved.
Related words: traduce
transducer
transductant
transduction
transductor
Derived words: cotransduce
cotransduced
mechanotransduce
mechanotransduced
mechanotransducing
nontransduced
osmotransducing
phototransduce
phototransducing
retransduce
retrotransduce
supertransduce
transducable
transduceome
transduceosome
transducible
transducin
untransduced
Translations:
bacterial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βακτηρία (baktēría)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion)
Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor.
New Latin bactēriabor.
English bacteria
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English bacterial
From bacteria + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or caused by bacteria.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
Translations:
bacteriology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βακτηρία (baktēría)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion)
Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor.
New Latin bactērium
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English bacterio-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English bacteriology
From bacterio- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: bacteriologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The scientific study of bacteria, especially in relation to disease and agriculture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
microbiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
New Latin -logia
New Latin biologialbor.
English biology
English microbiology
From micro- + biology.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of biology that deals with microorganisms, especially their effects on man and other living organisms.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Holonyms: biology, bioscience
Translations:
enamoured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more enamoured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enamoured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada spelling of enamored.
pos: adj
Translations:
transduction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
physiology
sciences
Etymology: 1650s, Latin transductionem, form of Latin trānsdūcō (“lead across”). By surface analysis, transduce + -tion.
Inflected forms:
form: transductions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transfer of genetic material from one cell to another, typically between bacterial cells, and typically via a bacteriophage or pilus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process whereby a transducer converts energy from one form to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The conversion of a stimulus from one form to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The conversion of energy (especially light energy) into another form, especially in a biological process such as photosynthesis or in a transducer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Particularly in the discipline of artificial intelligence, a form of inference, according to which the response appropriate to a particular known case, also is appropriate to another particular case diagnosed to be functionally identical. This contrasts with induction, in which general rules derived from past observations are applied to future cases as a class (compare also analogy).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: autotransduction
chemotransduction
cotransduction
mechanoelectrotransduction
mechanotransduction
osmotransduction
phototransduction
posttransduction
pretransduction
pseudotransduction
retransduction
retrotransduction
signal transduction
thermotransduction
transductional
trigine
-trigine
Translations:
transducer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: 1924, Latin trānsdūcō + -er. By surface analysis, transduce + -er.
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: transducers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device that converts energy from one form into another.
pos: noun
gloss: A state machine that generates output based on a given input.
pos: noun
Related words: transduce
transduction
inducer
transformer
transponder
Derived words: mechanotransducer
microtransducer
neurotransducer
piezotransducer
Translations:
genital
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English genital, from Latin genitalis (“of or belonging to generation”), from genitus, past participle of gignō (“to beget, generate”); see genus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to biological reproduction.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the genitalia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In countless Hollywood movies we see the story of two soldiers or sailors on leave; for them the pursuit of women is simply a way of relieving a genital pressure.
gloss: Of or relating to psychosexual development during puberty.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: abdominogenital
adiposogenital
adrenogenital
agenital
androgenital
anogenital
bigenital
circumgenital
crurogenital
extragenital
faciodigitogenital
faciogenital
female genital mutilation
genital cord
genital cutting
genitaled
genital herpes
genitalic
genitality
genitalization
genitalize
genitalless
genitally
genital mutilation
genitalness
genital organ
genital tubercle
genital wart
genitorture
hand-foot-genital syndrome
heterogenital
homogenital
intergenital
intragenital
male genital mutilation
male genital mutilator
nongenital
oculobuccogenital
oculogenital
orogenital
paragenital
perigenital
persistent genital arousal disorder
postgenital
pregenital
rectogenital
restless genital syndrome
subgenital
unigenital
ureterogenital
urethrogenital
urinogenital
urogenital
Translations:
whinge
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a northern variant of Old English hwinsian (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwinisōn (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan (“to whine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with German winseln (“to whine, whimper”).
Inflected forms:
form: whinges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whingeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whinged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whinged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: winge
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: quhynge
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: whinges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: winge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: quhynge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: Argh! He has been whinging about it all night, even though he knows there's nothing we can do.
I know it won't help but sometimes it feels better to whinge about the things that annoy me.
"'D' ye hear what's come ower ye now,' continued the virago, 'ye whingeing Whig carles? D'ye hear wha's coming to cow yer cracks?"
You crossed her last wish in death and yet you sulk with me because I don’t whinge like some hired mute from Lalouette’s.
Mostly, they were wingeing about the lousy cook and the same thing served too often
His wife will winge her bloody head off, but Nev will come good.
“I try to write something that is amusing,” says [Kate] Spicer. “So much of the stuff written about sex is just whingeing, the I'm-not-getting-enough-orgasms kind of thing. It makes women sound as though they can't have fun in bed.”
"I'm miserable," Sam proclaimed, plodding behind with his shoelace flapping. "Nobody ever gives me butter-pies when I need them." / "Shut up," said Jonathan. "Stop wingeing."
"You know the problem these days with young people? Get them to carry a 500-pound bomb and within 30 seconds they're making noises," he says, imitating a whingeing sound.
gloss: A cry.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
examples: Her whinges grew even shriller and more annoying the longer we had to listen to them.
gloss: A peevish complaint.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
examples: I know you don't like it, but your whinges won't solve the problem!
Translations:
transect
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tran- + sect.
Base: sect
Affixes: tran-
Inflected forms:
form: transects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: transects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To divide something by cutting transversely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A path along which a researcher moves to count and record observations or collect data.
pos: noun
examples: The AOT methodology employs the concept of a ‘transect’, the essential idea of which is to collect data taken along a line or series of lines that cross a certain space. Collecting data via transects is a commonplace in biology, being regularly used for such purposes as monitoring butterfly numbers or estimating the size of bird populations. But transects have also been utilised in a large variety of arenas, including surveying the contents of Amerindian earthen mounds, determining levels of anti-rabies vaccinations in village dogs, and examining ecological factors under the canopy of trees growing in agricultural areas.
Translations:
cryogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cryo- + -genic.
Base: cryo
Inflected forms:
form: more cryogenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cryogenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or performed at low temperatures.
pos: adj
examples: Quick as a mongoose, the man with the glass eye darts in, yanks the aluminum case out of the cryogenic cylinder, tosses it to Y.T.
Translations:
cryogenically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cryogenic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English cryogenically
From cryogenic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more cryogenically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cryogenically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Carried out at very low temperatures, near absolute zero.
pos: adv
Translations:
cryogenics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cryogen
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English cryogenics
From cryogen + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The science and technology of the production of very low temperatures.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The scientific study of low-temperature phenomena.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: cryo-
-genic
-ics
cryonics
Derived words: cryogenic
cryogen
Translations:
perse
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pers, from Old French, from Medieval Latin persus, back-formed from Persicus (“Persian”), from Ancient Greek Περσικός (Persikós). Compare peach.
Inflected forms:
form: perses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cloth of this colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Very dark greyish (almost blackish) purple or blue.
pos: adj
Translations:
well-to-do
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-to-do
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-to-do
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Rich, prosperous, financially stable and comfortable.
pos: adj
examples: Some philosophers aver that the well-to-do should be taxed at a higher rate than poorer people.
From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
There was a single arrivals platform, nearest to King's Cross. The large arch beneath the clock gave access to Hansom carriages clip-clopping up the cobbled ramp from the main gate in Euston Road, directly onto the platform, to meet well-to-do passengers.
Translations:
mata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit माता (mātā), nom.sg. of मातृ (mātṛ, “mother”). Doublet of mater and mother.
Inflected forms:
form: matas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mātā
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A respectful title for a female spiritual leader or for a wife, mother, or grandmother of a male spiritual leader.
pos: noun
tags: India
gloss: A Hindu goddess.
pos: noun
tags: India
examples: While possession is usually limited to Bhilala men, the mata entered women too, endowing them with the power of clairvoyance, enabling them to identify the evil spirits or daakans in their midst. The mata spoke through the possessed, forecasting the future, directing people and events for her proper propitiation.
gloss: A mother (also used as a term of address for a woman).
pos: noun
tags: India
Related words: Devi
matamata
Translations:
meta
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Adjective etymology 1, adjective sense 1 is a back-formation from meta- (prefix).
Adjective etymology 1, adjective sense 2 is derived from noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.
The noun senses are clippings of various terms beginning with meta (prefix).
Folk etymology for noun etymology 1, noun sense 1 also suggests an acronym for most effective/efficient tactic available.
Inflected forms:
form: more meta
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most meta
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Suppose you have a genie that grants you three wishes. If you wish for infinite wishes, that is a meta wish.
Suppose you have a homework task where you need to edit a wiki page and upload a screenshot of this entry underneath the word meta as an example of what meta is.
[…] in finessing obligations you fail a "meta" kind of obligation.
Besides, I can just hear Vaughan: "Very funny, Stacey, very Charlie Kaufman-esque, very meta, very '97. I can't use it."
McDonald & Dodds is back, with episode one so deliberately hammy and meta that, technically, it should have been a complete horlicks. In one scene, when they were all hanging on to the balloon ropes, Mr Bean-like, to stop Jason Watkins flying away, it sort of was.
gloss: Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.
pos: adj
examples: I don't think the character will be meta even with the recent buffs.
Related words: transcendental
self-aware
Translations:
well-heeled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally American English, from a literal use in cockfighting: a well-heeled cock was provided with sharp spurs and could inflict maximum damage. From this developed the American frontier slang sense of being well-equipped, and thence the modern sense of being well supplied with money.
Inflected forms:
form: more well-heeled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-heeled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Affluent, prosperous, or even (of the highest degree) rich.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: Near-synonyms: well-endowed, wealthy; see also Thesaurus:wealthy
But their number had fallen off since the militants and the riots and it was mostly well-heeled blacks who got out of cabs and expensive cars tonight in front of the canopied entrance.
On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.
The world changes, consumerism marches on, and things once considered luxuries for the well-heeled are now taken for granted by us all — homes with 2½ bathrooms, air travel, cars with power windows.
These public artworks only arrived a few weeks ago, Winterson explains, as part of a grand plan to pedestrianise the area, and make it more buzzy, just at the moment that the sort of well-heeled office workers who bought upmarket chocolates are abandoning it owing to the Covid pandemic.
Mum had worked there as a teenager and once recalled her duty of having to meet the charabancs that brought the well-heeled to the baths from Droitwich station before the war.
Translations:
multipack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English pack
English multipack
From multi- + pack.
Inflected forms:
form: multipacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of packaging containing multiple individual packages of a single product.
pos: noun
examples: a multipack of tins of baked beans
Hostess has recalled the multipack boxes, with nine cakes in each, in response to a recall by Blommer Chocolate Co., which produced the confectionery coating used on the holiday Twinkies.
Cans of Coca-Cola Original Taste, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, and Sprite Zero sent to cafes and restaurants are being withdrawn as well as 6x250ml Appletiser multipacks sent to UK supermarkets.
Translations:
badness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English baddenes, badnes, badnesse; equivalent to bad + -ness.
Base: bad
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: badnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or degree of being bad.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The badness of a dignitary harm derives from the victim's belief that a perpetrator is willing to override or ignore her standing as a person with rights, with dignity, as evidenced by the wrongful criminal deed; […]
It is easy to assess whether a sentence is acceptable or not: This is just how “good” or “natural” the sentence sounds to a group of fluent speakers of a language. The assessment that the badness is likely due to the grammar is a more complex inference.
Antonyms: goodness
Translations:
filmic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
Etymology: From film + -ic. Doublet of filmy.
Base: film
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more filmic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most filmic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to movies; cinematic.
pos: adj
Translations: