yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cattle-buyer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cattle-buyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cattlebuyer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who makes a living traveling to ranches and buying cattle on behalf of meatpackers.
pos: noun
examples: It was not Johnny's fees but the drummers passing through with their lines of dry goods and notions, it was the occasional cattle-buyer who stopped for the night and took a meal—it was they who paid the bills.
Translations:
wildfire-fighter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wildfire + fighter.
Compound parts: wildfire
fighter
Inflected forms:
form: wildfire-fighters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A firefighter trained in fighting wildfires.
pos: noun
Translations:
gender-nonconforming
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more gender-nonconforming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gender-nonconforming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gender non-conforming
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gender-non-conforming
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gender nonconforming
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a gender expression not in accordance with traditional masculine or feminine gender norms.
pos: adj
examples: Jamestown Township isn’t the first library to have its operations disrupted in this way. Libraries across the country have recently become a culture war battleground, facing an unprecedented number of book challenges and bans from conservative and far-right extremist groups opposed to the inclusion of LGBTQ+ authors, staff, and events. Last month, a public library in Iowa was forced to close temporarily after all full-time employees quit. The exodus came after months of complaints from conservative residents, who criticized the display of LGBTQ+ books and complained of gender non-conforming library workers "cross-dressing."
Translations:
picket-house
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From picket + house.
Compound parts: picket
house
Inflected forms:
form: picket-houses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: picket house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pickethouse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A wooden building made by fitting boards across a framework of upright poles, often constructed as part of an outpost or as the first shelter in a new homestead.
pos: noun
examples: Ever since the month of February 1810 (exactly one year), we had been constantly so near the enemy at the advanced posts, sleeping in our clothes, in bivouac, or in some hovel of a picket-house, rolled up in our cloaks on the ground, that I felt quite like a fish out of water, and was not reconciled to a bed.
The Metcalf picket-house and the flag-staff tower became the objects of incessant attack.
From the nearest French sentry, they learned that Grindley was lying drunk in their picket-house.
Translations:
dead-center
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dead center
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: deadcenter
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: dead center
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: deadcenter
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: dead-centers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dead-centering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dead-centered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dead-centered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dead center
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: deadcenter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In the exact center
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: These curves represent approximate insertion conditions for lunar impact trajectories designed to intersect the center of the moon (dead-center hit).
gloss: In the exact center.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: With a Dragunov, I can hit any target dead-center at a distanceof two hundred meters.
Think of it this way: There's no musical listening experience quite like sitting dead-center in an acoustically perfect concert hall.
The snack bar itself had beautiful light-grained Formica counters, and there was a giant popcorn machine placed dead-center as a focal point, like a “Holy Grail” of snacks for all to see.
gloss: To hit or place in the exact center.
pos: verb
examples: All four of you are assuming that I've dead-centered the target . I thought probably I was right, but since I couldn't find any Eich traces, I expected a lot of argument.
At over a hundred knots, Archie slid the Hawk forward and dead-centered the basket with the probe on his first try.
He had looked backward longer than he realized and neatly dead-centered the lone but firm sapling.
Sometimes I'd like to half-brain the old buzzard, but everything he has said so far has dead-centered the beam.
Translations:
dead-centered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the exact center
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Christ is shown full-face and full-figured, dead-centered in the picture and half-arisen from the coffin, crowned, robed, still bleeding from the wound in his chest and holding a banner emblazoned with a cross as if it were a battle flag.
His skill was such that, though the coldheart wasn't dead-centered in the viewfield, he was just a twitch away.
Translations:
Cabazon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Cabazons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Cabazon Band of Cahuilla Indians.
pos: noun
Translations:
mini-hold
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
Etymology: From mini- + hold (“game won by the server”).
Base: hold
Affixes: mini-
Inflected forms:
form: mini-holds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a tiebreak, a point won by the server.
pos: noun
Translations:
catch-rope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From catch + rope.
Compound parts: catch
rope
Inflected forms:
form: catch-ropes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: catchrope
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: catch rope
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The rope that a cowboy uses to rope animals, having a loop on one end with which to capture the animal.
pos: noun
examples: The rifle ball hit the catch-rope two feet from Buck's saddle horn.
With the hand-ax Calem slashed down some saplings and fashioned a pair of half-shelters for them, using his catch-rope to lash the poles together and thatching each with leafy slashings.
The catch-ropes used in the workaday life of the cowboys are usually made of an extra quality hemp rope that is exceptionally smooth and hard in finish.
gloss: A rope or cable that acts as an extra means of securing a tram car or similar conveyance should the main cable break.
pos: noun
examples: The cars are besides provided with an extra catch-rope, and with safety catches or brakes similar to those used in mines, so that almost an absolute safety can be guaranteed to the many passengers who during the coming exhibition will probably not fail to visit the celebrated Leopoldsberg.
An aerial ropeway comprising a traveling car, a hauling rope, a hauling gear, a catch-rope movable in both directions, a clamp on the car for engaging the catch-rope, said catch-rope being moved upon being seized by the said clamp, and arresting means for the catch-rope, controlled by the motion of the catch-rope.
If the head loosens , it is restrained by a wire inside the string — the catchrope — and a red light appears on the control panel .
gloss: A rope attached to something by which it can be easily grabbed.
pos: noun
examples: Should a worker's clothes catch fire , or should it be necessary for him to dash through flames to reach safety, he thrusts an arm through a catch-rope attached to the exposed edge of the blanket and , turning rapidly , wraps the blanket closely around him , thus extinguishing flames in his clothing or protecting himself from burns.
Translations:
Uda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Uda
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of African long-legged sheep, typically having a brown or black front half and a white rear half.
pos: noun
Translations:
red-cook
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: red-cooks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: red-cooking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: red-cooked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: red-cooked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To braise (food) with a Chinese slow cooking technique that imparts a reddish-brown colour to the food.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We often stuff seasoned ground meat inside it like stuffed cucumber and then red-cook the whole thing.
Translations:
dim-lit
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dim + lit.
Compound parts: dim
lit
Inflected forms:
form: more dim-lit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dim-lit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dimlit
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Dimly illuminated.
pos: adj
examples: The distance down a dim-lit, dark dusty road was too far for the eye to see, not for the fainthearted to aloft on foot.
Collin stepped through the doorway and into the dim-lit room.
I felt immediately that oneness between the Offerant and those toughs that clustered round him in the dim-lit byre—a thing I had never felt remotely as a Protestant at the Office of Holy Communion in spite of the insistence of Protestant theology on the 'priesthood of the laity'.
Translations:
panic-buy
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
form: panic-buys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: panic-buying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: panic-bought
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: panic-bought
pos: verb
tags: past
form: panic-buys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To buy items in unwarrantedly large quantities in a panicked response to coming shortages or price rises.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An instance of panic buying.
pos: noun
Translations:
panic-bought
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a product or service, purchased during a bout of panic buying.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
panic-buyer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: panic-buyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who panic-buys.
pos: noun
Translations:
miso-Christian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From miso- + Christian.
Base: Christian
Affixes: miso-
Inflected forms:
form: more miso-Christian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most miso-Christian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: miso-Christians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting or pertaining to hatred towards Christians or Christianity.
pos: adj
gloss: One who hates Christians or Christianity.
pos: noun
Translations:
anti-Slavism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + Slav + -ism.
Base: Slav
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Anti-Slavic sentiment, in general: negative attitude towards Slavic peoples.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
born-free
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: born-frees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: born free
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Namibian born after independence was achieved in 1990.
pos: noun
tags: Namibia
gloss: A black South African born after the end of apartheid.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
Translations:
non-deontological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more non-deontological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most non-deontological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not relating to deontology, against deontological principles.
pos: adj
Translations:
anti-Slavic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + Slavic.
Base: Slavic
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-Slavic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-Slavic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or exhibiting anti-Slavism.
pos: adj
Translations:
monzo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: monzos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In microtonal music, a vector that represents the prime factorization of a particular just intonation interval.
pos: noun
Translations:
Dano-Faroese
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Dano- + Faroese.
Base: Faroese
Affixes: Dano-
Inflected forms:
form: more Dano-Faroese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Dano-Faroese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or related to Denmark and the Faroe Islands, or the Danish and Faroese people or languages.
pos: adj
Translations:
pro-Slavic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pro- + Slavic.
Base: Slavic
Affixes: pro-
Inflected forms:
form: more pro-Slavic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pro-Slavic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or exhibiting pro-Slavism (positive or favorable attitude towards Slavic peoples)
pos: adj
Translations:
hyper-Calvinism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A branch of Protestant theology that emphasizes limited atonement to the point of exclusively proselytizing to the elect and/or denying the responsibility of humanity in salvation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
A-choy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Hokkien 萵仔菜／莴仔菜 (e-á-chhài). Compare Taiwanese A菜 (ēi-cài).
Inflected forms:
form: a choy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: aa choy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Indian lettuce; Lactuca indica
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rat-friendly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more rat-friendly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rat-friendly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Providing a good habitat for rats.
pos: adj
Translations:
kick-to-kick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kick-to-kicks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kick to kick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An activity in which two or more people kick a football between each other.
pos: noun
examples: Carey learnt to slide and mark in the wet playing kick-to-kick with his brother, Dick, back home in Wagga.
They played kick-to-kick, which was good except Lewis couldn't kick the ball very well so they had to stand close.
I'd been to the 'G' before to watch AFL games and had played kick-to-kick on the surface with my mates after the final siren, but this was a special day because we'd been asked to do a lap of honour.
In between kick-to-kicks and turning snags at the Hawks' Riverbend Park family function on Tuesday, Shiels spoke in no uncertain terms about whether he'd like to see a new deal struck.
Translations:
Calvins
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A pair of men's Calvin Klein underwear.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
slang
Translations:
fence-sitting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A state of inaction or indecision over a particular matter, not taking sides and deciding one way or another.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The time for Government fence-sitting is over.
Translations:
rakshak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi रक्षक (rakṣak).
Inflected forms:
form: rakshaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: protector, defender, saviour
pos: noun
tags: India
Translations:
self-care
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + care.
Base: care
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The care given to oneself, especially to maintain one's physical or psychological well-being.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: You could call my behavior “selfish” or you could call it “self-care”. You’ve probably heard the term; it’s become a bit of a buzzword. As the political climate has grown more turbulent, interest in self-care has risen.
But you’ve probably noticed that I know nothing about anything that’s happening. This is deliberate. It is a form of self-care. I have started tuning out for my own mental health.
Translations:
checkride
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From check + ride.
Compound parts: check
ride
Inflected forms:
form: checkrides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A practical test in which the candidate flies an aircraft while accompanied by an examiner.
pos: noun
Translations:
epipen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Genericization of the trademark EpiPen, presumably a blend of epinephrine + pen, from being a pen-sized device used to inject epinephrine.
Compound parts: epinephrine
pen
Inflected forms:
form: epipens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: epi-pen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: epi pen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: EpiPen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Epi-Pen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Epi Pen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An epinephrine/adrenaline autoinjector. A device designed to ease the symptoms of anaphylaxis/anaphylactic shock, so as to save the life of the victim of the extreme allergic reaction, by injecting a dose of adrenaline/epinephrine through a spring-loaded needle that punches into the tissue it is triggered against.
pos: noun
Translations:
lightskin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From light + skin.
Compound parts: light
skin
Inflected forms:
form: lightskins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: light-skin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A black, mixed race, Indigenous, Latino, or other person of color who has relatively light-coloured skin.
pos: noun
examples: A man who is getting ahead tends to seek a lighter mate, and because “a good man is hard to find,” it would be difficult for a lightskin girl consistently to reject darker people. A darker man who offers security, through social position and other advantages, may well be preferred to a lightskin man of little enterprise.
Whoa, hold on there lightskin. Now your accolades should speak for themselves, but I know your type, dog!
Translations:
cascode
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of cascade + cathode.
Compound parts: cascade
cathode
Inflected forms:
form: cascodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cascodes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cascoding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cascoded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cascoded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A two-stage amplifier consisting of a common-emitter stage feeding into a common-base stage.
pos: noun
gloss: To use or equip with a cascode.
pos: verb
Translations:
quick-thinking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the ability to think or react quickly.
pos: adj
examples: But there have also been countless tales of quick-thinking railway workers who have prevented incidents from turning into disasters.
Translations:
changwat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Thai จังหวัด (jang-wàt).
Inflected forms:
form: changwats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the provinces of Thailand.
pos: noun
Translations:
mail-in
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from mail in.
Inflected forms:
form: mail-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sent via mail.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the critical swing states of Ohio and Florida, more than a fifth of voters chose the mail-in option 2010.
mail-in ballots
gloss: Something sent via mail.
pos: noun
examples: I chose to do a mail-in instead of going to vote in person.
Translations:
stick-welded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to stick welding
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
tone-deafness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tone-deaf + -ness.
Base: tone-deaf
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The condition or quality of being tone-deaf.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The condition or quality of being tone-deaf.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: unattunedness, obliviousness
Translations:
redband
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: redbands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of several subspecies of rainbow trout (O. m. gairdneri, O. m. newberrii, O. m. stonei).
pos: noun
examples: The Warner Lakes redband lives mostly in Oregon, but for the purposes of the challenge, of course, you have to catch your fish in California.
gloss: Of trout having the larger spots and crimson stripe associated with the redband subspecies.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a movie trailer containing content intended for adult audiences only.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Watch the extremely NSFW – well, most of us are working from home these days, but still — redband trailer below
Derived words: redband trailer
redband trout
Translations:
buddo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bud + -o.
Base: bud
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: buddos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Buddy, friend.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
Translations:
Euro-Mediterranean
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Euro- + Mediterranean.
Base: Mediterranean
Affixes: Euro-
Inflected forms:
form: more Euro-Mediterranean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Euro-Mediterranean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Euromediterrean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Euro Mediterranean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the European and Mediterranean region.
pos: adj
gloss: Clipped compound of European Mediterranean.
pos: adj
gloss: Clipped compound of European Mediterranean.
pos: adj
Derived words: EUROMED
Euro-Med
Euro-Mediterranean region
Translations:
V-pop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From V- (“Vietnamese”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.
Base: pop
Affixes: V-
Inflected forms:
form: V-Pop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Vpop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: VPop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Vietnamese pop music.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
e-word
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: e-words
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any word beginning with e, especially one referring to something electronic, or one that is (often humorously) treated as controversial in a given context (for example, evolution, evangelical or enlightenment).
pos: noun
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:e-word.
gloss: The word Eskimo, which is considered offensive in Northern Canada.
pos: noun
Related words: b-word
c-word
d-word
f-word
g-word
G-word
h-word
i-word
j-word
k-word
l-word
m-word
n-word
o-word
p-word
q-word
Q-word
r-word
s-word
t-word
u-word
v-word
w-word
x-word
y-word
z-word
related terms C-bomb
f-bomb
f-slur
L-bomb
n-bomb
Q-slur
r-slur
Translations:
u-word
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: u-words
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any word beginning with u, especially one that is (sometimes humorously) treated as controversial in a given context, such as union or uppity.
pos: noun
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:u-word.
gloss: A U (that is, upper class) word, as contrasted with a non-U one.
pos: noun
Related words: b-word
c-word
d-word
e-word
f-word
g-word
G-word
h-word
i-word
j-word
k-word
l-word
m-word
n-word
o-word
p-word
q-word
Q-word
r-word
s-word
t-word
v-word
w-word
x-word
y-word
z-word
related terms C-bomb
f-bomb
f-slur
L-bomb
n-bomb
Q-slur
r-slur
Translations:
she-crab
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From she- + crab.
Base: crab
Affixes: she-
Inflected forms:
form: she-crabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female Chesapeake Bay blue crab, especially an immature one (as contrasted with a sook).
pos: noun
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:she-crab.
Translations:
well-handled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: well handled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Suitably or properly dealt with.
pos: adj
gloss: Capably or skilfully handled.
pos: adj
examples: While the loads of these trains in general are heavier than in pre-war days, the timings are considerably easier, but the first two runs in Table I show that a well-handled "King" has plenty of time in hand.
Translations:
self-lapping
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + lapping.
Base: lapping
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a valve, especially for brakes, maintaining the force of pressure selected by a control.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [...] Mr. Grierson remarks that on the L.P.T.B. tube stock in general the electro-pneumatic brake is in use, but that the new 1938 stock is fitted with the self-lapping electro-pneumatic brake, which is under the control of an automatic mercury-operated retardation controller when normal service stops are being made.
Thus, in the newer locomotives for the Great Northern line, the Woodward governors are adapted for air (not solenoid) control and continuous engine speed control through a self-lapping valve replaces the individual-speed steps, allowing operation in multiple with English Electric and Birmingham diesels.
Translations:
malt-kiln
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: malt-kilns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: malt kiln
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: maltkiln
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kiln for drying barley etc., after it has been steeped and germinated.
pos: noun
examples: Leaving Tadcaster, the line passes between large maltkilns, to which there is rail access, then swings north-westward again through the open country of the Wharfe valley towards Newton Kyme, 6¾ miles from Church Fenton.
Translations:
epicurious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of epicurean + curious.
Compound parts: epicurean
curious
Inflected forms:
form: more epicurious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most epicurious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Curious about food, especially wishing to try new dishes and cuisines.
pos: adj
Translations:
off-leash
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of an area, in which dogs are not required to be placed on a leash.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: on-leash
Translations:
on-leash
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of an area, in which dogs are required to be placed on a leash.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: off-leash
Translations:
e-collection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + collection.
Base: collection
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-collections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A digital collection of material, especially one available to library users.
pos: noun
Translations:
Caldwell-Luc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From the surnames Caldwell and Luc. Named after George Caldwell and Henry Luc.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the Caldwell-Luc surgery.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
uncountable
examples: Because it is a chronic monolateral disease of the maxillary sinus, a surgical therapy using the Caldwell–Luc technique has been used in the past for the radical removal of the process.
Translations:
last-named
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From last + named.
Compound parts: last
named
Inflected forms:
form: last named
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The last person or thing named, e.g. in the preceding text.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: James Holden had been succeeded in 1907 by his son Stephen Dewar Holden and the latter in his turn in 1912 by A. J. Hill. The last-named introduced a revolutionary change in 1922 by rebuilding No. 1805 with a new high-pitched boiler [...].
Translations:
crower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From crow + -er.
Base: crow
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: crowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bird which, or person who, crows.
pos: noun
Translations:
tura-lura
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tura-luras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A filler lyric (vocables).
pos: intj
tags: Ireland
examples: “Well, off with you then, and I’m off too. Sing tura la, tura la, tura lura la.”
Over in Killarney, many years ago / My Mother sang a song to me in tones so sweet and low / Just a simple little ditty, in her good ould Irish way / And I’d give the world if she could sing / That song to me this day
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral / Too-ra-loo-ra-li / Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral / Hush now don’t you cry!
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral / Too-ra-loo-ra-li / Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral / That’s an Irish lullaby
Oft, in dreams I wander to that cot again / I feel her arms a huggin’ me as when she held me then / And I hear her voice a hummin’ to me as in days of yore / When she used to rock me fast asleep outside the cabin door
Bring your old iron, bits o’ brass / Tura-lura-laddi / Bring your old iron, bits o’ brass / Tura-lura-lido
Tur-a-lur-a-la, tur-a-lur-a-lae / A small bird sat on an ivy branch, and the song he sang was a Jug of Punch
Toora loora toora loo rye ay / And we can sing just like our fathers […]
gloss: The Irish lyric.
pos: noun
examples: Carole was gracious. “You don’t do so badly. They tell me Mick Kelly’s throwing too-ra-loo-ras in your direction.”
“Mick’s swell,” Betsy agreed. “I like him a lot. He’s got ideas.”
“Well, don’t let him get away with them.” Carol’s eyebrows arched.
Ava thinks I’m miffed because she didn’t use my suggestion of a shamrock garland so I could make a tura lura lei, but she’ll be sorry comes the day when someone else cashes in on the idea.
And all this because of a desired destiny that now is not literature, that goes beyond profession and artifice, that is incandescent Tura-lura-lura where the imagination recognizes no other limit than that of the word constrained to enunciate the order that everything disturbs and perturbs.
I heard a thing or two coming from that place, let me tell you! Tura-luras and the blood running high! and the squawks of the seagulls during the storms...
She sang songs like ‘Ça va venir découragez-vous pas’ and ‘La Gaspésienne pure laine’, which sketched a humorous portrait of ordinary life at the time, inventing a distinctive ‘turlutage’—a technique using nonsense syllables (not unlike the ‘tura-luras’ or ‘diddle-dum-dees’ of traditional Irish songs)―as a refrain.
A few more minutes and I feared I’d start sounding like one of these tura-lura-lura motherfuckers myself.
This creature […] hisses and sings, applauds and hoots, tempers Hallelujah with turalura, chants all sorts of rhythms from De Profundis to the Chie-en-lit […]
Translations:
close-coupled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Attached, coupled or fixed close together.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Great Northern Railway outer-suburban passenger train of close-coupled four-wheel coaches, hauled by Ivatt 4-4-2 tank locomotive painted grey with white lettering in 1915, as a wartime measure
Actually, as built, these were the motive power ends of two passenger railcars, each being close-coupled to a driving trailer which had only one axle at the locomotive end and a bogie at the other.
Translations:
burny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From burn + -y.
Base: burn
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Tending to burn.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: My eyes seem very burny, especially the right eye.
I suppose I must have read them at some point, but mostly I came into contact with them by means of burnier-than-thou dialogues with old-timers—or anxious, status-conscious noobs—who wanted to point out all the ways in which my burn was the wrong sort of burn.
Though perhaps not quite “nothing but the truth”. April hadn't been burned. That dubious honour went to her mother. Finding out her husband of fifteen years had been seeing another woman for a decade of that time was about as burny as that kind of thing got.
... with what you do and needs to go because it is weakening the message? Danger zone: Distinction matters, but be sure to choose the right distinction. The biggest burger may work like a charm. But the burniest onion rings probably wouldn't.
gloss: Very hot.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: The lightbrown dust is very burny on my feet. Just have to put up with it, I suppose, ...
She lays the backs of her fingers against the girl's cheek — burny, rough — and blows on the sleeping face, rotating her head to let the breeze play over forehead, eyes, nose, cheeks, chin.
Translations:
Pocasset
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Algonquian.
Inflected forms:
form: Pocassets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pocasset
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A (member of a) Native American tribe, the Fall River Wampanoag.
pos: noun
examples: Among the patriots of that period, the name of a native of the Pocasset tribe must be enrolled. While the British army had possession of the island of Rhode Island, in 1777, General Prescott, the chief in command of that army, quartered at a ...
Offering refuge to the Pocassets turned out to be disastrous for the Narragansetts. Shortly before the main body of Pocassets arrived among the Narragansetts, on July 15, 1675, the United Colonies had coerced four obscure Narragansetts […]
The English considered the Pocassets one of the strongest groups in the area; Nathaniel Saltonstall called Weetamoo “as Potent a Prince as any round about her, and hath as much Corn, Land, and Men at her Command.”
Translations:
cabin-fevered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cabin fever + -ed.
Base: cabin fever
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more cabin-fevered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cabin-fevered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or characterized by cabin fever; restless and irritable as a result of being in a confined space.
pos: adj
Translations:
candle-end
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: candle-ends
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The remnant of a candle which has been mostly burned.
pos: noun
examples: They put a stock of candle-ends into the lantern, hung the latter to the off-side of the load, and directed the horse onward, walking at his shoulder at first during the uphill parts of the way, in order not to overload an animal of so little vigour.
Translations:
snam
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of snap + nam (“to seize, grab; chew, eat greedily”).
Compound parts: snap
nam
Inflected forms:
form: snams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snamming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snammed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To snatch with the jaws; snap at something greedily.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
transitive
gloss: To steal; snatch.
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
transitive
examples: He has been lagged for beaker hunting, was a mushroom faker, has been on the steel for snamming a wedge sneezer; […]
gloss: To rob (a person).
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
transitive
examples: I on'y meant fur to snam (rob) him, and on'y giv' him a tightener, when somethin' come dancing and shreeking down the road, and I vamoosed.
Related words: nim
nimble
nom
Translations:
MSPS
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: MSPSs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sampling rate of mega-samples per second
pos: noun
examples: Example Usage: The Digitizer operated at a speed of 10 MSPS.
Translations:
diedre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: diedres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dihedral corner.
pos: noun
Translations:
tri-omni
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From tri- + omni-.
Affixes: tri-
omni-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Spock-marked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Spock + pockmarked, in reference to the influential approach of Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), American pediatrician.
Compound parts: Spock
pockmarked
Inflected forms:
form: more Spock-marked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Spock-marked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Spoiled by an overly permissive upbringing.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: 1970, Raymond Apthorpe, University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies, People Planning and Development Studies: Some Reflections on Social Planning
Governments might, like those of America and Canada, produce cheap brochures explaining to parents how to bring up honest, unanxious, kindly, non-bed-wetting, co-operative children. And that in rich countries with high literacy levels such advice has its effect can hardly be doubted by anyone who has had recent contact in universities with the first Spock-marked generation of middle-class children trained in habits of autonomy from an early age. ('No, darling, it's up to you. At two and a half you are old enough to choose yourself whether to wear trousers or a skirt.')
Yet the fact remains that half-baked and half-digested ideas about the absolute necessity of leaving a child 'free' and 'happy' have produced what has come to be known as the 'Spock-marked child', […]
[…] flood of child-rearing guides that had by now inundated Spock-marked middle-class parents […]
Translations:
non-breeding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Occurring outside of the breeding season; relating to any time of the year in which breeding does not take place.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of an animal, not breeding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
magneto-aerodynamics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Old French magnetebor.
▲
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
English magnet-
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English magneto-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)
Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der.
English aero-
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dunamai
Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor.
French dynamiqueder.
English dynamic
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 dynamics
English aerodynamics
English magneto-aerodynamics
From magneto- + aerodynamics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Aerodynamics in the presence of a strong magnetic field.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Dogra
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dogri डोगरा (ḍogrā), from Sanskrit द्विगर्त (dvigarta). The script was officially referred to as Sanskrit द्विगर्त अक्षर (dvigarta akṣara, “Dogra letters”). Another indigenous name for the script is Dogri [script needed] (dogra akkharor, “New Dogra letters”).
Inflected forms:
form: Dogras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of the Dogra script or of a Dogra alphabet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group living primarily in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and speaking the Dogri language.
pos: noun
Translations:
non-railwayman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + railwayman.
Base: railwayman
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: non-railwaymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person not employed on or by a railway.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Whether the present choice should have fallen on a non-railwayman is another matter.
As a non-railwayman, Barker's study of the railways had led him to the view that even with the most perfect equipment, the railways could not be made profitable if they continued to be run as they then were.
Translations:
co-cathedral
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From co- + cathedral.
Base: cathedral
Affixes: co-
Inflected forms:
form: co-cathedrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of a group of churches (usually a pair) which share the function of being the seat of a bishop.
pos: noun
examples: Long before this day of contented stagnancy, in 1061, when Forcalquier, fortified, growing, and important, claimed many honours, Bishop Gérard Caprérius of Sisteron had given the city a Provost and a Chapter, and created the Church of Saint-Mary, co-cathedral with that of Notre-Dame of Sisteron. Not contented with this honour, Forcalquier demanded and received a Bishopric of her own.
Translations:
Coca-Colonialism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Coca-Cola + colonialism.
Compound parts: Coca-Cola
colonialism
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Cocacolonization.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rock-wallaby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rock-wallabies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the wallabies of the genus Petrogale.
pos: noun
Translations:
dual-frequency
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
radio
radio-communications
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to operate on two different electrical frequencies.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Trials with three experimental dual-frequency mixed-traffic locomotives intended for use on the Saar's 15kV 16⅔-cycle (German) and 25kV 50-cycle (French) lines have proved so successful that the German Federal Railway is contemplating the construction of a fleet of 20 to 25 similar machines.
gloss: Able to receive and operate on two different radio frequencies.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: dual-voltage
Translations:
self-energising
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + energising.
Base: energising
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-energizing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Containing means for augmentation of power within itself.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: [...] but the voltage between the steps is automatically increased by the use of a self-energising, servo-controlled double transductor (magnetic amplifier), giving perfectly smooth take-up at the price of the extra weight of the installation.
Translations:
sarabi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sarabis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A breed of large dogs originating from Iran, used for guarding livestock against bears, wolves, and other local predators
pos: noun
Translations:
nature-friendly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more nature-friendly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nature-friendly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a minimal impact on the natural environment; environmentally friendly.
pos: adj
Translations:
Z-plasty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From Z + -plasty.
Base: Z
Affixes: -plasty
Inflected forms:
form: Z-plasties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A versatile plastic surgery technique involving a Z-shaped incision that is used to improve the functional and cosmetic appearance of scars.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
near-ring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: near-rings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nearring
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An algebraic structure similar to a ring but satisfying fewer axioms. They arise naturally from functions on groups.
pos: noun
Translations:
crowl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: crowls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small person or creature; a dwarf or runt.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Scotland
Translations:
self-blended
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: education
Etymology: From self- + blended.
Base: blended
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a style of blended learning in which students opt to take online courses in addition to their traditional face-to-face learning.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Judas-haired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a popular belief that Judas Iscariot was red-haired.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having red hair.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One of the crowd was a ruddy-faced, red-bearded, Judas-haired fellow, that looked every inch a Fenian, and might have stepped here from the Kilkenny wilds; […]
Translations:
semi-alphabet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From semi- + alphabet.
Base: alphabet
Affixes: semi-
Inflected forms:
form: semi-alphabets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of semisyllabary.
pos: noun
Translations:
hand-sitter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hand-sitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who sits on their hands; one who dawdles or remains idle when action is needed.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: A key factor in Nelson Rockefeller's noncandidacy decision was the failure of the Republican governors—and leading liberal Republicans—to come out for him publicly after New Hampshire. There were personal telephone calls urging him to run, but that was all … Among the biggest hand-sitters was a former Republican governor […]
gloss: An unenthusiastic or unresponsive member of an audience.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: They were such a responsive audience, for one thing, so unlike the academic hand-sitters he was used to, and they'd turned out in such large numbers, despite a heavy downpour, filling the basement of the First Presbyterian Church to capacity, even standing in the back and along the walls.
Translations:
rib-rack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rib-racks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rack used for ribs (as meat)
pos: noun
examples: An early photograph of Frank’s shop shows an immaculate display of marbled rib-racks in the window
Translations:
turning-away
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: turnings-away
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deliberate rejection and movement or development in a different direction.
pos: noun
examples: One of this century’s stranger trends has been a turning-away from the chains – and a deliberate revival of the props and symbols of yesterday’s vanished high street.
Translations:
all-boys
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Providing instruction for male students only.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: all-girls
Translations:
all-girls
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Providing instruction for female students only.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: all-boys
Translations: