yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Sanskritic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Sanskrit + -ic.
Base: Sanskrit
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sanskrit, relating to Sanskrit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
groud
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Russian груда (gruda, “pile, heap”).
Inflected forms:
form: grouds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heap, or mathematical generalization of a group, in abstract algebra.
pos: noun
Translations:
resultset
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From result + set.
Compound parts: result
set
Inflected forms:
form: resultsets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: result set
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A set, often of tabulated data, that is the result of the querying of a database or a similar act.
pos: noun
Translations:
wholegrain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From whole + grain.
Compound parts: whole
grain
Inflected forms:
form: wholegrains
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whole grain
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whole-grain
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cereal grain that contains cereal germ, endosperm, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm.
pos: noun
examples: Best sources lean red meat, poultry, fish, dark green, leafy vegetables and wholegrain cereals.
Translations:
Teague
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Irish first name Tadhg. Cognate with English taig (“A Catholic”). Compare Mick and Paddy.
Inflected forms:
form: Teagues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Irishman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Let not poor Teg and Shone / Vender from der houses, / Lest dey be quite undone / In der very Trouses
With Shinkin-ap-Morgan, with Blue-cap, or Teague, / We into no Covenant enter, nor League.
He is not so nice as his Superiors, whom nothing will go down with, under right Nantz or Rum; he shall gulp ye down the rankest Stinkibus with as good a Gusto, as a Teague does Usquenaugh, and not be a Doit the worse for it.
Sempronious, in the second act, comes back once more in the same morning to the governor's hall, to carry on the conspiracy with Syphax against the governor, his country, and his family; which is so stupid, that it is below the wisdom of the O—'s, the Mac's, and the Teague's; even Eustace Cummins himself would never have gone to Justice-hall to have conspired against the government.
Translations:
Penobscot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Penobscot Pawanobskewi.
Inflected forms:
form: Penobscots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Penobscot
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of a sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeastern United States, particularly Maine.
pos: noun
Translations:
bencher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From bench + -er.
Base: bench
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: benchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: There is Pump Court and Fountain Court, with their hydraulic apparatus, but one never heard of a bencher disporting in the fountain; and can’t but think how many a counsel learned in the law of old days might have benefited by the pump.
gloss: An alderman of a corporation.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
examples: ten of them Aldermen, or chief Benchers
gloss: A member of a court or council.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Come, come, you are well understood to be a perfecter / giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the / Capitol.
gloss: One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: benchership
Royal Bencher
Translations:
sluggy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From slug + -y.
Base: slug
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more sluggy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sluggy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a slug (gastropod mollusk).
pos: adj
gloss: Sluggish.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Derived words: slugginess
Translations:
flecker
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fleck + -er.
Base: fleck
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: fleckers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fleckering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fleckered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fleckered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fleck; to speckle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
morphosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin morphosis, from Ancient Greek μόρφωσις (mórphōsis, “shaping”).
Inflected forms:
form: morphoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The way in which an organism (or an organ) changes form during development.
pos: noun
Translations:
saucer-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more saucer-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most saucer-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having round, wide-open eyes, naturally or from an expression of fear, astonishment, etc.
pos: adj
examples: The village children gaped saucer-eyed at the newcomers.
Barlow[…] had just spent the Summer of Love in San Francisco. Having seen waves of saucer-eyed youth wash up in the Haight, and gotten fairly dilated himself, he believed that civilization was “headed over the falls.”
Translations:
bleurgh
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative. Compare blah, ugh.
Inflected forms:
form: blergh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: bleugh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: bleaugh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Expressing a sick or sickened feeling, or vomiting.
pos: intj
examples: Sighing, I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep. But the noises went on. I squinted at the clock. Bleurgh.
She had delivered her babies, chomped her way with relish through their afterbirths (bleurgh) and was now lying peacefully on the bed with all four babies curled up at her side.
What?! Eat Algae and Insects?! Bleurgh!! No way!
Translations:
e-conomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of e- + economy.
Compound parts: e-
economy
Inflected forms:
form: e-conomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The economy associated with the Internet and e-commerce.
pos: noun
examples: In just 12 months, the niche market of e-business has exploded into the e-conomy, a new economy that uses the Internet to move materials and cash at lightning speed.
This classification suggests that consumers see only the tip of the iceberg of the e-conomy.
Translations:
Deuteronomist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Deuteronomy + -ist.
Base: Deuteronomy
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: Deuteronomists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the sources identified as underlying much of the Hebrew Bible (or Christian Old Testament), and responsible for material in Deuteronomy and other areas.
pos: noun
Translations:
terre-tenant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From French terre (“earth, land”) + tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”).
Inflected forms:
form: terre-tenants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ter-tenant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who has the actual possession of land.
pos: noun
gloss: The owner of land acquired from a judgment debtor.
pos: noun
gloss: The owner of land subject to a rentcharge.
pos: noun
Translations:
iron-sick
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From iron + sick.
Compound parts: iron
sick
Inflected forms:
form: more iron-sick
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most iron-sick
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ironsick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Denoting ironwork that loose or corroded; said of a ship where the bolts and nails are so degraded with rust as to cause leaks.
pos: adj
Translations:
thimbleweed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From thimble + weed.
Compound parts: thimble
weed
Inflected forms:
form: thimbleweeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various plants whose heads resemble thimbles, including
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various plants whose heads resemble thimbles, including
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various plants whose heads resemble thimbles, including
pos: noun
Derived words: European thimbleweed
Translations:
ganoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Ancient Greek γάνος (gános, “brightness, sheen”) + -oid
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: ganoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a smooth, shining surface, as if polished or enameled: specifically applied to those scales or plates of fishes which are generally of an angular form and composed of a bony or hard horny tissue overlaid with enamel.
pos: adj
gloss: Having ganoid scales or plates, as a fish; specifically, of or pertaining to the Ganoidei.
pos: adj
examples: In a few minutes the huge beast had been cut up and slabs of him were hanging over a dozen camp fires, together with great scaly ganoid fish which had been speared in the lake.
gloss: One of the Ganoidei, a disused taxonomic grouping of fishes, including the bowfin, gars, and sturgeons.
pos: noun
Translations:
peba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare Portuguese peba. Ultimately from Old Tupi peba (“having a flattened shape”).
Inflected forms:
form: pebas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) found from Texas to Paraguay; the tatouhou.
pos: noun
Translations:
exteriority
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From exterior + -ity. Compare French extériorité.
Base: exterior
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: exteriorities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: surface; externality; outside
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
synchronistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From synchron(ism) + -istic.
Base: synchronism
Affixes: -istic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: synchronistic table
Translations:
double-dyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely coloured.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Firmly fixed in opinions or habits; confirmed; inveterate.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: a double-dyed villain
"People who have extensive grounds themselves are always pleased with any thing in the same style" Emma doubted the truth of this sentiment. She had a great idea that people who had extensive grounds themselves cared very little for the extensive grounds of any body else; but it was not worth while to attack an error so double-dyed […]
Translations:
non-op
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
rail-transport
railways
sciences
transport
Etymology: From non- + op (“an operation; an operator; operational; operative; operating”).
Base: op
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: nonop
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: non-ops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nonop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Nonoperational; not functioning.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Why he had taken refuge in the chapel, he didn't know. His mind had been non-op for a long time now and he just let the impulses flow.
gloss: Nonoperative; not using or requiring surgical treatment.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Richt says the surgery should help speed Samuel's recovery.
"It was debatable on whether it could have been non-op or not, but this will absolutely stabilize it immediately and allow him to get stronger quicker," Richt said.
gloss: Having chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: "Just so you know, Vincent, I was a pre-op transsexual. But after my breasts grew and my hips got wider, I was happy with what I had and decided to go non-op."
gloss: Nonoperating; not directly involved in the mechanical operation of trains.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: About 200000 "non-op" workers - clerks, telegraphers, machinists, and others not actually involved in operation of the roads - are not union members.
gloss: A transsexual or transgender person who has chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: It is interesting that Galatea makes reference to some encouragement from "post-op" transsexuals, though other "non-ops" advise surgical candidates to reconsider their decision.
gloss: A nonoperator; a rail worker not directly involved in the mechanical operation of trains.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: For example, in the fall of 1973, when we had a rail strike, the government brought in legislation putting the non-ops back to work at an increase of only 30 cents an hour […]
Translations:
moo-cow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare German Muhkuh and Italian mucca.
Inflected forms:
form: moo-cows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moo cow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: moocow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cow.
pos: noun
tags: childish
endearing
examples: At the end of the line nearest the Arch, under a flary light, stood an old bearded man having the look on his face of a kindly but somewhat irritated moo-cow.
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo[…]
Translations:
fertigation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: Blend of fertilize + irrigation or similar.
Compound parts: fertilize
irrigation
Inflected forms:
form: fertigations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The application of fertilizers or other water-soluble products through an irrigation system.
pos: noun
Translations:
seacliff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English sæclif (also in plural see clyues), from Old English sǣclif (“cliff by the sea, seacliff”), equivalent to sea + cliff.
Compound parts: sea
cliff
Inflected forms:
form: seacliffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sea-cliff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sea cliff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cliff that abuts the sea, formed by sea erosion.
pos: noun
Translations:
TNA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: threose nucleic acid or threonucleic acid
pos: noun
Translations:
nabe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of neighborhood; compare hood. In attributive use, attested since 1922; in noun sense “neighborhood”, since 1942; in noun sense “neighborhood theater”, since 1933, originally in New York City.
Inflected forms:
form: nabes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Neighborhood.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Cagers Will Attend ‘Nabe’ Gym Smoker.
Practically every basketball player in the city has promised to attend the benefit smoker at the Neighborhood House gym, Tenth and Galapago, Monday night.
“Biggest flopperoo of year, so far,” wrote Green “was the highly touted preeming of Biff Brown’s band at the Ritz, nabe dancery near Bridgeport.” …
Glossary of Swing Words in this Chapter. … Nabe dancery: Neighborhood ballroom.
gloss: Neighborhood theater, neighborhood cinema.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: They picked an aging star, slapped together a moldy script, and sent the result out to the nabes.
Translations:
solferino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: So called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought at about the time of its discovery.
Inflected forms:
form: solferinos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brilliant purple-red dye derived from aniline
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The purple-red colour of this dye
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
trental
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Medieval Latin trentāle directly or via Old French trentel, from the neuter substantive of *Vulgar Latin trenta + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”), from Latin trīgintā (“thirty”).
Inflected forms:
form: trentals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of 30 requiem masses, said once a day for a month or all in one day.
pos: noun
examples: Trentals seyde he, deliueren fro penaunce Hir freendes soules.
their trentals and their shrifts
gloss: The payment for this service.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of triacontad, any set of thirty things.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
obsolete
rare
gloss: Synonym of elegy, any funeral or funereal song or poem.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
obsolete
gloss: Synonym of month's mind, the commemorative service held on the 30th day after burial.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Translations:
remyelination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + myelin + -ation.
Base: re
Inflected forms:
form: remyelinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The regeneration of a nerve's myelin sheath.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
Tractarian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From tract + -arian, in reference to the tracts published by members of the Oxford movement.
Base: tract
Affixes: -arian
Inflected forms:
form: Tractarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Tractarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Tractarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Oxford movement.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to or characteristic of the Oxford movement.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
pos: adj
examples: The theory of truth-functions belongs by nature to Formal Logic, and is not intrinsically tied to any particular philosophical theory. However as it appears in the Tractarian milieu, it consorts with four very Tractarian thoughts.
Derived words: untractarian
Translations:
Sorrento
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian Sorrento, from Latin Surrentum, of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: Sorrentos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of Italian walnut.
pos: noun
Translations:
electrosurgical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
French électro-bor.
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Latin electro-bor.
English electro-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōr
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr
Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər
Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír)
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Hellenic *wérgon
Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon)
Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós)
Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek χειρουργῐκός (kheirourgĭkós)bor.
Late Latin chīrurgicus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Medieval Latin cirurgicālisder.
Middle French cirurgicalbor.
Middle English cirurgicalder.
English surgical
English electrosurgical
From electro- + surgical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to electrosurgery.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bo-peep
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bo-peeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bo peep
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bopeep
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bo-peeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bo-peeping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bo-peeped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bo-peeped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bo peep
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bopeep
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle someone (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That such a king should play bo-peep, / And go the fools among.
1881, Geneva Gazette - Jul 8, 1881, page 2, "Official Paper Of The Village"
They have not employed spies, nor been voluntary or involuntary witnesses of misdeeds or played "bopeep" through key-holes or from step-ladders through transom windows, upon the privacy of their political adversaries.
gloss: Any whistling frog.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Sleep.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
slang
uncountable
examples: Well, come on, boys. You've got to push off now. I'm going to read me linen and then get some Bo-Peep.
gloss: To play the game of bo-peep; to peek out suddenly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: bo peepers
bo-peepers
Translations:
regrant
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + grant.
Base: grant
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: regrants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: regranting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: regranted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: regranted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: regrants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To grant (something) again or in a different way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was regranted to one of the new faces of the regime, a man now basking in the favour of Richard Fox and the young king: Thomas Wolsey.
gloss: The act of granting back to a former proprietor.
pos: noun
gloss: A renewal of a grant.
pos: noun
examples: the regrant of a monopoly
Translations:
Belgic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Belgicus, from Belgae (“the Belgians”).
Inflected forms:
form: more Belgic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Belgic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a Germanic tribe.
pos: adj
examples: How unlike their Belgic sires of old.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Translations:
hard-fisted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hard-fisted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hard-fisted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hardfisted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having hard or strong hands.
pos: adj
examples: a hard-fisted labourer
gloss: covetous; niggardly
pos: adj
examples: It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless […]
Derived words: hardfistedness
Translations:
nola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin nola, traditionally derived from Nola in Italy, from its having been the supposed location of St Paulinus's introduction of bells to Christian ceremony, but possibly Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A very small bell used in the choir during consecration.
pos: noun
Translations:
as-is
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: current status
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Discovery of the as-is provides a starting point by defining the current business environment, state of operations, security posture, and other relevant aspects to the project. Comparing the as-is to the to-be provides a gap analysis between where the organization is and where it wants to be.
Antonyms: to-be
Translations:
mollie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Diminutive abbreviation; compare Mollie (“Molotov”).
Inflected forms:
form: mollies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many New World fish of the genus Poecilia, formerly called Mollienesia; more commonly molly.
pos: noun
gloss: A Molotov cocktail.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: 1993 August 2nd (5:27pm), “KARL FRIEDRICH BLOSS” (user name), talk.politics.guns (Usenet), “Re: You Americans are Gun Freaks…”, Message ID: <1993Aug2.172724.76557@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
It seems the weapon of choice in Rostock and other wonderful displays of harmony with fellow humans (NOT) was the Mollie (Molotov cocktail).
1998 September 30th, “zorbo” (user name), misc.survivalism (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Suppose the bad guys have tanks?”, Message ID: <6useu0$4911@ns1.netrax.net>
Would you be willing to sit in an AFV, even the most modern, while I toss a couple mollies onto the engine compartment?
Translations:
hernani
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the town of Hernani in Spain.
Inflected forms:
form: hernanis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hernani, silk and cotton […] Hernani, entirely of silk
A novelty this season is the wide mesh hernani in all colors; […]
I wanted, you understand, to get an entire new waist and a trimmed skirt out of the two old hernani skirts, and discard the old waist altogether; […]
Translations:
corporally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From corporal + -ly.
Base: corporal
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more corporally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most corporally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In or with the body; bodily.
pos: adv
examples: to be corporally present
although Christ be not corporally in the outward visible signs, yet he is corporally in the persons that duly receive them
Translations:
circ
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of circumcision. Clipping of circumcise.
Inflected forms:
form: circs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: circing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: circed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: circed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To circumcise.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Again, I don't think I was *wrong* to circ my son, though some may choose to disagree quite loudly with that statement; I just think not circing is a better decision.
I'm not stating how i feel either way but i like it that my husband was circed.
If a person was circed they have to live with it, or attempt partial restoration, but on the whole IMO a whole penis is more beautiful than a mutilated one.
Translations:
dentigerous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin dentis (“genitive singular of dens”) + -gerous (“bearing”).
Affixes: -gerous
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Bearing teeth or tooth-like structures; of or pertaining to tissue from which teeth develop.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They usually bear teeth on a dentigerous process or, occasionally, as in Hemiphractus, odontoids (projections of bone resembling teeth).
Occasionally dentigerous cysts may be lined partially or wholly by pseudostratified columnar epithelium with cilia and mucous cells.
Female with dentigerous plate of ovipositor moderately wide and bearing 8–12 teeth; anal appendages of female not particularly pointed (B).
Translations:
hell-brewed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Hell + brewed.
Compound parts: Hell
brewed
Inflected forms:
form: hellbrewed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Prepared in Hell.
pos: adj
tags: nonce-word
not-comparable
poetic
examples: hel-brew'd opiate
Translations:
asterion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) + -ion.
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: asterions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: asteria
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The point on the side of the skull corresponding to the posterior end of the parietomastoid suture.
pos: noun
Translations:
communalist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare French communaliste.
Inflected forms:
form: communalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or supporting, communalism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An advocate of communalism.
pos: noun
Translations:
shreddy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shred + -y.
Base: shred
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: shreddier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shreddiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of shreds.
pos: adj
Translations:
Vaudois
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French vaudois.
Inflected forms:
form: Vaudois
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inhabitant of the Swiss canton of Vaud.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the Waldensian religious movement.
pos: noun
Translations:
Negrito
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Philippine Spanish negrito (“short dark-skinned person”), from negro (“black person; dark-skinned person”) + -ito (“small; short; little”, diminutive suffix).
Base: negro
Affixes: -ito
Inflected forms:
form: Negritos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Negritoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Negrito
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia.
pos: noun
Translations:
Gen-Xer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Gen X, shortened from Generation X + -er.
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Gen-Xers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Gen Xer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Gen X-er
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Gen X'er
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of Generation X.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
longlegs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: longlegs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: longlegses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A daddy longlegs.
pos: noun
examples: No longlegses could make me jump like them queer creatures in a drop on it, […]
Thinking with animals – be it with sheep and dogs or with longlegs, moths, dumbledores, and flies – allows Hardy and his readers to reconsider what it means to be part of “the whole conscious world collectively,” […]
Translations:
tottle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Compare toddle and totter.
Compound parts: tube
bottle
Inflected forms:
form: tottles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tottling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tottled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tottled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tottles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to show her new pink shoes. That is in the usual course of events.
gloss: A container, generally of plastic, which is not a simple tube and which is kept with its cap down.
pos: noun
Translations:
cental
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin centum (“a hundred”) + -al, perhaps modeled after quintal.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: centals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A weight of one hundred avoirdupois pounds.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Thin native steers, dressing 56 pounds per cwt., $10.50 per cental;
The practice of buying or selling grain by the 100 pounds, or the cental system, is becoming almost universal, and has many advantages over the old practice of selling grain by the bushel.
John Hudson & Co. are prepared to undertake the business at a ½d. per cental advance on the price of wheat on 4th July 19000, which is 6s. 5½d. per cental, thus obtaining 6s. 6d. per cental as the contract price.
gloss: Relating to a hundred.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to a cent (unit of currency, typically worth 1/100 of the base unit of currency).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: cental coins
Cental coin will be exchanged at the rate of two cents of a shilling for one cent of a rupee or florin .
The one shilling pieces and all denominations of notes, Shs. 1/-, 5/-, 10/-, 20/-, 100/-, and 1000/- are legal tender up to any amount, while fifty cent pieces and cental coin are legal tender up to Shs. 20/- and Shs. 1/- respectively.
Harald joined a short queue, handed over a 13- cental coin , and took his pentagonal pink ticket .
Translations:
intertie
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
business
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: From inter- + tie.
Base: tie
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
form: interties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: interties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intertying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intertied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intertied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another.
pos: noun
gloss: A bond or support.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: To interlink.
pos: verb
Translations:
naegleria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: naeglerias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several amoebas, of the genus Naegleria, that are pathogenic to humans and other animals.
pos: noun
Translations:
cogger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cog (“to play tricks with dice”) + -er.
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: coggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who cheats at dice.
pos: noun
examples: This Edward […] staked his honour against a cogger of dice, and was presently tricked out of three thousand guineas […].
gloss: A flatterer or deceiver.
pos: noun
Translations:
Observant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Observants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Franciscan order that strictly observes the rules of St. Francis.
pos: noun
Translations:
baldhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bald + head.
Compound parts: bald
head
Inflected forms:
form: baldheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person whose head is bald.
pos: noun
examples: Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, "Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead!"
gloss: A white-headed variety of pigeon.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who is not Rastafarian.
pos: noun
tags: Rastafari
Translations:
double-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: doublehanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: doublehanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Involving both hands.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With this double-handed frontal horizontal grip the child is held in secure prone position so that its legs can move freely.
gloss: Designed to be used with two hands.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Usually 2–3.5 metres in length, double-handed spinning rods are ideal for tackling slightly larger fish, including tailor, salmon (hahawai), trevally, flathead, snapper, barramundi, and Murray cod.
gloss: Involving two people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The double-handed conversation had started to resemble a vaudeville act.
gloss: Serving two purposes or involving two approaches.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A “double-handed” strategy is called for, where the authorities show a readiness to intervene in the short run to support the economy should it flag again, while at the same time providing economic agents with a sense of long-term direction and governance to re-establish confidence.
Duchamp played a double-handed game, on one hand a public strategy on the other a clandestine commitment.
gloss: deceitful; deceptive
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ibrahim, who entertains suspicions of this double-handed policy, compromises the Prince by every means in his power.
While the idea of a “special post” reflects, as we have seen earlier, the double-handed way in which female professional labor was capitalized upon by the state, it also shows how the colonial bureaucracy used the vector of work to normalize a certain congruity between gender and citizenship.
gloss: With two hands.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Holding his stick double-handed, the man swung it around mid-height towards Henry's already bruised rib cage.
Derived words: double-handedly
double-handedness
Translations:
taupo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Samoan tāupou.
Inflected forms:
form: taupos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: taupou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In Samoan culture, a ceremonial virgin, the daughter of a village chief.
pos: noun
Translations:
Yolngu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a word meaning "person" in the Yolngu lects.
Inflected forms:
form: Yolngu
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Yolŋu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Yolñu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Yuulngu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of an indigenous Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
pos: noun
Translations:
Kelabit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Kelabits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Kelabit
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an indigenous tribe in the interior of Sarawak, Malaysia.
pos: noun
Translations:
wonderbread
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Wonder Bread, a brand of white bread.
Inflected forms:
form: wonderbreads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more wonderbread
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wonderbread
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of white bread (“the food”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of white bread (“white person”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
ethnic
slur
uncountable
examples: One of the wonderbreads had motioned me to rack up.
gloss: Synonym of white bread (“bland, boring; conventional”).
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Synonym of white bread.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
gloss: White with brightly-colored spots.
pos: adj
Synonyms: white bread
Translations:
lampshaded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lampshade + -ed.
Base: lampshade
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Incorporating a lampshade.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He would read and write in the draped and lampshaded living room with its carpeted floor, and he would welcome her with the fond yet pitying smile and say, “Did you have a good time with your family?"
There were lots of lampshaded lamps of different sizes all around him, maroon mainly, or red and fringed, and they were all full on, making him look pink.
And even the destroyed lampshades had pieces unblocking off of a fallen lampshaded being, the head maybe dead, but all its limbs, its poles, its blocks, went flipping and adding to other lampshaded beings, adding to them, making them larger, bulkier and able to stretch taller.
gloss: Diffused through a lampshade. (of light)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A middle-aged bellboy carried her luggage through the lampshaded glow of the lobby, up the elevator, and into her rooms.
Translations:
pedagogics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The science or art of teaching; pedagogy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
demi-cannon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From demi- + cannon.
Base: cannon
Affixes: demi-
Inflected forms:
form: demi-cannons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medium-sized cannon, slightly larger than a culverin and smaller than a standard cannon.
pos: noun
examples: What's this? A sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.
Translations:
scandic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From scandium + -ic.
Base: scandium
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or derived from scandium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: scandic acid
scandic ion
scandic thiosulphate
Translations:
chromatics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From chromatic + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).
Base: chromatic
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Chromatic harmonies or notes.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: The science of colours; the branch of optics that deals with the properties of colours.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Related words: chromatist
Translations:
divinization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From divine + -ization.
Base: divine
Affixes: -ization
Inflected forms:
form: divinizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: divinisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of making divine.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
examples: [W]here would they be now if it had not been for Israel, and the stern check which Israel put upon the glorification and divinisation of this natural bent of mankind, this attractive aspect of the not ourselves?
And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace […] the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like[.]
Translations:
whiteboy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From white + boy.
Compound parts: white
boy
Inflected forms:
form: whiteboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: white boy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Caucasian male.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
sometimes
uncountable
examples: The words of the whiteboy crept into his mind as he got ready to crawl out of bed—and he once again realized Cassandra hardly ever showered.
whiteboy still more than anything else this betrays me.
“Shut up, whiteboy. How does it feel to hit a girl? You feel strong?
gloss: Heroin.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
wung-out
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From wung (“winged”) + out.
Base: wung
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: goosewinged.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
Translations:
huke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French huque, from Latin huca. See Dutch huik (“sleeveless cape”).
Inflected forms:
form: hukes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: huque
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heuk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heuke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hyke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An outer garment (robe or cloak) worn by men and women in Europe in the Middle Ages, either as civilian clothing or over armor.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: there came one that seemed to be a messenger , in a rich huke
Her only extravagances were fine accoutrements, gorgeous hukes, and mighty war-horses.
Judging from the surviving documents it would appear that Charles VII did nothing at all about Joan of Arc [...] but [she] also swore that she herself was often visited by God, dressed in a white robe with a scarlet huke over it.
[…] but after this date “white” armor, or highly polished metal armor, was rarely covered except by a tabard or huke[…]
Translations:
workover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From work + over.
Compound parts: work
over
Inflected forms:
form: workovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any kind of oil well intervention involving invasive techniques, such as wireline or snubbing.
pos: noun
examples: Shell launched a massive "work over" campaign during my second year in Brunei. A work over is basically an existing production well that needs a service.
Translations:
rapee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rape + -ee.
Base: rape
Affixes: -ee
Inflected forms:
form: rapees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A victim of rape.
pos: noun
examples: Crime rates are reported on the basis of reported crimes; however, it was estimated that about 80% of rapes go unreported because the rapee usually wishes to avoid the humiliation of having to describe the event in detail to the police […]
Nightmares, depression, pathological shyness, inability to leave the house, terror of darkness, all have been known to develop in otherwise healthy women who have been raped. Malinowski was writing from the point of view of the rapee.
The web of social and sexual interactions between military and civil populations is dense and intricate, and HIV travels rapidly through its connecting threads: to wives, girlfriends, sexual partners, and rapees, and from them to the soldiers.
Translations:
rhein
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From translingual Rheum + -in.
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: rheine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: An anthraquinone found in rhubarb.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
blackheart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From black + heart.
Compound parts: black
heart
Inflected forms:
form: blackhearts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark skin.
pos: noun
examples: There are cherries enough for all, as when we planted we took into consideration the needs of our feathered neighbors, so the birds do not miss the fruit when on our breakfast table appears a great wooden bowl —you have no idea what an artistic bit the chopping bowl becomes when utilized in this way—filled with clusters of blackheart and white-heart cherries and their leaves.
“Here travelers sat beneath a great blackheart cherry tree growing among white rosebushes by the fence,” notes a 1937 American Guide Series book, “and watched the busy river traffic while they waited for supper.”
gloss: Any of various plant diseases that cause darkening of the central tissue.
pos: noun
examples: Blackheart results from inadequate oxygen supply for respiration (asphyxiation) of internal tuber tissue.
Calcium sprays of 10 to 20 pounds of Ca(NO₃)₂ or 5 to 10 pounds of CaCl₂ per 100 gallons of water per acre applied once or twice per week have provided good control in several trials and are considered most beneficial when blackheart appears before harvest, when plants may outgrow it, and when it is necessary to hold mature celery in the field.
Sanewski and Giles (1997) have developed a hybrid resistant to blackheart.
gloss: A type of malleable cast iron with minimum tensile strength of 350 N/mm².
pos: noun
examples: Blackheart malleable cast iron has excellent castability and machinability.
gloss: A cruel and remorseless person.
pos: noun
examples: That blackheart would have thrust you out to wail and gained the time himself, without you there.
As much as I tried to get the blackheart out of my mind, the more he seemed to enter it from unsuspecting directions.
Any experience that reveals the spirit from a blackheart
Related words: white-heart
Translations:
wowee
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From wow.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: wow; expressing astonishment, surprise or excitement
pos: intj
Translations: