yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
stibnite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin stibium, from Ancient Greek στίβι (stíbi), a variant of στίμμι (stímmi).
Inflected forms:
form: stibnites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A grey mineral, Sb₂S₃, that is the main ore of antimony; in powdered form, used as the cosmetic called kohl.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The eye-paint used from immemorial times in Egypt is usually held to be stibnite.
Translations:
Monday-morning
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Monday morning
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a Monday morning (especially with reference to the return to work after the free time of the weekend).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
micro-amp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English amp
English micro-amp
From micro- + amp.
Inflected forms:
form: micro-amps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: microamp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One millionth (10⁻⁶) of an ampere, abbreviated as µA.
pos: noun
Translations:
gearing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
form: gearings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ratio of a system of gears.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The 4×4 could climb well, as it had relatively low gearing.
gloss: Harness; working implements.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A train of toothed wheels and pinions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hoisting, derricking, slewing, and travelling are by means of independent 600-volt motors through reduction gearing.
gloss: Synonym of leverage (“debt-to-equity ratio”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: Hooke's gearing
negative gearing
pivot gearing
spur gearing
Translations:
rotational
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rotation
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English rotational
From rotation + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: rotationals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to or caused by rotation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A steam turbine converts heat into rotational motion.
gloss: Having non-zero curl somewhere, i.e. not irrotational
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An employee in a job rotation scheme.
pos: noun
examples: For the new rotationals, the American manager must begin the interview by asking the applicant a few questions of a personal nature about his family, childhood education, philosophy of life, social relationships, hobbies and interests, […]
We have found that our future leaders are our current rotationals. We also offer educational assistance for all full-time employees, which pays 100% related to the job or 75% for all other classes.
gloss: Something, such as a joint, that moves by rotating.
pos: noun
examples: The positioning of the wrist is related to the upper three joints of the robot arm with three degrees of freedom, for the two motions of the shoulder and the one motion of the elbow, all rotationals.
Antonyms: irrotational
Derived words: corotational
isorotational
magnetorotational
microrotational
multirotational
nonrotational
pseudorotational
rotational axis
rotational dining
rotational energy
rotationality
rotationally
rotational molding
rotational moulding
rotational period
rotational symmetry
stratorotational
vibrotational
Translations:
shovelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shovellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shoveling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is shovelled.
pos: noun
examples: The latter is usually executed two spits deep, with two intermediate shovellings; but in the work in question, we should go down between three and four spits, without any shovellings.
Translations:
bear-a-hand
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: bear-a-hand!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
form: bear a hand
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: make haste!
pos: intj
Translations:
infighting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From in- + fighting. Compare Middle English infighten (“to attack”), Old English infiht (“infighting”).
Base: fighting
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: infightings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fighting or quarreling among the members of a single group or side.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] the economic and financial mismanagement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government and chronic infighting within the regime have contributed to the economic chaos […]
“The energy was so different,” Ms. Steuben said of the 2024 event. “Everyone was so excited because we’d just won the election. This year, it’s just a lot of infighting. It’s terrible. I think a lot of people are upset, and they’re acting childish.”
gloss: Fighting with one's opponent closer than arm's length.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Tate predicted that Wills, famed for infighting, would have to change his tactics against Firpo to avoid being knocked "very loose."
His left jab pecked at McTigue's face, and at infighting he matched the champion on even terms.
Translations:
overmuch
Part of speech: det
adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English overmuche, overmuchel, from Old English ofermiċel, ofermyċel (“overmuch, excessive”), equivalent to over- + much. Compare overmany and overmore. Doublet of overmickle. Cognate with Scots over-mekill (“overmuch, excessive”), Old Norse ofrmikill (“overmuch, excessive”), Icelandic ofmikill (“overmuch, excessive”).
Base: much
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: over much
pos: det
tags: alternative
form: over much
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: over much
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: over much
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Very much; too much; overly much.
pos: det
tags: UK
examples: So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
If we met with accidents, such as losing canoes and men in the rapids, or losing men in encounters with Indians, or if we encountered overmuch fever and dysentery, the loads would lighten themselves.
He had much prudence, much conscientiousness, and there were occasions when these virtues were the cause of overmuch disquietude in him.
This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another.
gloss: Excessive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […]it is good to be applyed to womens breaſts, that grow ſore by the aboundance of milke comming into them: as alſo to repreſſe the overmuch bleeding of the hemorrhoids, to coole the Inflammations of the parts thereabouts, and to give eaſe of paines:[…].
Our Palates like the Seaſoning and Cookery they are ſet to, and an over much Uſe of Salt, beſides that it occaſions thirſt, and over-much Drinking, has other ill Effects upon the Body.
gloss: Too much; overly much
pos: adv
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: Some readers do not care overmuch for poetry.
O, he hath kept an evil diet long, / And overmuch consumed his royal person:
Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
"[…] Do you be humble, and tempt you the Big Man not overmuch. He is quick to anger."
yet what am i that such and such / mysteries very simple touch / me,whose heart-wholeness overmuch / Expects of your hair pale, / a terror musical?
All of us were being paid regularly, wined and dined overmuch and had the whole theater world of Moscow for our enjoyment.
gloss: An excessive amount; too much.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They had felled too freely here; the sawmills had taken over-much, leaving next to no young wood.
If citizens hear overmuch of the bliss of others, it galls the secrecy of their hearts.
Translations:
landform
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From land + form.
Compound parts: land
form
Inflected forms:
form: landforms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any geological feature, such as a mountain or valley.
pos: noun
Translations:
cosmodrome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cosmo- + -drome, modelled after aerodrome.
Base: cosmo
Inflected forms:
form: cosmodromes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A site for launching spacecraft, usually in reference to such Soviet or Russian built sites as the Baikonur, Kazakhstan and Plesetsk, Russia cosmodromes.
pos: noun
Translations:
calendaring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The use of a computerized calendar to schedule events or appointments.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] the standard email and calendaring functions of Outlook […]
Translations:
quartering
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
architecture
aviation
business
engineering
government
heraldry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
monarchy
natural-sciences
nautical
nobility
physical-sciences
politics
transport
Etymology: By surface analysis, quarter + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: quarterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A division into four parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.
gloss: The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quartering' the field.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.
gloss: Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner in which the tanker is moored.
gloss: Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
gloss: At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: quartering block
quartering sea
Translations:
seconding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: secondings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The agreement of a second person to an initial proposal or motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The nominations and the secondings of candidates for the 1973 election of the various officers and directors of The American Philatelic Society were concluded May 31, 1973, and the final listing appears below.
gloss: Temporary transfer from normal duty to another assignment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Having successfully completed their two secondings, the students were qualified to take out a case on their own.
Translations:
clocking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: clockings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A time measurement made according to a clock.
pos: noun
examples: At all of the major “breakup” yards where the railroads unloaded and loaded freight — waterfront railyards, pier stations, and inland freight depots — teams conducted clockings, recording all movements of trains […]
He picked up the sheet of paper which showed the clockings of the two employees. He looked again at the clockings that Earrell had made and smiled to himself; on the fifth of the month, he had skipped his break completely […]
Translations:
dicking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of being sexually penetrated.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: Escorts, strippers, and all kinds of townie whores flocked to the skull logo, just begging for a good dicking. And who better to give it to them than yours truly?
Translations:
farting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fartynge, fartyng, ferting, from Old English feorting (“farting”), equivalent to fart + -ing.
Base: fart
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: fartings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.
pos: noun
examples: Noise grew everywhere — radios, monstrous tape decks, the fartings of untuned engines.
Observing the pantings and fartings of our old Boston terrier Tunney one day, he proposed that the federal government should fund a plan like the Passamaquoddy Bay project that would put all this energy to some use.
Translations:
porting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: portings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An opening through or into which fluid or other material can flow.
pos: noun
examples: […] portings distributed radially about the housing bore. It then is necessary only to arrange six equally spaced portings at the outside diameter of the control sleeve which rotates within the housing, and to size these portings […]
[…] portings in said tracer valve to said cylinder inlet port in said servo valve unit for actuating said servo valve member from said set position to control fluid flow through said inlet and outlet portings in said servo valve unit […]
Translations:
jittering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jitterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or motion of one who jitters.
pos: noun
examples: The Trout (Die Forelle) was horribly knackering to perform with its continuous high energy and light convulsive jitterings, which covered the entire stage space.
Translations:
walling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wallings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group of walls.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nor was this all; seeing something projecting through the soil at the bottom of the bared patch of walling, I removed the loose earth with my hands, and revealed a huge stone ring, a foot or more in diameter, and about three inches thick.
“All three,” says Dr. Schliemann, “were unusually large, and appeared to have been forced into the small space of only 5 feet 6 inches, left for them between the inner wallings […]
The longer the platform, the more signs, fencing, walling, lighting, drainage and public address systems (and so on) are needed.
gloss: Material used for walls.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A method of torture in which a person's neck is encircled by a collar, which is then used to slam the person against a wall.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: four-walling
walling wax
Translations:
burping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: burpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a burp.
pos: noun
gloss: The act by which a baby, or a container of fermenting substance, is burped.
pos: noun
examples: Once you finally deliver your baby, the next few days are a complete blur of feedings, burpings, and awesomesauce nurses being on hand to help you with everything.
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: eructación
storming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stormings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is stormed.
pos: noun
examples: the stormings of cities throughout history
gloss: The act of one who storms or rages.
pos: noun
examples: He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings, and threatenings, and stormings, were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.
Derived words: stormingly
wikistorming
Translations:
greening
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: greenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of becoming green.
pos: noun
examples: the tender greening of April meadows
gloss: A type of pear.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A type of apple that is green when ripe.
pos: noun
gloss: Becoming green in colour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: citrus greening
greening pit
greening weed
Translations:
pinking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pinkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Decoration by adding holes or scalloping.
pos: noun
examples: These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.
Translations:
wronging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wrongings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act by which somebody is wronged.
pos: noun
Translations:
jacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A street robbery.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: The most common type of robberies by gang members is jackings, street robberies against persons. According to some gang members interviewed, jackings are not planned, but are rather crimes of opportunity.
Translations:
knighting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: knightings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making somebody a knight.
pos: noun
examples: What distinguished the knighting ceremony from the established giving of arms was the semi-ritualistic character of the later event. It was much more than a coming of age. The most impressive knightings could be occasions of some grandeur.
Only 14 percent of Australians agreed with the knighting, and many of Mr. Abbott’s colleagues were dismayed.
Translations:
cocking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From cock (“a male bird, esp. a rooster; many derivatives, incl. penis”) + -ing (forming participles).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Offensive or worthless
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
vulgar
examples: "Son of a cocking bastard."
Translations:
coining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: coinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A created word or phrase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Poetry admits of greater latitude than proſe, which with reſpect to coining, or, at leaſt, new-compounding words; yet, even here, this liberty ſhould be uſed with a ſparing hand.
Once we move into the Patristic period, there is undoubted evidence for new coinings of words (particularly compounds) as a response to the needs of the theological debates which occurred.
Coinings or neologisms are words that have recently been created. […] True coinings, which are completely new words, are rather rare relative to the vast number of words we create by means of the other word formation processes.
Translations:
minding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mynding, myndyng, equivalent to mind + -ing.
Base: mind
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: mindings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more minding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most minding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act of taking heed of something.
pos: noun
examples: a. 1691, Richard Baxter, a sermon
[…] those holy breathings after God, and that sense of the evil of sin, and that conscience of duty, and those groans excited by the spirit of prayer, and those mindings of the things of another world […]
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
neutering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: neuterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is neutered.
pos: noun
examples: The vet performed neuterings on four cats.
Translations:
righting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rightings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of putting something right.
pos: noun
examples: the rightings of social wrongs
gloss: The return of a vehicle to an upright orientation from a tilted or inverted orientation.
pos: noun
examples: the righting of an overturned car
Derived words: righting arm
Translations:
winging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of wing foiling.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
gossiping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gossipings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gossipping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of passing gossip; communication about other people's private business.
pos: noun
gloss: A christening.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: At Wendlebury and other places they bring their Cakes at a Gossiping, and give a large cake to the father of the child, wᶜʰ they call a Rocking Cake.
Translations:
marooning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: maroonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of abandoning a person in a remote, deserted place.
pos: noun
Translations:
chaining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which something is chained.
pos: noun
Translations:
ministering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ministerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of one who, or something that, administers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hitherto all that I had acquired had been unsatisfactory—the reward was too distant; but Carrara's mystic eloquence brought the result of our midnight vigils visibly before me; and when I left him, it was to dream of the glorious secrets which, once penetrated, would lay all nature open to our eyes, and leave all its ministering spirits bowed to our rule by spell and sign.
gloss: The act of one who ministers; ministration.
pos: noun
examples: I could not be in your daughter's company, and have the grace of her gentle ministerings.
Translations:
friending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: friendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sentiment of friendship
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
May do t'express his love and friending to you.
gloss: An act of adding a person as a friend on a social network.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
usually
examples: Refreshments followed, coupled with teary farewells and exchanges of phone numbers and emails, and Facebook friendings.
Translations:
handfasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: handfastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ceremony in which people handfast.
pos: noun
Translations:
soiling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: soilings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of making dirty.
pos: noun
examples: An important task for any detergent is to remove visible soilings.
Translations:
mouthing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mouthings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of forming a shape with the mouth, especially as part of sign language.
pos: noun
examples: Mouthings tend to occur most often when signers are manually articulating nouns, open-class items, and morphologically simpler signs (see Crasborn et al. 2008).
gloss: Ranting; passionate speech devoid of meaning.
pos: noun
examples: Kearn did not rant, he did not deafen you with heroics and empty mouthings.
Translations:
elbowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: elbowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nudge or jostle with the elbow.
pos: noun
examples: To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel[…]
But in the elbowings of the noisy throng
There is no calm for holiness like thine.
Translations:
perfecting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Inflected forms:
form: perfectings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The bringing of something to a state of perfection.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: All the same, the final embellishments and perfectings of detail occupied a further four years.
gloss: The process of printing on both sides of the printed-on material during its single pass through the printing press.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: perfecting press
Translations:
pining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who pines.
pos: noun
examples: the sullen pinings of discontent
Translations:
hoisting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: hoistings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is hoisted.
pos: noun
examples: Hoisting, derricking, slewing, and travelling are by means of independent 600-volt motors through reduction gearing.
The Madras government allowed flag hoistings in particular circumstances[…]
gloss: The behaviour of JavaScript syntax which allows variables to be used before they are declared.
pos: noun
Related words: block
scope
temporal dead zone
Translations:
busting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more busting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most busting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bustings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Urgently needing to urinate. Alternative form of bursting.
pos: adj
tags: often
examples: Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm busting.
The kid is busting to go to the toilet.
gloss: The process of something being broken or exploded.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: O, sir! the explosions, the blowings-up, the bustings, the firings! There was bombshells flying about as big as houses.
Don't you see, laddie, you're much too valuable to squander your energies playing the lousy short con, suffering the cop roustings and head bustings, the chump change scores.
Translations:
skirting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: skirtings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Skirting boards collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Challenger looked up at the cornice and round at the skirting.
The stateroom walls are veneered with finely figured English chestnut with the skirting and mouldings in English walnut.
gloss: skirts collectively; material for skirts
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] superficial: many of their descriptions, together with their own candid and often amusing comments and reactions, are well worth noting and reflecting upon; their skirtings around the laws of defamation are a joy to read and a lesson to us all; […]
Translations:
booting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: bootings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kicking, as with a booted foot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act by which a computer is booted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.
gloss: Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Thou, Linus, that louest still to be promoting,
Because I sport, about King Henries marriage:
Think' st this will proue a matter worth the carriage.
But let it alone, Lynus, it is no booting.
gloss: Homicide by gunfire.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: C4 run man through the alley
Get a man down with the swammy
Get a man down with the whammy
Boot couple niggas on the road
No face no case with the bally (booting)
Just got bail, three shootings
I ain’t gotta call up Pacman
To go up to country to do some bootings (bu-bu)
Tryna aim for your head
Pronounce man dead, pull up and suit him
Derived words: multibooting
nonbooting
Translations:
weighting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: weightings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The weight or significance given to something, sometimes by means of a statistical multiplier.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Higher weightings were assigned to data from double-blind studies.
Translations:
breading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: breadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The coating of a thin slice of meat in flour, egg and breadcrumbs prior to frying
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
chalking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chalkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something chalked on a surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Dinner patrons at RPU see dozens of chalkings on the sidewalk each week. Student groups know that this is a prime locale to promote student groups and shows.
gloss: The appearance of non-gloss paint on an exterior surface due to chemical deterioration and removal by weather.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
filibustering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: filibusterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who filibusters.
pos: noun
examples: No other interpretation could be put upon two of his most notorious filibusterings: […]
Translations:
disdaining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: disdainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Disdain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She disdained everybody; and because of her disdainings it was believed that the master of her beauty was the Lord of Darkness; and that seemed reasonable.
Translations:
blanketing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: By surface analysis, blanket + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: blanketings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cloth for making blankets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1690, uncredited translator, The History of Scotland by George Buchanan, London: Awnsham Churchil, Book I, p. 23,
But, now-a-days, many of them wear their Apparel of a dark brown colour, almost like Heath, that so, lying in the Heath-bushes, they might not, in the day-time, be discovered by their Cloaths. Being rather loosly happ’d, than closely covered, with this sort of Blanketing, they endure the fiercest weather […]
Then the blanketing tickles—you feel like mixed pickles—so terribly sharp is the pricking,
And you’re hot, and you’re cross, and you tumble and toss till there’s nothing ’twixt you and the ticking.
Then Dick lay down in the dried ferns and covered himself with a piece of the striped flannel which they used for blanketing […]
Along the face of these limestone bluffs one observed a queer phenomenon of splashed yellow rocks, seemingly spilled from some gigantic cauldron, dried and hung out like blanketings in the morning sun.
gloss: A layer of something that covers like a blanket.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: blanketings of snow
Did one want grilled mushrooms, English fashion, they were there, black and moist and sizzling, and extremely edible; did one desire mushrooms à la Russe, they appeared, blanched and cool and toothsome under their white blanketing of sauce.
The stream made loops of water round their ankles. But none of that could show clearly through the swaddlings and blanketings of the Cambridge night.
gloss: The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Himself among the storied chiefs he spies,
As from the blanket high in air he flies,
And oh! (he cry'd) what street, what lane but knows
Our purgings, pumpings, blanketings and blows?
[…] that affair of the blanketing happened to thee, for the fault thou wast guilty of […]
gloss: A maneuver in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: The latter hailed for water, and was so much more nimble in coming round, that she managed to get on ‘Gwendolin’s’ weather before she had gathered way, and gave her such a complete blanketing as left her almost in irons.
gloss: The provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The track blanketing required excavation of up and down main lines to a depth of 4½ft below rail level for 1⅜ miles, to allow the defective track bed to be removed and replaced by a new formation. [...] a layer of polythene was employed by the E.R. at the base of the new formation; [...] On top of the polythene is laid the sand, as a blanketing and drainage medium, and above that the ballast.
Translations:
pawning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pawn
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English pawning
From pawn + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: pawnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is pawned.
pos: noun
examples: Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless, she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her – that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets, more and always more horrors.
Translations:
shorting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shortings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: short selling
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: short circuit; outage
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] rotted and cracked, and occasionally the water would seep through to the bare wires and cause shortings and electric fires.
There was a signal station, an old Italian military relic, the equipment in it so dangerous, due to electrical shortings, that the Italian soldier who looked after it used to pray before he used it.
Being “free surface” it made the rolling linger longer at the extremes, and it was this lingering that was causing the shortings and the blackouts to last longer.
Translations:
dulling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dullings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of making or becoming dull.
pos: noun
examples: Let me bear in mind Your sweet dullings of the consciousness! Let me mark how You veil the eye and curtain the ear!
Translations:
stomaching
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stomaching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stomaching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: nauseating; sickening
pos: adj
Translations:
sanding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sanding, sandyng, equivalent to sand + -ing.
Base: sand
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: sandings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which something is sanded; the application of sandpaper, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of dancing where the floor is covered in sand. See Sanding (dance).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of testing the surface of gilding, after it has been fired, with fine sand and water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of burying oysters in sand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of applying sand to rails in railway track to aid adhesion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sanding is by steam, and is fitted to the front of the leading coupled wheels, and to front and rear of the driving wheels.
Next day further heavy sanding of the lines was carried out by standard Class "3" 2-6-2 tank No. 82028 from the Scarborough end and Class "4" 2-6-4 tank No. 42084 from Whitby.
gloss: A coating of sugar crystals on confectionery, especially on jellies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: sugar sanding
sour sanding
Derived words: sanding gear
sanding machine
sanding paper
sanding sheet
sanding sugar
wet sanding
wet-sanding
Translations:
vacuuming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: vacuumings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of vacuuming.
pos: noun
gloss: Material sucked up by a vacuum cleaner.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Put the vacuumings in the bin.
gloss: Synonym of vacuum exercise.
pos: noun
Translations:
snowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From snow (verb).
Inflected forms:
form: snowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fall of snow.
pos: noun
examples: And sometimes hours of peace, I own, / Upon some fairer leaves have shown, / White as the snowings of that heaven / By which those hours of peace were given.
Translations:
keying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: keyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the sociology of Erving Goffman, an action or utterance that signals the meaning of interaction to participants.
pos: noun
gloss: The input of text or data by means of a keyboard.
pos: noun
gloss: A form of vandalism performed by scratching paint with a key
pos: noun
Related words: miskeying
Derived words: downkeying
frequency shift keying
frequency-shift keying
phase shift keying
phase-shift keying
upkeying
Translations:
bearding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An undesirable video artifact whereby darker parts of a signal bleed across horizontally into the brighter parts.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
seaming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: seamings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of forming a seam or joint.
pos: noun
gloss: The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.
pos: noun
Derived words: seaming machine
Translations:
contenting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more contenting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contenting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Producing contentment; pleasing or satisfying.
pos: adj
examples: To preserve the rights of justice, and to give a contenting answer to the cry of mercy, to wipe off, as I may say, the tears of one, and smooth the frowns of the other, God lays our iniquity upon Christ, Isa . 53. 6.
you can daily retire into yourself, and there peruse a richer treasure than bodily eyes on earth can see; and there be taken up with a far more contenting satisfactory employment , and a more fruitful and pleasant converse and recreation, than any you, creature in court or country can afford;
It was very contenting and relaxing to the senses .
Yet it comes over me that to sit on the grass at the Horse Show tomorrow with L. will be very contenting.
Translations:
depositing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: depositings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deposition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!
Translations:
banding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *bandiz
Old English bend
Middle English band
English band
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English banding
From band + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: bandings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pattern of band-like markings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You can recognize this species of bird by the banding on the wing.
gloss: A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A division into bands or brackets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: property tax banding
The bees’ cubital index, a method for differentiating breeds of honeybees, also confirmed they are “more of an indigenous bee” than anything else, he said, but their adaptations have made them unique and peculiar, and they have very little banding. “Supposedly, wild tree-nesting honeybees which can sustain themselves do not exist, so nobody knows what type of wild, self-sustaining honeybee is actually left in the UK.”
gloss: The formation of a band or brigade.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Was he aiding the man-redeeming movements of the day, the beautiful associations, the useful bandings together for human improvement, love and truth? No.
Derived words: color banding
edgebanding
edge banding
Translations:
suiting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: suitings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: fabric for making suits
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In addition to men's suitings and ladies' costumings the firm also produces man-made fabrics for filtration and protective clothing.
Translations:
breakfasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: breakfastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of eating breakfast.
pos: noun
examples: At home there were other studies and much reading; many tea drinkings on the lawn, and even breakfastings, which she thought pleasanter still.
Translations:
tufting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tuftings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tuft.
pos: noun
examples: We checked out a large selection of Native handicrafts, including mukluks made of seal or reindeer skin and lined with fur, medicine spirit stones, and moose hair tuftings.
gloss: A type of stitching passing through a quilt or mattress to hold the filling in place. See tuft for images.
pos: noun
Translations:
quieting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quietings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making something quiet.
pos: noun
Translations:
upending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: upendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of overthrowing or turning over.
pos: noun
Translations:
queering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: queerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is queered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
damping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: dampings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dampening; a making wet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The reduction in the magnitude of oscillations by the dissipation of energy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The stabilization of a physical system by reducing oscillation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antidamping
damping ratio
Translations:
dampening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dampenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making or becoming damp.
pos: noun
examples: After several dampenings and even though it was only on my face for an hour, I was surprised at how heavy the mud pack had become.
Translations:
flocking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flockings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of adding small particles to a surface for the sake of texture.
pos: noun
gloss: A material textured in this way, such as the artificial snow of a Christmas tree.
pos: noun
Translations:
nulling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nullings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: nulled work
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The legs are of the heavy bulbous type common at this time, turned in the cup and cover form, and carved with nullings and acanthus leafwork.
Translations:
voiding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: voidings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act by which something is voided, such as urination.
pos: noun
examples: the annulling or voiding of marriages, made unlawfully
gloss: That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment.
pos: noun
examples: Oh! bestow
Some poor Remain, the voiding of thy Table,
A Morsel to support my famish'd soul
Derived words: voiding cystourethrography
voiding knife
Translations:
tanking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: tankings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A session of being immersed in a tank.
pos: noun
examples: The patient was treated with methylprednisolone, cyclophosphamide, and azathioprine, as well as burn center protocol care with daily tankings.
gloss: An act of a deliberate loss in a game or match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
pos: noun
Translations:
milking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English milkinge, mylkynge, equivalent to milk + -ing.
Base: milk
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: milkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which any animal is milked.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We try to finish milking early in the morning so we can turn the cows out to pasture during the day.
The snake milker massages the glands to extract the full measure of venom during each milking.
gloss: Male masturbation (or fellatio) that leads to the release of semen, especially when performed on a milking table.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
Derived words: milking barn
milking booster
milking machine
milking parlor
milking parlour
milking table
postmilking
sharemilking
Translations: