yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
falsely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English falsly, falsliche, equivalent to false + -ly.
Base: false
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more falsely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most falsely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a false manner.
pos: adv
examples: He protested his innocence to the end, claiming he had been falsely charged and convicted.
This could not be more falsely stated.
Our insensitive laughter echoes even more falsely now.
And on none of them does the name ring more falsely than on Robert Southey.
President Donald Trump falsely claimed Thursday that some states saw gas prices fall to just $1.98 on Wednesday.
RDG explains: "From April 1 2026, the following tickets, Anytime, Off-Peak, Day Travelcards and most Ranger and Rover tickets, will no longer be refundable on the day they become valid for travel." It calls the £40m it thinks it loses "refund abuse", which it explains as "refunds on tickets that have been used but not scanned or endorsed, where a customer falsely states that they did not travel". I'm sure such abuse takes place (and that it's done by passengers). But RDG is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut and punishing many millions of honest passengers by making tickets more restrictive.
Antonyms: honestly
Translations:
defeatist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From defeat + -ist, after French défaitiste.
Base: defeat
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: more defeatist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most defeatist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: defeatists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to defeatism.
pos: adj
examples: You may look ruefully at your poor red hands and think that just because they have got that way through the extra work you are doing there’s just nothing that can be done about it. Of course, this is a deafeatist attitude—and a lazy one too!
gloss: Someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude.
pos: noun
Translations:
gurgle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back formation from Middle English gurguling (“a rumbling in the belly”). Akin to Middle Dutch gorgelen (“to gurgle”), Middle Low German gorgelen (“to gurgle”), German gurgeln (“to gargle”), and perhaps to Latin gurguliō (“throat”).
Inflected forms:
form: gurgles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gurgling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gurgled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gurgled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gurgles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To flow with a bubbling sound.
pos: verb
examples: The bath water gurgled down the drain.
Pure gurgling rills the lonely deſart trace, / And vvaſte their muſick on the ſavage race.
gloss: To make such a sound.
pos: verb
examples: The baby gurgled with delight.
gloss: A gurgling sound.
pos: noun
examples: Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
Derived words: gurgler
gurglesome
gurglingly
gurgly
Translations:
thumper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
rail-transport
railways
transport
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thump
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English thumper
From thump + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: thumpers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who thumps.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A single-cylinder engine, especially four-stroke engines or those with large engine displacements.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A drinking game wherein players must remember personal hand signs while being distracted by others banging on a table.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Something big, such as a lie; a whopper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A kind of slam-door train introduced in the late 1950s.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: The Vietnam-era M79 grenade launcher (due to its distinctive report).
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A short rope for beating disobedient sled dogs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This [argument] was about the use of the thumper to control dog teams, and perhaps the unique living conditions of a polar base caused both sides to shift from an initial disagreement to positions more extreme than the ones they would have reached in the wider world outside.
gloss: A strong adherent to a religion or ideology.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: But in spite of the antics of its Bible thumpers and its boobocracy, my father was unable to stay mad at the United States for long.
Putin’s closest electoral competitor is the Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov – a serial election loser. This would be his fourth defeat. Two other candidates, right-wing table thumper Vladimir Zhirinovsky and left-leaning Sergey Mironov have also run and lost spectacularly in the past.
These testosterone thumpers have repackaged and exaggerated the study, with a credulity born of zealotry, into articles with shitposty titles like “Trust The Science: Study Links Left-Wing Politics to Lower Testosterone,” casting it as hard proof of their hormonal theories of healthy politics.
gloss: A track with a thumping beat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: 2020, Ian Cole, ABBA: Song by Song
This late-1979 disco thumper is set to a driving beat with a memorable refrain that proved so enduring that American icon Madonna sampled it for her 2005 hit 'Hung Up', from her album Confessions on a Dance Floor.
Derived words: Bible thumper
crawthumper
ivory-thumper
Koran thumper
mutton-thumper
tubthumper
Translations:
sawer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sawer, sagher, equivalent to saw + -er.
Base: saw
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: sawers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who saws; a sawyer.
pos: noun
Translations:
sawyer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sawyer, sawier, sawior, equivalent to saw + -yer. Doublet of sawer.
Base: saw
Affixes: -yer
Inflected forms:
form: sawyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sawier
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
pos: noun
gloss: A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: ‘A’most used-up I am, I do declare!’ she observed. ‘The jolting in the cars is pretty nigh as bad as if the rail was full of snags and sawyers.’
gloss: A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
pos: noun
gloss: The bowfin.
pos: noun
tags: US
dialectal
Related words: fret-sawyer
Derived words: ndersawyer
ripsawyer
topsawyer
woodsawyer
Translations:
racialization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From racialize + -ation or racial + -ization.
Base: racialize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: racializations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: racialisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of racializing, that is, of treating (a relationship, practice, person or group) in racial terms or of constituting (that person or group) as racial or as a race.
pos: noun
Translations:
bathetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bathos + -etic, based on the form of pathos and pathetic.
Base: bathos
Affixes: -etic
Inflected forms:
form: more bathetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bathetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by or pertaining to bathos.
pos: adj
examples: The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride.
To ask what it is that Don Quixote himself believes is to enter the visionary centre of his story. This curious blend of the sublime and the bathetic does not come again until Kafka, another pupil of Cervantes, would compose stories like "The Hunter Gracchus" and "A Country Doctor".
It is possible that Shillibeer's bathetic end is the reason buses did not become universally known as 'Shillibeers'. Some operators had called their buses Shillibeers.
Translations:
ropewalk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rope + walk.
Compound parts: rope
walk
Inflected forms:
form: ropewalks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rope-walk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A place where rope is made, a rope factory.
pos: noun
gloss: A long straight narrow lane, or a covered pathway, where long strands of material were laid before being twisted into rope.
pos: noun
gloss: Any narrow walkway that has rope handrails.
pos: noun
Translations:
runout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
skiing
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English run outdeverb.
English runout
Deverbal from run out.
Inflected forms:
form: runouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: run-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that has been run out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The landslide had a long runout.
The freeway guardrail runout around this object is shorter than recommended.
gloss: The method of getting out (dismissed from play) in which a batsman, in making a run, has not reached the popping crease when a fielder breaks his wicket with the ball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A relatively flat portion at the end of a ski run to slow down, or to connect trails.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Slowing down at the end of a ski run, skiing on a runout.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If, as people often say, skiing is like sex, then the run-out that follows a great run—that breezy pole-and-glide along a logging road, stream, or moraine back to the lift, hut, truck, or bar—is the cigarette in bed.
gloss: The end portion of the groove of a phonographic record, after the recorded sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A supposed auction employing shill bidders in order to convince legitimate buyers to purchase worthless articles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is a lot of trouble in Petticoat Lane. In fact, the mock auction boys have muscled in to such an extent on the bomb damaged ground that there is a danger that Petticoat Lane may lose its good name by the boys coming in now with the "runouts" to make quick profits and then get out.
gloss: Deviation of the axis of rotation of a rotating object (especially a milling cutter or workpiece) relative to that object's centerline; the specific amount of deviation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We determined that inaccuracy was caused by a large amount of tool runout.
gloss: A sudden tension between two coupled railcars when the fore one is moving faster than the hinder one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Researchers noted no unusual events (e.g., knuckle breaks) or notable instances of significant slack action or run-ins/run-outs at the lead locomotive during the test.
Translations:
ideologic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: ideological
pos: adj
examples: One midrash, perhaps influenced by later Israelite encounters with Esau's biologic and ideologic descendants.
Translations:
polysulfide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
Latin sulpur
Latin sulfur
Latin sulphur
Anglo-Norman sulfrebor.
Middle English sulphur
English sulf(ur)
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English sulfide
English polysulfide
From poly- + sulfide.
Inflected forms:
form: polysulfides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polysulphide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any compound of general formula RSₙR having a chain of more than two sulfur atoms; any derivative of a polysulfane.
pos: noun
Translations:
prostaglandin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From German Prostaglandin. Equivalent to prosta(te) + gland + -in. So called because it was originally believed to be secreted by the prostate.
Base: prostate
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: prostaglandins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of naturally occurring lipids derived from the C₂₀ acid prostanoic acid; they have a number of physiological functions and may be considered to be hormones.
pos: noun
examples: This enzyme generates an inflammatory mediator known as prostaglandin, which triggers pain and other aspects of inflammation.
Indeed, it’s possible to create the full storm of cold symptoms with no cold virus at all, but only a potent cocktail of the so-called inflammatory mediators that the body makes itself[,] among them, cytokines, kinins, prostaglandins and interleukins, powerful little chemical messengers that cause the blood vessels in the nose to dilate and leak, stimulate the secretion of mucus, activate sneeze and cough reflexes and set off pain in our nerve fibers.
Translations:
drifting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
Inflected forms:
form: driftings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The drifting seaweed went wherever the currents carried it.
gloss: Without direction, focus, or goal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [Lionel] Johnson was stern by nature, strong by intellect, and always, I think, deliberately picked his company, but [Ernest] Dowson seemed gentle, affectionate, drifting.
There is nothing more expressive of a barbarous and stupid lack of culture than the half-unconscious attitude so many of us slip into, of taking for granted, when we see weak, neurotic, helpless, drifting, unhappy people, that it is by reason of some special merit in us or by reason of some especial favour towards us that the gods have given us an advantage over such persons.
gloss: The act by which something drifts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: True, there had been some heavy falls of snow and some of the roads had become blocked, while north of Inverness there was drifting that held up traffic here and there, but things were no worse than are expected in January.
Still, she did not regret him, for nothing Ernest could have given her would have equalled the delight of those romantic driftings on the lake with Eden.
gloss: That which drifts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [W]ith hollow eyes / Many all day in dazzling river stood, / To take the rich-ored driftings of the flood.
gloss: A driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: driftingly
driftingness
Translations:
luxuriously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English luxurious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English luxuriously
From luxurious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more luxuriously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most luxuriously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that involves luxury; in an expensive or indulgent manner.
pos: adv
examples: Edward the Fourth reclining luxuriously upon his tottering throne, like a child lulled by its rocking, displaying that rare combination of deep duplicity and heartless gaiety which so seldom exist together, the reckfulness of the one being like a noxious vapour to the recklessness of the other: […]
2007, Travel & Leisure, Volume 37, American Express Publishing, page 92,
Couples celebrating second marriages and honeymooning with kids enjoy the luxuriously spacious suites of the oceanfront ResortQuest Waikiki Beach Tower.
A minute after ten she was reclining back into a hill of minuscule white lace pillows, slowly, luxuriously licking the sweet brown topping from a 'schnecke.
Translations:
luxuriousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English luxurious
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English luxuriousness
From luxurious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: luxuriousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or property of being luxurious, of being expensive or indulgently pleasant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The luxuriousness of the spa was present even in the expensive paper fittingly used for the bill.
Translations:
loyalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From loyal + -ism. Piecewise doublet of legalism.
Base: loyal
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: loyalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being a loyalist.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: And still there is about him a hint of the ingenu; a Tiggerish quality of enthusiasm for the [Tony] Blair vision that has nothing to do with fawning loyalism.
In December, the province made it optional for elected officials to swear an oath of allegiance to the king. But Quebec was once also a bastion of loyalism to the monarchy, one with a 200-year history of staunch attachment to the crown, said Damien-Claude Bélanger, a history professor at the University of Ottawa who is writing a book on the subject.
Translations:
low-lying
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: lower-lying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lowest-lying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lowlying
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lower than nearby areas.
pos: adj
examples: Coastal defences were breached at many places from the Humber right round to the outskirts of London, and the inundation of low-lying lands caused damage on a scale unequalled within living memory.
The route passes over low-lying land, the only item of note being the Cerebos salt works at Greatham, where one may catch a glimpse of the smart black diesel locomotive emblazoned with the firm's name writ large.
West of Keswick a short descent at 1 in 122 brings the train down to the low-lying and marshy ground between Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lake and to the crossing of the Derwent - the outfall from Derwentwater, [...].
Increasingly, low-lying coastal cities in the United States are experiencing what’s known as sunny-day flooding, when all it takes is a high tide to send water gushing into the streets.
No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
gloss: Located or situated below or near a sea level.
pos: adj
examples: low-lying islands
gloss: Of a person, lying low; concealed; hidden.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
Translations:
low-keyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relaxed, unstressful, not pressured.
pos: adj
examples: His low-keyed sales technique worked more often than high-pressure tactics, and won him many repeat customers.
The conversation was totally civilized and low keyed. There was no throwing up of hands in horror. There was no throwing up.
Translations:
underwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English wood
English underwood
From under- + wood.
Inflected forms:
form: underwoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Underbrush, undergrowth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber, London, Chapter 3, Of the Oak, pp. 16-17,
What improvement the stirring of the ground about the roots of Oaks is to the Trees I have already hinted; and yet in Copses where they stand warm, and so thickn’d with the under wood, as this culture cannot be practis’d, they prove in time to be goodly Trees.
[…] the Country near the Sea-side, and some few Miles further is full of short Under-wood, and thorny Shrubs, which tore our Cloaths to Rags […]
‘Accordingly I hid myself in some thick underwood, determining to devote the ensuing hours to reflection on my situation.’
But tenants may cut underwood, and take wood sufficient to repair the pales, hedges, and fences, and what is called by law plough-bote, fire-bote, and other house-bote.
In cutting coppices the usual plan is to leave what is termed plashers where the underwoods are thin and require new wood; a far better plan is to plant young stuff, which is not only cheaper but makes much better underwoods.
Translations:
long-faced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English long face
English -ed
English long-faced
From long face + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: longfaced
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Displaying sadness.
pos: adj
examples: He was long-faced so we knew she'd turned down his proposal.
"[…] So many people find the world a dreary residence," Mr. Calverley sighed, "that it is really a pity some one of these long-faced stolidities cannot die now instead of me. For I have found life wonderful throughout."
gloss: Having a long face.
pos: adj
tags: literally
examples: The majority did not give forth very flattering portraits of him, certainly; nor were they by any means unanimous in their reflections; as some made him very long-faced, others very broad-faced, some tolerably well-looking, others vastly ill-looking, according to their several manners of reflecting: […]
“Aha!” he cried. “So he has found the extra coffee-cup. That is good. He has more intelligence than would appear, this long-faced Monsieur Lawrence of yours!”
Translations:
lordly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lordly, lordlich, from Old English hlāfordlīċ (“lordly; heroic; noble”), equivalent to lord + -ly (forming adjectives).
Base: lord
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: lordlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more lordly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lordliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most lordly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Lordly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: lordlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: lordliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: Lordly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a lord.
pos: adj
examples: Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.
But they are the peers of the Queensland Parliament, and, having no lordly robes, must approach the Old Country model as closely as possible.
[I]n that some form of duty and sacrifice (here, participation in the 1848 Revolution and a recognition of his lordly duty) is not only beneficially character-forming but also leads ultimately to a condition which is 'sublime'.
Samson, in reply to this, says, “If you are not lordly, nor value your lordly title, as you tell me, and I trust in truth and sincerity, shall I call you a phoenix?
[H]e's still got his lordly habits, and more so since coming out of the war as a general.' 'A colonel, Sammy,' said Rachel. 'Same thing, good as,' said Sammy. 'Boots, of course, does wear his lordly crown with style,' said Rachel. 'Don't I know it?
gloss: Having the qualities of a lord; lordlike; noble
pos: adj
examples: Deep, indeed, / Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared / To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, / Disyoke their necks from custom, and assert / None lordlier than themselves but that which made / Woman and man.
gloss: Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.
pos: adj
examples: He asked water, and she gaue him milke, shee brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
It had also its Hall, called the Priory—an older, a larger, a more lordly abode than any Briarfield or Whinbury owned; […]
The maidens gathered strength and grace / And presence, lordlier than before.
There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest.
That night the whisky was unstoppered and Bradly lolled in bed, smoking, and betimes sweeping out an arm of conquest for his nobbler and taking a lordly pull at it.
gloss: Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
pos: adj
examples: Lords are Lordlieſt in thir wine; […]
gloss: In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.
pos: adv
examples: 1891, Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of the World: Or, The Great Consummation, Book I — “Mary Magdalene”, Funk & Wagnalls, page 56,
[…] / And Herod's painted pinnaces, ablaze / With lamps, and brazen shields and spangled slaves, / Came and went lordly at Tiberias; / […]
Look at man, then, walking lordly amidst the gigantic flora and fauna of long ago; and see if seven, eight, nine hundred years do not sit serenely on his mighty brow.
Derived words: lordlily
lordliness
unlordly
Translations:
colouring
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more colouring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most colouring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of something that provides colour.
pos: adj
examples: He soon exhausted pleasure, and then reasoned upon it: he soon exhausted it, because he wanted that colouring enthusiasm which creates more than half of what it enjoys;...
Translations:
underbrush
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís
Proto-Germanic *burstiz
Frankish *burstibor.
Vulgar Latin *brustia
Old French broissebor.
Middle English brusshe
English brush
English underbrush
From under- + brush.
Inflected forms:
form: underbrushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: underbrushes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: underbrushing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: underbrushed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: underbrushed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!
gloss: To clear (an area) of underbrush.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To work among the underbrush.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
Underwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The name is from England or Scotland, and from Middle English.
The surname is sometimes habitational, used by someone who lived in any of several places of the same name. Otherwise it is topographic, referring to someone who lived near a wood.
The common noun comes from the name of the manufacturer, after John T. Underwood, one of its founders.
Inflected forms:
form: Underwoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A typewriter made by the Underwood Typewriter Company.
pos: noun
Translations:
poobah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Pooh-Bah, a comic character in the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta The Mikado (1885), formed as pooh + bah, both expressing contempt. The character of W. S. Gilbert's libretto is preceded by the character Pish-Tush-Pooh-Bah (described as “haughty”) in “King Borriah Bungalee Boo” (1866), one of the Bab Ballads, with pish and tush being two other terms of contempt.
Compound parts: pooh
bah
Inflected forms:
form: poobahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pooh bah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pooh-bah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: poo bah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: poo-bah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Poo-Bah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Pooh-Bah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who holds multiple offices or positions of power at the same time.
pos: noun
gloss: A leader or other important person.
pos: noun
examples: ‘I said pooh-pooh,’ Duxmann Pooh Bah said.
gloss: A pompous, self-important person.
pos: noun
Related words: dual mandate
nabob
tycoon
Derived words: grand poobah
Translations:
gridiron
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English gridirne, gredirne, gredyron, gredeyron, grydern, grydyryne, girdirin, girderen, variants of Middle English gredire, gredyre, itself an alteration of Middle English gridel (“griddle”). The ending was assimilated to iron, as if from grid + iron, whence grid was later derived.
Compound parts: grid
iron
Inflected forms:
form: gridirons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gridirons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gridironing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gridironed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gridironed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.
pos: noun
examples: I know, there have been found seely boores, who have rather endure to have their feet broiled upon a Greedyron, their fingers ends crusht and wrung with the lock of a Pistoll, their eyes all bloody to be thrust out of their heads with wringing and wresting of a cord about their foreheads, before they would so much as be ransomed.
gloss: An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals.
pos: noun
gloss: To mark or cover with lines; to crisscross.
pos: verb
examples: This basin of Szechuan (literally "Four Streams," but which, reading the character idiographically, I should be inclined to render as "Gridironed by Streams"), […]
Another logical method is that of gridironing the field by a series of straight paths that are parallel to each other.
When Billy saw the culprit's naked back under the scourge gridironed with red welts, and worse […] Billy was horrified.
His white back, gridironed with scars, was as soft as a baby's.
Railways spanned the continent and gridironed the states.
gloss: To purchase land so that the remaining adjacent sections are smaller than the minimum area purchasable as freehold, thus excluding potential freeholders.
pos: verb
tags: New-Zealand
historical
Related words: iron
grid
Derived words: gridiron football
gridiron pendulum
gridiron valve
gridironer
on the gridiron
Translations:
chrestomathy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-der.
Ancient Greek χρηστός (khrēstós)
Ancient Greek μᾰνθᾰ́νω (mănthắnō)
Ancient Greek χρηστομᾰθέω (khrēstomăthéō)
Ancient Greek χρηστομᾰ́θειᾰ (khrēstomắtheiă)
English chrestomathy
From Ancient Greek χρηστομάθεια (khrēstomátheia, “useful for learning”).
Inflected forms:
form: chrestomathies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A collection of written passages, used to learn an unfamiliar language.
pos: noun
examples: EC Bridgman's Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect (1841)
gloss: A collection of choice passages from an author or authors.
pos: noun
examples: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1982)
Related words: anthology
Derived words: chrestomathic
Translations:
cousins
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From cousin + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense forms of verbs).
The plural noun noun 1 sense 1 (“American or British intelligence services”) was popularized in the works of the English author John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell; 1930–2020).
Base: cousin
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: Cousins
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The American intelligence services (from a British perspective) or the British intelligence services (from an American perspective).
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
slang
examples: [T]he grounded fieldmen, the trainers and the case officers who made their own murmured caucus always – they saw the question solely in operational terms. […] They saw the shotgun marriage with the Cousins as just another skilful bit of tradecraft in a long and delicate poker game.
Translations:
psychopath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German psychopathisch, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).
Inflected forms:
form: psychopaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, carelessness, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such a person may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
pos: noun
gloss: A person with no moral conscience.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Now the real difference between now and then was that Trump wasn't looking to do much of anything positive for the American people as a whole. He mainly enriched himself and his family and gave rich people another tax cut. I think as far as Republicans being psychopaths I would say yes but it's probably a bit more complicated. The party is struggling to message against the policies the Biden administration is working to pass because they are overall popular with the voters. The Republicans would normally talk about fiscal responsibility and harp on the national debt but I think their big business "donors" don't want to see the economy stall again so we aren't seeing their normal talking points. So instead they are stoking their base with culture war crap about freedom and Biden becoming an authoritarian.
gloss: A person who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.
pos: noun
gloss: A person diagnosed with any mental disorder.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: psycho
psychopathology
psychosis
psychotic
Derived words: narcopath
philanthropath
psychopathic
psychopathy
sickopath
Translations:
psychopathy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From psycho- + -pathy.
Base: psycho
Inflected forms:
form: psychopathies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A personality disorder characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egocentric traits masked by superficial charm and the outward presence of apparent normality. Violent and criminal offenses may be indicative of this disorder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mental illness; insanity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: It is true that insanity may originate in the mind, as well as in the body, but diseased action must take place in the brain, otherwise we have not, as has been well observed, “a true psychopathy.”
Related words: psycho
psychopathology
psychosis
sociopathy
Derived words: autistic psychopathy
neuropsychopathy
pseudopsychopathy
psychopath
psychopathic
schizoid psychopathy
Translations:
artistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis
Proto-Italic *artis
Latin ars
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -ista
Late Latin artistader.
French artisteder.
English artist
Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye
English -ry
English artistry
From artist + -ry.
Inflected forms:
form: artistries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Significant artistic skill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.
Translations:
anointed
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: anointeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone the process of anointing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Utter; thorough; eminent.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
slang
examples: I wonder if she has the faintest idea of what an anointed scoundrel he is?
gloss: A person who has been anointed, especially religiously.
pos: noun
Derived words: unanointed
Translations:
defiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more defiled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most defiled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Impure; dirty.
pos: adj
Translations:
keepalive
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
communication
communications
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From keep + alive.
Compound parts: keep
alive
Inflected forms:
form: keepalives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short message sent by one device to another to check that the link between the two is operating, or to prevent this link from being broken due to inactivity.
pos: noun
Translations:
cetin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The white, waxy constituent of spermaceti.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
barney
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: Etymology unknown. Often incorrectly thought to be Cockney rhyming slang from Barney Rubble (“trouble”, from the character Barney Rubble on The Flintstones), it actually dates back to the 19th century and its origin is unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: barneys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: barneys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: barneying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: barneyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: barneyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A lark, a romp, some fun.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
gloss: A hoax, a humbug, something that is not genuine, a rigged or unfair sporting contest.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: "Just keep it i' thy mind," entreated the other, as a sort of parting remembrance, "ut I won thee i' fair powell—one toss an' no barney.[…]"
Blackguardly barneys called boxing competitions.
Who would believe that Mr. Gladstone shammed being ill, and that Sir Andrew Clark issued false bulletins, and that the whole thing was a barney from beginning to end.
gloss: A poor recitation.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A noisy argument.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
slang
examples: Gary and Mum went mental, and Gary phoned them up and had a right Barney with them.
‘They had a right barney,’ Dexter said with glee, between mouthfuls. ‘Bloke wouldn′t go. Said he′d write to his MP.’
‘[…]I bet there was a right barney over her wearing a dress that exposed the rose tattoo!’ Turner concluded with a laugh.
gloss: A minor physical fight.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
slang
examples: I got stuck in the middle of a real barney between a couple of tough coppers and a handful of hairy protesters, and I didn't enjoy it one single bit.
But he doesn't seem to be so — so angry all the time, and it's ages since he and Aunt Annie had a real barney, with flying fists and screechings, that sort of thing.
‘I heard this crash, like the door was being kicked in, and then a load of shoutin′ an′ crashin′ about, like someone was havin' a real barney.’
gloss: A student at Harvard University.
pos: noun
tags: Boston
US
dialectal
examples: There goes that fuckin' Barney right now, with his fuckin' "skiin' trip." We should'a kicked that dude's ass.
gloss: Synonym of blimp (“soundproof cover for a video camera”).
pos: noun
examples: You can create your own blimp or barney with anything that will deaden the camera noise, such as a changing bag, foam rubber, […]
gloss: To recite badly; to fail.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: What avails it to make a shine in Greek if the next hour one does a barney in calculus.
gloss: To argue, to quarrel.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
UK
Synonyms: row
have a barney
squabble
or see Thesaurus:squabble
Translations:
inadmissible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French inadmissible, from Middle French inadmissible. Morphologically in- + admissible.
Base: admissible
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more inadmissible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inadmissible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inadmissable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: inadmissibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inadmissable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not admissible, especially that cannot be admitted as evidence at a trial.
pos: adj
examples: Again, the multiplist would hold that the grounds for separating admissible from inadmissible interpretations cannot be the same as the grounds for preferability among admissible interpretations.
gloss: A person who is not to be admitted (to a country, a group, etc).
pos: noun
examples: June saw a decline in Southwest Border apprehensions and inadmissibles by 18 percent compared to May. This decline follows the overall downward trend for this time of year as apprehensions and inadmissibles along the Southwest Border have declined from May to June.
Translations:
pau
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hawaiian Pidgin English pau, from Hawaiian pau (“done, finished”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: done; over; finished
pos: adj
tags: Hawaii
not-comparable
examples: I had never known any haoles except Elmer and Marks and they were ice cold affairs. Everyone was always glad when their twice-a-month visit was pau. The very island seemed to sigh with relief […]
When the county truck was pau hauling rubbish for the day, […]
Translations:
costar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr
Proto-Germanic *sternǭ
Proto-West Germanic *sternō
Proto-West Germanic *sterrō
Old English steorra
Middle English sterre
English star
English costar
From co- + star.
Inflected forms:
form: costars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: costars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: costarring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: costarred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: costarred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who shares star billing with another.
pos: noun
examples: The once famous actor objected to his costar having a bigger dressing room.
gloss: A person who slightly lacks the status to be considered a star.
pos: noun
examples: Alas, always a costar but never a star.
gloss: To perform with the billing of a costar.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: People thought his career was over but now he will get to costar on Broadway next month.
gloss: To feature (a number of star performers) jointly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Purchasing a snowplow transforms Homer into a new man. Mr. Burns' laziest employee suddenly becomes an ambitious self-starter who buys ad time on local television at 3:17 A.M^([sic]) (prime viewing hours, Homer gingerly volunteers, for everyone from alcoholics to the unemployable to garden-variety angry loners) and makes a homemade commercial costarring his family.
Translations:
optimization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *-tm̥mos
?
Latin optimus
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French optim(isme)
▲
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istabor.
French -iste
French optimistebor.
English optimistbf.
English optimize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English optimization
From optimize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: optimizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: optimisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The reduction of a program or algorithm to its most efficient form, as during compilation, by removing unused portions of code and improving the speed or resource usage of others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: linear programming
Derived words: answer engine optimization
combinatorial optimization
constrained optimization
continuous optimization
convex optimization
deoptimization
discrete optimization
global optimization
hyperoptimization
micro-optimization
optimizational
optimization problem
overoptimization
peephole optimization
premature optimization
preoptimization
search engine optimization
stochastic optimization
suboptimization
superoptimization
tail-call optimization
unconstrained optimization
underoptimization
Translations:
CAPTCHA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Coined by a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 as a loose acronym of “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”.
Inflected forms:
form: CAPTCHAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: captcha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Captcha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A computerized test requiring the human user to perform a task deemed to be difficult to automate, such as entering a displayed series of distorted characters or describing images, to demonstrate that they are a human and not a computer program.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: CAPTCHA puzzles are intended to be easy for a human to solve but difficult for a computer. Because of the monetary value to spammers of circumventing these controls, an arms race has occurred in which typical CAPTCHA puzzles have […]
A CAPTCHA is a quick check to make sure that an actual person, rather than a computer program, is using the website. Web applications use CAPTCHA […]
Translations:
phooey
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Yiddish פֿוי (foy), from German pfui, influenced by phoo.
Inflected forms:
form: phooie
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: phooie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An expression of disgust, rejection, or disappointment.
pos: intj
gloss: hooey; nonsense
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
Translations: