yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
grammarian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gramarien, from Middle French gramarien, gramairien. Displaced native Old English stæfcræftiga.
Inflected forms:
form: grammarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who studies grammar, either scientifically or (traditionally) unscientifically.
pos: noun
examples: Huddleston and Pullum are well-known grammarians of the 21st century.
The goal of a grammarian is to discover the morphemes and words within a language, and to discover how they combine in the grammar.
gloss: A person who pedantically critiques the grammar of others' speech or writing, especially when unscientifically and misguidedly.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: They spent hours disabusing the misinformed rants of various armchair grammarians.
Related words: grammarization
grammarizing
grammatical
grammaticality
grammaticalization
grammaticity
grammaticization
grammatization
ungrammatical
descriptivist
linguist
prescriptivist
Derived words: Neogrammarian
Translations:
montre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: French montre (“show, show case, organ case”).
Inflected forms:
form: montres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organ stop, usually the open diapason, having its pipes on display as part of the organ case, or otherwise specially mounted.
pos: noun
gloss: A hole in the wall of a pottery kiln, by which the state of the pieces inside can be judged.
pos: noun
Translations:
instalment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: instalments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Australia, UK, and Canada standard spelling of installment.
pos: noun
Translations:
sliding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slidings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that slides.
pos: noun
examples: Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros […]
gloss: skeleton (winter sport)
pos: noun
gloss: Designed or able to slide.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Our yard is just outside the sliding door.
Translations:
moka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Italian moka.
Inflected forms:
form: moka
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mokas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A moka pot.
pos: noun
examples: In a moka, water boils in a closed chamber with enough headroom to allow a head of steam to collect. The pressure from the steam forces the hot water to escape from the chamber and pass through the ground coffee.
Translations:
batboy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
Etymology: From bat + boy.
Compound parts: bat
boy
Inflected forms:
form: batboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boy employed to watch over the bats, and assist the players in retrieving them during play.
pos: noun
Translations:
lectureship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lecture
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English lectureship
From lecture + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: lectureships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A position as a lecturer.
pos: noun
gloss: A series of lectures, possibly by different lecturers, on a common theme.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that provides for lectures to be presented.
pos: noun
Translations:
lexicographical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti
Proto-Hellenic *légō
Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek λέξῐς (léxĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek λεξῐκός (lexĭkós)
English lexico-
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor.
French -graphieder.
English -graphy
English lexicography
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English lexicographic
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 lexicographical
From lexicographic + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more lexicographical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lexicographical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to lexicography.
pos: adj
examples: More importantly, there is an untold multitude of Indian English terms that have never been given lexicographical treatment in any dictionary.
gloss: Meeting lexicographical standards or requirements; worthy of being included in a dictionary.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.
pos: adj
Synonyms: lexicographic
Related words: lexical
Derived words: lexicographically
metalexicographical
nonlexicographical
unlexicographical
Translations:
Bharatiya
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi भारतीय (bhārtīya),
Inflected forms:
form: more Bharatiya
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Bharatiya
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Bhartiya
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Indian, especially in a nationalist context.
pos: adj
tags: India
Translations:
livability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der.
Proto-Germanic *an
Proto-West Germanic *ana
Old English on
Proto-Indo-European *leyp-
Proto-Germanic *lībanąder.
Proto-Germanic *lībą
Proto-West Germanic *līb
Old English līfder.
Old English līfe
Old English on līfe
Middle English alyve
English aliveclip.
English live
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English livability
From live + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: livabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: liveability
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The property of being livable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The livability of the shack was questioned, but the old man had lived there for 50 years.
Translations:
livelong
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English live long, leve-long, lefe long (as in Alle the lefe longe daye), equivalent to lief + long. Compare Dutch heel den lieven langen dag (“all the livelong day”), German der liebe lange Tag (“the livelong day”) and German die liebe lange Nacht (“the livelong night”).
Compound parts: lief
long
Inflected forms:
form: live-long
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: livelongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: live-long
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Total, complete, whole.
pos: adj
examples: I've been working on the railroad, all the livelong day.
How dreary to be somebody! / How public, like a frog / To tell your name the livelong day / To an admiring bog!
[…] so they might spend the livelong day as befitteth high holiday, in pleasure and action without care, and thereafter revel in the lofty presence chamber till night grew old with eating and drinking and all delight.
gloss: Lasting; durable.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Thou hast built thyself a live-long monument.
gloss: Orpine (Hylotelephium telephium syn. Sedum telephium).
pos: noun
Related words: lifelong
Translations:
loggia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian loggia, from Old French loge, from Medieval Latin laubĭa, from Frankish *laubijā. Doublet of lobby and lodge.
Inflected forms:
form: loggias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: logge
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loggie
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A roofed, open gallery, usually on an upper level.
pos: noun
examples: Mr Carrados was standing in the loggia of the Hotel Beverley when a not unfamiliar sound claimed his attention.
Translations:
palmo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish palmo (“handspan”) and Portuguese palmo (“handspan”), both from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and pam.
Inflected forms:
form: palmos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: palma
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pam
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 20.8 cm.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A traditional Portuguese unit of length, usually equivalent to about 22 cm.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: Portuguese span
Spanish span
cuarta
span
handspan
palm
Translations:
bleah
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Expresses negative feeling. The quality of the emotion expressed is more negative than that of blah and has a slight feeling of disgust, verging on nausea.
pos: intj
tags: US
slang
examples: You bought that green station wagon? Bleah!
Reviewing my list of ickisms - yuck, yecch, bleah, ew and ick - the linguist [David McNeill] observes, "Negative words having to do with disgust seem to be embodied in the experience of expelling unwanted, possibly poisonous, materials from the mouth. […]
Translations:
checkpoint
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
Etymology: From check + point.
Compound parts: check
point
Inflected forms:
form: checkpoints
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: checkpoints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: checkpointing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: checkpointed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: checkpointed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.
pos: noun
examples: The travellers were stopped at the checkpoint.
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
A few days later I ford the Jordan River on a bus: Foot travel across Allenby Bridge checkpoint is strictly prohibited.
gloss: A situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs; the data stored at this event.
pos: noun
examples: After the crash, we rolled back the database to the last checkpoint.
gloss: A predetermined point in a map, level or scenario that the player may resume from if they die or restart.
pos: noun
examples: You can't finish the race if you haven't passed all of the checkpoints on the track.
This is not a videogame, this is real life! People get hurt! There is no restart from last checkpoint.
gloss: A biological control mechanism ensuring correct progression through the cell cycle.
pos: noun
gloss: To set a checkpoint.
pos: verb
Derived words: checkpoint protein
immunocheckpoint
internet checkpoint
Translations:
muttering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mutterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that is muttered.
pos: noun
examples: I managed to catch a few of his mutterings.
gloss: A rumour.
pos: noun
Translations:
organon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon). Doublet of organ, organum, and orgue.
Inflected forms:
form: organons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of principles that are used in science or philosophy.
pos: noun
examples: 1999, Kant (Guyer and Wood trans.), Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press.
Hence pure reason is that which contains the principles for cognizing something absolutely a priori. An organon of pure reason would be a sum total of those principles.
gloss: The name given by Aristotle's followers to his six works on logic.
pos: noun
examples: He thought that it might not be so bad with Merlyn, who might be able to make even the old Organon interesting, particularly if he would do some magic.
Derived words: organonic
Translations:
situational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English situation
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 situational
From situation + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more situational
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most situational
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a particular situation or situations in general.
pos: adj
Translations:
Rockefeller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From John D. Rockefeller, the American industrialist who founded Standard Oil, also recognized for his 20th century philanthropy.
Inflected forms:
form: Rockefellers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very rich person.
pos: noun
examples: "You don't have to be a Rockefeller to have an air conditioner," she said.
Annie: You're acting like you won the lotto yourself.
Jackie: Aye, aye, Rockefeller, that's me.
Translations:
grinds
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Tutoring; extra lessons in a specific subject outside of school hours.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
colloquial
examples: You're not top of the class in English, he points out. She licks her teeth, unconcerned. Maybe you should give me grinds, Connell, she says.
gloss: Food, eats.
pos: noun
tags: Hawaii
slang
gloss: Used ground coffee, coffee grounds.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
examples: That was a song that Ida sometimes sang, puttering inefficiently about the kitchen, which always seemed sandy with coffee grinds and vaguely immoral with dead cigarettes on the burnt, blistered paint of the shelves.
Translations:
chambering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chamberings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The chamber of a gun or other firearm.
pos: noun
Translations:
co-agonist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English agonist
English co-agonist
From co- + agonist.
Inflected forms:
form: co-agonists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drug or other chemical that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiologic reaction typical of a naturally occurring substance. Co-agonist implies it is one of other agonists working in conjunction.
pos: noun
Translations:
consolidation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin cōnsolidātiō, cōnsolidātiōnem, from cōnsolidō.
Inflected forms:
form: consolidations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The combination of several actions into one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A solidification into a firm dense mass. It is usually applied to induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The areas of lung dysventilation with an absence of alveolar air are visualized in the form of consolidations adjacent to the pleural line.
These included multilobular consolidation with histiological lesions of bronchiolitis with epithelial necrosis and syncytia [14 ].
Derived words: anticonsolidation
con
consol
deconsolidation
microconsolidation
nonconsolidation
order consolidation
overconsolidation
preconsolidation
Translations:
conserved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more conserved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conserved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to something to which conservation has been applied; saved from being wasted
pos: adj
examples: This hybrid automobile saves a lot of money from conserved gasoline.
Translations:
perc
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: perc.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Percutaneous.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: perc trach
Translations:
hyphy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Probably an alteration of hype or hyper. American rapper Keak da Sneak is sometimes credited as coining the word in the 1990s, but no evidence exists to support this and the term is first attested in 2002.
Inflected forms:
form: hyphier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hyphiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hyphe
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hyphee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hyphie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hyphe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hyphee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hyphie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Rambunctious, loud, crazy, dangerous, irrational, and outrageous in behavior.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: She was so hyphy outside the club Saturday night, she nearly punched a cop!
gloss: Of or relating to the hyphy music subgenre or culture.
pos: adj
examples: Oakland is the place to look for 'hyphy' (hyperactive) New Bay hip-hop, while SoCal is still riding the 'crunk' (crazy-drunk) drum and bass beats with […]
gloss: A subgenre of hip-hop music and dancing associated with the San Francisco Bay Area.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It was Oakland rapper Keak Da Sneak who claims to have invented the term: upon being told by his mother that he was “hyperactive”, Keak repeated the term as “hyphy”. Since then, hyphy has come to refer to a complex group of cultural activities synonymous with Oakland: it is at once a sound, a behavior, a choice in recreational drugs.
Translations:
mara
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse mara, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ, cognate with Old English mare or mære. Doublet of mare. See nightmare.
Inflected forms:
form: maras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nightmare; a spectre or wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore; a female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.
pos: noun
tags: European
examples: The corpus of related texts tells us that within rural society it was not improbable for your neighbour's envy of your fine cattle to take the form of a mara.
Translations:
ponto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese ponto (“point”), Old Galician-Portuguese ponto, from Latin punctum, from pungō (“to prick, to puncture”). Doublet of point, pointe, puncto, punctum, punt, and punto.
Inflected forms:
form: pontos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional short Portuguese unit of length usually about equal to 0.2 mm.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
testo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of testosterone.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: testosterone, especially pharmaceutical testosterone
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
greengage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, green + gage. See alternative etymology below, as this is incorrect: the etymology for gage is a back-formation from greengage.
alternative etymology
The legend goes that Sir William Gage, 2nd Baronet of Hengrave, (c. 1656–1727), had a shipment of plums from France, in which the labels of the reine-claude got lost, by which reason his gardener called it after his master. Horticulturist Peter Collinson reports in his notes edited by L. W. Dillwyn in 1843, page 60: I was on a visit to Sir William Gage, at Hengrave, near Bury; he was then near 70; he told me that he first brought over, from France, the Grosse reine Claude, and introduced it into England, and in compliment to him the Plum was called the Green Gage; this was about the year 1725. Contrary to the common story however here the French name is known to the baronet, and it could consequentially completely be a running joke, in that he exploited a coincidental likeness of his name to a plant name to become part of history. An older term denoting the very same plum cultivar, which ultimately derives from the Near East, via the Sublime Porte under Kanuni Süleyman, is found in Persian گوجه سبز (gowje sabz)
Inflected forms:
form: greengages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: green-gage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: green gage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: green-gedge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A plum cultivar with greenish-yellow flesh and skin, Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana.
pos: noun
examples: The apricot rarely produces any fruit, except in a few places, and then very scantily. The greengage plum is nearly equally unproductive.
Just where the horse trams trundled across the market was a row of fruit stalls, with fruit blazing in the sun—apples and piles of reddish oranges, small greengage plums and bananas.
Translations:
floruit
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin flōruit (“he/she/it flourished”), from flōreō (“bloom, flourish”), from flōs (“flower”).
Inflected forms:
form: fl.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: flor.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: floruits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fl.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: flor.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: lived, used in biographies to indicate a time period during which a person is known to have been alive, when dates of birth and/or death are not known.
pos: verb
tags: defective
examples: Marius Mercator must have shared the vigour of Alcimus, for he floruit in 218 according to Mr. Miller , while he at any rate existed in 418.
J. Joyce (floruit 1850)
In 1926 Svevo wrote a letter to James Joyce in Paris inquiring if he were related to the J. Joyce who in 1850 had had printed and published by Lloyd Austriaco in Trieste a book[...]
Mīrā (Bai). Floruit 16th century. Rajasthan's most famous female saint and poetess of Kṛṣṇa bhakti.
gloss: The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak.
pos: noun
examples: Though Aristotle claimed that a human being reaches his intellectual peak at age forty-nine (Rhetoric 1390b9), chronologists reckon a person's flowering—his floruit—at about age forty. The mists of time have made the precise reckoning of chronology quite difficult. Sometimes, when a birth is not known, a floruit can be estimated on the basis of what is known about an individual's career.
Translations:
mummer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mummer, mommer, equivalent to mum + -er, perhaps conflating with Old French momeor (“jester, entertainer”), from mommer (“to wear a mask”), from momon (“mask”). Compare German Mumme (“mask”), 16th Century German mummen (“to disguise oneself”), Middle Dutch mommen, mummen (“to go about in a mask, to disguise”), Middle Low Saxon mommen (“to wear a mask, to disguise”), Dutch mom (“mask”) and mimmen (“to mask”) as well as Spanish momo (“grimace”).
Perhaps both of the conflated terms are from the same ultimate root, as note Middle Low Saxon mummen (“to speak indistinctly, to disguise oneself”), Dutch mommen (“to speak indistinctly”), German mummen (“to speak indistinctly”), English mump (“to grimace, mumble”).
Base: mum
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: mummers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mummers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mummering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mummered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mummered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.
pos: noun
gloss: An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression.
pos: noun
examples: [To] perform as mummers, who act in relays of eight, at the worship of ancestors.
gloss: Synonym of mum (“to act in pantomime or dumb show”).
pos: verb
examples: There is a general agreement that niggering [blackface performance] took over from mummering to keep up the old custom.
We mummered taverns and restaurants and the airport (the dead man went round and round on the luggage carousel). We mummered Portuguese fishing trawlers in the harbour, where the show worked despite the language barrier, […]
Related words: mummery
mumchance
Derived words: Mummerset
Translations:
ballyhooed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ballyhoo
English -ed
English ballyhooed
From ballyhoo + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more ballyhooed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ballyhooed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sensationalized; presented with grand claims.
pos: adj
examples: Waitress: There's a man over there who says he's waiting for you.
Niles: Ah. No doubt the much ballyhooed Bob.
"...viewers didn't hate them. They were just shocked by them. And all of the ballyhooed techniques used by the armies of market researchers at CBS utterly failed to distinguish between these two very different emotions."
"In Iraq, [director of the American University of Beirut's Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs Rami] Khouri said, the country's vote in January 2005 produced the "much-ballyhooed purple ink-stained finger" but cannot be equated with credible democratic transformation."
Behind the scenes, the system had quietly punched a neat loophole into the ballyhooed reform.
Translations:
lascar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindustani لشکر / लश्कर (laśkar), from Persian لشکر (laškar). Doublet of askari.
Inflected forms:
form: lascars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Lascar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lashkar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: laskar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sailor from India or Southeast Asia, especially as serving on a European ship.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: A motley crowd saunters along the streets — Lascars off a P. and O., blond Northmen from a Swedish barque, Japanese from a man-of-war, English sailors, Spaniards, pleasant-looking fellows from a French cruiser, negroes off an American tramp.
...and what foreigner is it, exactly, that Pirate has in mind if it isn't that stateless lascar across his own mirror-glass, that poorest of exiles...
As for the voyage itself, his account of Mauritius, where the ship stopped, saw the appearance of Muslim lascars.
gloss: A tent-pitcher; also a type of artilleryman.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Pantoporia and Lasippa.
pos: noun
Translations:
inappropriately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inappropriate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inappropriately
From inappropriate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inappropriately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inappropriately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inappropriate manner.
pos: adv
examples: behave inappropriately
inappropriately dressed
inappropriately titled
Antonyms: appropriately
Translations:
shyer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shier
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A horse that shies.
pos: noun
Translations:
kapu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hawaiian kapu, from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of taboo.
Inflected forms:
form: kapu
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kapus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Taboo, especially in Hawaiian contexts.
pos: noun
examples: The operation of taboos – or kapu – kept society ordered, quite cruelly on occasion.
Translations:
brak
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more brak
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brak
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: braks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Brackish.
pos: adj
tags: South-Africa
examples: Brak soils, which continue to be a subject of research, are unlikely to provide a major stumbling block […] However, brak conditions and their effects underline many of the principles of good soil management[…]
gloss: A dog of mixed breed; a mongrel.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
Translations:
estimable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English estimable, estymable, from Old French estimable, from Latin aestimābilis. Equivalent to esteem + -able and estimate + -able.
Base: esteem
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more estimable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most estimable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Worthy of esteem; admirable.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: esteemed, revered
[Homer] allows their characters such estimable qualities as could consist, and in truth generally do, with tender frailties.
Mr. March told […]how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.
For all this, the worn collodion image gracing his memoirs shows a man of estimable appearance in a sober woolen suit and brocade waistcoat.
gloss: Valuable.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
Is not so estimable, profitable neither,
As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.
gloss: Capable of being estimated; estimatable.
pos: adj
examples: After this time boric acid is always present in estimable amounts.
In this section we review the recent theory that generates an estimable Phillips curve relation.
Derived words: estimableness
estimably
inestimable
unestimable
Translations:
thickener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thicken
English -er
English thickener
From thicken + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: thickeners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which thickens.
pos: noun
examples: This is a new twist, a plot thickener.
gloss: Any substance added to something in order to thicken it; a thickening agent; a binder.
pos: noun
Derived words: biothickener
Translations:
stabilizer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
manufacturing
mathematics
sciences
textiles
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stable
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English stabilize
English -er
English stabilizer
From stabilize + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stabilizers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stabiliser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any person or thing that brings stability.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
gloss: Any person or thing that brings stability.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
gloss: Any person or thing that brings stability.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
gloss: Any person or thing that brings stability.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
gloss: Any person or thing that brings stability.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
gloss: For a group operating on a set and an element x of the set, the set of all group elements fixing x.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
Derived words: autostabilizer
gyroscopic stabilizer
gyrostabilizer
horizontal stabilizer
mood stabilizer
orbit-stabilizer theorem
osmostabilizer
photostabilizer
phytostabilizer
stabilizer subgroup
vertical stabilizer
Translations:
kob
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Kanuri kob (“antelope”) or another related Central Sudanic form.
Inflected forms:
form: kobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kob
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: koba
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck, Kobus kob.
pos: noun
Translations:
Canarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Canary
English -an
English Canarian
From Canary + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Canarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the Canary Islands, Spain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the Canary Islands, Spain.
pos: noun
Translations:
liquified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more liquified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most liquified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: liquefied
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Converted into a liquid state.
pos: adj
Translations:
kut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Korean 굿 (gut), romanized as kut under the McCune-Reischauer romanization system.
Inflected forms:
form: goot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Korean shamanic ritual.
pos: noun
Translations:
outercourse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of outer + intercourse.
Compound parts: outer
intercourse
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sexual activity without vaginal or anal penetration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Afterplay, also referred to as postcoital play, spans a wide variety of possible activities, including cuddling, holding hands, kissing, talking, stroking, massaging, or reengaging in sexual acts like oral sex, mutual masturbation, outercourse, or intercourse.
Translations:
columned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English column
English -ed
English columned
From column + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having columns.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The columned great hall seemed smaller because there were no straight lines of sight not blocked by a column.
[…] the wall that bounds it on the side of the Palace, the one-columned portico at its southern end, and the paved ways that lead to it, […]
Translations:
rimming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of performing a rim job; anilingus.
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
uncountable
vulgar
Translations:
snobbery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From snob + -ery – doubled ‘b’ to clarify pronunciation of ‘o’.
Base: snob
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: snobberies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property or trait of being a snob.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
coordinated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more coordinated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most coordinated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Organized, working together, cooperating
pos: adj
gloss: Physically graceful or skillful
pos: adj
gloss: Having coordinate bonds
pos: adj
Antonyms: uncoordinated
Derived words: coordinatedly
heptacoordinated
hexacoordinated
incoordinated
miscoordinated
monocoordinated
noncoordinated
octacoordinated
pentacoordinated
precoordinated
tetracoordinated
tricoordinated
undercoordinated
Translations:
gick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Excrement.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
slang
uncountable
examples: If I did a gick in me pants he'd kill me!
Translations:
architectonic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin architectonicus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτεκτονικός (arkhitektonikós), from ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “architect”).
Inflected forms:
form: more architectonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most architectonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: architectonics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or characteristic of architecture, design and construction.
pos: adj
examples: architectonic wisdom
[T]he great Creator hath likevviſe ſignalized his Care and Skill, by giving Animals an architectonick Faculty, to build themſelves convenient places of Retirement, in vvhich to repoſe and ſecure themſelves, and to nurſe up their Young.
these architectonic functions
gloss: Foundational, fundamental; supporting the structure of a morality, society, or culture.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: We do not of course always, or even often, find the moral principles clearly and consciously expressed or consistently supported, but we cannot but feel that they are present in the shape of instincts, and those instincts pervading and architectonic.
[…] the Agamemnon and the Libation-Bearers contain extensive choral odes, unequalled for their architectonic majesty in the whole range of dramatic art.
gloss: Relating to the scientific systematization of the totality of knowledge.
pos: adj
gloss: The design, structure, or architecture of something.
pos: noun
examples: Because the poems are an investigation into the nature of time, it is important to be aware of the overall temporal architectonic of the love-cycle.
The question of commandeering social space and, by extension, reviving a public sphere could well be developed within the architectonic of Bakhtin's theory.
Derived words: angioarchitectonic
architectonically
chemoarchitectonic
cytoarchitectonic
myeloarchitectonic
Translations:
ligger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English liggere; equivalent to lig + -er. Doublet of ledger.
Many senses (especially sense 5) are likely formed anew from lig rather than continuations of the preceding senses.
Base: lig
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: liggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: liggar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
Senses:
gloss: The horizontal timber of a scaffolding; a ledger.
pos: noun
gloss: A simply supported plank over a stream used as a footbridge.
pos: noun
gloss: A nether millstone.
pos: noun
gloss: A coverlet for a bed.
pos: noun
gloss: A freeloader or hanger-on, especially in the music or entertainment industry.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Peaches Geldof may be a top showbiz ligger – but now she’s got a group of her own.
The ligger caused a scene when he begged one reveller to find him some gear – and offered sexual favours in return.
I'm a lone wolf ligger, but I ain't no pretty boy. I'm a backbone shiver and I'm a bundle of joy
gloss: A kelt (“thin, recently spawned salmon”).
pos: noun
gloss: A baited fishing line attached to a float, for night fishing, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: One who lies in bed.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: A layer.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
Derived words: liggerati
outrigger
Translations:
wetback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First used in the 1920s from the presumed effects of swimming or wading across the Rio Grande. Used by the U.S. Government in 1954 with Operation Wetback.
Inflected forms:
form: wetbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: 1920, Temporary admission of illiterate Mexican laborers: Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 141,
Mr. HUDSPETH. […] I stood here and did all in my power to keep the “wetback” […] from coming across. And I stand here to-day asking for that.
The CHAIRMAN. […] What is a “wetback”?
Mr. HUDSPETH. You have heard a “wetback” described; he is a fellow that crosses the river surreptitiously.
The charges against the U.S. had cited cases of peonage and labor under forced contracts in Maine, Connecticut, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia and California. They had revealed that thousands of “wetbacks” (i.e., Mexican laborers who wade the Rio Grande in search of work in the U.S.) lived in squalor and poverty, sometimes were paid as little as $8 a week.
He went through a couple of bottles of wine and made a speech denouncing wetbacks and Asian immigrants.
A successful wetback, the limo driver was thinking—that was his assessment of his Mexican-American passenger.
gloss: A person of the mestizo race; a mojado.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
Related words: illegal alien
illegal
Derived words: whiteback
Translations:
lowland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From low + land.
Compound parts: low
land
Inflected forms:
form: lowlands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An area which is considered particularly low or lower than surrounding areas.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: bottomland, bottomlands, alluvial plain, floodplain, slough, bayou, marsh, bog, fen, moor, morass
The lowland region was prone to flooding during the rainy season.
However, between Monrovia (6°20'N/10°46'W) and Buchanan (5°57'N/10°02'W) highlands approach to within 25 km of the coast. East of Buchanan the lowlands reach nearly 100 km inland, in the Cestos Valley, but narrow again to 30 km towards the eastern border.
Translations:
psychopathological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ)
Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der.
English psycho-
Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der.
Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logie
French pathologiebor.
English pathology
English psychopathology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
▲
English psycho-
▲
English pathology
▲
English -ical
English pathological
English psychopathological
From psychopathology + -ical, or from psycho- + pathological.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to psychopathology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
institutionalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English institution
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 institutional
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
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 -ization
English institutionalization
From institutional + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: institutionalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: institutionalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Senses:
gloss: The process of establishing a practice as a norm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The government began the institutionalization of background checks for internet users.
gloss: The process of committing a person to a facility where their freedom to leave will be restrained, usually a mental hospital.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The institutionalization of Syd Barrett was a major event in the history of the rock group Pink Floyd.
gloss: The presence of social deficits or disabilities as a result of a long period spent in a prison, mental hospitals, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: institutionalize
institutionalise
commitment
Derived words: transinstitutionalization
Translations:
institutionalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English institution
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 institutional
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English institutionalize
From institutional + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: institutionalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: institutionalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: institutionalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: institutionalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: institutionalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To establish as a normal practice.
pos: verb
examples: Gary Orlando, legislative aid to McDonald, told GCN that the congressman sponsored the bill because "he does not want to institutionalize homosexual acts. We can't use funds to promote, legitimize, or accept this kind of behavior.
gloss: To commit a person to confinement in an institution.
pos: verb
Derived words: deinstitutionalize
institutionalizable
institutionalization
institutionalizer
overinstitutionalize
reinstitutionalize
transinstitutionalize
Translations:
masquerading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: masqueradings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who masquerades.
pos: noun
examples: At supper, the same evening, after his return, the emperor was relating to Berthier, Mortier, Duroc, and other officers present, the history of his unfortunate masqueradings, at the same time laughing very heartily at his want of success in un-playing the emperor.
Translations:
institutionalized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more institutionalized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most institutionalized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been established as an institution.
pos: adj
examples: It is very difficult to get bureaucracies to abandon their institutionalized practices.
gloss: Having been committed to an institution, such as a prison or an insane asylum.
pos: adj
examples: Once a potential employer learns that you've been institutionalized, you can forget about getting the job.
gloss: Having become dependent after a long time in, and unable to function outside of an institution, especially a prison.
pos: adj
Derived words: noninstitutionalized
postinstitutionalized
uninstitutionalized
Translations:
divided
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English divided, devided, devidid, past participle of Middle English dividen (“to divide”), equivalent to divide + -ed.
Base: divide
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more divided
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most divided
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: separated or split into pieces
pos: adj
gloss: having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions
pos: adj
examples: divided opinions
gloss: disunited
pos: adj
examples: divided nation
gloss: (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median
pos: adj
tags: US
Antonyms: undivided
combined
unified
Derived words: a house divided against itself cannot stand
divided highway
dividedly
dividedness
divided skirt
house divided
individed
nondivided
semidivided
Translations:
tiredness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tiredness, terednesse, equivalent to tired + -ness.
Base: tired
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: tirednesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tirednesse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being tired.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations: