yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
tenured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having tenure
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Experienced at a workplace; seasoned
pos: adj
tags: Philippines
not-comparable
Antonyms: untenured
Derived words: nontenured
overtenured
Translations:
test-fly
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: test-flies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: test-flying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: test-flew
pos: verb
tags: past
form: test-flown
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To fly an aircraft in order to evaluate its performance
pos: verb
Translations:
textural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English texture
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 textural
From texture + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to texture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
theater-in-the-round
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: theaters-in-the-round
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: theater in the round
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: theatre-in-the-round
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: theatre in the round
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A theatre in the form of an arena, with seating on at least three of the four sides
pos: noun
Translations:
theatricality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From theatrical + -ity.
Base: theatrical
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: theatricalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Theatrical behaviour and mannerisms.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The contradictoriness and multifacetedness of identity is a constant theme in a play which deals so centrally with ideas of plays, illusion, rôle-playing and theatricality.
However both theatricality and amphitheatricality find their clearest imagistic expression in the disruption of the landscape in which the doomed Orpheus performs his enchanting song to a 'theatre' of birds, animals and trees (11.22 Orphei...
Translations:
theatricals
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: histrionics
pos: noun
Translations:
theatrics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English theatric
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English theatrics
From theatric + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Theatrical appearance or character.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: the swingy, shooty theatrics of Bionic Commando
gloss: Histrionics.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Drogba's main contribution prior to his goal was to go through his full range of theatrics but this was an example of exactly why Di Matteo made him his choice.
Even though Susan thought her somewhat flappish at times, behind all her theatrics, she was a sound friend.
Translations:
rent-a-quote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rent-a-quotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is prepared to provide comment or opinion to the media on virtually any topic, either in exchange for payment or in order to gain exposure.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
Translations:
therm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1920s, from Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “heat”). See also thermo-, -thermic, etc.
Inflected forms:
form: therms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: therms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: therming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thermed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thermed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units, often used in the context of natural gas.
pos: noun
gloss: A technique used by woodturners to simultaneously create multiple copies of spindles and table legs.
pos: verb
Translations:
thermometric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From thermo- + -metric.
Base: thermo
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the measurement of temperature.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or employing a thermometer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "It is quite chilly," whispered Enid, with a shiver. "It is not a subjective feeling," Mailey answered. "Mr. Harry Price has tested it with thermometric readings. So did Professor Crawford."
Synonyms: thermometrical
Derived words: telethermometric
thermometrically
thermometrician
Translations:
thickheaded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From thick + headed.
Compound parts: thick
headed
Inflected forms:
form: more thickheaded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thickheaded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: stupid, obtuse or dumb.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Translations:
thievish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English thevysch, equivalent to thief + -ish. Cognate with Saterland Frisian däifsk (“thievish”), Dutch diefs (“thievish”), German Low German deevsk (“thievish”), German diebisch (“thievish”).
Base: thief
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more thievish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thievish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a tendency to steal.
pos: adj
examples: I tel you true my hart is ſwolne with wrath,
On this ſame theeuish villain Tamburlain.
And of that false Coſroe, my traiterous brother,
Would it not grieue a King to be so abuſ’d?
And haue a thouſand horſmen tane away?
gloss: Having the manner of a thief; furtive; stealthy.
pos: adj
examples: What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food,
Or with a base and boist'rous sword enforce
A thievish living on the common road?
Derived words: thievishly
thievishness
Translations:
thistledown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thistle
English down
English thistledown
From thistle + down.
Inflected forms:
form: thistledowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The soft, feathery pappus attached to the seeds of a thistle.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Yet, let me not reproach myself, since the blame is due to her lightness of heart, her fickle fancy—no stabler than gossamer or thistledown—which the first wanton breath wafts elsewhere.
Translations:
thought-out
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From thought + out.
Compound parts: thought
out
Inflected forms:
form: more thought-out
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thought-out
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: thought out
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: planned
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
Translations:
thrasher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash + -er.
Base: thrash
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: thrashers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who thrashes.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.
pos: noun
gloss: A thresher shark.
pos: noun
gloss: A fan of thrash metal music.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: brown thrasher
Cozumel thrasher
crissal thrasher
curve-billed thrasher
pearly-eyed thrasher
sage thrasher
Translations:
threader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thread
English -er
English threader
From thread + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: threaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device used to thread needles.
pos: noun
gloss: A device used to machine a screw thread.
pos: noun
Derived words: needle threader
Translations:
thready
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *thredi, *thredy (suggested by derivative Middle English thredines, þredinez (“fibrousness, stringiness”, literally “threadiness”)), equivalent to thread + -y.
Base: thread
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: threadier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: threadiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
pos: adj
examples: The roote is threddy, like the roote of the ſecond kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer[-]laſting, putting forth yearely new ſprings, as alſo doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies.
gloss: weak.
pos: adj
examples: A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.
Related words: threaden
Derived words: threadily
threadiness
Translations:
three-ply
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having three strands or layers
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The vestibule ceilings are of three-ply, in removable sections to give access to the air-conditioning units, filters, and Pullman gangway control springs situated above.
It has been found that although the two-ply moquette used in L.T. train upholstery was of equal weight to the three-ply fabric used in L.T. buses, the bus fabric had 50 per cent longer life, and accordingly it is now being used also for trains.
gloss: Yarn having three strands
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
thrombotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more thrombotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thrombotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or caused by thrombosis
pos: adj
Translations:
thumbscrew
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thumb
English screw
English thumbscrew
From thumb + screw.
Inflected forms:
form: thumbscrews
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thumb-screw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thumb screw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A screw that is designed to be turned with the thumb and fingers, thus requiring no screwdriver or spanner (wrench).
pos: noun
examples: Very interested, Dr Grimsby watched the saw follow the fine pencil line on the white pearwood as Peter dexterously twirled the veneers on the fretwork table, timing the movement of both hands precisely to put no strain on either the saw or the wood. Nor did he acknowledge their presence till he had finished a section of the pattern, gingerly released the saw from its upper thumbscrew, and drawn it out of the wood.
gloss: An instrument of torture used to crush the fingers.
pos: noun
examples: To ensure good behavior, the slaveholder relies on the whip; […] to imbrute and destroy his manhood, he relies on the whip, the chain, the gag, the thumb-screw, the pillory, the bowie-knife, the pistol, and the blood-hound.
gloss: A weakness that can be taken advantage of.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Law 33: Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew ― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
Translations:
thunderer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thunder
English -er
English thunderer
From thunder + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: thunderers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who thunders.
pos: noun
examples: Thor, Odin's son, is the thunderer.
Translations:
Caledonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin Calēdoniabor.
English Caledonia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Caledonian
From Caledonia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: more Caledonian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Caledonian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Caledonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In or from Caledonia; (jocularly) Scottish.
pos: adj
gloss: In or from New Caledonia.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to a mountain-forming period (orogeny) in Europe.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Caledonia; a Scot.
pos: noun
examples: I congratulate the Caledonians on the acquiſition of this new Saint, but wonder if the German crows were ſo civil to refrain from ſo ſavoury a Scotch haggiſs.
In the early 1770s the bogey figure for opposition politicians was arguably not so much North in the Commons as Mansfield behind the curtain, the country's greatest lawyer (and another Caledonian to gratify the Scotophobes) keeping an irresolute Cabinet committed to waging war in America.
In front a staff sergeant with the new Royal Caledonians was gassing about Scullion and the regiment. 'And this major's a total fucking mentalist,' he said. 'What's mental about him?' asked the lance corporal beside him.
gloss: Someone from the ancient Celtic tribe (or group of tribes) called Caledonians, in Scotland
pos: noun
Derived words: Caledonian Canal
Caledonian Forest
Translations:
essent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Coined by Ralph Manheim in his 1959 English translation of Martin Heidegger’s Einführung in die Metaphysik to render German Seiendes (as distinct from Sein), on the basis of essens, a faux-Latin present participle of sum.
Inflected forms:
form: essents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: that which is; an entity, a being, an existent
pos: noun
examples: Why are there essents rather than nothing? That is the question. Clearly it is no ordinary question. “Why are there essents, why is there anything at all, rather than nothing?”—obviously this is the first of all questions, though not in a chronological sense.
As against this, the non-conceptual creative word, instead of enabling us to grasp and lay hold of what is already there before us, instead of serving merely as a means to describing what is present, calls into being. It is evocative of Being; it invokes that presence (Anwesenheit), i.e., Being, within which (in the light of which) anything can appear before us as an essent.
The essent can be things at our disposal; things at hand such as tools, or vehicles. The land, the sea, the mountains, rivers, woods are also essents. Trees, birds, insects, grasses and stones are essents.
Translations:
make-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English make updeverb.
English make-up
Deverbal from make up.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Made-up, false, imaginary, fabricated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to a reconciliation.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Joe and Joanne had a big fight, and then apologized and had incredible make-up sex.
Translations:
satnav
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of satellite + navigation.
Compound parts: satellite
navigation
Inflected forms:
form: satnavs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sat nav
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A satellite navigation system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: A satellite navigation system receiver.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: A civilian GPS receiver (“Navstar receiver”).
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
countable
informal
uncountable
Translations:
gravitationally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin gravis
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin -tō
Latin -itō
Latin gravitō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
New Latin gravitātiōbor.
English gravitation
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 gravitational
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English gravitationally
From gravitational + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: As a result of the force of gravity.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
wiffleball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From (onomatopoeia) whiff (“to strike, to strikeout”) + ball.
Not derived from whiffle, though both derive from same onomatopoeic sources, namely a sound of wind.
Inflected forms:
form: wiffleballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wiffle-ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wiffle ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whiffleball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whiffle-ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whiffle ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A game similar to baseball, played with a lightweight bat and ball and suitable for children to play in confined areas.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: The ball used in that game.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
Translations:
bestie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English best
English -ie
English bestie
From best + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: besties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A best friend.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: You're supposed to be my bestie, Mel. We used to tell each other everything. So what's this Toby secret you can't tell me?
Even back then, a party just wasn't a party without my bestie, and I was miserable for the last eight frames.
On the way home, I got a joke text from my bestie.
Gave me a cryptic, mostly frustrated-seeming look. Went upstairs with her bestie. To re-up, probably.
After an oddly-placed sponsored All State commercial starring the Please Don’t Destroy boys, a group of gal pals surprise their pregnant bestie Kelsie (Chloe Fineman) and her long-suffering husband Matt (Andrew Dismukes) at their baby shower […]
gloss: A term of address for someone, usually used to instruct, to make a statement, or to draw attention.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A friend (any in general).
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
pass-remarkable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the phrase pass remark on, i.e. make a comment about, + -able.
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more pass-remarkable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pass-remarkable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, making belittling or snide remarks.
pos: adj
tags: English
Irish
Scotland
derogatory
examples: Those are gallant shoes, sir, if you'll excuse me being so pass-remarkable. Hand-made jobs.
Translations:
chocker
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from chock-a-block.
Inflected forms:
form: more chocker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chocker
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chocka
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chockers
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Tightly packed, especially with people.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
examples: The place was absolutely packed. It was chocker.
The largest of these service chains in Italy is Agip, and these mini-cities in the middle of nowhere are always absolutely chocker with people. Half of Italy must be in these places at any one time.
He briskly flicked through the catalogue. "And this seemingly innocent museum is chocker with old airplane parts!"
Australia is chocker with beaches strait from paradise, and Terrigal is a beach holiday mecca? I'm gobsmacked.
Translations:
pinchbeck
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Christopher Pinchbeck, an 18th century London watchmaker who developed the alloy.
Inflected forms:
form: pinchbecks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more pinchbeck
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pinchbeck
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Made of pinchbeck.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: on the inside were suspended a variety of watches, pinchbeck, silver, and one or two of gold
gloss: Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive.
pos: adj
examples: Where, in these pinchbeck days, can we hope to find the old agricultural virtue in all its purity?
Vain Delight must have lost her freshness, and be older and more pinchbeck.
The second point on which I wish to offer a remark is the existence (in the novel) of a person named Schomberg.
That I believe him to be true goes without saying. I am not likely to offer pinchbeck wares to my public consciously.
Coming at a time when Alexander was trying desperately to halt Napoleon's advance, the British response to his call for help appeared even more pinchbeck than it was.
Anyway, at least I had created the pinchbeck crown in which Dai could place his jewel.
Translations:
doubter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *du(i)βwos
Latin *dubosdenom.
Latin dubō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin -tō
Latin -itō
Latin dubitō
Old French doterbor.
Middle English douten
▲
Old French doter
Old French doutebor.
Middle English doute
▲
English dubiousinflu.
▲
Latin dubitōinflu.
English doubt
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 doubter
From doubt + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: doubters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who doubts.
pos: noun
examples: I have a great deal of sympathy with scientific doubters, and with those who test psychicism up hill and down dale and are not satisfied.
“Then it's true,” he said quietly. “Everything.” “Ay, thou doubter! Ay thou disbelieving dreg!”
Translations:
multidisciplinary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English disciplinary
English multidisciplinary
From multi- + disciplinary.
Inflected forms:
form: more multidisciplinary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most multidisciplinary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to multiple areas of study or work.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: crossdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, pluridisciplinary, transdisciplinary
A multi-disciplinary team of doctors and researchers was assigned to work full time on AIDS.
This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^([sic]) years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.
Translations:
capris
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: capri pants
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
reasonableness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English resonabilnes, resonabilnesse, resonablenesse, equivalent to reasonable + -ness.
Base: reasonable
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: reasonablenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or characteristic of being reasonable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: This dictates the reasonableness of the rupture of a unipersonalist absolute that is pseudomonotheistic since, in this case, the possibility of any other being would have been made impossible.
gloss: A reasonable action or behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
Synonyms: reasonability
Translations:
ridiculousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ridiculous
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 ridiculousness
From ridiculous + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: ridiculousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being ridiculous.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Only one short bit of humor is endearing, lampshading the ridiculousness of an eye-mask being able to conceal a superhero's identity.
gloss: The result of being ridiculous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: ridiculosity
Translations:
raunchiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English raunchy
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
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 raunchiness
From raunchy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being raunchy; sleaze, titillation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But in none of these did he [Murray Schisgal] descend to the vulgarity and witlessness of his new double bill, Twice Around the Park, a television comedy with added raunchiness that would not be permitted on TV.
Not unexpectedly, we find here a satire not merely of what Eryximakhos says, but of the whole Empedoklean mask that he wears, a satire in which some of the references […] are rather pointed, and much of the humor of which depends upon a certain phallic raunchiness characteristic of Aristophanic comedy.
During the summer of 1897 to 1898, he [Norman Lindsay] placed classical Greek and European figures in the landscape of Charterisville near Heidelberg outside Melbourne, and did line and wash drawings for [Giovanni] Boccaccio's Decameron, for whose raunchiness any young bohemian had to be an enthusiast.
For all the raunchiness of his product, [Hugh] Hefner remained an unusually complex figure. His Playboy Clubs were open to all races – unheard of at the time, the Sixties – and in 1964, he launched the Playboy Foundation to fight censorship.
Translations:
receptiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin receptus
Latin -īvus
Medieval Latin receptivusbor.
Middle English receptive
English receptive
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 receptiveness
From receptive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: receptivenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the characteristic of being receptive
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
repulsiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English repulsive
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 repulsiveness
From repulsive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: repulsivenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being repulsive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Out of the fact of this palatableness on the part of the one and repulsiveness on the part of the other has grown a singular condition in the southern states, where the trees as here once grew in equal profusion, side by side in the forests.
Translations:
rigidness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin rigidusder.
Middle English rigide
English rigid
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 rigidness
From rigid + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Rigidity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
ripeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ripenesse, rypenesse, rijpnesse, from Old English rīpness, equivalent to ripe + -ness.
Base: ripe
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: ripenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being ripe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
riskiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English risky
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 riskiness
From risky + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: riskinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being risky.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
respectfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English respectful
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 respectfulness
From respectful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: respectfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being respectful.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
resentfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English resentful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English resentfully
From resentful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more resentfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most resentfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a resentful manner.
pos: adv
examples: `Talk sense, fat face,' he said resentfully.
Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles.
Translations:
disinfection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English infection
English disinfection
From dis- + infection.
Inflected forms:
form: disinfections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Treatment with disinfectant materials in order to destroy harmful microorganisms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Recent activity in the field of blood product disinfection has been based on a photovirucidal approach, with the requirement that the other microbial branches are also susceptible.
In brief, after application of the speculum and disinfection of the cervix, the hysterovideoscope was introduced intracervically.
Whether full-room disinfections are necessary is not always clear.
Translations:
disarmament
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From disarm + -ment, modeled after armament. By surface analysis, dis + armament.
Base: disarm
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: disarmaments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The reduction or the abolition of the military forces and armaments of a nation, and of its capability to wage war.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of disarming an opponent in a fight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With spears, swords and knives flying off the stage from intended defensive disarmament, no one sitting near the stage could afford to even blink his eyes.
Related words: demilitarisation
Derived words: nondisarmament
prodisarmament
Translations:
tambour
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
entertainment
government
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
military
music
politics
sciences
sports
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tabor and tanbur. Compare Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), and tabla.
Inflected forms:
form: tambours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tambours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tambouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tamboured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tamboured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small shallow drum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A circular frame for embroidery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Recollect Lady Teazle when I saw you first—sitting at your tambour in a pretty figured linen gown—
gloss: A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The capital of a Corinthian column.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One hazard is the tambour, a buttress which juts out and causes the ball to bounce unpredictably.
gloss: A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Derived words: tambourer
tambour lace
Translations:
caning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: canings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A beating with a cane, especially as a form of punishment
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
caned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more caned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most caned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: intoxicated by alcohol or drugs.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: But, somehow, you missed the plane / You did too much E / Met somebody and spent the night getting caned
Translations:
cannella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: cinnamon
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The treatment of lipocardiac asthma consists in improving the health of the patient. Against the symptoms, digitalis, convallaria, valerianate of quinine, caffein, cognac, red wine boiled with cannella, &c. may be useful.
Translations:
tuberous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin tuba
Latin tubusder.
Middle French tubeder.
English tube
English -er
English tuber
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English tuberous
From tuber + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more tuberous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tuberous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, resembling, or producing tubers.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to tuberosities.
pos: adj
examples: Huge tits and a fissured crotch / Were scored well in, and the space / Between her legs held scrawls / That set her fairly astride / A tuberous cock and balls
Derived words: intertuberous
sacrotuberous
semituberous
tuberously
tuberousness
tuberous sclerosis
Translations:
tuberculin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tuberculosis
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English tuberculin
From tuberculosis + -in.
Inflected forms:
form: tuberculins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An antigen used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tubercular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Latin tuberculum (“diminutive of tuber (“lump”)”) + -ar
Affixes: -ar
Inflected forms:
form: more tubercular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tubercular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or having tuberculosis.
pos: adj
examples: As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation.
He set up business in Sydney, the little capital city of one of the middle Southern states, lived soberly and industriously under the attentive eye of a folk still raw with defeat and hostility, and finally, his good name founded and admission won, he married a gaunt tubercular spinstress, ten years his elder, but with a nest egg and an unshakable will to matrimony.
There had been, too, all the long weeks of Rosie’s tubercular dying to go through.
2012, Will Self, “Kafka’s Wound, A digital essay” London Review of Books website,
The adult Kafka – the Kafka vermiculated by tubercular bacilli after having been played on for decades, as a demonic organist might press fleshy keys and pull bony stops, by his own relentless neurasthenia – reached a mystical appreciation of his youthful velleity, characterising it as a desire both to expertly hammer together a table and at the same time ‘do nothing’.
gloss: Relating to or reminiscent of the wheezing sounds associated with the breathing of tuberculosis patients.
pos: adj
examples: The engine heaved. […] The thing sounded like a tubercular tugboat engine without a muffler.
Crows on the roof beat their wings and made their low tubercular moan.
His voice? A raspy, nasal and welcoming instrument, with a tubercular kind of charisma.
gloss: Having, being, or relating to tubercles.
pos: adj
examples: “ORANGE ORCHID” “SPOTTED ORCHID” […] Dorsal appendage of the hood of column smooth, tubercular and notched at the end.
Related words: antitubercular
capitulotubercular
intertubercular
quadritubercular
quinquetubercular
supratubercular
transtubercular
tritubercular
tubercularize
tuberculoventral
Derived words: bitubercular
multitubercular
nontubercular
pretubercular
pseudotubercular
tubercularly
Translations:
tuberculate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin tūberculātus. By surface analysis, tubercul(um) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French tuberculé.
Inflected forms:
form: more tuberculate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tuberculate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having tubercles.
pos: adj
gloss: Having tuberculosis.
pos: adj
Related words: anastomotuberculate
bituberculate
compactituberculate
dispersituberculate
lineartuberculate
monotuberculate
multituberculate
nontuberculate
quadrituberculate
ramotuberculate
sagenotuberculate
trituberculate
unituberculate
untuberculate
Derived words: tuberculately
Translations:
tuberculous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin tuberculum (“little lump”) + -ous.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Tubercular: having or relating to tuberculosis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Not only for the adult excluded from work because of his infirmity, but also for the child excluded from the school because of its being tuberculous or predisposed must suitable provision for its cure and education be provided in preventorial and open air schools, the value of which has already been emphasized.
gloss: Having or relating to tubercles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: antituberculous
epituberculous
nontuberculous
paratuberculous
pretuberculous
pseudotuberculous
scrofulo-tuberculous
tuberculous dactylitis
tuberculous meningitis
Translations:
tryout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English try outdeverb.
English tryout
Deverbal from try out.
Inflected forms:
form: tryouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: try-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A test of the suitability or effectiveness of a person or thing, especially an audition for a performer or athlete, or the advance staging of a play at a small theatre.
pos: noun
examples: “Hey, what are you guys doing?” “Dude, we're gonna tailgate the tryouts.” “Oh, shit. That's a good idea. Oh, you gonna bust out Green Man, bro?” “No. No Green Man.” “What's Green Man?” “Well, in high school, Charlie was like our school mascot.” “A mascot nobody wanted. He'd get wasted and dress in this green spandex bodysuit.” “Spandex?” “It was really sad.” “That's it.” “You gotta bring the Green Man suit.” “Yeah, no. Done with it.” “The spandex.” “Green Man was good. It got me through some hard times. But I'm done with it. Tell you what. You can wear it if you want, but I'm just gonna be relaxing, okay? This is gonna be about chilling out for me.” “No. This is gonna be exactly like Woodstock.”
Oh, there's only one spot open right now, so we're gonna have tryouts.
Translations:
typecasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, typecast + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: typecastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which a person is typecast, or taken to be a particular stereotype.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Similar in consequence to the ethnological typecastings, these ideologically driven political readings produce a lumping effect.
gloss: The act of typing out messages with a typewriter and posting images of them online.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Matt Cidoni, 16, of East Brunswick, N.J., keeps a picture of his favorite machine, a Royal No. 10, on his iPod Touch so he can show it off to friends. Online, he is a proud member of the "typosphere," a global community of typewriter geeks. Like many of them, he enjoys "typecasting," or tapping out typewritten messages, which he scans and posts to his Web site, Adventures in Typewriterdom.
Owning vintage typewriters, attending 'type-ins'—congregations of enthusiasts who have typing competitions with one another—and 'typecasting' (typing posts, scanning them and uploading them on to websites) are some of the activities of a new geeky species.
Having collected typewriters for more than 20 years, Polt decided to join the "typosphere" and start "typecasting". Simply put, he uses a typewriter to capture his thoughts, then scans the page and uploads it to his blog.
Translations:
semiretired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
English retired
English semiretired
From semi- + retired.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Partially retired; working part time, or not yet receiving pension benefits nor drawing down retirement savings.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mincing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more mincing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mincing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mincings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Affectedly dainty.
pos: adj
examples: "Is there nothing to eat in the house?" he asked, insolently, as if to a servant. In certain stages of his intoxication he affected the clipped, mincing speech of the towns. Mrs. Morel hated him most in this condition.
gloss: The act by which something is minced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After three or four mincings with a coarse blade the product was passed two or three times through a fine blade.
gloss: Affected dainty speech or movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My father, León Fuertes, was a fag three years; a roaring faggot; a lisping, smirking fruit; […] He put on all the trappings of inversion: the twittered mouthings, the hyper-feminine moues, the languid mincings.
Translations:
steek
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: From Scots steek, from Middle English steke (“to enclose”) and Middle Dutch steken (“to stitch”). Noun from Scots steek (“stitch”), from Middle Dutch steek (“stitch”). More at stick, stitch.
Inflected forms:
form: steeks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: steeking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: steeked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: steeked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: steik
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: steeks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: steik
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To stitch (sew with a needle).
pos: verb
gloss: To shut or close.
pos: verb
gloss: To use a technique for knitting garments such as sweaters in the round without interruption for openings or sleeves until the end.
pos: verb
gloss: A stitch.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: Ake Ogilvie told the tale the next day to Ma Cleghorn, Ma lying at rest in her bed, she'd gone to bed with a steek in her side and as lying fair wearied till Ake looked in.
gloss: The bridge of extra stitches used in the steeking technique.
pos: noun
Translations:
suprapubic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Proto-Italic *superos
Proto-Italic *superād
Old Latin suprād
Latin suprā
Latin supra-lbor.
English supra-
English pubis
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English pubic
English suprapubic
From supra- + pubic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Above, or anterior to, the pubic bone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
huggle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Frequentative of hug: hug + -le.
Base: hug
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: huggles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: huggling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: huggled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: huggled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: huggles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To hug and snuggle simultaneously: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
childish
gloss: To hug and cuddle.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
gloss: To huddle.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, e.g. in William Allingham, The ballad book: a selection of the choicest British ballads, Sever and Francis, 1865, p. 269.
Lie still, lie still, thou little Musgrave, | And huggle me from the cold; | 'tis nothing but a shepherds boy, | A-driving his sheep to fold.
gloss: A hug while snuggling: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
childish
Translations:
mico
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish or Portuguese mico.
Inflected forms:
form: micos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus, syn. Callithrix melanura), allied to the marmoset.
pos: noun
Translations:
Colby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From either the Old Norse personal name Koli or kol (“charcoal”) + býr (“settlement”).
Inflected forms:
form: Colbys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Colbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soft, moist, mild American cheese similar to cheddar, made with a washed-curd process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations: