yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
satirize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English satire
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 satirize
From satire + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: satirizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: satirizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: satirized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: satirized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: satirise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make a satire of; to mock.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Classic writers are prone to satirize women lashingly, but Jonson's satire is different.
Nat Habib, the producer‐director at the Scarsdale theater, says that “Flahooley,” which satirizes big business, was in part a victim of the McCarthyism of the times.
It occasionally suffers from the pontification so deservedly satirized in rockumentaries like This Is Spinal Tap.
But Reitman, who also coscripted the film (with Sheldon Turner) from a novel by Walter Kirn, isn't interested in merely satirizing the existence of guys like Bingham.
Translations:
slacktivism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of slack + activism.
Compound parts: slack
activism
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Half-hearted activism, usually in the form of posting badges, images, apps, or text on social media without taking further action.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
uncountable
examples: By “fight back,” he meant, basically, tweeting. Internet activism is sometimes derided as “slacktivism”—a fair characterization when an online campaign tries to, say, cure aids or end child labor.
Translations:
insentient
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English sentient
English insentient
From in- + sentient.
Inflected forms:
form: more insentient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most insentient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having no consciousness or feeling; inanimate.
pos: adj
examples: [O]ver her flayed, exposed soul of a young girl who had gone open and warm to give herself to the children, there set a hard, insentient thing, that worked mechanically according to a system imposed.
"Mr Carrados happens to be blind, Mr Spinola," interposed Copling, seeing that their host was so far in ignorance of the fact.
"Impossible! Impossible!" exclaimed Spinola, riveting his own very bright eyes on his guest's insentient ones.
gloss: Insensitive, indifferent.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: His thought is tied, the curving prow / Of motion moored to rock; / And minutes burst upon a brow / Insentient to shock.
Translations:
downstage
Part of speech: adv
adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English down-
English stage
English downstage
From down- + stage.
Inflected forms:
form: more downstage
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most downstage
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more downstage
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most downstage
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: downstages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: downstaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: downstaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: downstaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Toward or at the front of a theatrical stage.
pos: adv
gloss: Towards a motion-picture or television camera.
pos: adv
gloss: At the front of a stage.
pos: adj
gloss: The part of a stage that is closest to the audience or camera.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To restage downward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a lower stage than that found at last assessment (compare upstage).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
exocytosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From exo- + -cytosis.
Base: exo
Inflected forms:
form: exocytoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The secretion of substances through cellular membranes, either to excrete waste products or as a regulatory function.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
antifeminist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English feminist
English antifeminist
From anti- + feminist.
Inflected forms:
form: more antifeminist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antifeminist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antifeminists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Antagonistic to feminism.
pos: adj
examples: He evolved to connect the antifeminist ridicule of the New Woman to the growing backlash against male homosexuals, the Somdomites and inverts.
gloss: Advocating antifeminism.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who is antagonistic to feminism.
pos: noun
examples: This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male supremacist world.
gloss: An advocate of antifeminism.
pos: noun
Derived words: anti-antifeminist
Translations:
antifeminism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English feminism
English antifeminism
From anti- + feminism.
Inflected forms:
form: antifeminisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anti-feminism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Opposition to feminism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Instead, they rallied around issues like free speech and antifeminism, portraying themselves as truth-telling rebels doing battle against humorless “social justice warriors.”
Antonyms: feminism
profeminism
Translations:
conversational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conversation
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 conversational
From conversation + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more conversational
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conversational
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Easy in conversation, chatty.
pos: adj
examples: ...and her object being to procure Helen's smiles for the marquis, and the marquis's suffrage for Helen, the gay and the handsome were much less in request than the highly respectable, the agreeable, and the conversational; and, with her usual far-seeing cares, she carried her object completely, save in the case of the marquis, who did not reascend the stairs.
gloss: Of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty.
pos: adj
examples: This light conversational opening struck Miss Frensham as rather an unpropitious way of grappling with the problem of the theft, but she had just professed her general willingness.
gloss: Involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server.
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of engaging in conversation.
pos: adj
examples: The patient is awake and conversational.
My aim is to become conversational in German.
2009, Journal of American Indian Education, Volumes 48-49, Center for Indian Education, page 35,
This is the only way, she believes, students will become conversational enough in Navajo to pass on the language (NLА fieldnotes, July 2005).
The colorful responses from BlenderBot show the limitations of building automated conversational tools, which are typically trained on large amounts of public online data.
Derived words: conversational commerce
conversationalist
conversationality
conversationalization
conversationalize
conversational journal
conversational journaling
conversationally
conversationalness
conversational partner
conversational scoreboard
nonconversational
preconversational
protoconversational
subconversational
unconversational
Translations:
cubbyhole
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cubby + hole.
Compound parts: cubby
hole
Inflected forms:
form: cubbyholes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cubbyholes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cubbyholing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cubbyholed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cubbyholed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small, snug room which may be used as a place of privacy, or a safe place for children
pos: noun
examples: To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor, the tax collector, the county clerk, the county solicitor, the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled of decaying record books mingled with old damp cement and stale urine.
gloss: A small compartment; a pigeonhole
pos: noun
gloss: A glove compartment
pos: noun
gloss: To restrict, limit or narrowly define; to pigeonhole.
pos: verb
examples: Rivera: The world has changed. It is no longer cubbyholed. I do not think — Friendly: What do you mean cubbyholed? Rivera: I do not think the definition of journalist is as narrowly construed these days as perhaps it was once.
A true Renaissance man, Walcott has consistently resisted being cubbyholed. He has rejected neither his Caribbean heritage nor his British education.
The Americans wanted to have enclosed offices, or at the very least, shoulder-high partitions cubbyholing individual desks.
And, if we do so, it would be useful to bear in mind Sloterdijk’s insights regarding the amphibian quality of discourse within the Weimar Republic and the compelling ways in which it eludes easy generalization and comfortable cubbyholing.
Delimited files and spreadsheets compartmentalize data by separating each piece of info with a comma or a tab, or by cubbyholing them into columns and rows in a spreadsheet file.
In the current era, there is too much demand for customer service and the restrains on budgets too great for you to allow cubbyholing.[…]And finally, out of necessity, a small organization like ours, with an increasing workload, could not afford to cubbyhole anyone, let alone 10 percent of our workforce. I advised my directors of my expectation that everybody had to work, that there was to be no cubbyholing, and that there would be no exceptions.
If you have more than two dozen databases on your server, consider cubbyholing them into schemas in a single database.
Translations:
disentangle
Part of speech: verb
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-
Middle English entanglen
English entangle
English disentangle
From dis- + entangle.
Inflected forms:
form: disentangles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disentangling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disentangled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disentangled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces.
In my own opinion, “criminal religious movements” (CRMs) is a more accurate and useful category than “cults.” It uses, although selectively, elements from the criminological tradition. It avoids the word “cult” and tries to disentangle the category from both the folk psychology of brainwashing and the politics of “extremism” in theology.
gloss: To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.
It is often hard to distinguish word frequency effects from age-of-acquisition effects: People are especially fast at processing the words they learned earliest, and these words tend to be the most frequent. We can disentangle the two with words that are learned early but are relatively infrequent (such as fairytale words like dragon).
gloss: To become free or untangled.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: tangle
Derived words: disentangler
Translations:
faith-based
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From faith + based. The political sense emerged from the 1970s to the 1980s. The term "faith-based organization" dates from 1971.http://books.google.com/books?id=yXLwAAAAMAAJ&q=%22faith-based+organizations%22&dq=%22faith-based+organizations%22&hl=en&ei=zaFrTPbWLcuMOOKMja0B&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg
Compound parts: faith
based
Inflected forms:
form: more faith-based
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most faith-based
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: based on religious faith
pos: adj
examples: […] a self-confidence which stems from faith in the Buddha and His power. By this faith-based confidence they cure themselves.
gloss: of civic associations connected with religious groups, specifically of such organizations sponsored by government funds
pos: adj
tags: US
euphemistic
examples: You are requesting a $2,100,000 increase for a "Faith Based and Community Initiatives," for a total of $37,432,000 […]. What distinguishes these projects from faith-based initiatives of the Employment and Training Administration?
Translations:
Furby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Marketing coinage, from fur.
Inflected forms:
form: Furbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Furbys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A talking electronic toy in the form of a fluffy animal.
pos: noun
Translations:
gorge-walking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gorge walking
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An outdoor activity in which one follows the course of a stream (on foot, in the water), negotiating rapids and jumping or climbing waterfalls
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
holographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: By surface analysis, holo- + -graph + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the form of a hologram or holograph.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Abba meanwhile, all of whom are still alive, will outsource their touring to holographic versions of themselves in 2019. “It’s perfect. We can be on stage while I’m home walking the dogs,” the band’s Benny Andersson said.
gloss: Handwritten by a single writer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a holographic will or testament
[…] although the will is holographic, and a holographic instrument cannot be admitted to probate where testator told the subscribing witnesses that it was not his will, […]
Upon the face of the will, which is holographic, and of considerable length, there is not the slightest evidence of derangement […]
Related words: hologrammatically
holography
Derived words: holographically
holographic principle
holographic will
nonholographic
Translations:
fanatical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fanatical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fanatical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having an extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm for a specific cause.
pos: adj
examples: fanatical devotion
fanatical belief
fanatical follower
The group was known for its fanatical devotion to its leader.
He’s a fanatical supporter of the local football team.
Translations:
feller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fellere, feller; equivalent to fell + -er.
Base: fell
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: fellers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who fells trees; a lumberjack
pos: noun
gloss: A machine for felling trees.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who fells a seam.
pos: noun
gloss: An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
pos: noun
Derived words: feller-buncher
Translations:
constriction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Late Latin cōn-
Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *streyg-der.
Late Latin stringō
Late Latin cōnstringō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Late Latin -tiō
Late Latin cōnstrictiōbor.
English constriction
Borrowed from Late Latin constrictio, constrictionis, from Latin constringo.
Inflected forms:
form: constrictions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The very structural uniqueness of Esperanto makes it hard to translate into ethnic languages – not least because many of those who write in Esperanto do so out of their rejection of the constriction that they experience when writing in their native languages.
gloss: A narrow part of something; a stricture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] greatest breadth at a point about half way between the constriction and the ends […]
gloss: A compression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: constrict
constraint
constrain
restriction
Derived words: arterioconstriction
bronchoconstriction
constriction ring syndrome
hyperconstriction
nanoconstriction
preconstriction
pupilloconstriction
reconstriction
vasoconstriction
Translations:
giddiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English giddy
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 giddiness
From giddy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: giddinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being giddy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mr. Lorry, you cannot control the mincing vanities and giddinesses of empty-headed girls; you must not expect to do it, or you will always be disappointed.
gloss: A feeling of being overcome with excitement, especially in a silly or immature manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: vertigo
Translations:
floodplain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From flood + plain.
Compound parts: flood
plain
Inflected forms:
form: floodplains
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flood plain
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A low-lying plain adjacent to a river subject to flooding during periods of high rainfall or at high tide.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: bottomland, bottomlands
tidal floodplain
Translations:
temptress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tempter
Late Latin -issader.
Old French -essebor.
Middle English -esse
English -ess
English temptress
From tempter + -ess.
Inflected forms:
form: temptresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alluring woman who seduces or exploits men.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman considered sexually attractive by men.
pos: noun
examples: Marilyn Monroe, the iconic temptress of the 20th century.
Translations:
horse-whispering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any of various gentle techniques of training or breaking horses.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A purported magical ability enabling one to speak to horses or to have control over horses through whispering.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A little known magic gift among the Irish and Scottish peoples was that of "horse-whispering" or charming, although this art is also known to the gipsies of Europe and in South America.
Translations:
blighted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blight
English -ed
English blighted
From blight + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more blighted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blighted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having caused to suffer a blight.
pos: adj
gloss: Having suffered a blight.
pos: adj
examples: The Glenbrook Community Center is in disrepair and has been closed for a number of years, which means it is the exact kind of dilapidated and blighted building CAVE People will do everything to protect.
gloss: Ruined, spoiled.
pos: adj
examples: Mark—how that that lone and blighted bosom sears / The scathing thought of execrated years!
Derived words: blightedly
blighted ovum
unblighted
Translations:
mealtime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English meeltime, from Old English mǣltīma (“mealtime”), equivalent to meal + time. Compare mealtide, Old English mǣltīd (“mealtime”), Dutch maaltijd (“meal”), German Mahlzeit (“meal, mealtime”), Danish måltid (“meal, mealtime”), Icelandic máltíð (“meal”), Icelandic matmálstími (“mealtime”).
Compound parts: meal
time
Inflected forms:
form: mealtimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The appointed time at which a meal is served or eaten.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My youngest son has a special cry for mealtimes.
Since mealtime has been the traditional setting for family interaction, Tending the Family Tree is structured to simulate that setting. We suggest that the sessions be scheduled during mealtime when the group can eat, discuss, and worship together.
As the 3DS gets closer to launch, and in spite of my assertions that I’ll be turning the 3D off for my youngest, I still find myself inundated with questions about the new console most mealtimes.
Translations:
middlebrow
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From middle + brow, by analogy with highbrow and lowbrow. The term first appeared in Punch (1925) and was later used by Virginia Woolf (1930s) in an unsent letter to the New Statesman, published as a chapter in the book The Death of a Moth and Other Essays (1942).
Compound parts: middle
brow
Inflected forms:
form: middle-brow
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: middle brow
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: middlebrows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: middle-brow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: middle brow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
examples: What does a Princeton graduate whose old dream it was to write for the New Yorker do when that dream comes true, only to discover that his cherished magazine is no longer the middlebrow arbiter of high culture of his imagining, but just another media outlet frantic for its market share of mass culture?
As in so many middlebrow period dramas, the vintage cars are too shiny, the clothes too smart, the upper-class accents too strained and the dialogue too contrived. However dark the plot becomes, the sun keeps shining brightly through the trees.
In the late ’60s and early ’70s, as independent films were diversifying their outlook and shaking off the formulas of Hollywood storytelling, Broadway boulevard comedies like “Last of the Red Hot Lovers” and “California Suite” — tales of the befuddled nouveau riche in a new world — began to look mass-produced and middlebrow.
It's for this reason some regard Hanks with a sniffy attitude, seeing his middlebrow Hollywood fare as unfashionable (yes) and reactionary (no).
gloss: A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between.
pos: noun
Translations:
pleasantry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pleasant + -ry, probably modelled on Middle French plaisanterie.
Base: pleasant
Affixes: -ry
Inflected forms:
form: pleasantries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A casual, courteous remark.
pos: noun
tags: countable
proscribed
sometimes
uncountable
gloss: A playful remark; a jest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Charlie Mulgrew could easily have been shown two yellow cards by a stricter referee and amid all the usual Anglo-Scottish pleasantries, the two sets of fans put an awful lot of effort into trying to drown out one another’s national anthems.
gloss: Anything that promotes pleasure or merriment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: C.O.O: "The office was quite close to the home of our youth—"
CHRM: "Thomas, your trip to Suitopia was not meant to be for pleasantries."
C.O.O: "No… I know… But I was close by, so I went to visit them…"
CHRM: "You should not have. You and I both know the way they are."
Related words: small talk
Derived words: unpleasantry
Translations:
milker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: From Middle English milkere, equivalent to milk + -er.
Base: milk
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: milkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An animal, such as a dairy cow, kept for the milk it produces.
pos: noun
examples: ‘No, you can’t keep a milker here. A beast has to be half wild to stand any chance.’
gloss: A person who milks.
pos: noun
examples: The milker woke up at dawn each day to tend to the cows.
The snake milker massages the glands to extract the full measure of venom during each milking.
gloss: A milking machine.
pos: noun
examples: Many of those running small farms said the choice of a computerized milker came down to a bigger question: whether to upgrade or just give up. […] “It’s tough to find people to do it well and show up on time,” said Tim Kurtz, who installed four robotic milkers last year at his farm in Berks County, Pa. “And you don’t have to worry about that with a robot.”
gloss: A conservative poker player who only raises the stakes on a good hand.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman’s breast.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
examples: In the San Diego Convention Center, hanging high above the makeshift alleyways of merchandise vendors, more than 40 pairs of anime-style breasts looked down upon me. I felt like a beetle at a cartoon Renaissance fair, staring at rows of mommy milkers peeking through manga bodices.
Derived words: milkeress
Milkers Flat
mommy milker
sharemilker
Translations:
must-see
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Univerbation of must (auxiliary) + see (verb).
Inflected forms:
form: must-sees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unmissably good.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Anything unmissably good, such as a film or television programme or a tourist attraction.
pos: noun
examples: Yoel Kahn's article about incorporating lesbian/gay Jewish existence into the liturgy is a must-see for anyone involved with planning worship services.
The restored cottage, which has been open to tourists since 1891 (Woodrow Wilson came here on a cycling tour in 1899), is the Kaabah of a Lake District haj, a must-see for all pilgrims.
Translations:
on-message
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: more on-message
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most on-message
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: on message
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: on message
pos: adj
tags: attributive
examples: [Tracey Emin] sounds like an on-message Labour MP when she talks like this.
As with much of Carsley's reign, England entered this Athens hothouse with sub-plots in the background, this time the nine withdrawals from the squad which was met with a critical public response from the normally strictly-on-message captain Harry Kane.
Antonyms: off-message
Translations:
off-message
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: more off-message
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most off-message
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: off message
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: off message
pos: adj
tags: attributive
Translations:
pharming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: from pharmaceutical + farming
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
ploughboy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From plough + boy.
Compound parts: plough
boy
Inflected forms:
form: ploughboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boy who directed the draught animals that pulled a plough; a boy who served as a ploughman's helper.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Presbyterianism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Presbyterian
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English Presbyterianism
From Presbyterian + -ism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of Protestant Christianity based on Calvinism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A form of Christian church government characterized by rule by bodies of presbyters or elders.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
reconstitute
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English constitute
English reconstitute
From re- + constitute.
Inflected forms:
form: reconstitutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reconstituting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reconstituted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reconstituted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to construct something anew, or in a different manner
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The public execution, then, has a juridico-political function. It is a ceremonial by which a momentarily injured sovereignty is reconstituted. It restores that sovereignty by manifesting it at its most spectacular.
gloss: to add liquid to a concentrated or dehydrated food to return it to its original consistency
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: reconstitutability
reconstitutable
reconstituteable
reconstitutor
Translations:
seining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: seinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: fishing with a seine
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
jigging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Inflected forms:
form: jiggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of dancing a jig.
pos: noun
examples: There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings […]
gloss: The act of using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-build
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan
Old English bytlan
Middle English bylden
English build
English self-build
From self- + build.
Inflected forms:
form: selfbuild
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: self-builds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: selfbuild
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Supplied in kit form, for construction by the owner.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A house built by the owner, or according to the owner's instructions.
pos: noun
Translations:
socialized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: subsidized for social reasons
pos: adj
tags: US
Translations:
pous
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πούς (poús, “foot”). Doublet of foot, pes, and pie (“Spanish unit of length”).
Inflected forms:
form: podes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Greek foot, a unit of length based on the shod foot, generally equal to 16 fingers (δάκτυλοι) or ¹⁄₆₀₀ stade (στάδια) but varying over time and location within Greece and the Hellenized world.
pos: noun
Translations:
cheaply
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cheap
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English cheaply
From cheap + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more cheaply
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cheaply
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cheap manner; without expending much money.
pos: adv
examples: When native, trees can be bought so cheaply, are so easy to grow, and such delight to the eye, so sheltersome and diverse in the colouring, it beats cockfighting that they are not utilised more in gardens and as shelter belts.
Corporations offshore their production, because they can more cheaply produce abroad what they sell to Americans. When corporations bring their offshored production to the U.S. to sell, the goods count as imports.
"What we are trying to demonstrate is that freight lines at lower speeds can be electrified much more cheaply. […]"
gloss: For a low score.
pos: adv
tags: broadly
Antonyms: expensively
Translations:
pensioner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English pensioner, from Anglo-Norman pensionner and Old French pensionnier, from Medieval Latin pēnsiōnārius. By surface analysis, pension + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pensioners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pencioner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
UK
gloss: Someone who is at the age at which one typically receives a pension; an elderly person.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
Derived words: Chelsea pensioner
early retirement pensioner
gentleman-pensioner
Greenwich pensioner
nonpensioner
old-age pensioner
old age pensioner
pensionership
Translations:
tepidly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin tepidusbor.
English tepid
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English tepidly
From tepid + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more tepidly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tepidly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tepid or halfhearted manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
welfare-to-work
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A social program designed to wean those receiving government benefits back into employment.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Translations:
sedum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cedum, from Latin sedum (“houseleek”). Modern usage is a semantic loan from translingual Sedum.
Inflected forms:
form: sedums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop.
pos: noun
Translations:
stratigraphy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archaeology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From stratum + -graphy c. 1841–1865.
Base: stratum
Affixes: -graphy
Inflected forms:
form: stratigraphies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of rock layers and the layering process (stratification).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The study of stratigraphy was at this point in its infancy, but it was already understood that different layers of rocks had been formed during different periods.
On Earth, we chart the history of waterways by looking at sediment that is deposited over time. We call that stratigraphy, the idea that water transports sediment and you can measure the changes on Earth by understanding the way that sediment piles up. That's what we've done here—but it's Mars.
gloss: The layering of deposits, with newer remains overlaying older ones, forming a chronology of the site.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: allostratigraphy
aminostratigraphy
archaeostratigraphy
biostratigraphy
chemostratigraphy
chronostratigraphy
climatostratigraphy
cryostratigraphy
cyclostratigraphy
ecostratigraphy
geostratigraphy
hydrostratigraphy
lithostratigraphy
macrostratigraphy
magnetostratigraphy
microstratigraphy
morphostratigraphy
palynostratigraphy
pedostratigraphy
phylostratigraphy
seismic stratigraphy
stratigrapher
stratigraphic
stratigraphical
tectonostratigraphy
tephrostratigraphy
Translations:
heterostructure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
English structure
English heterostructure
From hetero- + structure.
Inflected forms:
form: heterostructures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any structure made from a heterojunction.
pos: noun
examples: The electronic properties of contacts between two semiconductors or, as they are commonly called, semiconductor heterostructures are determined by the lineup of their band structures across the interface and the existence of space-charge layers.
Translations:
heterojunction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
English junction
English heterojunction
From hetero- + junction.
Inflected forms:
form: heterojunctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any junction between two different semiconductors; functions as a diode
pos: noun
Translations:
musketeer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle French mousquetaire in the late 16th century. By surface analysis, musket + -eer. Doublet of mousquetaire.
Inflected forms:
form: musketeers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: musqueteer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A foot soldier armed with a musket.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: In 17th- and 18th-century France, a member of the royal household bodyguard.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A comrade or fellow.
pos: noun
examples: Reuniting the cast of Trainspotting for a new adventure 21 years on could have gone badly. The BBC’s misjudged This Life + 10, bringing the cast of the iconic 90s TV drama back together, is a case in point. But Boyle and his four musketeers give it just the right frantic, jaded energy and manic anxiety.
Derived words: Mouseketeer
Musketeer
Translations:
Alphonso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Anglicized form of Italian or Spanish Alfonso.
Inflected forms:
form: Alphonsos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Alphonso mango.
pos: noun
Translations:
corroboree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Dharug garabarabor.
English corroboree
Borrowed from Dharug garabara.
Inflected forms:
form: corroborees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corrobboree
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: corrobori
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: corrobory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A nocturnal dance held by Aboriginal Australians, for social, celebratory or warlike purposes.
pos: noun
examples: A hundred yards or so away the throaty beat of a didgeridoo drifted down from some ancient corroboree, a splendid accompaniment to the music of the night
gloss: A song or chant made for such a festivity.
pos: noun
examples: He reached home, and lived long enough to hear the natives wailing in a Death Corroboree over his late comrade.
gloss: Any noisy, late-night gathering or disturbance.
pos: noun
Derived words: corroboree frog
Translations:
ident
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
broadcasting
business
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
television
Etymology: From a later form of ithand, itself an alteration (due to assimilation to suffix -and) of Middle English ithen, from Old Norse iðinn (“assiduous, diligent”), from iðja, iðna (“to do, perform”), from ið (“a restless motion”), equivalent to ithe + -and and/or ithe + -en. Cognate with Icelandic iðinn (“diligent”), Norwegian idig (“busy”), Danish id (“pursuit, calling, business”). More at ithand.
Base: ithe
Affixes: -and
Inflected forms:
form: more ident
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ident
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: eident
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: idents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: idents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: identing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: idented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: idented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Diligent; persistent.
pos: adj
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
gloss: An identification.
pos: noun
examples: Well, that's the priority. Get the ident.
gloss: A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
pos: noun
examples: In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents.
gloss: A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: […] the intruder installed an IRC bot and French ident daemon to reply to IRC servers with a name other than root.
gloss: An identifier.
pos: noun
gloss: To activate the aircraft transponder identification feature.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
SRAM
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: SRAMs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Static random access memory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Shadow random access memory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Short-range attack missile.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: NVRAM
DRAM
dynamic random access memory
RAM
random access memory
Translations:
impaction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dentistry
education
gastroenterology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin impingere (“to dash against, impinge”).
Inflected forms:
form: impactions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A compression; the packing together of loose matter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something packed together tightly; a mass of densely-packed matter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A solid, immobile bulk of stool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As plastics cannot be easily egested, these can accumulate within the stomach, causing impaction and leading ultimately to death.
gloss: The failure of a tooth to erupt into the dental arch, because of adjacent teeth, dense overlying bone, excessive soft tissue, or other factor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The situation where an institute, usually a college or university, receives more applications from qualified applicants than the number of spaces available, meaning that meeting the minimum admission requirements does not guarantee acceptance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: disimpaction
earwax impaction
fecal impaction
reimpaction
Translations:
sepiolite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin sepia (“cuttlefish”) + -lite, from its resemblance to cuttlebone.
Affixes: -lite
Inflected forms:
form: sepiolites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hydrated magnesium silicate, clay mineral used for carving into decorative articles and smoking pipes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
serology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sero- + -logy.
Base: sero
Inflected forms:
form: serologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science that studies the blood serum, and especially the reaction between antigens and antibodies in serum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The characteristics of the blood serum in a particular disease or organism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A serologic test: a blood test to detect the presence of, and often to measure the amount of, various components of the serum (usually antibodies, antigens, and immune complexes thereof).
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
proscribed
sometimes
examples: Diagnosis is presumptive by history and physical examination and is confirmed by serologies.
Derived words: immunoserology
microserology
mycoserology
serologic
serological
serologically
serologist
Translations:
gasbag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gas + bag.
Compound parts: gas
bag
Inflected forms:
form: gasbags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gasbags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gasbagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gasbagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gasbagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A bag or bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon.
pos: noun
examples: In half an hour a good-sized gas-bag had been formed, and the jerking and straining upon the thongs showed that it was capable of considerable lift.
By this method of construction a considerable amount of support can be imparted to the gasbag, though it does not dispense with the services of the ballonet, as does the entirely rigid type.
A novel robotic gasbag polishing technique based on flexible polishing principle has been presented by S.M. Ji et al., which can make polishing process more stable and effective because the rubber gasbag provides cushioning action and almost all abrasive particles in the contact area are involved in the process of material removal on mould surface, etc […]
gloss: A lighter-than-air aircraft; a balloon or dirigible.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A person who is overly garrulous or prone to making empty, unsupportable statements; a windbag.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
examples: Not that the Reverend James is absolutely a pretentious gasbag any more than Marchbanks is an inspired prophet. He has a definite, a positive part in the world's work.
You would think the fate of civilization itself rested on the outcome of my trial, based on some of those gasbags who were only too happy to speculate, postulate and pontificate about my situation.
Most, however, do real work, undistracted by meetings and gasbag colleagues.
gloss: To speak foolishly, pompously, or at length; to blather.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: "You're a swell at it. I'll allow that. And I'll provide the gas-bagging." / "The gas-bagging?" I inquired. "What exactly do you mean?" / "What do I mean, you dear old sober-sides?" said Lyne. “I mean that I will do all the bow-wowing[…]"
You all see her flirtin and makin up to people and then they gasbag about it to make themselves important. But that's just her way. Underneath she's one of the most shy people you'd ever meet.
I'm pushing the trolley down an aisle in which there are a dozen ladies gasbagging.
Morning, noon, and night they gasbagged about every aspect of the operation.
[…] Kingi spotted them and strode over. 'What are you two gasbagging about? Come on, join the party.' / 'We're not gasbagging, we're strategising,' Josie pointed out.
Synonyms: blowhard
windbag
Derived words: gasbaggery
Translations: