yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
outpouring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English pouring
English outpouring
From out- + pouring.
Inflected forms:
form: outpourings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sudden outward flowing of a large amount of something.
pos: noun
examples: Let me speak—I know I may trust your kindness; and, even if you turned into after ridicule the bitter outpouring of this moment's misery, you would but do as others, in whom I trusted, have done.
The protests rank among the largest outpourings of dissent since the nation’s military dictatorship ended in 1985.
Great Britain has collected its first gold medal of the London Games after Heather Stanning and Helen Glover won the coxless pairs with a stunning performance that will spark a mass outpouring of celebration and relief across the country.
Translations:
milksop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English milksop, mylk sop, mylke soppe, equivalent to milk + sop.
Compound parts: milk
sop
Inflected forms:
form: milksops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of bread sopped in milk.
pos: noun
gloss: A dish consisting of bread pieces in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar and covered in hot milk.
pos: noun
gloss: An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
derogatory
examples: And vvho doth lead them but a paltrey fellovv,? / Long kept in Brittaine at our mothers coſt, / A milkeſopt, one that neuer in his life / Felt ſo much colde as ouer ſhooes in ſnovv: […]
“That milksop of a creature pretend to be worthy of such a woman as Mrs. Pendennis,” broke out the Doctor: “where will impudence stop next!”
Synonyms: big girl's blouse
candy-arse
candy-ass
crybaby
milksop
milquetoast
namby
namby-pamby
nestle-cock
pansy
pantywaist
poon
punk
pushover
pussy
sissy
softy
tenderling
weakling
weenie
wimp
wuss
wussy
Antonyms: daredevil
dogmatist
firebrand
hypermasculine man
shrew
spitfire
troublemaker
Related words: winesop
mama's boy
mollycoddle
coward
pamper
effeminate man
Derived words: milksopism
milksoppery
milksoppish
milksoppy
Translations:
antipode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from antipodes.
Inflected forms:
form: antipodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something directly opposite or diametrically opposed.
pos: noun
examples: The very Reverse of a Wit. The Antipode of Sense.
A Mexican diligence is fmilar(sic) to an American post coach or mail stage, and a stranger from the United States, taking his seat in one of them, while all else around him is nearly the antipodes of what he has been accustomed to, feels old sensations revive, as he once more finds something that looks like home.
In many ways, Memphis was the antipode of Boston.
gloss: The place on the diametrically opposite side of the earth from a given point.
pos: noun
Derived words: antipodal
antipodean
Translations:
lona
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lonas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bonus scored in the game of kabaddi for getting the entire opposing team declared as out.
pos: noun
Translations:
aegilops
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin aegilōps, from Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “haver-grass (Aegilops neglecta)”).
Inflected forms:
form: aegilopses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ægilops
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ulcer or fistula in the inner angle of the eye.
pos: noun
examples: If the ægilops be neglected, it bursts, and degenerates into a fistula, which eats into the bone.
1829, Thomas Curtis (editor), The London Encyclopaedia: or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature, And Practical Mechanics, Volume I: A to America,
If the ægilops be accompanied with an inflammation, it is supposed to take its rise from the abundance of blood, which a plethoric habit discharges on the corner of the eye.
The ægilops is an apostematous swelling between the great canthus and the nose ; and it is an affection difficult to cure, owing to the thinness of the bodies, and the fear of injuring the eye by sympathy.
gloss: Goatgrass (Aegilops spp.) or other grass found as a corn-weed.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
cabdriver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cab + driver.
Compound parts: cab
driver
Inflected forms:
form: cabdrivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cab driver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cab-driver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who drives a taxi for a living.
pos: noun
gloss: One who drives a carriage for a living.
pos: noun
Translations:
maxima
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Latin maxima (“greatest”). Doublet of maxim.
Inflected forms:
form: maximae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maximas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A music note typically equal to two longae (eight semibreves).
pos: noun
Translations:
elliptic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
geometry
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐλλειπτικός (elleiptikós), from ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “I leave out, omit”). By surface analysis, ellipse + -tic.
Inflected forms:
form: elliptics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an ellipse.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Novv ſince the Planets move in Elliptick Orbits, in one of vvhoſe foci the Sun is, and by a Radius from the Sun deſcribe equal Area's in equal Times, vvhich no other Lavv of a Circulating Fluid, but the Harmonical Circulation can Account for, vve muſt find out a Lavv for the Paracentrical Motion, that may make the Orbits Elliptick.
In this chapter, the history of solving elliptic problems by direct marching methods is reviewed.
gloss: Of or pertaining to a broad field of mathematics that originates from the problem of calculating arc lengths of an ellipse.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: elliptic integral
elliptic function
elliptic curve
gloss: That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: elliptic partial differential equation
elliptic operator
elliptic regularity
gloss: Oval, with a short or no point.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted; elliptical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The message, which is elliptic, could be spelled out as: (Hello) Olive. This is Julian. I am here until you want to ring me.
gloss: An elliptical function, equation, path, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The Planetary Paths I trace, / Exploring Realms of boundleſs Space; / Elliptics, Angles, Cubes, and Curves, / In me ſupply the Place of Nerves; […]
Two men were smoking over a bottle of wine at one table; they were talking of parabolics and elliptics, and describing diagrams on the table with a wet finger; […]
Diagrams geometric, on parchmental scroll; / Circles, ovals, elliptics and such, / He sure figures will tell what is inside the knoll, / And tho far under ground, he’s in touch / With the hidden deposits of mineral ore, / And lost channels ’neath mountains he feels: […]
The fix points of hyperbolics and parabolics in F must lie on the fixed circle C, while the fixed points of elliptics in F are inverse with respect to C.
Related words: elliptical
elliptically
Derived words: bielliptic
bi-elliptic transfer
coelliptic
elliptic curve
elliptic function
ellipticine
elliptic integral
ellipticity
elliptic operator
elliptic paraboloid
elliptic regularity
elliptic spring
hemielliptic
hyperelliptic
hypoelliptic
isoelliptic
semielliptic
semi-elliptic
subelliptic
superelliptic
ultraelliptic
Translations:
predefined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English defined
English predefined
From pre- + defined.
Inflected forms:
form: pre-defined
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having been defined or established previously.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros.
The cell / DNA mixtures were nucleoporated in 1 cm transfection cuvettes according to a predefined program on the Nucleofactor.
Translations:
escorted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With or having an escort.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
loosened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more loosened
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most loosened
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been made less tight or more relaxed.
pos: adj
Translations:
conquering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conquer
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English conquering
From conquer + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: conquerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of conquest.
pos: noun
examples: So Stellas heart finding what power Loue brings, / To keepe it ſelfe in life and liberty, / Doth willing graunt, that in the frontiers he / Vſe all to helpe his other conquerings: […]
Translations:
indigestion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English indigestioun, from Old French indigestion, from Late Latin indigestio, by surface analysis, in- + digestion.
Inflected forms:
form: indigestions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to.
Translations:
wilder
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From wild, probably suggested by wilderness, and as to form by wander.
Inflected forms:
form: wilders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wildering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wildered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wildered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bewilder, perplex
pos: verb
examples: Now, to smother noise and light,
Is stolen abroad the wildering night,
Now in their hearts those wildered Trojans said That once more they beheld Achilles' self Gigantic in his armour.
More tender, grateful than she could have dreamed, Fond hands passed pitying over brows and hair, And gentle words borne softly through the air, Calming her weary sense and wildered mind, By welcome, dear communion with her kind.
Deep and far within the ether stretched my eyes their anxious gaze, While the swelling thoughts within me grew a wild and wildered maze, Then came floating on the distance, softly to my listening ears, Low, thrilling harmonies of worlds whirling in their bright spheres.
Translations:
functionalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
history
human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
psychology
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French fonction
Middle French functionbor.
English function
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 functional
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 functionalism
From functional + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: functionalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The definition of mental states in terms of their causes and effects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The idea that social and cultural cohesion are a function of the interdependence and interactions of the institutions of a society.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The theory that the Holocaust was the result of a gradual escalation of decisions and procedures at the operational level (approved but not necessarily preconceived by Hitler).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A general school of thought that considers psychological phenomena in terms of their role in adaptation to the person's environment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of functional linguistics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: psychofunctionalism
psycho-functionalism
Translations:
tobogganing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tobogganings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tobogganning
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The use of toboggans, historically for transport, but now usually for pleasure or for organised sport.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1876: Elisée Reclus, Ernest George Ravenstein, A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane, The Earth and Its Inhabitants: The Universal Geography
As elsewhere in Canada, winter is the festive season, given up to sledging, skating, "tobogganning," and other outdoor exhilarating amusements.
Today's Olympic sport called luge is a form of tobogganing.
There are many winter activities if skiing or snowboarding aren't on your list — guided scenic motorcoach tours, horse-drawn sleigh rides, Johnston Canyon icewalks, ice-fishing, snowshoeing, skating, tobogganing, and more.
Translations:
superordinate
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more superordinate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most superordinate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: superordinates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: superordinates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: superordinating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: superordinated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: superordinated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Greater in degree, rank or position.
pos: adj
gloss: The relation of a universal proposition to a specific proposition of the same form with the universal quantified variable replaced by a specific instance.
pos: adj
gloss: hypernymic
pos: adj
gloss: That which is superordinate.
pos: noun
gloss: That which is superordinate.
pos: noun
examples: Seventy-two subjects attempted to recall the object nouns of seven once-exposed sentences given as retrieval cues the subject noun of each sentence and four other words related to the subject noun. The related cues were a remote superordinate, a close superordinate, a remote cohyponym, and a close cohyponym of the subject noun. Four predictions about differences in effectiveness of these cues, derived from the Katz and Fodor and the Quillian theories of semantics, were confirmed. There was one case about which the theories made different predictions. Consistent with Quillian's theory, but contrary to the Katz and Fodor theory, significantly more words were recalled when the cue was a close rather than a remote superordinate.
gloss: To cause to be superordinate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: supraordinate:
Antonyms: subordinate
hyponymic
Derived words: superordinate clause
superordinately
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: nadřízený
lang: Hungarian
word: felettes
lang: Hungarian
word: feljebbvaló
lang: Korean
word: 상위
roman: 1.
lang: Korean
word: 상의어
roman: 2.
lang: Korean
word: 상위어
roman: sang'wieo
lang: Spanish
word: superordinado
yammering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: yammerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Loud, incoherent, repetitive speech.
pos: noun
examples: Nearer and nearer sounded the hurrying footsteps and the incoherent yammerings of the corpses.
Translations:
cowan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
Etymology: First attested in 1598.
Inflected forms:
form: cowans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cowanis
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
form: kowan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cowen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
pos: noun
gloss: A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
Translations:
bipolar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *kʷól-os
Proto-Hellenic *pólos
Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos)der.
Latin polus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -āris
Late Latin polārislbor.
English polar
English bipolar
From bi- + polar.
Inflected forms:
form: more bipolar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bipolar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Involving or having both extremes or poles at the same time.
pos: adj
examples: (4) the unipolar-bipolar distinction is important in regard to these personality variables; the trait of extraversion (associated as it is with positive affectivity) may mean that individual variation here leads to a more bipolar pattern; ...
Pakistan greatly resents this, but its efforts to adjust the complex have involved trying to make it more bipolar (via nuclear weapons), and not to move to another security order.
And today, the world has become more and more bipolar.
gloss: Relating to both polar regions.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to a bipole.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to or having bipolar disorder.
pos: adj
examples: And in both visual artists and creative writers, there is a considerably higher risk of affective disorder, more unipolar (depression only) in artists, and more bipolar (mania and depression) in writers, and leading to higher rates of alcoholism and suicide, particularly in writers (Andreasen 1987; DeLong & Aldershof, 1988; Jamison, 1986, 1995).
Since many childhood depressions become more bipolar in adult life, and because Jay's father was bipolar, I added Depakote to "protect" him against this bipolar possibility.
If a bipolar person you work with is receiving successful treatment, you might not even know that she is bipolar.
gloss: Of or relating to an international system in which two states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
pos: adj
Related words: monopolar
multipolar
nonpolar
polar
tripolar
unipolar
Derived words: antibipolar
bipolar I
bipolar II
bipolarism
bipolarist
bipolarity
bipolarly
microbipolar
nonbipolar
pseudobipolar
Translations:
arrestee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English arrest
English -ee
English arrestee
From arrest + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: arrestees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a person who is under arrest.
pos: noun
Translations:
transistorized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Built using solid state components such as transistors.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
evacuated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more evacuated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most evacuated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having had population removed, by evacuation.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing a vacuum.
pos: adj
examples: The evacuated flask imploded with a pop when it could no longer stand the outside air pressure.
Antonyms: nonevacuated
Derived words: unevacuated
Translations:
rectification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
astronomy
chemistry
geometry
government
human-sciences
mathematics
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English rectificacioun, from Old French rectificacion, from Late Latin rectificatio.
Inflected forms:
form: rectifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action or process of rectifying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits
[…] as after the rectification of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error.
Whereas delinquency correlates with treatment, psychotherapy, and correction, the category of the disorderly is more closely associated with a militaristic method of rectification.
gloss: The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The truncation of a polyhedron by replacing each vertex with a face that passes though the midpoint of each edge connected to the vertex; an analogous procedure on a polytope of dimension higher than 3.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: truncation
Derived words: birectification
georectification
image rectification
orthorectification
rectificational
Translations:
cytological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cytology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English cytological
From cytology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to cytology or cytologists.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
preferentially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English preferential
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 preferentially
From preferential + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: preferrentially
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: in a preferential manner
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: advantageously
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
redline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: audio
automotive
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From red + line, originating with the frequent use of red pen or pencil to mark corrections on drawings and documents (1), and the red markings on a tachometer (2).
Compound parts: red
line
Inflected forms:
form: redlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: redlines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: redlining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: redlined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: redlined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A drawing, document, etc. that has been marked for correction or modification.
pos: noun
gloss: The maximum speed, temperature, pressure, etc., at which a device (such as the engine in a car, aircraft, etc.) is designed to operate.
pos: noun
gloss: To mark a drawing or document for correction or modification.
pos: verb
gloss: To operate a device at one or more redlines.
pos: verb
gloss: To operate a device at one or more redlines.
pos: verb
gloss: To deny or complicate access to services (such as banking, insurance, or healthcare) to residents in specific, often racially determined, areas.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
examples: Already ‘redlined’ by profit-hungry telcos, the inhabitants of poor inner city areas can be shut out of the new on-line services through lack of money.
gloss: To achieve audio levels that will cause clipping (indicated by red in an audio meter).
pos: verb
Related words: redlining
sundown town
Derived words: redliner
Translations:
well-thumbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-thumbed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-thumbed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a book, etc.: showing signs of frequent or heavy use; worn; well used.
pos: adj
examples: He pulled out a well-thumbed dictionary and began searching for a translation.
Translations:
thumbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having some specific type of thumb.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: He was sore-thumbed after playing video games all day.
Translations:
indistinctly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From indistinct + -ly or in- + distinctly.
Base: indistinct
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more indistinctly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indistinctly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indistinct manner.
pos: adv
examples: Metanotum shining, indistinctly punctured at the base in the centre, the sides closely punctured; the areola large, obliquely narrowed at the base, its apex open, there are 2 lateral areas, both widely open at the base on the outerside; the posterior median area bears about 10 stout, transverse keels; on its apical outerside is a triangular area; the spiracular is bounded on the outerside by a distinct keel .
Antonyms: distinctly
Translations:
self-confidence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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-
English confidence
English self-confidence
From self- + confidence.
Inflected forms:
form: self-confidences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or degree of being self-confident: believing in one's own abilities.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Standing up for themselves is often difficult for girls from male-dominated cultures. Take Bahareh Husseini. She fled Iran and now lives in the German city of Düsseldorf. She wanted to study and be able determine her own path in life. In Germany, she found support at Diakonie, a Protestant social welfare organization. There, Jessica te Heesen heads the JUMP project, which helps refugee girls develop self-confidence, assert themselves, and find their way in school and at work. Bahareh is now studying medical physics — and passing on her experiences to others.
Antonyms: self-doubt
Translations:
mashup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From mash (“to convert into a mash; to mix thoroughly”) + up.
Inflected forms:
form: mashups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mash-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something consisting of two or more elements combined together.
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
examples: What's tiresome about Anna, though, is that it's such an obvious mashup of other movies, moving from homage right into ripoff.
gloss: Something consisting of two or more elements combined together.
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
gloss: Something consisting of two or more elements combined together.
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
gloss: Something consisting of two or more elements combined together.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
informal
examples: This app is a mashup mixing news from the BBC and maps from Google.
Related words: mashable
Translations:
forewarn
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Early 14th century, from Middle English *forewarnen (suggested by Middle English forewarned, forewarning, forewarner, etc.), from Old English forewarnian (“to take warning beforehand; forewarn”), from Proto-Germanic *furawarnōną (“to forewarn”), equivalent to fore- + warn. Cognate with German vorwarnen (“to forewarn”), Swedish förvarna (“to forewarn”).
Base: warn
Affixes: fore-
Inflected forms:
form: forewarns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: forewarning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: forewarned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: forewarned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To warn in advance.
pos: verb
examples: And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe his mynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen to foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; […]
“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape.[…]”
Translations:
cross-staff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
Inflected forms:
form: cross-staffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cross-staves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An archbishop's cross.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An early instrument, consisting of a wooden rod with a sliding crosspiece, used for measuring the altitude of a star or for surveying.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The cross-staff is a very simple instrument, a calibrated shaft along which a bar slides.
Translations:
bullfight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bull + fight.
Compound parts: bull
fight
Inflected forms:
form: bullfights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A public spectacle, in Spain and some other Latin countries, in which a person baits and often kills a bull.
pos: noun
Translations:
phenolphthalein
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From phenol + phthalein.
Compound parts: phenol
phthalein
Inflected forms:
form: phenolphthaleins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A white or yellowish-white crystalline compound C₂₀H₁₄O₄ used in medicine as a laxative and in analysis as an indicator because its solution is brilliant red in alkalies and is decolorized by acids.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ancon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
architecture
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ancōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγκών (ankṓn, “bend, elbow, cranny”).
Inflected forms:
form: ancones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ancons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The corner of a wall or rafter.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A console that appears to support a cornice.
pos: noun
gloss: The elbow.
pos: noun
gloss: The olecranon.
pos: noun
Related words: anconad
anconagra
anconeal
anconitis
anconoid
Derived words: anconal
Translations:
blucher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named from Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Prussian general.
Inflected forms:
form: bluchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A sturdy laced leather half-boot.
pos: noun
examples: He whistled tunelessly his one air, beating his own time with a stick on the toe of his blucher, then looked overhead at the sun and calculated that she must have been lying like that for `close up an hour.'
Translations:
guyver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown
Inflected forms:
form: guiver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gyver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Flattering talk; behaviour put on to impress or deceive; persiflage.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
uncountable
Translations:
neddy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ned + -y, Ned being a diminutive of Edward.
Base: Ned
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: neddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A donkey or ass.
pos: noun
gloss: A horse, especially a racehorse.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
slang
examples: Riding overland from Sydney to Brisbane, along the beautiful North Coast district of New South Wales, I tied my neddy up on the roadside and investigated a bark-shanty some little distance off in the Bush.
1932, Ion Idriess, The Desert Column, extracted in 2006, Rex Sadler, Tom Hayllar, In the Line of Fire: Real Stories of Australians at War, from Gallipoli to Vietnam, page 61,
Some of the boys whipped off their hats and laughingly smacked their neddies′ rumps, for we hated using spurs on the poor thirsty beggars.
From my uninformed reading of cycliterature (and other stuff), if you are a mainly short-twitch muscle type - a sprinter - then your natural cadence will be higher that^([sic]) if you are a mainly long-twitch muscle type - a hill-climber, or in neddy-racing terms, a "stayer" (I think).
AIRNews founder Arthur Stevens wishes Holden well adding, "We will miss his insights into the world of Aussie Rules Football and his understanding of the neddies and the Spring Racing Carnival.
I was up to 6 horses and figured to keep them fit and off the roids and put two in each race and get 1st and 2nd to build up the cash. Got home drunk saturday night saw a fake neddy at 4-1 so put all my $300k on it and lost.
Glad I wasn't Jean Bridges and spent $300k of my real money
gloss: The horse races.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
in-plural
slang
with-definite-article
examples: He′d usually be there at the same place most Saturdays and we ended up sharing a beer talking about the neddies. It just grew from there. I′d nod at him; ask him how he was going. We′d talk racing, have a dig at each other for backing losers.
gloss: Horsepower.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
plural-normally
slang
examples: Weird as it sounds, it was because you weren't going fast enough :-) I've found that if you wick it up too much exiting a curve you tend to do one of those feet off the pegs numbers. Fun, huh? Otoh, if you carry more corner speed the back is more likely to let go gradually, because the tyre is already closer to the edge, so it doesn't require a fist full of neddies to break it loose. I still wouldn't recommmend it for the road...
No chance in hell, even if it was a Gurney Eagle engine. The only way you can get those sort of neddies out of a 302 Windsor would be boost.
gloss: An idiot; a stupid or contemptible person.
pos: noun
examples: 1967, Royal Aero Club (Great Britain), Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom, United Service and Royal Aero Club, Flight International, Volume 91, page 496,
The trouble is that the neddies in the Board of Trade would probably approve it.
“The neddies might call it a machine. They might think you guilty of machinism.”
“Hang the stupid neddies!” Kieron carefully loosened the mooring, and the balloon rose.
Translations:
pibroch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic pìobaireachd (“act of playing the bagpipes”), from pìobaire (“piper”) + -achd (“abstract noun suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: pibrochs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: piobaireachd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature.
pos: noun
examples: Ever, as on they bore, more loud / And louder rung the pibroch proud.
He had heard the stirring pibrochs speed the Gordons in their fights, / It had borne them through the fire zone as they swung up Dargai's heights […]
Halfway through The Big Music, Kirsty Gunn notes that piobaireachd, a particular form of bagpipe composition, sounds ‘foreign and strange’ to those not raised on it.
Translations:
game-theoretical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or defined in terms of game theory.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
citing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: citings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Citation.
pos: noun
examples: Authors frequently do not cite references that are more than three years old because manuscript referees often dismiss or devalue older citings.
Translations:
siting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sitings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of finding a site for something.
pos: noun
examples: Focusing upon three northeastern states — New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania — which were among the nation's leaders in both attempted and successful sitings of such facilities, we considered dozens of relevant controversies […]
Translations:
serrate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin serrātus, past participle of serrō.
Inflected forms:
form: serrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: serrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: serrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: serrated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make serrate.
pos: verb
gloss: To cut or divide in a jagged way.
pos: verb
examples: I [...] set off to check the other sheltered valleys that serrate the east side of Lundy.
Translations:
coding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English code
English -ing
English coding
From code + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Applied to vehicles when they are under number coding.
pos: adj
tags: Philippines
not-comparable
examples: My car is coding today, so I cannot drive.
Translations:
decoding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: decodings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of the translation of something (usually a message or other text) into a form more suitable for subsequent processing.
pos: noun
Translations:
mistakenly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mistaken
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English mistakenly
From mistaken + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wrongly; erroneously.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I mistakenly assumed that the shop was still there.
Most Americans mistakenly believe that they must see specialists for almost every medical problem.
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily paused a lower court-ordered deadline to return to the US a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, granting the Trump administration additional time to review the case.
gloss: By accident; by mistake; in error (without intention to do so).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Today I mistakenly took your packed lunch to work.
Related words: mistake
mistaken
mistakingly
mistook
Translations:
interlock
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der.
Proto-Germanic *luką
Proto-West Germanic *lok
Old English loc
Middle English lok
English lock
English interlock
From inter- + lock.
Inflected forms:
form: interlocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interlocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interlocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interlocked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: interlocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To fit or clasp together securely.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To interlace.
pos: verb
gloss: A safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions.
pos: noun
examples: The demonstrator couldn't figure out why the machine wouldn't work, until he remembered that there was an interlock so it wouldn't operate with the cover open.
Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.
Derived words: interlockable
interlocker
microinterlocking
noninterlocking
uninterlocked
Translations:
pectinate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pectin
English -ate
English pectinate
From pectin + -ate (“chemical suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: pectinates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ester or salt formed of pectinic acid.
pos: noun
Translations:
recycled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has been through a recycling process.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This cardboard is made from recycled paper.
Antonyms: unrecycled
Translations:
browsing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: browsings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse.
pos: noun
examples: Browsings for the deer.
Translations:
slower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slow
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 slower
From slow + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: slowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which slows.
pos: noun
Translations:
briskness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brisk
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 briskness
From brisk + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: brisknesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being brisk.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [John] Evelyn was astonished at the immense number of pictures he saw in the Dutch fairs. He attributes the briskness of the trade in paintings to the necessary limitations of the country. The farmer or the citizen of sea-locked Holland, unable to lay out his gains on tracts of land, found a medium for speculation or investment in these works of art.
During this first winter Thea got no city consciousness. Chicago was simply a wilderness through which one had to find one's way. She felt no interest in the general briskness and zest of the crowds. The crash and scramble of that big, rich, appetent Western city she did not take in at all, except to notice that the noise of the drays and street-cars tired her.
He was trying to do everything briskly these days. Briskness, he had decided, was the one common characteristic of all successful businessmen. The big shots up at Head Office were absolutely fantastically brisk all the time. They were amazing.
Translations:
privative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin privativus.
Inflected forms:
form: more privative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most privative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: privatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: causing privation; depriving
pos: adj
gloss: consisting in the absence of something; negative
pos: adj
examples: Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity.
gloss: indicating the absence of something
pos: adj
gloss: something that causes privation or indicates an absence
pos: noun
Related words: deprivation
deprived
Derived words: privative a
privative adjective
privative case
privatively
privativeness
Translations:
ignoring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ignorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is ignored.
pos: noun
examples: Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S does not ignore them. S is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because S never knew much of anything.
Translations:
enhancer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English enhance
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 enhancer
From enhance + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: enhancers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that enhances.
pos: noun
examples: Mucuna pruriens' Latin name may be thought to suggest its predilection, but actually means itchy. Nonetheless, one can easily find it being sold in capsules as a sex enhancer. It has actually been used as such in Ayurvedic medicine for centuries.
gloss: A short region of DNA that can increase transcription of genes.
pos: noun
Derived words: bioenhancer
enhancerless
enhancer RNA
flavor enhancer
immunoenhancer
memory enhancer
nanoenhancer
neuroenhancer
pharmacoenhancer
photoenhancer
superenhancer
Translations:
bumps
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The ritual tossing of someone into the air to celebrate their birthday.
pos: noun
tags: UK
with-definite-article
Derived words: bumps race
Translations:
bottom-most
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bottommost
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lowest, closest to the bottom.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
neutralizer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English neutralize
English -er
English neutralizer
From neutralize + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: neutralizers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neutraliser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That which neutralizes.
pos: noun
Translations:
denseness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dense
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 denseness
From dense + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: densenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being dense, as:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The quality of being dense, as:
pos: noun
tags: sometimes
uncountable
usually
Translations:
globally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English global
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 globally
From global + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In all places or situations.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Over the entire planet.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Biden and his spokespeople have proudly touted his signature COVID relief bill as a major stimulus for policing in a national context already characterized by globally unparalleled police spending.
Related words: global
globe
Derived words: gravatar
nonglobally
Translations: