yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
rapine
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rapyne, from Old French rapine, from Latin rapīna, from rapiō. Doublet of ravine.
Inflected forms:
form: rapines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rapines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rapining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rapined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rapined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage; plunder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This countrey ſwarmes with vile outragious men,
That liue by rapine and by lawleſſe ſpoile,
Fit ſouldiers for the wicked Tamburlaine.
Good Rapine, stab him: he is a ravisher.
Justice and truth are the common ties of society; and therefore, even out-laws and robbers, who break with all the world besides, must keep faith and rules of equity amongst themselves, or else they cannot hold together. But will any one say, that those that live by fraud or rapine, have innate principles of truth and justice which they allow and assent to?
And it was peculiar in their Temper, that they were fonder of what they could get by Rapine or Stealth at a greater diſtance, than much better Food provided for them at home.
men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory
The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
You could join Wiscard’s remnants in the Red Stars. I don’t know, though, if you’d call that fighting or piracy. Or you could join our present gracious viceroy — gracious by right of murder, pillage, rapine, and the word of a boy Emperor, since rightfully assassinated.
An order asserted itself, and the hoods on the furnaces were oped wide, and a final march was organized. The wails of the injured and the roars of the dead-on-the-march overwhelmed the tinny speakers in the cell, and they all watched as nearly one thousand people reduced themselves to a few frantic hundred in less than an hour, then settled into a sustained orgy of battery, rapine and rape with no end in sight but the total depopulation of the entire facility.
gloss: To plunder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches.
Translations:
unusable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English usable
English unusable
From un- + usable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unusable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unusable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unuseable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: unusables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: unuseable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not usable.
pos: adj
examples: The toilet was unusable because it was blocked.
From that night until mid-morning on Sunday, November 6, the station was unusable by any electric trains and the Brighton-Eastbourne service was maintained by steam traction, assisted by two Hastings six-car diesel muliple-units—[...].
This service has suffered badly from Department for Transport-inspired cuts which reduced it from hourly to two-hourly. This, coupled with regular cancellations, has rendered the train service between the area's two biggest towns almost unusable.
gloss: Something that is not fit for use.
pos: noun
examples: All the fat, skin, bones and unusables from the slaughter house went to the soap factory, and got diverted to feed a company of soldiers.
Translations:
dele
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: From Latin dēlē, second person singular imperative of dēleo (“delete”). Alternatively, a clipping of deleatur.
Inflected forms:
form: deles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deleing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: deles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To delete.
pos: verb
tags: imperative
usually
gloss: A sign signifying deletion.
pos: noun
Translations:
offeree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English offer
English -ee
English offeree
From offer + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: offerees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One to whom an offer is made.
pos: noun
examples: A unilateral contract consists of a promise on the part of the offeror and performance of the requisite terms by the offeree.
Translations:
sangoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu *ngòmà
Zulu íngoma
Zulu isángomabor.
English sangoma
Borrowed from Zulu isángoma (“diviner, witch doctor, sangoma”), possibly from i- + sa- (prefix meaning ‘of’) + íngoma (“dance song performed at a festival; hymn”). The English word is cognate with Afrikaans sangoma, Swazi sángoma.
Inflected forms:
form: sangomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A (usually female) traditional healer or herbalist, or witch doctor.
pos: noun
examples: The Natal Zulu believes in witchcraft, prophesy, love philtres, and such like. He is firmly fixed in his mind that the witch doctors and sangomas (female diviners) have power to bring rain, to trace spells of witchcraft, to heal by incantation, and to perform sundry other wonders and miracles.
Sangoma is a type of healer rare in the surveyed area, but seems to be more common in other parts of Botswana. [...] In the majority of cases the Sangoma is a female, but some male Disangoma are found. The Sangoma would often, as a young person during a severe illness, be 'called' by the Badimo through a dream and then seek guidance and training from an elder Sangoma. [...] In some cases the Sangoma would specialise in some types of exorcism during which she would engage in singing, dancing and in some cases using her drum, often entering into a state of trance.
Sangomas nowadays tend to have at least two or three, and at times as many as fifteen or more, spirits that guide and assist them in their healing practice. Sangomas describe a division of labour among such spirits whereby each tends to have a specialized purpose, ranging from guidance in diagnosis to help in collecting overdue patient fees.
This case also attracted a large crowd – not to see me, but to find out whether the white man's laws could be applied to a sangoma.
The coffins eventually reached cold storage, where they were to lie for another six weeks. Enter the sangomas. The antidote for zombies requires that sangomas reunite the zomboid spirits with their bodies. A Cape Town sangoma told me that once she had danced herself into a trance, she was able to spiritually enter the cupboard and catch the zombies (who, she assured me, are terribly strong).
Lesedi was a sangoma, you know. I think she tried to put a curse on me because I was spying on her. But I wasn't really spying, I just thought that she was nice and wanted her to be my friend and then I saw the mask and I didn't anymore.
Translations:
offeror
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Germanic *ab
Proto-West Germanic *ab
Old English æf
Old English of
Middle English of
English off
English -er
English offer
English -or
English offeror
From offer + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: offerors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who makes an offer to another; someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection.
pos: noun
examples: A unilateral contract consists of a promise on the part of the offeror and performance of the requisite terms by the offeree.
Acceptance of the offer terminates the power of revocation that the offeror ordinarily has.
Translations:
concoction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin concoctiō.
Inflected forms:
form: concoctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Salt is a very favoured ingredient of spell-binding concoctions.
Deer Sperm: In ancient times, this was used as an ingredient on aphrodisiac concoctions. An example of organotherapy.
gloss: A mixture prepared in such a way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something made up, an invention.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: Digestion (of food etc.).
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: [Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […]
gloss: The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
obsolete
uncountable
examples: At laſt, the Phyſicians, after a long and ſtormie voyage, ſee land; They haue ſo good ſignes of the concoction of the diſeaſe, as that they may ſafely proceed to purge.
gloss: An abatement of a morbid process, such as a fever, and a return to a normal condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The act of perfecting or maturing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation
Derived words: inconcoction
reconcoction
Translations:
concoct
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin concoquō (“boil, prepare, digest”) (influenced by the participle concoctus), from con- (“together”) + coquō (“cook”).
Inflected forms:
form: concocts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: concocting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: concocted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: concocted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.
pos: verb
examples: to concoct a potion
to concoct a new dish
Their only regret was, that Mademoiselle Carrara would taste none of the conserves and the pastry they were so busily concocting.
Pecan shells make good fuel, and they are used by leather tanners to concoct their foul-smelling compounds, and sometimes we mix them with charcoal in hand-soap to make a really good scrubbing agent
The twelve include Jill (she used to be a chicken-and-potatoes girl, but now she's willing to try whatever I concoct), […]
gloss: To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: to concoct a cunning plan
On the other hand, the finest argument ever concocted, the concentrated wisdom drawn from men and books, will fail to charm, like the hilarity of a dance, or the splendour of a gala, the young, gay girl, whose spirits are exuberant, and whose heart is untouched by care, and who, a dozen years afterwards, would, in calm cheerfulness, listen lovingly, and examine carefully, the pleaded reasons offered to her judgment.
He had two beautiful daughters who fell in love with men he approved of and he wanted to give them the most lavish double wedding he could concoct.
gloss: To digest.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: For the parts of an Embryo are nourished and encreased before it hath a Stomach to concoct any thing, and yet in a perfect Fœtus none can deny that the Stomach does concoct […]
Related words: concoction
decoct
Derived words: concocter
concoctive
concoctor
deconcoct
inconcocted
reconcoct
unconcocted
Translations:
flotilla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Spanish flotilla, diminutive of flota (“fleet”), from French flotte.
Inflected forms:
form: flotillas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
pos: noun
examples: Toward the horizon a flotilla of fishing-boats showed immutable, pink-lacquered by the evening sun.
Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations.
Home to 17 million quarians, the flotilla understandably has scarce resources. Because of this, each quarian must go on a rite of passage known as the Pilgrimage when they come of age. They leave the fleet and only return once they have found something of value they can bring back to their people.
gloss: A small group of things or people
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: After a few moments Chloe saw Rosamund walking towards them with a small flotilla of shopping bags.
flotilla of tiny ducklings
gloss: A spaceship made of one or more central mutually stabilizing overweight spaceships flanked by lightweight, middleweight, or heavyweight spaceships that prevent the formation of destructive eggs.
pos: noun
examples: For rule R(2222) a flotilla of six gliders traveling eastwards is generated.
Now, the smallest known Life spaceship that isn’t a glider, a *WSS, or a flotilla of *WSSs is the loafer, which has population 20 in a 9 by 9 bounding box.
The resulting spaceship (shown below) has a phase with only 24 cells, making it in this respect the smallest known spaceship other than the standard spaceships and some trivial two-spaceship flotillas derived from them.
Related words: convoy
Derived words: flotillin
squadrilla
Translations:
no-see-um
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: no-see-ums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae), small flies (1–4 mm long); sometimes the species Leptoconops torrens in particular.
pos: noun
tags: Southern-US
US
gloss: Any biting bug or insect that is normally too small to see with an unaided eye.
pos: noun
examples: Wherever we look up, there suspended against an areola of humming fluorescent white, is a shadowy funnel of tiny flies, bobbing in the air. 'No-See-Um's. This is what one employee calls them.
These two examples of insect life are the scourge of the North Country, or any country in which they may be found. Many local people refer to any small black fly as a “no-see-Um" but the true bug by that name is indeed very hard to see.
An easy solution is to cover up, because they're not much for getting inside your clothes and they can't bite through even a thin shirt, as mosquitoes can. But it's often too hot in no-see-um country for a lot of clothing.
... it's not as widely known as malaria, it can be every bit as painful, tenacious, and dangerous, as some of your fellow Undercurrent readers have told us. Worse yet, the source of the infection is nearly invisible the ubiquitous no-see-um.
One of the biggest scams foisted on the camping community is tent manufacturers extolling their 1995 no-see-um bug netting. No-see-um netting may keep out the tiniest of insects, but unfortunately, it also barely lets air through.
Synonyms: no-see-em
Translations:
lyceum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Lyceum, from Ancient Greek Λύκειον (Lúkeion) (the name of a gymnasium, or athletic training facility, near Athens where Aristotle established his school), from Λύκειος, from Proto-Greek *λύκη), "light." The meaning of the epithet "Lyceus" later became associated with Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddess of Lycia (Λυκία) and who was identified with the wolf (λύκος). Doublet of lycée and Lyceum.
Inflected forms:
form: lyceums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lycea
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: At a lyceum, not long since, I felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as he might have done.
In the autumn he was to return home; his family - composed, as Rowland knew, of a father, who was a cashier in a bank, and five unmarried sisters, one of whom gave lyceum lectures on woman's rights, the whole resident at Buffalo, N.Y. - had been writing him peremptory letters and appealing to him as son, brother and fellow-citizen.
gloss: A school, especially European, at a stage between elementary school and college, a lycée.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
examples: We burst out laughing. She told me that one of her teachers at the "lyceum" used to say that whenever any of the students got up to anything.
gloss: An association for literary improvement.
pos: noun
Translations:
patently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English patent
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 patently
From patent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more patently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most patently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a clear and unambiguous manner.
pos: adv
tags: negative
usually
examples: Many of the so-called rites of these secret societies were so patently ridiculous, that it is quite obvious that they were merely an excuse for men and women to indulge in sex-play and lustful gratification, frequently of an abnormal kind.
gloss: Outspread, or spreading at right angles to the axis.
pos: adv
examples: abaxial surface patently pilose-puberulous
Derived words: prepatently
subpatently
Translations:
peacefully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English peesfully, peasfullie, paisfulike, paisfullic, equivalent to peaceful + -ly.
Base: peaceful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more peacefully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most peacefully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a peaceful manner.
pos: adv
examples: She and her husband managed to fix up a false floor in one of their rooms in which they fed the roosters; so whenever a picket came in sight her call would bring the whole family out of the woods and clearing into the refuge, where they remained peacefully amongst corn-cobs till the danger had passed.
Translations:
zot
Part of speech: verb
noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A sound effect. Popularized by the Usenet Oracle, a humorous Internet advice service, where the word was used as an irritated dismissal of a question.
Inflected forms:
form: zots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: zotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: zotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: zotted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: zots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To zap, kill, or destroy.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: I reached for the handle and it zotted me — an electric shock to the elbow.
I've heard rumors about the oracle zotting people and I have these questions about zot?
When a taxi driver, convenience store clerk, pizza deliverer, etc., gets zotted, it is on the back page of the local newspaper and not in out of town newspapers at all.
electric fence - zotting me was fine (well really!) but they were worried about zotting the several dozen human puppies that hang around at our house.
gloss: An anteater.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: The characteristic sound made by an anteater's tongue or by lightning.
pos: intj
tags: US
Translations:
microfiche
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French micro-
French fiche
French microfichebor.
English microfiche
Borrowed from French microfiche.
Inflected forms:
form: microfiches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: microfiches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: microfiching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: microfiched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: microfiched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sheet of microfilm, six by four inches, holding several hundred reduced images of document pages, read using a microfiche reader or microfilm reader.
pos: noun
gloss: A device used to magnify and read these sheets.
pos: noun
gloss: To convert (documents) to microfiche format.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: ultramicrofiche
Translations:
s-process
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrophysics
Etymology: The s stands for slow.
Inflected forms:
form: s-processes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the relatively slow nucleosynthesis process, in giant stars, in which neutron capture synthesizes elements up to atomic mass number 210 (at which point alpha decay becomes a deterrent to further building).
pos: noun
Translations:
r-process
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrophysics
Etymology: The r stands for rapid.
Inflected forms:
form: r-processes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The relatively rapid nucleosynthesis process, in supernovae, in which a large neutron flux allows rapid neutron capture and synthesis of elements up to the transuranic elements.
pos: noun
Translations:
mistle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mistel (“mistletoe”), from Old English mistel (“mistletoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *mistil (“mistle”), from Proto-Germanic *mistilaz (“mistle”).
Base: mist
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: mistles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mistles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mistling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mistled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mistled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: mistletoe
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: the mistle thrush
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To fall like a fine rain; to drizzle.
pos: verb
Translations:
witting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Participle adjective of wit.
Inflected forms:
form: more witting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most witting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: aware, knowledgeable
pos: adj
examples: Sometimes the committing authority, who is usually located in the United States, is the only person who is witting of the CIA officer's true affiliation.
gloss: Done deliberately or intentionally
pos: adj
Antonyms: unwitting
Derived words: wittingly
Translations:
daypack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From day + pack.
Compound parts: day
pack
Inflected forms:
form: daypacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: day pack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small backpack, suitable for a one-day hike or for carrying books around campus.
pos: noun
Translations:
donnybrook
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named from Donnybrook Fair, a notoriously disorderly event, held annually from 1204 until the middle of the 19th century. The town of Donnybrook comes from the Irish Domhnach Broc (“The Church of Saint Broc”).
Inflected forms:
form: donnybrooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.
pos: noun
examples: But the Hindus turned out and broke their heads; when, finding lawlessness pleasant, Hindus and Muhammadans together raised an aimless sort of Donnybrook just to see how far they could go.
Sherman's signature caused another donnybrook over the election of a speaker of the House when the 36th Congress convened in December 1859.
This was no innocuous donnybrook but a veritable carnival of thuggee.
gloss: Chaotic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In one of the most thrilling, heart-threatening donnybrook baseball battles in the World Series in recent decades, the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers tried to smother each other in heroics and home runs over four incredible hours Wednesday night in Game 2.
Translations:
sav
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of saveloy.
Inflected forms:
form: savs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A saveloy.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
informal
examples: 1982, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, NZ, Predicament, The Dunmore Press, page 68,
“Well, I don′t know what you′ll think. I′m only saying this to show what you′ve all done for me, but last Christmas dinner I had cold savs.”
There was silence and then Mervyn added with a break in his voice, “Saveloys. […] ”
‘Your turn today, Lil,’ he said. ‘Fish and chips for me. No, wait, I′ll have savs, faggots and pease pudding.’
The menu of the average fish and chip shop will also offer[…]battered savs/Pluto pups (these are basically saveloy sausages with a fried batter on a stick, dipped in tomato ketchup) as well as a choice of homemade marinated pickles.
Translations:
heaps
Part of speech: noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A large amount.
pos: noun
examples: And heaps of objections, all of them involving countless difficulties, are going to face anyone who says either that being is some two things or that it is only one.
gloss: Indicating a large amount or number.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
examples: "We were a bit nervous about it, seeing heaps of surfers out there on the breaks," he said. "There were some nice breaks, but it looked pretty sketchy with the sharks, so yeah, we just tried to stay away from that beach."
gloss: Very much, a lot
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: I love him heaps.
Translations:
mockery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mokkery, from Anglo-Norman mokerie, mokery and Middle French mocquerie, moquerie, from moquer, moker (“to mock”) + -erie (“-ery”), perhaps from Byzantine Greek μωκός (mōkós, “mocker”), perhaps from Arabic مَكْر (makr, “scheme, plot”). Equivalent to mock + -ery.
Base: mock
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: mockeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.
Derived words: make a mockery of
make mockery of
self-mockery
Translations:
merriment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English merry
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English merriment
From merry + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: merriments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of enjoyable exuberance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hugh laughed again, and with such thorough abandonment to his mad humour, that his limbs seemed dislocated, and his whole frame in danger of tumbling to pieces; but Mr Tappertit, so far from receiving this extreme merriment with any irritation, was pleased to regard it with the utmost favour, and even to join in it, so far as one of his gravity and station could, with any regard to that decency and decorum which men in high places are expected to maintain.
It is recorded that this remarkable prophecy, now largely fulfilled, was received with much merriment—an undeserved fate.
gloss: Playful fun.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Alas poore Yorick […] VVhere be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flaſhes of Merriment that were wont to ſet the Table on a Rore?
For to what purpose were it to clog our stomachs with dainties, junkets, and the like stuff, unless our eyes and ears, nay whole mind, were likewise entertained with jests, merriments, and laughter?
Translations:
inconvenient
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.
Inflected forms:
form: more inconvenient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inconvenient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: not convenient
pos: adj
Translations:
evolved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more evolved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most evolved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having arisen through a process of evolution or iterative development.
pos: adj
gloss: Biologically gifted.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Derived words: evolved antenna
evolvedness
hyperevolved
nonevolved
unevolved
Translations:
flattered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more flattered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flattered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a positive mood because of a comment or action which causes one to feel proud of oneself.
pos: adj
Translations:
undressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + dressed.
Base: dressed
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more undressed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undressed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having partially or completely removed one's clothes.
pos: adj
examples: I looked back, and could see Jackson half undressed, and putting on his running-shoes.
gloss: Whose surface has not been dressed (prepared).
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: an undressed wound
gloss: Without dressing.
pos: adj
tags: usually
Translations:
posterboard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
marketing
Etymology: From poster + board.
Compound parts: poster
board
Inflected forms:
form: posterboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cardboard material suitable for making posters.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I used a piece of posterboard for my project.
gloss: A piece of such material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I used the posterboard for my project.
gloss: A flyer printed on stiff cardboard, approximately 8.5 by 11 inches, mailed flat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
direct
uncountable
examples: They sent me a nice posterboard on the new product.
Translations:
disinfect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From English dis- + infect, from Middle French desinfecter.
Base: infect
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: disinfects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disinfecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disinfected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disinfected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To sterilize by the use of cleaning agent.
pos: verb
examples: An on-board cleaner passes through, disinfecting every grabrail and handhold as they pass.
Translations:
backrest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of back + rest.
Inflected forms:
form: backrests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.
pos: noun
examples: I can identify the pattern of wood grain on my chair at Mom and Dad's kitchen table, but I don't try to sketch it in my mind. For me, chairness is nonvisual; it's the feel of a seat connected to four legs and a backrest.
gloss: A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.
pos: noun
Translations:
touchpoint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From touch + point.
Compound parts: touch
point
Inflected forms:
form: touchpoints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A physical point of contact; a surface that is regularly touched by people.
pos: noun
examples: The operator says that a total of 952,514 'cleans' of various touchpoints, including tables and door buttons, were carried out by more than 600 dedicated cleaning staff - the equivalent of cleaning one carriage at least three times every day.
gloss: An encounter where customers and business engage to exchange information, provide services, or handle transactions.
pos: noun
examples: The touchpoints in retail banking include tellers and ATMs.
gloss: A point where things touch.
pos: noun
examples: The Gergonne triangle is defined by the three touchpoints of the incircle on the three sides.
Translations:
tradable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trade
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English tradable
From trade + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more tradable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tradable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tradeable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: tradables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tradeable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being traded.
pos: adj
examples: Oil is a tradable commodity.
gloss: An asset which can be traded.
pos: noun
examples: What is the price of the tradable?
Translations:
transdimensional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
mathematics
media
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Italic *mētis
Latin mētior
Latin dīmētior
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin dīmēnsiōder.
English dimension
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 dimensional
English transdimensional
From trans- + dimensional.
Inflected forms:
form: more transdimensional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most transdimensional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: trans-dimensional
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a dimension other than those of the normal three-dimensional world.
pos: adj
examples: A concentrated hyperplasma of Energon, drawn via a transdimensional gateway from the endless supply of Energon that enlivened the planet Cybertron itself.
gloss: Applicable to multiple dimensionalities; Having components or subspaces of different dimension.
pos: adj
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:transdimensional.
Translations:
yagi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Inflected forms:
form: yagis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Yagi-Uda antenna
pos: noun
Translations:
barouche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From dialectal German Barutsche, from Italian baroccio, from Late Latin *birotium, from Latin birotus (“chariot”), from bi- (“two”) + rota (“wheel”). The spelling was altered in English as if the word had come from French. Doublet of britchka.
Inflected forms:
form: barouches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
pos: noun
examples: “What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”
[A]s the state barouche, with the greys and coachman in silver wig, and solemn footmen, drew up at the old churchyard-gate, there was such a crowd assembled there as had not been seen for many a long day.
[…] all the other children got up behind the barouche and fell off, and we saw them, with great concern, scattered over the surface of Thavies Inn as we rolled out of its precincts.
Day was drooping on a fine evening in March as a brown barouche passed through the wrought-iron gates of Hare-Hatch House on to the open highway.
"Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the ' 80s."
Translations:
jiggered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jigger
English -ed
English jiggered
From jigger + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more jiggered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jiggered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very tired.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Broken.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Time stopped tick-tocking, because there was too much moisture in the air and it had interfered with the mechanical workings of dozens of watches and clocks that ended up jiggered, and afterwards, were only fit to be thrown down on the rubbish dump.
gloss: Damned.
pos: adj
tags: UK
euphemistic
examples: "Well then," said he, "I'm jiggered if I don't see you home!"
"Well, I'm—I'm jiggered," said Peter, and his voice also sounded queer.
Translations:
threepence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From three + pence.
Compound parts: three
pence
Inflected forms:
form: threepences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount of money equal to that of three pence (old or new).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: ‘Can you let me have threepence for an urgent telephone call?’
gloss: A former (pre-decimalisation) British or Irish coin worth three old pence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
Related words: twopence
tuppence
fourpence
fivepence
sixpence
eightpence
tenpence
Translations:
olfaction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French olfaction /olefaction, from Latin olfactus, perfect passive participle of olfaciō (“to smell (transitive)”) + -tion.
Inflected forms:
form: olfactions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sense of smell; the detection of airborne molecules.
pos: noun
examples: ‘I think the single most extraordinary aspect of olfaction is that we all smell the world differently,’ Beauchamp told me.
Antonyms: anosmia
Translations:
olivine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From olive + -in, later remodelled after -ine.
Base: olive
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: olivines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of olive green magnesium-iron silicate minerals that crystallize in the orthorhombic system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The olivine crystals in most basalts are imperfect, lacking clear crystal faces.
To do so, his team mixed together limestone with a crushed silicate mineral that contains magnesium — such as olivine, an olive-tinted mineral that can be found around the world. When heated to furiously high temperatures in a kiln, calcium in the limestone and magnesium in the silicate jiggle and switch sides, like participants in a square dance.
Translations:
eclogite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐκλογή (eklogḗ, “selection”), + -ite.
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: eclogites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coarse-grained metamorphic rock, a mixture of pyroxene, quartz, and feldspar with inclusions of red garnet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Assiduoud field-workers have discovered little pods of a rock called eclogite in the rocks around San Bernardino.
Translations:
jadeite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jade
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English jadeite
From jade + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: jadeites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pyroxene mineral, a sodium aluminium silicate with the chemical formula Na(Al,Fe³⁺)Si₂O₆, found in metamorphic rocks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
diopside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French diopside, from Ancient Greek δίοψις (díopsis, “transparency”) + -ide.
Inflected forms:
form: diopsides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A monoclinic pyroxene mineral, a magnesium calcium silicate with the chemical formula CaMgSi₂O₆, found in igneous and metamorphic rocks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
oncogene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
oncology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ὄγκος (ónkos)der.
New Latin onco-der.
English onco-
English gene
English oncogene
From onco- + gene.
Inflected forms:
form: oncogenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any gene that contributes to the conversion of a normal cell into a cancerous cell when mutated or expressed at high levels.
pos: noun
examples: It was obvious from the start what kinds of genes oncogenes would turn out to be – genes that encourage cells to grow.
Translations:
glycan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: glycans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any polysaccharide or oligosaccharide, especially one that is part of a glycoprotein or glycolipid.
pos: noun
Translations:
glycopeptide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek γλῠκῠ́ς (glŭkŭ́s)der.
English glyco-
Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-ye-
Proto-Hellenic *péťťō
Ancient Greek πέσσω (péssō)bf.
Ancient Greek πέπτω (péptō)
Ancient Greek πεπτόν (peptón)der.
German Peptonbor.
English peptone
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
▲
German Pepton
▲
Latin -idusder.
German -id
German Peptidbor.
English peptide
English glycopeptide
From glyco- + peptide.
Inflected forms:
form: glycopeptides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any compound of a carbohydrate and a peptide
pos: noun
Translations:
combinatorics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a branch of mathematics that studies (usually finite) collections of objects that satisfy specified criteria
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
glycosaminoglycan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From glycosamino- (“combining form of glycosamine”) + glycan (“polysaccharide”); compare aminoglycan.
Base: glycan
Affixes: glycosamino-
Inflected forms:
form: glycosaminoglycans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any polysaccharide that is a polymer of amino sugars; they are the carbohydrate units of proteoglycans.
pos: noun
examples: Subcellular fractionation techniques have indicated that the greatest percentage of these glycosaminoglycans that is not extracted with water is contained within the microsomal fraction (36-60%).
1998, Christopher C. Rider, 9: Analysis of Glycosaminoglycans and Proteoglycans, Elizabeth F. Hounsell (editor), Glycoanalysis Protocols, 2nd Edition, page 131,
The biosynthesis of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and proteoglycans appears to be a ubiquitous function in mammalian cells.
The mucopolysaccharidoses (MPSs) are a group of inherited disorders caused by specific enzyme deficiencies in the degradation of the glycosaminoglycans (mucopolysaccharides).
Translations:
glycosyl-amino-acid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: glycosyl-amino-acids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any glyco-amino-acid
pos: noun
Translations:
glyco-amino-acid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: glyco-amino-acids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any glycoside of an amino acid (linked via O-, N- or S-)
pos: noun
Translations:
graphene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -itebor.
German -it
German Graphitbor.
English graph(ite)
French -ènebor.
English -ene
English graphene
From graph(ite) + -ene.
Inflected forms:
form: graphenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having the structure of part of a layer of graphite.
pos: noun
gloss: An arbitrarily large-scale, one-atom-thick layer of graphite, an allotrope of carbon, that has remarkable electric characteristics.
pos: noun
examples: Graphene is the strongest, thinnest material known to exist. A form of carbon, it can conduct electricity and heat better than anything else. And get ready for this: It is not only the hardest material in the world but also one of the most pliable. Only a single atom thick, it has been called the wonder material. Graphene could change the electronics industry, ushering in flexible devices, supercharged quantum computers, electronic clothing and computers that can interface with the cells in your body.
As a microbullet impacts the graphene, the diameter of the cone it creates – determined by later examination of the petals – provides a way to measure how much energy the graphene absorbs before breaking.
Graphene, which consists of monolayers of carbon atoms bonded in a repeating hexagonal pattern, is the thinnest known material. It was isolated in 2004 at the University of Manchester by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who went on to win a Nobel prize for their discovery.
Related words: graphite
benzene
cycloalkene
diamond
fullerene
Derived words: antimonene
arsenene
borophene
-ene
fluorographene
graphane
graphene layer
graphino
multigraphene
nanographene
penta-graphene
phagraphene
silicene
stanene
Translations:
heteroatom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
English atom
English heteroatom
From hetero- + atom.
Inflected forms:
form: heteroatoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any atom which is not carbon or hydrogen.
pos: noun
gloss: Any atom in a heterocyclic ring (or other structure normally built of carbon atoms) that is not a carbon atom.
pos: noun
Related words: heterocycle
homoatom
Translations:
deistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English deistic
From deist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more deistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Deistic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to deism.
pos: adj
examples: The mystic is one to whom the unitive, pantheistic, or at least the panentheistic, aspects of the divinity are as congenial as the deistic, polytheistic, and anthropomorphic aspects are to the institutional mind.
Sometimes these sagas and anecdotes are touched with ribaldry, or with excessive obscenity, according to the times, and sometimes they are rooted in obscure but still verifiable deistic concepts.
Translations:
pantheistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pantheism
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)bor.
English -tic
English pantheistic
From pantheism + -tic.
Inflected forms:
form: more pantheistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pantheistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to pantheism.
pos: adj
examples: The mystic is one to whom the unitive, pantheistic, or at least the panentheistic, aspects of the divinity are as congenial as the deistic, polytheistic, and anthropomorphic aspects are to the institutional mind.
Translations: