yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
lukewarmness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English leuk
Proto-Germanic *warmaz
Proto-West Germanic *warm
Old English wearm
Middle English warm
Middle English leukwarm
English lukewarm
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 lukewarmness
From lukewarm + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: lukewarmnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1665, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, Discourse II, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, London: A. Millar, 1744, Volume II, p. 246,
And indeed, there is scarce any quality, for whose differences we have fewer distinct names, having scarce any for the many degrees of coldness, that may be conceived to be intermediate, betwixt lukewarmness and the freezing degree of cold […]
Mr. Hale was disappointed in his pupil’s lukewarmness about Greek literature, which had but a short time ago so great an interest for him.
Sazonov was furious at the lukewarmness of the British and French reactions to Russia's protests.
Translations:
unprovoked
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English provoked
English unprovoked
From un- + provoked.
Inflected forms:
form: more unprovoked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unprovoked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more unprovoked
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unprovoked
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Happening without provocation.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: unmotivated
an unprovoked attack
A 22-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for fatally stabbing 22-year-old Tashan Daniel in an unprovoked attack at Hillingdon Underground station on September 24 2019.
Three unprovoked stabbings across Manhattan Monday morning that left two men and one woman dead show how the criminal justice and mental health systems fail New Yorkers, the city’s mayor said.
gloss: Without provocation or motivation.
pos: adv
examples: He attacked me, suddenly, unprovoked.
'He said, "I won't bugger you"? Really?' 'Yes, really.' 'God. That is a bit suspicious; coming out unprovoked.'
The supernatural are so destructive that they have to create conditions to enable the continuous infliction of mental and physical injuries on others unprovoked.
So when one of our own flouts our laws to attack my house unprovoked—”
Translations:
lunkhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Probably from *lunk (perhaps an alteration of lump; compare hunk & hump), a diminutive of lump + head.
Compound parts: lump
head
Inflected forms:
form: lunkheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fool or idiot.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: You are a lunkhead! How could you be so stupid?
Eww, you've got to check out her creepy friends.. It's like these JAP actress sluts and some American Gladiators reject lunkhead!
More recently in the semi-mainstream, and somewhere between Jo and Lesbieber, there’s Portlandia’s Lance, of recurring couple Nina and Lance. He’s a longhaired lunkhead with a heart of gold and the patience of a man who could only actually be a woman.
Bill Baker is a challenging hero to root for, a thickly accented lunkhead and self-described screwup who is never without his trucker cap and wraparound shades.
Translations:
luncheonette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English luncheon
English -ette
English luncheonette
From luncheon + -ette.
Inflected forms:
form: luncheonettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small diner or restaurant that serves lunch.
pos: noun
examples: He talked up an acquaintance with a waitress in a luncheonette, made a date to take her driving in his Cadillac that afternoon, and came back to wake me with the news.
Translations:
lumpy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lump
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English lumpy
From lump + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: lumpier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lumpiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of lumps, not smooth, uneven.
pos: adj
examples: I don't know which was worse, the lumpy soup or the lumpy bed.
The film makes fun of the lumpiest and palest set of tourists ever to carry plastic shoulder bags. It makes fun of an upwardly mobile hotel manager, married to a lecherous blonde.
The universe appears to be slightly lumpier, with bigger and more hot and cold spots in the northern half of the sky as seen from Earth than toward the south, for example. And there is a large, unexplained cool spot in the northern hemisphere.
With the bathers, especially, bodies harden into things. Torsos like clay. Buttocks like pears. More classically proportioned figures could be paired, on the same page, with squatter, lumpier piles of flesh.
The NIC warns that rail investment is being spread too thinly across too many projects, and calls for a proper long-term pipeline of projects, instead of the present stop-start policies dictated by the lumpy flow of money from HM Treasury.
gloss: Of a water surface: covered in many small waves as a result of wind; choppy.
pos: adj
Derived words: lumpily
lumpiness
lumpy dick
lumpy jaw
lumpy jumper
lumpy skin disease
Translations:
attested
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more attested
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most attested
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Proven; shown to be true with evidence.
pos: adj
gloss: Supported with testimony.
pos: adj
gloss: Certified as good, correct, or pure.
pos: adj
examples: A Contract of eternall bond of loue,
Confirm'd by mutuall ioynder of your hands,
Atteſted by the holy cloſe of lippes,
gloss: Of words or languages, proven to have existed by records.
pos: adj
examples: The word "slæpwerig" (sleep-weary) is attested in the Exeter Book in the form "slæpwerigne".
A term should be included if it's likely that someone would run across it and want to know what it means. This in turn leads to the somewhat more formal guideline of including a term if it is attested and idiomatic.
Related words: attest
attestable
attestation
attestative
attestive
attestment
approved
cited
documented
proven
supported
Derived words: attestedly
nonattested
unattested
well-attested
Translations:
lucidly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin lūcidus
English lucid
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lucidly
From lucid + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lucidly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lucidly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a clear and easily understood way, in a lucid manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
laminated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Made by lamination.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The accident was also one of several since Clapham [...] that demonstrated the role of breakable windows in the death toll. RSSB research would later confirm and reinforce the need for laminated glass to protect passengers and increase survivability.
gloss: Consisting of many thin layers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A laminated arch is a timber arch made of layers of bent planks secured by treenails.
All springs for the engine and tender are of the laminated type with plates of carbon steel, which are secured in the spring buckles by a vertical centre rivet.
In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.
gloss: Splitting into thin layers parallel to bedding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Shale is laminated.
Derived words: biolaminated
delaminated
glulam
interlaminated
laminated glass
laminated root rot
microlaminated
nonlaminated
prelaminated
unlaminated
Translations:
psionic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to psionics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He had honestly tried to understand the commander, but they came from different worlds. Although they could talk easily enough, with the tiny psionic translators they wore like hearing aids. Bowman’s hawknosed, black-pigmented face seemed as forbiddingly foreign as his life was strange.
"So." Rod touched his pursed lips to his steepled fingertips. "Somebody overseas lends the beastmen a huge surge of psionic power— in electrical form, of course; we re assuming psionics is based on an electrical phenomenon. The beastmen channel the power into their own projective telepathy, throw it into the soldiers' minds— somehow, eye contact seems to be necessary there— and from the soldiers' minds, it flows into the witches, immediately knocking out anyone who's tuned in . . . only temporarily, thank Heaven."
Again the Krithian females struck against him, battering his shields again and again, smashing through them, tearing them down one after the other, forcing piercing lances of psionic force through them and into him.
Translations:
leafless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier leaveless, from Middle English leveles, equivalent to leaf + -less.
Base: leaf
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of plants or trees, without leaves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In winter the leafless trees look cold.
One afternoon, when all the party from the house were riding, Adeline sauntered under the leafless, hazel hedges, which separated the pleasure domain from the park.
Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panneling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
For many times with the laughing girls and boys / Played I along the road and over the hills / When the sun was low and the air was cool, / Stopping to club the walnut tree / Standing leafless against a flaming west.
Translations:
lazily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lazy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lazily
From lazy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lazily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lazily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lazy manner.
pos: adv
examples: She lazily scrubbed the pot, but without some real elbow grease it wasn't going to get clean.
gloss: In a slow manner.
pos: adv
examples: Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long eight-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts.
Disembarkation seemed a slow business. From the deck one watched a "Merchant Navy" Pacific drift lazily along the track beside the wall of the Marine Station, and little South Eastern tanks go snorting fussily about.
Translations:
leaky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Likely a normalisation ( + -y) of earlier leak, leake, leke (“leaky”, adjective), from Middle English leke (“leaky”), from Old English hlec, *lec (“having cracks or rents; leaky”), from Proto-Germanic *lekaz (“leaking; leaky”). By surface analysis, leak + -y. Cognate with Scots lek, leck (“leaky”), Saterland Frisian läk (“leaky”), Dutch lek (“leaky”), German Low German leck (“leaky”), German leck (“leaky”), Swedish läck (“leaky”), Icelandic lekur (“leaky”).
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: leakier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: leakiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having leaks; not fully sealed.
pos: adj
examples: The leaky bucket dripped only one drop at a time, but by the time I got back to the house it was half empty.
The ceiling was so leaky that someone had to fix it.
Nuclear reactors in Russian submarines are said to be so leaky that crews are often paid "sterility money".
gloss: Tending to leak secrets or information.
pos: adj
examples: The spooks' argument against this is that the secret service would become leaky and demoralised […]
Derived words: leakily
leakiness
leaky abstraction
leaky brain syndrome
leaky bucket
leaky gut syndrome
leaky weir
nonleaky
unleaky
Translations:
leakiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English leaky
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 leakiness
From leaky + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: leakinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being leaky.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
leaper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: From Middle English lepere, lepare, from Old English hlēapere (“runner, leaper, dancer, courier, vagrant”), equivalent to leap + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Lööper (“runner”), West Frisian ljepper (“leaper”), West Frisian loper (“runner”), Dutch loper (“runner”), German Läufer (“runner”), Swedish löpare (“runner”), Icelandic hlaupari (“runner”).
Base: leap
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: leapers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who leaps.
pos: noun
examples: […] I read in the Bulletin about some mad joker breaking into the little kangaroo and koala zoo in the suburbs and slaughtering seven adult leapers and three joeys.
In the winter—God knows why!—he liked basketball […] He played only in pickup games, to be sure—he could never have played on any of the teams—but he played with enthusiasm; he was quite a leaper, he had a jump shot that elevated him almost to eye level with the other players […]
gloss: A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece, like the knight, which moves a fixed distance, and ignores pieces in the way.
pos: noun
examples: Any combination of a piece with a free piece is obviously free. It can however happen that a two-pattern leaper is free even though its components are not. […] Many other two-pattern leapers are possible.
gloss: Synonym of jumper (“person who attempts suicide by jumping from a height”).
pos: noun
gloss: A person whose birthday falls on 29 February, and thus only occurs in leap years.
pos: noun
examples: I'm sick of getting coloring books and dollies for my birthdays, and other leapers are just as exasperated by their juvenile gifts. Another question we always get is, “When do you celebrate your birthday?” On February 29th, of course.
Derived words: landleaper
Translations:
laze
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from lazy.
Inflected forms:
form: lazes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lazing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lazed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lazed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lazes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To be lazy, waste time.
pos: verb
examples: Behold by millions how thy men do fall
Before Alphonsus like to sillie sheepe.
And canst thou stand still lazing in this sort?
And, lastly, such are they; that, having got
Wealth, Knowledge, and those other Gifts, which may
Advance the Publike-Good, yet, use them not;
But Feede, and Sleepe, and laze their time away.
But for this anachronism of keeping Saturday holy when you had Sunday also to laze on, Daniel felt a hundred higher careers would have been open to him.
“I could easily fall into this,” I said. “Laze my way through life. Coffee here, wine there. You can channel significant things into the commonplace. Or you can avoid them completely.”
gloss: To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.
pos: verb
examples: The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
A football game went on beside the line; half the teams just lazed on the grass […]
gloss: An instance of lazing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I had a laze on the beach after lunch.
gloss: Laziness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The laze is real.
Synonyms: idle
loaf
take it easy
lounge
while away
Derived words: laze about
laze around
lazen
lazer
lazy
Translations:
launcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English launch
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 launcher
From launch + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: launchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which launches. A device that throws something or the person who initiates a launch.
pos: noun
examples: The catapult made a good launcher for the small projectile.
They shot down the helicopter with a rocket launcher.
This actually occurs in perception of non-colliding Michotte displays: Even though there is a gap between the launcher stopping and the launchee starting, the launchee's motion appears to have been caused, at a distance, by the approach of the launcher […]
gloss: An application that launches another or others, often holding icons or menus for frequently used programs.
pos: noun
Derived words: custard launcher
grenade launcher
pig launcher
rocket launcher
Translations:
law-abiding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more law-abiding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most law-abiding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Obeying the laws of society; not a lawbreaker; without a criminal record.
pos: adj
examples: The law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from government surveillance... unless the government begins to break the law.
Most people take the imprint "Not Transferable" for granted when buying railway tickets, and are sufficiently law-abiding not to think of transferring a return half to a relation or friend.
In all smuggling places ghost stories abound. Can it be that they were invented to keep law-abiding folk behind closed doors at night, when the deeds were being done?
“For any decent, law-abiding citizen, there is no honour in this. None at all. You are a bad man, Mr Goodie. And, worst of all, a bad dad. A very bad dad.” That hit Gilbert like a ton of bricks. He looked over to his son with tears in his eyes, as the judge announced the sentence. “Gilbert Goodie, I sentence you to ten years in prison!”
Antonyms: lawbreaking
lawless
Translations:
lawlessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *lagą
Old Norse lag
Old Norse lǫgbor.
Old English lagu
Middle English lawe
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
Middle English laweles
English lawless
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 lawlessly
From lawless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lawlessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lawlessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lawless manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
latency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From latent + -ency.
Base: latent
Affixes: -ency
Inflected forms:
form: latencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: latence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: network latency
gloss: The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: period of latency
The disease has a long period of latency.
gloss: A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: lag
delay
Antonyms: apparency
Derived words: antilatency
intravaginal ejaculation latency time
latency time
Translations:
lawbreaking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From law + breaking.
Compound parts: law
breaking
Inflected forms:
form: most lawbreaking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: law-breaking
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: lawbreakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: law-breaking
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: unlawful; illegal.
pos: adj
examples: We have a place for lawbreaking citizens like you.
To make this penalty hang like a Sword of Damocles over every lawbreaking alien apprehended in this country
Although church leaders argue they're trying to help the most vulnerable in society, some, including parishioners, argue they're helping the most lawbreaking.
gloss: The commission of a criminal act, the violation or breaking of a law.
pos: noun
examples: His lawbreaking ended only when he was hanged for it.
Translations:
laxly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lax
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English laxly
From lax + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more laxly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most laxly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lax manner; without rigor or strictness.
pos: adv
examples: c. 1913, Walter Ripman, The Sounds of Spoken English: A Manual of Ear Training for English Students, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., p. 56,
The letters e, i, and y in unstressed syllables represent a very laxly articulated sound, for which the sign [i] is used in this book.
A current of passion, which seemed to come from far outside them, ran through them both, and her hand which had lain so laxly on his shoulder tightened, and he turned toward her.
The oil families, whatever their original condition, were too grand. So they searched among the families in soft drinks, the families in ice, the transport families, the cinema families, the families in filling stations. And at last, in a laxly Presbyterian family with one filling station, two lorries, a cinema and some land, they found a girl.
Just which buildings survived was partly determined by which ones conformed to Taiwan’s sometimes laxly enforced construction codes.
Antonyms: strictly
tensely
tightly
Translations:
layaway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from lay away. The truly solidified verb (as contrasted with the merely misspelled one) is back-formed from the noun but is nonstandard.
Inflected forms:
form: layaways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pit in which hides are stored.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The system of accepting a deposit and holding for a customer to complete a purchase.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
examples: A chain of local gun shops advertised, as a “Father's Day Sale,” the semiautomatic Intratec TEC-9, with extra ammo clip, case, and flash suppressor, reduced from $347.80 to $249.95 and available on layaway.
gloss: An item which has been held in this way.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
Derived words: Firestone layaway
Translations:
lawgiver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English lawe ȝivere, lawe-ȝivere, law ȝevar; equivalent to law + giver.
Compound parts: law
giver
Inflected forms:
form: lawgivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who provides laws to a society.
pos: noun
examples: "Lawgivers were never more mistaken," said Lady Mary, "than when they ordained that the conjugal tie should last through life for better and worse; the last injunction being strictly complied with. There should be septennial marriages, as well as septennial parliaments!"
gloss: Any lawmaker.
pos: noun
Translations:
leaseback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From lease + back.
Compound parts: lease
back
Inflected forms:
form: leasebacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lease-back
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A property transaction where a party sells something, then leases it from the purchaser. The seller is released from tax, depreciation, and maintenance costs, and the buyer is guaranteed an income from the property.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The operator has since sold ten locomotives […] which were subsequently sold on to GB Railfreight (which then sold them to Beacon Rail on a leaseback deal), as well as four to GBRf outright […].
Translations:
secateurs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French sécateurs, plural of sécateur, from Latin secō + -ateur.
Base: secō
Affixes: -ateur
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Small, handheld pruning shears.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
plural
plural-only
examples: To start with, I'm going to arm myself with a saw, shears and secateurs to radically prune some of what's there.
Translations:
plink
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: plinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plinked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plinked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short, high-pitched metallic or percussive sound.
pos: noun
gloss: The sound of water droplets falling onto a surface.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a plink sound.
pos: verb
gloss: (colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
pos: verb
examples: He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows […]
Your child may also begin to plink out a few notes on a xylophone or toy piano before her first birthday.
The female deputy sat down at the ramshackle piano and proceeded to plink out the opening notes of "Heart and Soul."
gloss: To take part in the sport of plinking.
pos: verb
examples: We plinked all week long in the slow-moving days between hunting seasons. Life Savers or Necco Wafers at 25 yards offhand, or 50 yards prone, and vanilla wafers offhand at 50 yards or prone at 100, were challenging targets.
Derived words: plinker
plinky
plinking
Translations:
opt-in
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From opt + in.
Compound parts: opt
in
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The property of having to choose explicitly to join or permit something; a decision having the default option being exclusion or avoidance; used particularly with regard to mailing lists and advertising.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They set up an opt-in mailing list, so that those who wanted the notices could subscribe.
Antonyms: opt-out
Translations:
placement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English place
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English placement
From place + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: placements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A location or position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It seems to me that the placement of that poster could be better.
gloss: The act of matching a person with a job.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The agency does not guarantee placement, but they work on commission.
gloss: A temporary posting of a person to a particular workplace to enable them to gain work experience.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: During my first placement on Enabling Works on the Curzon Street Station site, I was able to visit the site on many occasions, which allowed me to gain a greater appreciation of the work that goes into a project of this scale.
gloss: The zodiacal region of the sky in which the sun, moon, or a planet appears at the time and place of a person's birth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: geoplacement
job placement
malplacement
misplacement
nonplacement
outplacement
overplacement
placement test
planet placement
postplacement
preplacement
product placement
underplacement
work placement
Translations:
courant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: Alternative form of courante.
Inflected forms:
form: courants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of music in triple time.
pos: noun
gloss: A lively dance; a coranto.
pos: noun
examples: a. 1699, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, Heads designed for an essay on conversation
It is harder, in that, to dance a courant well than a jig.
gloss: Represented as running.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a classical lion courant
Translations:
seau
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin situla
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -la
Latin sitella
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Italic *-os
Old Latin -os
Latin -us
Vulgar Latin *sitellus
Old French seel
French seaubor.
English seau
Borrowed from French seau.
Inflected forms:
form: seaus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seaux
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a pottery pail
pos: noun
examples: There is a seau painted in polychrome with festoons and masks, in the Sevres Museum, inscribed Cartus. Burdig.
Translations:
viol
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
nautical
transport
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French viole, from Old French viol, from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin vitula (“stringed instrument”). Doublet of viola.
Inflected forms:
form: viols
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: viols
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: violing
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: violling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: violed
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: violed
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: violled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: violled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold.
pos: noun
examples: He sayd that yᵉ ground opened, and he was brought into strange places underground, where they used musicall Instruments, violls, and Lutes, such (he sayd) as Mr. Thomas did play on.
gloss: A large rope used to manipulate the anchor
pos: noun
gloss: To play the viol.
pos: verb
examples: “Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing, and tabouring, and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.
Through snowy woods and shady / We went to play a tune / To the lonely manor-lady / By the light of the Christmas moon. / We violed till, upward glancing / To where a mirror leaned, / It showed her airily dancing […]
Derived words: bastard viol
tenor viol
viol block
division viol
Translations:
unmentionables
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Victorian Era euphemism, specifically the category of euphemism known as indirection (compare privates, behind, sleep together). First intended meaning was "trousers", attested from 1823. Meaning "underwear" is recorded from 1910.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: undergarments, underwear, drawers
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: genitals
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The show understands that implied nudity is worlds funnier than actual nudity, and goes to delightful lengths to keep Marge and Homer’s unmentionables out of view.
gloss: breeches, trousers
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
plural-only
examples: His little man-o'-war top and unmentionables were full of sand but Cissy was a past mistress in the art of smoothing over life's tiny troubles and and^([sic]) very quickly not one speck of sand was to be seen on his smart little suit.
Translations:
lustfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lustfully, lustfulliche, from Old English lustfullīċe (“gladly, heartily”), equivalent to lustful + -ly.
Base: lustful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more lustfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lustfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lustful manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
sporty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Anglo-Norman des-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂
Proto-Italic *portā
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *portāō
Latin portāre
Anglo-Norman porter
Anglo-Norman desporterbor.
Middle English disporten
Middle English sporten
English sport
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English sporty
From sport + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: sportier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sportiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fond of sports.
pos: adj
examples: He's perfect for me, as he's both studious and sporty.
Sporty people all over the world spend their lives training to compete in competitions such as the Olympic Games.
gloss: Suitable for use in sport.
pos: adj
examples: a sporty tennis outfit
gloss: stylish with a fun, bold, vibrant quality or appearance.
pos: adj
examples: My new car looks sporty but is actually very practical.
His hat sat at a rakish angle giving him a sporty appearance.
Your palette contains sporty colors, dressy colors, neutrals, basics, and bright accent colors.
While you may never embrace my idea of applying paisley punch to your ceiling, you might want to wake up your walls with sporty stripes.
A form or design of a UFO that has a sleek or sporty appearance as in the type of UFO described in detail by Bob Lazar.
The simple style of numbers and symbols on the face contributes to the modern, streamlined sporty appearance.
It's black with a sporty pattern of lilac stripes down the sides.
Related words: sportish
Derived words: sportily
sportiness
sporty luxe
unsporty
Translations:
redefine
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From re- + define.
Base: define
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: redefines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: redefining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: redefined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: redefined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To define again or differently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But only if one forgets that Mr. Tester is 50 years old, he’s seasoned in state politics, he ran a canny, gloves-off campaign, and he’s the kind of charismatic, hard-to-peg, Western neopopulist (like his friend, Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana) who might be, even now, redefining in certain far-reaching ways what it means to be a Democrat.
Scientists and policy makers from around 60 nations voted unanimously Friday to redefine the kilogram. […] Friday’s vote has permanently redefined the kilogram and sent Le Grand K into retirement.
gloss: To define again or differently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To define again or differently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Next the "key redefiner" software came along. These were special programs that could "redefine" the keys on your keyboard , while still permitting you the normal use of the keys.
Derived words: redefinable
redefiner
redefinition
unredefined
Translations:
pogo
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
Etymology: From pogo stick.
Inflected forms:
form: pogos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pogoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pogoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pogoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To use a pogo stick.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To dance the pogo.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To lift the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jump up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.
pos: verb
gloss: To move rapidly up and down like a pogo stick.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Just short of their objectives, the missiles pogoed, climbing steeply, then diving into their targets.
gloss: To perform the skateboarding trick called a pogo.
pos: verb
gloss: to jump off an enemy or another, usually hostile, object by striking it downward
pos: verb
Derived words: pogoer
Translations:
picketing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: picketings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: picketting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who pickets (in any sense).
pos: noun
examples: picketings and demonstrations
gloss: A picket fence.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The city is surrounded by picketings, and guarded by forts on the outside, and has since been very strongly fortified.
The enemy, posted among the houses of the French inhabitants and the picketings of their gardens, were advanced upon gallantly by Majors Graves and Madison, and dislodged in the face of a heavy fire.
He therefore strengthened that place as much as possible, with bags of flour and sand, which was so effectual that the picketings in that place sustained no material injury.
Derived words: common-site picketing
common-situs picketing
Translations:
lidar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: By anacronymic evolution from LIDAR.
Inflected forms:
form: lidars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The optical analogue of radar, using intense pulses of laser light to measure the composition and structure of the atmosphere.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Tesla bet on the idea that in the design of self-driving cars, lidar doesn't add enough capability, beyond what the cameras already provide, to be worth the additional cost.
Although operational environments profoundly differ, both kinds of autonomous vehicles, groundcraft and aircraft, will still rely on conceptually the same sorts of sensors — cameras, radar and lidar — to perceive surroundings in real time.
gloss: A device that provides such imaging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: There's a lidar mounted on the roof of that Waymo.
Derived words: active lidar
microlidar
Translations:
electroluminescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
French électro-bor.
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Latin electro-bor.
English electro-
Latin lumen
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁sḱeti
Proto-Italic *-ēskō
Latin -ēscō
Latin -escensder.
English -escence
English luminescence
English electroluminescence
From electro- + luminescence.
Inflected forms:
form: electroluminescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The generation of light by the application of an alternating current to a semiconductor or phosphor, or by an electric discharge through a gas.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
limonite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek λειμών (leimṓn)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English limonite
From Ancient Greek λειμών (leimṓn) + English -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: limonites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several natural hydrous iron oxides; often a mixture of goethite and hematite with clays and manganese oxide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
hydrous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑδροῦς (hudroûs), from the combining form of ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -οῦς (-oûs, “-ous, -ful”). Equivalent to hydro- + -ous. Doublet of Otranto and Hydruntum.
Affixes: hydro-
-ous
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Containing combined water; hydrated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
honorarium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin honōrārium (dōnum), from honōrārius. See honorary.
Inflected forms:
form: honoraria
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: honorariums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: honourarium
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Compensation for services that do not have a predetermined value.
pos: noun
examples: Dizi offer honorariums to their master, Hong, in appreciation for the mental, spiritual, and physical growth that they experience after becoming members of Tai Ji Men. There is no tuition or other fees for joining Tai Ji Men or practicing Qigong at one of the many Tai Ji Men locations established in Taiwan.
Translations:
lefty
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English left
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English lefty
From left + -y (nominal suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: lefties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leftie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more lefty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lefty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: leftie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who is left-handed.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
informal
gloss: One who has left-wing political views.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
examples: The new brocialism cares deeply about women’s issues of course – just not enough to elect an actual woman. They don’t need to, because good lefties speak for all us. They don’t even notice gender.
gloss: One's left testicle.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I'll bet my lefty he won't show up for work today.
gloss: One's left hand.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
uncommon
examples: This pole gets whipped, I miss dishing it, putting red on the can like Pepsi
Govs said I defy, I never been right but my yank does love my lefty
Spin that whip, let me see that dog, Imma blam that goal like Messi, shit gets messy – and I still get him down with my lefty
gloss: Left-handed.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
gloss: Intended for left-handed use.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
examples: The lefty scissors are the ones with the red plastic handles.
gloss: Left-wing.
pos: adj
tags: UK
especially
informal
examples: The prospect of an Argentinian amalgam of Bolsonaro and Trump taking power has horrified progressive voters and also, apparently, Pope Francis, whom Milei has bad-mouthed as a “lefty son of a bitch”.
Lefty media
Lefty Twitter
Derived words: lefty-
leftycuck
leftypol
leftyspeak
loony lefty
Translations:
linearity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English linear
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English linearity
From linear + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: linearities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being linear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A relationship between several quantities which can be considered as proportional and expressed in terms of linear algebra, or any mathematical property of a relationship, operation or function that is analogous to such proportionality, satisfying additivity and homogeneity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: alinearity
hyperlinearity
isolinearity
nonlinearity
pseudolinearity
quasilinearity
superlinearity
supralinearity
Translations:
lecithin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French lécithine, coined in 1847 by Theodore Gobley, from Ancient Greek λέκιθος (lékithos, “egg yolk”).
Inflected forms:
form: lecithins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The principal phospholipid in animals; it is particularly abundant in egg yolks, and is extracted commercially from soy. It is a major constituent of cell membranes, and is commonly used as a food additive (as an emulsifier).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
phospholipid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros)
Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros)bor.
Latin phōsphorusbor.
English phosphorus
English phospho-
Proto-Indo-European *leyp-
Proto-Hellenic *lípos
Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos)
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusbor.
French -ide
French lipidebor.
English lipid
English phospholipid
From phospho- + lipid.
Inflected forms:
form: phospholipids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any lipid, such as lecithin or cephalin, consisting of a diglyceride combined with a phosphate group and a simple organic molecule such as choline or ethanolamine; they are important constituents of biological membranes.
pos: noun
examples: An index of the amount of phospholipids present was secured from the total phosphorus content of a third aliquot, the method employed being the colorimetric procedure devised by Whitehorn.
Translations:
linewidth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From line + width.
Compound parts: line
width
Inflected forms:
form: linewidths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A measure of the width of the band of frequencies of radiation emitted or absorbed in an atomic or molecular transition; a result of the uncertainty principle.
pos: noun
Translations:
liposome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From lipo- (“fat”) + -some (“body”). From Ancient Greek λίπος (lípos, “fat”) and Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “soma”).
Base: lipo
Inflected forms:
form: liposomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An aqueous compartment enclosed by a bimolecular membrane, typically of phospholipid; a lipid vesicle.
pos: noun
examples: Albrecht applied the term "liposome" to small refractive droplets observed in freshly mounted sections of liver and other tissues.
Translations: