yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
pyrokinesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fantasy
literature
media
parapsychology
pseudoscience
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Hellenic *pāwər
Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr)
Latin pyr
English pyro-
English -kinesis
English pyrokinesis
From pyro- + -kinesis.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The ability to set objects or people on fire or to supernaturally project fire from one's own being through the concentration of psychic power; the power to control fire.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
niqab
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic نِقَاب (niqāb)bor.
English niqab
Borrowed from Arabic نِقَاب (niqāb).
Inflected forms:
form: niqabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nikab
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: niqaab
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: niqāb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A veil which covers the face (except for the eyes), worn by some Muslim women as a part of sartorial hijab.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: hijab
Full face veils, known as the niqab, are banned in all French public spaces including public transport and parks, streets and administrative buildings.
Translations:
corolla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).
Inflected forms:
form: corollas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corollae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corollæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused.
pos: noun
examples: Our wet fingers touched and we formed a circle like the corolla of a flower, floating into the silence of the desert dawn with the ancient sun on our bodies.
Translations:
culpability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French culpabilité.
Inflected forms:
form: culpabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The investigation established his culpability in the fraud.
Questions of legal culpability remain unresolved.
criminal culpability
gloss: The amount of liability for a fault or wrongdoing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: degree of culpability
establish culpability
Related words: culpable
Derived words: inculpability
Translations:
superscript
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
media
publishing
sciences
typography
Etymology: From Middle French superscript, from Latin superscriptus (“written above”). By surface analysis, super- + script.
Inflected forms:
form: superscripts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: superscripts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: superscripting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: superscripted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: superscripted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of lettering form that appears as a number, figure, or symbol above the normal line of type, located at the right or left of another symbol or text.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In x², the 2 written in superscript means “to the power of two”.
gloss: Placed above the normal line of text.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To provide with a superscript.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The ambient or unsaturated value of a variable is superscripted with a "*".
gloss: To convert to a superscript form.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Select the number or letter you want to superscript and, in the Font dialog box, enter an Offset percentage to tell PowerPoint how high to raise the number or letter.
Antonyms: subscript
Related words: ª
º
ⁿ
¹
²
³
reference mark
Translations:
orchiectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin orchis
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ)der.
English -ectomy
English orchiectomy
From Latin orchis + English -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: orchiectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: orchidectomy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orchie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orchi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The surgical removal of one or both testes.
pos: noun
Translations:
naira
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A contraction of Nigeria, coined by Federal Commissioner for Finance Obafemi Awolowo.
Inflected forms:
form: nairas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: naira
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The official currency of Nigeria. Equal to 100 kobo. (The naira replaced the pound in 1973.)
pos: noun
examples: "We will not tolerate this. We gave them enough time to purchase helmets. Six months ago the price of helmets was below 800 naira so complaints about non-availability and high prices are no excuse," he told Reuters.
‘Five naira for one small cup. The big one is ten naira.’
Translations:
Frenched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: more Frenched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Frenched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to servings of meat that have stylishly exposed bone protruding from them (meat with bones that have been French trimmed)
pos: adj
Translations:
gymnastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gymnasticus. By surface analysis, gymnast + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: gymnastick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to gymnastics.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to the gymnasia (ancient Greek schools).
pos: adj
examples: gymnastic dialogues
Derived words: gymnastically
hydrogymnastic
nongymnastic
swimnastic
ungymnastic
Translations:
leisurewear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English leisure
Proto-Indo-European *wes-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti
Proto-Germanic *wazjaną
Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan
Old English werian
Middle English weren
English wear
English -wear
English leisurewear
From leisure + -wear.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Clothing worn for leisure or as general casual wear.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
abled
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from disabled.
Inflected forms:
form: more abled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ableds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a range of physical powers as specified.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
gloss: A person who has no disability.
pos: noun
examples: As a disabled person, there are many days I can't leave the house looking how I want to look, and I also have tics that make me look distinctly odd to ableds.
Antonyms: disabled
Translations:
protectionism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French protectionnisme, equivalent to protection + -ism.
Base: protection
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: protectionisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A system or policy of protecting the domestic producers of a product from foreign competition by imposing tariffs, quotas, duties or other barriers on importations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Take the New Right's full-throated embrace of protectionism and industrial policy. This romance with protectionism started in the 1990s with former GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, gained enormous traction under former President Donald Trump, and is still going strong today.
gloss: Linguistic purism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: protectionist
Derived words: antiprotectionism
nonprotectionism
Translations:
doobie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English doob
English -ie
English doobie
From doob + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: doobies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A marijuana cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: YO! Youse guys need to turn those frowns upside down, and I got just the thing for that… we call it… DOOBIE SNACKS!
In parts of the state, enjoying an occasional doobie is nowadays considered little different from sipping a Pinot Noir.
[The] atmosphere […] was one part oxygen, four parts nitrogen, and seventeen parts doobie vapor.
gloss: A cobbler-like fruit dessert.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
imparting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: impartings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: communication (a giving or sharing of information etc)
pos: noun
gloss: distribution (a sharing or division of something)
pos: noun
Translations:
assimilating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That assimilates
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
amateurish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English amateur
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English amateurish
From amateur + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more amateurish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amateurish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suggesting or reflecting the efforts of an amateur; not seeming professional or polished.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: Some of the photographs are new and interesting, but many captions are amateurish, uninformative or simply careless.
Behind her on the wall was an amateurish painting of an old lady, set in an ornate antique frame.
The conduct of the meeting and the passing of intelligence is simply amateurish statecraft and intelligence tradecraft, and begs the question: Who are the professionals planning the strategy and operations that direct the President on the world stage?
Moreover, Trump’s use of obvious disinformation — the amateurish video he showed Ramaphosa, and his accompanying statements about the “over a thousand” killings of white farmers — to try and make his case has uprooted whatever U.S. credibility had survived over the last several months.
Translations:
mired
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From micro reciprocal degree.
Inflected forms:
form: more mired
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mired
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mireds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Stuck in mud; plunged or fixed in mud.
pos: adj
gloss: Involved in trouble or difficulty.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Confused or perplexed.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: A unit of measurement for color temperature.
pos: noun
Derived words: unmired
Translations:
clothespin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From clothes + pin.
Compound parts: clothes
pin
Inflected forms:
form: clothespins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clothespins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clothespinning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clothespinned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clothespinned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A clip or fastener used to secure garments to a clothesline while drying, and sometimes for other applications requiring holding or pinching.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: At a hundred and thirty pounds, Altman is poised as a clothespin, fierce as a horned owl.
gloss: To affix with a clothespin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
unluckily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unlucky + -ly or un- + luckily.
Base: unlucky
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unluckily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unluckily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without luck; unfortunately.
pos: adv
examples: They say that Ngoc hoang sent a messenger from heaven to men to say that when they reached old age they should change their skins and live for ever, but that when serpents grew old they must die. The messenger came down to earth and said, rightly enough, "When man is old he shall cast his skin; but when serpents are old they shall die and be laid in coffins." So far so good. But unluckily there happened to be a brood of serpents within hearing, and when they learned the doom pronounced on their kind, they fell into a fury and said to the messenger, "You must say it over again and just the contrary, or we will bite you."
[…] where Hercules and Omphale having changed garments, he lying in his wives clothes, and ſhe in his Lions skin, made the luſtfull God mistake ſo unluckily, […]
Afterward, in his small room, Nikky composed a neat, 'well-rounded speech, in which he expressed his loyalty, gratitude, and undying devotion to the Crown Prince. It was an elegant little speech. Unluckily, the occasion for it had gone by two hours.
M. Berbiguier brought his action for libel; but unluckily, together with his action, he brought himself into Court, and established in a very few words the truth of the libel.
Antonyms: luckily
fortunately
Translations:
hygienic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.
Inflected forms:
form: more hygienic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hygienic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.
pos: adj
gloss: Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Of course, anyone with a Scheme background is probably howling at this point because they have a hygienic macro system that makes unintended variable capture impossible. Allowing variable capture when we really, really want it makes Clojure's macro system technically more dangerous than hygienic systems.
Antonyms: unhygienic
dyshygienic
Derived words: antihygienic
hygenicist
hygienically
nonhygienic
zoohygienic
Translations:
haulier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Middle English halyer, haliere, halere, equivalent to haul + -ier.
Base: haul
Affixes: -ier
Inflected forms:
form: hauliers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
pos: noun
examples: DB Cargo is the haulier for the Immingham-Drax flow. Its trains comprise purpose-built covered hoppers that can run at 60mph loaded and 75mph empty.
Hauliers are up in arms over higher tolls, while some doctors – including, from 9 January, specialists – could decide to close surgeries in support of the medical profession’s demands for more state support for an overloaded system.
gloss: A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft.
pos: noun
Synonyms: hauler
Translations:
envisage
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French envisager, from en (“in”) + visage (“visage”); equivalent to en- + visage.
Base: visage
Affixes: en-
Inflected forms:
form: envisages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: envisaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: envisaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: envisaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.
Traffic at Dover Marine has developed far beyond anything envisaged when the station was built. The layout has become rather cramped, and prodigies of organisation are performed annually by all concerned to save complete saturation.
The prototype Liner train vehicles on show at Marylebone were not of the ultimate pattern either, for their wagon platform length is 42½ft, whereas 62½ft as envisaged as standard.
Cambridge-St Ives was another 1970 victim. Who would have envisaged that £200m would ever be spent on this rural branch to convert it into a guided busway?
Obviously, Schmitt envisaged Nazi Germany as the Reich at the heart of the European great space, which he sought to shield from Anglo-American interference.
Translations:
moorage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English moor
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English moorage
From moor + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: moorages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of mooring.
pos: noun
gloss: A place where a ship or an aircraft may be moored.
pos: noun
gloss: The fee for mooring.
pos: noun
Translations:
tragedian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tragedyen, from Old French tragediane (French tragédien), equivalent to tragedy + -ian.
Base: tragedy
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: tragedians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An actor who specializes in tragic roles.
pos: noun
examples: Euen thoſe you were wont to take such delight in the Tragedians of the City.
And as for the separation scene from the child, while Becky was reciting it, Emmy retired altogether behind her pocket-handkerchief, so that the consummate little tragedian must have been charmed to see the effect which her performance produced on her audience.
Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.
gloss: A playwright who writes tragedies.
pos: noun
Synonyms: tragedist
Related words: tragedienne
Translations:
comedienne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French comédienne, equivalent to comedy + -ienne. Compare doyenne.
Base: comedy
Affixes: -ienne
Inflected forms:
form: comediennes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: comédienne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A female comedian.
pos: noun
Translations:
poncho
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish poncho, from Quechua punchu. In sense “rubber rain poncho”, attested 1845, used for non-South American garments in the United States and England from 1850s, popularized by US Western expeditions and military from 1850s, particularly after World War II (1940s).
Inflected forms:
form: ponchos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ponchoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head.
pos: noun
examples: Garibaldi, with his cowboy's poncho, red shirt and the black ostrich feathers in his wide hat […]
It was a gringo in a poncho. It was not really accurate to his suits worn today, but Julia would understand the symbolism that he was adapting to the culture and expectations while far away from home.
gloss: A similar waterproof garment, today typically of rubber with a hood.
pos: noun
examples: […] spreading over my bedding an indian-rubber poncho to exclude the rain.
I […] took my seat between Juan and Ambrosio, protected from the rain by an India-rubber poncho.
1857, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, p. 48 (1857), p. 48 (1858):
I found it necessary while doing guard to cover myself with my India-rubber poncho, to prevent my clothes from becoming saturated with water.
The following list of articles is deemed a sufficient outfit for one man upon a three months’ expedition, viz.: […] 1 gutta percha poncho
[…] when near the old church in Manchester he was run against by a man whom he supposed to be a drunken man, who was dressed in a poncho overcoat.
It is about the size of the rubber poncho used in the United States, […]
If you have to hike all day in a poncho, your pants will be wet thigh-high before long (never mind how fast you'll get wet if you have to go through wet brush or grass).
Related words: ruana
slicker
Derived words: ponchoed
poncho liner
Translations:
multinational
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English national
English multinational
From multi- + national.
Inflected forms:
form: multinationals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: AS a young student at the multinational Aramco school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Fadi Jaber, a son of Palestinian refugees, always preferred his American classmates’ cupcakes, brownies and chocolate chip cookies to his mother’s pastries: knafah, qatayef and baklawah.
gloss: Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: By operating within many nations, but ouside them at the same time, multinational firms create possibilities of change even in the world political structure
Some managers seemed sympathetic to the study, although they encouraged me to recast it as a technical issue, such as the "problem of executive succession in multinationals."
gloss: A multinational company.
pos: noun
examples: The G8 leaders also called on multinationals to make a full disclosure to the taxman over how much tax they pay in different countries.
Derived words: multinationalism
multinationalize
multinationally
Translations:
psaltery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: A learned alteration of Middle English sauterie, sautrie (rarely psautry), from Old French psalterie, from Latin psaltērium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion, “stringed instrument, psaltery, harp”), from ψάλλω (psállō, “to touch sharply, to pluck, to pull, to twitch” and in the case of the strings of musical instruments, “to play a stringed instrument with the fingers, and not with the plectron”). Doublet of psalter, psalterion, and psalterium. Cognate of psalm and psalmody.
Inflected forms:
form: psalteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: psaltry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sawtry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A zither-like musical instrument consisting of a soundboard with multiple strings, played by plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum.
pos: noun
examples: And at the dedication of the wall of Ieruſalem, they ſought the Leuites out of all their places, to bꝛing them to Ieruſalem, to keepe the dedication with gladneſſe, both with thankeſgiuings and with ſinging, with cymbals, pſalteries, and with harpes.
Translations:
toxicologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French toxicologieder.
English toxicology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English toxicologist
From toxicology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: toxicologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scientist or physician who specializes in toxicology.
pos: noun
examples: Toxicologists at the Taft Laboratory at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) here are dosing mice with poppers to solve the baffling mystery of diseases which are killing gay men.
Translations:
toxicology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French toxicologieder.
English toxicology
From French toxicologie, equivalent to toxico- + -logy.
Affixes: toxico-
-logy
Inflected forms:
form: toxicologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature, effect, detection and treatment of poisons and poisoning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
paintwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From paint + work.
Compound parts: paint
work
Inflected forms:
form: paintworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The painted surface of a car, building, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.
At night, some nap on their stretchers. High up on a wall, stuck to peeling paintwork, are photographs of eight drivers killed in service.
Despite somewhat faded paintwork, 87017 Iron Duke is clearly very much operational, as confirmed here on September 4.
Translations:
toyshop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From toy + shop.
Compound parts: toy
shop
Inflected forms:
form: toyshops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toy shop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A shop that sells toys.
pos: noun
examples: There have always been cheap clockwork animals in toyshops since clockwork was utilised for making moving toys.
You and I in a little toyshop / Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Translations:
trachyte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French trachyte, from Ancient Greek τρᾱχύς (trākhús, “rough”).
Inflected forms:
form: trachytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pale igneous rock consisting mostly of potassium feldspar and plagioclase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The type of rock that results is often described as trachyte and contains abundant crystals of a different kind of alkali-rich feldspar, such as sanidine, rather than plagioclase.
Translations:
trackless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
road
transport
Etymology: From track (noun) + -less (suffix meaning ‘lacking or without something’).
Base: track
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a place: not having tracks or paths; pathless, untrodden; also, having had all tracks removed.
pos: adj
examples: a trackless desert    a trackless forest
Associates! Solitude in trackless deserts, / Where locusts, ants, and lizards poorly thrive,— / […] / Were to an honest heart endurable, / Rather than such associates.
In a country so vast as Canada, nothing but the railway could possibly save it from remaining a trackless, undeveloped wilderness.
"You got two feet, Sethe, not four," he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; trackless and quiet.
At about this point, Seivarden and her two Amaats had made it into a cramped and dim access corridor behind the governor's residence. It had probably at one point been meant for servants to use to go unobtrusively back and forth, but hadn't been used in years; the floor was dusty and trackless.
The two structures remain in a remarkable state of preservation, despite finding themselves adrift and trackless in the County Down countryside, after the closure of the station and the line in the 1950s.
gloss: Leaving no track or trace when moving; also, not following any track or path.
pos: adj
tags: literary
examples: What was it that I loved so well about my childhood's home? / It was the wide and wave-lashed shore, the black rocks crowned with foam! / It was the sea-gull's flapping wing, all trackless in its flight, / Its screaming note, that welcomed on the fierce and stormy night!
gloss: Of a train, tram, etc.: not running on tracks.
pos: adj
examples: a trackless trolley
Derived words: tracklessly
tracklessness
trackless train
Translations:
traction
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: academia
business
government
medicine
politics
scholarly
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Medieval Latin tractio, from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of verb trahere (“pull”), + noun of action suffix -io (genitive -ionis).
Inflected forms:
form: tractions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tractions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tractioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tractioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tractioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of pulling something along a surface using motive power.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Horse traction was used for all but 23 years of the tramway's life.
gloss: The condition of being so pulled.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Grip.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The pulling power of an engine or animal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The adhesive friction of a wheel etc on a surface.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Progress in or momentum toward achieving a goal, especially in gaining support, recognition, or popularity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Progress in or momentum toward achieving a goal, especially in gaining support, recognition, or popularity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Progress in or momentum toward achieving a goal, especially in gaining support, recognition, or popularity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Despite this somewhat late start, the field of study has gained great traction globally, and since 2015 has even had its own journal: Linguistic Landscape: An International Journal.
gloss: A mechanically applied sustained pull, especially to a limb.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Collectively, the locomotives of a railroad, especially electric locomotives.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To apply a sustained pull to (a limb, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: contraction
subtraction
Derived words: countertraction
gain traction
gription
non-traction
nontraction
retraction
re-tractioning
retractioning
tractional
traction alopecia
traction battery
tractioneer
traction engine
tractionless
traction motor
tractive
Translations:
trade-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trade indeverb.
English trade-in
Deverbal from trade in.
Inflected forms:
form: trade-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: property used as part payment for a new purchase
pos: noun
gloss: a transaction including such payment
pos: noun
examples: The Alco design, although the least powerful of the three, claims an economy advantage in its use of a V-12 engine instead of the usual V-16; moreover, Alco offers excellent trade-in terms.
Related words: trade in
Translations:
tradesman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trade
English -s-
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English tradesman
From trade + -s- + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: tradesmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A skilled manual worker (implied male).
pos: noun
gloss: A manual worker (implied male) who visits private premises to perform his job.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Tradesmen should use the rear entrance.
gloss: One who works in trade (commerce); a shopkeeper.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: After this memorable event, I went to the hatter's, and the bootmaker's, and the hosier's, and felt rather like Mother Hubbard's dog whose outfit required the services of so many trades. […] It was not necessary to explain everywhere that I had come into a handsome property; but whenever I said anything to that effect, it followed that the officiating tradesman ceased to have his attention diverted through the window by the High-street, and concentrated his mind upon me.
During the morning she had seen several people and quite a number (comparatively) of tradesmen’s vans.
Antonyms: tradeswoman
Derived words: master tradesman
tradesmanlike
tradesmanly
tradesmanship
Translations:
punctum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
entertainment
lifestyle
medicine
music
sciences
Etymology: From Latin pūnctum. Doublet of point, pointe, ponto, puncto, punt, and punto.
Inflected forms:
form: punctums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: puncta
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sharp tip of any part of the anatomy; a point or other small area.
pos: noun
examples: Thus, from what has been stated, we see that neither the white puncta nor the minute white branchwork of lines were ever tubular.
gloss: A neume representing a single tone.
pos: noun
Related words: punctal
Derived words: lacrimal punctum
punctum caecum
punctum delens
punctum proximum
punctum remotum
punctum saliens
punctum stans
punctum vasculosum
punctum vegetationis
Translations:
tradesperson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trade
English -s-
Latin persōna
Anglo-Norman persouneder.
Middle English persoun
English person
English tradesperson
From trade + -s- + person.
Inflected forms:
form: tradespersons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tradespeople
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A skilled manual worker.
pos: noun
Translations:
journeyman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English jorneman; from journe (from Old French jornee (“a day's work, a journey”)) and mon; equivalent to journey + -man.
Base: journey
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: journeymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tradesman who has completed an apprenticeship or equivalent educational path in a trade.
pos: noun
examples: Everyone must follow safety guidelines whether you're an apprentice, journeyman, or even master electrician.
[…] toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.
As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.
gloss: A competent but undistinguished tradesman, especially one who works, and is paid by the day.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
gloss: A player who plays on many different teams during the course of his career.
pos: noun
examples: The Los Angeles Lakers added journeyman forward Bob McAdoo to their roster in hopes that he could help them win a title.
Related words: apprentice
masterman
master
journeywoman
Derived words: journeymanship
journeyman's piece
Translations:
pulsate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Perhaps formed within English as a back-formation from pulsation (attested from the early 15th century, in Middle English). A figurative derivation from New Latin pulsō, pulsātum (“(of an organ) to pulse, to emit a pulse”, intransitive) is also possible, itself a back-formation of New Latin pulsātiō (“pulsation”, 14th century), or derived from classical Latin pulsō (“to strike repeatedly”, transitive) with semantic influence from classical pulsus (“a pulse”). Ultimately from Latin pellō (“to strike”). By surface analysis, pulse + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of push.
Inflected forms:
form: pulsates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pulsating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pulsated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pulsated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat, exhibit a pulse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The party pulsated with revellers.
gloss: To pulse, to be full of life, energy: to bustle, thrive, flourish.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
gloss: To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: pulsar
pulsatile
pulsation
pulsator
pulsatory
Derived words: pulsatance
pulsating
Translations:
Varangian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Ultimately from Byzantine Greek Βάραγγος (Bárangos), from Medieval Latin Varingus, from Old Norse væringr, from várr (“pledge”) or værr (“pledge”), which is cognate with Old English wǣr (“fidelity, loyalty”), + Old Norse gangi (“companion”). Cognate with Old English wærgenga.
Inflected forms:
form: Varangians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the ethnically Scandinavian people around the borders of Constantinople in the ninth and tenth centuries.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A member of the imperial body guard at Constantinople from 955.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The Byzantines continued to recruit elite warriors from the north, not merely from Rus’ but directly from far-off Scandinavia; from the end of the tenth century, they referred to them as ‘Varangians’.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Varangians.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Varanger Peninsula in Norway.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to a period of intense glaciation during the late Proterozoic eon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dextromethorphan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From dextro- + methorphan.
Base: methorphan
Affixes: dextro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An opioid that is used as an antitussive drug, found in many over-the-counter cold and cough preparations, and as an NMDA blocker used to treat pseudobulbar affect.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: levomethorphan
Translations:
romp
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
media
newspapers
sports
Etymology: Probably a variant of ramp.
Inflected forms:
form: romps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: romping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: romped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: romped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: romps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: sport (formal)
When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.
gloss: (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: If I romp down on the gas, it'll do sixty in six seconds.
Coach Smith had to romp on 'em to get 'em out of a losing streak.
gloss: To make progress or win easily.
pos: verb
examples: I romped through my finals.
England romped to an easy win over Australia.
Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.
gloss: To move with little effort relatively quickly.
pos: verb
examples: We romped along with the wind astern.
From Crewe, of course, the ten-coach load of 347/370 tons was a laughably easy proposition for the two engines, between them in effect making up Class "11" power, and they fairly romped away with the train.
gloss: To engage in playful or illicit sex.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: This wasn't salacious, romping 'sex', tabloid style
Ladbrokes is offering 2-1 odds that contestants WILL romp in the ten-week show.
One young lady who had just romped with an A-List Hollywood star, panicked during my strategic silence and threw in an entirely unexpected line about how he'd enjoyed throttling himself with his tie.
gloss: Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: I will venture to affirm, that a girl, whose spirits have not been damped by inactivity, or innocence tainted by false shame, will always be a romp, and the doll will never excite attention unless confinement allows her no alternative.
gloss: A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit.
pos: noun
gloss: An enjoyable, fast-paced but essentially inconsequential film, play, or other piece of entertainment.
pos: noun
gloss: A decisive victory; a game, match etc. which is won easily.
pos: noun
Related words: rumpus
Derived words: romper
rompery
rompingly
rompish
romper room
rompers
romper suit
romp home
romping good
romp in the hay
rompy
Translations:
snarl-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: snarl-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traffic jam.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
Translations:
prosody
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
poetry
publishing
sciences
writing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
?
Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti
Ancient Greek πρός (prós)
Proto-Hellenic *awéidō
Proto-Hellenic *-ā́
Proto-Hellenic *awoidā́
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓οιδή (ăoidḗ)
Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek προσῳδῐ́ᾱ (prosōidĭ́ā)bor.
Latin prosōdiabor.
Middle French prosodieder.
English prosody
From Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable”), from πρός (prós, “to”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Inflected forms:
form: prosodies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An accurate acquaintance with the Prosody and Metres of the Greek Language is so necessary an accompaniment of true scholarship, that any attempt to advocate its claims to the notice of the student would be entirely superfluous.
The aim of this book is to answer the question WHAT DID GREEK PROSODY SOUND LIKE? The study of prosody stands at the intersection of a number of quite disparate disciplines, as illustrated in the diagram overleaf.
2007, Jackson T. Gandour, Neural substrates underlying the perception of linguistic prosody, Tomas Riad, Carlos Gussenhoven (editors), Tones and Tunes, Volume 2: Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody, De Gruyter (Mouton de Gruyter), page 3,
Brain imaging data shows us moreover that we have to go beyond linguistic units themselves to gain a full understanding of how prosody is processed in the brain.
gloss: The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But the system of prosody in Samson plainly forbids extrametrical syllables in the midst of the line, and there is certainly no other example.
Or again, Otto Eißfeldt's eight-page summary of conflicting scholarly theories on biblical prosody painfully illustrates how the scholars have read biblical poetry with roughly the intellectual apparatus appropriate to the decipherment of cuneiform inscriptions, multiplying confusion by the invention of elaborate pseudo-mathematical systems of scansion or by the wholesale importation of terms and concepts from Greek prosody.
Related words: diction
scansion
Derived words: aprosody
dysprosody
macroprosody
microprosody
prosodeme
prosodic
prosodification
prosodist
Translations:
DM
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: DMs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: DMing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: DMed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DMed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: DM'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DM'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To communicate by direct message, usually on a social media website.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: Rio [Ferdinand] DM’d me after the tournament. He’d said I was the weak link, and that Croatia should be targeting me.
gloss: To dungeon master; to perform as a dungeon master; to run a tabletop role-playing game.
pos: verb
Translations:
diehard
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English die harddeverb.
English diehard
Deverbal from die hard.
Inflected forms:
form: more diehard
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diehard
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: die-hard
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: diehards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: die-hard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
gloss: Fanatically opposing progress or reform.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
gloss: Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: For a Roman Catholic teacher, he sure is a diehard fundamentalist.
The libertarian right of the Consservative Party, many of them diehard Europhobes, privately referred to the health minister and his advisers as "the Gestapo" for their faith in enforced lockdowns.
gloss: Strongly or fanatically determined or devoted.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
gloss: A person with such an attitude.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: I should like my Scottish correspondent to see recent statements by leading officers of certain American railways which both have been among the most extreme diehards for steam, and also have developed the most powerful and outstanding steam locomotive designs—[…].
Derived words: diehard test
Twihard
Translations:
frump
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Probably a contraction of late Middle English frumpylle (“wrinkle”), from Middle Dutch verrompelen, originally equivalent to for- + rump + -le.
Base: rump
Affixes: for-
-le
Inflected forms:
form: frumps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: frumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: frumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: frumped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
examples: You look like such a frump today!
“I don’t mind how many strange women you’ve loved so long as you don’t tell me about them.” “Women!” said Anthony, with a virtuous air. “Women indeed! You ask James here what kind of women I was going about with last time he saw me.” “Frumps,” said Jimmy solemnly. “Utter frumps. Not one a day under forty-five.”
Using the ideal of French female beauty as a stick with which to beat Britain's supposedly sexless frumps is a stereotype centuries old.
If you flipped through certain magazines at this time you could be forgiven for thinking that there was no right way to be a woman, only wrong ones — bimbo or frump, slut or prude, shrew or doormat.
gloss: Unattractive, dowdy clothes.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
examples: Get that frump off – it's horrid!
gloss: A bad-tempered person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
gloss: A flout or snub.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Was ever gentlewoman So frump'd off with a fool!
gloss: To assume a countenance or demeanor indicating irritation, ill-humor, or disapproval.
pos: verb
examples: 1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I told the guy "Well, now all I can do is come up with excuses" & told him I had to babysit. He frumped like, "Oh, shame!" and asked if I'd be there later.
Derived words: frumpery
frumpish
frumpy
frumper
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: hadry
off-the-shelf
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: off the shelf
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: As purchased or as commonly available, without modification or customization.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: We can build a specialized part for you, but an off-the-shelf product will probably cost less.
Translations: