yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
endocarditis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endocard(ium)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.
New Latin -itisder.
English -itis
English endocarditis
From endocard(ium) + -itis.
Inflected forms:
form: endocarditides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: endocarditises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inflammation of the endocardium and sometimes also the heart valves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
entente
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French entente (“understanding”). Doublet of intent.
Inflected forms:
form: ententes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.
pos: noun
Translations:
nasus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nāsus (“the nose; the nozzle or spout”).
Inflected forms:
form: nasi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horn-like elongated rostrum on the head of soldier termites of the subfamily Nasutiterminae, capable of producing and spraying noxious secretions for defense.
pos: noun
gloss: A prolongation on the front of the head of a cranefly.
pos: noun
Related words: nasus externus
Derived words: nasute
Translations:
debark
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French débarquer, from de- (Old French des-) + barque (“bark, small ship”).
Inflected forms:
form: debarks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: debarking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: debarked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: debarked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To unload goods from an aircraft or ship.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To disembark.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: debarcation
Translations:
gentility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French gentilité.
Inflected forms:
form: gentilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He is the violence and fear of the boy of my stories, yet the gentility and sensitivity of poetry.
A powerful visitors’ bureau has pushed the South Carolina city to the top of “best” lists by selling gentility. Critics say that has come at the expense of history and the city’s Black population.
gloss: The upper classes, the gentry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: ungentility
Translations:
pell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”), from Proto-Italic *pelnis, from Proto-Indo-European *pel-ni-. Distantly related to fell and film.
Inflected forms:
form: pells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fur or hide.
pos: noun
gloss: A lined cloak or its lining.
pos: noun
gloss: A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
pos: noun
examples: 1835, Frederick Devon (editor and translator), Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, Containing Payments Made out of His Majesty′s Revenue in the 44th Year of King Edward III.: A.D. 1370, page xi,
The clerk of the pell (whose office is in the Lord Treasurer′s gift) keepeth the Pells in parchment, called Pelles Receptæ, wherein every teller′s bill, with his name on it, is to be entred; and under every such bill when it is entred, recordatur to be written in open court, for a controlment to charge the teller with so much money as in the said bill is set downe.
He also anciently kept another pell, called Pellis Exitus, wherein every dayes issuing of any the moneys paid into the receipt, was to be entered, and by whom and by what warrant, privy seale, or bill, it was paid.
gloss: A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
pos: noun
gloss: An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.
pos: noun
Related words: fell
pelisse
pellage
pellagra
pellicle
pelt
peltry
Derived words: clerk of the pells
Translations:
naivety
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From naive + -ity, English analogue of naïveté (naïf + -eté) borrowed from French.
Base: naive
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: naiveties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: naïvety
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: naivete
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: naïvete
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: naiveté
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: naïveté
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: naïveté
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
mho
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: ohm spelled backwards.
Inflected forms:
form: mhos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A former unit of electric conductance, equivalent to and superseded by the siemens but still sometimes used in some contexts.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: siemens, S
If resistance is measured in ohms, conductance is measured in mhos.
Translations:
tinea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin tinea (“moth; bookworm”).
Inflected forms:
form: tineas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tineae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fungal infection of the skin, known generally as ringworm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea, her fingernails black and broken.
Translations:
quavering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quaverings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Trembling, or prone to trembling and shaking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The act of something that quavers.
pos: noun
examples: the quaverings and warblings in lutes and pipes
Translations:
peet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: Blend of paw + feet.
Compound parts: paw
feet
Inflected forms:
form: peets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A paw, especially a more humanoid-looking one.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
in-plural
slang
Translations:
braze
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English brasen, from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”), from bræs (“brass”).
Inflected forms:
form: brazes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brazing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brazed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brazed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cover with brass, or as with brass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
casco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish casco. Doublet of cask and casque.
Inflected forms:
form: cascos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flat-bottomed, square-ended boat once used in the Philippines as a lighter to ferry goods between ship and shore
pos: noun
Translations:
parricide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French parricide, from Latin parricīda, of uncertain origin, perhaps from pār (“equal”).
Inflected forms:
form: parricides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who kills a relative, especially a parent.
pos: noun
examples: I told him the reuenging Gods, / ’Gainst Paricides did all the thunder bend […]
gloss: Someone who commits treason.
pos: noun
Translations:
enceinte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French enceintebor.
English enceinte
Borrowed from French enceinte.
Inflected forms:
form: enceintes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An enclosure.
pos: noun
examples: These labours upon Phœnician necropoli are of great importance. [...] M. [Louis Félicien] de Saulcy, one of the first travellers who has thrown light upon these necropoli, devoted himself to a very interesting examination of the tombs of the kings, of the prophets and judges, and upon the immense necropolis that surrounds Jerusalem, like a funeral enceinte.
And so across the bridge and into the enceinte of the massive walls, threading their way towards the quarter where the morgue lay.
gloss: The line of works forming the main enclosure of a fortress.
pos: noun
gloss: The area or town enclosed by a line of fortification.
pos: noun
examples: S. W. Williams
The suburbs are not unfrequently larger than their enceinte.
Translations:
confessionalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
government
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
poetry
politics
publishing
religion
writing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English confession
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English confessional
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English confessionalism
From confessional + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: confessionalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A system of government that proportionally distributes political and institutional power among religious and ethnic communities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A style of American poetry that draws on the personal history of the poet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her rendition of "Dry Land" from her first album, Back to the Night, was a poetic fusion of music and lyrics that achieved an intimate tone too often sacrificed to confessionalism by other singers.
Translations:
hing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hindi हींग (hīṅg)bor.
English hing
Borrowed from Hindi हींग (hīṅg).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Asafoetida, especially when used as a seasoning.
pos: noun
tags: India
uncountable
Translations:
volk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans volk. Doublet of folk.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The Afrikaner people.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
plural
plural-only
examples: The lover, Tertius […] is a journalist regarded by many of his family as a traitor to the volk.
Translations:
avar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of animation + variable.
Compound parts: animation
variable
Inflected forms:
form: avars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an animation variable
pos: noun
Translations:
arg
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: args
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An argument; a value passed as a parameter.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The first arg needs to be an int.
gloss: Expressing frustration or disappointment.
pos: intj
tags: informal
Translations:
wolfram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wolfram, of obscure origin. Generally assumed to be derived from Wolf (“wolf”) + Rahm (“cream, soot”), a calque of Latin lupi spuma (“wolf's froth”), coined by Georg Agricola in the 16th century and a term of contempt due to its lesser value compared to tin and its degradation to the tin smelting process. Else, possibly derived from a personal name, where the second element is derived from *hrabn (“raven”).
Compound parts: Wolf
Rahm
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: wolframite
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: tungsten
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
Derived words: eka-wolfram
wolframate
wolframed
wolframic
wolframine
wolframite
wolfram lamp
wolfram-ocher
wolfram-ochre
wolfram-steel
Translations:
wolframite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From German Wolframit, from Wolfram (“tungsten”). By surface analysis, wolfram + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: wolframites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mineral that consists of a tungstate of iron and manganese; (Fe,Mn)WO₄; it is one of the principal ores for tungsten.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
unresectable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From un- + resectable; see resect.
Base: resectable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a tumor: unable to be removed through surgery because of the size and/or complexity, or because removal would risk life-threatening damage to vital organs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
anal-retentive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From anal + retentive. First use appears c. 1936 in the writings of Marjorie Brierley.
Compound parts: anal
retentive
Inflected forms:
form: more anal-retentive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anal-retentive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Preoccupied with achieving perfection, order and control and with collecting, possessing, and retaining objects.
pos: adj
gloss: Overly obsessive concerning small details.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
Synonyms: anal
Derived words: anal-retentiveness
Translations:
causality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin as if *causalitas, from causalis (“causal”), from causa (“cause”). By surface analysis, causal + -ity = cause + -ality.
Base: cause
Affixes: -ality
Inflected forms:
form: causalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The relationship between something that happens or exists and the thing that causes it; the cause and consequence relationship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But how do transformations like the evolution of language take place? A scientist looks for a cause inside time; a mystic knows that causality is essentially a process that is outside time-space.
But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.
Synonyms: causation
Related words: causal
causative
noncausative
Derived words: acausality
bicausality
isocausality
microcausality
multicausality
noncausality
non-causality
retrocausality
Translations:
informally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English formal
English informal
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 informally
From informal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more informally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most informally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an irregular or informal manner; without the usual forms.
pos: adv
examples: informally dressed
speak informally
write informally
Translations:
jussive
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin jussus, perfect participle of jubeō (“to order, command”). Related to Latin iūs (“law, order”). Latin juss- + -ive.
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: jussives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: For example, in the Aaronide blessing, only two of the six verbs are formally jussives, yet all have the same volitional sense.
As far as the jussive goes — ignoring the very few occurrences of this in first person — it can be noted that most of the second-person jussives are in negative commands.
If, on the other hand, reference is made purely to the root, we would expect all frequentative jussives to appear with a front element, producing *mɨt′ət′ɨs instead of mɨt′ət′ɨs (19d).
The jussive and cohortative usually convey more indirect, or more subtle, expressions of volition than the imperative does.
gloss: A verbal mood of vague or miscellaneous senses, occurring after some particles and in conditional clauses.
pos: noun
tags: Arabic
uncountable
usually
gloss: Of or in the jussive mood.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
conflicting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more conflicting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conflicting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fighting; contending; in conflict.
pos: adj
examples: To eliminate conflicting movements at the busy Brighton Main Line station, Network Rail proposes to rebuild the station with two extra platforms (from six to eight) and a larger concourse.
gloss: Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
pos: adj
examples: in the absence of all conflicting evidence
On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.
Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening.
Derived words: conflictingly
nonconflicting
non-conflicting
Translations:
plumbeous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin plumbeus, from plumbum (“lead”).
Inflected forms:
form: more plumbeous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plumbeous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of, or resembling, lead.
pos: adj
gloss: Dull; heavy; stupid.
pos: adj
tags: rare
Derived words: plumbeous ibis
Translations:
rendering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: renderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which something is rendered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Version; translation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.
gloss: Sketch, illustration, or painting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of producing an image from an internal model, or the image thus produced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bucket rendering
checkerboard rendering
forward rendering
loan rendering
portal rendering
server-side rendering
Translations:
mismatched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more mismatched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mismatched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unsuitably matched; ill joined.
pos: adj
examples: As a Londoner and regular user since the 1980s, I remember how it was an awful, mismatched place cobbled together from various styles of architecture and which was anything but passenger friendly.
Translations:
airburst
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From air + burst.
Compound parts: air
burst
Inflected forms:
form: airbursts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: air burst
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: air-burst
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: airbursts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: airbursting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: airbursted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: airbursted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: airburst
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: airburst
pos: verb
tags: past
form: air burst
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: air-burst
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The explosion of a bomb (or similar weapon) or meteoroid in the air rather than on the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: To explode in this manner.
pos: verb
Translations:
retentive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French rétentif, from Old French retentif, from Medieval Latin retentivus, from Latin retentus.
Inflected forms:
form: more retentive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most retentive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having power to retain.
pos: adj
examples: a soil that is highly retentive of rainwater
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit.
Mr Carlyle smiled his indulgence privately.
"My dear chap, you mustn't let your retentive memory of obscure happenings run away with you," he remarked wisely.
gloss: Anal-retentive.
pos: adj
tags: apocopic
slang
Derived words: anal retentive
anal-retentive
gastroretentive
irretentive
nonretentive
retentively
retentiveness
retentivity
stereoretentive
unretentive
Translations:
muir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: muirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A moor.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
especially
examples: […] Mr. Cuming brought a declarator of common property in, and division of, the muirs in question. Pleaded for the Pursuer.—The pursuer's special infestment in the muirs as parts of the barony of Coxtoun excluded the defender, […]
[…] and Coquet's streams are glittrin, as they rin frae muir to main […]
Tho' four lang miles was he fra heayme, / Besides a muir to cross, / By haunted cairns an boggle steaynes, […]
Translations:
keyboardist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English keyboard
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 keyboardist
From keyboard + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: keyboardists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who plays a keyboard.
pos: noun
examples: The absence of keyboardist Sadie Shaw (who split for the Bay Area garage rawkers the Husbands) allows the group more space to indulge in dark wordless experiments; […]
Since the 1960s, the keyboardist, vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke has been a prime mover in Ethio-jazz: unmistakably Ethiopian music that also draws on American jazz, Afro-Caribbean music and more.
Translations:
eep
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: eeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eeping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: eeped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: eeped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An expression of surprise or dismay.
pos: intj
tags: onomatopoeic
examples: Hot-dog vendor: "Get him!"
Bart: "Eep."
Then she ripped the door off its hinges and bent the flimsy metal in half between her hands.
"Eep," I said.
On the opposite side a bottle crashed. Shards twinkle screamed in a circle around her head. “Eep,” she said, breathed, and nearly screamed.
gloss: A short scream or yelp.
pos: noun
examples: "Then the peepers begin on a high key, with a singularly sweet and lucid voice, somewhere betwixt a silver-whistle and a glass-bell, smacking little of the mid: 'Eep!-eep-eep-eep! ee ee-ee! eepee! eepee-peepee! peep-eep! eepepee! eepepee! eepepee!' accompanied by a few trills long continued..."
She encouraged them to express their teeny-tiniest selves with an “eep.”
gloss: To vocalise a short scream or yelp; to produce an eep.
pos: verb
examples: Now there are fulfilled women happily “eeping” all over the Bay Area. I swear to you this is true.
Petey’s voice rises to that preadolescent pitch it always hits when he feels his life spinning out of control. “Dues are what Boy Scouts pay,” he eeps.
Before I could answer, a tiny green krait dropped out of Tristan’s nostril and slithered swiftly toward Susan’s sandaled feet: She eeped, dropped my arm, and fled for her life.
Translations:
trustafarian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of trust fund + Rastafarian.
Compound parts: trust fund
Rastafarian
Inflected forms:
form: trustafarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who espouses an alternative lifestyle, but lives off inherited wealth. A young person with the fashion sensibilities of a hippie, or any other countercultural trend, especially anarchism, Maoism, or punk rock, who subscribes to an unemployed, shiftless life of hedonism based upon a substantial amount of inherited money (a trust fund).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 2003, Kate Gardner, Meat Me in Manhattan: A Carnivore's Guide to New York http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0970312571&id=wQt-LEMEezUC&pg=RA13-PT21&lpg=RA13-PT21&dq=trustafarian&sig=wicOp5oWIhv63G3Ocejx7eOsyro
"Today's punk-rocking population, paying $1500 a month in trustafarian scrip, doesn't under-stand German, much less Yiddish."
I'm your typical trustafarian, I'm afraid: spoilt little rich kid living the dream off his inheritance.
Translations:
deist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From French déiste, from New Latin deista, from Latin Deus (“God”) + -ista (“-ist”).
Inflected forms:
form: more deist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Deist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: deïst
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: deists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Deist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: deïst
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to deism and deists.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who believes in deism.
pos: noun
examples: It was reason that led most of the Enlightenment thinkers to repudiate a belief in an anthropomorphic God who took an interest in human affairs.⁶ The application of reason revealed that reports of miracles were dubious, that the authors of holy books were all too human, that natural events unfolded with no regard to human welfare, and that different cultures believed in mutually incompatible deities, none of them less likely than the others to be products of the imagination. (As Montesquieu wrote, “If triangles had a god they would give him three sides.”) For all that, not all of the Enlightenment thinkers were atheists. Some were deists (as opposed to theists): they thought that God set the universe in motion and then stepped back, allowing it to unfold according to the laws of nature. Others were pantheists, who used “God” as a synonym for the laws of nature. But few appealed to the law-giving, miracle-conjuring, son-begetting God of scripture. […] Organisms are replete with improbable configurations of flesh like eyes, ears, hearts, and stomachs which cry out for an explanation. Before Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace provided one in 1859, it was reasonable to think they were the handiwork of a divine designer—one of the reasons, I suspect, that so many Enlightenment thinkers were deists rather than outright atheists. Darwin and Wallace made the designer unnecessary. […] before the concepts of information and computation were elucidated, it was reasonable for someone to be a mind-body dualist and attribute mental life to an immaterial soul (just as before the concept of evolution was elucidated, it was reasonable to be a creationist and attribute design in nature to a cosmic designer). That’s another reason, I suspect, that so many Enlightenment thinkers were deists.
Translations:
thermostatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
medicine
physiology
politics
sciences
Etymology: From thermo- + -static.
Base: thermo
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: having or maintaining a consistent temperature
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The shower has a thermostatic water-mixing valve.
Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves [...].
gloss: Relating to thermostasis
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Reacting to change by attempting to move in the opposite direction.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Most importantly, Wlezien's results revealed thermostatic responsiveness. That is, when spending increases (decreases), the public's support for more spending decreases (increases), other things being equal.
Derived words: thermostatically
Translations:
joist
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French giste, feminine of gist, the past participle of gesir (“to lie down”).
Inflected forms:
form: joists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: joists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: joisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: joisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: joisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A piece of timber or steel laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed.
pos: noun
examples: […] a Family was infected there, in so terrible a Manner that every one of the House died; the last Person lay dead on the Floor, and as it is supposed, had laid her self all along to die just before the Fire; the Fire, it seems had fallen from its Place, being of Wood, and had taken hold of the Boards and the Joists they lay on, and burnt as far as just to the Body, but had not taken hold of the dead Body […]
There are generally forty-two teeth in all; in old whales, much worn down, but undecayed; nor filled after our artificial fashion. The jaw is afterwards sawn into slabs, and piled away like joists for building houses.
A formidable wooden beam, resting on four pillars, which appeared to have bent under the weight of the decrepit house, had been encrusted with as many coats of different paint as there are of rouge on an old duchess’s cheek. In the middle of this broad and fantastically carved joist there was an old painting representing a cat playing rackets.
[…] even the carpenters who made her over for the service had not thought her worth the trouble, and had done their worst by her. The new partitions were hung to the joists by a few nails.
Once the floor joists were in position, the framing of the next storey could continue, with a bressummer laid along their ends.
gloss: To fit or furnish with joists.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The floors are joisted with sapling tree trunks, and the flooring itself is made of bark, split and pounded flat into strips. No attempt is made either to fasten or join the strips of flooring.
Translations:
turnbuckle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
nautical
skating
sports
transport
Etymology: From turn + buckle.
Compound parts: turn
buckle
Inflected forms:
form: turnbuckles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coupling device consisting of two eyelets or other connection points connected in screw threads.
pos: noun
gloss: A link threaded on both ends of a short bar which is used to pull objects together.
pos: noun
gloss: The area at either end of a bench where the edge of the glass is padded and meets the boards at a right angle.
pos: noun
examples: A player who is checked into the turnbuckles may be injured.
Related words: turnbarrel
Translations:
Hellenism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Either via French hellénisme or Latin Hellēnismus or directly from Ancient Greek Ἑλληνισμός (Hellēnismós, “imitation of the Greeks”), from Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “a Greek”).
Inflected forms:
form: Hellenisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hellenicism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Hellenisticism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the characteristics of ancient Greek culture, civilization, principles and ideals, including humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The national character or culture of Greece.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The culture and civilization of the Hellenistic period.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The culture and civilization of the Hellenistic period.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A Greek idiom or turn of phrase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
gloss: The modern-day revival of the polytheistic religious system of Ancient Greece.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: Hellas
Hellen
Hellene
Hellenic
Hellenisation
Hellenization
Hellenise
Hellenize
Helleniser
Hellenizer
Hellenist
Hellenistic
Hellenistical
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: hel·lenisme
lang: Czech
word: helénismus
lang: German
word: Hellenismus
lang: Greek
word: ελληνισμός
roman: ellinismós
lang: Hebrew
word: יונות
lang: Irish
word: Heilléanachas
lang: Irish
word: Gréagachas
lang: Catalan
word: hel·lenisme
lang: Czech
word: helénismus
lang: Esperanto
word: helenismo
lang: Finnish
word: hellenismi
lang: Galician
word: helenismo
lang: Georgian
word: ელინიზმი
roman: elinizmi
lang: German
word: Hellenismus
lang: Greek
word: ελληνισμός
roman: ellinismós
lang: Kazakh
word: эллинизм
roman: éllinizm
lang: Portuguese
word: helenismo
lang: Spanish
word: helenismo
lang: Finnish
word: kreikkalainen uskonto
lang: Finnish
word: hellenismi (neopagan)
flyswatter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-West Germanic *fleugan
Old English flēogan
Middle English fliender.
English fly
English swat
English -er
English swatter
English flyswatter
From fly + swatter.
Inflected forms:
form: flyswatters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fly swatter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fly-swatter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them.
pos: noun
Translations:
swatting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English swat
English -ing
English swatting
From swat + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: swattings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motion or gesture that swats; a swat.
pos: noun
examples: This […] evoked a new disorder — a tendency to sudden, tic-like jabbings and swattings in the air, as if she were fending off flies or mosquitoes.
gloss: The action of making an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Swatting started in the combative world of online gaming. It was a way to terrorize someone more famous, get even with a rival or retaliate against someone with different political views.
Mr. Herring’s relatives said they wanted tougher laws against swatting and more training for police agencies on how to recognize potential fake calls.
Translations:
Hellenist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑλληνιστής (hellēnistḗs, “somebody who speaks Greek”), from ἑλληνίζειν (hellēnízein, “to speak Greek, to behave like a Greek, to become Greek, hellenize”) (infinitive of ἑλληνίζω (hellēnízō)), from Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek”).
Inflected forms:
form: Hellenists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A specialist in the study of Greek language, literature, culture, or history, or an admirer of the Greek culture and civilization.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who adopted the Greek customs, language and culture during the Hellenistic period, especially a Hellenized Jew.
pos: noun
gloss: A non-Greek follower and practitioner of Hellenic religion (aka Hellenism)
pos: noun
Related words: Helladic
Hellas
Hellen
Hellene
Hellenic
Hellenisation
Hellenization
Hellenise
Hellenize
Helleniser
Hellenizer
Hellenism
Hellenistic
Hellenistical
Translations:
plummy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From plum + -y. In the sense of a voice, because of the supposed similarity to speaking with a plum in one's mouth.
Base: plum
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: plummier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: plummiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of plums.
pos: adj
examples: The jam had a rich plummy aroma.
gloss: Desirable; profitable; advantageous.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The poets have made tragedies enough about signing one's self over to wickedness for the sake of getting something plummy; I shall write a tragedy of a fellow who signed himself over to be good, and was uncomfortable ever after.
gloss: Rich, mellow and carefully articulated, especially with an upper-class accent.
pos: adj
examples: plummy-voiced
Then, feeling the fat hands caressing her reluctant bosom, listening dutifully to the rich, plummy voice, she realized finally what marriage to the King meant.
Ludovic's deferential voice ("after what's happened, Sir, don't you think it will be more suitable") suddenly turns from its plummy to the plebeian key ("to shut your bloody trap").
The fact that David Cameron, the conservative prime minister, is a plummy-voiced, Eton-educated, upper-class Brit from central casting has played into [Alex] Salmond's hands.
But a plummy-voiced Labour peer, Baron Peter Hain, decided to defy the court order, invoking his parliamentary privilege to identify Mr. Green as the subject of the newspaper’s investigation.
Reviewing a collection of Tom Wolfe’s journalism, Hitchens deplored Wolfe’s affectations and his plummy conservative politics.
We don’t talk enough about the classism that fuels trans and other faddish beliefs. Plummy students and the managerial elites might accrue ever-more virtue points through embracing the gender ideology. But for working-class women, that ideology has been a disaster.
Related words: peachy
cherry
plum in one's mouth
Derived words: plummily
plumminess
Translations:
plumose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin plūmōsus (“feathered”), from plūma (“feather”): compare French plumeux. By surface analysis, plume + -ose.
Inflected forms:
form: more plumose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plumose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having feathers or plumes.
pos: adj
gloss: Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather.
pos: adj
examples: Male mosquitoes have plumose antennae
a plumose leaf
plumose tentacles
Derived words: plumose alum
plumosely
plumosity
Translations:
mineralogy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
Etymology: From New Latin minerālogia, from Medieval Latin minera (“mineral”) + Latin -logia (“study”). By surface analysis, mineral + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: mineralogies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minerology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: The branch of petrology that studies minerals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Mineral materials.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A treatise on mineralogy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: mineralogist
gemology
petrography
Derived words: biomineralogy
micromineralogy
mineralogic
mineralogical
mineralogize
soil mineralogy
Translations:
feldspathic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From German Feldspath (“feldspar”) + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Containing feldspar.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
venality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From venal + -ity, from French vénalité or Latin vēnālitās, from vēnālis (“venal”), from vēnum; compare English vend.
Base: venal
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: venalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fact or state of being for sale, especially with reference to bribes or corruption.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1785, The Times, 17 Jan 1785, p.1 col. B
As your spirited paper has declared war, not only against venality and despotism, but was intended to correct follies and abuses in private life, I hope the following will come within its useful plan.
Translations:
metamorphism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
geography
geology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From metamorphosis + -ism, after French métamorphisme.
Base: metamorphosis
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: metamorphisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: burial means that the ambient pressure on the rock increases – as does the temperature. This encourages metamorphism.
gloss: The process by which insects develop through life stages, for example, those of embryo, larva, pupa and imago. The life cycle of the butterfly is one of complete metamorphosis, in which the embryo grows within the egg, hatches into the larval stage caterpillar, enters the pupal stage within its chrysalis, and finally emerges as an adult butterfly imago.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any dramatic change from one thing to another
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: December 28 2015, Barrett Pall writing in the Huffington Post, 11 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Be Happy
Ultimately, being happy means that even when things aren’t perfect you still understand how blessed you truly are. You remain in a constant state of uncomfortable change, evolution and metamorphism because you know that this is a process that requires care and love.
Related words: metamorphic
metamorphosis
Derived words: contact metamorphism
hydrometamorphism
hypermetamorphism
polymetamorphism
pyrometamorphism
regional metamorphism
ultrametamorphism
Translations:
venery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English venerie, borrowed from Middle French venerie, from Old French venerie (“hunting”), derived from vener, from Latin vēnor (“to hunt”).
Inflected forms:
form: veneries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: venarie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The hunting of wild animals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or venation, five of Halieuticks or piſcation, commented and publiſhed by Ritterhuſius; wherein deſcribing beaſts of venery and fiſhes[…]
But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of sexual delight.
gloss: Game animals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: venison
Derived words: beast of venery
term of venery
Translations:
pluralist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plural
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 pluralist
From plural + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: pluralists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more pluralist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pluralist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who holds multiple offices, especially a clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.
pos: noun
gloss: An advocate of pluralism (in all senses)
pos: noun
gloss: Of, or related to pluralism.
pos: adj
examples: In addition, a more pluralist system in a large diverse democracy should foster aggregation, compromise, and tolerance.
Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society.
Derived words: antipluralist
ethnopluralist
Translations:
pluralism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ecclesiastical
government
human-sciences
law
lifestyle
philosophy
politics
religion
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plural
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English pluralism
From plural + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: pluralisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Polytheism was inherently tolerant of the worship of many gods, because no single god was thought to control all the phenomena that are vital for human life. The gods were believed to tolerate this pluralism, and several could be worshiped in the same sanctuary or addressed in the same prayer.
gloss: The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A social system that permits smaller groups within a society to maintain their individual cultural identities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Instead, it is more probable that globalization is leading to a plurality of pluralisms.
gloss: The belief that there should be diverse and competing centers of power in society.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The acknowledgement of a diversity of political systems.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The existence of differing legal systems in a population or area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The belief that values can be simultaneously antagonistic and incommensurable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Due to pluralism and conflicts within the good itself, such perfection, for Berlin, is not possible. A compromise does not bring us closer to a higher telos in history.
Pluralism is a creative force because it admits of multiple ways to see a thing, multiple valuable paths to choose from.
gloss: The belief that a plural predicate refers to its individuals rather than to a collective.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: plurality
Related words: plural
pluralist
pluralistic
Derived words: antipluralism
ethnopluralism
hyperpluralism
religious pluralism
strategic pluralism
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: pluralismi
lang: Romanian
word: pluralism
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pluralizam
lang: Greek
word: πλουραλισμός
roman: plouralismós
lang: Hindi
word: बहुतत्त्ववाद
roman: bahutattvavād
lang: Hindi
word: बहुत्ववाद
roman: bahutvavād
plunket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: plunkets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of blunket.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Burels at this time seem to have been made in lengths of 20 ells and sold at 8d. the ell, while the better quality cloths - browns, plunkets, blues, and greens - were nearly twice the length, and cost about 22d. the ell.
Translations:
plunderer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plunder
English -er
English plunderer
From plunder + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: plunderers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who plunders or pillages.
pos: noun
Translations: