yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
operationalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃épos
Proto-Italic *opos
Latin opus
Latin opera
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -or
Latin operor
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin operātiōder.
Old French operacionbor.
Middle English operacioun
English operation
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 operational
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English operationalize
From operational + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: operationalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: operationalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: operationalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: operationalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: operationalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make operational.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I have a lot of sexual fantasies that I'm never going to operationalize. I enjoy them just as fantasies.
gloss: To define (a concept) in such a way that it can be practically measured.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To operationalize a concept is to identify those variables in terms of which the phenomenon represented by the concept can be accurately observed.
Vision seems ‘childishly simple’ to us but proves to be fiendishly hard to operationalise, precisely because we are so good at it.
General vocabulary is often defined as a common core of English words and operationalized as the most frequent words in a balanced and representative corpus of English.
Related words: operational definition
operations research
Derived words: operationalizability
operationalizable
operationalization
unoperationalized
Translations:
immunoglobulin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
Proto-Italic *moinos
Latin mūnus
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin -is
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnisder.
Middle French immunbor.
Middle English
English immune
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English immuno-
Latin globus
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin globuluslbor.
French globulebor.
English globule
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English globulin
English immunoglobulin
From immuno- + globulin.
Inflected forms:
form: immunoglobulins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ig
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Any of the glycoproteins in blood serum that respond to invasion by foreign antigens and that protect the host by removing pathogens; an antibody.
pos: noun
examples: The recent observation that a heat labile human immunoglobulin, IgE , could mediate the release of both histamine and SRS-Aᵐᵒⁿᵏᵉʸ from primate lung slices (Ishizaka et al., 1969), prompted a re-examination of the biologic activity of rat heat labile homocytotropic antibody.
Translations:
immunofluorescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
Proto-Italic *moinos
Latin mūnus
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin -is
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnisder.
Middle French immunbor.
Middle English
English immune
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English immuno-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti?
Latin fluō
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin fluorbor.
English fluor
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English fluorite
Middle Low German sparder.
Old English spærstān
Middle English sparston
English sparstonebf.
English spar
blend
English fluorspar
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁sḱeti
Proto-Italic *-ēskō
Latin -ēscō
Latin -escensder.
English -escence
English fluorescence
English immunofluorescence
From immuno- + fluorescence.
Inflected forms:
form: immunofluorescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A technique that uses a fluorochrome to indicate a specific antigen-antibody reaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
immunological
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
Proto-Italic *moinos
Latin mūnus
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin -is
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnisder.
Middle French immunbor.
Middle English
English immune
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English -ology
English immunology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English immunological
From immunology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: immunologicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to immunology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]
gloss: Any drug used to treat the immune system.
pos: noun
Translations:
immunology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
Proto-Italic *moinos
Latin mūnus
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin -is
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnisder.
Middle French immunbor.
Middle English
English immune
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English -ology
English immunology
From immune + -ology.
Inflected forms:
form: immunologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The branch of medicine that concerns the body's immune system.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Obviously, licentiates to practice medicine should receive instruction of a definite and practical nature in this important branch of modern medicine, or immunology should receive a place in the classification of specialties, a fact which the importance of the subject may command.
Translations:
immunologic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: immunological
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One critical distinction to make is whether a focal corneal infiltrate is infected with bacteria or is a sterile immunologic response.
Translations:
cytotoxicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos)lbor.
English cyto-
Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξῐκός (toxĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón)der.
Latin toxicum
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin toxicusbor.
French toxiquebor.
English toxic
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English toxicity
English cytotoxicity
From cyto- + toxicity.
Inflected forms:
form: cytotoxicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being toxic to a cell.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: cytocompatibility
Translations:
immunosuppression
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
Proto-Italic *moinos
Latin mūnus
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin -is
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnisder.
Middle French immunbor.
Middle English
English immune
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English immuno-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin supprimō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin suppressiōbor.
English suppression
English immunosuppression
From immuno- + suppression.
Inflected forms:
form: immunosuppressions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The suppression of the immune response, especially its active medical suppression by human agency (via immunosuppressant drugs) to treat autoimmune diseases or to prevent allograft rejection after transplant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]
Antonyms: immunocompetence
immunocompetency
Translations:
oracular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French oraculaire.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to an oracle.
pos: adj
examples: In some of the Hebrides they attributed the same oracular power to a large black stone by the sea-shore, which they approached with certain solemnities, and considered the first fancy which came into their own minds, after they did so, to be the undoubted dictate of the tutelar deity of the stone, and, as such, to be, if possible, punctually complied with.
Ferguson's sin consisted in his oracular 'unmasking' of a 'second-rate sort of society, full of second rate citizens, pursuing comparatively worthless objects.'
gloss: Prophetic, foretelling the future.
pos: adj
examples: And that slaughter to the Nation / Shall steam up like inspiration, / Eloquent, oracular; / A volcano heard afar.
It was one of those dire oracular pronouncements that Marko made from time to time, which were afterwards spread from mouth to mouth among the Serbs.
gloss: Wise, authoritative.
pos: adj
examples: My Lord Chatham, whose wisdom his party in those days used to call superhuman, raised his oracular voice in the House of Peers against the American contest;
If this is the AI age, then we’re living in broken times. Nevertheless, Sam Altman has called ChatGPT an “oracular system that can sort of do anything within reason” and last week proclaimed that OpenAI has “built systems that are smarter than people in many ways.”
gloss: Ambiguous, hard to interpret.
pos: adj
examples: Nothing offended me but that lisping Miss Haughton, whose every speech is inarticulately oracular.
This utterance was admirably oracular, being susceptible of cogent quotation by both sides[…]
Related words: oracle
Derived words: oracularity
oracularly
oracularness
Translations:
bootlegging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bootleggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Engaging in economic production or distribution in an illegal way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Engaging in economic production or distribution in an illegal way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Engaging in economic production or distribution in an illegal way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antibootlegging
booklegging
buttlegging
Translations:
governance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: management
Etymology: From Middle English governaunce, from Old French gouvernance, governance, equivalent to govern + -ance.
Base: govern
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: governances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gouvernance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gouvernaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: governaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
gloss: The specific system by which a political system is ruled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The group of people who make up an administrative body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being governed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Accountability for consistent, cohesive policies, processes and decision rights.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: cybernetics
Derived words: cogovernance
co-governance
cybergovernance
e-governance
global governance
malgovernance
metagovernance
misgovernance
self-governance
Translations:
interpose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French interposer, influenced by poser (“to place, put”), from Latin interpōnō, from inter (“between”) + pōnō (“to place, put”).
Inflected forms:
form: interposes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interposing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interposed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interposed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to interpose a screen between the eye and the light
What watchful cares do interpose themselves
Betwixt your eyes and night?
Lands intersected by a narrow frith
Abhor each other. Mountains interposed
Make enemies of nations who had else
Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
gloss: To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As one who in his journey bates at Noone,
Though bent on speed, so her the Archangel paused
Betwixt the world destroyed and world restored,
If Adam aught perhaps might interpose;
Then with transition sweet new Speech resumes.
“A beautiful country!”
“I suppose it is. Everybody says so.”
“Your cousin Feenix raves about it, Edith,” interposed her mother from her couch.
gloss: To offer (one's help or services).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Suppose, unlook’d for in a scene so rude,
Long hid by interposing hill or wood,
Some mansion neat and elegantly dress’d,
By some kind hospitable heart possess’d
Offer him warmth, security and rest;
gloss: To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The doctor now interposed, and prevented the effects of a wrath which was kindling between Jones and Thwackum […]
"My daughters," replied Sir Thomas, gravely interposing, "have their pleasures at Brighton, and I hope are very happy; […]"
Derived words: interposable
interposal
interposingly
interposure
uninterposed
uninterposing
Translations:
durational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English duration
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 durational
From duration + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more durational
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most durational
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to duration.
pos: adj
Translations:
superficially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English superficial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English superficially
From superficial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more superficially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most superficially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a superficial manner; shallowly.
pos: adv
examples: This anatomy is superficially similar to that of Cetotheriidae and some tranatocetids were previously considered to be cetotheres and even identified as Cetotherium.
Translations:
percept
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
psychology
sciences
Etymology: A learned borrowing, after concept, from Classical Latin perceptum (“a proposition, principle, general idea”), from the neuter of perceptus (“perceived”), the past participle of percipiō (“to perceive”); see perceive. Coined by the Scottish metaphysician Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856), in Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, published posthumously in 1860 (see the quotation).
Inflected forms:
form: percepts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: percepts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: percepting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: percepted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: percepted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something perceived; the object of perception.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: I shall, therefore, make no scruple in using the expression concept for the object of conception, and conception I shall exclusively employ to designate the act of conceiving. Whether it might not, in like manner, be proper to introduce the term percept for the object of perception, I shall not at present inquire.
It may even be that the percepts detected by one sense organ are experienced as having the modality standardly associated with another.
gloss: A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something.
pos: noun
examples: I see an inkstand on the table: that is a percept. Moving my head, I get a different percept of the inkstand.
So far as in that world it is a stable feature, holds ink, marks paper and obeys the guidance of a hand, it is a physical pen. [...] So far as it is instable, on the contrary, coming and going with the movements of my eyes, altering with what I call my fancy, continuous with subsequent experiences of its ‘having been’ (in the past tense), it is the percept of a pen in my mind.
Socrates remarks that when he is well he finds wine sweet, but when ill, sour. Here it is a change in the percipient that causes the change in the percept.
gloss: Synonym of perceive.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
rare
transitive
examples: And is not the highest speculation of it percepted and perfected by manuall instruments, and those fallacious too, as themselves complain?
gloss: To make perceptible or distinct, to reveal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The lighter and darker shading of surfaces can be understood as a means for discrimination in percepting each viewpoint, and at the same time as spatial articulation — back, forward, oblique — of the pictorial space of the picture-plane.
There was a nun of modesty, who with service was heavy / And big with sweet acts all her sweet life long; / Enough wisdom she had for twenty ordinary women / Who percepted love as a breath, and as a song.
Chemo‐reception, biological membranes, and a discussion of how the reception of taste and odour substances are percepted in the brain, are addressed in Chapter 2.
Related words: perceive
perception
perceptive
Derived words: perceptron
subpercept
Translations:
subsistent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From subsist + -ent.
Base: subsist
Affixes: -ent
Inflected forms:
form: more subsistent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most subsistent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Actually existing.
pos: adj
gloss: Inherent.
pos: adj
Related words: subsist
subsistence
subsistential
subsistently
Translations:
namby-pamby
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the poem Namby-Pamby (1726) by Henry Carey, a satire on the sentimental pastorals of the poet Ambrose Phillips.
Inflected forms:
form: more namby-pamby
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: namby-pambier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most namby-pamby
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: namby-pambiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mamby-pamby
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: namby-pambies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mamby-pamby
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: namby-pambies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: namby-pambying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: namby-pambied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: namby-pambied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mamby-pamby
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Insipid and sentimental.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking vigor or decisiveness; spineless; wishy-washy.
pos: adj
examples: […] she was still, as heretofore, a namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature […]
We can honestly commend the Atlantic Monthly as the most able and spirited of American periodicals, at the present time, and we like it, moreover, because it dares have opinions and to express them in unmistakable terms, on subjects which when referred to at all, by most of the current magazines, are mentioned in the gingerliest namby-pamby style of common place neutrality.
She boasts to Bentley that the Prince of Wales admires her books for the “fearless courage” of her opinions. “He said, ‘There is no namby-pamby nonsense about you – you write with a man’s pen, and I should think you would fight your enemies like a man!’ These words delighted me, for to be ‘namby-pamby’ would be a horror to me,” she writes.
gloss: One who is insipid, sentimental, or weak.
pos: noun
examples: Namby Pamby’s doubly Mild,
 Once a Man, and twice a Child;
 To his Hanging-Sleeves restor’d
 Now he foots it like a Lord;
 Now he Pumps his little Wits;
 Sh—ing Writes and Writing Sh—s,^([sic])
gloss: Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.
pos: noun
examples: Another of Addison’s favourite companions was Ambrose Phillipps, a good Whig and a middling poet, who had the honour of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby-Pamby.
gloss: To coddle.
pos: verb
examples: While we business men of Britain have little time for this sort of namby-pambying towards the next generation, who are often feckless, tearful, small, dirty or all of the above, there is no doubt that youths have their place in commerce.
Synonyms: namby
nestle-cock
sissy
softy
Derived words: namby
pamby
namby-pambiness
namby-pambyism
namby-pambical
Translations:
lilliputian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From the name of a fictional island called Lilliput in the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
Inflected forms:
form: lilliputians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Lilliputian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more lilliputian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lilliputian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Lilliputian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A very small person or being.
pos: noun
examples: I reflected what a Mortification it muſt prove to me to appear as inconſiderable in this Nation as one ſingle Lilliputian would be among us.
gloss: A fruit fly gene that, when mutated, makes cells abnormally small. See AFF2.
pos: noun
gloss: Very small, diminutive
pos: adj
examples: —O'er the expanse
Of glittering waters glides the snowy sail;—
The lilliputian boat by infants mann'd,
Steers amid fairy islets, circles round
The indented shore,—...
gloss: Trivial, petty
pos: adj
Antonyms: Brobdingnagian
Related words: lilliput
tiddler
munchkin
Derived words: lilliputianism
lilliputianize
Lilliputianly
Lilliputian vision
NanoPutian
Translations:
immunotherapy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: immunology
medicine
oncology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
Proto-Italic *moinos
Latin mūnus
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin -is
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnisder.
Middle French immunbor.
Middle English
English immune
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English immuno-
Proto-Indo-European *treb-der.?
Ancient Greek θερᾰ́πων (therắpōn)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)
Ancient Greek θεραπεύω (therapeúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía)bor.
New Latin therapīabor.
English therapy
English immunotherapy
From immuno- + therapy.
Inflected forms:
form: immunotherapies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The treatment of disease (especially cancers and autoimmune diseases) by adjusting the body's immune response.
pos: noun
gloss: The treatment of disease (especially cancers and autoimmune diseases) by adjusting the body's immune response.
pos: noun
Related words: immunomodulation
immunomodulatory
Derived words: chemoimmunotherapy
immunotherapeutic
immunotherapeutically
oncoimmunotherapy
radioimmunotherapy
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: imunoterapie
lang: Finnish
word: siedätys
lang: Finnish
word: siedätyshoito
lang: Finnish
word: immunoterapia
lang: French
word: immunothérapie
lang: Greek
word: ανοσοθεραπεία
roman: anosotherapeía
lang: Italian
word: immunoterapia
lang: Japanese
word: 免疫治療
roman: men'eki-chiryō
lang: Persian
word: ایمنیدرمانی
roman: imeni-darmâni
lang: Polish
word: immunoterapia
immunologically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
Proto-Italic *moinos
Latin mūnus
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin -is
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnisder.
Middle French immunbor.
Middle English
English immune
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English -ology
English immunology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English immunological
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 immunologically
From immunological + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more immunologically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most immunologically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using immunological methods.
pos: adv
examples: This kind of warfare [i.e., biological] would have us devouring the world’s children in a manner of speaking and those who are immunologically impaired, presuming we were going to immunize our own population but not those of the antagonist. Thus we would be conducting warfare which by definition would be indiscriminate rather than selective. We would lose control of the evolution of the bacteria that we would be releasing in the multitrillions.
Translations:
geological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Renaissance Latin geōlogia + -ical; first attested slightly earlier than geology. By surface analysis, geo- + -logical.
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of geologic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
Translations:
stoked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stoked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stoked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Feeling excitement or an exciting rush; exhilarated.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: 1964, The Australian, 3 December 1964. Quoted in Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI, end of section 2, page 255.
When you're driving hard and fast down the wall, with the soup curling behind yer, or doing this backside turn on a big one about to tube, it's just this feeling. Yer know, it leaves yer feeling stoked.
One of the fishermen was really stoked. He was trying to shoot the shore break in his canoe.
Translations:
jamming
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jammings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more jamming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jamming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which something is jammed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The broadcasts' effectiveness was limited by constant jamming.
gloss: The playing of improvisational music.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Jamming with the band is her favorite way to find compositional inspiration.
gloss: Great; awesome.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: All I knew was it sho was a jamming party!
Derived words: acoustic jamming
culture jamming
Translations:
twofer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
fashion
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: Shortened form of two-for-one [deal], that is, two for the price of one (BOGO).
Inflected forms:
form: twofers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: two-fer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something sold at a discount of two for the price of one.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
examples: I dashed into the mall; bought a gift; raced to the card store, snapped up a two-fer gift-bag special and was back in my car in 26 minutes. I could medal in power shopping.
Thus, it was interesting to see that when the ISO 55001 Asset Management Standard was released last year, it also looks for an asset-management program to deliver its own twofers and threefers.
gloss: Something that yields a substantial additional benefit; something that figuratively kills two birds with one stone.
pos: noun
examples: Justice Clarence Thomas served up a twofer last week […]
gloss: The fashion of wearing long sleeves outside a short-sleeved shirt.
pos: noun
gloss: A cabling device used in theatre, allowing two stage lighting instruments to be connected to one dimmer.
pos: noun
Related words: two birds with one stone
threefer
BOGO
Translations:
hardscrabble
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hard + scrabble.
Compound parts: hard
scrabble
Inflected forms:
form: hard-scrabble
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Requiring much work to farm, and ultimately not very productive.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
examples: his hardscrabble peanut farm
In the case of Allegheny Briskow, poverty, the drought, the grinding hardships of these hard-scrabble Texas counties, had dwarfed the intellect, the very soul of a splendid young animal.
Villages in the more remote and hard-scrabble regions, including some mountain areas, are being abandoned, and nature is starting to creep back.
gloss: Involving hard work and struggle.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
broadly
not-comparable
examples: He leads a hardscrabble existence.
Being the savage’s bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale’s back.
While Rose tried to keep up with Westbrook, the Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony struggled mightily, going 4 of 19 for 18 hardscrabble points.
Grace and her twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee) lost their mother during birth, and their alcoholic father during their hardscrabble childhood.
Translations:
charioteer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English charioter, from Old French charioteur (“charioteer”) and charretier (“coachman”). By surface analysis, chariot + -eer.
Inflected forms:
form: charioteers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: charioter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: charioteers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: charioteering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: charioteered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: charioteered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: charioter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who drives a chariot.
pos: noun
gloss: To drive a chariot.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To drive someone in a chariot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
harlequin
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From earlier Harlicken, from Middle French Harlequin (in Italian Arlecchino, the name of a popular servant character in commedia dell'arte plays), from Old French Harlequin, Halequin, Herlequin, Hellequin, Hierlekin, Hellekin (a demon, malevolent spirit), probably of Germanic origin, connected to the Old English figure of *Herla Cyning (“King Herla”, a mythical figure identified with Woden) or possibly to Old Frisian helle kin, Old English helle cyn, Old Norse heljar kyn (“the kindred of Hell”). Related to Middle English Hurlewain (“a mischievous sprite or goblin”).
Inflected forms:
form: harlequins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: harlequins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: harlequining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: harlequined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: harlequined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pantomime fool, typically dressed in colorful checkered clothes, used as a stock character in commedia dell'arte and other genres.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] were certainly the worst and dullest company into which an audience was ever introduced; and (which was a secret known to few) were actually intended so to be, in order to contrast the comic part of the entertainment, and to display the tricks of harlequin to the better advantage.
Motives are like harlequins—there is always a second dress beneath their first.
gloss: A greenish-chartreuse color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A harlequin duck.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genera Taxila and Praetaxila.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Brightly colored, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a greenish-chartreuse color.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And kitten, if the humour hit / Has harlequin'd away the fit.
gloss: To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: harlequin annual lupine
harlequin baby
harlequin bug
harlequin darter
harlequinic
harlequin ichthyosis
harlequinism
harlequinize
harlequin lady beetle
harlequin ladybird
harlequin ladybug
harlequin mantis shrimp
harlequin syndrome
harlequin-type ichthyosis
harlequinade
harlequin bat
harlequin beetle
harlequin cabbage bug
harlequin caterpillar
harlequin duck
harlequinery
harlequinesque
harlequin ice cream
harlequin moth
harlequin opal
harlequin snake
yellow harlequin
Translations:
harum-scarum
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Likely from hare (“harass, harry”) 'em (“them”) and scare 'em (“frighten them”); alternately the first element may be from hare (“rabbit-like animals”), or the second element may be a variant of stare. Attested from the late 17th century.
Compare English willy-nilly of the same meaning.
Inflected forms:
form: harum-scarums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: wild, careless, irresponsible
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1832, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Eugene Aram
Lester's good heart will be to hear that little Peter is so improved;--no longer a dissolute, harum-scarum fellow, throwing away his money, and always in debt.
gloss: wildly, carelessly, irresponsibly
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1800, Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent
[…] for he never looked after anything at all, but harum-scarum called for everything as if we were conjurors, or he in a public-house.
gloss: A giddy, rash person.
pos: noun
Translations:
feedline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: automotive
broadcasting
media
radio
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From feed + line.
Compound parts: feed
line
Inflected forms:
form: feedlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Physical cabling that carries the radio signal to and from the aerial.
pos: noun
gloss: The conveyor belt, or other transport device, that delivers the meal to the animals.
pos: noun
gloss: The tube for gasoline that goes to the engine.
pos: noun
Translations:
noting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: notings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A note; a written remark.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At the end of his notings and his calculations he went out into the street with a smile of satisfaction on his round face, for the fates had been good to him.
In large Companies, it will be appreciated that notings are numerous, and therefore time consuming. While experienced staff become expert at picking out the clause applicable, it still takes considerable time to make extracts […]
Translations:
gora
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani Hindi गोरा (gorā) / Urdu گورا (gorā).
* In British Pakistani speech, influenced also by Pahari-Potwari گورا (gorā) and Punjabi ਗੋਰਾ (gorā) / گورا (gorā).
Inflected forms:
form: gaura
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ghora
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: goras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gaura
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ghora
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a fair-skinned or European person.
pos: adj
tags: India
Pakistan
South-Asia
not-comparable
examples: "Sir! Yes." He saluted, did an about face and marched off. Sher swiveled around in his chair and looked fondly at the picture of the huge dead tiger and the embarrassed looking white, gora king, Edward.
Barun enjoys this gora food as much as Indian food, but he comes to recognise its symbolic associations and power, becoming troubled by his own patterns of consumption.
So Myra, whose daughter is studying in Stand Ford (I think so it's in LA only), says people there voted for Hilary and they all hate Trump, so she's safe (and in any case she's very gora and she's dyed her hair blonde) but Sunny, whose smaller son is in Cantucky, where there are lots of Trump kay log, is so scared she's thinking of calling him back.
gloss: A white person; a European.
pos: noun
tags: India
North
Pakistan
examples: Every day after that, my parents showed off their daughter's Urdu-speaking gora ‘friend’ to anyone who walked through the door.
Translations:
embezzle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
law
Etymology: From Middle English embesilen, from Anglo-Norman embesiler, embesillier, embeseillier (“to steal, cause to disappear”), from em- + Old French besillier (“to torment, destroy, gouge”), of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: embezzles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: embezzling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: embezzled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: embezzled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
pos: verb
examples: You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle. For my own part, I embezzle.
You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
A major accident and embezzlement of its funds seem to have been the only disasters it escaped; and as to the latter, the most probable reason is that it never had any quantity of funds worth embezzling.
Translations:
embezzler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English embezzle
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English embezzler
From embezzle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: embezzlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who steals money they have been trusted with, especially from one's employer; one who embezzles.
pos: noun
examples: 1667, Samuel Pepys, Diary
It appears that Hogg is the eeriest rogue, the most observable embezzler, that ever was known.
At the time, I was deeply involved with the handsome embezzler who led a major telecom company into bankruptcy.
That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.
There’s good reason to worry. In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.
Translations:
emery
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French émeri, from Old French esmeril, from Italian smeriglio.
Inflected forms:
form: emeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: emeries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: emerying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: emeried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: emeried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An impure type of corundum, often used for sanding or polishing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: It took me from nine to ten days to grind and polish it ready for parabolising and silvering. I did this by hand labour with the aid of emery, but without a lathe. I finally used rouge instead of emery in grinding down the glass, until I could see my face in the mirror quite plain.
gloss: To sand or polish with emery.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To coat with emery.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
emote
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Latin ēmoveō
Vulgar Latin *exmovēre
Old French esmovoir
Middle French esmouvoir
Middle French emotionbor.
English emotionbf.
English emote
The verb is a back-formation from emotion. The noun is derived from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: emotes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: emoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: emoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: emoted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To display or express (emotions, mental states, etc.) openly, particularly while acting, and especially in an excessive manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the Latin category, dancers begin the round in carnival mode, bouncing and curving voltas traveling down the length of the floor, emoting happy celebration in a Brazilianesque samba.
gloss: To deliver (a speech), say (lines of a play, words), etc., in a dramatic or emotional manner, especially if overly so.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To display (excessive) emotion, especially while acting.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She doesn't smile much; she doesn't emote. Shannen is still.
Clint Eastwood, huh? You don't see him emoting all over the place, and what woman doesn't want to get down with "Dirty Harry," huh?
gloss: To express a virtual action, presented to other users as a graphic or reported speech, rather than sending a straightforward message.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
intransitive
gloss: To perform a short action, such as a gesture or a dance move, which may be seen by other players but does not have any effect on gameplay.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: There aren't many chances to see your character in Borderlands 3, but one of them is when you're emoting. Emoting allows your character to perform a gesture like a wave or a thumbs up, and it shifts the camera to a third-person view while they do.
Lords of the Fallen is yet another entry in the action-RPG soulslike craze, complete with an unsettling fantasy setting, other players invading your game for some co-op or PvP goodness, and, of course, lots of dying. It makes use of the same sort of deadly third-person combat system full of dodge rolling, posture meters, and emoting over fallen enemies as a sign of utmost disrespect.
Derived words: emoter
overemote
Translations:
pigeon-toed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pigeon-toed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pigeon-toed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having toes that point inwards.
pos: adj
examples: Alison Bechdel greets readers ass up, slightly pigeon-toed, her hair a mess, her belly sticking out, her head visible between her legs in a not-svelte downward dog: “Oh, hey! I didn’t see you there!”
Translations:
empathize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: empathizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: empathizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: empathized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: empathized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: empathise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: to feel empathy for another person
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: empathize with someone
Must have been […] devastating when Kenny was killed. But I want you to know that you can trust me. I understand you. I empathize.
Translations:
bombardier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Partly borrowed from Italian bombardiere, from bombarda + -iere, and partly from Middle French bombardier, from bombard + -ier. By surface analysis, bombard + -ier.
Inflected forms:
form: bombardiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: The bombardier then checked the gyroscopic stabilization of the bombsight and clutched in the electrical motor.
gloss: A non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
UK
examples: Wikipedia: Bombardier (Bdr) and Lance Bombardier (LBdr or L/Bdr) are British Army ranks used in the Royal Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery instead of (respectively) Corporal and Lance Corporal. In the Canadian Forces, the Artillery Branch uses the ranks of Master Bombardier and Bombardier instead of Master Corporal and Corporal.
gloss: An artilleryman; a gunner.
pos: noun
examples: […] the officer to whom the command was deputed, to the amusement of a German bombardier, ordered one of the largest cannons to be placed under the gate of a fortress […]
He has known for ages why a sturdy bombardier rides alongside the officer at the head of each battery, and why he is given a special name.
In 1687, with notorious effects, Morosini attacked Athens: the Turks were using the Parthenon as a powder-store, and the German bombardiers blew it up.
gloss: A bombardier beetle.
pos: noun
Related words: bombard
bomb
bomber
Derived words: lance bombardier
master bombardier
bombardier beetle
Translations: