yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
imbricated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Participle adjective, imbricate + -ed.
Base: imbricate
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more imbricated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most imbricated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
pos: adj
examples: When the leaves and small and densely imbricated, they are generally considered to belong either to lycopodiaceæ or coniferæ; but there is so little to distinguish these families in a fossil state, that there is scarcely any means of demonstrating to which of these such genera as lycopodites, lycopodendron, juniperites, taxites, &c., and the like, actually belong.
As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; […]
A leaf consists of two or three pairs of pinnae, each bearing many small leaflets. These, when the plant is asleep, are directed forwards and become imbricated.
He stopped speaking for a moment, like a man walking who comes to a brink; perhaps it was an artful pause, but it made the stars, the night, seem to wait, as if story, narration, history, lay imbricated in the nature of things; and the cosmos was for the story, not the story for the cosmos.
the spaceport filled up with emptiness and that imbricated silence made up of the low roar of the air-cycling system, the hum of the robot sweepers, the sizzle of the noctolux lamps, and the sound of distant footsteps.
Imbricated as competitors in the international system of imperialism, such regimes were far more invested in maximising their own power than in independent workers' movements, and were perfectly willing, where they could not control them, to betray, attack, or destroy them.
Translations:
ethnologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ethno- + -logist.
Base: ethno
Inflected forms:
form: ethnologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who practices ethnology.
pos: noun
examples: The learned modern Ethnologists, however, will generally have none of this latter idea. As a rule they delight in representing early peoples as totally destitute of common sense (which is supposed to be a monopoly of us moderns!); and if the Sabbath-arrangement has had any value or use they insist on ascribing this to pure accident, and not to the application of any sane argument or reason.
Translations:
infibulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin infībulō (“to close with a clasp or pin”).
Inflected forms:
form: infibulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of fastening
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The stitching together of the labia to prevent intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When Janner wasn’t telling me about infibulation among the Tuareg or Shan propitiation ceremonies, he was sharing with me the fruits of his concerted observation of Reigate society.
Derived words: deinfibulation
Translations:
intaglio
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian intaglio, from intagliare (“to engrave”).
Inflected forms:
form: intagli
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: intaglios
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: intaglioes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: intaglii
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: intaglios
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intaglioing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intaglioed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intaglioed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On a wooden pub sign daringly taken, one daylight raid, by a drunken Bartley Gobbitch, across which still survives in intaglio the legend SNIPE AND SHAFT, Teddy Bloat is mincing bananas with a great isosceles knife.
gloss: Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To engrave or etch using intaglio.
pos: verb
Derived words: intagliated
intagliation
reverse intaglio
Translations:
involution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
economics
human-sciences
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physiology
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: From Latin involūtiō, from involvō.
Inflected forms:
form: involutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]usually his attention was diverted from her feet by her shrieks of laughter and the astounding involutions of her huge brown-yellow frame.
‘Gomez,’ said the mortician, ‘is an expert only on the involutions of his own rectum.’
gloss: A complicated grammatical construction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1917, James Huneker, Unicorns, New York: Scribner, Chapter 11 “Style and Rhythm in English Prose,” p. 129,
Walter Pater’s essay on Style is honeycombed with involutions and preciosity.
gloss: An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.
gloss: The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A cessation of development or progress involving intense inner competition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead.
pos: noun
tags: countable
neologism
uncountable
gloss: The migration of a cell layer inward, sliding over an outer layer of cells. It occurs at gastrulation during embryogenesis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: involutional
involutionary
involve
dual
selfdual
Derived words: involution algebra
self-involution
subinvolution
Translations:
kissing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English kissynge, cussinde, from Old English cyssende, from Proto-West Germanic *kussijandī, from Proto-Germanic *kussijandz, equivalent to kiss + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian küsjend, Dutch kussend, German Low German küssend, German küssend, Swedish kyssande, Icelandic kyssandi.
Base: kiss
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: kissings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That kisses; engaged in a kiss or kissing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Just touching.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The act of giving a kiss or making out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There began to be some movement preparatory to the resumption of our journey, and, after many huggings and kissings, the family parted, and the wagon drove off[…]
Derived words: antikissing
kissingly
Translations:
kish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish cis, ceis (“basket, hamper”). Doublet of cesta.
Inflected forms:
form: kishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf.
pos: noun
examples: the whole kish emptied on [the turf-fire] at once... (c. 1)
Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.
Translations:
bonobo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Bolobo, a village on the Congo River where Europeans first made contact with the species. Bolobo is possibly imitative of the bubbling of the rapids at that section of the Congo.
Inflected forms:
form: bonobos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A great ape, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.
pos: noun
Translations:
kouros
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ionic Ancient Greek κοῦρος (koûros), variant of Attic κόρος (kóros, “boy”).
Inflected forms:
form: kouroi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sculpture of a naked youth in Ancient Greece, the male equivalent of a kore.
pos: noun
examples: A redstone kouros from Sounion, this strapping young Amsterdammer, translated into the slenderer grace of the modern graminivore.
The smiling kouros is the first fully free-standing sculpture in art.
Translations:
kultur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kultur, from Latin cultūra; doublet of culture.
Inflected forms:
form: Kultur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: German culture or civilization, especially seen as authoritarian or racist during the period of world wars (1914-18 and 1939-45)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 1963: so much rot spoken about their inferior kultur-position and our herrenschaft – but that was for the Kaiser and the businessmen at home — Thomas Pynchon, V.
Translations:
Newtonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Newton
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Newtonian
From Newton + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more Newtonian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Newtonian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Newtonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Isaac Newton, or his laws and theories.
pos: adj
gloss: Obeying Newton's law of viscosity; i.e. having a constant viscosity.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to classical physics that does not take relativity into account.
pos: adj
gloss: Being or relating to a type of reflecting telescope using a concave primary mirror and a flat diagonal secondary mirror.
pos: adj
gloss: A scientist supporting Isaac Newton's views on physics and mathematics.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of reflecting telescope using a concave primary mirror and a flat diagonal secondary mirror.
pos: noun
Translations:
promulgation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French promulgation, from Latin prōmulgātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: promulgations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of promulgating or announcing something, especially a proclamation announcing a new law.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Advocacy on behalf of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] and, indeed, the impression that Mr Lidmarsh took away with him was that his host's real hobby in life was the promulgation of phonetic reform.
Derived words: nonpromulgation
repromulgation
Translations:
holography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English holograph
English -y
English holography
From holograph + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: holographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a technique for recording, and then reconstructing, the amplitude and phase distributions of a coherent wave disturbance; used to produce three-dimensional images or holograms
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
purported
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English purport
English -ed
English purported
From purport + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Supposed, or assumed to be.
pos: adj
examples: In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
gloss: Normally assumed to be.
pos: adj
gloss: Said or claimed by some individuals to be real or true or to have happened, although this may not be the case.
pos: adj
Derived words: purportedly
Translations:
supergiant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English giant
English supergiant
From super- + giant.
Inflected forms:
form: supergiants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very large star having a mass between 10 and 70 solar masses.
pos: noun
gloss: Extremely large; regarded as being larger than giant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
blockhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From block + house. Calque of German Blockhaus.
Compound parts: block
house
Inflected forms:
form: blockhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports.
pos: noun
gloss: A reinforced building from which to control hazardous operations, such as an explosion or a rocket launch.
pos: noun
gloss: A temporary wooden fortification with a projecting upper storey.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.
Translations:
porphyria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From porphyrin, from German Porphyrin.
Inflected forms:
form: porphyrias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several usually hereditary abnormalities of porphyrin metabolism characterized by excretion of excess porphyrins in the urine.
pos: noun
examples: The term porphyria, derived from the Greek word porphyra, meaning purple, is apt because a hallmark of most of the porphyrias is the overexcretion of porphyrins in urine or feces.
However, the appearance of homozygous forms without consanguinity and coincidence of two types of porphyria in the same patient, dual porphyrias, is possible.
The usual presenting symptoms and signs of porphyrias are either skin photosensitivity or neurovisceral symptoms and signs.
Translations:
halyard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: firefighting
government
nautical
transport
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English halier, from halen (“to haul”) + -iere (“-er”), with misconstrual of -ier as yard. Compare lanyard.
Base: halen
Affixes: -iere
Inflected forms:
form: halyards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: halliard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, spar or yard.
pos: noun
examples: At last I got my knife and cut the halyards. The peak dropped instantly, a great belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water […]
[…]broad-shouldered men with hard red-beaked faces and huge hands coarsened by generations of straining on heavy oars and halyards,—men who feared only God and the sea-spirits of their strange mythology and were a law unto themselves, adventurers and bigots.
Uncleat the black main halyard to lower and remove the jib cover; remove the main halyard from the jib cover.
gloss: A rope used to extend a ladder.
pos: noun
Derived words: main halyard
throat halyard
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: фал
roman: fal
lang: Catalan
word: drissa
lang: Danish
word: fald
lang: Dutch
word: vlaggenlijn
lang: Dutch
word: val
lang: Finnish
word: nostin
lang: Finnish
word: falli
lang: French
word: drisse
lang: German
word: Fall
lang: Hebrew
word: מַעֲלָן
roman: ma'alan
lang: Icelandic
word: falur
lang: Italian
word: drizza
lang: Latin
word: anquina
lang: Māori
word: taura whakaara
lang: Māori
word: whakaheke
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fall
lang: Polish
word: fał
lang: Portuguese
word: ostaga
lang: Portuguese
word: austaga
lang: Russian
word: фал
roman: fal
lang: Swahili
word: jarari
lang: Swedish
word: fall
badmouth
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Calque of a Mande term, perhaps Vai [Term?] or Mandinka [Term?], which entered English via Gullah [Term?]. Compare Japanese 悪口(わるぐち) (waruguchi, “badmouthing”), which is a compound of 悪(わる) (waru, “bad, wicked”) and 口(くち) (kuchi, “mouth”).
Inflected forms:
form: badmouths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: badmouthing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: badmouthed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: badmouthed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bad-mouth
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: […] those cross-Atlantic aficionados who persistently idolize the British theater and bad-mouth Broadway.
He also believed that Mr. Altman was bad-mouthing the board to OpenAI executives, two people with knowledge of the situation said.
Translations:
Pavlov
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of Pavlov's dog, an experiment which showed a dog can be conditioned to salivate at the ring of a bell, provided food was given the previous times.
Inflected forms:
form: Pavlovs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Pavloving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Pavloved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Pavloved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Pavlov'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Pavlov'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To condition a person or animal to react to a stimulus, without consideration to the meaning of it.
pos: verb
examples: Or have my past experiences of Verity Audio’s loudspeakers Pavloved me into associating this look with this sound?
Translations:
cacophonous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Ancient Greek κακόφωνος (kakóphōnos) + -ous, from κακός (kakós, “bad”) + -φωνος (-phōnos, “sounding”). By surface analysis, caco- + -phonous.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more cacophonous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cacophonous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing, consisting of, or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.
pos: adj
examples: […] Huple had rescued them just in time by seizing the controls back from Dobbs and leveling the ship out almost as suddenly right back in the middle of the buffeting layer of cacophonous flak from which they had escaped successfully only a moment before.
The good thing about this job is that it gives me time and space to contemplate the future at my leisure, whilst the city sleeps, free from the cacophonous curiosity of the hoi polloi.
The first time I saw the NYC quartet [Sonic Youth] was in 1983 for their Confusion Is Sex album, when they filled The Venue in Victoria, London with a cacophonous maelstrom of mangled sounds that still reverberates, more than two decades on.
[…] and the cacophonous clatter of pots and pans accompanied the vociferous complaints of the ship's cook.
A colony of pelicans can be cacophonous.
Antonyms: euphonious
Translations:
toey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English toe
English -y
English toey
From toe + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: toeier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: toeyer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more toey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: toeiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: toeyest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most toey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Agitated, anticipatory, excited (sometimes specifically sexually so), nervous.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
slang
examples: “You’re toeyer than a chook caught in a swag.”
She rolled her eyes. “I still don’t know what you mean.”
Translations:
subconscious
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From sub- + conscious.
Base: conscious
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: more subconscious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most subconscious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: subconsciouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Occuring in the part of our mind that we are not normally aware of.
pos: adj
examples: The sense of smell can be a subconscious influence on our actions.
The “name-letter effect” refers to the subconscious bias that people have for the letters in their own name, and for their own initials in particular. They are more likely to choose careers, partners and brands that start with their initials (Joe becomes a joiner, marries Judy and loves Jaffa cakes).
gloss: The part of the mind that we are not normally aware of.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A person can sometimes wake up knowing the solution to a problem that their subconscious has been working on.
At a recent meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, held in Brighton, England, they explained how brain-scanning has revealed differences in the ways that traumatised and healthy brains respond to the world. This enables researchers to peer into the subconscious of traumatised patients.
Translations:
klomp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch klomp. Doublet of clump.
Inflected forms:
form: klomps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: klompen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Dutch wooden clog.
pos: noun
examples: Elisha could have saved his ox-yokes and made a farewell feast out of his shoes, had he been a Dutchman. The cast-off klomps of Holland must, in the course of a year, form a considerable addition to the stock of fuel.
Translations:
thermoplastic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der.
Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der.
English thermo-
Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō
Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō?
Ancient Greek πλάσσω (plássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek πλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós)der.
Latin plasticusder.
English plastic
English thermoplastic
From thermo- + plastic.
Inflected forms:
form: thermoplastics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Softening when heated and hardening when cooled, and thus able to be moulded, remelted, and remoulded.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A plastic with this property.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
deactivate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
▲
Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.
Latin āctīvusbor.
Old French actifbor.
Middle English actyf
English active
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English activate
English deactivate
From de- + activate.
Inflected forms:
form: deactivates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deactivating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deactivated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deactivated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: de-activate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: deäctivate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: to make something inactive or no longer effective
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: deactivate an account
deactivate a device
The technician deactivated the alarm system before repairs began.
You should deactivate your old account to protect your privacy.
gloss: to prevent the action of a biochemical agent (such as an enzyme)
pos: verb
examples: chemically deactivate
The chemical agent was deactivated by exposure to heat.
gloss: to remove a person or piece of hardware from active military service
pos: verb
gloss: to commit suicide
pos: verb
tags: Internet
euphemistic
neologism
Related words: activate
inactivate
Derived words: deactivatable
deactivator
Translations:
protostar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From proto- + star. Compare later protostellar.
Base: star
Affixes: proto-
Inflected forms:
form: protostars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A collection of gas and dust in space with high temperature that usually grows to the point of beginning nuclear fusion and becoming a star.
pos: noun
Translations:
alcalde
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish alcalde, from Arabic اَلْقَاضِي (al-qāḍī, “the judge”). Doublet of qadi and casis.
Inflected forms:
form: alcaldes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In Spain or Latin America, a municipal magistrate who has both judicial and administrative functions.
pos: noun
examples: There's to be a fair, you know. The alcalde announced it. He's got a good head for business, our alcalde has.
Translations:
jural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin iūs (“law, right”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to law.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to moral rights and obligations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Then this action would have become legitimized and transformed into the social structure, changing the jural nature of the tree-focused social isolate.
Synonyms: of
pertaining to law
Derived words: bijural
jural assembly
jurally
Translations:
laminar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin lāmina
English -ar
English laminar
From Latin lāmina (“thin sheet of material”) + English -ar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of fluid motion, smooth and regular, flowing as though in different layers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On the wall, in an ornate fixture of darkening bronze, a gas jet burned, laminar and gently singing — adjusted to what scientists of the last century called a "sensitive flame": invisible at the base, as it issues from the orifice, fading upward into smooth blue light that hovers several inches above...
The laminar bands of color to the west bleeding out under the hammered clouds. A sudden violet-colored hooding of the earth.
gloss: In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: laminal
Derived words: basolaminar
bilaminar
colaminar
extralaminar
hexalaminar
interlaminar
intralaminar
laminar flow
laminar flow hood
laminarise
laminarite
laminarity
laminarization
laminarize
laminarly
laminary
multilaminar
nonlaminar
paralaminar
pentalaminar
plurilaminar
postlaminar
prelaminar
quadrilaminar
retrolaminar
semilaminar
spinolaminar
sublaminar
supralaminar
translaminar
trilaminar
unilaminar
Translations:
Laodicean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Laodicea
Middle English -n
English -n
English Laodicean
From Laodicea (name of various former cities in West Asia) + -n.
Inflected forms:
form: more Laodicean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Laodicean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Laodicaean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
hypercorrect
rare
form: Laodicæan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
hypercorrect
rare
form: Laodiceans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Laodicaean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
hypercorrect
rare
form: Laodicæan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
hypercorrect
rare
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to any ancient city named Laodicea
pos: adj
tags: historical
gloss: Lukewarm, neither hot nor cold (with reference to Revelation 3:16)
pos: adj
examples: The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-Laodicean characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beastly hot or blindingly cold upon you, depending on whether your neighbor turned on his cold or his hot to deprive you of a necessary complement in the shower you had so carefully blended.
gloss: Half-hearted or apathetic, especially with regards to religion or politics
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Laodicea
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
latah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Malay latah.
Inflected forms:
form: latahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lata
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A condition found in Malaysia and nearby areas characterised by extreme suggestibility; also, a person suffering from this malady.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Latah is a condition occurring in Southeast Asia. Otherwise sane, Latahs compulsively imitate every motion once their attention is attracted by snapping the fingers or calling sharply.
It seemed to Sir Edwin that this patient, a young man who had never set foot outside England, was suffering from an ailment known as latah – common enough in the Malay archipelago but hitherto unknown, so far as the clinical records – admittedly not very reliable – could advise, in the temperate clime of northern Europe.
Actually, there is a debate among scholars as to whether the latah condition should be regarded as a culture-related "mental disorder" or merely as an "unusual behavior response" found in some cultures.
Translations:
thermosetting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der.
Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der.
English thermo-
English setting
English thermosetting
From thermo- + setting.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Becoming permanently (irreversibly) hard or solidifying when heated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
latigo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish látigo (“whip”), from Catalan or Portuguese látego (“whip”), probably from Gothic *𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍄𐌿𐌲 (*laittug), cognate with Old English lāttēh.
Inflected forms:
form: latigos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: latigoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strap used to tighten a cinch.
pos: noun
examples: He looked at the saddle and saw that both latigos, the straps that held the cinches, were broken. Both were old latigos instead of the good new ones that had been on the saddle the day before, and both had been cut halfway through with a knife.
Then they tightened the latigos on their horses and mounted up.
These prices are for saddle with single cinch and two latigoes.
"How am I supposed to learn if you aren't clear?"
"Watch. These metal rings beside the saddle tree are the rigging rings. These long leather straps hanging on 'em are the latigoes. Leave the off-side latigo done up and use the near-side strap."
Cinches fasten with a latigo strap that is already attached to the saddle, using a special flat knot. Make sure the strap has no twists in it, then insert it through the cinch ring from inside to outside (figure 13.4a).
A double-roller functions like a pulley system in that the latigo runs through the top roller and then down and through a bottom roller.[…]Most riders today use latigos on the left side to tighten the cinch and off-billets on the right, but some horsemen still prefer to use latigos on both sides.
Translations:
latria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “service,” “worship”), from λατρευειν (latreuein, “wait on,” “serve with prayer”).
Inflected forms:
form: latrias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The highest form of worship, named adoration, properly given to the triune God alone.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
summertime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English somertime, equivalent to summer + time. Compare Dutch zomertijd (“summertime”), German Sommerzeit (“summertime”), Danish sommertiden (“summertime”), Swedish sommartid (“summertime”). Compare summertide.
Compound parts: summer
time
Inflected forms:
form: summertimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: summer-time
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The period or season of summer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
variola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English variolas pl (“pustules, pocks”), from Medieval Latin or Medical Latin variola (“infectious disease causing pustules; pox”), from Latin varius. Doublet of variole.
Inflected forms:
form: variolas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Smallpox (Orthopoxvirus variola).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
legate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Old English legat(e), from Old French legat, from Latin lēgātus, substantivized from the perfect passive participle of lēgō (“to bequeath, send as envoy”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: legates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: legates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: legating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: legated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: legated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
pos: noun
gloss: An ambassador or messenger.
pos: noun
examples: Moſt great and puiſant Monarke of the earth,
Your Baſſoe wil accompliſh your beheſt:
And ſhew your pleaſure to the Perſean,
As fits the Legate of the ſtately Turke.
The dark figure on the raised white terrace; legate of the sun facing the sun; the most ancient royal power.
gloss: The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.
pos: noun
examples: Legate, I had the news last night—my cohort ordered home
By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome.
gloss: To leave as a legacy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: legacy
legatine
legation
prolegate
Derived words: legatee
legateship
Translations:
adenoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English aden-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-oyétider.?
Ancient Greek -όω (-óō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma)der.
English -oma
English adenoma
From aden- + -oma.
Inflected forms:
form: adenomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: adenomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A benign tumour of the epithelium arising from or resembling a gland.
pos: noun
Translations:
Leonid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Leō (“lion; the constellation Leo”, stem Leōn-) + -id.
Affixes: -id
Inflected forms:
form: Leonids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any meteor of a meteor shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Leo in November.
pos: noun
examples: I wrote my first story about the ghost of a horse leaping from a cascade of flame just after the leonids had been more torrential than men had remembered them for centuries.
Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.
I was surprised by […] the unusually tall windows, […] through which long telescopes were once turned on eclipses of the sun and the moon, on the intersections of the orbits of the stars with the line of the meridian, on the Leonid meteorite showers and the long-tailed comets flying through space.
Translations:
trendsetter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trend
English setter
English trendsetter
From trend + setter.
Inflected forms:
form: trendsetters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trend-setter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: trend setter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who starts a trend, or makes something more popular.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: influencer, thought leader
"We are very optimistic. Network Rail has certainly been the trendsetter. It has been the champion of this, because it spotted the merit.
Translations:
levant
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
law
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: Transferral use of Levant, from French levant. Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the Mediterranean Sea. Ultimately from Latin levō + -ant.
Affixes: -ant
Inflected forms:
form: levants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: levants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: levanting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: levanted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: levanted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet.
pos: noun
gloss: To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.
pos: verb
examples: In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch.
He died of a Tuesday. Got the run. Levanted with the cash of a few ads.
gloss: Rising, of an animal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Crest, a stag regardant levant argent.
[...] crest a raven levant sable issant out of a[…]
[...] neck grene acornes proper wounded on his left sholder and at her feet there is a fawcon issant levant argent out of a crowne or.
gloss: Rising or having risen from rest; said of cattle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Eastern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
poetic
examples: Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.
Derived words: couchant and levant
levant and couchant
Translations:
ligula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ligula (“strap, spoon”), a variant of lingula (“small tongue-shaped object”), itself partly derived from lingō (“lick”) and partly a diminutive of lingua (“tongue”).
Inflected forms:
form: ligulas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ligulae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strap or strap-shaped object, especially such a development in plants or insects.
pos: noun
examples: He unhasped the ligulae of his haversack, taking out a pair of blue jeans which he tossed to Bruno.
Translations:
limmer
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from limb, or French limier; see leamer.
Inflected forms:
form: limmers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more limmer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most limmer
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A rogue; a low, base fellow.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands.
gloss: A promiscuous woman.
pos: noun
examples: Doll Sneerpiece was not a scholar but fond of gentlemen, although to dub her a limmer, would have been to do her a wrong.
gloss: A limehound; a leamer.
pos: noun
gloss: A mongrel, such as a cross between the mastiff and hound.
pos: noun
gloss: A manrope at the side of a ladder.
pos: noun
gloss: Limber; flexible (either physically or morally).
pos: adj
examples: Then the limmer Scottes ared me, burnt my guddes, and made deadlie feede on me and my barnes.
The roote is long and very limmer, spreading his bráches both large and long under the earth and doth oftentimes let, hinder, & staye both the plough and Dren in toyling the ground, for they be so tough and limmer, that the share & colter of the plough cannot easily divide and cut them asunder.
Auld plenishen out by was strew'd, Guid L--d but it was limmer; Some creepy stools, an' shelfs weel scower'd Tae hide the worm pict tim'er Tae sell that day.
If you ride with the hell-spawned reivers and live as a limmer thief then you must expect to be singed by hell's fire.
Translations:
lipoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lip- + -oid.
Base: lip
Inflected forms:
form: lipoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of pertaining to fat.
pos: adj
examples: She advertised the lipoid virtues of what he had heard called junkfood, presumably food for junkies, whom, living in Tangiers, he knew all about.
gloss: A lipid or other substance resembling fat
pos: noun
Translations:
litharge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English litarge, from Old French litarge, from Latin lithargyrus, from Ancient Greek λιθάργυρος (lithárguros), from λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + αργυρός (argurós, “silver”).
Inflected forms:
form: litharges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: lead monoxide (PbO) a toxic solid formed from oxidation of lead in air, and used as a pigment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yes: living among the cohabations^([sic]) of Faust himself, among the litharge and agate and hyacinth and pearls.
From an inner pocket he produces a costly Ramillies Wig, shakes it out in a brisk Cloud of scented Litharge, and claps it on, with a minimum of fuss, over his ascetic’s Crop.
Translations:
Locrian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Latin Locris + -an.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the ancient Greek region of Locris.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Designating an ancient Greek mode, of uncertain detail.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: scattered piano keys (all white, an octave on B to be exact—or H, in the German nomenclature—the notes of the rejected Locrian mode
gloss: Designating a minor scale with the second and fifth scale degrees lowered by a semitone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: Hypolocrian
super-Locrian
Translations:
armorer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English armurer, from Old French armurier. By surface analysis, armor + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: armorers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: armourer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: A manufacturer of weapons, especially of guns.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A military specialist in charge of the upkeep of small arms etc.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The squadron ground crews and armourers set high standards.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was in charge of weapons on set as the movie’s armorer and who was also charged with involuntary manslaughter, also had that responsibility, the prosecutors said, as did Dave Halls, the first assistant director, who reached a plea agreement.
gloss: Someone who makes or repairs armor.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
Translations:
lorelei
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Lorelei rock on the Rhine, which was haunted by one of these creatures according to German legend.
Inflected forms:
form: loreleis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A siren; a temptress.
pos: noun
examples: We grew silly, tongue-tied, said foolish things we did not mean to say, shoved one another about in the boat, and finally overturned it. The loreleis laughed musical little laughs.
She was like a mermaid, an isolated creature that lives in fulfillment of its own senses; she lured me on, she was the lorelei of the gleaming river of traffic with its million, brilliant eyes that intermittently flowed between us.
Translations:
lunt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch lont.
Inflected forms:
form: lunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lunts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lunting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lunted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lunted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A slow-burning match or torch.
pos: noun
examples: 1844, E. A. Friedlænder (translator), The Amber Witch [1838, Abraham Schweidler (Wilhelm Meinhold), Maria Schweidler, die Bernsteinhexe], page 90,
In the mean time, however, he himself (understand; the young Nobilis) had seen that a fine smoke issued from the nostrils of the steed, and as he stooped down, he had immediately pulled forth a lunt, almost of a finger's length, the which was yet burning, and which a knave had privily poked into his nostrils with a needle.
Bent down and saw I was right. A lunt up the bugger’s nose. A lunt? said Doctor Copper. Almost as long as your left forefinger, yes, said his visitor. Still burning.
The gunpowder was stamped into the tube, then a lead ball was put into the muzzle, a wad was stamped over it, and the charge was set fire to by a lunt through the lower hole.
gloss: Smoke with flames, especially from a pipe.
pos: noun
gloss: To emit smoke.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
examples: 18th c, Robert Burns, The Twa Dogs, 1822, The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, page 28,
The lunting pipe, and sneeshing mill, / Are handed round wi' right gude-will;
My conscience! ye lent a ready hand in the brulzie; but what can ha'e set the Magazines a-lunting? it's a mystery o' mysteries.[…]Especially as it's their game to set everybody a-lunting, and keep out of the conflagration themselves.
gloss: To walk while smoking a pipe.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
examples: 2014, Robert P. Wills, Tales From A Second Hand Wand Shoppe, Book 1: They Were the Best of Gnomes, They Were the Worst of Gnomes, page 278,
“Lunting?” interrupted Julie, eyebrow raised.
Grimbledung shrugged, “It's a good and proper word”, he raised an eyebrow back, "it just doesn't get used that much."
Julie smirked, “Go on then, with your lunting.”
He let out a sigh. "As I was saying, I was sitting there when a Minotaur came lunting up." He paused for a moment, "Pipe in mouth, walking along", he winked at Julie, […] .
Translations:
lustrum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin lūstrum.
Inflected forms:
form: lustra
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lustrums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lustration: a ceremonial purification of the people of Rome performed every five years after the census.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: [A]ll theſe Magiſtrates were elected by, and from, the whole promiſcuous Body of the People in their public Aſſemblies; that after the Inſtitution of Cenſors, it was look'd upon as a Matter of Form only, that they should enroll the new Senators at the next general Luſtrum, or Survey of the Commonwealth; […]
The interval of time supposed to have been denoted by the Roman Lustrum has been made the subject of controversy. No one however as far as we know has ever assumed it at less than four years or as more than five; so that the status quæstionis may so far be considered as fixed and agreed upon: and all that we have to do at present is to begin with inquiring whether the Roman Lustrum was more properly a period of five years or one of four.
gloss: Synonym of quinquennium: Any 5-year period.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
literary
examples: We puſh Time from us, and we wiſh Him back; / Laviſh of Luſtrums, and yet fond of Life; / Life we think long, and ſhort; Death ſeek, and ſhun; […]
Thus passed away two lustra of her life, and, as yet, my daughter remained nameless upon the earth. "My child," and "my love," were the designations usually prompted by a father's affection, and the rigid seclusion of her days precluded all other intercourse. Morella's name died with her at her death. Of the mother I had never spoken to the daughter;—it was impossible to speak.
I am hardly, if I do not deceive myself, twenty years old, and already, dearest Rosamunda, there weigh upon my existence twenty lustrums, and of these twenty lustrums I have drunk the bitterness of intranquility even to the dregs, without having done more than touched with my lips the joy of the first days of my childhood beside you.
Q. Now, sir, if you would be so kind as to guess upon his age. / A. Forty five years are certain. I would guess a lustrum more.
Related words: luster
lustre
lustral
lustrate
lustration
lustrical
perlustrate
Translations:
ten-for
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: ten-fors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The feat of a bowler taking ten wickets in a match.
pos: noun
examples: He took a ten-for against India.
Translations:
malar
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From modern Latin malaris, from Latin mala (“jaw, cheek-bone”).
Inflected forms:
form: malars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the cheek.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Whose? Les yeux morts d'Eurydice, he says, but suspects they beckon, they and that malar elegance.
gloss: The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.
pos: noun
Translations: