yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
sensing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sensings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of sensation.
pos: noun
examples: Second, the list of kinds of sensings that Socrates gave was thought to be an odd one. It included pleasures, pains, desires, and fears, as well as the more familiar examples of sight, hearing, smell, and the sensings of cold and of heat.
Translations:
reliving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: relivings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is relived.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In effect, the recovery of traumatic memories involves the conscious awareness and explicit processing of relivings of the somatosensory and affective experiences during the trauma, relivings that are largely context-free and meaningless.
Translations:
Valium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: A marketing coinage.
Inflected forms:
form: Valiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The drug diazepam.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These are the minor tranquilizers such as Diazepam (Valium), Chlordiazepoxide (Librium), Oxazepam (Serax), and related benzodiazepines, and Meprobamate, which are used to treat anxiety neurosis.
Mothers little helpers were pills—Miltown, amphetamine, barbiturates, Librium, and Valium were the most popular and widely available in the fifties and early sixties—that were used to keep women in their place, to make them comfortable in a setting that should have been uncomfortable, to encourage them to focus on tasks that did not matter.
gloss: A Valium pill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
ichthyosaur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Ichthyosaurus, equivalent to Ancient Greek ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).
Inflected forms:
form: ichthyosaurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any fishlike marine reptiles of the extinct order †Ichthyosauria of the early Triassic to the late Cretaceous period, that had a body somewhat like a porpoise.
pos: noun
examples: The most striking marine reptiles are the fishlike or porpoiselike ichthyosaurs.
Translations:
ratted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Contraction of rat-arsed.
Inflected forms:
form: more ratted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ratted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: intoxicated; drunk
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
Translations:
hup
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of hep.
Inflected forms:
form: hep
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hups
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hupping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hupped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hupped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hep
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The first beat of a 4/4 military cadence, commanding either the lead-off step in a march or some other action.
pos: intj
examples: After four we raise our swords. One two three four... hup two three four... hup two three four.
"Hup, two, three, fo', . . . " cracked the American voice out of the foggy darkness.
gloss: A call to turn a horse to the right.
pos: intj
tags: dialectal
gloss: To urge (a horse) to turn right with a cry of "hup".
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
inalienability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being inalienable
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
incapability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English capability
English incapability
From in- + capability.
Inflected forms:
form: incapabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being incapable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
incompetency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: incompetencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being incompetent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
indecisiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indecisive
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English indecisiveness
From indecisive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: indecisivenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being indecisive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: It is a picture of dither, delay, unrealistic costings - and Department for Transport indecisiveness.
Translations:
indelicacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English delicacy
English indelicacy
From in- + delicacy.
Inflected forms:
form: indelicacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being indelicate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An indelicate act or statement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
indestructibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being indestructible.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The doctrine of the immortality, the indestructibility, of the soul is responsible for the traditional view that the wicked are kept alive in unending misery through all eternity.
As from the years of four to eight there is great danger that overemphasis of the activities of the Yet, in its liquid and gaseous state, matter often exhibits still more extraordinary instances of indestructibility or resistance to decomposition ; and it should be especially remarked, that its indestructibility or indecomposable power appears to hold a direct proportion to its subtilty, its levity, its activity, its refined ethereal or spiritualized modification of being.
For it is the job of men, she said, to stop women from realizing their own indestructibility, and for as long as possible.
Translations:
indeterminacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: indeterminacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being indeterminate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: determinacy
Translations:
indirectness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indirect
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English indirectness
From indirect + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: indirectnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being indirect.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
indivisibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French indivisibilité, from Ecclesiastical Latin indivisibilitas.
Inflected forms:
form: indivisibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being indivisible, incapable of being divided.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An indivisible factor or object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Antonyms: divisibility
uncombinability
unmergeability
Translations:
ineffectiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ef-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Latin efficiō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Latin effectivusbor.
French effectifder.
English effective
English ineffective
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English ineffectiveness
From ineffective + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: ineffectivenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being ineffective
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: These diplomatic setbacks partly explain England’s military ineffectiveness in the 1370s, but equally important were lack of leadership, lack of money, and dissension over strategy.
Translations:
inevitability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inevitable
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English inevitability
From inevitable + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: inevitabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being inevitable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.
Smalling’s quick one-two of yellow cards towards the end of the first half had left an air of inevitability about what would follow and, if anything, it was probably a surprise that City restricted themselves to Sergio Agüero’s goal bearing in mind another of United’s defenders, Marcos Rojo, was taken off on a stretcher early in the second half with a dislocated shoulder.
Surveillance capitalism is a human creation. It lives in history, not in technological inevitability.
Manchester United's 27-year-old captain cut a distracted and chaotic figure as he endured a personal nightmare, its conclusion with a red card carrying an air of inevitability from the moment he recklessly launched himself at Yussuf Poulsen to pick up an early yellow.
gloss: An inevitable condition or outcome.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Antonyms: evitability
impossibility
contingency
Derived words: noninevitability
point of inevitability
Translations:
infectiousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English infectious
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English infectiousness
From infectious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being infectious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
informativeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English informative
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English informativeness
From informative + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being informative; clarity
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
informality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English informal
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English informality
From informal + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: informalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being informal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These people, drawn from many different places and with many different backgrounds, gave the whole life of the County an informality that was new to Ellen, an informality to which she never quite accustomed herself.
More importantly and closer to life, slangs help build an instant intimacy and informality.
gloss: An informal term or usage; a colloquialism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One long riff without a beginning and without an end :Template:.., only portions of which […] may be served up to us here, punctuated — the word hardly seems appropriate to a piecemeal poetry in which, except for the ubiquitous slash, there is precious little punctuation — momentarily halted, then, by an affirmative informality ("yeah"), by a labored repetition ("he was/ he was/ i swear he was"), or by a barbarous appeal for final comprehension: "know what i mean/ dontyah dontyah dontyah know what i mean."
Antonyms: formality
Translations:
ingenuousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ingenuous
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English ingenuousness
From ingenuous + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: ingenuousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being ingenuous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An ingenuous behavior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Time passed; Moira grew up, chronologically; but Sir Watney went on treating her as a spoilt child, went on being enchanted by her birdy chirrupings and ingenuousnesses and impertinent enfant-terrible-isms.
Translations:
innateness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English innate
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English innateness
From innate + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: innatenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being innate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
insatiability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin insatiabilitas.
Inflected forms:
form: insatiabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being insatiable
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
inscrutability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: inscrutabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being inscrutable
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: What about Mrs. Cavendish? I watched her as she sat at the head of the table, graceful, composed, enigmatic. In her soft grey frock, with white ruffles at the wrists falling over her slender hands, she looked very beautiful. When she chose, however, her face could be sphinx-like in its inscrutability.
The inscrutability of all this was the kind of inscrutability you have when you suddenly enter a room where a furious argument has just ended. Everyone is quiet. No one is talking.
gloss: Something that is inscrutable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: the inscrutabilities of advanced mathematics
Related words: inscrutableness
inscrutably
Translations:
insensitivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English sensitivity
English insensitivity
From in- + sensitivity.
Inflected forms:
form: insensitivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being insensitive
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: To make matters worse, you did not publish the news note until 5 days before the conference — even though we had submitted it enough in advance to have been included in the previous weeks' paper. This showed a great insensitivity to the fact that lesbians with children are often not very mobile or flexible...We need that kind of advance notice in order to plan an all-day conference on a Saturday!
Antonyms: sensitivity
Translations:
inseparability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin inseparabilitas.
Inflected forms:
form: inseparabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being inseparable
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: separability
Translations:
overeating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Gluttony, the act of eating to excess.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rammer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ram
English -er
English rammer
From ram + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: rammers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device used to ram; a ramrod.
pos: noun
examples: Now use your rammer to pack it tightly into the barrel.
A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.
[…] I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun […]
The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength.
gloss: One who, or that, rams.
pos: noun
examples: the Zeppelin Rammer
The loader […] placed the cartridge in the muzzle and shoved it in as far as he could. The rammer rammed it home, the gun captain inserting his priming wire to make sure.
Derived words: rammerman
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: трамбовка
roman: trambovka
lang: Galician
word: pisón
lang: Galician
word: macho
foodie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From food + -ie. Popularized by Ann Barr and Paul Levy in The Official Foodie Handbook (1984). Levy credits New York food critic Gael Greene with the coinage. The word was used by Greene in a 1980 article in New York magazine, see quotations.
Base: food
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: foodies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: We self-professed foodies liked to meet in restaurants and talk like experts about what we were eating.
She offers crayfish with white feet or red . . . three ways, tends stove in high heels, slips into the small Art Deco dining room of Restaurant d'Olympe—a funeral parlor of shiny black walls and red velvet—to graze cheeks with her devotees, serious foodies, and, from ten on, tout Paris, the men as flashily beautiful as their beautiful women.
Foodies are the ones talking about food in any gathering—salivating over restaurants, recipes, radicchio. They don't think they are being trivial–Foodies consider food to be an art, on a level with painting or drama.
“Foodie” has now pretty much everywhere replaced “gourmet”, perhaps because the latter more strongly evokes privilege and a snobbish claim to uncommon sensory discrimination—even though those qualities are rampant among the “foodies” themselves.
While the Foodie Handbook is now decades old, its message strikes a chord with contemporary foodie discourse, touching on themes like the abysmal quality of mainstream food (e.g., “cheese in plastic-wrapped portions”), the appeal of foodie accoutrement like chefs' knives and gas stoves, as well as the importance of thinking and talking about food (as opposed to just eating well—“pigs can eat well”) (1984: 6–7).
Translations:
wheezing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wheezings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or symptom of breathing with an audible wheeze
pos: noun
Translations:
sparring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sparrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who spars.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Albeit he is under the influence of the magic juice, Lysander's words to Hermia — once he has switched his romantic allegiance to Helena — are bitter, cruel. At times Benedick and Beatrice's verbal sparrings drip with an acidity that smarts.
Translations:
discolour
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English discolouren, discoloren, from Old French discolorer, descolorer, equivalent to dis- + colour.
Base: colour
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: discolours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: discolouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: discoloured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: discoloured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: British and Canadian standard spelling of discolor.
pos: verb
examples: Instead, the grime of the steam years which still discoloured many of the best architectural features Betjeman loved has been cleared away, and several of the stations have benefited from major refurbishments which have greatly improved them.
Translations:
rasping
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: more rasping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rasping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: raspings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: raspy
pos: adj
examples: He spoke in a rasping voice due to throat cancer.
gloss: exasperating
pos: adj
gloss: Pushing forward with great force.
pos: adj
examples: When the opponent has led off with a fine rasping drive, the noble, but somewhat treacherous, spirit of emulation rises in the breast of the rival, and he is tempted to 'press' –ever so little, but just a little too much in order to outdo his antagonist's effort.
Myhill gets fingertips onto it and helps the rasping drive onto the bar and over or a corner.
Celta then levelled following a crisp move between Daniel Wass, Guidetti and Orellana, the Chilean sending a rasping drive high beyond Casilla.
Zeki Amdouni had a rasping long-range drive parried away by David Raya
gloss: A sound that rasps.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of rasping as with a file.
pos: noun
Derived words: raspingly
raspingness
rasping machine
Translations:
mixologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mix
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
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English -logist
English -ologist
English mixologist
From mix + -ologist.
Inflected forms:
form: mixologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who creates cocktails, especially one considered an artist in that craft.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
often
gloss: Any bartender.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: By the way, the difference between a bartender and a mixologist can be confusing, but normally a bartender serves the patrons at a sit-down style bar, where a mixologist would usually work at a very busy service-style bar.
But now we see a split in the mixed-drink community. On one hand, cool bars and star mixologists are lauded and awarded as never before. On the other, booze brands are rushing to develop pre-mixed beverages for a burgeoning Ready to Drink (RTD) market.
gloss: A disc jockey.
pos: noun
Related words: mixer
mixological
mixology
barista
potionmaker
Translations:
unmeaning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + meaning.
Base: meaning
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Absence of meaning; meaninglessness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
low-born
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more low-born
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most low-born
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lowborn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Born in a family of low status.
pos: adj
examples: "The shame of refusing to meet you!—from the shame of meeting an equal I might," said Kingston, tauntingly; "but it is absurd to be challenged by my hired servant—a low-born nobody!"
This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever
Ran on the green-sward.
Antonyms: high-born
Translations:
Hermann
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the German and Jewish surname, from Hermann. Compare Harman, Herman.
Inflected forms:
form: Hermanns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A particular pear cultivar.
pos: noun
Translations:
Jemima
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name of a minor biblical character, from Hebrew יְמִימָה (“dove”). By folk etymology also used as a feminine form of James.
Inflected forms:
form: Jemimas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Gemima
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An elastic-sided boot.
pos: noun
Translations:
Bradshaw
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From Old English brād + sceaga (“thicket”), equivalent to broad + shaw.
Compound parts: broad
shaw
Inflected forms:
form: Bradshaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Brayshaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Bradshaws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Bradshawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Bradshawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Bradshawed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Brayshaw
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A former railway guide and timetable published by George Bradshaw. Publication ceased in May 1961.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: He was at breakfast at nine, and for the twentieth time consulted his Bradshaw to see at what earliest hour Dr Grantly could arrive from Barchester.
The "5th Mo. (May) 1939" issue of Bradshaw's Railway Shipping, and Hotel Guide for Great Britain and Ireland appears in a cream cover printed in blue and gold, and a prefatory note explains that, as 1939 is being celebrated as the centenary year of Bradshaw, it is intended to adopt this livery from now until the September issue inclusive. For October, the centenary month, Bradshaw will be published in a gold cover printed in red and blue.
gloss: To navigate by following railway lines.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: To all intents and purposes, we had either to map-read or Bradshaw our way across tens of thousands of acres of featureless, flat landscape.
Near-synonym: IFR
Translations:
underemployed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English employed
English underemployed
From under- + employed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I found myself underemployed when the company downgraded me from full-time to part-time.
Translations:
raggedy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ragged + -y. By surface analysis, rag + -ety.
Base: ragged
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: raggedier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: raggediest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Torn, ragged or tattered.
pos: adj
gloss: Wearing torn or tattered clothes.
pos: adj
Derived words: raggedy-ass
Translations:
railroader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English railroad
English -er
English railroader
From railroad + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: railroaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who works for a railroad company.
pos: noun
gloss: One who railroads people.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonrailroader
Translations:
rainmaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rain + making.
Compound parts: rain
making
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The attempted artificial production of rain, either by use of magic or by seeding clouds.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: There are endless varieties of rain-making practised by witch-doctors[.]
gloss: Hiring someone who creates business opportunities or revenue.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
uncountable
examples: His firm's goal was to fill their gender quota—and simultaneously do some rainmaking by hiring the daughters of CEOs.
Related words: make it rain
rainmaker
Translations:
rake-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rake-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A percentage of an amount of money taken by a third-party as a bribe, as part of an unlawful enterprise, or as a commission from the pot of a casino game.
pos: noun
examples: The local party machines took control of the cajas, the local savings banks. They encouraged them to lend to developers, in many cases taking a rake-off for party coffers.
Translations:
rancidity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin ranciduslbor.
English rancid
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English rancidity
From rancid + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: rancidities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being rancid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
rapid-fire
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more rapid-fire
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rapid-fire
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to fire bullets in quick succession.
pos: adj
gloss: Delivered in a rapid continuous stream.
pos: adj
tags: usually
Translations:
rathskeller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Rathskeller, obsolete spelling of Ratskeller. In English the obsolete spelling has often been retained to avoid the association with rodents.
Inflected forms:
form: rathskellers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bar or restaurant in a basement, especially one that serves beer.
pos: noun
Translations:
rationalistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rationalist + -ic or rational + -istic.
Base: rationalist
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more rationalistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rationalistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to rationalism.
pos: adj
Translations:
rattly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rattle + -y. Compare rattling.
Base: rattle
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: rattlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rattliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That rattles.
pos: adj
examples: a rattly air conditioner
gloss: Resembling the sound of a rattle.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a vehicle, that shakes when being driven.
pos: adj
gloss: Of the lungs, chest, etc., producing raspy or gurgling sound due to excess mucus.
pos: adj
Translations:
rattrap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English rat trappe; equivalent to rat + trap.
Compound parts: rat
trap
Inflected forms:
form: rattraps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rat trap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rat-trap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A device (trap) used to catch rats.
pos: noun
examples: ... the whole world with its lands and seas, its cities and villages - was nothing but a big rattrap. It had never existed for any other purpose than to set baits for people. It offered riches and joys, shelter and food, heat and clothing, exactly as the rattrap offered cheese and pork, and as soon as anyone let himself be tempted to touch the bait, it closed in on him, and then everything came to an end.
gloss: A dilapidated building, a place that is run down and unsanitary.
pos: noun
gloss: A difficult, entangling situation.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of bicycle pedal made of metal with no rubber.
pos: noun
Related words: rat poison
rat terrier
ratting
rat-trap cheese
Translations:
barocco
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of baroque.
pos: adj
Translations:
ick
Part of speech: intj
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably imitative. First use appears c. 1942.
Inflected forms:
form: icks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation of disgust.
pos: intj
examples: Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and put it in her hair! Ick!
Some foot fetishists look for a woman to stomp on them while wearing exotic shoes, while others just want to lick a woman’s toes. (Ick. Can you say, bacteria festival?)
An aside for those who think “ick” about goat milk: If there are no billy goats around to arouse those sex hormones, goat milk does not taste “goat-y.
gloss: Something distasteful or physically unpleasant to touch.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Like it wasn't bad enough that I was soaked to the bone, now I had to lug an ick covered designer original across a puddle filled runway.
The UN, for its part, has suggested eating insects as a way of feeding those extra mouths, which may put the frankenmeat ick factor in perspective.
Did you get ick all over my things? Should I walk myself through a car wash on the way home?
gloss: A feeling of revulsion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: to have the ick
And I was nodding, "Uh-huh," trying not to have an ick attack, worrying, Is my face giving something away?
I wish none of this bothered me, but I feel this ick about Burnham and it isn't going away.
She'd woken up today with a general ick about doing this job, but every time she considered canceling and giving Hailey her money back, she couldn't do it.
And as sad as that can be, we can't fake our feelings – if you've got the ick, you've got the ick.
“People use dating apps, but I don’t know anyone who pays for it,” Ms. Wang said. In fact, she said that she would consider it an “ick” if she learned somebody was paying for a subscription.
gloss: Anything moaned about; a gripe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: How can you stand such an ick ?
Of course, the idea of drinking blood is a total ick right now, but I suppose once you—
For the umpteenth time that day one of my fellow men regarded me with scorn. “You're so icky. Such an ick.”
I keep thinking back to last Valentine's Day—I was such an ick—and you sent me that card.
The thought of him and his obsessive begging for sex gave me a predatory vibe and was a total ick.
gloss: Icky; distasteful or unpleasant.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: 'It's a bit ick, to be honest, but Rochelle thought it would be funny. Last year we did dragon's diarrhoea, with Tia Maria and chocolate Angel Delight, but nobody would touch it.'
He thought she would be an embarrassment. That kind of made me feel a bit ick.
There's nothing “ick” about him, but I'm not sure how to say that without sounding like I'm reciting lines from that terrible bodice ripper I took on Theo's practice date.
Translations:
incumbency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incumbent
English -cy
English incumbency
From incumbent + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: incumbencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being incumbent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An obligation or duty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A tenure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Benefice, lucrative position or possession.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The early antitrust reformers warned that even beyond its effect on prices, economic power could buy influence in Congress. Monopolies don’t just dominate their own industries, Justice Louis Brandeis said in 1933; they monopolize political power as well, which allows them to protect their incumbency and stifle competition in myriad ways.
ORR believes the two companies have incumbency advantages dating back to privatisation.
They do so on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, animal farming, finance, construction firms, car manufacturers and airline companies, but also on behalf of something bigger than any of those interests: the power of incumbency.
Derived words: superincumbency
Translations:
ecu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the initial letters of European currency unit; simultaneously an allusion to the historical currency écu.
Inflected forms:
form: ecus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ECU
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European Community before the euro.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
slinging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slingings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: noun
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
dozer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English doze
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 dozer
From doze + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dozers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who dozes.
pos: noun
Translations:
opposer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English oppose
English -er
English opposer
From oppose + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: opposers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who opposes, one who shows opposition.
pos: noun
examples: For example, after the opposer had objected to the opposee's plan to drive the car, the opposee suggested, "We can take turns driving the car."
Translations:
decker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deck
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 decker
From deck (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: deckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer.
pos: noun
examples: a table decker
Translations:
dosser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English doss
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 dosser
From doss + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dossers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: Illustrating the strength of feeling, some said Dorries was “never here and is as useful as a chocolate teapot”, while “Dosser Dorries” posters appeared in the area.
gloss: A homeless and jobless person.
pos: noun
examples: Formerly they endeavoured to occupy all the seats, but the lynx-eyed Metropolitan Police declined to allow any such proceedings, and the dossers, knowing the invariable kindness of the City Police, made tracks for that portion of the Embankment which, lying east of the Temple, comes under the control of the Civic Fathers.
gloss: One who lodges in a doss-house.
pos: noun
Translations:
dozy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English doze
English -y
English dozy
From doze + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: dozier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: doziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Quite sleepy or tired.
pos: adj
gloss: Intellectually slow.
pos: adj
examples: Jim is a dozy child.
gloss: Decaying, rotten, spongy.
pos: adj
examples: dozy wood
Derived words: dozily
doziness
Translations:
polarimetric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English polarimetry
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English polarimetric
From polarimetry + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to polarimetry, or measured using a polarimeter
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
polarimetry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: polarimetries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The measurement of the polarization of electromagnetic radiation
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Analysis using a polarimeter
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: fluoropolarimetry
polarimetric
spectropolarimetry
Translations:
inbreeding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: inbreedings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Breeding between members of a relatively small population, especially one in which most members are related.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Inbreeding can result in handicapped children.
Translations:
incommensurate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English commensurate
English incommensurate
From in- + commensurate.
Inflected forms:
form: more incommensurate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incommensurate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Out of proportion (in size, degree or extent) with something else.
pos: adj
examples: In the marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi we saw a commensurate relationship between the two, a marriage of Heaven and earth, but now in the fall of Inanna into hell, the relationship becomes incommensurate.
Antonyms: commensurate
Translations:
incommunicable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English communicable
English incommunicable
From in- + communicable.
Inflected forms:
form: more incommunicable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incommunicable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That cannot be communicated or transmitted
pos: adj
gloss: Who does not communicate freely; uncommunicative or reserved
pos: adj
Antonyms: communicable
Related words: incommunicability
Derived words: incommunicableness
incommunicably
Translations:
incriminatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incriminate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -tōriusder.
Middle English -orie
English -ory
English incriminatory
From incriminate + -ory.
Inflected forms:
form: more incriminatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incriminatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That incriminates.
pos: adj
Translations:
inculcation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: inculcations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The teaching of something by using frequent repetition
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
indictable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indict
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English indictable
From indict + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more indictable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indictable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Subjecting one to an indictment. (of an act)
pos: adj
examples: Do not then charge men as too strict or precise, when they endeavour to abstain from idle thoughts and idle words, that they dare not give themselves that licence which others take, for these are indictable as well as great sins;
Stoppage of streets, by coaches standing at places of entertainment, &c. &c. are public nusances, and indictable.
In fact, ‘insult’ is hardly the word for what even I have heard you say; let me warn you, madam, that you have sailed pretty close to the wind already in the way of indictable slander.
The Sherlock Holmes stories […] are not all murders, and some of them do not even deal with an indictable crime.
gloss: Able or deserving to be indicted. (of a person)
pos: adj
examples: […] for Lords, Judges, and Justices of all sorts may, and too often do transgress the laws, as other men, and so of equals or Superiours, become subject to the justice of their associats in Commission […] being transfigured from Superiour Judges of the Law, to Inferiour Trespassers against it, Indictable by their Peers,
1973, Raoul Berger, Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, Harvard University Press, Appendix B, p. 307,
In order to sustain his argument in the impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase, Luther Martin, his leading counsel, maintained that judges were indictable for violation of their official duties.
Derived words: indictability
indictable offence
indictably
nonindictable
unindictable
Translations:
AK
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: AKs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an AK-47, AK-74, or related assault rifle (Avtomat Kalasnikova or Kalashnikov)
pos: noun
gloss: Any assault rifle or machine gun.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
nonstandard
slang
examples: Cops got AKs, y'all only got pumps, that shit's just dumb.
Related words: AR
Translations:
partage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French partage, from partir (“to share”).
Inflected forms:
form: partages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A part, portion or share.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Division, sharing; the act of portioning out or dividing up.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: looke into our Royall house, where so many partages [tr. partages], so many surnames, and so many severall titles have so encumbred us, that the originall of the stocke is utterly lost.
gloss: The formerly standard practice of dividing up artifacts between archaeologists, their patrons, and the host territory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
Translations: