yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
calipers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A corruption of caliber.
Inflected forms:
form: callipers
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: caliper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A device used to measure dimensions, especially for small or precise measurements.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: "Good, good for there," he mumbled, and then with a certain eagerness asked me whether I would let him measure my head. Rather surprised, I said Yes, when he produced a thing like calipers and got the dimensions back and front and every way, taking notes carefully.
gloss: A metal (orthopedic) leg support.
pos: noun
tags: UK
plural
plural-only
examples: And simultaneously I raise my trouser cuff to reveal the leather straps and wicked steel calipers harnessing my right boot.
Related words: caliber
calibre
vernier caliper
compass
Translations:
caliper
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of caliber.
Inflected forms:
form: calipers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: calipering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: calipered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: calipered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: calliper
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To use calipers to measure the size of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
ower
Part of speech: noun
prep
adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English owere, oȝere, awer, equivalent to owe + -er.
Base: owe
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: owers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who owes something, especially money.
pos: noun
gloss: over
pos: prep
tags: Geordie
examples: Get ower thor noo!
gloss: over
pos: adv
tags: Geordie
not-comparable
examples: She's ower canny hor, like
gloss: overly, too
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
not-comparable
examples: Thats ower much that!
Translations:
haad
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: To hold.
pos: verb
tags: Geordie
examples: "Haad yeor gob, ye lippy yap!"
Translations:
sugared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā)
Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.
Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor.
Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.
Old Italian zuccherobor.
Old French çucrebor.
Middle English sugre
English sugar
English -ed
English sugared
From sugar + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more sugared
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sugared
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of food or drink: containing sugar.
pos: adj
examples: Since starting my diet, I’ve stopped eating sugared breakfast cereals.
gloss: Sweet, pleasant.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Thoſe Vnckles vvhich you vvant, vvere dangerous, / Your Grace attended to their ſugred vvords, / But lookt not on the poiſon of their hearts: […]
Related words: brown-sugared
maple-sugared
Derived words: nonsugared
oversugared
sugared almond
sugared pumpkin
unsugared
Translations:
sugaring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: sugarings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of applying sugar to something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The making or processing of sugar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Maple sugaring is an important historical industry in Vermont.
gloss: The practice of being a sugar baby, receiving money or gifts from an older person in exchange for a romantic relationship.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
gloss: A procedure similar to waxing, in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of a sugar-based paste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Coordinate term: waxing
Derived words: maple sugaring
sugaring moon
Translations:
Ilonggo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Tagalog Ilonggo, from Spanish ilongo, from ilong + -o, the root referring to Hiligaynon ilong (“nose”), from the nose-like shape of the land between the Iloilo River and Batiano River where the Spanish Fort San Pedro is located. See also Spanish pampango.
Base: ilong
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: Ilonggos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Ilonggo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Ilonggo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Iloilo.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the indigenous people of Iloilo and nearby areas of Panay, Guimaras, and Negros island in the Philippines.
pos: noun
gloss: Relating to the culture, people, and language of Iloilo or nearby areas of Panay, Guimaras, and Negros island where Hiligaynon is spoken
pos: adj
Translations:
anthill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English ametehul, amptehille, from Old English ǣmethyll, equivalent to ant + hill.
Compound parts: ant
hill
Inflected forms:
form: anthills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.
pos: noun
examples: On arrival at Edinburgh Waverley, I fight my way through the throngs of tourists and locals turning the place into a human anthill.
Translations:
demonology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From demono- + -logy.
Affixes: demono-
-logy
Inflected forms:
form: demonologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daemonology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: daimonology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The study of demons, especially the incantations required to summon and control them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But it wasn't all that strange, because any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons.
Antonyms: angelology
Translations:
yellowtail
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of yellow + tail
Compound parts: yellow
tail
Inflected forms:
form: yellowtails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yellowtail
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a yellow tail.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
pos: noun
gloss: A European moth (Euproctis similis)
pos: noun
gloss: A yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.
pos: noun
gloss: A yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.
pos: noun
gloss: A yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), a New World primate endemic to Peru.
pos: noun
Derived words: yellowtail amberjack
yellowtail barracuda
yellowtail cribo
yellowtail flounder
yellowtail horse mackerel
yellowtail reef fish
yellowtail scad
yellowtail snapper
Translations:
simulcast
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From simul(taneous) + -cast, from broadcast.
Base: simultaneous
Affixes: -cast
Inflected forms:
form: simulcasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: simulcasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: simulcasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: simulcast
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: simulcast
pos: verb
tags: past
form: simulcasted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
participle
past
proscribed
sometimes
form: simulcasted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
past
proscribed
sometimes
Senses:
gloss: A program or event that is broadcast across more than one medium or service at the same time.
pos: noun
gloss: To broadcast a program or event across more than one medium or service at the same time.
pos: verb
Translations:
geas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed, like English geis, from Irish geis (“injunction; taboo, prohibition, spell”). The pronunciation resembles Irish geis, though the spelling matches its synonymous but heterophonous alternative form geas.
Inflected forms:
form: geasa
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: geases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A (generally magical) vow, obligation or injunction placed upon someone to do or not do something, which typically brings harm if violated and blessings if obeyed.
pos: noun
examples: It can send us where it will with a task laid upon us—a geas, if you like.
Galaad stood up again and turned to Mrs. Whitaker. 'Gracious lady, keeper of the Holy of Holies, let me now depart this place with the Blessed Chalice, that my journeyings may be ended and my geas fulfilled.'
The geas is the last effective enchantment we shall consider. A geas is a restriction or compulsion laid upon a person by a druid or a bard. To break a geas is to forfeit one's share of luck and possibly one's life.[…]Geasa are not curses, but recognitions of individual needs given to protect and help an individual succeed at life.
A geas is a powerful binding spell that binds its subject to a particular task or restriction. Frequently in Irish legends, the playing out of a geas laid upon a hero reminds one of the playing out of fate in the Greek tragedies.
The Sorcerer Royal's servants had formerly been bound by a geas against disclosure of any detail of his household affairs, breach of which was visited by the most terrible revenge.
I recognized the self-geas against telling a falsehood in the particular conversation. Our courts still haven't adopted it—Fifth Amendment—but I'd seen it used in trials abroad. The demon recognized it, too.
“No one knows why?” “No one will talk about it. The older ones give each other looks if the subject comes up—which it almost never does. I heard a rumor there was a geas against speaking of what happened.” My eyebrows shot up.
If you have a geas against eating a particular food or foods, it is unlikely you will ever have to break it. You may have to skip some tasty looking dishes, and in certain circumstances may end up with a rather meager meal.
Most likely Concordance's geas against artificial modification was left over from some earlier age when the tech was unreliable, dangerous. Or maybe they feared those with amped-up transhuman abilities.
gloss: A mystical compulsion.
pos: noun
examples: The memory came upon him like a geas, overwhelming his revulsion, numbing his heart.
A geas is your own personal haunting by yourself! […] Kassandra, a Greek prophetess who always envisioned dreadful happenings, had a geas on her. She might have wanted to be a queen or a housewife, a warrior or a merchant, but she wasn't (even though a geas won't interfere in any of your pursuits). She became legendary for the geas that propelled her to prophesy dreadful happenings.
Translations:
ludicrousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ludicrous
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 ludicrousness
From ludicrous + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: ludicrousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being ludicrous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The full ludicrousness of the thing dawned upon me so forcibly that I forgot all about my excitement and scare, and laughed aloud.
Translations:
temperately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English temperate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English temperately
From temperate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more temperately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most temperately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a thoughtfully measured or regulated manner, eschewing extremes.
pos: adv
examples: My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, / And makes as healthful music: it is not madness
Translations:
koura
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Māori koura.
Inflected forms:
form: kouras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A freshwater crayfish of the genus Paranephrops, only found in New Zealand.
pos: noun
Translations:
fajr
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic فَجْر (fajr)bor.
English fajr
Borrowed from Arabic فَجْر (fajr, “dawn”).
Inflected forms:
form: fadjr
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: the first of the five daily prayers recited by practicing Muslims.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Excuse me, brother, but would you mind regularising your fajr schedule.
Translations:
kade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sheep ked, Melophagus ovinus
pos: noun
Translations:
arbitrageur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Pseudo-Gallicism, from arbitrage + French -eur (the French term is arbitragiste).
Base: arbitrage
Inflected forms:
form: arbitrageurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who engages in arbitrage, such as a financial broker or an investment bank.
pos: noun
Translations:
redetermination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English determination
English redetermination
From re- + determination.
Inflected forms:
form: redeterminations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of determining again.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of calculating again, or making a fiscal determination again.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
protease
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prote(in)
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English protease
From prote(in) + -ase.
Inflected forms:
form: proteases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An enzyme that cuts or cleaves proteins.
pos: noun
examples: As a matter of fact the casein protease digests boiled and coagulated serum far more easily than unboiled serum, as set forth by the following experiments.
All were tested for their ability to clot milk and to hydrolyze denatured hemoglobin, egg albumin, protamine (salmon), histone (calf thymus), and benzoyl-l-arginineamide. In no case was any trace of protease activity detected.
For our purposes, it is sufficient to note that dysregulation of desquamatory protease activity in the SC is often involved in conditions of compromised skin barrier.
Translations:
USP
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Initialism of United States Pharmacopeia.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Adhering to the standards of the United States Pharmacopeia; used after a drug's name.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
postpositional
examples: Clarithromycin Tablets, USP
Translations:
regulatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to regulation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
beardo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From beard + -o; in some uses, influenced by weirdo, hence a blend of beard + weirdo.
Base: beard
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: beardos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beardoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person with a beard.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: His [Richard Nixon’s] statement to the press in 1962, after the defeat by Pat Brown, became famous: “You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.” Less well-known were private comments such as “We’ll kick their toes off in 1968” and “Kick the weirdoes and beardoes on the college campuses.”
1994, Patrick D. Gaffney, The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 90,
Moreover, in the regional patois one common expression used by outsiders, including unsympathetic shaykhs, to refer to the group was birubū dign, which can be glossed as the “bearded ones” or more colloquially as “beardo’s.”
2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Picador, →ISBN, page 331,
However you get through your day in New York City, well then that’s a New York City kind of day, and if you’re a Bombay singer singing the Bombay bop or a voodoo cab driver with zombies on the brain or a bomber from Montana or an Islamist beardo from Queens, then whatever’s going through your head?, well that’s a New York state of mind.
2003, Suzi Rose, Accidental Heroine: Diary of an Attention Seeker, Authors On Line Ltd, →ISBN,page 146,
Mr Bore is in his garden again. I went to say Hello and he gave me a really stony look so I went back in. I really don’t know what his problem is. Anti-social beardo (that’s a weirdo with a beard).
2004, Joshua Wright, Plotless Pointless Pathetic, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 119,
‘[…] He can’t control the weather. It’s controlled by the atmosphere, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure. It’s not run by just some mouldy old beardo wearing a bed sheet and throwing thunderbolts about.’
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip (Thu., Aces Lounge, 11pm; Sat., the Scoot Inn, 10:20pm) Hyperintellectual, fully ineffectual hip-hop beardoes “Thou Shalt Always Kill.”
Morrissey, the poet and musician, refused to go on the Jimmy Kimmel show with the Duck Dynasty beardoes, because he considered them “animal serial killers.”*
Such macho posturing squares with secretary of defense Pete Hegseth’s desire to bring “warrior culture” back to the military. The former Fox News host has railed against DEI, “fat troops” and “beardos” (troops with beards), and envisioned a military full of “the right people” who fit his imposed standards of virility and masculinity.
Translations:
dishware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dish
Proto-Germanic *warō
Proto-West Germanic *waru
Old English waru
Middle English ware
English -ware
English dishware
From dish + -ware.
Inflected forms:
form: dishwares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: crockery used for serving or cooking food
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
unsettle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English settle
English unsettle
From un- + settle.
Inflected forms:
form: unsettles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unsettling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unsettled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unsettled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make upset or uncomfortable
pos: verb
examples: Don't unsettle the horses or they'll bolt.
Athletic have been showing signs of fatigue domestically and they never quite seemed to reach the same pitch of intensity that had so unsettled Manchester United and Schalke 04 in earlier rounds.
gloss: To bring into disorder or disarray
pos: verb
Translations:
nocked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Containing nocks.
pos: adj
Translations:
nocks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: binoculars
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
plunking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: plunkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A noise that plunks.
pos: noun
Translations:
heterosexist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From heterosex(ual) + -ist; modelled on sexist.
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: heterosexists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A homophobic heterosexual person.
pos: noun
Translations:
sanctioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sanctionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who sanctions.
pos: noun
Translations:
coercive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English coerce
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English coercive
From coerce + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more coercive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most coercive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Displaying a tendency or intent to coerce.
pos: adj
examples: The Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to abandon its alleged nuclear development program, according to U.S. officials and independent analysts.
gloss: Such that the ratio of |F(x)| to x approaches infinity as x approaches infinity.
pos: adj
Derived words: anticoercive
cocoercive
coercive citation
coercive control
coercive force
coercively
coerciveness
coercive persuasion
coercivity
discoercive
hypocoercive
noncoercive
semicoercive
uncoercive
Translations:
screwy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From screw + -y. 1820, original meaning “tipsy, slightly drunk”; meaning “crazy, ridiculous” first recorded 1887.
Base: screw
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: screwier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more screwy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: screwiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most screwy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Crazy; silly; ridiculous
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!
Pretend it never happened. The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they’ve reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?
Now, you don't actually have to have another printer in order to add another printer. This might sound a bit screwy on my part, but it is true.
gloss: Tipsy; slightly drunk.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
informal
examples: "A tipsy man," said Spearman, "is generally noisy ; and I confess I was screwy on Wednesday."
Screwy [skroo'i], adj. mean ; stingy ; parsimonious. Alto, slightly intoxicated.
gloss: Exacting; extortionate; close.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Worthless.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: I saw my hearty out of the yard, with his pink peeping out of his Macintosh, on his screwy old black horse, and I heard from my fair waiter that he had been vaunting that he would lick us all into fits.
Related words: have a screw loose
screwball
screw up
Translations:
mesomorphic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mesomorph
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English mesomorphic
From mesomorph + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more mesomorphic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mesomorphic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a mesomorph.
pos: adj
examples: For instance, compared to the typical ectomorphic or endomorphic child, the mesomorphic boy or girl may have more energy and a greater motivation for vigorous play with peers.
An average man is more mesomorphic than the phantom whereas the average woman is more endomorphic than the phantom (see figure 3.2).
Players in the best teams were less endomorphic and more mesomorphic than those in the worst teams, but forwards and backs in the best teams did not differ in somatotype.
Studies have found that elite athletes can be primarily mesomorphic with ectomorphic qualities or primarily mesomorphic with endomorphic qualities.
Translations:
five-nine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: five-nines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A 5.9-inch artillery shell of the kind used by Germany in World War I.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: All went lame; all blind; / Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots / Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Translations:
gug
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cave.
pos: noun
tags: Cornwall
examples: […] found in the Raised Beaches on the coast, or washed up into sheltered "gugs" or caves, as at the Gravel Gugs, Polzeath, where the shingle contains some 35 per cent of flint pebbles.
Translations:
caid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic قَائِد (qāʔid, “leader”), probably through French caïd (or at least influenced by it in pronunciation). Doublet of alcaide and Alkaid.
Inflected forms:
form: caids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kaid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: qaid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A local governor or leader, especially in North Africa or Moorish Spain; an alcaide.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Having taken over the land, the caids procured labour for themselves by conscripting people for forced farm work, calling the practice a form of Touiza, which was a centuries-old practice of mutual help in the rural areas.
This results in frequent and severe conflicts which, if the provincial governor and the caid are unable to resolve them, are taken to the Ministry of the Interior in Rabat.
The office of caid can be considered an extension of the province head.
Most of the process was in the hands of the caids who drew up first estimates of the taxable wealth. Then the local head of the Bureau Arab looked over these figures for the final fiscal census. This gave the caid much power.
Translations:
Connie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Diminutives + -ie.
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: Connies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Lockheed Constellation airliner.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
impaling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: impalings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something being impaled.
pos: noun
examples: In inspecting numerous shrike impalings I find that where abundant impaling situations, such as barbed-wire fences, are at hand, the unfinished meals of shrikes are distributed along such fences at considerable intervals.
I had seen many decapitations and skinnings, impalings and crucifixions […]
Translations:
slipstream
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
computing
engineering
fiction
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
Etymology: Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.
Inflected forms:
form: slipstreams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slipstreams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slipstreaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slipstreamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slipstreamed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel. There were extenuating circumstances this time - Vettel did not have a slipstream on his first lap and the farcical end to qualifying prevented him doing another - but a clear pattern is emerging.
gloss: A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The Republicans, who in fact quintessentially represent what I understand to be private and special interests of a narrow economic kind, have nevertheless managed, flying in the slipstream of Ronald Reagan's rhetoric, to look like the true guardians of the nation's public interest.
gloss: The relative wind experienced as a result of movement through air.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The airflow over a propeller-driven aircraft generated by the motion of its propeller(s).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Slipstream is not simply a mixture of fantasy and realism, but something which lies between or even beyond the two.
gloss: To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.
pos: verb
examples: Although dangerous, over-the-road truck drivers sometimes slipstream with each other to save fuel.
gloss: To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You do this by slipstreaming the updates into the distribution folder.
A better solution is to create a bootable Windows XP installation CD slipstreamed with the current service pack...
It is illegal to distribute slipstreamed CDs. In some locales, it may also be illegal to create them.
Derived words: slipstreamer
slipstreamy
Translations:
shoggoth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Coined by American writer and editor H. P. Lovecraft.
Inflected forms:
form: shoggoths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Shoggoth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shaggoth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A monstrous gelatinous creature featured in the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.
pos: noun
examples: When the star-headed Old Ones on this planet had synthesized their simple food forms and bred a good supply of Shoggoths, they allowed other cell groups to develop into other forms of animal and vegetable life for sundry purposes, extirpating any whose presence became troublesome. With the aid of the Shoggoths, whose expansions could be made to lift prodigious weights, the small, low cities under the sea grew to vast and imposing labyrinths of stone not unlike those which later rose on land.
gloss: Artificial intelligence, especially a large language model, with a relatable user-facing persona but an incomprehensible and potentially scary interior.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The executive explained that the Shoggoth had become a jokey reference among workers in artificial intelligence, as a vivid visual metaphor for how a large language model (the type of A.I. system that powers ChatGPT and other chatbots) actually works.
Translations:
sweltering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English swelter
English -ing
English sweltering
From swelter + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: swelterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: hot and humid; oppressively sticky
pos: adj
examples: The day was sweltering, so Lauren put on the shortest pair of shorts she could find and went to get ice-cream with her friend Rob.
gloss: The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.
pos: noun
examples: March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, notebook
It is truly a long way from Augustine's ultra-violet perspicacity to our swelterings in the intolerably sapping infra-red, but we are constantly plunging into deeper and deeper black and may rest our eyes in peace sometime.
Translations:
dabbled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dabbled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dabbled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by spots (used especially of animals and plants); dappled.
pos: adj
Translations:
dabbling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dabblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act in which something is dabbled in
pos: noun
tags: gerund
examples: […] a "home album" filled with lovable McCartneyesque hummings and dabblings about love and romance and the joys of quotidian existence, as far removed in conception and execution from his last recording project (side two of Abbey Road) as you could imagine.
Translations:
dabbler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dabble
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 dabbler
From dabble + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dabblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who dabbles.
pos: noun
examples: Marissa was just a dabbler when it came to writing: she blogged a little, but had never submitted any work to a serious publication.
gloss: A dabbling duck.
pos: noun
Translations:
planetology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English planet
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English -ology
English planetology
From planet + -ology.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of planets, planetary systems and the solar system.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
nain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh nain (“grandmother”).
Inflected forms:
form: nains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A grandmother.
pos: noun
tags: North-Wales
examples: Coordinate term: taid
Then we threw down a gauntlet to the mams, dads, nains and taids of Wales to see where they go to treat their kids to some really good, tasty food.
Translations:
explicable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French explicable, from Latin explicabilis, from explicō (“unfold, explain”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to be explained.
pos: adj
Antonyms: inexplicable
Translations:
changement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Inflected forms:
form: changements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A change in the tempo or rhythm of one's actions, to mislead the opponent.
pos: noun
Translations:
Vesuvius
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Vesuvius, of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: Vesuviuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Vesuvy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: A kind of firework supposed to resemble a volcano eruption.
pos: noun
Translations:
vicomte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French vicomte. Doublet of vicecomes and viscount.
Inflected forms:
form: vicomtes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A French viscount.
pos: noun
Translations:
churning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: churnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is churned.
pos: noun
examples: Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.
gloss: The quantity of butter prepared (by churning) at one time.
pos: noun
Derived words: antichurning
Translations:
equipage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French equippage, from equipper. The "carriage" sense may be influenced by Latin equus (“horse”).
Inflected forms:
form: equipages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee vvith my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage and Appurtenances; […]
gloss: A type of horse-drawn carriage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At this moment the carriage turned into the Prado; a thousand magnificent equipages, with plumed horses, superb caparisons, and beautiful women bowing to the cavaliers, who stood for a moment on the foot-board, and then bowed their adieus to the “ladies of their love,” passed before our eyes.
gloss: The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.
Miserable and desponding he returned to his home; while Oriana, in again taking leave of her family, was borne back in her aunt's equipage to the splendours of the Park.
gloss: Military dress; uniform, armour, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Loe-heere a description, much resembling the equipage of a compleat French-man at armes, with all his bards.
Derived words: breakfast-equipage
Translations:
repetitively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English repetitive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English repetitively
From repetitive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more repetitively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most repetitively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a repetitive manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
unrefined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English refined
English unrefined
From un- + refined.
Inflected forms:
form: more unrefined
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unrefined
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: crude, raw or unprocessed
pos: adj
examples: Some journal entries maybe raw and unrefined, others inspirational and detailed, but all show the truth and unbridled passion of what it is to put in your time as a true surf-caster, and maybe you can learn something from it.
gloss: lacking refinement; uncouth
pos: adj
examples: Depend upon it, it is the more coarse and unrefined portion of the community who outrage the feelings of churchgoing people by Sabbath desecration.
Translations:
silenced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more silenced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most silenced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: made silent
pos: adj
gloss: fitted with a silencer
pos: adj
Derived words: nonsilenced
unsilenced
Translations:
cramped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more cramped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cramped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Uncomfortably restricted in size or space, or financially.
pos: adj
examples: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
Since then we have had the opportunity to travel in them and were much impressed by the internal styling and comfort of the seating (with the minor exception of the single seats which have been tucked in longitudinally alongside some of the entrance vestibules and which are so cramped that only the slimmest of female figures could be comfortable in them; the space they occupy would have been better utilised to increase standing room).
But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.
gloss: Overcrowded or congested.
pos: adj
gloss: Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
pos: adj
gloss: Illegible.
pos: adj
Derived words: crampedly
crampedness
uncramped
Translations:
chasseur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Borrowed from French chasseur. Doublet of chaser.
Inflected forms:
form: chasseurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soldier equipped for rapid movement; also, any of several light infantry regiments, especially in France.
pos: noun
gloss: A servant or attendant.
pos: noun
gloss: A hotel messenger, especially in France.
pos: noun
examples: The chasseur of the Hôtel Récamier (whom he knew far too well) was approaching them at a run.
gloss: A hunter or huntsman.
pos: noun
gloss: A dish of meat cooked in a sauce containing mushrooms, shallots and white wine.
pos: noun
examples: From France, Greeley checks in with rabbit chausseurs made with red wine, shallots, tomatoes, and rosemary; […]
Translations:
touchy-feely
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more touchy-feely
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most touchy-feely
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a fondness for physical contact with other people, especially to an excessive degree.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: My last boyfriend was a lovely guy, but I dumped him because he was too touchy-feely with me in public.
Kühnel’s wife, Berta, began by asking everyone to join hands. […] When I asked her later what she made of the exercise, Hellar told me: “First of all, I’m not a good-feelings, touchy-feely kind of person.”
This time, the actor was in uncomfortably touchy-feely form. First he sidled up behind Scarlett Johansson as she posed on the red carpet, kissed her, and slid his hand around her waist.
gloss: Driven by intuition or emotion, with a connotation of de-emphasis of rational thought or logic.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
idiomatic
usually
examples: He preferred the clarity of science and left the touchy-feely stuff to others.
gloss: Appealing to emotion, sympathy, or romance.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
idiomatic
usually
examples: I think the movie had too much touchy-feely nonsense and not enough action.
gloss: Physical contact, typically sexual, and usually inappropriate or unwanted.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Why is it that, when straight men are touched, it is an affront worthy of outrage and police investigation, yet a woman's being the subject of a bar-wide game of touchy-feely is par for the course?
When I was wrestling, females were just appearing on the scene. I loved my coach's position. "If they want to wrestle with the boys, sure, I will put our wrestlers on the mat for some touchy feely. (Paraphrased, but not by much)
Derived words: touchy-feeler
touchy-feeliness
Translations:
canterbury
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Canterbury.
Inflected forms:
form: canterburys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: canterburies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rack for magazines or other papers, usually wooden, often done as a decorative piece.
pos: noun
Translations:
discouraging
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: discouragings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That causes discouragement.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: disheartening; see also Thesaurus:disheartening
Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam / Where the Deer and the Antelope play; / Where never is heard a discouraging word, / And the sky is not clouded all day
gloss: discouragement
pos: noun
examples: August 6, 1841, Lydia Ann Barclay, letter to J. B.
But, alas! I fear the health of the better part is dwindling instead of increasing, through letting in the enemy's discouragings, and a want of feeling after the daily sap of life, whereby strength would be received to overcome all obstacles […]
Translations:
discouragement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English discourage
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English discouragement
From discourage + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: discouragements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The loss of confidence or enthusiasm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of discouraging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything that discourages.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
gendarme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis
Proto-Italic *gentis
Latin gentem
Old French gentder.
French gents
French gens
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Old French de
Middle French de
French d'
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmosder.
Late Latin arma
Old French arme
Middle French arme
French armes
French gens d'armes
French gendarmesbf.
French gendarmebor.
English gendarme
Borrowed from French gendarme, a back-formation from gendarmes, from gens d'armes (“people of arms, armed people”), from gens + d' + armes.
Inflected forms:
form: gendarmes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gensdarmes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
pos: noun
gloss: A policeman.
pos: noun
examples: The US is tempted to play the role of global gendarme because everyone knows that the UN, as it is, lacks the resources and capacity to fill this role.
gloss: A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge.
pos: noun
examples: The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly.
The Arete starts easily, with several beautiful, loping pitches leading to a striking gendarme.
Continuing to the main summit involves ascents of the gendarmes (the first being the owl-eared one referred to in the next route description) and 140-foot rappels down their south sides.
Derived words: gendarmish
Translations:
gauleiter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gauleiter, from Gau (“administrative division”) + Leiter (“leader”).
Inflected forms:
form: gauleiters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An official in charge of a district of the Nazi Party (after 1933 increasingly adopting state functions).
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Any overbearing or unpleasant official, especially a local official.
pos: noun
examples: Five minutes later, Martland and his gauleiters canter in and whisk poor Hockbottle off to the Cottage Hospital of evil fame.
Translations:
southwards
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *sunþ
Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥
Proto-Indo-European *sh₂w-én-s
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ún-teros
Proto-Germanic *sunþraz
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Proto-Germanic *sunþraz
Proto-Germanic *sunþrą
Proto-West Germanic *sunþr
Old English sūþ
Middle English south
English south
English -wards
English southwards
From south + -wards.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a southerly direction; towards the south.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: On the journey southwards over the flat, fertile plains, paddy fields stretched away on each side of the line, and the landscape was broken only by wooden villages and stately pagodas.
Although [John] Peel's grave is the main attraction, Caldbeck is a captivating little village in its own right, with fine views southwards to the Lake District's serried peaks.
Translations: