yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
fixer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
business
hobbies
journalism
law
lifestyle
media
photography
real-estate
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fix
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 fixer
From fix + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: fixers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions.
pos: noun
examples: The fixer removes the undeveloped silver salts from the film, rendering it no longer sensitive to light. Pour the fixer — at a temperature within plus or minus 5° F of the developer's — into the tank, using the amount specified by the tank directions. Agitate with ten inversions initially and then for 10 seconds out of every minute for the remainder of the fixing time. The fixing time is not as critical as the developing lime, but stay within the time range suggested in the fixer directions.
gloss: A person who serves as an agent to arrange for a desired result, perhaps by improper and/or unlawful means.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who is often paid that helps a customer cut through red tape, especially for government processes or applications.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
broadly
gloss: A person who arranges immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion, especially as a business endeavor for profit.
pos: noun
examples: A professional bank robber commented on this [a point in the thief's memoir]: 'Perhaps the author means by this that the fixer with whom he is acquainted works only on crimes not involving violence. It is true that there are specialists even in the fix line, and a man who has an in [in = advantageous position] to fix con cases might not be able to fix robbery cases. But if the author means that the fix does not exist in armed robbery, he is badly mistaken. It is merely a matter of knowing the right party to go to.'
gloss: A person who assists foreign journalists in volatile countries, often providing interpretation, personal connections, and transportation services.
pos: noun
examples: Yet at the same time, this is also the source of what journalists see as one of the major risks involved in dependence on the fixer: the fixer may determine, to some extent, what the journalist sees. It is at this point that differences between journalists become apparent in the interviews – they give different evaluations of the risks. Clearly, this is a point of tension in their understanding of the situation: the prime positive qualities of the fixer are also the potentially negative ones.
gloss: A fixer-upper.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A drug dealer or user.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He'd say things like, “Now, I don’t want you in Harlem!” He was afraid I'd meet the wrong people in Harlem; fixers, junkies, people like that.
Related words: the fix is in
Derived words: blix
fixer-up
flicker fixer
nitrogen fixer
Translations:
carotid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French carotide or New Latin carōtides, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτῐ́δες (kărōtĭ́des, “carotid arteries”), from κᾰρόω (kăróō, “to plunge into deep sleep or torpor”) + -τῐ́δες (-tĭ́des, plural nominal suffix), from the fact that the carotid artery supplies blood to the brain, and interruption of this flow causes loss of consciousness.
Base: κᾰρόω
Affixes: -τῐ́δες
Inflected forms:
form: carotids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of the two main arteries that supply blood to the head of which the left in humans arises from the arch of the aorta and the right by bifurcation of the brachiocephalic artery with each passing up the side of the neck and dividing opposite the upper border of the thyroid cartilage into an external branch supplying the face, tongue, and external parts of the head and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts of the head.
pos: noun
examples: I shoot Mr. Marlow twice, severing jugulars and cartoids with near surgical precision. He will die watching me take what is his away from him. This is my design.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the carotid artery.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bullcrap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bull + crap.
Compound parts: bull
crap
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: bullshit
pos: noun
tags: mildly
uncountable
vulgar
examples: R&B rap is bullcrap is what I'm dumpin'
Translations:
budding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: buddings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Beginning to develop.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He's a budding deejay.
The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing features was the unlimited patience and kindliness of the chargehands and fitters, who would go to great lengths to teach the budding engineer all they themselves knew.
Council's tip shops in Acacia Ridge and Geebung are treasure troves for everyone from budding home stylists to outdoor enthusiasts.
gloss: The development of buds on a plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The practice of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The result of this practice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Whatever the mode of origin, buddings from a particular bud-parent have been found to agree in habit and general characteristics, while all buddings develop similar features which distinguish them from seedling trees.
Derived words: disbudding
Translations:
volant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle French volant, present participle of voler (“to fly”), from Latin volāre.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having extended wings as if flying.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Crest - A horseshoe ar. betw. two wings volant sa. Farrer
A demi-ostrich, wings volant proper.
gloss: Represented as unsupported in the air.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A martlet volant. Motto - In Deo solo spes mea. Kay
gloss: Flying, or able to fly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Alexander the Great […] lanced himself in manner of a Star Volant in the Air, leaping out of the East into the West, […]
gloss: Moving quickly or lightly, as though flying; nimble.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: he turned to catch through the trees a flitting glimpse of her light dress, her volant attitude, as she sped silently and secretly back to the waiting group on the porch.
Derived words: volant piece
Translations:
unsung
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 sung
English unsung
From un- + sung.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Which has not been lauded or appreciated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The backstage crew of the movie were the unsung heroes.
Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.
He said: "Every day, thousands of unsung women and men go to work to keep London moving and to make this city better, cleaner and safer for everyone. [...]"
gloss: Not sung.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The third hymn remained unsung.
Derived words: unsung hero
Translations:
workaholic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Medieval Latin alcoholder.
Middle English alcofol
English alcohol
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English alcoholic
English -oholic
English -aholic
English workaholic
From work + -aholic.
Inflected forms:
form: workaholics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more workaholic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most workaholic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who feels compelled to work excessively, including while at home.
pos: noun
examples: All workaholics should move to Hong Kong, where working hours average over 50 per week.
We're not looking to become workaholics who don't know how to rest or vacation, or who never hang it up long enough to go to a movie.
gloss: In the nature or manner of a workaholic.
pos: adj
Translations:
great-uncle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gret-uncle, grete uncle, grete ouncle, equivalent to great- + uncle.
Base: uncle
Affixes: great-
Inflected forms:
form: great-uncles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: great uncle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: greatuncle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An uncle of one's parent (i.e. a brother or brother-in-law of one's grandparent).
pos: noun
Antonyms: great-aunt
great-nephew
great-niece
Translations:
ultramafic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ultra-
English mafic
English ultramafic
From ultra- + mafic.
Inflected forms:
form: more ultramafic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ultramafic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ultramafics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Describing igneous rocks that contain magnesium and iron and only a very small amount of silica, such as are found in the Earth’s mantle.
pos: adj
gloss: A rock with such properties.
pos: noun
Translations:
grandpappy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grand-
English pappy
English grandpappy
From grand- + pappy.
Inflected forms:
form: grandpappies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A grandfather.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Come and say hello to your old grandpappy Cranky.
Translations:
skidding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
forestry
Inflected forms:
form: skiddings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that skids.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When an automobile, for instance, traveled that road, it was with many skiddings in the sand on the turns, which it must take circumspectly if the driver did not care for the rocky, uneven floor of the desert itself.
gloss: The logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antiskidding
Translations:
symbiont
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From sym- + -biont.
Affixes: syn-
-biont
Inflected forms:
form: symbionts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organism that lives in a symbiotic relationship.
pos: noun
examples: The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.
It had been known that sponges somehow took in dissolved organic matter, but it remained unclear whether they could do it on their own or needed help from their bacterial symbionts.
Translations:
customizable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English customize
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 customizable
From customize + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more customizable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most customizable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: customisable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be customized.
pos: adj
Translations:
toodles
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of toodeloo + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Goodbye.
pos: intj
tags: informal
Translations:
soulmate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From soul + mate. First attested as soul-mate in an 1822 letter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Not in common usage before the 1980s.
Base: soul
Inflected forms:
form: soulmates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soul mate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally or uniquely compatible or has a special, almost spiritual connection.
pos: noun
examples: Finding your wonderful soulmate is very similar to the process of sowing a seed and nurturing it into a beautiful blossoming plant.
I'm all over the place, I can't sit in one place / I'm not ashamed at all / Still findin' myself, let alone a soulmate, I'm just sayin'
Translations:
scry
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English scrien, scryen, a shortened form of Middle English ascrien, from Old French escrier (“to cry out”). Influenced by Middle English descrien (“to descry”).
Inflected forms:
form: scries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scried
pos: verb
tags: past
form: skry
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To magically or supernaturally look into or (as an entertainer) predict (the future), using crystal balls or other objects.
pos: verb
examples: The fortune teller claimed she could scry [into] the future.
gloss: To use magical means to see or look into (something that is happening outside one's sight, e.g. inside a building or far away, or in the distant past, or future, etc).
pos: verb
examples: Scrying spells can simply toggle the state of hidden objects to the revealed state, […]
[…] with the loss of Mekha, the shields and wardings on the temple had weakened. That meant Alonnen could now scry inside directly, albeit with a fuzzy view and no real hope of clear sound. On hearing that, Guardian-apprentice Pelai had suggested he could send in a whole series of clever, Mendhite-style scrying nodes.
[…] to get the kid's family back, they needed a plan. “You three keep an eye out. I'm going to scry inside that house.” “You sure that's a good idea?” Naleni asked. “If he's actually a string mage, no. He might sense [it].”
He glanced at the silver bowl on the table near the window. She had explained its purpose, how it was used to scry what was and what might be. He feared her device more than his for what was more frightening than an uncertain future? Her gaze followed his. She squeezed his hand and looked deeply into his eyes.
gloss: To descry; to see.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: […]two ſhepheards curres, had ſcryde
A rauenous Wolfe amongſt the ſcattered flockes.
Derived words: scryer
scrying
Translations:
rekindle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English kindle
English rekindle
From re- + kindle.
Inflected forms:
form: rekindles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rekindling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rekindled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rekindled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rekindles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To kindle again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be kindled or ignited again.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To revive.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: After being abroad for a decade, when he came back he rekindled his obsession with cricket.
It was rekindled this summer when going through the all-time football scores for St. Mary’s of Stockton and Oakdale (two of the top programs in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section) and I discovered that both of them can still count their worst losses as being to Stockton High at 78-0 and 90-0, respectively.
gloss: Synonym of reflash.
pos: noun
Derived words: rekindler
Translations:
pssst
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Elongated form of psst.
pos: intj
Translations:
perfectionist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perfection
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 perfectionist
From perfection + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: perfectionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more perfectionist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perfectionist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: I have read in some of our perfectionists enough to make a better man than myself either run into madness or despair about the grace you mention […].
gloss: One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
gloss: Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards.
pos: adj
examples: perfectionistic parents
For quotations using this term, see Citations:perfectionist.
gloss: Inclined or related to perfectionism.
pos: adj
Related words: perfectionism
perfectionistic
Translations:
pecking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: peckings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is pecked.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the peckings of hungry chickens
gloss: The ancient skill of shaping stone into tools, containers, or artworks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The game of throwing pebbles at birds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: vent pecking
Translations:
paralegal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Hellenic *pərai
Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ́ (părắ)
Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ- (pără-)der.
English para-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.?
Proto-Italic *lēks
Latin lex
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin lēgālislbor.
English legal
English paralegal
From para- + legal.
Inflected forms:
form: paralegals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who assists a lawyer in routine legal work, but who is without qualified status as a solicitor or barrister (England and Wales), attorney (U.S.), or advocate; known more commonly in the U.S. as a legal assistant.
pos: noun
Translations:
outback
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From out + back.
Compound parts: out
back
Inflected forms:
form: outbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more outback
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most outback
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: outbacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outbacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outbacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outbacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
usually
examples: 1951 June, W. J. Banks, Flying Doctors of the Outback, The Rotarian, page 23,
Communication like this is making a big change in the lives of Australia′s “outback” people.
In the outback, many people live and work on sheep and cattle ranches.
The outback′s rich, red soil looked like blood because of all the iron in it, and the vast land was so still and barren that it seemed lifeless.
Barely a bird and definitely none of my target species greeted the morning so I cut my losses and headed north through the staggeringly vast emptiness of the Outback.
Astronomers consider the outback area around Alice Springs — with its low pollution, low humidity and few light sources — to be among the best star-gazing locations on earth.
gloss: Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.
pos: adj
examples: […]the Civil Service Association is not particularly happy with the decision of the Government in regard to rents and the way they will be levied on its members in the more outback country areas.
In the Northern Territory, arguably the most outback of Australian states, police are still not armed.
From Bathurst the Mitchell Highway heads northwest through Dubbo and Bourke Nyngan then continues for almost 200 km to the most outback of towns Bourke.
2008, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses, Easyread Large Edition, page 135,
We had a frosty meeting and he took me around to the AML&F Co′s staff officer, requesting a jackaroo position for me on the company′s most outback station in Queensland.
gloss: To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: If we want this country to develop, we have to depend on men who are prepared to go outback and try to discover new shows.
This has allowed Australians really to go outback in some reasonable comfort to see the attractions of this country.
Like me, the son was inspired to go outback, and when things went wrong for him the desert seemed like the perfect place to perish and decay, to get blown around on the wind.
gloss: To travel or stay in the outback
pos: verb
Translations:
husky
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From husk + -y; in relation to voice, from the sense "dry as a husk" or "tough as a husk".
Base: husk
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: huskier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: huskiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: huskies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: huskie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a voice, hoarse and rough-sounding; throaty.
pos: adj
examples: Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; all these were points against him, but not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing and fear with which Mr. Utterson regarded him.
Her voice was boy-husky, sounding as though strained through some rough material ...
gloss: Burly, stout; sometimes as a modifier for boys' clothing sizes that fit a large waist or chest.
pos: adj
tags: US
euphemistic
examples: You look like a good, husky man to pitch in the barnyard […]
Word got around quickly that this plane, which has been flying since January, is bigger and huskier than our proposed C-5A […]
gloss: Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.
pos: adj
examples: Some swains have sown before: but most have found
A husky harvest from the grudging ground.
gloss: Belligerent; hostile and uncooperative.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
slang
examples: “Well, here it is,” said Silver. “We want that treasure, and we’ll have it — that’s our point! You would just as soon save your lives, I reckon; and that’s yours. You have a chart, haven’t you?”
“That’s as may be,” replied the captain.
“Oh, well, you have, I know that,” returned Long John. “You needn’t be so husky with a man; there ain’t a particle of service in that, and you may lay to it. What I mean is, we want your chart. Now, I never meant you no harm, myself.”
gloss: Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs.
pos: noun
examples: The White House posted a cartoon to X on Wednesday of two Greenlandic mush teams with three huskies each, pointing towards the choice of the white pillars and the South Lawn or a tempestuous scene by the Great Wall of China and Red Square in Russia.
Derived words: huskily
huskiness
Translations:
hind
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hinder
Old English hindan
Middle English hinde
English hind
From Middle English hinde, from Old English hindan (“at the rear, from behind”), Proto-Germanic *hinder (“behind, beyond”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem-ta- (“down, below, with, far, along, against”), from *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽𐌰 (hindana, “from beyond”), Old Norse hindr (“obstacle”), Old Norse handan (“from that side, beyond”), Old High German hintana (“behind”), German hinter (“behind, beyond”), Old English hinder (“behind, back, in the farthest part, down”), Latin contra (“in return, against”). More at hinder, contrary.
Inflected forms:
form: hinder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hindmost
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hind
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hinds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
pos: adj
examples: Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!
When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
gloss: Backward; to the rear.
pos: adj
gloss: A doe (female deer), especially a red deer at least two years old.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; an hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, an hind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox.
The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.
gloss: A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: afterhind
ahind
ahint
behind
heinie
hindbrain
hindcast
hind claw
hindcloth
hindcrown
hindfin
hindflipper
hindfoot
hindgut
hindhead
hind leg
hind limb
hindlock
hindlook
hindmilk
hindneck
hindpocket
hindquarter
hind quarters
hindside
hindsight
hind teat
hindthought
hind tit
hindward
hindwards
hindwater
hindwing
hind wing
oxhind
suck hind tit
hindberry
red hind
Translations:
faraway
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Univerbation of far + away.
Inflected forms:
form: far away
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: far-away
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: faraways
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: far away
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: far-away
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Distant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She lived in a faraway village in a faraway land.
gloss: Not mentally present, as when daydreaming.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There was a faraway look on his face.
Suddenly it occurred to Mala why the unsaddlings and the faraway looks. All four of them were expecting something of a fairly long wait.
gloss: One who lives a great distance away.
pos: noun
examples: The Neighbors, the enviros, the real and the want-to-be cowpokes, the locals and the faraways, the rich and the wishful, the purported miners all said they wanted to buy out Braden.
Synonyms: far-flung
remote
Related words: far and away
far away
Derived words: farawayness
Translations:
bondage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bondage (“serfdom”), from British Medieval Latin bondagium (“an inferior tenure held by a bond or husbandman”), from Middle English bond (“tenant farmer, serf”), from Old English bonda (“householder, husband, head of a family”), of Old Norse origin. Sense development influenced by the unrelated terms bond and bind.
Inflected forms:
form: bondages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: debt bondage
In Judeo-Christian tradition, the Israelites fled bondage at the hands of the Egyptians, only to wander in the wilderness for the next four decades.
"She was the Wicked Witch of the East, as I said," answered the little woman. "She has held all the Munchkins in bondage for many years, making them slave for her night and day. Now they are all set free, and are grateful to you for the favor."
gloss: The state of lacking freedom; constraint.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: He lived in financial bondage to his cocaine habit; no matter how much he earned, it all seemed to disappear up his nose.
gloss: The practice of physically restraining people for sexual pleasure, such as by tying up or shackling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their marriage broke up when she discovered he had been engaging in bondage games with a local dominatrix while he was supposedly working out at the gym.
gloss: Applied to clothing with many buckles, zips, etc., associated with punk and goth subcultures.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: bondage trousers; bondage jeans; bondage pants
Related words: BDSM
S&M
Derived words: bondager
bondage suit
bondagewear
debt bondage
embondage
predicament bondage
Translations:
suavity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English suavite, suavitee, suavyte, from Middle French suavité and its etymon Latin suāvitās.
Inflected forms:
form: suavities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: suavity of manners
suavity of language, conversation, or address
[N]othing, not even the crude curves of the railway, can utterly deform the suavity of contour of one bay after another along the whole reach of the Riviera.
[T]he brothers’ gowns and broad straw hats were hanging up, each with his religious name upon a board,—names full of legendary suavity and interest, such as Basil, Hilarion, Raphael, or Pacifique; […]
gloss: The quality of being suave.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.
gloss: Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.
Related words: blandness
Derived words: insuavity
unsuavity
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: hoflijkheid
lang: Finnish
word: sulavakäytöksisyys
lang: French
word: courtoisie
twitchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English twitch
English -y
English twitchy
From twitch + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: twitchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: twitchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: susceptible to twitching a lot.
pos: adj
examples: For the most part, however, his hunched, twitchy, wide-eyed take doesn’t seem like a believable portrait of social awkwardness so much as just a forced, awkward performance.
gloss: irritable, cranky, nervous, anxious, worried
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Johnson's contract expires in November, and four weeks as memorable for scandals off the pitch as any achievements on it will do little to appease the notoriously twitchy committee-men at the Rugby Football Union.
Railways don't normally feature, but Conservative MPs are getting twitchy about this nationwide local issue.
Translations:
starlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr
Proto-Germanic *sternǭ
Proto-West Germanic *sternō
Proto-West Germanic *sterrō
Old English steorra
Middle English sterre
English star
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French -eletbor.
Middle English -let
English -let
English starlet
From star + -let.
Inflected forms:
form: starlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young actress with a promising career ahead of her.
pos: noun
examples: There were other flapper-era starlets, of course—Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo—but they were poseurs by comparison.
gloss: An accomplished and important supporting player in a sports team.
pos: noun
examples: As Mourinho also entered the press room while most journalists were still watching the players’ lap of honour, nothing could be confirmed about the condition of Pogba, who scored United’s second goal and the Portuguese declined a chance to praise some fine performances from his starlets, with Josh Harrop scoring on his debut.
gloss: A small star.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: It e'en the semblance of sound's softest echo Were to compare the faintest starlet's beam, Struggling through angry clouds its misty Ray, With the all-powerful Sun's meridian ray, Dazzling the gaze of nature — doth pervade The atmosphere, as 'twere a whisper's shadow Or breathing soft disembodied souls;
As I saw the love-light beam From her radiant eyes, more glorious far Than the starlet's nightly gleam :
The shimmering, shivering, trembling, twinkling starlet white, Dancy rays darteth down, showering blossoms of silvern light ;
I have a little golden dream That haunts me night and day, And like a starlet's golden beam Lights up my darksome way.
Derived words: starlet sea anemone
superstarlet
Translations:
scrunch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Attested since about 1800. Probably an intensive form of crunch; ultimately derived from the onomatopoeia of a crumpling sound; or perhaps a blend of squeeze + crunch.
Compound parts: squeeze
crunch
Inflected forms:
form: scrunches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A crunching noise.
pos: noun
examples: The watchers knew already that the door was fastened and looked for the unknown to produce a key. Instead, there was a sudden scrunch of iron, a splintering of wood, and the door swung loosely open.
Translations:
novitiate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1517; either borrowed from Middle French noviciat, novitiat or from Medieval Latin noviciātus, novitiātus (“a novitiate”), from Latin novicius, novitius + -ātus (see -ate (forming nouns denoting a rank or office)), from novus (“new”). Sense 1 is not attested in cognates.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: novitiates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A novice.
pos: noun
gloss: The period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training.
pos: noun
examples: Three weeks after the departure of the Mandevilles, all Naples flocked to witness the profession of a young Englishwoman, a dispensation having been obtained for the novitiate.
gloss: The place where a novice lives and studies.
pos: noun
Related words: novel
novelization
novelize
novella
novelty
novice
Derived words: novitiateship
novitiation
Translations:
overreaction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English reaction
English overreaction
From over- + reaction.
Inflected forms:
form: overreactions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reaction that is excessive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She had every right to dump you, but cutting up all your clothes after she did so was an overreaction.
This whole fear over swine flu was unfounded; it was clearly an overreaction.
The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.
In most cases, this overreaction to terrorism poses a far greater threat to our security than the terrorists themselves.
Translations:
crackers
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cracker + -s. The South African sense is from their sound and its status as a plurale tantum by association with trousers. The adjectival sense derives from British naval expressions referring to firecrackers in one's head, originally as "he's got the crackers" and then "he's gone crackers" before the present "he is crackers".
Base: cracker
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: more crackers
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crackers
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Crazy, insane.
pos: adj
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: “I will call up Demons to destroy thee!” “You're crackers,” said Carrot, backing away.
He acknowledges that it must seem "a crackers thing to say", but given the substantial progress which has been made in other areas of the business, his optimism isn't without foundation.
Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, told the online magazine UnHerd in May that Truss was “as close to properly crackers as anybody I have met in parliament” and would be an “even worse” prime minister than Johnson.
Translations:
bendable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *bindaną
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-Germanic *bandijaną
Proto-West Germanic *bandijan
Old English bendan
Middle English benden
English bend
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 bendable
From bend + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more bendable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bendable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.
pos: adj
examples: It was quite a shock to find when one stroked her that the China Cat, though alive, was still china, hard, cold, and smooth to the touch, and yet perfectly brisk and absolutely bendable as any flesh and blood cat.
The father scorned stooping. Neither his body nor his mind was bendable.
When necessity dictates, our laws are as bendable as licorice to our presidents, and if their private conversations had been taped an awful lot of history would be different now.
The tough, bendable fabric combines hydrogels — such as those found in contact lenses or jello – with glass fibers. This particular combination maximizes its resilience, making the material 100 times tougher than hydrogels and 25 times tougher than glass fiber fabric, based on the amount of energy needed to destroy it.
Antonyms: rigid
Translations:
bewilderment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bewilder + -ment.
Base: bewilder
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: bewilderments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being bewildered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She looked around in bewilderment.
gloss: A confusing or perplexing situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Planck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Planckbor.
English Planck
Borrowed from German Planck.
Inflected forms:
form: Plancks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Used attributively in the names of various units, formulae etc. first devised or worked on by the German physicist Max Planck (1858–1947), chiefly in the realm of quantum theory.
pos: noun
examples: As Dr. Feynman noted, there are still shorter scales of time and distance to go before we reach the ultimate limits imposed by quantum physics: the Planck length, 10^-33 of a centimeter, and the Planck time, 10^-43 of a second. Both are named for the German physicist Max Planck, who made the breakthrough that led to quantum mechanics.
gloss: A Planck unit.
pos: noun
Translations:
muskellunge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French masque allongé (literally “long mask”), a corruption of Ojibwe maashkinoozhe (literally “ugly pike”) or Algonquin maskinunga. Not related to German Muskel (“muscle”) or Lunge (“lung”).
Inflected forms:
form: muskellunges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: muskellunge
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maskinonge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: muskelunge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: muscallonge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: milliganong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large freshwater gamefish of the pike family, native to the lakes and rivers of eastern and middle western North America; Esox masquinongy.
pos: noun
Translations:
unflagging
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 flagging
English unflagging
From un- + flagging.
Inflected forms:
form: more unflagging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unflagging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Never tiring or lacking energy; without rest; without slowing.
pos: adj
examples: His unflagging efforts have not gone unnoticed.
He went on kissing her with unflagging industry, while she remained limply in his arms, in a species of satisfied trance.
He writes of locomotive design, maintenance, passenger timetables, the structure of freight services, supervision and organisation, with unflagging enthusiasm, which comes across to us in a most readable book.
The 2001 photo was strangely and powerfully similar to the World War II flag raising because both photos captured a heroic deed of courage, grit, teamwork, and unflagging patriotism at a historic moment marked by the darkness of the threat against us.
His words mattered. He pledged “our unwavering and unflagging commitment to Ukraine’s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.”
Translations:
marionberry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named for Marion County, Oregon, where it was developed, + berry.
Inflected forms:
form: marionberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the blackberry family, a cross between the Chehalem berry and olallieberry blackberries.
pos: noun
Translations:
carry-on
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English carry ondeverb.
English carry-on
Deverbal from carry on.
Inflected forms:
form: carryon
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: carry-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carryon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It's a compact suitcase, but it makes a good carry-on bag.
gloss: That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Do you think they'll accept my ski poles as carry-on?
gloss: That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "THAT'S NOT MY CARRY-ON, THOSE WOULD NEVER GET THROUGH SECURITY. ALSO YOU'RE GROUNDED"
gloss: A palaver; a disorderly or absurd situation.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
UK
countable
examples: Sometimes all this carry-on about race, religion and sex seems so petty and silly that I cannot take it seriously.
"I love salad",she dared when it came to the next course, and then inwardly cringed when it seemed that that was actually a special order and there was such a carry-on about what kind of salad she wanted.
The stopping, restarting, swearing and routine self-deprecation ("I'm in trouble with the vicar – eternal trouble," quips Martin) is the kind of carry-on that has fans purring with pleasure.
Related words: rollaboard
trolley suitcase
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: handbagage
lang: French
word: bagages en cabine
lang: French
word: bagages à main
lang: German
word: Handgepäck
lang: Hungarian
word: kézipoggyász
lang: Polish
word: bagaż podręczny
lang: Portuguese
word: bagagem de mão
lang: Russian
word: ручная кладь
roman: ručnaja kladʹ
lang: Spanish
word: equipaje de mano
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Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English place
Proto-Germanic *haldaną
Proto-West Germanic *haldan
Old English healdan
Middle English holden
English hold
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 holder
English placeholder
From place + holder.
Inflected forms:
form: placeholders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: place holder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later.
pos: noun
examples: This data is a placeholder, so you'll want to include the real numbers as soon as you have them.
As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.
"I'm on vacation," [Bruce] Willis grumbles several times throughout A Good Day To Die Hard, in what counts as the film's sole running joke, a lame placeholder until he arrives at the big "yippee-ki-yay" punchline.
gloss: A non-editable caption initially displayed in a blank text box to indicate its function.
pos: noun
Synonyms: thingy
whatshisname
Related words: greek
greeking
lorem ipsum
Translations:
kyanite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Ancient Greek κυανός (kuanós, “blue”) + -ite.
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: kyanites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blue neosilicate mineral, Al₂SiO₅, found in metamorphic rocks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations: