yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
auditory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin audītōrius (“pertaining to a hearer or hearing”), from audiō (“to hear”) + -tōrius (“-tory”, adjectival suffix).
Base: audiō
Affixes: -tōrius
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: audio
Translations:
Hebe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for Hebrew.
Inflected forms:
form: Hebes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Jew.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
slang
examples: Well, that's what you get for betting on a Hebe.
What did you say?
I'm just saying
Max Baer ain't no Jew.
Translations:
squadron
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
navy
politics
war
Etymology: From Italian squadrone. See squad.
Inflected forms:
form: squadrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sqn
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
form: squadrons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squadroning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squadroned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squadroned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A body of troops drawn up in a square.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Those half-rounding guards / Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined.
gloss: A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major.
pos: noun
gloss: A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer
pos: noun
examples: the North Atlantic Squadron
gloss: A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force).
pos: noun
gloss: A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison.
pos: noun
tags: Space-Force
US
gloss: To divide up into squadrons.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: squad
Derived words: flying squadron
intersquadron
intrasquadron
squaddie
squaddy
squadrilla
squadron admiral
Squadron Leader
squadron leader
squadronmate
subsquadron
Translations:
homozygote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From homo- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".
Base: zygote
Affixes: homo-
Inflected forms:
form: homozygotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.
pos: noun
Translations:
serendipitous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English serendipity
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English serendipitous
From serendipity + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more serendipitous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most serendipitous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: by serendipity; by unexpected good fortune
pos: adj
gloss: good, beneficial, favorable
pos: adj
examples: The weather was serendipitous for our vacation.
Derived words: serendipitously
serendipitousness
unserendipitous
Translations:
serendipitously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English serendipitous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English serendipitously
From serendipitous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more serendipitously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most serendipitously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: By serendipity; by blind luck in combination with wisdom; by fortunate accident.
pos: adv
examples: And that was a few years before the serendipitously named American politician Anthony Weiner reminded us once again that a high-powered job is no guarantee of knowing what to do with your penis, through his "sexting" use of Twitter (Snapchat hadn't been invented yet.)
And then unexpectedly, and serendipitously, Mr. Trump won the White House. Ending legal abortion appeared within their reach.
Translations:
blumpkin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Portmanteau of blowjob + dump, with added suffix -kin in imitation of pumpkin; also compare words like munchkin and ciderkin.
Inflected forms:
form: blumpkins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of performing fellatio whilst the recipient is defecating on the toilet.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: I said to Mark Wahlberg yesterday, had he ever gotten a blumpkin from a girl.
Translations:
kinematics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: French cinématique, from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “motion”) + -ics.
Affixes: -ics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of mechanics concerned with objects in motion, but not with the forces involved.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
ashy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English asshy, asky, equivalent to ash + -y.
Base: ash
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: ashier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: ashiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets, / Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale,
Tell her that sicknesse, with her ashie hand, / Hath swept away the beauty from my cheekes,
Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.
Beyond that black clot the sea lay, pale with last ashy gleam of day.
gloss: Comprising, containing, or covered with ash.
pos: adj
examples: Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie / Vnder deep ruines, with huge walls opprest,
[…] where yet the Embers glow, / Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw, / And deep subsides the ashy Heap below.
[…] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.
He lit the paper until it burned to an ashy film.
gloss: Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored).
pos: adj
examples: It was summer and his pants were short, so the pickle juice made clean streams down his ashy legs[…]
After passing it under her runny nose, a skinny chalk-colored girl raised a hand so disgustingly ashy, so white and dry-skinned, that it could only be black.
Derived words: ashily
ashiness
ashy-headed goose
ashy-headed laughingthrush
ashy minivet
ashy prinia
ashy silktassel
ashy tit
ashy woodpecker
ashy woodswallow
Translations:
snuffle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff + -le. Compare also Old English snofl (“snot, nasal mucus”), which might not have survived into Middle English.
Base: snuff
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: snuffles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snuffling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snuffled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snuffled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: snuffles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: One clad in purple / Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme […] / Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.
gloss: An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.
pos: noun
Related words: sniffle
snivel
Derived words: snuffler
snuffly
Translations:
ascribe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ascriben, from Old French ascrivre (“inscribe, attribute, impute”), from Latin āscrībere (“to state in writing”), equivalent to a- + scribe.
Base: scribe
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: ascribes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ascribing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ascribed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ascribed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To regard as arising from a specified cause or source.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.
Thus the Aſſe having a peculiar mark of a croſſe made by a black liſt down his back, and another athwart, or at right angles down his ſhoulders; common opinion aſcribes this figure unto a peculiar ſignation; ſince that beaſt had the honour to bear our Saviour on his back.
Difficult running was ascribed by the driver to inferior coal, alleged to be Polish.
SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter.
Its first act upon its arrival — or, depending on the degree of intelligent agency you ascribed to it, the first side-effect of its arrival — was the neutralisation of the Foundation.
gloss: To attribute (a book, painting, or any other work of art or literature) to a writer or creator.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.
[…]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
gloss: To believe in or agree with; to subscribe.
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
examples: A survey of the literature reveals that many who have commented on the signaling of animals ascribe to the view that all of their communicative signals are manifestations of emotion or affect.
If we take a holistic view of human beings, we ascribe to the idea that humans are multidimensional and that they are greater than the sum of their parts – for example, their physical, psychological and spiritual aspects.
There are plenty of people who ascribe to the idea that, if they only have a short time on this earth, they want to be “used up” when it's their time to go.
And the truth is, I don't ascribe to the belief that God is more successful at drawing women to him than men.
Synonyms: accredit
ascribe
attach
attribute
chalk up to
charge
draw
impute
lay
put down to
repose
Related words: ascription
ascriptive
Derived words: ascribable
misascribe
self-ascribed
unascribed
Translations:
pood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian пуд (pud). Doublet of funt, pfund, pound, and punt.
Inflected forms:
form: poods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poud
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).
pos: noun
examples: About 250,000 poods of yuft are prepared annually, of which about 150,000 poods are red yuft, manufactured chiefly for foreign markets.
gloss: A Russian unit of mass used for kettlebells, now rounded off to 16 kg (about 35.274 pounds).
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: փութ
roman: pʻutʻ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: pud
lang: Bashkir
word: бот
roman: bot
lang: Belarusian
word: пуд
roman: pud
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 普特
roman: pǔtè
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: pud
lang: Dutch
word: poed
lang: Erzya
word: пондо
roman: pondo
lang: Estonian
word: puud
lang: Finnish
word: puuta
lang: French
word: poud
lang: German
word: Pud
lang: Hungarian
word: pud
lang: Ingrian
word: puuda
lang: Japanese
word: プード
roman: pūdo
lang: Kazakh
word: пұт
roman: pūt
lang: Korean
word: 푸드
roman: pudeu
lang: Latvian
word: puds
lang: Lithuanian
word: pū́das
lang: Macedonian
word: пуд
roman: pud
lang: Polish
word: pud
lang: Portuguese
word: pud
lang: Russian
word: пуд
roman: pud
lang: Ukrainian
word: пуд
roman: pud
lang: Uzbek
word: pud
lang: Vietnamese
word: pút
lang: Yiddish
word: פּוד
roman: pud
miniver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French menu vair (“squirrel, squirrel fur”), from menu (“small”) + vair (“a type of fur”).
Inflected forms:
form: minivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: meniver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: menyvere
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A light gray or white fur used to trim the robes of judges or state executives, also used in medieval times.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thenne came forth a lykely knyghte and wel apparaylled in scarlet furred with myneuer / And anone as he sawe syr launcelot / he demed that he shold be oute of his wytte / And thenne he said with fayre speche good man leye doune that swerd / for as me semeth / thow haddest more nede of slepe and of warme clothes / than to welde that swerd / As for that said syr Launcelot come not to nyȝ for and thow doo wete thou wel I will slee the
Translations:
karass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in 1963, in the novel Cat's Cradle.
Inflected forms:
form: karasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A network or group of people who are somehow affiliated or linked spiritually.
pos: noun
examples: We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon […]
I do want to go to Arlinghurst, even though it's moronic and awful and there's no privacy at all, because I have started to build my karass there. I have the book club,I have the library—both libraries.
Like all complex systems of this type, each “karass” has its own history (see Chapter 1, 1.2). This history is a selected and saved internal ethos of organization based on both social relations and common activity experience.
I think you may be the only good person in the whole karass. Or maybe you and Anita. I'm still not sure about her.” “Karass?” “Oh, it's Andy's thing. Well, Kurt Vonnegut's thing. It's a group of people who are connected, but, like, spiritually.
Translations:
practise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English practizen, a variant of practisen, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, from Medieval Latin practizo, from Late Latin practico (“to do, perform, execute, propose, practise, exercise, be conversant with, contrive, conspire, etc.”), from prāctica (“practical affairs", "business”), from Ancient Greek πρᾱκτική (prāktikḗ), from πρᾱκτικός (prāktikós, “practical”), from πρᾱ́σσειν (prā́ssein, “to do”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per(h₂)- (“to go over, cross”).
Inflected forms:
form: practises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: practising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: practised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: practised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: practice
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You should practise playing piano every day.
gloss: To repeat an activity in this way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If you want to speak French well, you need to practise.
gloss: To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.]
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
gloss: To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She practised law for forty years before retiring.
gloss: To conspire.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
pos: verb
examples: Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practise your severity.
As this advice ye practise or neglect.
gloss: To make use of; to employ.
pos: verb
examples: In malice to this good knight's wife, I practised Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.
gloss: To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
pos: verb
examples: In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practised to love their neighbour.
Related words: practic
practicable
practical
practice
practitioner
Derived words: practisable
practiseable
practisant
practised
practise what one preaches
practising
unpractised
Translations:
completion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: American-football
ball-games
computing
engineering
football
games
hobbies
law
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin completio(n), from complere (“to fill up, complete”). By surface analysis, complet(e) + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: completions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The fundraising campaign was successfully stewarded to completion on time.
The building is nearing completion.
Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
gloss: The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The space resulting from such an act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of autocomplete.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: tab completion
gloss: Orgasm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: The hot pants of her mouth against his neck as he'd plunged into her wet heat had almost brought him to completion immediately.
Synonyms: completeness
doneness
accomplishment
completement
completion
conclusion
consummation
execution
finishedness
fulfillment
fulfillness
realization
Antonyms: incompletion
unfinishedness
termination
Related words: complete
completive
end
finish
completely
Derived words: bicompletion
cocompletion
code completion
completionism
completionist
completion string
Knuth-Bendix completion algorithm
noncompletion
postcompletion
practical completion
precompletion
semicompletion
uncompletion
μ-completion
Translations:
brainchild
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From brain + child.
Compound parts: brain
child
Inflected forms:
form: brainchilds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brainchildren
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A creation of one's brain; an original idea or innovation of a person or group of people, an organization, etc.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The entire project was the brainchild of a small group of visionaries.
A brayne-child o' mine ovvne! and I am proud on't!
I am glad you find so many lovers of your brain children in the West, although I knew it would be so.
Then, gradually, the almost maternal yearning to see his brain-child [a play] once more, which can never be wholly crushed out of a young dramatist, returned to him—faintly at first, then getting stronger by degrees till it could no longer be resisted. True, he knew that when he beheld it, the offspring of his brain would have been mangled almost out of recognition, but that did not deter him.
Inspiration's old lady gave birth to a new brainchild one afternoon at a Rhythm Kings rehearsal, when I took a few choruses on Jack Pettis' C-melody sax while he was out humoring his bladder.
We had these people for years and years, such as Mr. [Robert] McNamara and all of his brainchilds, come up here, and he said everything is going to work out fine and everybody followed him. Look what a mess we got into in Southeast Asia.
Not only all your children and your children’s children, but all your brainchildren and your brainchildren’s brainchildren must grow from the common stock of Design elements, genes and memes, that have so far been accumulated and conserved by the inexorable lifting algorithms, the ramps and cranes and cranes-atop-cranes of natural selection and its products.
Recent health 'movements' such as the Child Survival Development Revolution and Universal Childhood Immunization, are all brainchilds of international or (Western) national aid institutions.
Electricity powers all the sensors (cameras, microphones, accelerometers, radio receivers, collision detectors, etc.) and effectors (motors, solenoids, switches) of our robotic artifacts, and even if these brainchildren of ours can be made to live off sunlight (or plutonium), they will need batteries to store that energy until it is required.
But even though the Pleven Plan was the brainchild of a French prime minister, public debate had revealed the extent of French reluctance to countenance German rearmament under any conditions.
At the extreme end of the promenade, backing on to the river, was a small funfair. Edward had informed us earlier that this had been in existence since 1929 and had been one of the very early brainchilds of Sir Billy Butlin.
The Everlasting Gobstopper, a jawbreaker that changes colors and flavors, was the brainchild of Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1964. They were intended as poor kids candy since they magically kept regenerating, no matter how long you sucked on them.
Their joint cost is £54 million, and the scheme is the brainchild of the West Midlands Combined Authority.
Translations:
monotreme
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From mono- (“one”) + -treme (“hole”).
Inflected forms:
form: monotremes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the order Monotremata of mammals that lay eggs and have single orifices for urogenital and digestive functions (cloaca); an echidna, platypus or one of their extinct relatives.
pos: noun
gloss: Having a single trema, or aperture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Nomotreme fern and moss spores are monotreme.
Translations:
cervical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin cervīx
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
New Latin cervīcālislbor.
French cervicalbor.
English cervical
Borrowing from French cervical, from New Latin cervīcālis, from cervīx (“the neck, nape”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, cervic- + -al.
Base: cervīx
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the neck.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
examples: cervical pain
gloss: Of or pertaining to the cervix.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
examples: cervical cancer
Derived words: buccocervical
cervical artery
cervical canal
cervical cancer
cervical cap
cervical collar
cervical conization
cervical enamel
cervical ganglion
cervically
cervical nerve
cervical plexus
cervical smear
cervical spine
cervical vertebra
cervico-
costocervical
craniocervical
distocervical
dorsocervical
ectocervical
endocervical
exocervical
extracervical
faciocervical
inferior cervical ganglion
intracervical
labiocervical
laterocervical
linguocervical
midcervical
middle cervical ganglion
noncervical
occipitocervical
orocervical
paracervical
postcervical
pubocervical
retrocervical
scending cervical artery
spinocervical
superior cervical ganglion
supracervical
syncervical
thoracocervical
thyrocervical
transcervical
transverse cervical artery
trigeminocervical
ureterocervical
uterocervical
vaginocervical
vesicocervical
Translations:
gerontocracy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From geronto- + -cracy, from Ancient Greek.
Affixes: geronto-
-cracy
Inflected forms:
form: gerontocracies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Government by elders; government by elderly rulers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: senilocracy, graocracy (archaic)
It would come as no surprise to find that optimum science policy is apt to be developed neither by gerontocracy nor by juvenocracy but, like the community of scientists itself, by age-diversified meritocracy.
But in his 1996 novel, Holy Fire, [Bruce] Sterling imagines a rather different future: a world ruled by an all-powerful gerontocracy, which appropriates most of the world's wealth to pay for ever more costly life-extension techniques.
Young people who are close to writing off the Democratic Party as a dinosaur, as a gerontocracy of prudish abuelos who gave birth by immaculate conception, may be in for a pleasant surprise.
He [Koizumi] was what would pass for a political maverick among Japan's faceless gray gerontocracy.
Translations:
storied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English story
English -ed
English storied
From story + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more storied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most storied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Much discussed or written about.
pos: adj
examples: Not long after, the couple caught the attention of S. Somasegar, the storied Indian American technology executive, who was at Microsoft at the time.
Sure, they could have held onto the ball better at times, but they were compact, organised, and hardly gave their storied visitors a sniff from there on in.
gloss: Historical.
pos: adj
examples: Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
Derived words: unstoried
Translations:
cuboid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
geometry
mathematics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cube
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English cuboid
From cube + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: more cuboid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cuboid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cuboids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of the shape of a cube.
pos: adj
gloss: The cuboid bone.
pos: noun
gloss: A hexahedron.
pos: noun
Derived words: calcaneocuboid
cuboidal
cuboid syndrome
cuneocuboid
hypercuboid
nanocuboid
subcuboid
Translations:
phalange
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English phalange, from Middle French phalange, from Old French phalange, from Latin phalanx (accusative phalangem), from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx). Doublet of phalanx, planch, plancha, planche, and plank.
Inflected forms:
form: phalanges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of phalanx (“group of soldiers, people etc.”).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Synonym of phalanx (“one of the bones of the finger or toe”).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.
pos: noun
gloss: A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.
pos: noun
gloss: A phalanstery.
pos: noun
examples: The office of an Unarch is therefore but an honourable title. What can political authority be applied to in the Phalange, where all means of violence are absolutely useless, where no clashing interests, no enemies exist; […]
Derived words: distal phalange
intermediate phalange
middle phalange
phalangeal
phalangigrade
polyphalange
proximal phalange
Translations:
nanometre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor.
Latin nānusbor.
English nano-
English metre
English nanometre
From nano- + metre.
Inflected forms:
form: nanometres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An SI subunit of length equal to 10⁻⁹ metres.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre < kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre
Meronym: picometre
A nanometre is one billionth of a metre. A single atom is between a tenth to half a nanometre across; a million or more of them stacked on top of one another would equal the thickness of a piece of paper.
The resulting nanopasta is 372 nanometres thick, or about the same size as a measles virus.
Translations:
hamate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin hamus (“hook”) + -ate (adjective forming suffix); the noun is a back-formation from hamate bone, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Base: hamus
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: hamates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Hooked at the end.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The hamate bone.
pos: noun
Translations:
hyoid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ὗ (hû)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Ancient Greek ῡ̔οειδής (hūoeidḗs)bor.
Latin hȳoīdēs
French hyoïdebor.
English hyoid
Borrowing from French hyoïde, from New Latin hȳoīdēs, from Ancient Greek ῡ̔οειδής (hūoeidḗs, “shaped like the letter "υ"”), from ὖ (û, “the Greek letter upsilon”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).
Base: ὖ
Affixes: -ο-
-ειδής
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon (υ).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This stick has a hyoid shape.
The hyoid bone in her throat flutters as if discharging some subvocal rosary.
Beebe referred to these never-before-seen creatures as monsters, as devils and dragons. But he though of their bodies as philosophies, traditions of thought, as schools of dragonism. A college drop-out, he wondered what was to be learned at their great university: An astronesthes with batteries of hells-eye lights on its cheeks, a looped string of twenty lavender glowing beads suspended from its hyoid dewlap.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the hyoid bone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
Related words: hyoideal
hyoidean
Derived words: basihyoid
ceratohyoid
epihyoid
geniohyoid
hyo-
hyoid arch
hyoid bone
infrahyoid
mandibulohyoid
mylohyoid
omohyoid
petrohyoid
posthyoid
sternohyoid
stylohyoid
subhyoid
suprahyoid
thyrohyoid
tympanohyoid
Translations:
incus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
climatology
medicine
meteorology
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin incūsbor.
English incus
Borrowed from Latin incūs (“anvil”).
Inflected forms:
form: incudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.
pos: noun
examples: The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles[…] These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (malʹe-us; "hammer"); the incus (ingʹkus; "anvil"); and the stapes (staʹpēz; "stirrup").
gloss: An accessory cloud in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.
pos: noun
Related words: incudal
Translations:
malleus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
ichthyology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Latin malleus (“hammer, mallet”). Doublet of maul.
Inflected forms:
form: mallei
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.
pos: noun
examples: A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.
The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles[…] These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (malʹe-us; "hammer"); the incus (ingʹkus; "anvil"); and the stapes (staʹpēz; "stirrup"). The "handle" of the malleus is secured to the eardrum, and the base of the stapes fits into the oval window.
gloss: The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
pos: noun
gloss: One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.
pos: noun
examples: […] in the typical mastax of a Brachionus there are two hammer-like bodies (mallei), which work on a kind of split anvil (incus); […] each malleus consists of an upper part or head (uncus) and a lower or handle (manubrium);
Synonyms: malleus Weberi
tripus
Derived words: malleable
malleal
mallear
malleiform
Translations:
sexpot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sex + pot.
Compound parts: sex
pot
Inflected forms:
form: sexpots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sexy person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Rather than asking her to play a shallow sexpot, Clash by Night and Don't Bother to Knock ask Monroe to play women with strong opinions and complex psyches.
After appearing in commercials and soaps as a child, Applegate broke out as a teenage sexpot on the long-running Fox sitcom “Married With Children,” then won an Emmy for her work on “Friends.”
The hard launch of what appeared to be the hottest new relationship in town – Billanna? Winty? – at the 2023 Met Gala saw Vogue supremo Wintour, who has hosted the Met Gala for 30 years, walk the red carpet arm in arm with the dashing and debonair Love Actually star, a man Clive James named “the nation’s leading male sexpot”.
Translations:
kamala
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sanskrit कमला (kamalā)bor.
English kamala
Borrowed from Sanskrit कमला (kamalā, “orange”).
Inflected forms:
form: kamalas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small or medium-sized tree (Mallotus philippensis) in the spurge family, found in Asia and Australia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small or medium-sized tree (Mallotus philippensis) in the spurge family, found in Asia and Australia.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: After stating the varieties met with in this country, […] he stated that the chief points to be observed in the treatment [of common tapeworm] were: a preliminary starvation of twenty-four hours, and the administration of a combination of kamala and male fern—namely, two drachms of kamala to be rubbed up with a little gum-and-water till an emulsion is formed, and then two drachms of oil of male fern to be added, and the whole triturated in a mortar, […]
Mallotus Philippinensis, J. M. […] Though not of great importance this bush should not be passed on this occasion, inasmuch as the powdery substance investing the seed capsules constitutes the Kamala, which can be employed not only as an orange dye, but also as an anthelmintic remedy. The Hindoo silk-dyers use it for an orange colour, obtained by boiling the Kamala with carbonate of soda.
In a recent examination of commercial kamalas, the mean percentage of ash found was 35.17 per cent., using a platinum crucible and as high a temperature as a common Bunsen burner would supply.
Derived words: buckthorn-leaved kamala
orange kamala
red kamala
rusty kamala
Translations:
lang: French
word: kamala
lang: Turkish
word: malloağacı
castor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French castor, from Old French castor (“beaver”), from Latin castor (“beaver”), from Ancient Greek κάστωρ (kástōr), from Doric Greek κάστον (káston, “wood”).
Inflected forms:
form: castors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hat made from the fur of the beaver.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have been always noted for the jaunty manner in which I wear my castor—[…]
gloss: A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Castoreum (bitter exudate of mature beavers).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ariadne, of Africa and Asia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: castorette
castoreum
castor bean
castor oil
castor sac
Derived words: castorin
Translations:
tallow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English talow, talgh, from Old English *tealh, *tealg, (compare Old English tælg, telg (“dye”)), from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz (compare Dutch talg, German Talg), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to flow”) (compare Middle Irish delt (“dew”), Old Armenian տեղ (teł, “heavy rain”)).
Inflected forms:
form: tallows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tallows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tallowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tallowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tallowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "I have got a very fine shirt, which I am going to use for my wedding shirt; but there are three tallow stains on it which I want washed out[.]"
Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.
Rendering is done by boiling the animal carcasses to separate the fat from the meat. At high temperatures, the fat floats as a creamy white substance called tallow, while the heavier protein sinks to the bottom, producing greaves, which can be fed to animals. Tallow is used to make candle wax or is mixed with ash and heated again to form soap.
gloss: To grease or smear with tallow.
pos: verb
gloss: To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to tallow sheep
gloss: Of animals: to develop quantities of tallow.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] their beef is finer than that of the old short-horned breed, and they fatten much earlier and quicker, conveying still a vast depth of natural flesh, and tallowing within in the first degree.
Derived words: untallowed
Translations:
suet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English suet, sewet, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suet, siuet, from Old French seu, from Latin sebum.
Inflected forms:
form: suets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [T]he ſevvet of oxen […] is alſo good againſt the inflammation of the eares, the ſtupidity and dulneſſe of the teeth, the running of the eyes, the vlcers and rimes of the mouth, and ſtiffneſſe of the neck.
Many seed-eating birds also need animal fat and protein which they obtain from insects, animal carcasses, and suet.
Some jays, chickadees, nuthatches, and titmice regularly feed at suet; others seem never to indulge.
Translations:
stapes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin stapēs (“stirrup”). Doublet of step.
Inflected forms:
form: stapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stapedes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small stirrup-shaped innermost ossicle of the middle ear of mammals, transmitting vibrations from the incus to the inner ear.
pos: noun
examples: The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles[…] These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (malʹe-us; "hammer"); the incus (ingʹkus; "anvil"); and the stapes (staʹpēz; "stirrup"). The "handle" of the malleus is secured to the eardrum, and the base of the stapes fits into the oval window.
Translations:
dementia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *méntis
Proto-Italic *mentis
Latin mēns
Latin dēment-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin dēmentiabor.
English dementia
Borrowed from Latin dēmentia.
Inflected forms:
form: dementias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dementiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
In recent years some clinical trials involving potential dementia drugs have had disappointing setbacks.
gloss: Madness or insanity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: amentia
demented
demential
Alzheimer's disease
delirium
Derived words: academentia
antidementia
dementia café
dementia dialytica
dementialike
dementia paralytica
dementia praecox
dementia precox
dementia pugilistica
familial British dementia
infantile dementia
nondementia
paralytic dementia
predementia
pseudodementia
pseudopseudodementia
semidementia
senile dementia
steroid dementia
vascular dementia
Translations:
metacarpus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: metacarpi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The five bones that form the intermediate part of the hand between the fingers and the wrist.
pos: noun
Translations:
sulfonate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: sulfonates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sulphonate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sulfonates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sulfonating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sulfonated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sulfonated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sulphonate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of a sulfonic acid.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To treat or react with a sulfonic acid, or to introduce such a group into a compound.
pos: verb
Translations:
metatarsal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor.
English meta-
English tarsal
English metatarsal
From meta- + tarsal.
Inflected forms:
form: metatarsals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: metatarsalia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of the metatarsus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any of the bones of the metatarsus.
pos: noun
Translations:
astragalus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin astragalus, from Ancient Greek ἀστράγαλος (astrágalos). Doublet of astragal.
Inflected forms:
form: astragali
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of anklebone.
pos: noun
examples: Throughout human history, cattle astragali have been used as game dice.
gloss: Synonym of milkvetch: a plant of the genus Astragalus.
pos: noun
Derived words: astragalar
astragalectomy
astragaloid
astragaloside
Translations:
detergent
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French détergent, from Latin dētergēns, the present participle of dētergeō, from dē (“off”) + tergeō (“wipe, polish”).
Inflected forms:
form: detergents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more detergent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most detergent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: cleaner (sometimes coordinate)
laundry detergent
liquid detergent
powdered detergent
She used a mild detergent to wash the clothes.
gloss: Synonym of cleansing.
pos: adj
Translations:
surfactant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Blend of surface-active + agent.
Compound parts: surface-active
agent
Inflected forms:
form: surfactants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A surface-active agent, or wetting agent, capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid; typically organic compounds having a hydrophilic “head” and a hydrophobic “tail”.
pos: noun
examples: Dr. Khorana added that this is especially true of cleansers that feature surfactants like sodium lauryl sulfate, as this class of ingredients can cause “dryness, irritation and eczema.”
gloss: A lipoprotein in the tissues of the lung that reduces surface tension and permits more efficient gas transport.
pos: noun
examples: It is conceivable that impairment of surfactant proteins is due to rheological and immunodefensive disorders of testis and epididymis or prostate.
Derived words: antisurfactant
biosurfactant
cosurfactant
fluorosurfactant
nonsurfactant
prosurfactant
surfactantless
surfactantlike
Translations:
surface-active
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
intermolecular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Latin mōlēs
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
New Latin -cula
New Latin moleculalbor.
French moléculebor.
English molecule
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -ārisbor.
English -ar
English molecular
English intermolecular
From inter- + molecular.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: from one molecule to another; between molecules
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
intramolecular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁énterosder.
Latin *interus
Latin intrābor.
English intra-
Latin mōlēs
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
New Latin -cula
New Latin moleculalbor.
French moléculebor.
English molecule
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -ārisbor.
English -ar
English molecular
English intramolecular
From intra- + molecular.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between different parts of the same molecule.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hydrophilic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
English -philic
English hydrophilic
From hydro- + -philic.
Inflected forms:
form: more hydrophilic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hydrophilic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having an affinity for water; able to absorb, or be wetted by water; water-loving.
pos: adj
Translations:
hydrophobic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hydrophobia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English hydrophobic
From hydrophobia + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or having, hydrophobia (rabies).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: