yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
captivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English captivite, from Latin captīvitās. By surface analysis, captive + -ity. Entered into the English lexicon around the 14th century.
Inflected forms:
form: captivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being captive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: held in captivity
escape from captivity
The animals lived in captivity at the zoo.
He wrote a memoir about his years in captivity.
gloss: A group of people/beings captive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: long captivity
Related words: captive
captor
Derived words: anticaptivity
precaptivity
semicaptivity
Translations:
captor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin captor, from Latin capiō. English usage began around 1688.
Inflected forms:
form: captors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: captour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: One who is holding a captive or captives.
pos: noun
gloss: One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.
pos: noun
Related words: captee
captive
captivity
Derived words: captress
recaptor
Translations:
chimerical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From chimera, from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”). This term entered English in or around 1638.
Inflected forms:
form: more chimerical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chimerical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chimaerical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chimærical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a chimera.
pos: adj
gloss: Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
pos: adj
examples: a chimerical goal
"Yes; I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical, are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s plan chimerical.
gloss: Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
pos: adj
examples: "You are the most charming person in the world. You are invested with a perfect halo of delight," exclaimed Henrietta. "Miss Churchill has some chimerical notion of honour in her head, but that is over now; your information does not leave a single obstacle in the way of the most perfect happiness that ever wound up a fairy tale...
gloss: Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
pos: adj
gloss: Impossible to physically produce due to having an impossibly-high saturation or luminosity, but viewable by overlaying an afterimage and a suitably-colored physical image.
pos: adj
Derived words: chimerically
Translations:
lacustrine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin lacustris, from lacus (“lake”).
Inflected forms:
form: more lacustrine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lacustrine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to lakes.
pos: adj
examples: These deposits of sand have always been formed by the disintegration of a siliceous rock, and the fragments so formed have been sifted and transported by the agency of water, being finally deposited by a river either in the sea (marine deposits) or in lakes (lacustrine deposits), while the action of water, either during transport or after deposition, has frequently worn the individual particles into the shape of rounded grains.
[…]has some of these features, such as brooding one brood a year (which suggests that this species may have evolved under more lacustrine conditions).
1986, M. O. Woodburne, C. R. Campbell, T. H. V. Rich, N. S. Pledge, 5: Geology, Stratigraphy, Paleoecology, Michael O. Woodburne, W. A Clemens (Editors), Revision of the Ektopodontidae (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Phalangeroidea) of the Australian Neogene, University of California Geological Publications, Volume 131, page 75,
This apparently reflects a general change from a more lacustrine environment in the lower member to a more fluviatile setting in the upper.
It covers all of the DVGD^([Dixie Valley Geothermal District]) and is more lacustrine in nature than the other valley-fill layers.
Goose Lake is one of the many wide lakes of the Great Basin where water that has no outlet to a major river, much less to the ocean, pools in shallow wetlands that are major homes for migrating waterfowl and all sorts of lacustrine life, from tiny shrimp to redband trout.
Translations:
breathless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English breath
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English breathless
From breath + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more breathless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most breathless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
pos: adj
examples: In thoughtless and breathless fear I rushed forward to avoid this host of demons, but while flying thus still more frightful and distorted shapes appeared, and I fancied I felt their hands clutching me.
gloss: That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.).
pos: adj
examples: By that stage Sevilla were down to 10 men and Jorge Sampaoli, their manager, had been sent to the stands as a breathless encounter started to spiral out of control.
The plane buzzed on at a breathless speed. Bob had been in a plane before, and he had no fear. Indeed, but for the strange circumstances, he would have enjoyed that breathless rush through space.
gloss: Not breathing; dead or apparently so.
pos: adj
gloss: Having no wind; still, calm or airless.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a somewhat hysterical tone, using over-emotive language.
pos: adj
examples: In breathless prose that risks making Dr Pachauri, who will be 70 this year, a laughing stock among the serious, high-minded scientists,
The more some of us learn, the harder it gets to take each breathless headline seriously.
Derived words: breathlessly
breathlessness
Translations:
inflexion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French inflexion, itself from Latin īnflexiō.
Inflected forms:
form: inflexions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dated spelling of inflection.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: […] I do not like the studied air and artificial inflexions of voice which your very popular and most admired preachers generally have.
“Connexion” is the etymological (ie, “correct”) spelling. That is to say, our word is derived from an actual Latin noun, cf. deflexion, inflexion, and reflexion. […] And it might make life easier to abolish the letter “x”. But why should we cut off the fascinating roots of our words? I should carry on preferring “connexion”.
Translations:
psychedelic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, soul”) + δῆλος (dêlos, “manifest, visible”) + English -ic (prefix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’), coined by the English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond (1917–2004) in a 1956 letter to Aldous Huxley.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more psychedelic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most psychedelic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: psychedelics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced altered awareness, distortions of perception, hallucinations, etc.
pos: adj
examples: With those drugs has come the psychedelic philosophy, an impassioned belief in the self-revealing, mind-expanding powers of potent weeds and seeds and chemical compounds known to man since prehistory but wholly alien to the rationale of Western society.
gloss: Of graphics, etc.: having abstract shapes, bright colours, etc., reminiscent of drug-induced distortions of perception or hallucinations.
pos: adj
examples: There was a woman sitting on the edge of his bed. She had coral-orange hair, beryl-blue eyes, arched brows, freckles, a coy smile, a psychedelic labcoat and she was, he suddenly realized, his best friend of over twenty years.
gloss: Awesome, cool, groovy.
pos: adj
gloss: Any psychoactive substance (such as LSD or psilocybin) which, when consumed, causes perceptual changes (sometimes erratic and uncontrollable), visual hallucination, and altered awareness of the body and mind.
pos: noun
examples: I was going to become a three-drug connection to all my friends, psychedelics, hash and pot.
Derived words: antipsychedelic
cyberdelic
folkadelic
hypnodelic
neopsychedelic
nonpsychedelic
postpsychedelic
prepsychedelic
psychedelically
psychedelic circus
psychedelic crisis
psychedelic folk
psychedelic frogfish
psychedelicize
psychedelic mushroom
psychedelic rock
psychedelic soul
unpsychedelic
Translations:
practicable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prācticābilis, partly modelled on Middle French praticable. By surface analysis, practice (verb) + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: practiceable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: practisable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: practiseable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being accomplished; feasible.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Those who have concerned themselves exclusively with what seemed practicable in the existing state of opinion have constantly found that even this has rapidly become politically impossible as the result of changes in a public opinion which they have done nothing to guide.
The law in most states says that cyclists must ride as far to the right as is practicable.
This sober and unflinching analysis should be read and reckoned with by anyone concerned with practicable change in the long-suffering region.
“The player should usually be able to play more quickly than that and is encouraged to do so,” the guidelines state, with golfers that exceed 40 seconds – AKA “bad time” – “informed as soon as practicable” by a tournament official.
Monday’s executive order called on the secretary of state and director of the Office of Management and Budget to pause funding “with all practicable speed.”
gloss: Serving a useful function; useful, functional or handy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Available for use; accessible or employable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I glanced up, — there was no trap door which led to the roof. No practicable nook or cranny, in which a living being could lie concealed, was anywhere at hand.
Synonyms: usable
Antonyms: impracticable
Related words: practical
Derived words: practicability
practicableness
practicably
unpracticable
Translations:
intromission
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Medieval Latin intrōmissiō, intrōmissiōn- (“introduction, admission; usurpation”), intro- (“into”) + missiō (“sending”), from Latin intrōmissus (“sent in, introduced, let in, admitted”), perfect passive participle of intrōmittō (“send in, let in”).
Base: missiō
Affixes: intro-
Inflected forms:
form: intromissions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being allowed to enter; admittance
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of allowing to enter; admission
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Putting one thing into another; introduction (into); insertion
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Your father has told me all about it. Did you ever hear of anything so ridiculous?"
"All about what?—all about what?" said Delia, whose attempt to represent happy ignorance seemed likely to be spoiled by an intromission of ferocity. She might succeed in appearing ignorant, but she could scarcely succeed in appearing happy.
gloss: Copulation: usually the first moment of initial entry of a penis into a vagina, mouth or anus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
countable
uncountable
Related words: intromit
intromittent
intromittent organ
intromissive
Derived words: interintromission
superintromission
vicious intromission
Translations:
slated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English slattyd, equivalent to slate + -ed.
Base: slate
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: scheduled
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: The tractor plant is slated for the ax.
gloss: reviewed unfavorably
pos: adj
gloss: covered with slates
pos: adj
Derived words: unslated
Translations:
nostalgically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nostalgic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English nostalgically
From nostalgic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more nostalgically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most nostalgically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a nostalgic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Nostalgically, Bill Feingold intones the excruciating litany. “Having your tongue torn out, and your throat cut across,” he rumbles, recalling words memorized on a New York City rooftop 38 years ago.
Translations:
proctologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From proctology + -ist or procto- + -logy + -ist.
Base: proctology
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: proctologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A doctor specializing in the colon, rectum, and anus; an expert in proctology.
pos: noun
examples: The referral was to a proctologist to treat the hemorrhoids.
Translations:
proctology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From procto- + -logy or proct- + -ology.
Base: procto
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of medicine dealing with the pathology of the colon, rectum, and anus.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The branch of medicine dealing with the surgery of the colon, rectum, and anus.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
gloss: Colorectal surgery as a specialty inside proctology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The department or the building of the hospital or clinic.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: coloproctology
Related words: coloproctologist
proctalgia
proctologically
proctologist
Derived words: proctologic
proctological
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: проктология
roman: proktologija
lang: Bulgarian
word: колопроктология
roman: koloproktologija
lang: Catalan
word: proctologia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 直腸病學 /直肠病学
roman: zhíchángbìngxué
lang: Esperanto
word: proktologio
lang: Finnish
word: peräsuolioppi
lang: Finnish
word: proktologia
lang: French
word: proctologie
lang: Galician
word: proctoloxía
lang: German
word: Proktologie
lang: Hungarian
word: proktológia
lang: Italian
word: proctologia
lang: Occitan
word: proctologia
lang: Portuguese
word: proctologia
lang: Romanian
word: proctologie
lang: Russian
word: проктоло́гия
roman: proktológija
lang: Russian
word: колопроктология
roman: koloproktologija
lang: Spanish
word: proctología
lang: Swedish
word: proktologi
lang: Ukrainian
word: проктоло́гія
roman: proktolóhija
lang: German
word: Gastroenterologische Chirurgie
lang: German
word: Viszeralchirurgie
topiary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin topiarius (“of or relating to ornamental gardening; an ornamental garden, an ornamental gardener”), from Latin topia (“ornamental gardening, landscape painting”), from Ancient Greek τόπια (tópia, “artistic representation in which natural or artificial features of a place are used as the medium”), plural of Ancient Greek τόπιον (tópion, “field, landscape”), from τόπος (tópos, “place”). The adjective use dates to 1592, the noun use dates to 1908.
Inflected forms:
form: topiaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to art of topiaries.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As the topiary art has been allowed to practically die out, it is difficult to secure the services of skilled clippers.
gloss: Of a tree or shrub, trimmed in artistic shape.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Art or practice of trimming shrubs or trees in artistic or ornamental shapes, e.g. of animals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The palace garden might have had a semblance of coolness had there been any trees, but the tallest things were fanciful topiary, tortured into the shapes of running horses or bears performing tumblers’ tricks or the like.
gloss: A garden decorated with such art.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: One such shrub or tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We have topiaries for sale.
Related words: arborsculpture
bonsai
espalier
Derived words: topiarian
topiaried
topiarist
Translations:
lode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.
Inflected forms:
form: lodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A way or path; a road.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A watercourse.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
pos: noun
examples: The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small granitic intrusive body.
gloss: A rich source of supply.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns.
Related words: loadstone
Derived words: lodeship
lodesman
lodestar
mother lode
Translations:
triggering
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: triggerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The initiation of an event or process.
pos: noun
gloss: That triggers or initiates.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With assembly line consistency, Martin receives countless rejections from faceless editors—a triggering reminder for any literary hopeful navigating the modern culture industry.
Not so very long ago, the notion of saliva was considered so triggering that the chicken chain KFC dropped its “finger-lickin’ good” catchphrase, calling it “the most inappropriate slogan for 2020.”
Translations:
thicko
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thick
English -o
English thicko
From thick + -o.
Inflected forms:
form: thickos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thickoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dimwit or idiot.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
slang
Translations:
toft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old Norse toft, from Proto-Germanic *tumþiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”).
Inflected forms:
form: tofts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hillock.
pos: noun
gloss: A homestead, especially one on a hill.
pos: noun
examples: Rendering therefore annually to me and my heirs one halfpenny on the day of the nativity of St. John the Baptist for all suits services and demands and I the said Alice and my heirs the aforesaid toft and land with all their appurtenances as is before named to the said William and his heirs[…].
2003, C. S. Knighton (editor), Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery): Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume VIII: 1422—1485, page 73,
Wynnemerus Preston lately held 2 cottages wasted of which the tofts are worth 2d. net yearly and another cottage wasted of which the toft is worth 6d. net yearly.
[…]the lands of Peter de Sourdeuall in Esk, Brandesburton and Routh[…]namely, half the capital messuage with the enclosure (ofuenam) as it is bounded and fenced, and a bovate of land which belonged to John, son of Emmot, and a toft which Henry, son of Walter, held, and a toft which Roger the carpenter (le carpentre) held,[…].
gloss: A messuage with right of common.
pos: noun
Derived words: toft and croft
toftman
Translations:
touristic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tourist + -ic, popularized by its similarity to Romance words like French touristique and Spanish turístico.
Base: tourist
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more touristic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most touristic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Catering to tourists; touristy.
pos: adj
tags: Latin-America
especially
gloss: Typical of tourists.
pos: adj
tags: Latin-America
especially
Derived words: antitouristic
ecotouristic
geotouristic
nontouristic
overtouristic
touristically
touristic guide
touristicity
touristicness
untouristic
Translations:
seductive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin sēduct-, past-participle stem of sēdūcere, + -ive.
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more seductive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most seductive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: seducive
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Attractive, alluring, tempting.
pos: adj
examples: Evil is said to be seductive, which is one reason why people do what they know they shouldn't.
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
Translations:
touristy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nos
Proto-Indo-European *tórh₁nos
Proto-Hellenic *tórnos
Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos)bor.
Latin tornus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin tornō
Old French torner
Old French tourder.
English tour
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 tourist
English -y
English touristy
From tourist + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: touristier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: touristiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Catering to tourists; touristic.
pos: adj
tags: informal
often
pejorative
examples: Windsor is very touristy.
These men would find a much bigger and touristier Carmel now. But the scenic oceanfront remains, and there are many intriguing ethnic eating places.
Pick one of the touristiest bars on Duval Street to get the idea that you have to hang out in such bars out of your system early on.
gloss: Typical of tourists.
pos: adj
tags: informal
often
pejorative
Synonyms: touristic
Derived words: nontouristy
touristiness
untouristy
Translations:
trolley
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Early 19th century (1823) meaning "cart", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending).
Base: troll
Affixes: -ey
Inflected forms:
form: trolleys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trolleying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trolleyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trolleyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: trollied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trollied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: trolly
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To bring to by trolley.
pos: verb
gloss: To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
pos: verb
gloss: To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train).
pos: verb
Derived words: trolley off
Translations:
weighing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more weighing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most weighing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: weighings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That weighs or burdens.
pos: adj
gloss: The process by which something is weighed.
pos: noun
examples: She took her baby to the clinic for regular weighings.
Translations:
yachting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: yachtings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A physical activity involving yachts, such as racing sailing boats, cruising to distant shores, or day-sailing along a coast.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
often
uncountable
examples: In those days, yachting on the east coast was a favourite relaxation, and it was proposed to extend the line for 1¾ miles to a pier on the River Blackwater, where yachts could be moored.
Translations:
Kurd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested in English since roughly 1600, from Kurdish کورد (kurd) and Classical Persian کُرْد (kurd), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gurd /⁠kurd⁠/), ultimately of unknown origin. More at Kurds.
Inflected forms:
form: Kurds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.
pos: noun
examples: Kurds live in several countries.
I took classes with a Kurd.
Curdi, B[arbarous]. a people which many think to be the Parthians, A[uncient]. But we cannot possiblie thinke them to be so. wherein we agree with Castaldo.
Mehemet took her for a man and said, “Good father, I am a Kurd: my story is very curious”
After defeating IS in battle, Syria's Kurds are now eager to show they can bring justice against the group's members.
Translations:
phosphor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin phosphorus.
Inflected forms:
form: phosphors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phosphore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Any of various compounds of transition metals or of rare earths that exhibit phosphorescence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Phosphorus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The planet Venus, when appearing as a morning star
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
proper-noun
uncountable
Related words: phosphoric
Derived words: hexamethylphosphoramide
nanophosphor
phosphoramidate
phosphoramide
phosphoramidite
phosphorana
phosphorane
phosphorate
phosphor bronze
phosphor copper
phosphoremia
phosphoresce
phosphorgummite
phosphorian
phosphorical
phosphoriferous
phosphorimager
phosphorimaging
phosphorimetry
phosphorine
phosphorise
phosphorism
Phosphorist
phosphorite
phosphorization
phosphorize
phosphorless
phosphorogenic
phosphorolysis
phosphorolytic
phosphoroscope
phosphorthioate
phosphor tin
phosphoruria
phosphoryl
phosphor zinc
Translations:
dalliance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English daliaunce et al., from dalien (“to exchange pleasantries, to chat; to flirt”), from Old French dalier, dailer. By surface analysis, dally + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: dalliances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Playful flirtation; amorous play.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind),
“Mark,” said Gabriel, sternly, “now you mind this: none of that dalliance-talk—that philandering way—that dandle-smack-and-coddle style of yours—about Miss Everdene. I don’t allow it. Do you hear?”
If this were the case, his return showed that the struggle had been unsuccessful, for Lily knew he was not the man to waste his time in an ineffectual sentimental dalliance.
But that dalliance has been dashed in less than three months, with the developer now claiming the Trump brand is now too “toxic” to work with – and the Trump Organization responding that their local partner had provided only “empty promise, after empty promise”.
gloss: An episode of dabbling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had passed the officer now. There was no necessity for dalliance. He pressed the accelerator down a trifle.
Emerging, satiated, from the theatre, a public timepiece before a jeweller's shop confronted him with an unexpected dial and imminent perplexities. How was he to explain at home these hours of dalliance?
But, with a gesture, she put a period to this dalliance—one shouldn't palter so on an empty stomach, she might almost have said.
Quite a few minutes would be spun out, for instance, at the smallish town of Chirk, but to me the dalliance was generally worthwhile, except in wet weather, because of the increasing beauty of the wooded hill scenery thereabouts.
gloss: A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: dallier
dally
dallying
Translations:
contained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more contained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Restricted in space.
pos: adj
examples: The brush fire is now contained: if it doesn't jump the lines, it will burn itself out.
Translations:
satchel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First recorded circa 1340 as Middle English sachel, from Old French sachel, from Late Latin saccellum (“money bag, purse”), a diminutive of Latin sacculus, itself a diminutive of saccus (“bag”). See sack.
Inflected forms:
form: satchels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.
pos: noun
examples: "Come, now, take yourselves off, like good boys and girls," he said; and the whole assemblage, dark and light, disappeared through a door into a large verandah, followed by Eva, who carried a large satchel, which she had been filling with apples, nuts, candy, ribbons, laces, and toys of every description, during her whole homeward journey.
A young culprit has been caught in the fact of robbing an orchard, and brought back to his master, who stands over him with an iron face of angry authority;—the very apples, as if anxious to bear witness against him, are tumbling from his satchel.
Translations:
abrasively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English abrasive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English abrasively
From abrasive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more abrasively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most abrasively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an abrasive manner; in a rude and unkind manner; acting in a way that may hurt other people's feelings.
pos: adv
gloss: Hardly; roughly; in a rough manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
empyreal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin empyreus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος (empúrios, “fiery”), from ἐν (en, “en-”) + πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) (English pyre).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the highest heaven or the empyrean.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne, / That cauſd the eldeſt ſonne of heauenly Ops, / To thruſt his doting father from his chaire, / And place himſelfe in the Emperiall heauen, / Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.
They that held the Stars of heaven vvere but rayes and flaſhing glimpſes of the Empyreall light, through holes and perforations of the upper heaven, took of the natural ſhadovvs of ſtars, […]
This downfall ; ſince by Fate the ſtrength of Gods / And this Empyreal ſubſtance cannot fail, / Since through experience of this great event / In Arms not worſe, in foreſight much advanc't, / We may with more ſucceſsſul hope reſolve / To wage by force or guile eternal Warr[…]
gloss: Of the sky or heavens.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Fiery, made of pure fire.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: empyrical
Derived words: empyreal air
super-empyreal
Translations:
backwoods
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From back + woods.
Compound parts: back
woods
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: about that time, you may[…]reckon, if like me you belong to the back-woods, that I began to make up my acquaintance with hard times, and a plenty of them.
It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
gloss: Pertaining to the backwoods.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: backwood
Derived words: backwoodser
backwoodsman
backwoodsy
Translations:
MPTP
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
neurotoxicology
sciences
toxicology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine: a byproduct of synthetic heroin, or MPPP, which causes parkinsonian symptoms in users; and a neurotoxin that degrades into MPP+ after crossing the blood-brain barrier, which causes a degradation of the dopaminergic neurons within the substantia nigra.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 2005 Dec 29, Petzinger, et al. Journal of Neuroscience Research http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16385585&query_hl=8&itool=pubmed_docsum
The neurotoxicant 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine MPTP provides an excellent opportunity to study repair and response to injury in the basal ganglia.
Translations:
seduction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French séduction, from Latin sēductiō, from sēdūcō. Equivalent to seduce + -tion.
Base: seduce
Affixes: -tion
Inflected forms:
form: seductions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of seducing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Douglas: Well done on passing the test, Jen... Yes, all those clumsy attempts at seduction. Don't tell me you couldn't see through them. They were a test to find out whether you really wanted to work for me or whether you just wanted to come up here for my body.
Jen: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, not at all.
Douglas: All right.
Jen: No, physically you're just not the sort of man I go for.
Douglas: Yeah, thanks, Jen.
Jen: I go for the classically good-looking men: Blond, broad, and generally clean shaven.
Douglas: Alright, yeah, enough of the jibber-jabber!
Seduction is the fine art of manipulating people based on physical attraction and desire. Step 1: Be attractive. Step 2: Don't be unattractive.
gloss: The felony of, as a man, inducing a previously chaste unmarried female to engage in sexual intercourse on a promise of marriage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: A seductive aspect of something; appeal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: It is with no small degree of irony that I confess that immersing myself in an interdisciplinary project has warmed me to the seductions of disciplinary perspectives.
Related words: seduce
Derived words: hypnoseduction
seduction community
seductionist
seduction theory
Translations:
seductress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English seductor
Late Latin -issader.
Old French -essebor.
Middle English -esse
English -ess
English seductress
From seductor + -ess.
Inflected forms:
form: seductresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman skilled in and practiced at seduction.
pos: noun
examples: The sirens were seductresses who lured many sailors to their doom.
gloss: A woman who seduces.
pos: noun
examples: Even though she didn't think of herself as a seductress, her effect on men showed she was one.
Synonyms: vamp
Translations:
serotonergic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ser-
Proto-Indo-European *sér-o-der.
Proto-Italic *serom
Latin serumder.
English serum
English sero-
English tone
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English seroton(in)
English -ergy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -ergic
English serotonergic
From seroton(in) + -ergic.
Inflected forms:
form: serotonergics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Containing or releasing serotonin.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Involved in, or capable of modulating activity in, neurotransmission pathways that use serotonin receptor proteins.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Moreover, the results of multiple administrations of the receptor ligands to control rats indicate that the NPY systems in both structures under study are modulated in the same manner by dopaminergic activity and differentially by adrenergic, N-methyl-D-aspartate and serotonergic activity.
gloss: That which is serotonergic.
pos: noun
Derived words: antiserotonergic
extraserotonergic
hyperserotonergic
hyposerotonergic
nonserotonergic
Translations:
adrenergic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From adren- + -ergic.
Affixes: adren-
-ergic
Inflected forms:
form: more adrenergic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adrenergic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: adrenergics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the quality of adrenaline or epinephrine.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing or releasing adrenaline.
pos: adj
gloss: Activated by an adrenal mechanism.
pos: adj
gloss: Any adrenergic compound.
pos: noun
Derived words: adrenergic receptor
alpha-adrenergic
alpha-adrenergic blocking agent
antiadrenergic
beta-adrenergic
hyperadrenergic
neuroadrenergic
nonadrenergic
sympathoadrenergic
Translations:
noradrenergic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more noradrenergic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most noradrenergic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the quality of noradrenaline.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing or releasing norepinephrine or noradrenaline.
pos: adj
Derived words: nonnoradrenergic
Translations:
immiscible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin im-
English im-
English miscible
English immiscible
From im- + miscible.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of two or more liquids that are not mutually soluble: unmixable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A mixture of oil, water, and mercury forms three immiscible layers.
Antonyms: miscible
Translations:
Aleutian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Aleut
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Aleutian
From Aleut + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Aleutic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Aleutians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Aleutic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to the Aleutian Islands (a group of islands in the northern Pacific Ocean, west of Alaska), or to its inhabitants, their culture, or their language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands.
pos: noun
Translations:
norepinephrine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From nor- + epinephrine.
Base: epinephrine
Affixes: nor-
Inflected forms:
form: norepinephrines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A neurotransmitter found in the locus coeruleus which is synthesized from dopamine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:norepinephrine.
Translations:
noradrenaline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin norma
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin nōrmālisder.
English normal
English nor-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-bor.
English ad-
Late Latin rēn
▲
Late Latin -ālis
Late Latin rēnālislbor.
English renal
English adrenal
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English adrenaline
English noradrenaline
From nor- + adrenaline.
Inflected forms:
form: noradrenalines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: noradrenalin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of norepinephrine.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: Ranicide in rats was found to be reduced by injection of noradrenaline into the hypothalamus, as was muricide behaviour (Bandler, 1970).[…]Other sites in the unspecified ‘ventral midbrain’ were also found (Bandler, 1971) at which noradrenaline administration in crystalline form served to facilitate predatory aggression (ranicide and muricide).
Translations:
chunky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chunk
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English chunky
From chunk + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: chunkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more chunky
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: chunkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most chunky
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having chunks.
pos: adj
examples: I ate a chunky bar of chocolate.
They are traditionally served with meat sauces, but are also good with chunky vegetable sauces.
The VCS version looks a little different with its chunky graphics and use of colours but the 112 game variations (yes you read that right!) more than make up for it!
gloss: Fat.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
examples: I prefer chunky blonde girls to skinny brunettes.
“Nigel used to be chunky, huh?” “I was not chunky,” Nigel said testily. “I was just... hefty .
In sixth grade I was first propositioned by a chunky girl named Tijuana Downs. She called me on the telephone one evening and asked me if I would like to be her boyfriend.
gloss: Of a cat: having a large, solid bodyline.
pos: adj
examples: The British Shorthair has a distinctively chunky body, dense coat and broad face.
gloss: Large.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: things where a bank can accumulate a fairly chunky position because of perceived profit opportunities, then wind up owning far more than would seem prudent because they haven't priced in the illiquidity
Derived words: chunkily
chunkiness
chunky monkey
Translations:
militarily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English military
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English militarily
From military + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more militarily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most militarily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a military or martial manner; not peaceably.
pos: adv
gloss: By way of military or otherwise belligerent means.
pos: adv
examples: The borders of the empire were expanded militarily over the course of many wars of conquest.
At the very moment when their petty-bourgeois counterparts were coming to power elsewhere in Africa, these Mozambicans found the Portuguese turning their backs on neocolonialism and digging in their heels militarily against any such denouement to their rule.
2007 Ranjit Matthews, Re: Senator calls for Mecca and Medina to be nuked in retaliation Group: soc.culture.indian
If it were, it would lose because you can't defeat a religion militarily. You can. Jahaliya was cleansed out of Arabia. More recently, Sufism was eliminated in the Hejaz. Kafirism was wiped out in Kafiristan (Nuristan).
gloss: In a manner relating to the military or military matters.
pos: adv
examples: Whether [Israel's] blockade [of Gaza] is militarily justified is a point of contention.
Synonyms: militarically
Derived words: nonmilitarily
Translations:
over-the-counter
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: An attributive form of over the counter.
Inflected forms:
form: over the counter
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of medicine and other treatments, legal for sale or distribution without the requirement of a prescription.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: over-the-counter drug, over-the-counter medicine
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the oral contraceptive Opill for over-the-counter use, making it the first nonprescription birth control pill in the United States, but it will be months before it’s available.
gloss: Involving direct interaction between two parties without an intermediary, and denoting any market where items such as stocks or currency are bought and sold by direct arrangement between counterparties, or through a private broker, rather than on a public stock exchange or other exchange.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: over-the-counter trade, over-the-counter market
This is "commencement week" in "over-the-counter insurance" circles, the Whitman, Mass., savings bank having opened the ball with four applications made for $300 each by three prominent business men […]
Derived words: non-over-the-counter
Translations: