yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
sackbut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From French sacqueboute, from Middle French sacquer (“to pull”) + bouter (“to push”).
Inflected forms:
form: sackbuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sacbut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sackbutt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sagbut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shagbolt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shakbusshe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet.
pos: noun
examples: Every instrument took part in the stately Pavane: the lutes and the dulcimers, and the theorbos, and the sackbuts, and the hautboys; the flutes sweetly warbling as birds in the upper air, and the silver trumpets, and the horns that breathed deep melodies trembling with mystery and tenderness that shakes the heart; and the drum that beateth to battle, and the wild throb of the harp, and the cymbals clashing as the clash of armies.
Translations:
capriccioso
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian capriccioso. Cognate with capricious.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: capriciously
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
twincest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: Blend of twin + incest, equivalent to twin + -cest.
Base: twin
Affixes: -cest
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Incestuous sexual relations between twins, or siblings who look very similar.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: This one's about gay brothers. I'm calling it Twincest. Nice, no?
As 'twincest' is in (a trend started by Parker Posey and Josh Hamilton in The House of Yes, to be released in the UK in 1998)...
These pieces you might very well be able to relate to even if you've never been horny for twincest, had an affair, or been a black man...
In the course of one of his climbs, he hears adult voices through a high window, goes to investigate, and comes across Jaime and Cersei energetically engaged in (to use a neologism popular with fans) twincest.
Translations:
whipper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English whip
English -er
English whipper
From whip + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: whippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or thing that whips.
pos: noun
gloss: A person or thing that whips.
pos: noun
Related words: whippersnapper
Derived words: coal-whipper
whipper-ginnie
whipper-in
Translations:
snipper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snip
English -er
English snipper
From snip + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: snippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tool used for snipping.
pos: noun
Derived words: snipper-snapper
whipper snipper
Translations:
snipping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: snippings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is snipped or cut.
pos: noun
examples: There was a time when all manner of snippings were made to keep Handel's operas within bounds.
gloss: A piece cut off; a clipping.
pos: noun
examples: One of them bit off his toe, others took snippings from his hair or tore off his nails and would have cut pieces from his flesh had they not been prevented.
Translations:
snips
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: shears; hand tools used to cut sheet metal and other tough webs
pos: noun
Derived words: tinsnips
Translations:
snippy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From snip + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian snippig, snippich (“short, brief, blunt”), Dutch snippig (“snippy, shrill”), German Low German snippig (“snippy, snappy”), German schnippisch (“snippy, snappy”).
Base: snip
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: snippier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: snippiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fragmentary; snipped.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: choppy
gloss: Irritable; impatient; short-tempered; often, in a condescending way.
pos: adj
gloss: Stingy.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:stingy, Thesaurus:frugal
Related words: snipper
snippetiness
snippy snip
Derived words: snippily
snippiness
Translations:
fembot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Blend of female + -bot. Coined by screenwriters Arthur Rowe and Oliver Crawford in the television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), specifically in "Kill Oscar" (season 2, episode 5) first broadcast on October 27, 1976.
Compound parts: female
-bot
Inflected forms:
form: fembots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A robot in female or feminine form.
pos: noun
examples: Yes, the girl is valuable. But, my fembots can do anything she can.
Jawohl, Herr Doktor. I have created the ultimate weapon to defeat Austin Powers. Send in the fembots!
The body of Eve 8, the fembot, represents both steely industrial strength and the mysteries of microelectronic circuitry.
gloss: A robot in female or feminine form.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
gloss: A docile, unthinking and conformist woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: [...] patriarchal socialization works to sap, stunt and tame this energy, leaving successfully adapted women as little more than 'fembots' or 'feminized artifacts' who have become the products and commodities of patriarchal 'necrophilic' sexual fantasy.
Too many people, forgetting the discipline of love and rage, have read the "Manifesto" as the ramblings of a blissed-out, technobunny, fembot.
Related words: femboy
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: robotino
lang: Finnish
word: gynoidi
lang: French
word: gynoïde
lang: French
word: robote
lang: Marathi
word: फेमबॉट
roman: phembŏṭ
first-party
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
form: 1st-party
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to someone (a first party) directly involved in a given transaction, such as a buyer or seller.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the plaintiff in a lawsuit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of products, created or published by the company responsible for the platform on which it is released (or its internal developers), as opposed to third-party.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a first-party video game; a first-party character; first-party hardware
Translations:
microtonal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English tonal
English microtonal
From micro- + tonal.
Inflected forms:
form: more microtonal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most microtonal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or written using microtones.
pos: adj
Translations:
maiming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: maimings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody is maimed.
pos: noun
examples: 1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation
They remember his subornings, menacings, bribings, cuttings, maimings, hangings, and burnings.
Translations:
noo
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nooo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Elongated form of no.
pos: intj
examples: “What, is that Bill?” says she. “Noo, that ain’t,” says he, and he twirled his tail.
Translations:
neonatology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English neonate
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English -ology
English neonatology
From neonate + -ology.
Inflected forms:
form: neonatologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The branch of medicine that deals with newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn infant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
photoconductive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English conduct
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English conductive
English photoconductive
From photo- + conductive.
Inflected forms:
form: more photoconductive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most photoconductive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of, relating to, or characterized by photoconductivity
pos: adj
Translations:
photoconductivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English conduct
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English conductive
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English conductivity
English photoconductivity
From photo- + conductivity.
Inflected forms:
form: photoconductivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The increase in the electrical conductivity of a material as a result of incident electromagnetic radiation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
photoconductor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English conductor
English photoconductor
From photo- + conductor.
Inflected forms:
form: photoconductors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A material or device that exhibits or uses photoconductivity
pos: noun
Translations:
photocurrent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English current
English photocurrent
From photo- + current.
Inflected forms:
form: photocurrents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any electric current that flows as a result of photoconductivity or the photovoltaic effect
pos: noun
Translations:
mahjong
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Mandarin 麻將／麻将 (májiàng), derived from 麻雀 (máquè, “sparrow”) with a Wu diminutive suffix 兒／儿 /ŋ̍/.
Inflected forms:
form: majiang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mah-jong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mahjongg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mah-jongg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mah jongg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mah Jong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: majiang
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: mah-jong
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: mahjongg
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: mah-jongg
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: mah jongg
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: Mah Jong
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Miss Ganett drank coffee whilst Caroline got out the Mah Jong box and poured out the tiles upon the table.
My usual mahjong kaki.
While most of the country has spent the weekend counting hongbaos and mahjong tiles, those guys have been out there salvaging hongbaos and half of Thomson Road.
Ho Sau-Mei, one of Hong Kong’s last mahjong tile carvers, is getting old.
gloss: A solitaire game using the same tiles, where the player wins by removing pairs of matching exposed tiles until none remain.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A call declaring a winning hand in the game of mahjong.
pos: intj
Derived words: riichi mahjong
Translations:
photodetector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English detector
English photodetector
From photo- + detector.
Inflected forms:
form: photodetectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any device used to detect electromagnetic radiation
pos: noun
Translations:
photoinduced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English induced
English photoinduced
From photo- + induced.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: induced as a result of interaction with electromagnetic radiation in the visible and near-visible range.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
smol
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Eye dialect of small.
Inflected forms:
form: smoler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: smoller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: smolest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: smollest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tiny and cute.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
examples: Smol doggos with cute messy hair from the rain.
However, our penchant for smol puppers means lots more people are breeding these so-called teacup dogs.
A baby octopus the size of a pea was hitchhiking on a piece of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean when Hawaiian researchers spotted it and scooped up the smol, smol cephalopod.
UwU Conservativism, and the end of smol government
Antonyms: thicc
chonky
tol
Translations:
dimerization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From dimer + -ization or dimerize + -ation.
Base: dimer
Affixes: -ization
Inflected forms:
form: dimerizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any chemical reaction in which two monomers react to form a dimer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
photodissociation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English dissociation
English photodissociation
From photo- + dissociation.
Inflected forms:
form: photodissociations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The dissociation of a molecule following the absorption of a photon
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
photoplay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
Proto-West Germanic *plehan
Old English pleġan
Proto-West Germanic *plegō
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-West Germanic *-ōn
Proto-West Germanic *plegōn
Old English plegian
Middle English pleyen
Proto-West Germanic *plegō
Old English plega
Middle English pleye
English play
English photoplay
From photo- + play.
Inflected forms:
form: photoplays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A theatrical play that has been filmed for showing as a movie.
pos: noun
gloss: A novel adapted from a movie and illustrated with photographic stills taken from the film. Usage largely confined to the silent era of Hollywood.
pos: noun
gloss: A motion picture.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: The three essentials of the photoplay are the Synopsis, the Cast and the Plot of Action.
Derived words: photoplayer
photoplaywright
Translations:
photodynamic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dunamai
Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor.
French dynamiqueder.
English dynamic
English photodynamic
From photo- + dynamic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or caused by the energy or momentum of light or other electromagnetic radiations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to photodynamics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: photodynamically
photodynamic therapy
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: fotodynaaminen
lang: Kazakh
word: фотодинамикалық
roman: fotodinamikalyq
photoelectric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
New Latin ēlectricusbor.
English electric
English photoelectric
From photo- + electric.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the electric effects of electromagnetic radiation, especially the ejection of an electron from a surface by a photon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Photo-electric beams in advance of each section enable automatic operation of the plant.
Translations:
percolation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin percōlātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: percolations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With simultaneous measurement of channel conductivity and its slow time-dependent fluctuation (or noise) in ultra-thin WSe2 and MoS2 FETs on insulating SiO2 substrates, where noise arises from McWhorter-type carrier number fluctuations, we establish that the switching in conventional backgated TMDC FETs is a classical percolation transition in a medium of inhomogeneous carrier density distribution.
Translations:
photoelectron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
New Latin ēlectricusbor.
English electric
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
Proto-Hellenic *éimi
Ancient Greek εἶμι (eîmi)der.
English ion
English electron
English photoelectron
From photo- + electron.
Inflected forms:
form: photoelectrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An electron ejected from the surface of a material by the photoelectric effect.
pos: noun
Translations:
afterimage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros
Proto-Germanic *after
Old English æfter
Middle English after
English after
▲
Old English æfter
Old English æfter-
Middle English after-
English after-
English image
English afterimage
From after- + image.
Inflected forms:
form: afterimages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: after-image
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An image which persists or remains in negative after the original stimulation has ended.
pos: noun
examples: If the fixation is wavering, especially when receiving the horizontal afterimage with the centroscope a thin pointer is used by the child to touch the fixation spot.
The first paper, "The hypnotic induction of hallucinatory color vision followed by pseudonegative afterimages," introduces an ingenious experimental paradigm whereby Erickson is able to explore the genuineness of hallucinatory color vision.
Translations:
seepage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English seep
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English seepage
From seep + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: seepages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something, especially a liquid, leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping. (Also used figuratively: the process of diffusing.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] while they all admit that the most serious losses occur by seepage of gas from, and oil into, the combustion-chamber and that this seepage is […]
In the case of the Rio Blanco experiment, it is the seepage of gas which is considered to be the "worst possible situation" that might occur.
Despite some seepage of customs from north of the border, the Day of the Dead is not [widespread in the US].
gloss: Water that has seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antiseepage
macroseepage
microseepage
seepage bed
Translations:
relativize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English relative
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English relativize
From relative + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: relativizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: relativizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: relativized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: relativized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: relativise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make one thing relative to another.
pos: verb
examples: However, many thinkers (Protestant and Catholic) have used historical-critical methods to relativize New Testament materials on sex and gender to their original settings, rather quickly substituting for "obsolete" moral prohibitions a modern, liberal set of values[…]
gloss: To make relative.
pos: verb
examples: to relativize indirect objects
Derived words: overrelativize
relativizable
relativization
relativizer
unrelativized
Translations:
oliva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin oliva (“olive”). Doublet of olive.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: olivary body
pos: noun
examples: The medial part of the ventral lamina forms the most rostral pole of the oliva, the dorsal lamina the most caudal one.
Translations:
stane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Northern Middle English stan, stane, from Old English stān (“stone”). More at stone.
Inflected forms:
form: stanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dialectal or obsolete form of stone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
fennec
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French fennecbor.
English fennec
Borrowed from French fennec, from Arabic فَنَك (fanak).
Inflected forms:
form: fennecs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small fox of the species Vulpes zerda, found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears.
pos: noun
Translations:
cachalot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Old Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Indo-European *-tlomder.
Latin -ulum
Latin capulum
Portuguese cacho
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin -oluslbor.
Portuguese -ola
Portuguese cachola
Portuguese -ote
Portuguese cachalotebor.
French cachalotbor.
English cachalot
Borrowed from French cachalot, from Portuguese cachalote, from cachola (“head”) + -ote.
Base: cachola
Affixes: -ote
Inflected forms:
form: cachalots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus.
pos: noun
examples: A flexible rib cage facilitates the collapse of the lungs of a diving cachalot (a synonym derived from an old French word for tooth), so reducing the nitrogen uptake which is responsible for decompression sickness in diving humans, while high levels of haemoglobin in the blood and myoglobin in the skeletal muscles carry the oxygen required to sustain long periods between breaths.
Translations:
Hazara
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Classical Persian هَزَارَه (hazāra).
Inflected forms:
form: Hazaras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hazara
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Huzara
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Huzara
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A region in the cis-Indus area of North Pakistan.
pos: noun
tags: Pakistan
gloss: A member of the Persian-speaking, predominantly Twelver Shia ethnic group native to Hazarajat (a region in central Afghanistan).
pos: noun
examples: The Hazaras, with their long history of being oppressed and neglected, seethed.
gloss: Of or relating to the Hazaras.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Across the stream, a group of local Hazara boys were picking patties of dried cow dung from the ground and stowing them into burlap sacks tethered to their backs.
Translations:
Pashtun
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Pashto پښتون (pax̌tūn). Doublet of Pathan.
Inflected forms:
form: more Pashtun
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Pashtun
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Pushtun
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pashtoon
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pushtoon
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pushtun
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pakhtun
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pukhtun
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pakhtoon
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pukhtoon
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pashtuns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pushtun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Pashtoon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Pushtoon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Pushtun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Pakhtun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Pukhtun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Pakhtoon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Pukhtoon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Pashtuns (a segmentary-lineage ethnic group currently numbering some 50 million people, which is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan), or to their culture.
pos: adj
examples: “What about Zalmai?” he said. “It’s a good Pashtun name.”
gloss: A person of an Iranic ethnic group native to Pashtunistan.
pos: noun
examples: “They bring shame on me as a Pashtun. They’ve disgraced the name of my people.”
gloss: A Pashto-speaking person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Synonyms: Pathan
Afghan
Afghanistani
Translations:
photoengraving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English engraving
English photoengraving
From photo- + engraving.
Inflected forms:
form: photoengravings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A process of transferring a photographic image onto a plate which is then etched and printed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A plate or reproduction made using this process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
infants
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The section of a primary school for the education of younger children, typically the classes of reception or kindergarten and years (grades) one and two.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
examples: Near-synonym: infant school
It was around the time I moved from infants to juniors, which was based in a different building, so it felt like going to big school.
Although of course we did harder work in the juniors than we did in infants, there were still times when we relaxed and just enjoyed ourselves.
George had Josh's form tutor for science, and she talked down to them, like they were still in infants, whereas Mr. Barton treated them like adults.
Translations:
corbie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French corbeau, from Old French corb (from Latin corvus (“raven”)) or Old French corbel (“crow”) (from Late Latin corbellus, from Latin corvus). See also Norman corbin.
Inflected forms:
form: corbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corby
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A raven or crow (typically Corvus corax).
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: 1825, Basil Hall, journal entry quoted in 1837, Walter Scott, J. G. Lockhart (editor), Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., in The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 7, page 417,
From parrots we got to corbies, or ravens, and he told us with infinite humour a story of a certain tame bird of this description, whose constant delight was to do mischief, and to plague all mankind and beastkind.
And with them were some lang-gowned men who kenned the stars and would come out o' nights to talk to the deer and the corbies in their ain tongue.
In the "Twa Corbies" of Child it is the knight that is slain and one corbie is to sit on his "hause-bane" and the other is to pick out his eyes. In the West Virginia variants it is the horse that is slain, whose eyes the crows are going to pluck out.
gloss: Either of two moth species of genus Oncopera, whose larvae feed on grasses, especially Oncopera intricata.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: The eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), a species believed to be extinct on mainland Australia, is common in the run and front country, where it consumes corbie grubs and cockchafers, among slightly larger prey and carrion.
Related words: corbel
corbeling
corbeau
Derived words: corbie gable
corbie-messenger
corbie step
corbiestep
winter corbie
Translations:
deportment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Middle French deportement (French déportement). By surface analysis, deport + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: deportments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Bearing; manner of presenting oneself.
pos: noun
examples: Her deportment impressed her interviewers.
...Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact...
gloss: Conduct; public behavior.
pos: noun
examples: Their deportment changed visibly as the policeman approached.
gloss: Apparent level of schooling or training.
pos: noun
examples: His academic deportment did not match his degree record.
gloss: Self-discipline.
pos: noun
examples: The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.
Related words: comportment
behavior
accord
etiquette
Translations:
fore-and-aft
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: fore and aft
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: parallel with the keel, that is, going from bow to stern (as opposed to square-rigged).
pos: adj
Translations:
Michigander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: ]
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, in a speech of July 27, 1848, as pejorative reference to Lewis Cass, Michigan politician:
: There is one entire article of the sort I have not discussed yet; I mean the military tale you Democrats are now engaged in dovetailing onto the great Michigander.
Ostensibly coined as a blend of Michigan + gander (“male goose, simpleton”) (punning on “tale” and “(dove)tail(ing)”). Alternatively from and/or later reanalyzed as Michigan + -d- (epenthetic) + -er (“resident of”).
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Michiganders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or resident of the state of Michigan in the United States of America.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: In particular, a man from Michigan, contrasted with a Michigoose (“woman from Michigan”).
pos: noun
tags: humorous
uncommon
examples: Where is the little Michigander or Michigoose who is plugging along, so contentedly ensconced in his bi-valve surroundings as not to be touched by even an echo of the great state meeting of his profession?
From Dale E. Pasco of Owosso: "My parents were both one room school teachers and they taught it this way: I'm a Michigander, my wife is a Michigoose, our kids are Michigoslins, so what is the use."
Synonyms: Michiganian
Michiganer
Derived words: Michigoose
Michigosling
Translations:
maypole
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: Compound of May + pole, so called in reference to its use on May Day.
Inflected forms:
form: maypoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: may-pole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: maypoles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: maypoling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: maypoled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: maypoled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: may-pole
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.
pos: noun
examples: How would you like the maypole decorated?
The maypole, the focal point of many traditional spring games and festivities, is believed to be a relic of ancient phallic worship.
The seemingly innocent Maypole is a relic of witchcraft.
At Ickwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanent maypole. There, the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women) carrying besoms - birch-twig brooms.
gloss: A very tall girl or young lady.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
gloss: A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.
pos: noun
examples: The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, a maypole up to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens.
gloss: A penis, especially a large one.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.
gloss: To dance or spin in a circle around something.
pos: verb
examples: Kristina quieted a little, and maypoled around me.
The line jerked and maypoled itself around the rod.
Derived words: mayhole
maypole dancer
maypoler
Translations:
non-count
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
Latin computō
Anglo-Norman counterbor.
Middle English counten
English count
English non-count
From non- + count.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Uncountable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
non-Muslim
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English Muslim
English non-Muslim
From non- + Muslim.
Inflected forms:
form: non-Muslims
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nonmuslim
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nonmuslim
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who is not a Muslim.
pos: noun
gloss: Not Muslim.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
afoul
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a- + foul.
Base: foul
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: more afoul
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most afoul
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a state of collision or entanglement.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
examples: The ships’ lines and sails were all afoul.
After paying out chain, we swung clear, but our anchors were no doubt afoul of hers.
1849, William F. Lynch, The Naval Officer, Chapter 2, in Graham’s Magazine, Volume 34, Number 3, March 1849,
The atmosphere was soon thick and stifling, and the crews were working their guns with the energy of desperation, when a severe concussion, followed by a harsh and grating sound, told that the ships were afoul.
gloss: In a state of entanglement or conflict (with).
pos: adv
tags: with-of
examples: He had a knack for running afoul of the law.
What the devil’s the matter with me? I don’t stand right on my legs. Coming afoul of that old man has a sort of turned me wrong side out.
A hemispheric axiom has it that when a dictator falls afoul of Washington, his opponents are emboldened to try to topple him.
Kings came to hear [Vivaldi’s] concerts but in the end he ran afoul of the Pope’s nuncio and fell out of favor, presumably for neglecting to say Mass […]
He committed acts which put him afoul of Empire law, details classified, twenty-six years ago.
Such posts, and more extreme examples of hate speech that spiked on the platform since his takeover, could run afoul of the EU's framework for combating racism and xenophobia, landing Twitter — and Musk himself — in hot water with the European Commission.
Related words: foully
Derived words: run afoul
run afoul of
Translations:
afterburner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros
Proto-Germanic *after
Old English æfter
Middle English after
English after
▲
Old English æfter
Old English æfter-
Middle English after-
English after-
English burner
English afterburner
From after- + burner.
Inflected forms:
form: afterburners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device in a jet engine which injects fuel into the exhaust system to increase the thrust.
pos: noun
Translations:
affiance
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French affiance, from affier (from Medieval Latin affīdāre, from *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere) + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: affiances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: affiancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: affianced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: affianced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: affiaunce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: affiances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: affiaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To be betrothed to; to promise to marry.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [S]he had expected the worst ever since Drusilla had deliberately tried to unsex herself by refusing to feel any natural grief at the death in battle not only of her affianced husband but of her own father [...]
She left our former teacher at the altar. Oh well, it's no secret that Prissy was affianced to our former teacher, but justifiably fled the wedding.
gloss: Faith, trust.
pos: noun
examples: […] in syr Launcelot & you I moost had my Ioye / & myn affyaunce / & now haue I lost my Ioye of you bothe […]
[…] "in Sir Launcelot and you I most had my joy, and mine affiance, and now have I lost my joy of you both" […]
All other outward shewes and exterior apparences are common to all religions: As hope, affiance [translating confiance], events, ceremonies, penitence and martyrdome.
Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love.
Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have / Most joy and most affiance, […]
gloss: A solemn engagement, especially a pledge of marriage.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: I that Ladie to my spouse had wonne; / Accord of friends, consent of parents sought, / Affiance made, my happinesse begonne […]
Translations:
affectingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English affecting
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English affectingly
From affecting + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more affectingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most affectingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: So as to affect in an emotional sense.
pos: adv
Translations:
affirmatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English affirmativeli, equivalent to affirmative + -ly.
Base: affirmative
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more affirmatively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most affirmatively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an affirming manner.
pos: adv
examples: For as the inference is fair, affirmatively deduced from the action to the organ, that they have eies because they see; so it is also from the organ to the action, that they have eies, therefore some sight designed; if we take the intention of Nature in every species, and except the casuall impediments, or morbosities in individuals.
When the Pyrrhonians say, that ataraxy is the chiefe felicitie, which is the immobilitie of judgement, their meaning is not to speake it affirmatively[…].
Many within our community view childrearing with skepticism or disdain. Affirmatively choosing parenting as a gay man or lesbian is often seen as a retreat from public activism to private life or as a mimicking of heterosexuality.
Order-maintenance proponents affirmatively promote youth curfews, anti-gang loitering ordinances, and order-maintenance crackdowns as milder alternatives to the theory of incapacitation and increased incarceration.
Translations:
disciplinary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin disciplinarius, from Latin disciplina (“instruction, teaching, field of study, habit”).
Inflected forms:
form: more disciplinary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disciplinary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: disciplinaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
pos: adj
examples: Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.
gloss: For the purpose of imposing punishment.
pos: adj
examples: The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.
gloss: Of or relating to an academic field of study.
pos: adj
examples: We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.
Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
gloss: A disciplinary action.
pos: noun
Derived words: antidisciplinary
bidisciplinary
crossdisciplinary
cross-disciplinary
disciplinarian
disciplinarily
disciplinarity
disciplinary board
disciplinary inquiry
disciplinary literacy
disciplinary loaf
interdisciplinary
intradisciplinary
monodisciplinary
multidisciplinary
nondisciplinary
pluridisciplinary
subdisciplinary
transdisciplinary
undisciplinary
unidisciplinary
Translations:
afield
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English afeld, a-felde, o felde, on felde, from Old English on felde (“afield”, literally “in (the) field”), equivalent to a- (“on”) + field.
Base: field
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: more afield
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most afield
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Away (from the home or starting point, physical or conceptual). (Often preceded by far, farther, or further.)
pos: adv
examples: This latest excursion took us farther afield than ever.
His latest remarks went far afield of any mainstream conception.
Whether things could have been different is an open question, and one that would take us far afield from the focus of this book.
There were Christians developing notable traditions somewhat away from the Mediterranean and outside the Roman empire, in places like Armenia, or even further afield, in India
My fellow passengers are a mixture of people returning from a day out in the capital, locals doing short hops, and a few (like me) heading farther afield.
gloss: On the field.
pos: adv
examples: We now have both teams afield and can begin the match.
gloss: Out in the open.
pos: adv
examples: The merchant was much interested in my journey, and thought it dangerous to sleep afield.
Meanwhile, witch Tituba, Tonight you sleep afield, molest not this house. Return here early for your judgement.
Translations:
aflutter
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
English flutter-
English aflutter
From a- + flutter-.
Inflected forms:
form: more aflutter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aflutter
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fluttering.
pos: adj
examples: I can hear / Your heart a-flutter over the snow-hills;
1888, W. B. Yeats, “King Gall” in uncredited editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, Dublin: M.H. Gill, p. 43,
They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me—the beech leaves old
The winds bared her limbs, the opposing breezes set her garments aflutter as she ran, and a light air flung her locks streaming behind her.
An electric guitar lick […] imposed itself in his mind as a major symbol of virility and youth, notes rising like scimitars, aftertones aflutter like birds, the bending of a blues note like the rising arc of an erection.
gloss: Filled or covered (with something that flutters).
pos: adj
examples: The day being warm and sultry, the balcony was all aflutter with the feather fans of the ladies of the family and their attendants,
Beyond this lie the gardens of Hafiz and Saadi, each containing the poet’s tomb, and many others equally delicious for their cypresses, pines, and orange trees a-flutter with white pigeons and orchestras of sparrows.
When Sammy returned from Virginia, after an interminable gray trip back up U.S. 1, he found their house in Midwood aflutter with bunting.
gloss: In a state of tremulous excitement, anticipation or confusion.
pos: adj
examples: […] she rose, all a-flutter within, it is true, but with a face as nearly sedate as the inborn witchery of her eyes would allow.
1930, Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, Once in a Lifetime, Act III, in Burns Mantle (ed.), The Best Plays of 1930-31, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1931, p. 144,
[…] in breaks Susan Walker a little more aflutter than usual. The picture is wonderful. Seeing her name in lights is wonderful. Everything is just wonderful.
Once inside the house, everything was aflutter until I was safe and sound.
Translations: