yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
FAL
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Initialism of Fusil Automatique Léger.
Inflected forms:
form: FALs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: FN-FAL (the NATO standard rifle)
pos: noun
Translations:
footbinding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From foot + binding.
Compound parts: foot
binding
Inflected forms:
form: footbindings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foot binding
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: foot-binding
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: More recent studies have shown that foot-binding was likely practiced not purely for the sake of marriage, but also to keep girls at home and engaged in handicrafts, such as spinning cotton, in order to contribute to their family’s income.
gloss: The material used to bind feet for this reason.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: lotus foot
Translations:
bromelain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From translingual Bromelia + -in with simplification.
Base: Bromelia
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: bromelains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two proteolytic enzymes, found in pineapples, that are used as meat tenderizers.
pos: noun
examples: I let her in and left her sitting on the sofa while I microwaved some Chinese rice and poured pineapple juice into a glass. It was her comfort meal – grease and bromelain. She had often lectured me on pineapple’s anti-inflammatory properties, how it helped prevent cataracts and heart disease.
Translations:
robinia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: robinias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of the genus Robinia.
pos: noun
examples: The remarkable feature of the woody planting at Buttes-Chaumont is the ‘profuse use’ of silver-leafed cedars, yellow-leafed robinias and copper-leafed beech trees.
Translations:
lunel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Lunel, a town in southern France.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A type of sweet muscat wine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Van looked through his raised lunel at the honeyed sun.
Translations:
ritsu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Japanese 律 (ritsu).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An anhemitonic pentatonic scale used in a Japanese Buddhist chant, and built up by intervals of major second, minor third, major second, major second, minor third.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
runestone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *rūnābor.?
Proto-Germanic *rūnō
Proto-Germanic *rūnǭ
Proto-Norse ᚱᚢᚾᛟ (runo)
Old Norse rúnbor.
English rune
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stoyh₂nos
Proto-Germanic *stainaz
Proto-West Germanic *stain
Old English stān
Middle English ston
English stone
English runestone
From rune + stone.
Inflected forms:
form: runestones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ancient monument consisting of a typically raised stone with a runic inscription.
pos: noun
gloss: A small tile-shaped stone or tablet with a single rune inscribed on it, used for divinatory and esoteric purposes.
pos: noun
Translations:
aguinaldo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish aguinaldo.
Inflected forms:
form: aguinaldos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gift given at Christmas or at the Feast of the Epiphany.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A gift given on any other holiday or occasion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A Christmas carol.
pos: noun
tags: Latin-America
countable
uncountable
gloss: A song performed in this style.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And he bracketed the concert with joyfully Latin pop: opening the show with towering drums onstage and kinetic Afro-Caribbean rhythms and beginning the final song, “Tu Recuerdo” (“Your Memory”), as a Puerto Rican aguinaldo, gently plucked on the rural miniguitar called a cuatro.
gloss: A wild tropical plant of the Convolvulaceae family, very common in Cuba and which flowers at Easter and Christmas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
brookie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From brook + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Base: brook
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: brookies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brook trout.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The brookie Bill dismissed as “another small one” was 16 inches long, thick and weighed about two pounds.
Translations:
pictorialist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pictorial + -ist.
Base: pictorial
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: pictorialists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more pictorialist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pictorialist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An artist working in the style of pictorialism.
pos: noun
gloss: One who subscribes to the theory of pictorialism regarding mental imagery.
pos: noun
gloss: In the style of pictorialism.
pos: adj
examples: Steichen’s pictorialist period ended in 1917, when he joined the United States Army and created an aerial photography unit in northern France to gather intelligence about artillery positions and troop movements behind enemy lines.
Translations:
bloodedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From blooded + -ness.
Base: blooded
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of having blood of a particular kind.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
uncountable
examples: warm-bloodedness; full-bloodedness
Translations:
palenque
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish Palenque, the name of a maroon settlement in Colombia, from palenque (“palisade”).
Inflected forms:
form: palenques
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A community of runaway slaves.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Different from dozens of other palenques that were vanquished, this community has successfully fended off threats to its existence to this day.
Translations:
sharehouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From share + house.
Compound parts: share
house
Inflected forms:
form: sharehouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A house shared by several inhabitants (but not a family unit).
pos: noun
Translations:
culturist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
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 culturist
From culture + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: culturists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cult.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: more culturist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most culturist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cult.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: One who raises or cultures something; a cultivator.
pos: noun
examples: Steve Dolan is an assistant manager and fish culturist at the Salmon River Hatchery in Altmar, outside Syracuse, where Lake Ontario’s king salmon are raised.
gloss: An advocate of culture.
pos: noun
examples: The Culturists, again — by which term I mean not those who esteem culture, (as what intelligent man does not?) but those, its exclusive advocates, who recommend it as the one panacea for all the ills of humanity, — the Culturists are never done insisting that it is not for its utilitarian results, not for the technical skill and information it implies, nor for the professional success it may secure, that they value culture, but for its effect in elevating the whole man.
gloss: One who holds prejudices against a culture.
pos: noun
gloss: Holding prejudices against a culture.
pos: adj
examples: All of these right-wing extremist parties can be described as culturist or new racist, as they all emphasize cultural rather than racial differences between groups.
Related words: ostreiculturist
Translations:
superwash
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + wash, from a trademark of the 1970s.
Base: wash
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of wool, that has been treated to make it machine-washable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: So, cotton, linen, superwash wool, and anything with nylon or acrylic or rayon or silk can instantly be ruled out for most projects.
The set is a wonderful gift to make for a new baby, and if worked in superwash wool or a washable blend it's sure to get lots of wear.
Translations:
Kabuli
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Kabul + -i, or directly from Persian کابلی (“Kabuli”).
Base: Kabul
Affixes: -i
Inflected forms:
form: Kabulis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the city of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the city of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.
pos: noun
examples: But they are physically no match for the Kabulis and every Kabuli considers himself more than a match for any number of travellers from the plains.
Translations:
supratemporal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
human-sciences
medicine
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From supra- + temporal.
Base: temporal
Affixes: supra-
Inflected forms:
form: supratemporals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Above the temporal lobe
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: That transcends time
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A supratemporal bone.
pos: noun
Translations:
chinar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi चिनार (cinār) / Urdu چِنَار (cinār), in turn derived from Classical Persian چِنَار (činār, “Platanus”), ultimately derived from Middle Persian cynʾl (/⁠činār⁠/).
Inflected forms:
form: chinars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chenar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cheenar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chinaur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chunar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An oriental plane tree (Platanus orientalis).
pos: noun
examples: The chinar, or Oriental plane tree, has been cultivated in Persia from the earliest period; and Evelyn states that "a worthy knight, who staid at Ispahan when that famous city was infected with a raging pestilence, told" him "that, since they have planted a greater number of these noble treees about it, the plague has not come nigh their dwellings."
The lakes, the gardens, the chinars golden in autumn, the Himalayas all around.
I too felt that the government has not made judicious use of its powers to curb the felling of chinars.
Translations:
emblematically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From emblematic + -ally.
Base: emblematic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
form: more emblematically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most emblematically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an emblematic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Inevitably Dmitri Shostakovich is the emblematically contorted figure, moving from derisory laughter at the very idea of having to explain the socioeconomic dimensions of the music of Chopin and Liszt to an uncomfortable accommodation with the state that both facilitates and threatens his work.
Translations:
foldover
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fold + over.
Compound parts: fold
over
Inflected forms:
form: foldovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having one component that folds over the top of another.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Or the Timeless Bracelet, designed by Ina Seifart: a link-style watchband with a traditional foldover clasp, it has no face at all, just an open spot where you would expect to see one.
gloss: Any food prepared by folding, such as a calzone or apple turnover.
pos: noun
examples: Assemble the foldovers and arrange them on a foil-lined cookie sheet; freeze until firm.
Translations:
mediascape
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From media + -scape.
Base: media
Affixes: -scape
Inflected forms:
form: mediascapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The metaphorical landscape of trends, tastes, etc. promoted by the media.
pos: noun
examples: Southland Tales simulates the oversaturation of the 21st-century mediascape and delights in, even as it mocks, the vulgar absurdities of celebrity culture. Ms. Gellar's character, for example, is a multitasking, politically minded sex-film star Jenna Jameson meets Arianna Huffington, Mr. Kelly said with a View-like talk show and a hit song called Teen Horniness Is Not a Crime (co-written by Mr. Kelly and to be released as a single).
Translations:
sophora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From translingual Sophora.
Inflected forms:
form: sophoras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Sophora of small trees and shrubs related to the pea.
pos: noun
examples: Then Dr. Day allowed herself to become distracted by a tree on the other side of 83rd Street, a sophora tree.
Translations:
taphouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tap + house.
Compound parts: tap
house
Inflected forms:
form: taphouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tavern.
pos: noun
Translations:
homestyle
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From home + style.
Compound parts: home
style
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cooked or prepared in a traditional manner as would be done at home.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Dish out lots of homecooked foods like pot roast, meat loaf, Maine beans and franks, homestyle fries, fish chowder and fresh-baked breads[…]
LUNETTA The Manhattan outpost of the Smith Street, Brooklyn, restaurant, opened Monday in the former Mayrose space, with homestyle Italian cooking by Adam Shepard, who is also a partner: 920 Broadway (21st Street), (212) 533-3663.
Translations:
previs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: previz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: previsualization
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
farmwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From farm + work.
Compound parts: farm
work
Inflected forms:
form: farmworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: farm work
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The agricultural work done on a farm.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Ms. Hayes, 33, also writes cookbooks (in the predawn hours before her farmwork begins), agitates and advocates for local causes, lectures national organizations about sustainable cuisine and advises those closer to home, like the staff members of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Translations:
wali
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic وَالٍ (wālin).
Inflected forms:
form: walis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wāli
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: vali
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.
pos: noun
examples: For much of the last century, the mountainous region of Swat was ruled as a princely kingdom where a benign autocrat, the wali, bestowed schools for girls, health care for everyone and the chance to get a degree abroad for the talented.
Translations:
superbad
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + bad.
Base: bad
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: more superbad
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most superbad
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very bad.
pos: adj
examples: Whose^([sic]) gonna remember a black man unless he was a superstar athlete or a superbad criminal? Black men in America die like flies everyday,^([sic]) and no one cares. Hell, I doubt that I will live to 21.
gloss: Fine, excellent.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Brian became my little brother; he was a superbad bluesman.
Translations:
farsight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From far + sight.
Compound parts: far
sight
Inflected forms:
form: farsights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: far-sight
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
Nasserist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Nasser + -ist.
Base: Nasser
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: more Nasserist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Nasserist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Nasirist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Nāṣirist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Nasserists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nasirist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Nāṣirist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Nasserism.
pos: adj
gloss: A proponent of Nasserism
pos: noun
Translations:
uplifter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From uplift + -er.
Base: uplift
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: uplifters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, uplifts.
pos: noun
Translations:
inula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin inula. Compare elecampane.
Inflected forms:
form: inulas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several plants of the genus Inula, such as elecampane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In springtime the ruins are a blaze of contrapuntal colour: wild gladioli of magenta, bright yellow inulas and spiky acanthus thrust up among sarcophagi carpeted with tiny blue saxifrage and sprawled over by convolvulus with great pink trumpets.
gloss: The dried root of such a plant used as a stimulant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: inulin
Translations:
superband
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: From super- + band.
Base: band
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: superbands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A supergroup.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 10:15 P.M. (Sundance) THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE TRAVELING WILBURYS This 25-minute documentary from Willy Smax tells the story of the 1980s superband Nelson Wilbury (George Harrison), Lefty Wilbury (Roy Orbison), Charlie T. Wilbury Jr. (Tom Petty), Lucky Wilbury (Bob Dylan) and Otis Wilbury (Jeff Lynne) — which made two albums and then journeyed into oblivion.
gloss: A transmission band used in cable television in Europe.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: hyperband
midband
band I
band II
band III
band IV
band V
UHF
VHF
FM
AM
OTA
TV-B
CATV
Translations:
superball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + ball. From a trademark, Super Ball.
Base: ball
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: superballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bouncy ball.
pos: noun
examples: Does it bounce around like a superball in a hollow cavity? Or does it rapidly lose its force, like a beanbag hitting a pillow?
Translations:
unpure
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + pure.
Base: pure
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unpure
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unpure
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not pure.
pos: adj
Translations:
spartina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: spartinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: cordgrass (Spartina).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The spartina, which grows along a sheltered cove and makes up about 15 acres of the whole parcel, is what makes Arlington Marsh so dear, said William K. Tai, director of the park's departments natural resources group.
Translations:
khon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai โขน (kǒon).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Thai form of dance with music and narration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But he has found his perfect complement in Mr. Klunchun, a practitioner of khon, a form of classical Thai masked dance, who wanders serenely with Mr. Bel through a series of cultural collisions until the gentle cataclysm that suddenly and amusingly ends the conversation.
Translations:
maitake
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 舞茸 (maitake).
Inflected forms:
form: maitakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Grifola frondosa, an edible polypore mushroom that grows in clusters at the bases of trees.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Truffles, maitake, matsutake, king boletes, shiitake and dozens of other edible types are hunted commercially around the planet.
Translations:
Weatherman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the line you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Inflected forms:
form: Weathermen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Weather Underground.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
examples: On the Clinton conference call this morning, Howard Wolfson—under rather aggressive questioning from Mother Jones' David Corn—said he didn't know how Hillary felt about her husbands pardons of two former Weathermen. But he drew a distinction by pointing out that no Weathermen ever held fundraisers for Hillary Clinton.
Translations:
Kelantanese
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Kelantan + -ese.
Base: Kelantan
Affixes: -ese
Inflected forms:
form: more Kelantanese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Kelantanese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the state of Kelantan in Malaysia.
pos: adj
examples: The Kelantanese dinar is an unofficial currency.
Translations:
autopen
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From auto- + pen.
Base: pen
Affixes: auto-
Inflected forms:
form: autopens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: auto-pen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: autopens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: autopenning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: autopenned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: autopenned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: auto-pen
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A machine that automatically writes a person's signature.
pos: noun
examples: But most offices either use autopens with the boss's name or simply have a staff member sign the boss's name to the correspondence.
An autopen is a machine that copies a person's signature and then reproduces it at a rate many times faster than could normally be done - some top celebrities even have several autopens with slightly altered autographs, making it even more difficult to tell which is the real thing.
Many executive orders signed by Mr. Biden were approved with an autopen device, prompting questions about whether Mr. Biden was fully mindful of what was signed during his presidency.
President Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum ordering an investigation of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and his use of the autopen […] is also nonsensical fan service, amplifying addled MAGA conspiracy theories that contend, with a straight face, that Biden was really a robotic clone.
gloss: To write or sign (something) with an autopen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
tanistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tanist + -ry.
Base: tanist
Affixes: -ry
Inflected forms:
form: tanistries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of tenure, in ancient Scotland and Ireland, whereby succession was passed to an elected member of the same extended family.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
examples: They also have to make allowance, in place of primogeniture, for the practice of tanistry, that is, the naming of a successor who was not necessarily the ruler's son.
Translations:
syenite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Syēnītēs, from Syēnē (“Aswan”), because it was anciently quarried there.
Inflected forms:
form: syenites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Granite.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: An igneous rock composed of feldspar and hornblende.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The temple, of which some massive hewn blocks and a fine column of Syenite granite still mark the site, occupied a terrace facing the source of the river and commanding a magnificent prospect.
Much of the southern half of the southeastern body is a mafic syenite, slightly more felsic than the shonkinite.
Derived words: microsyenite
nepheline syenite
syenitic
Translations:
keitai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 携帯.
Inflected forms:
form: keitais
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mobile phone or smartphone.
pos: noun
tags: Japan
Translations:
khedive
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French khédive, from Ottoman Turkish خدیو (ḫediv, ḫıdiv), from Persian خدیو (xadêw, xedêw, “lord, master, king”), from Bactrian χοαδηο (khoadēo, “lord”).
Inflected forms:
form: khedives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The title of the hereditary monarch of Egypt from 1805–1914, nominally ruling as a viceroy of the Sultan of Turkey.
pos: noun
Translations:
christie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
Etymology: Named after the city of Kristiania (now Oslo) in Norway.
Inflected forms:
form: christies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A high-speed ski turn in which the skis are kept parallel.
pos: noun
Translations:
pietist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From piety + -ist.
Base: piety
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: pietists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pietist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A supporter of pietism.
pos: noun
examples: What a commentary on our professional piety as a people and our pretence to morality as a city, when there can exist and flourish in our midst, right under the noses of priest, person, police and platitudinising pietist such a RED-HOT HELL HOLE as the specimen one into whose sultry recesses the scribes had made their way by means of a little mild deception.
Translations:
lefse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Norwegian lefse.
Inflected forms:
form: lefses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lefsa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional soft Norwegian flatbread made from potato, flour, and milk or cream (or sometimes lard) and cooked on a griddle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We treasure the heritage more here than they do in Norway itself, said Audrey Amundson of Starbuck, Minn., which sealed its place in history in 1983 by cooking what residents insist was the world's biggest lefse, a Norwegian flatbread made of potatoes, cream and flour.
Translations:
microlearning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From micro- + learning.
Base: learning
Affixes: micro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Learning in relatively small units and through short activities.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
downtick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From down + tick.
Compound parts: down
tick
Inflected forms:
form: downticks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small decrease or downward change in something that has been steady or rising.
pos: noun
examples: There had been a downtick in April's enthusiasm for schoolwork — a sprinkling of Bs on her report card.
gloss: A stock market transaction or quote at a price below a preceding one.
pos: noun
Antonyms: uptick
Translations:
decklid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From deck + lid.
Compound parts: deck
lid
Inflected forms:
form: decklids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An auto body panel that is the cover over the trunk (boot) of a motor vehicle.
pos: noun
examples: For maximum corrosion resistance, the company builds its doors, hoods and decklids of galvanized steel.
Translations:
cross-compatible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cross- + compatible.
Base: compatible
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
form: more cross-compatible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cross-compatible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to use, connect, interact, and function universally with various systems.
pos: adj
examples: The new video game is cross-compatible for anyone playing it online with teammates from any computer (Linux, Mac, or Windows), smartphone, or video game console.
Translations:
unsocialized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + socialized.
Base: socialized
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not having been socialized.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
shanny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown
Inflected forms:
form: shannies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fish, the prickleback.
pos: noun
Translations:
ethnomusicological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ethno- + musicological.
Base: musicological
Affixes: ethno-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or pertaining to ethnomusicology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
klondike
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: klondikes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: klondiking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: klondiked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: klondiked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To export fresh fish (usually herring or mackerel) rather than pickled ones.
pos: verb
Translations:
refigure
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From re- + figure.
Base: figure
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: refigures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refiguring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: refigured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: refigured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To figure again or anew.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The hookworm campaign […] was far more effective in creating and legitimating powerful new social boundaries. Through the rhetoric of the hookworm campaign, poor white trash were partially refigured as pure white Americans, a group that deserved higher status and greater prestige than that accorded to southern blacks.
"I'm taking a step back to refigure out my own career, as is Sweet Talk," Ms. Gallo said.
gloss: To duplicate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee ...
gloss: To restore the parabolic figure of, as of a parabolic mirror.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
lmao
Part of speech: particle
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Neutralises the tone of a message; denotes that a message is light-hearted or casual.
pos: particle
tags: Internet
Translations:
patination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From patina + -ation?
Base: patina
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: patinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The application of a patina.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Modern Art Foundry: Sculpture retouching, casting, finishing and patination.
Translations:
skyspace
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From sky + space.
Compound parts: sky
space
Inflected forms:
form: skyspaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An architectural design in which a room has a large hole in its ceiling, open to the sky.
pos: noun
Translations:
thwap
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: thwaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thwapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thwapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thwapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a heavy smack.
pos: intj
examples: THE COMPLETELY MAD DON MARTIN, a two-volume honker that includes every drawing Martin ever published in the magazine, answers the question with a definitive thwap: Martin's cartoons are still weird.
gloss: To make, or cause to make, a heavy smacking sound.
pos: verb
examples: Reflectors in the road thwapped beneath the tires, setting a regular, almost reassuring pace.
Translations:
willet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from the bird's cry ("pill-will-willet").
Inflected forms:
form: willets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tringa semipalmata (or formerly Catoptrophorus semipalmatus), a large shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.
pos: noun
Translations:
nonintercourse
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + intercourse.
Base: intercourse
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The lack of intercourse; the suspension of relations or communication (especially between countries).
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
uncountable
examples: The Nonintercourse Act
This view is derived from the former non-intercourse law only.
you must submit to an embargo on your wit and a non-intercourse act between you and the faculty of writing.
The use of non-intercourse agreements as revolutionary weapons against Great Britain.
gloss: A lack of sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I intend to try the effect of non-intercourse, and to break with her outright.
gloss: Not involving or not relating to sexual intercourse.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: McCarthy says you can slow things down by honing your technique through what he calls "nonintercourse sex" (what the rest of us call "jerking off").
Translations:
busher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From bush + -er.
Base: bush
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: bushers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A major league baseball player who has recently come from a small league.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: He was talking about me all the time that day in Boston, standing with the bat boy, making cracks. That's all right but when he called me a busher in front of the whole Yank team and then challenged me, I had to fight.
Translations:
thump-thump
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: thump-thumps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a heart beating.
pos: noun
gloss: A heart.
pos: noun
tags: childish
Translations:
gnoll
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: According to A Brief History of Gnolls, by Paul Haynie, they were created by Lord Dunsany in "How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles", and the name was likely derived from a playing field of the Welsh All Blacks known as the Gnoll, probably derived from English knoll.
Inflected forms:
form: gnolls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A usually evil and hyena-like humanoid creature found in various forms in fantasy literature and video games.
pos: noun
Translations:
sextortion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of sex + extortion.
Compound parts: sex
extortion
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of sexual extortion; the extortion of a person through the use of the history of their sexual conduct (such as saved sexting messages).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
examples: Facebook had to assess nearly 54,000 potential cases of revenge pornography and “sextortion” on the site in a single month, according to a leaked document.
Translations:
deemer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English demere, from Old English dēmere (“a judge”), equivalent to deem + -er.
Base: deem
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: deemers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who deems or judges; a decider, decision maker.
pos: noun
examples: The discomfort propelled many of us to shift from being the deemers and certifiers of Truth, to being the facilitators of inquiry processes for others to come to their own truths-for-the-purposes.
Translations:
zef
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from the name of the Ford Zephyr automobile, clipping of Zephyr.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A South African counterculture movement associated with the white lower middle class.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
uncountable
examples: My zef accent is very foreign / When I speak overseas they go "I beg your pardon?"
Translations:
bumbo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from Italian (baby-talk) bombo (“drink”), of imitative origin.
Inflected forms:
form: bombo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bumboo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A drink made from rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
hand-hold
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hand-holds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hand-holding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hand-held
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hand-held
pos: verb
tags: past
form: handhold
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To hold in the hand.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can hand-hold many professional cameras, but using a tripod may be a better idea.
gloss: To watch or attend unnecessarily closely (as if holding a child's hand to lead it along).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: I'm sick of having to hand-hold every new person we hire. Why can't we train them first?
Translations:
Johnsonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Johnson + -ian.
Base: Johnson
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Johnsonian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Johnsonian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Johnsonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), or characteristic of his style.
pos: adj
examples: With my idea of the rector derived from a picture in the dining-parlour, stiff and stately […]—it was strange to read these letters. They were full of eager, passionate ardour; short homely sentences, right fresh from the heart (very different from the grand Latinised, Johnsonian style of the printed sermon preached before some judge at assize time).
Literary Bengali of prose, during the greater part of the 19th century, was thus a doubly artificial language ; and, with its forms belonging to Middle Bengali, and its vocabulary highly Sanskritised, it could only be compared to a ‘ Modern English ’ with a Chaucerian grammar and a super-Johnsonian vocabulary, if such a thing could be conceived.
gloss: Of or pertaining to Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973), American politician and president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: Of or pertaining to Boris Johnson (born 1964), English politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: To stop no-deal, MPs must adopt some Johnsonian ruthlessness and be ready to bring down the prime minister and put someone else, probably Jeremy Corbyn, in his place.
gloss: An enthusiast of the works of Samuel Johnson.
pos: noun
gloss: A supporter of Boris Johnson.
pos: noun
Translations:
superleague
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From super- + league.
Base: league
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: superleagues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A major professional sporting league, often with a strong commercial bias.
pos: noun
Translations:
Bodo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Bodos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bodo
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of an Indian minority ethnic group, early settlers of Assam.
pos: noun
Translations:
Deleuzian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Deleuze + -ian.
Base: Deleuze
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Deleuzian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Deleuzian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Deleuzean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher.
pos: adj
examples: I believe that these works will continue to revolve about us in enigmatic resonance with those of Klossowski, another major and excessive sign, and perhaps one day, this century will be known as Deleuzian.
Translations:
cutdown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Deverbal from cut down.
Inflected forms:
form: cutdowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An emergency medical procedure in which the vein is exposed and a cannula is inserted into it.
pos: noun
gloss: A customized scooter with parts of the bodywork removed or cut away.
pos: noun
Translations:
rollerball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From roller + ball.
Compound parts: roller
ball
Inflected forms:
form: rollerballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of ballpoint pen with a spherical nib that uses water-based liquid or gelled ink.
pos: noun
examples: The office is full of rumpled clothes and bad haircuts; it’s an operation at which rollerball pens fall outside the budget limit (Bics for everyone!)
gloss: A trackball.
pos: noun
Translations:
messed-upness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From messed-up + -ness.
Base: messed-up
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being messed-up.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Nor does such messed-upness in life outside of novels invariably remain unchanged.
Some of the messed-upness is caused by our pursuing values other than those God wants for us. In short, some of our problems are caused by our ... Some of our messed-upness is caused by the choices of others or by just plain bad luck.
Kids were everywhere, in various stages of messed-upness.
Translations:
demarc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: Clipping of demarcation.
Inflected forms:
form: demarcs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The point of demarcation where the provider's network (and responsibility) ends and that of the customer begins.
pos: noun
Translations:
superzoom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
Etymology: From super- + zoom.
Base: zoom
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: superzooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very high-magnification zoom feature.
pos: noun
examples: This camera, like the Kodak, is also shaped like a mini-S.L.R. and has a stabilized superzoom lens (10X).
Translations:
creekside
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From creek + -side.
Base: creek
Affixes: -side
Inflected forms:
form: creeksides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Beside a creek.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We rented a cabin with creekside fishing access, and we grilled our own fresh-caught trout.
The creekside resort shut in 1964, and most of the bungalows were sold.
gloss: The land forming the side of a creek.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: creekfront
The farmers received a grant to install anti-erosion measures at the creekside.
Translations:
crumpler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From crumple + -er.
Base: crumple
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: crumplers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that crumples.
pos: noun
Translations:
quick-draw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: quick-draws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quickdraw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A runner: a short sling with a karabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt, nut, Friend, or similar.
pos: noun
Translations:
sandglass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sand + glass.
Compound parts: sand
glass
Inflected forms:
form: sandglasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instrument for measuring the passage of time by the passage of sand through a narrow opening.
pos: noun
Translations:
XNA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: XNAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: nucleic acid analogue (nucleic acid analog) ; Initialism of xeno nucleic acid (backformation) ; X nucleic acid, where "X" is a stand-in for multitude of various nucleic acid acronyms, which are not DNA or RNA.
pos: noun
Translations:
greywacke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Anglicised form of grauwacke.
Inflected forms:
form: greywackes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: graywacke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Endless bleak, rounded hills composed of shales and ribs of tough ‘greywackes’ make up the Southern Uplands – all of such rocks were originally deposited under marine conditions.
Translations:
midsole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mid- + sole.
Base: sole
Affixes: mid-
Inflected forms:
form: midsoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The layer of a shoe in between the outsole and insole, typically there for shock absorption.
pos: noun
examples: But that is not stopping Brooks Sports from introducing its BioMoGo midsole, made with an additive that the company says will promote the break down of the polymers within 20 years.
Translations:
reichsmark
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Reichsmark.
Inflected forms:
form: reichsmarks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The monetary unit in Germany between 1924 and 1948.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
subflooring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sub- + flooring.
Base: flooring
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: subfloorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A level of flooring below the main floor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
instream
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From in- + stream.
Base: stream
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: instreams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: instreaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: instreamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: instreamed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: instreams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To flow or stream in; flow or stream into.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The amnesiads in my Soapsac were reduced, accordingly, and ascension catalysts instreamed.
gloss: The act or process of streaming or flowing in.
pos: noun
gloss: That which flows in.
pos: noun
Translations:
lotted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lot + -ed.
Base: lot
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more lotted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lotted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Apportioned or decided by lot; allotted.
pos: adj
Translations: