yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
equalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: category-theory
computing
diving
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
sports
underwater-diving
Etymology: Etymology tree
English equal
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 equalize
From equal + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: equalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: equalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: equalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: equalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: equalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: æqualize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes
One poor moment can suffice / To equalize the lofty and the low.
No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers.
gloss: To be equal to; to equal, to rival.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: But a third kingdom yet is to arise / Out of the Trojans scattered ofspring, / That in all glory and great enterprise, / Both first and second Troy shall dare to equalise.
polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms
gloss: To make the scoreline equal by scoring points.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.
pos: verb
gloss: to precompose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism.
pos: verb
gloss: To adjust the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal.
pos: verb
examples: The technique for frequency slewing of a transient is different from that for vibration testing in that it is necessary to equalize at low level as the clock frequency is slewed in relatively small increments from the nominal to the desired frequency.
Synonyms: even out
Derived words: coequalize
disequalize
equalization
equalisation
equalizer
equaliser
misequalize
unequalized
Translations:
preternaturally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English preternatural
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English preternaturally
From preternatural + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more preternaturally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most preternaturally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a preternatural manner; beyond what could possibly be natural.
pos: adv
examples: Deirdre’s mom never leaves her in the Grotto but also never leaves her side, and has the lipless and flinty-eyed look of a parent whose kid is preternaturally good at something.
Translations:
putatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English putative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English putatively
From putative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more putatively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most putatively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a putative manner; according to belief.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonyms: reportedly, reputedly, purportedly, rumoredly, supposedly, allegedly, ostensibly, possibly, probably, likely, plausibly
Even the putatively innocuous whimsical shapes and designs of cakes and pastry, notably in Central Europe, retain to this day the phallic concept[.]
Whites who tried to live and work in West Africa, a climate putatively designed for blacks, died in droves [...]
To construct a phylogenetic tree, molecular biologists compare the differences in nucleotide sequences of many isolates of putatively related organisms.
The following are the focus of research: in the Pyraloidea (Subobjective 1.1) Ategumia, Desmia, Diaphania, Eulepte, Herpetogramma, Omiodes, Patania; in the Gelechioidea (Subobjective 1.2) genera within and putatively near the Recurvaria-group (Gelechiinae: Litini); in the Noctuoidea (Subobjective 1.3) fern-feeding Argyrosticta in relation to Callopistria, boundaries and composition of the Eriopinae, and erebid litter moths (Herminiinae).
Translations:
untouchable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English touchable
English untouchable
From un- + touchable.
Inflected forms:
form: more untouchable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most untouchable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: untouchables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not able to be touched.
pos: adj
examples: Sunday’s election is the first to be held after youth-led mass protests in 2020 shocked the establishment by […] criticising an institution previously considered untouchable.
gloss: Not able to be defeated or bested.
pos: adj
examples: The Minnesota Vikings have been untouchable this year as they've won their sixth consecutive game.
gloss: A criminal who is so well-connected that they cannot be harmed.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of outcast: a person excluded from society.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the lowest and most discriminated caste in traditional Indian society.
pos: noun
tags: India
gloss: A law enforcement agent immune to intimidation, bribery, or seduction.
pos: noun
Derived words: untouchability
untouchableness
untouchable number
Translations:
erythropoietic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English erythropoiesis
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English erythropoietic
From erythropoiesis + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to erythropoiesis.
pos: adj
Translations:
erythropoiesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From erythro- + -poiesis.
Base: erythro
Inflected forms:
form: erythropoieses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The production of red blood cells (in bone marrow)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cricketing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That plays cricket.
pos: adj
examples: The cricketing twins Sir Alec and Eric Bedser, who played for Surrey and England […]
Translations:
Stepford
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the fictional place name Stepford. After the fictional suburb in the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, and in two films of the same name based on the novel.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Docile, unthinking and conformist.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: “He called you a boring Stepford wife.”
A boring Stepford wife, Molly thought. For a moment it seemed to her that she was once more in prison, eating the tasteless food, hearing the click of locks, lying awake for sleepless night after sleepless night.
So, when in a dorky Christmas town with Stepford people and themed shops, do as they do. Smile and act like you gave two shits about the person next to you.
Were the Nazis trying to infiltrate the U.S. Navy with an army of gonorrhea-infected Stepford clones?
gloss: Attractive but lacking any character.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The woman seated behind the table looked up at him, smiling a Stepford smile. "Would you like to buy a chance to win a new Blazer? It's only five dollars." Rich shook his head, moved away from the table. "Not today."
Related words: Deppford wife
Stepfordesque
Stepfordian
Stepford wife
Translations:
mannerless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English manerles, equivalent to manner + -less.
Base: manner
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more mannerless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mannerless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: lacking good manners; impolite; ill-bred
pos: adj
gloss: clumsy; graceless
pos: adj
Synonyms: ill-mannered
unmannered
unmannerly
Derived words: mannerlessly
mannerlessness
Translations:
snowless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos
Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz
Proto-West Germanic *snaiw
Old English snāw
Middle English snow
English snow
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English snowless
From snow + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without snow, not having any snow.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As the dogs were hooked up to the gangline linking them to the A.T.V. on a snowless day, the cacophony of barking built as the animals pulled at the harness to get going.
Translations:
sharecropper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
Inflected forms:
form: sharecroppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who enters a sharecropping agreement with a land owner; one who sharecrops.
pos: noun
gloss: A fiction book set in a fictional universe created by a different author, typically produced under licence.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
Translations:
tertile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: By surface analysis, tert- + -ile.
Inflected forms:
form: tertiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tercile
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Either of the two points that divide an ordered distribution into three parts, each containing a third of the population.
pos: noun
gloss: Any one of the three groups so divided.
pos: noun
examples: The first tertile results include January through April's revenues.
Smoking (odds ratio 2·87 for current vs never, PAR 35·7% for current and former vs never), raised ApoB/ApoA1 ratio (3·25 for top vs lowest quintile, PAR 49·2% for top four quintiles vs lowest quintile), history of hypertension (1·91, PAR 17·9%), diabetes (2·37, PAR 9·9%), abdominal obesity (1·12 for top vs lowest tertile and 1·62 for middle vs lowest tertile, PAR 20·1% for top two tertiles vs lowest tertile), psychosocial factors (2·67, PAR 32·5%), daily consumption of fruits and vegetables (0·70, PAR 13·7% for lack of daily consumption), regular alcohol consumption (0·91, PAR 6·7%), and regular physical activity (0·86, PAR 12·2%), were all significantly related to acute myocardial infarction (p<0·0001 for all risk factors and p=0·03 for alcohol).
To determine whether that’s been the case, I broke the league into tertiles at both ends of the floor and overall.
When we start testosterone therapy, the goal is typically to raise testosterone levels into the range of about 450 to 600 ng/dL, which is considered the “middle tertile” for most laboratory reference ranges.
Derived words: intertertile
Translations:
redeal
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English deal
English redeal
From re- + deal.
Inflected forms:
form: redeals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: redealing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: redealt
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: redealt
pos: verb
tags: past
form: redeals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To deal playing cards again.
pos: verb
examples: We had to redeal because a mistake was made.
gloss: The act of dealing playing cards again.
pos: noun
Translations:
mucilage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English muscilage, mussillage, from Middle French mucilage (“viscous substance found in vegetable material”), from Late Latin mūcilāgō (“musty or moldy juice”). See Greek μούχλα (moúchla, “mold”), and related derivatives, for example mushroom, from *meus- (“mosses, mold, mildew”).
Inflected forms:
form: mucilages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thick gluey substance (gum) produced by many plants and some microorganisms.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Malt liquors […] are distinguished from wine, chiefly by the larger quantity of mucilage and saccharine matter […]
Translations:
shamefully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *skamō
Proto-West Germanic *skamu
Old English sċamu
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Germanic *fullaz
Proto-Germanic *-fullaz
Old English -ful
Old English sċeomfull
Middle English schameful
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English schamefully
English shamefully
Inherited from Middle English schamefully. By surface analysis, shameful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more shamefully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most shamefully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a shameful manner.
pos: adv
examples: I looked shamefully at the floor.
gloss: Used to express discontent with a situation or occurrence.
pos: adv
examples: The hospital was shamefully underequipped.
Translations:
shamelessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *skamō
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-Germanic *skamōlausaz
Proto-West Germanic *skamulaus
Old English sċamlēas
Middle English schameles
English shameless
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English shamelessness
From shameless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: shamelessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or characteristic of being shameless.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: [H]e added to all his other shamelessness this, that he offered the patriarch a large sum of money to buy a bishopric of him.
"For instance as to her shamelessness. She was always ready to run half naked about the hills. . . ."
She was quite honest with herself; she knew that she was watching for Clay, and she had a magnificent shamelessness in her quest.
gloss: An utterance or action which is shameless.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
examples: Shoals of letters are published every week from all parts of the Union telling stories of the unhappiness produced by marriage, sometimes mere bursts of ill-temper, often cynical shamelessnesses, occasionally stories of deep pathos, but all intended as denunciations of the existing scheme of morals, all followed by the same remark that while marriage exists there can be no happiness for mankind.
He was able to write in the gloom of his bottle only because of his noseglow nose's glow as it slid over the paper and while he scribbled & scratched nameless shamelessnesses about ethers everybody ever he met. . . .
He asked of course after Taimsa, who was still dallying in shamelessnesses at Antioch.
Translations:
shatterproof
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shatter
English -proof
English shatterproof
From shatter + -proof.
Inflected forms:
form: more shatterproof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shatterproof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shatterproofs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shatterproofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shatterproofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shatterproofed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Resistant to shattering; difficult to break.
pos: adj
examples: a shatterproof plastic ruler
gloss: To make resistant to shattering.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
unbinding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: unbindings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The release or freeing of something that was bound.
pos: noun
Translations:
reappraisal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English appraisal
English reappraisal
From re- + appraisal.
Inflected forms:
form: reappraisals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A second look at or reassessment of the value of something; a new appraisal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is only recently that a reappraisal of homosexuality has led some psychologists and theologians to accept it as a natural and potentially healthy expression of human sexuality.
Translations:
radio-frequency
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: radiofrequency
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to electromagnetic radiation in the radio frequency band of the spectrum.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dishwashing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English dihsse-wehssinge, dischwaschyng, equivalent to dish + washing.
Compound parts: dish
washing
Inflected forms:
form: dishwashings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of cleaning the dishware.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
pilferage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pilfer
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 pilferage
From pilfer + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: pilferages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The individual act or recurring practice of stealing items of low value, especially in small quantities, for which the legal term is petty theft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sir Thomas Royden, Chairman of the L.M.S.R., and Mr. Robert Holland-Martin, Chairman of the Southern Railway, both deplored the wholesale robbery and petty pilferage which have increased until they have reached appalling dimensions.
Still, there is pilferage, mysterious discrepancies eating into the percentages.
Translations:
sundeck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der.
Proto-Germanic *sunnô
Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ
Proto-West Germanic *sunnā
Old English sunne
Middle English sonne
English sun
English deck
English sundeck
From sun + deck.
Inflected forms:
form: sundecks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sun deck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An area on a ship's deck or on the roof of a house used for sunbathing.
pos: noun
Translations:
fieldstone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From field + stone.
Compound parts: field
stone
Inflected forms:
form: fieldstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stone found in fields and used for building.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
monotonously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English monotone
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English monotonous
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English monotonously
From monotonous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more monotonously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most monotonously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that is tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety.
pos: adv
examples: She worked monotonously at the assembly line.
Time passed as time ever does when passed monotonously, that is, with a degree of rapidity which only astonishes us when it is recalled to mind by some chance circumstance.
The face of the dying man in the lingchi video monotonously evokes Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer ’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.”
gloss: In a droning manner, that does not change pitch.
pos: adv
examples: The minister spoke monotonously and his congregation began to doze.
Related words: monotone
monotonous
Derived words: nonmonotonously
Translations:
rededication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English dedication
English rededication
From re- + dedication.
Inflected forms:
form: rededications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A new dedication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Kendal Junction's original name lasted for only 13 years before its rededication as Oxenholme in 1860. The current version dates from 1988 and so is relatively recent. Today this station is officially Oxenholme Lake District.
Translations:
jism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally US English; first attested with the meaning “energy” in 1842, and with the meaning “semen” in c.1888. For semantic development, compare spunk. Perhaps ultimately from British dialect chism, chissom (“a shoot, sprout, sprig”).
Unlikely to be related to Arabic جِسْم (jism, “body”) (or its Hindi derivative जिस्म (jisma)).
Inflected forms:
form: jisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jiz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jizz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jizzum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jissom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jissum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Spirit or energy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: Semen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
examples: He pulls his dick out and as a parting insult shakes the jism off the end onto her belly.
“[…] the girls in blue movies rub their faces in jism”
Translations:
pungency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pungent
English -cy
English pungency
From pungent + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: pungencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being pungent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A foul odor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: pungence
Related words: pungent
pungently
Translations:
liftback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From lift + back, modelled on hatchback or similar pre-existing automotive terms. Coined in 1973 by Toyota to describe their Celica model.
Compound parts: lift
back
Inflected forms:
form: liftbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variation on the hatchback car body style, with a more gently sloping roofline.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
goof-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: goof-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An idle or work-shy person; a shirker.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
Translations:
breakfront
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From break + front.
Compound parts: break
front
Inflected forms:
form: breakfronts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any piece of furniture (especially a bookcase or cabinet) that has a central section that projects farther forward than the other sections.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: Quickly, she began to tear off slips of pink paper and tape them to things — the refrigerator, the stove, the telephone which hung on the kitchen wall by the garage doorway, the breakfront in the dining room.
He stopped and took proper note, as possibly no one else ever had, of the Waterford goblets and candy dishes that Enid kept on display in the breakfront.
Translations:
cookout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cook + out.
Compound parts: cook
out
Inflected forms:
form: cookouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gathering for a meal that is cooked and eaten outside; either a domestic barbecue or a larger social event.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
snowboarder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snowboard
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English snowboarder
From snowboard + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: snowboarders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who snowboards.
pos: noun
examples: The same is true in freeskiing, in which skiers pull tricks on some of the same terrain as snowboarders.
To Enni Rukajarvi, a Finnish snowboarder, the temperatures were not a problem — it was warmer than it often is at home, she pointed out — but the wind was tricky.
Translations:
Skidoo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the trademark Ski-Doo, originally an erroneous rendering of "Ski-Dog" that was adopted as the official brand name of the first snowmobile.
Inflected forms:
form: Skidoos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ski-doo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: SkiDoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Ski-Doo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Ski doo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Ski Doo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ski-doo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: skidoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ski doo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A snowmobile.
pos: noun
Translations:
herky-jerky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more herky-jerky
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most herky-jerky
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having an irregular spasmodic movement.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
informal
examples: While all that herky-jerky mathcore in your collection might not fit the bill, put some Portishead on your Pod and the attached OhMiBod will respond rhythmically in kind.
Lynn has learned the herky-jerky schedule of the university. She has learned about me, and how I respond to its quirks—like a river flowing with hiccups.
The resulting battlefield is a surface of rough textures, lumbering machines, and brutalist geometric lines, broken up only by the movement of the Mimics, whose herky-jerky darting resembles sped-up stop-motion.
Translations:
quarter-pipe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports
Etymology: From quarter + pipe.
Compound parts: quarter
pipe
Inflected forms:
form: quarter-pipes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quarter pipe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: quarterpipe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A structure used to perform tricks, approximately half the size of a half-pipe, similar in appearance to having a quarter of a circle in cross-section, with the middle of that quarter as the bottom.
pos: noun
gloss: A ramp, one side of a half-pipe.
pos: noun
Related words: half-pipe
pipe
superpipe
slopestyle
tubular
Translations:
snowbound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos
Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz
Proto-West Germanic *snaiw
Old English snāw
Middle English snow
English snow
English -bound
English snowbound
From snow + -bound.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Prevented from moving or traveling due to snow or snowy weather.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When a passenger or freight train is snowbound, any train crew or passengers must first be rescued and taken to the nearest station. This task is usually done by local trackmen.
gloss: Of a location or other destination, inaccessible due to being covered in snow.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
snowsuit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From snow + suit.
Compound parts: snow
suit
Inflected forms:
form: snowsuits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An all-in-one waterproof insulating garment.
pos: noun
Translations:
skinhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kenH-
Proto-Germanic *skinþąder.
Middle English skyn
English skin
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
English skinhead
From skin + head.
Inflected forms:
form: skinheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone with a shaved head.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a subculture that arose among working-class youth in late 1960s England or its diaspora, defined by close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing, and often associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.
pos: noun
examples: Their rules haven't changed: Skinheads are very young, mostly between the ages of 13 and 18, and they come from strictly working class backgrounds. They wear short‐ankled denims, T‐shirts, suspenders and heavy boots known as Bovverboots (Botherboots), and their hair is shorn to an eighth of an inch all over their skulls. They dance the Reggae, a West Indian shuffle, and they drink Coca Cola and they whip up riots at soccer games.
By the end of the show, fights would break out all over the place: the Atlantic City skins against the crew from Philly; the oldschool skinheads feuding with overzealous fresh-cuts.
Derived words: skinheaded
skinheadism
skunk
Translations:
sleety
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sleet
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English sleety
From sleet + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: sleetier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sleetiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in sleet; full of sleet.
pos: adj
examples: sleety weather
Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world!
The little doctor threw off his sleety cloak and hat in the lobby, and stood before the officer fresh and puffing, and a little flustered and dazzled after his romp with the wind.
Translations:
slushy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From slush + -y. In the sense of a cook, from the sense of slush meaning to refuse grease and fat collected in cooking.
Base: slush
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: slushier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slushiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in slush.
pos: adj
examples: I can remember, and not that long ago, when slushy mid-winter days like today always lead my feverish imagination down a murky hallway known as "shacking up."
gloss: Having the consistency of slush.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a person, soupy; sentimental.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Derived words: slushily
slushiness
unslushy
Translations:
bobsled
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bob
English sled
English bobsled
From bob + sled.
Inflected forms:
form: bobsleds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bobsleds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bobsledding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bobsledded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bobsledded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of bobsleigh: a sled used to go down a bob track.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of bobsleigh: the sport of travelling down a bob track as fast as possible.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
uncountable
gloss: A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; the compound sled so formed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: W. D. Howells
The long wagon body set on bobsleds.
gloss: To ride or race in a bobsled.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: bobsledder
Translations:
bobsledder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bobsled
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bobsledder
From bobsled + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bobsledders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who participates in bobsled.
pos: noun
Translations:
lepidopterist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lepidoptery
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 lepidopterist
From lepidoptery + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: lepidopterists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who studies lepidoptery; someone who studies butterflies and moths.
pos: noun
Translations:
delphine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin delphīnus.
Base: delphīnus
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: more delphine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most delphine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of dolphins.
pos: adj
gloss: A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Dartmoor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dart, a river in Devon, + Old English mōr (“moor”).
Inflected forms:
form: Dartmoors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pony of a compact, hardy breed found in Devon, England.
pos: noun
examples: […] the Dartmoors are nearly extinct; the Highland pony is still the old hardy animal nature formed; the Shetland pony of the northern Scottish isles is still diminutive, but beautiful.
Translations:
Exmoor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English Ex + mōr (“moor”), 'the wet land where the River Exe rises'.
Inflected forms:
form: Exmoors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, with white legs and face and black nostrils.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district.
pos: noun
Translations:
newsreel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From news + reel.
Compound parts: news
reel
Inflected forms:
form: newsreels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short film containing news or current affairs; especially one of several shown in sequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The film, written and directed by Michelle Ferrari, is filled with jaw-dropping moments: newsreel footage of white American families merrily competing in “genetic fitness” contests at state fairs where they were measured like livestock; a retelling of a pivotal court case where a teenage mother was forcibly sterilized by her mother; and the story of how the irrepressible inventor of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes became a champion of eugenics.
gloss: The genre of such films.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: newsreelman
Translations:
perfuse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Italic *peri-
Latin per-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-?
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰunédti ~ ǵʰundénti
Proto-Italic *hundō
Latin fundō
Latin perfundō
Latin perfūsusder.
English perfuse
From 1520s, from Latin perfusus, past participle of perfundo (“to pour over, besprinkle”) from per- + fundo (“to pour”) (from nasalised form of PIE root *gheu- ("to pour")); compare diffuse, suffuse.
Inflected forms:
form: perfuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: perfusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: perfused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: perfused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To permeate or suffuse something, especially with a liquid or with light.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tissues can be broadly classified as poorly-perfused, adequately perfused and well-perfused on this basis as shown in Table 2.1. Note how organs with a relatively small mass, such as the heart and brain, only require a modest blood flow to perfuse them well.
As a patient has decreased ability to perfuse tissue, conversion of glucose into carbon dioxide and energy in the cellular level is also decreased.
The right coronary artery system perfused the inferior and infero-septal regions in 89% of the patients, identified with a right dominant system. The anterolateral papillary muscle was perfused from the left coronary system in all cases.
gloss: To force a fluid to flow over or through something, especially through an organ of the body.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When AVP was perfused into punctate regions in the brain of the sheep or rabbit, the pyrogen-induced fever was suppressed.
2001, Alan B. R. Thomson, Gary Wild, Lipid Absorption and the Unstirred layers, Charles M. Mansbach II, Patrick Tso, Arnis Kuksis (editors), Intestinal Lipid Metabolism, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, page 140,
The change in the ratio of the uptake of xylose and urea could not be explained just by an alteration in UWL resistance or by a change in the laminar flow properties of the perfused fluid.
To test which solution was optimal for tissue survival, they perfused these solutions through the vasculature of canine thyroid glands, by using an apparatus with a silicone rubber oxygenator (Fig. 1.3).
Related words: perfusable
perfusion
Derived words: perfusate
perfusive
reperfuse
superperfuse
xenoperfuse
Translations:
monochromator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English monochrome
English -ator
English monochromator
From monochrome + -ator.
Inflected forms:
form: monochromators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An optical device, consisting of one or more slits, that selects a narrow band of wavelengths from a broader spectrum.
pos: noun
Translations:
microfluidics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti?
Latin fluō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin fluidusder.
Middle English fluid
English fluid
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English fluidic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English fluidics
English microfluidics
From micro- + fluidics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The science concerned with the design and construction of microminiaturized devices containing chambers and tunnels through which fluids flow in a controlled manner; used to construct labs on a chip, ink-jet printer heads etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The study of microfluids.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: biomicrofluidics
Translations:
insulating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more insulating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most insulating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That insulates.
pos: adj
Translations:
tunicate
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From translingual Tunicata + -ate (noun-forming suffix). Further from Latin tunicātus, perfect passive participle of tunicō (“to clothe with a tunic”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: tunicates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of very many chordate marine animals, of the subphyla Tunicata or Urochordata, including the sea squirts.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to Tunicata or Urochordata.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
fritillary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin fritillus (“dice-box, or possibly, checkerboard”).
Inflected forms:
form: fritillaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several bulbous perennial plants, of the genus Fritillaria, having flowers with a spotted or chequered pattern.
pos: noun
examples: Fritillaries are as fundamental a part of the British water meadow landscape as Ratty and Mole slowly punting along under a willow tree. They speak of opalescent spring mornings, with their distinctive chequered bells bowed earthward and beaded with dew, a dark counterpoint to the acid-fresh grass.
gloss: Any of several butterflies, of the family Nymphalidae, having wings with black or silvery spots.
pos: noun
examples: The Nymphalidae are a very extensive group, of generally strong-winged and very bright-coloured butterflies, very abundant in the tropics, and represented in our own country by our Fritillaries, our Vanessas, and our Purple-emperor.
Derived words: dark green fritillary
Diana fritillary
Falklands fritillary
Glanville fritillary
heath fritillary
marsh fritillary
pearl-bordered fritillary
regal fritillary
Translations:
headrush
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From head + rush.
Compound parts: head
rush
Inflected forms:
form: headrushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: head rush
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sudden feeling of dizziness and/or euphoria.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A sudden feeling of dizziness and/or euphoria.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A sudden feeling of dizziness and/or euphoria.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A sudden feeling of dizziness and/or euphoria.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Something exciting or thrilling.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
informal
Translations:
halberdier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: halberdiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soldier armed with a halberd.
pos: noun
examples: Jones did not think fit to acquaint the serjeant with his design; though he might have done it with great safety, for the halberdier was himself a man of honour, and had killed his man.
Translations:
swappable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English swap
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English swappable
From swap + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That can be swapped.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The resident data structures of the kernels serve as caches on the swappable databases maintained by the managers.
Translations:
terrine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French terrine (“a clay dish; that which is cooked in the dish”). Doublet of tureen.
Inflected forms:
form: terrines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deep type of dish or pan, typically used for casseroles and made out of pottery.
pos: noun
gloss: A pâté baked in such a dish and served cold.
pos: noun
Translations:
mutinous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more mutinous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mutinous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Likely to commit mutiny.
pos: adj
examples: [A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]
“My men grow mutinous day by day;
My men grow ghastly wan and weak.”
The stout mate thought of home; a spray
Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny.
pos: adj
Synonyms: insubordinate
rebellious
Derived words: mutinously
mutinousness
nonmutinous
unmutinous
Translations:
entropic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English entropy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English entropic
From entropy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or as a consequence of entropy.
pos: adj
Translations:
well-adjusted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more well-adjusted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-adjusted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: welladjusted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, suitably adapted to new conditions.
pos: adj
examples: Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby.
gloss: Free from any psychological disorder.
pos: adj
Translations:
hawk-billed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a bill or beak shaped like that of a hawk.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hawk-eye
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hawk-eyes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hawkeye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person with keen eyesight or one who is especially observant.
pos: noun
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Iowa.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: Hawkeye State
Translations:
hen-hawk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hen-hawks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any hawk supposed to prey on poultry.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The ordinary large reddish "hen hawks," which circle high above meadows, are doing great good to the farmer by feeding upon the mice and other creatures which steal his grain and girdle his trees.
Translations:
seersucker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: From Hindi शीरशक्कर (śīrśakkar), from Persian شیر و شکر (šir o šekar, literally “milk and sugar”), modified by folk etymology, originally alluding to the smooth (“milk”) and rough (“sugar”) surface of the stripes.
Inflected forms:
form: seersuckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin, all-cotton fabric, commonly striped, used to make clothing for summer wear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I saw merely a lank, commonplace, and simple-looking farmer, going about his chores in faded blue overalls, a seersucker shirt, and a straw hat of the kind that is called a "cow's breakfast."
gloss: An article made from such fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: gingham
Translations:
iconicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin iconicitas.
Inflected forms:
form: iconicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the state of being iconic (in all meanings)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
probabilistically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English probabilistic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English probabilistically
From probabilistic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more probabilistically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most probabilistically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a probabilistic manner; using a method based on probability.
pos: adv
examples: The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others.
Translations: