yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cowhide
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cow + hide.
Compound parts: cow
hide
Inflected forms:
form: cowhides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cowhides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cowhiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cowhided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cowhided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hide of a cow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any quantity of hides of cows.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Leather made from the hide of cows.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A coarse whip made of untanned leather.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “Luke did his work,” I said. “How could your father sell him?”
“He worked all right. And the hands would work hard for him—mostly without the cowhide. But sometimes he didn't show much sense.”
gloss: To flog with a cowhide.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: lehmännahka
crabgrass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From crab + grass.
Compound parts: crab
grass
Inflected forms:
form: crabgrasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Those members of the genus Digitaria, grasses of tropical to temperate climates, which are pests of lawns, mainly from their invasive habits and the fact they die off in the fall and winter, leaving bare patches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A marine grass of salt marshes, glasswort (Salicornia herbacea)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The herb is also called of divers, Cali articulatum, or jointed Glassewort : in English, Crab-grasse, and Frog-grasse.
Derived words: Arizona crabgrass
hairy crabgrass
Asian crabgrass
Caribbean crabgrass
Carolina crabgrass
dwarf crabgrass
East Indian crabgrass
Eggers' crabgrass
Florida crabgrass
Isle of Pines crabgrass
Indian crabgrass
Jamaican crabgrass
longleaf crabgrass
Madagascar crabgrass
millet crabgrass
naked crabgrass
Natal crabgrass
roadside crabgrass
sand crabgrass
shaggy crabgrass
shortleaf crabgrass
slender crabgrass
smooth crabgrass
southern crabgrass
Texas crabgrass
trailing crabgrass
tropical crabgrass
twospike crabgrass
velvet crabgrass
violet crabgrass
yellow crabgrass
Translations:
watercraft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From water + -craft (vehicle) or water + -craft (skill).
Base: water
Affixes: -craft
Inflected forms:
form: watercrafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: watercraft
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any vessel with implements designed to move it in arbitrary direction through one or various bodies of water: a boat, ship, sea scooter, or similar vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thanks to British designer Ross Kemp, the world has been graced with a solar-powered watercraft that costs just a third of the price of your average powered water craft. […] Although only at its second prototype, ASAP has already won an award for Best Startup Business in the UK Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards and Kemp is thinking about how to expand: “I’d love to be able to offer solar charging stations to local councils so they can charge their watercrafts whenever they need to.”
gloss: Skill in boating, swimming, or other water-related sports.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
Synonyms: watercraft
vessel
seacraft
Related words: bucket
tub
captain
crewman
helmsman
mariner
rower
sailor
seaman
steersman
:Category:Watercraft
Derived words: personal watercraft
Translations:
craniofacial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-(e)s-n-
Proto-Hellenic *kárahə
Ancient Greek *κρᾱν- (*krān-)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ον (-ĭ́on)
Ancient Greek κρᾱνῐ́ον (krānĭ́on)bor.
Medieval Latin crāniumlbor.
English cranio-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Latin -iēs
Latin faciēs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Medieval Latin faciālisbor.
English facial
English craniofacial
From cranio- + facial.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the cranium and face, as with craniofacial surgery.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
motorized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: motorised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Equipped with a motor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some would argue that a moped is little more than a motorized bicycle, but others would disagree.
gloss: Supplied with motor vehicles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Because the medic had been supplied with a jeep, he and his aide were classed as a motorized detachment.
In Britain's highly motorized towns, increasing congestion and noxious emissions, as well as concerns about the nation's health, highlight a need to adopt more sustainable forms of transport like cycling and walking.
Derived words: motorized banca
motorized infantry
motorized scooter
nonmotorized
semimotorized
unmotorized
Translations:
footboard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From foot + board. Compare Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (fōtubaurd).
Compound parts: foot
board
Inflected forms:
form: footboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An upright board across the foot of a bedstead.
pos: noun
gloss: A board or small raised platform on which to support or rest the feet, such as that found in a carriage.
pos: noun
gloss: A place to stand on a scooter or skateboard.
pos: noun
gloss: A board serving as a step on a vehicle.
pos: noun
examples: Continuous footboards ran along each side of the narrow body.
Several parties of hop-pickers joined the train at the intermediate stations, and the guard performed the acrobatic feat of walking along the footboards of the coaches to examine tickets, while the train was in motion.
Translations:
sealant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sek-
Proto-Indo-European *-nóm
Proto-Italic *seknom
Latin signum
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lum
Latin sigillum
Anglo-Norman seelbor.
Middle English sel
English seal
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -antbor.
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ant
English -ant
English sealant
From seal + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: sealants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any material used to seal a surface so as to prevent passage of a fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mixture of polymers, fillers, and pigments used to fill and seal joints where moderate movement is expected.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: biosealant
dental sealant
fissure sealant
pit and fissure sealant
sealant backing
Translations:
nuggety
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nugget
English -y
English nuggety
From nugget + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more nuggety
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nuggety
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of nuggets.
pos: adj
examples: Nuggety veins are characterized by localized, erratic, high-grades and coarse-free gold.
Mikli (1986) does not recommend plate pulverizers for the final pulverizing of nuggety gold ores, as the plate pulverizer does not significantly reduce the particle size of gold nuggets.
This type of nuggety gold is characteristic of deluvial and proluvial placers and appears to represent residual gold to which chemicl gold has been accreted; the whole nuggets in some cases have been extensively recrystallized.
Like the old miners, I camped in the nuggety gully.
gloss: Having the characteristics of a nugget
pos: adj
examples: Post-68 Paris weighed on the spirits like a nightmare, a frightwig succubus sucking nuggety gobbets from the brainpans of the nervous and livid.
Plastic cases that held what I knew was a single nuggety sugar rabbit—the 1960s version of today's Peeps.
For the first time, too, he felt conscious of Blue Fin as a ship with a spirit of her own. She was a solid, nuggety little vessel, with a good pair of shoulders to her and a backbone as tough as a battleship's.
gloss: Short, stocky, and powerful.
pos: adj
examples: The nuggety seaman opposite grinned. “No need fer that at all, boyo!” he said, in a pleasant Welsh borders lilt.
Mark was a tattooed, hairy, nuggety, foul-mouthed Aussie bloke (you're probably thinking, as opposed to all those gentle, feminine men who work at the sewage treatment plant).
The little nuggety bloke moved towards Tim and said, “I'll take you.”
Translations:
roofline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From roof + line.
Compound parts: roof
line
Inflected forms:
form: rooflines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The profile of a roof or a series of roofs.
pos: noun
examples: The leading end bodywork of the driver's cab is formed of a single fibreglass moulding and is in a modern styling with swept-back roofline and wrap-round windscreen.
Translations:
roque
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined 1899 by removing the first and last letters from croquet.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard surface.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Translations:
nano-urchin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor.
Latin nānusbor.
English nano-
English urchin
English nano-urchin
From nano- + urchin.
Inflected forms:
form: nano-urchins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dense cluster of nanotubes having a form resembling a sea urchin, especially one made from vanadium oxides.
pos: noun
Translations:
nanomachine
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor.
Latin nānusbor.
English nano-
Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
Doric Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ)
Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́)bor.
Latin māchinabor.
Middle French machinebor.
English machine
English nanomachine
From nano- + machine.
Inflected forms:
form: nanomachines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nanomachines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nanomachining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nanomachined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nanomachined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any mechanical device, manufactured using nanotechnology, having a scale measured in nanometres.
pos: noun
examples: There are many terrifying possibilities for nanotechnology; military nanomachines could infiltrate human bodies and systematically tear them apart using the same principles medical nanomachines will use to repair them. An uncontrolled nanomachine designed to replicate itself could lead to the "grey goo" scenario that once panicked Prince Charles.
gloss: To machine with tolerances measured in nanometres.
pos: verb
Translations:
burin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French burin. Doublet of boline.
Inflected forms:
form: burins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.
pos: noun
examples: I kept staring at the same wallpaper on the same wall; I stared at it so often that every line of its zigzag pattern has etched itself on the innermost folds of my brain as if with an engraver’s burin.
gloss: A prehistoric flint tool
pos: noun
Derived words: burinate
burination
burinist
microburin
Translations:
Languedoc
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French Languedoc, from langue d'oc (“the language of oc”), from Dante Alighieri’s De vulgari eloquentia, where he wrote in Latin: “nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil” (‘some say òc, others say sì, others say oïl’). Based on the Occitan word òc (“yes”), in contrast to Old French oïl (now French oui).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the Occitan language: Provençal, related to Catalan.
pos: adj
Translations:
full-bodied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From full + bodied.
Compound parts: full
bodied
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a comestible, especially a beverage, having a rich flavor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a full-bodied wine
a full-bodied coffee
gloss: Considered carefully from every aspect or in every detail; not missing any elements of analysis; thorough, robust.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The entire cast is so adept at portraying full-bodied characters, especially the rather negative sides, that our attention is almost forced to gravitate to Evie as a central figure, if only because she is devoid of human meanness and foible.
Smith delivers a moving, full-bodied depiction of a man who has been knocked loose from his moorings and is trying to claw back into his own life.
Derived words: full-bodied money
Translations:
Milanese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian Milano
Italian -ese
Italian milanesebor.
English Milanese
Borrowed from Italian milanese.
Inflected forms:
form: Milanese
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Milaneses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the city of Milan or surrounding metropolitan city, Lombardy, Italy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the city of Milan or surrounding metropolitan city, Lombardy, Italy.
pos: noun
examples: —the waiter was a Milanese, and ardently patriotic—
Finally, the first maestro to have been both a Milanese and a product of the studio, Giovanni Battista Cesati, served from before 1655, publishing a motet book, until he was called to Bologna in summer 1658.
Indeed, in Milan, everyday conversations and practices of relating, attunement, and distancing between inhabitants also partake in wider discourses concerning who is a “Milanese” and what the Milanese share.
Translations:
timeliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English timely
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 timeliness
From timely + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: timelinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being timely.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: untimeliness
Translations:
rough-and-tumble
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From rough + and + tumble.
Inflected forms:
form: more rough-and-tumble
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rough-and-tumble
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rough and tumble
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: rough-and-tumbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rough and tumble
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rough-and-tumbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rough-and-tumbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rough-and-tumbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rough-and-tumbled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rough and tumble
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Active, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm.
pos: adj
examples: An assistant about the theatre grappled him, and they were soon upon the floor engaged in a regular rough-and-tumble fight.
[To Sonny] When you look in a mirror, you see this rough-and-tumble old-school cowboy. Doesn't take orders, goes his own way, huh? A lone wolf. Well, I have news for you: Formula One is a team sport. It always was.
gloss: Highly competitive.
pos: adj
examples: She found fame and success in the rough-and-tumble garment district.
gloss: Rough activity; fighting or brawling; a fight.
pos: noun
examples: "You played Rugger for Ireland, did you not? You don't mind a possible rough-and-tumble, do you?" Malone grinned over the receiver.
She liked ragging; but ragging — and nothing more — these rough-and-tumbles remained
As for rough-and-tumbles, the Quaker saw no hope of suppressing them. Few nights passed without such fights […]
gloss: An environment of rough activity.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who characteristically engages in such activity.
pos: noun
examples: This will appear a very tedious process to some of our rough-and-tumbles.
gloss: To engage in rough-and-tumble activity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But, for all that, our British experience of electioneering "rough-and-tumbling'" has long blunted the edge of our moral anger.
Although examples could be found throughout the South, rough-and-tumbling was best suited to the backwoods.
Translations:
imaging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: imagings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The use of mental images to alter a person's perceptions or behaviors.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: bioimaging
brain imaging
fluorimaging
fluoroimaging
functional magnetic resonance imaging
functional MR imaging
ghost imaging
immunoimaging
in-office imaging
lucky imaging
macroimaging
microimaging
microseismic imaging
mirror imaging
myoimaging
nanoimaging
neuroimaging
nonimaging
phosphoimaging
phosphorimaging
photoimaging
speckle imaging
stereoimaging
thermal imaging
Translations:
rule-based
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Based on a series of simple "if-then" rules.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sagamore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From an Algonquian language; compare Abenaki sôgmô, sôgemô (“chief”), Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief”), and Penobscot sagama, sagema, sagemo, sangemo (“chief”), all ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *sa·kima·wa (“male chief”). Doublet of sachem.
Inflected forms:
form: sagamores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of sachem.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
examples: [A] Sagamore with a Humberd in his eare for a pendant, a black havvke on his occiput for his plume, Movvhackees for his gold chaine, good ſtore of VVampompeage begirting his loynes, his bovv in his hand, his quiver at his back, vvith ſix naked Indian ſplatterlaſhes at his heeles for his guard, thinkes himſelfe little inferiour to the great Cham; hee vvill not ſtick to ſay, hee is all one vvith King Charles.
An Indian Soggamore is not in his full Pomp and Bravery without one of theſe Birds in his Ear for a Pendant.
Once we slept where we could hear the salt lake speak in its anger. Then we were rulers and Sagamores over the land.
Now we are ready, I think for any assault of the Indians; / Let them come, if they like, and the sooner they try it the better,— / Let them come if they like, be it sagamore, sachem, or pow-wow, / Aspinet, Samoset, Corbitant, Squanto, or Tokamahamon!
gloss: Synonym of sachem.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
historical
informal
gloss: A high-ranking officer of the Tammany Hall political organization responsible for taking care of its property.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
examples: The society elects annually thirteen sachems, which represent the original thirteen States. […] The other officers of the society are a Secretary, Treasurer, Sagamore, and Wiskinkie. The duty of the Sagamore is to take care of the property of the society; that of the Wiskinkie, to act as doorkeeper.
Related words: sachem
sachemdom
sachemic
sachemship
Derived words: sagamoreship
Translations:
saloonkeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From saloon + keeper.
Compound parts: saloon
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: saloonkeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: someone who owns or operates a saloon (drinking establishment)
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
saltbox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From salt + box.
Compound parts: salt
box
Inflected forms:
form: saltboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salt-box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A box for keeping salt in.
pos: noun
gloss: A similar box formerly used as a percussion instrument in burlesque music.
pos: noun
examples: [O]ne who had heard without seeing the application, would have mistaken the sound for that of a salt-box, in the hand of a dext'rous Merry Andrew, belonging to one of the booths at Bartholomew Fair.
gloss: A distinctively shaped wooden-frame house with two stories at the front and one behind, characteristic of New England.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Rather than build new homes, weekenders are renovating existing homes, with saltboxes and capes predominant.
gloss: A roof where one side slopes farther down than the other.
pos: noun
gloss: The cell in Newgate prison for a prisoner condemned to death.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
slang
examples: “I think I'd rather languish in the Salt Box at Newgate Prison wearing the Devil's Claws than to be married to that tree,” Kierney said.
As expected, Peg was indeed cast for death and was moved to the 'salt box' (the condemned cell) in the Press-yard to be near the New Drop.
Translations:
sandpapered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sandpapered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sandpapered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Treated with sandpaper.
pos: adj
Translations:
iceman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-so-der.
Proto-Germanic *īsą
Proto-West Germanic *īs
Old English īs
Middle English is
English ice
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English iceman
From ice + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: icemen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who trades in ice; a person employed to deliver block ice to those lacking electric refrigeration.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A man who is skilled in travelling upon ice, as among glaciers.
pos: noun
examples: We were accompanied by our two guides, Jean Baptiste Croz and Michel Croz, of Chamounix, two capital icemen, and worthy fellows.
gloss: A human figure carved out of ice.
pos: noun
gloss: An ancient human male mummified in ice.
pos: noun
gloss: An assassin.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: One who is cool under pressure.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Baltiel had always been the iceman, harsh and distant and lacking in sentiment.
gloss: A man in attendance at a frozen pond where skating etc. is going on.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Derived words: icemanship
Translations:
Ashkenazic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Ashkenazi
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English Ashkenazic
From Ashkenazi + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Ashkenazi Jews.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
plowman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English plowman, ploghmon, plouȝman, equivalent to plow + man. Compare Middle Dutch ploechman.
Base: plow
Inflected forms:
form: plowmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ploughman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man who plows land with a plow.
pos: noun
examples: A cereal breeder's farmhands must be good plowmen.
Translations:
anglicised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more anglicised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anglicised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Anglicised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: anglicized
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Anglicized
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Made into a form similar to those commonly used by English speakers.
pos: adj
examples: When he immigrated he changed his name to the anglicised form so the natives could pronounce it correctly.
Translations:
castrated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more castrated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most castrated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).
pos: adj
Translations:
remarriage
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 marriage
English remarriage
From re- + marriage.
Inflected forms:
form: remarriages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a second or subsequent marriage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
shapeshifter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: fantasy
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: From shape + shifter.
Compound parts: shape
shifter
Inflected forms:
form: shapeshifters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shape-shifter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.
pos: noun
examples: The shapeshifter Lisa Bowalk, unable to shed the guise of a black panther, had gone onto the plain as a prisoner but was not now to be found among the dead above or the Captured down below.
Like the teller of shapeshifter stories—who conjures a shifting world of perceptions and expectations for his or her audience that is strikingly similar to the worlds created by the shapeshifter for its victims—the cultural practice of imagination...is an inherently shifty enterprise....
There have also been verified reports of fire-starters and ice-makers and a shapeshifter so powerful she was able to frame another Smallville citizen for a bank robbery!
Granted, Grace is talking about actual transformation, but she's a shapeshifter. For her, growing a couple inches taller is like an alternative to wearing high heels.
“The Jem'Hadar? You fought the Dominion? Ah. The shapeshifters sent many warriors to Sto-vo-kor. I wish I could have seen it.” “No, you do not. There was no honor, just massacres.” “But in the end you were victorious.” “Starfleet is supposed to be about puzzling together the mysteries of life, not fighting wars. I don't want to be a general. I don't, I don't want to send my friends off to die. I just want to be an ensign. If it was good enough for Sito, then it's good enough for me.”
“Oh, no! That house belongs to shapeshifters. [spits]” “Fuck.” “You're kidding me, right?” “Shapeshifters are... extremely freaky.” “They are awful, abhorrent creatures that use the most ancient of sorcery to transform into whatever murderous, all-powerful shape their wicked hearts desire. And now, they have infiltrated our street.” “I have had horrible experiences with shapeshifters in the past. I was once in a relationship with a woman for four years who then transformed into a possum. I stayed with her for six more months, but then I just had to end it.”
gloss: A person who is inconsistent and elusive.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: She was an alcoholic, very chageable, very deceptive. A shapeshifter. You never knew where you stood with her, […]
Synonyms: shape-shifter
Related words: shapeshifting
Derived words: shapeshift
Translations:
chumming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The use of a lit aeroplane to draw enemy fire so that the enemy can be destroyed by another aeroplane whose lights are off.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
Translations:
carline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old Norse karling, feminine of karl (“carl”).
Inflected forms:
form: carlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carlin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: carling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woman; also, a hag or witch.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: He taks a ſvvirlie, auld moſs-oak, / For ſome black, grouſome Carlin; […]
While honest men slept in their beds, the auld rudas carlines took their pleasure.
Translations:
tetrodotoxin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
neurotoxicology
sciences
toxicology
Etymology: From German Tetrodotoxin, corresponding to Tetrodon (tetr- + translingual -odon) + toxin.
Base: tetr
Inflected forms:
form: tetrodotoxins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A neurotoxin, originally discovered in Tetraodontiformes, and found in pufferfish, blue-ringed octopus, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Both creatures belong to a large pan-tropical order of fish, many of which have tetrodotoxin in their skin, liver, ovaries, and intestines.
The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in their ink but the concentrations and effect in inking are not known.
Among those who think of fugu as merely a distant delicacy, knowledge rarely goes beyond the fish’s infamous trait: In the most delicious species, the innards are suffused with the neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin (TTX).
Translations:
carrack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French caraque (compare Spanish and Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from Latin carraca, from Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic قَرَاقِير (qarāqīr).
Inflected forms:
form: carracks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: carrick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: carract
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: They [the English] are all on fire / To purchaſe from the Spaniard. If their Carracks / Come deeply laden, vvee ſhall tugge vvith them / For golden ſpoile.
Faith, he to night hath boarded a Land Carract, / If it proue lawfull prize, he's made for euer.
The name of the ship was Dawn Treader. She was only a little bit of a thing compared with one of our ships, or even with the cogs, dromonds, carracks and galleons which Narnia had owned when Lucy and Edmund had reigned there under Peter as the High King, for nearly all navigation had died out in the reigns of Caspian's ancestors.
Thereafter huge sailing carracks brought Indian pepper and cotton, Indonesian perfume and spice, Chinese silk and porcelain, to the royal trading house at Lisbon.
Translations:
sorites
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From the Latin sōrītēs, from the Ancient Greek σωρῑ́της (sōrī́tēs, “fallacy of the heap”), from σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).
Inflected forms:
form: sorites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series of propositions whereby each conclusion is taken as the subject of the next.
pos: noun
tags: rhetoric
examples: Why?—he would ask, making use of the sorites or syllogism of Zeno and Chrysippus without knowing it belonged to them.—Why? why are we a ruined people?—Because we are corrupted.——Whence is it, dear Sir, that we are corrupted?—Because we are needy […] ——And wherefore, he would add,—are we needy?——From the neglect, he would answer
Translations:
mini-moto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mini-motos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minimoto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A miniature motorcycle, with a wheelbase in the range of 1000 mm and an engine displacing as little as 40cc.
pos: noun
Translations:
carvel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English carvel, carvelle, carvile, kervel (“small ship; caravel”), from Old French caruelle, carvelle, kirvelle, see further at caravel. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch karveel.
Inflected forms:
form: carvels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: karvel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of caravel (“a light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship”).
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A jellyfish (e.g. Medusozoa).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: carvel-built
carvel-planked
Translations:
carvel-built
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a wooden vessel: having the planks of the hull laid flush and caulked to make a smooth finish.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
clinker-built
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From clinker + built. Clinker is derived from clink (“to clench or fasten with nails or rivets”) + -er (suffix attached to verbs forming agent nouns indicating persons or things that do actions indicated by the verbs), and clink is a northern English variant of clench (“to secure (something) with bolts, nails, etc.; (specifically) to bend the point of a nail after it has been hammered through something so that the nail cannot be removed; to clinch”), from Middle English clinken, clenchen (“to fasten, specifically with nails or rivets; to enclose; to lock up; to clench (the fingers)”) [and other forms], from Old English clenċan (“to clinch, hold fast”), a variant of clenġan (“to adhere; to remain”), from Proto-Germanic *klangijaną (“to make cling or stick”), the causative of *klinganą (“to adhere to, cling to”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (“to glue, stick; to smear”).
Compound parts: clinker
built
Inflected forms:
form: clinkerbuilt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a boat or ship: where the hull planks overlap each other edge-to-edge, similar to shingles on a roof, and are secured by clenched nails or rivets for a strong, watertight seal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The British portion of the expedition were ordered to leave Kingston, in Canada West, as early in the year as possible, in a beautiful clinker-built boat for Toronto.
The herring fishery in Scotland (undoubtedly the greatest fishery of the kind) is carried on from the shore. The larger number of the boats in use for many years past are open clinker-built boats, costing, with their suite of nets, about 200l.
Ten years ago all the bawleys were clinker-built—that is, with the streaks overlapping each other, as in boats; but the new bawleys are now all carvel-built, the planks being placed edge to edge, so as to give a smooth surface, as in yachts and large vessels.
Q. Yes. When you refer to a clinker built boat, just describe that style of boat. That refers to one with a bow at each end and a sharp keel? / A. No, this boat that I had there in 1879 was a square stern boat, sharp bow of course. A clinker built is made by boards lapping over each other. It is like set-work you know.
But best he loved to go up the firth in the boat which Leif had made him—a finished, clinker-built little model of a war galley, christened the Joy-maker—and catch the big sea fish.
The Leopard in fact possessed no barge: nothing more than a little clinker-built jolly-boat, patched and pieced until scarcely an original plank was to be seen.
Varnished clinker planking is common in Scandinavia. The original Folkboat was clinker-built.
As the taxi and I travelled around America I pictured myself […] in a traditional clapboard, clinker-built home with a view over Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
By this time, Wearie Willie had been replaced by Query, a clinker-built 16-footer that Patrick Senior had commissioned especially for his youngest son from Goddard's of Palm Beach.
Translations:
case-shot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A mixture of stones and old iron, put into a wooden case and fired from a cannon as an anti-personnel weapon.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
Translations:
cephalothorax
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cephalo-
English thorax
English cephalothorax
From cephalo- + thorax.
Inflected forms:
form: cephalothoraxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cephalothoraces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fused head and thorax of spiders and crustaceans.
pos: noun
examples: "Come in!" says the gray spider to the house-fly; "I have entertained a great many flies. I have plenty of room, fine meals and a gay life. [...] Philosophers have written volumes about my antennae and cephalothorax."
Translations:
caulk
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
nautical
transport
Etymology: From Old Northern French cauquer, from Late Latin calicāre (“to fill in with limestone, caulk”), derived from calx (“limestone, chalk”). Related to calx, cauk, chalk, and calculus.
Inflected forms:
form: caulks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caulking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caulked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: caulked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: calk
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
pos: verb
examples: [W]e might be disturbed during the night by an order being given to "go about," and by hearing in the quiet hours of the morning the familiar inquiry of "How's her head?" Mine often ached with the din of the men caulking all day long!
gloss: To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
pos: verb
gloss: To copulate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To take a short sleep; to nap.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: There was the goggle-eyed daughter a blowing the Grampus [throwing a bucket of water upon a person] with the platter-faced planter, whenever he caulked upon deck; […]
[…] and as sleep is about the only thing there is for a sailor at sea to get in the way of recreation, he prizes it accordingly and gets all he can. It is technically called "caulking," and a man will brag of having "caulked" the whole four hours of his watch on deck […]
Derived words: caulker
caulklike
caulk off
caulky
recaulk
Translations:
caulking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: caulkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Oakum was used for the caulking of the hulls of wooden ships.
Marina's bedroom was a small charming room with small charming windows of aged glass, dating to the mid-1800s, windowpanes badly in need of caulking, overlooking St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church with its heraldic spire floating on the night sky, and its ancient bumpy churchyard.
It might just be the caulking. This whole tub needs to be re-caulked. Did you take a bath or shower in the last couple of hours?
gloss: An act/process of sealing using this material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: caulk
Derived words: caulking gun
caulking iron
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: calafatament
lang: Czech
word: tmelení
lang: Polish
word: uszczelnianie
Scientologist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin scientia + -ologist.
Affixes: -ologist
Inflected forms:
form: Scientologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A follower of Scientology, whether belonging to the "official" Church of Scientology or being outside in the so-called Free Zone.
pos: noun
examples: I felt great and I got rid of some stuff that I didn't realize that I was dragging around. And I said, 'Whoa, I think I've become a Scientologist.' -- Isaac Hayes
Tory Bezazian was a veteran Scientologist who loved going after church critics. Until she met the darkest detractor of all.
But what is it and where does it come from? Landmark Forum evolved from est (Erhard Seminar Training) an intense and controversial newage selfhelp group of the 1970s and '80s using a combination of Eastern philosophies developed by former scientologist Werner Erhard.
You can't drive past an accident, because as a Scientologist you are the only one who can help. -- Tom Cruise
gloss: Of or relating to Scientology or Scientologists.
pos: adj
examples: Neither of them had heard of Kelly or Kalki, but then neither of them had heard of Horace, Alexander Pope, [Blaise] Pascal, [Denis] Diderot, [Werner] Heisenberg’s law or entropy. Their lives were spent, successfully, repelling information. They were perfect “clears,” to use Scientologist jargon.
He [Robert de Grimston] graduated from a Scientology unit, and within fourteen weeks became a Scientologist “therapist.”
They moved a group of dancers and Scientologist friends into the Row and created a pageant called U.
Translations:
corydoras
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: corydoras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Corydoras of small freshwater tropical catfish often kept in aquariums.
pos: noun
Translations:
Sangu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic group based in the Usangu Plain of Chunya District of Mbeya Region, Tanzania.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
savagery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English savage
Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye
English -ry
English savagery
From savage + -ry.
Inflected forms:
form: savageries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “For some reason the women have not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men.”
gloss: A violent act of cruelty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Savages collectively; the world of savages.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They spring out of an element of diffused homosexuality which is at least as marked in civilization as it is in savagery.
gloss: Wild growth of plants.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] they […] made, amongst other features, lead ponds. With their departure these lands once more reverted to savagery; gardening, along with virtually all aspects of culture, disappeared and with it the man-made water gardens.
Derived words: semisavagery
sweet savagery
Translations:
thangka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan ཐང་ཀ (thang ka, literally “painting”).
Inflected forms:
form: thangka
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thangkas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tanka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tangka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thanka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A painted or embroidered linen banner, usually depicting Buddhist themes, originating in Tibet; a prayer flag.
pos: noun
examples: When the talks by Lama Thubten Yeshe on Buddhist and Christian meditation were published, the text included a reproduction of a Christian icon and a Tibetan thangka.
Like so many things in Nepal, thangka—Tibetan ritual paintings—are now cranked out for the tourist market, yet the best ones remain undiminished by commercialization, and even the cheapest can't hide the dense Buddhist symbolism inherent in the form.
Translations:
croton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin crotōn, from Ancient Greek κροτών (krotṓn, “tick”), from the size and shape of the seed.
Inflected forms:
form: crotons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various plants, of the genus Croton, that yield croton oil.
pos: noun
gloss: A tropical evergreen shrub (Codiaeum variegatum), having glossy foliage, cultivated as a houseplant.
pos: noun
examples: The croton bushes, by day hideous things like jaundiced laurels, were changed by the moon into jagged black and white designs like fantastic wood-cuts.
Derived words: crotonaldehyde
crotonic
crotonine
Translations:
scenarist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃-der.
Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ)bor.
Latin scēnabor.
Italian scena
Italian -ario
Italian scenariobor.
English scenar(io)
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 scenarist
From scenar(io) + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: scenarists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A writer of screenplays; a screenwriter.
pos: noun
examples: What was acted out in the American and French Revolutions had been thought out beforehand in the writings of Locke and Rousseau, the scenarists for the drama of modern politics.
Translations:
scholiast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin scholiasta, from Byzantine Greek σχολιαστής (skholiastḗs), from σχολιάζειν (skholiázein), from Ancient Greek σχόλιον (skhólion).
Inflected forms:
form: scholiasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.
pos: noun
examples: [N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses.
[L]ike it or not, I was caught up once more in the scholiast’s game, paring popular notions of the ‘queer’ and ‘unearthly’ from notions of the ‘monstrous’.
Translations:
scoreless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-
Proto-Germanic *skurō
Old Norse skorder.
Old English scoru
Middle English score
English score
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 scoreless
From score + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With no points or goals etc having been scored.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
goalless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English goal
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 goalless
From goal + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Devoid of goals; ambitionless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Except for those who directly benefit from the system, life becomes a goalless existence, in which the worst human aberrations start germinating.
gloss: Without goals; in which no goals have been scored; having scored no goals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Stevenage and Sheffield United played out a goalless draw in their League One play-off semi-final first leg.
Related words: scoreless
Derived words: goallessly
goallessness
Translations:
scuffling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: scufflings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a confused struggle
pos: noun
Translations:
seamy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English seam
English -y
English seamy
From seam + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: seamier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: seamiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sordid, squalid or corrupt.
pos: adj
examples: Lou Reed, lead singer of the Velvet Underground, veteran chronicler of life's wilder, seamier and more desperate side and one of the most influential and distinctive songwriters of his generation has died at the age of 71.
1987, David Brin, The Uplift War, Phantasia Press
She just hadn't been aware, having considered such tales rather seamy while growing up.
gloss: Having or showing a seam.
pos: adj
examples: 1964, Philip Larkin, ”The Whitsun Weddings”, Faber & Faber
The fathers with broad belts under their suits
And seamy foreheads; mothers loud and fat;
Derived words: seamily
seaminess
Translations: