yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
infallibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English infallible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English infallibly
From infallible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more infallibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most infallibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an infallible manner.
pos: adv
examples: The pope speaks infallibly ex cathedra.
[I]n such way [the formation of political clubs], most infallibly of all, does Social Unrest exhibit itself; find solacement, and also nutriment.
Translations:
hemorrhoidectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hemorrhoid
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ)der.
English -ectomy
English hemorrhoidectomy
From hemorrhoid + -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: hemorrhoidectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haemorrhoidectomy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A surgical procedure involving the excision of internal and/or external hemorrhoidal tissue, typically indicated for the treatment of symptomatic, prolapsed, thrombosed, or refractory hemorrhoids.
pos: noun
Translations:
hepatectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From hepat- + -ectomy.
Base: hepat
Inflected forms:
form: hepatectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical removal of all or part of the liver.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
varix
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Via Middle English varix from Latin varix, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wers-. See also Old Church Slavonic врьхъ (vrĭxŭ, “top, peak”), Ancient Greek ἕρμα (hérma, “reef, rock, hill”), Lithuanian viršus (“top”).
Inflected forms:
form: varices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A varicose, i.e. swollen and knotted, vein.
pos: noun
gloss: In mollusks, a particular ridge on the shell, corresponding to a former position of the aperture.
pos: noun
examples: In the personid genus Distorsio, varix formation is accompanied by a reorientation of the aperture.
Related words: variceal
Translations:
lumpectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lump
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ)der.
English -ectomy
English lumpectomy
From lump + -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: lumpectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical removal of a tumour or cyst from a breast.
pos: noun
Translations:
nephrectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From nephr- + -ectomy.
Base: nephr
Inflected forms:
form: nephrectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical removal of a kidney.
pos: noun
Translations:
pneumonectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō
Ancient Greek πλεύμων (pleúmōn)
▲
Ancient Greek πνέω (pnéō)influ.
▲
Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma)influ.
Ancient Greek πνεύμων (pneúmōn)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English pneumono-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ)der.
English -ectomy
English pneumonectomy
From pneumono- + -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: pneumonectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical removal of all or part of a lung.
pos: noun
examples: Evarts Graham [...] pioneered the pneumonectomy (the resection of the lung to remove tumors).
Translations:
birefringent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
English refringent
English birefringent
From bi- + refringent.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to birefringence
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having two refractive indices (depending on orientation)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: monorefringent
Derived words: birefringently
nonbirefringent
Translations:
xian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 縣 /县.
Inflected forms:
form: xians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hsien
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An administrative subdivision of imperial, republican, and communist China roughly equivalent to counties, now distinguished from the more urban "districts" (qu). (Alternative form of hsien for Taiwan (ROC).)
pos: noun
tags: China
Taiwan
examples: Tight and dense motifs occur on bronzes excavated in 1923 from a tomb at Lijialou at Xinzheng Xian in southern Henan attributed to the small state of Zheng.
At the time of the elections (1980) Nanjing was subdivided into three suburban counties (xian) and nine urban districts (qu).
The Henan Mongol autonomous county (xian) is inhabited by Tsoros Mongols, and there are Ööld Mongols in the Huzhu autonomous county.
Translations:
metrizable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English metrize
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 metrizable
From metrize + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: measurable, quantifiable
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a topological space: for which a metric exists that will induce the original topology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: metric
metrization
metrize
Derived words: completely metrizable
non-metrizable
nonmetrizable
quasi-pseudo-metrizable
Translations:
fiori
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Italian fiori (literally “flowers”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of decorative extruded pasta.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
capite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin caput (“head”).
Inflected forms:
form: capites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ancient English tenure, abolished in 1660, by which either person or land was held immediately of the king, or of his crown, by either knight service or socage.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
ill-begotten
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-begotten
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-begotten
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of inferior parentage.
pos: adj
gloss: ill-conceived
pos: adj
examples: an ill-begotten scheme
Related words: misbegotten
ill-gotten
Translations:
bafflement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From baffle + -ment.
Base: baffle
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: bafflements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The result or state of being baffled, confused, or puzzled; a shocked feeling of perplexed bewilderment, caused by being utterly unable to understand something or to move on from one's incomprehension.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: My bafflement at being caught in this situation made it hard to come up with a way out.
"Have you any theory about this occurrence to-night?" She watched him eagerly as she asked the question. He made a gesture of bafflement. "None whatever—it's beyond me," he confessed.
The error here is to confuse British composure with the appearance of bafflement, embarrassment and reserve.
gloss: Something that causes a state of confusion or puzzlement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The cartoon characters on the front cover, the irritatingly meaningless track names . . . make it seem like a concept album about global warming for kids. Since the lyrics remain a bafflement, it might well be.
Related words: baffled
baffling
Translations:
reenactment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + enact + -ment.
Base: re
Inflected forms:
form: reenactments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: re-enactment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of enacting again.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the reenactment of a former law
gloss: The repetition of an earlier (usually historic) event, as a performance or social event.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They're going to the Civil War battle reenactment this weekend.
Related words: reenact
enactment
Translations:
redemptive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more redemptive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most redemptive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing, or relating to, redemption or saving; redeeming.
pos: adj
Translations:
confederal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French con-bor.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-bor.
Middle English con-
English con-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰós
Proto-Italic *feiðos
Latin foedusder.
French fédéralder.
English federal
English confederal
From con- + federal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or being a confederation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
confederalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English confederal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English confederalism
From confederal + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: confederalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A system of government in which individual states or regions retain most of the power, with a central government that has limited authority for specific purposes.
pos: noun
Translations:
reveille
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From French réveillez, imperative form of réveiller (“to wake”).
Inflected forms:
form: reveilles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A bugler and his brisk reveille woke them most mornings.
Translations:
nimbly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nimble
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English nimbly
From nimble + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more nimbly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most nimbly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a nimble manner
pos: adv
examples: And now, in ſtead of mounting Barbed Steeds, / To fright the Soules of fearfull Aduersaries, / He capers nimbly in a Ladies Chamber, / To the laſcivious pleaſing of a Lute.
“Nimbly” quoth he, “do the fingers move / If a man be but used to his trade.”
"The bee belongs to the one who caught it! If you catch it, it's your bee!" he said, nimbly jumping up and snatching a bee out of the air. "Yow! This one's mine!"
Translations:
sociological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to sociology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sociologically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sociological
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 sociologically
From sociological + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In reference to sociology.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sociometry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From socio- + -metry.
Base: socio
Inflected forms:
form: sociometries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quantitative study of social interactions, and the measurement of preferences etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
ecclesiological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ecclesiology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English ecclesiological
From ecclesiology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more ecclesiological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ecclesiological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to ecclesiology.
pos: adj
Translations:
ecclesiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ecclesio- + -logy. Coined by a writer of the British Critic in 1837, as ecclesialogy.
Affixes: ecclesio-
-logy
Inflected forms:
form: ecclesiologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ecclesialogy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: ekklesiology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: The branch of theology concerned with the doctrines, role etc. of a church.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The science of building and decorating churches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: ecclesiologic
ecclesiological
ecclesiologist
ecclesiologistic
Ecclesiastes
Christology
eschatology
soteriology
theology
Derived words: communion ecclesiology
Translations:
cursorily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cursory
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English cursorily
From cursory + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more cursorily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cursorily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cursory manner.
pos: adv
examples: This place contains ſo many remarkable remains, and collections ſo curious, that we are ſorry to paſs by it curſorily. We adviſe the reader and the traveller to be leſs haſty. The trophæal arch and the ſepulchral monument, at Glanum Livii, a colony probably eſtabliſhed by M. Livius Druſus Libo, afford alſo ſeveral circumſtances, which will intereſt the attentive traveller.
Rhodammonium Compounds. By S. M. JÖRGENSEN (J. pr. Chem. [2], 25, 346-348).— The author has prepared and cursorily examined some of the rhodammonium compounds, and has found them to be strictly analogous to the cobalt- and chrom-ammonium compounds.
Translations:
tin-pot
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tin + pot, referring to the cheapness and poor quality of pots made from tin or tin plate.
Compound parts: tin
pot
Inflected forms:
form: tinpot
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: tin pot
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: tin-pots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of inferior quality; shoddy.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
informal
not-comparable
examples: It was a great comfort to turn from that chap to my influential friend, the battered, twisted, ruined, tin-pot steamboat.
gloss: Insignificant or minor, especially in an amusing and petty manner.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
informal
not-comparable
examples: Jim Hacker: Why are we having an official visit from this tin-pot little African country? / Sir Humphrey Appleby: Minister, I beg of you not to refer to it as a tin-pot little African country. It's an LDC.
gloss: A tin-pot dictator.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
informal
Related words: tin-foil
tin plate
Derived words: tin-pot dictator
tin-pot dictatorship
TPLAC
Translations:
psychomotor
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ)
Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der.
English psycho-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin mōtorder.
Middle English motour
English motor
English psychomotor
From psycho- + motor.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the function of muscles under the control of the mind
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
demagnetized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more demagnetized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most demagnetized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: From which all magnetism has been removed.
pos: adj
Translations:
isothermal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
Etymology: From iso- + thermal or isotherm + -al.
Base: thermal
Affixes: iso-
Inflected forms:
form: isothermals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a process that takes place at constant temperature
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to an isotherm
pos: adj
gloss: An isotherm
pos: noun
Derived words: chronoisothermal
isothermal annealing
isothermal atmosphere
isothermal calorimiter
isothermal chart
isothermal compression
isothermal equilibrium
isothermal expansion
isothermal flow
isothermality
isothermal layer
isothermally
isothermal magnetization
isothermal parameterization
isothermal remanent magnetization
isothermal titration calorimiter
isothermal transformation
isothermal treatment
nonisothermal
Translations:
lobectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lobe
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ)der.
English -ectomy
English lobectomy
From lobe + -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: lobectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical removal of a lobe from an organ such as the lung or the brain
pos: noun
examples: Dr. Bravenec is one of the few surgeons in the country performing lobectomies after full-dosage radiation
Translations:
sympathectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sympath(o)- + -ectomy.
Base: ectomy
Affixes: sympatho-
Inflected forms:
form: sympathectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical cutting of a nerve in the sympathetic nervous system.
pos: noun
Translations:
pretreatment
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English treatment
English pretreatment
From pre- + treatment.
Inflected forms:
form: pretreatments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Prior to treatment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any treatment received before some other process.
pos: noun
Translations:
immobilized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Subject to immobilization.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
graphitization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Graphitbor.
English graphite
English -ization
English graphitization
From graphite + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: graphitizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
terrigenous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Latin terrigena (“land-born”) + -ous
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Produced by the earth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Derived from the erosion of land-based rocks.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
arthroplasty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From arthro- + -plasty.
Base: arthro
Inflected forms:
form: arthroplasties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical repair of a joint, or creation of an artificial joint, such as a hip replacement.
pos: noun
Translations:
vancomycin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vanquish
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English -mycin
English vancomycin
From vanquish + -o- + -mycin (“antibiotic produced by a Streptomyces strain”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A glycopeptide antibiotic C₆₆H₇₅Cl₂N₉O₂₄ produced by the actinomycete Amycolaptosis orientalis, used in the form of its hydrochloride C₆₆H₇₅Cl₂N₉O₂₄·HCl against Gram-positive bacteria, especially staphylococci resistant to meticillin and enterococci.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Vancomycin was given intravenously in doses of 0.5 gm. at 6-hour intervals for periods of up to 4 weeks to 9 patients, all of whom had staphylococcal infections.
Translations:
actinomycete
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From actino- + -mycete.
Base: actino
Inflected forms:
form: actinomycetes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria, of the order Actinomycetales, that resemble fungi. Some actinomycetes are pathogens and some are sources of antibiotics.
pos: noun
Translations:
iPhone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From i- + phone. Many Apple products have an i- prefix in their names.
Base: phone
Affixes: i-
Inflected forms:
form: iPhones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A smartphone of a series produced by Apple, which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device.
pos: noun
examples: His mom bought him an IPhone for his 11th birthday.
This concept puts the curve back on the iPhone 5 with a silhouette that's reminiscent of a banana phone.
Apple is rolling out the public beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on Thursday. We have a full (and lengthy) preview guide on both operating systems here, and now we’re breaking down how to get the public beta on your iPhone or iPad.
“This is before everyone had [geographic information system] mapping, before iPads, iPhones, laptops, Google,” he says. “This is doing research way back with a hammer and a chisel.”
gloss: Any knockoff or similar high-end smartphone; through trademark genericization.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Related words: iOS
BlackBerry
Derived words: iPhone moment
iPhoneography
iPhoner
Translations:
flat-rate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being or relating to a flat rate.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: a flat-rate contribution
Translations:
hard-liner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hard line
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 hard-liner
From hard line + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: hard-liners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hardliner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who takes a firm and uncompromising position on some policy.
pos: noun
examples: Because of what was perceived as his sensitive and fair handling of the "Revere Cases," Butters became the subject of much criticism from hard-liners in law enforcement.
The hardliners, persistent in their belief that the UK would in the end be afforded special treatment by the EU, have served only to undermine the very mandate they seek to protect.
As hard-liners gain power within a group, they drive out moderates; what remains of the group is even more extreme, which drives out even more moderates; and so on.
Translations:
supercontinuum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English continuum
English supercontinuum
From super- + continuum.
Inflected forms:
form: supercontinua
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: light having both high spatial coherence and broad spectral bandwidth; i.e. laser light that is not monochromatic
pos: noun
Translations:
epicardial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the epicardium
pos: adj
Translations:
epicardium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin epi- (“over”) + Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía, “heart”). Attested in English from the 19th century.
Inflected forms:
form: epicardiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: epicardia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The layer of tissue between the pericardium and the heart.
pos: noun
Translations:
neurovascular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
English vascular
English neurovascular
From neuro- + vascular.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to both nerves and blood vessels.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
meting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: metings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who metes; a distribution or handing out.
pos: noun
examples: We are far more apt to yawn than to weep as we make our way through this series of loosely connected incidents, of unmotivated actions, of contrived metings-out of justice.
Translations:
parasitoid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parasite
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English parasitoid
From parasite + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: parasitoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any organism that is parasitic during part of its life cycle, especially one that eventually kills its host.
pos: noun
examples: All of these solitary parasitoid wasps that use their sting-ovipositors for stinging prey and depositing eggs are subjected to little predatory pressure from large predators.
Translations:
mainspring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
horology
lifestyle
Etymology: From main + spring. For figurative sense, compare spring (“source, origin”).
Compound parts: main
spring
Inflected forms:
form: mainsprings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The principal spring of a clockwork mechanism, which drives it by uncoiling.
pos: noun
examples: He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away.
gloss: The most important reason for, or element of, something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: My daughter is the mainspring of my life.
But in the England of Shakespeare’s history plays, the mainspring of the system has broken down.
Translations:
bacteriorhodopsin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βακτηρία (baktēría)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion)
Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor.
New Latin bactērium
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English bacterio-
English rhodopsin
English bacteriorhodopsin
From bacterio- + rhodopsin.
Inflected forms:
form: bacteriorhodopsins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several related purple photosynthetic proteins, found in halobacteria, that act as proton pumps
pos: noun
Translations:
flavobacterium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flavobacteria
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria, of the class Flavobacteriia ^([sic]), that occur in soil and water, and are mostly pigmented and photosynthetic.
pos: noun
Translations:
skeptically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English skeptical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English skeptically
From skeptical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more skeptically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most skeptically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: sceptically
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a skeptical manner, with skepticism.
pos: adv
tags: US
Translations:
sower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sowere, from Old English sāwere; equivalent to sow + -er.
Base: sow
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: sowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which sows.
pos: noun
Translations:
misfire
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Either a univerbation of earlier miss fire, or the compound mis- + fire (or possibly a confluence of both).
Base: fire
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
form: misfires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: misfires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misfiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misfired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: misfired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An act of misfiring.
pos: noun
gloss: A failure.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The fact is, Mr Carrados, Gertrude is a misfire. It was the surprise of her life (if I said "disappointment" you'd think me catty) when Mark married me, and she didn't set out to be pleasant to the interloper.
Amazon’s misfires with Alexa may have led Google astray, said a former manager who worked on Google Assistant.
gloss: To fail to discharge properly.
pos: verb
gloss: To fail to ignite in the proper sequence.
pos: verb
gloss: To initiate an action potential without the proper stimulus.
pos: verb
gloss: To fail to achieve the anticipated result.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: His practical joke misfired and he nearly burnt my left hand.
Related words: back fire
backfire
hang fire
Derived words: misfirer
Translations:
enactment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English enact
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English enactment
From enact + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: enactments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of enacting, or the state of being enacted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The actors' powerful enactment of the play was breathtaking.
gloss: The act of enacting, or the state of being enacted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The enactment of this law will be a great step backward for our country.
gloss: A piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The enactments passed by the council that year included sweeping reforms.
Related words: reenactment
Derived words: nonenactment
preenactment
Translations:
lang: Indonesian
word: pemeragaan
lang: Irish
word: achtú
lang: Irish
word: achtachán
lang: Portuguese
word: encenação
lang: Spanish
word: enactuación
ill-gotten
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Obtained improperly or illegally.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The sultan's men got the message: he and his successors exiled out-of-favour amirs to Jerusalem where they were expected to spend their ill-gotten wealth on sumptuous complexes that contained palaces, madrassas and tombs.
Translations:
eer
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Unpunctuated contraction of ever.
pos: adv
tags: poetic
Translations:
bas-relief
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French bas-relief, from Italian bassorilievo, compound of basso (“low”) + rilievo (“relief”), from Latin relevare (“to raise up, make light”).
Inflected forms:
form: bas-reliefs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: basrelief
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bas relief
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bass-relief
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: basrelief
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bas relief
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bass-relief
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A low or mostly-flat sculpture which is carved into a wall, or is in the form of a tile mounted flat to a wall, rather than a fully three-dimensional, free-standing figure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: cavo-relievo, cavo-rilievo, intaglio-rilievo, sunken relief, cameo (jewelry)
gloss: In the bas-relief style; low or mostly flat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bungling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the verb bungle.
Inflected forms:
form: more bungling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bungling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bunglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Incompetent or inept.
pos: adj
examples: Harry made a bungling attempt to catch the ball.
Well, he then decided to manufacture everything as in the human body. I'll show you in the museum the bungling attempt it took him ten years to produce. It was to have been a man, but it lived for three days only. Then up came young Rossum, an engineer. He was a wonderful fellow, Miss Glory. When he saw what a mess of it the old man was making, he said: "It's absurd to spend ten years making a man. If you can't make him quicker than nature, you might as well shut up shop."
gloss: An act of incompetence or ineptitude.
pos: noun
examples: Your bungling nearly cost us our jobs.
Translations:
manfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English manfully; equivalent to manful + -ly.
Base: manful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more manfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most manfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manful manner; with the characteristics considered typical of a man, such as strength, courage, and determination.
pos: adv
examples: […] Apollyon wounded him in his head, his hand and foot; this made Chriſtian give a little back: Apollyon therefore followed his work amain, and Chriſtian again took courage, and reſiſted as manfully as he could.
She manfully struggled on, however - womanfully would perhaps be a stronger and more appropriate word. She had to calculate not only how to play her own hand correctly, but she had to calculate on her partner's probable errors.
One (ant) struggled manfully by with a dead spider five times as big as itself in its arms.
"Whilst he was sawing the beam, however, a fire broke out among the debris around him, and though he persevered most manfully, and continued until he was himself badly scorched, it was impossible for him to save Beale, who probably died from suffocation."
YOUR SON WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED WHEN SHOT DOWN IN HANOI BUT HAS MADE FINE RECOVERY AND NOW, ACCORDING THIS GROUP, LOOKS "QUITE WELL." HE HAS BEEN EVERYTHING YOU WANT YOUR SON TO BE AND HAS STOOD UP MANFULLY AGAINST ALL EFFORTS TO PERSUADE HIM TO UTTER TRAITOROUS STATEMENTS.
Translations:
manful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English manful, manfull, equivalent to man + -ful.
Base: man
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: manfuller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: manfullest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing the characteristics considered typical of a man; macho or manly.
pos: adj
examples: If Cousin wasn’t trying so hard to be manful, he’d be crying.
gloss: Courageous; noble; high-minded.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
Related words: mainful
Derived words: manfully
manfulness
unmanful
Translations:
beechnut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From beech + nut.
Compound parts: beech
nut
Inflected forms:
form: beechnuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beech nut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The small, triangular, edible nut of the beech tree.
pos: noun
examples: The cultivated harvest in the fields was matched by the woodland ‘mast’ of beechnuts, acorns, chestnuts, and other fruits of the forest.
Translations:
bentwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
Etymology: From bent + wood.
Compound parts: bent
wood
Inflected forms:
form: bentwoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lengths of wood that have been made pliable by heating with steam and then bent into the appropriate shape (to make furniture, ships' hulls, etc.).
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
sometimes
uncountable
examples: About this time [Michael] Thonet received his first major public commission from the famous Cafe Daum in Vienna. From this point on, the bentwood chair would be known by many as the Cafe Chair[…]. The back is made of four layers of twisted mahogany laminates, while the front legs appear to be bent from solid stock with turned capitals, which act as shoulders for the tenon of the leg into the seat. The seat frames are made of five layers of mahogany, as they were in the Schwarzenburg chairs. Because of its lightness, durability and accommodating design, the bentwood chair was perfectly suited for public places.
Bentwood furniture is made by bending and nailing long, straight, fresh branches or suckers of trees around a frame. Unlike most stick work, bentwood furniture is carefully planned before it is made.
gloss: An object, especially a piece of furniture, made from bentwood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The two basic types of fishhooks are almost equally represented within the site, with composite fishhooks exhibiting only a slightly higher relative frequency than that of bentwoods.
She started walking over to the trestle table and, about ten years later, sat down on one of the thirty-three bentwoods.
Catherine Holt of Cobweb (a store known for great antiques at tiny prices) has assembled a kind of United Nations of kitchen and dining room chairs. She has turn-of-the-century cafe bentwoods from Spain, Austria, and Czechoslovakia; vintage teak sidechairs from Java; provincial rush-seated chairs from France; and painted bentwoods from Buenos Aires, along with contemporary lattice-backs from Morocco and chairs with stamped seats from Egypt.
Translations:
bibliographer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bibliography
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 bibliographer
From bibliography + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bibliographers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who compiles bibliographies, or who studies bibliography.
pos: noun
Translations:
bibliographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bibliography
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English bibliographic
From bibliography + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: bibliographick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to bibliography.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bibliographical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: bibliographic
pos: adj
examples: I enquired for the rooms of the librarian. Nobody seemed to be quite sure of his name, or upon whom the bibliographical mantle had descended.
Translations:
work-to-rule
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English work to ruledeverb.
English work-to-rule
Deverbal from work to rule.
Inflected forms:
form: work-to-rules
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: work to rule
pos: noun
tags: alternative
noun
form: work to rule
pos: adj
tags: alternative
noun
Senses:
gloss: A labor protest in which employees do only the minimum work required by the rules of a workplace, following safety or other regulations to the letter in order to cause a slowdown.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to such a protest.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Disgruntled by chronic staff shortages, doctors threatened a “work-to-rule” action at the East London Hospital Complex by the end of this week.
Translations:
misfiring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: misfirings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The situation where something misfires.
pos: noun
examples: He has written a book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind.
Translations:
saddleback
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English saddle
English back
English saddleback
From saddle + back.
Inflected forms:
form: saddlebacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saddlebacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saddlebacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: saddlebacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: saddlebacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
pos: noun
gloss: A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
pos: noun
gloss: A coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
pos: noun
gloss: A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
pos: noun
gloss: An anticline.
pos: noun
gloss: A great black-backed gull.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A passerine bird of the genus Philesturnus.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
examples: The young bird had the plumage of the saddleback, not the even chestnut of the jackbird, although its plumage was rather duller than that of the adult.
gloss: A variety of domestic goose.
pos: noun
gloss: A raccoon oyster.
pos: noun
gloss: A harp seal.
pos: noun
gloss: A larva of the bombycid moth.
pos: noun
gloss: saddle-backed
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: saddle-backed
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To engage in anal sex with the intention of preserving one's virginity. (chiefly by Christian teenagers)
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:saddleback.
Derived words: saddleback caterpillar
saddleback clownfish
saddleback crow
saddleback gull
saddleback gunnel
saddlebackite
saddleback jackal
Saddleback Mountain
saddleback pig
saddleback seal
saddleback shrew
saddleback tamarin
saddleback toad
Wessex Saddleback
Translations:
Kemetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Kemet
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English Kemetic
From Kemet + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to ancient Egypt's religion, culture, or language, whether Ancient Egyptian or the modern Coptic language and its dialects.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
buttload
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From butt + load. Butt in this context may be possibly one or both of:
* butt (“large wooden cask”) (Etymology 3)
* butt (“two-wheeled cart”) (Etymology 5)
Alternatively, the term may either be a corruption of English boatload or have been influenced by that term (except for the specific, West Country dialect sense).
All senses above also synchronically reanalyzed as buttocksful.
Compound parts: butt
load
Inflected forms:
form: buttloads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: butt-load
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: butt load
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.
pos: noun
tags: UK
West-Country
obsolete
examples: BUTT LOAD: about six seams.
The farmers near the fishing towns in the same district [Cornwall] likewise buy the refuse of bruised and small pilchards, which are rejected as unfit for curing or the market, and are called caff, four cart-loads of twelve bushels each being considered as the quantity proper for an acre. […] The butt-load formerly cost about 9s. or 10s. but they now fetch 15s. or 20s. the load.
The different kinds of manure usually employed in this neighbourhood are sea-weed, sand, stable-dung, ashes, and fish-dung. The quantities vary so much according to the condition of the land and other circumstances that it is impossible to state with any degree of accuracy what quantity is applied to the acre. In one of the conditions of leases previously quoted, it is stipulated that 10 butt-loads of good town or fish dung, and 10 butt-loads of sea-sand (to be mixed with the necessary quantity of earth) shall be carried for every acre broken up for tillage.
gloss: A large amount carried in a butt.
pos: noun
tags: New-England
Southern-US
UK
dated
examples: We spent all day Sunday and picked up a buttload of pecans.
gloss: Any large but unspecific amount.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
mildly
slang
vulgar
examples: You can collect a metric buttload of data about user activity on your site without too much effort.
Anyway, they are paying me a buttload of money to do this series, and I want to share my good fortune with you and that's that.
"Yeah, there's, like, a buttload of gangs at this school."
Related words: tun
pipe
hogshead
barrel
ton
cask
keg
Translations:
saddle-backed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Shaped or curved like a saddle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a saddle-backed fever, with two peaks where symptoms are most pronounced
gloss: Having a saddle-shaped marking; saddleback.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: with a saddle, rather than bare-backed
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bare-backed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bareback
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: barebacked
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bareback
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: barebacked
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Without a saddle
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: With a bare back
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Before I could answer, a ravishing creature in one of those long, bare-backed gowns which I’d gathered from advertisements were the modern woman’s evening dress, strolled past our table.
At the edge of the woods stood an Indian in worn buckskins and heavy furs; with him were what looked like two white men bundled up against the cold, and all three were staring at a bearded, bare-backed man who was tied to a small maple tree, the skin on his back already branded with sticky red welts.
There, among the punk sophisticates and bow-ties and shiny shoes and bare-backed women, was Mum, wearing a blue and white dress, blue hat and brown sandals.
gloss: Without a saddle
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: bare-backedness
Translations:
Bartlett
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The pear was named by Enoch Bartlett of Dorchester, Massachusetts, after himself.
Inflected forms:
form: Bartletts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of English pear.
pos: noun
examples: The first bite into those Bartletts was intoxicating. The juice met your teeth with a gush.
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