yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Lazarus
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of Biblical figures mentioned in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár), a given name shared by various people in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped". Doublet of Eleazar.
Inflected forms:
form: Lazaruses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Lazaruses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Lazarusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Lazarused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Lazarused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who was dead and has been resurrected; a dead person who could potentially be resurrected.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
usually
examples: This was the classic age of all the various exhumations, restorations, and resurrections; it was a retrospective time — a time of ghosts and Lazaruses, more or less decomposed.
1870, Edmond de Pressensé, Annie Harwood Holmden (translator), The Early Years of the Christian Church, Book 3: First Century, page 462,
Those who hear the voice of the Son of man and live, are so many Lazaruses called to the life divine.
Finally, in whatever state or condition of life the faithful may find themselves, even if they cannot, like the apostles, assist the Lazaruses to rise from their tombs[…].
gloss: A poor person, a beggar.
pos: noun
examples: And do you not think, that all these poor Lazaruses, that you have persecuted, and do persecute, that when they die, they will not be carried into Abraham's bosom?
These are the Lazaruses who lie prostrate at the gates of our cities and neighborhoods, and these are the needs that affluent Americans have conditioned themselves not to see because reaching out in any significant way would be far too costly.
Do we respond to the poor Lazaruses in our midst with charity (scraps from our table), or do we seek to change the economic conditions that set up these extremes of rich and poor?
gloss: To rescue a dying person.
pos: verb
gloss: To raise from the dead.
pos: verb
Translations:
halter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English halter, helter, helfter, from Old English hælfter, hælftre (“halter”), from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā (“harness”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), equivalent to half- + -ter.
Cognate with Scots helter (“halter”), Dutch halfter, halster (“halter”), Low German halfter, helchter, halter (“halter”), German Halfter (“halter, holster”).
Base: half
Inflected forms:
form: halters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: helter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Northern-England
obsolete
form: halters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: haltering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: haltered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: haltered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: helter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Northern-England
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
pos: noun
gloss: A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
pos: noun
examples: And Crates said, that love was cured with hunger, if not by time; and in him that liked not these two meanes, by the halter [translating hart].
“[…]No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it.[…].”
gloss: A halter top.
pos: noun
gloss: To place a halter on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?
The two Indians were finished with their own saddling, the camp gear was packed, and already the extra saddle horses and their one packhorse' were haltered so they could be led back to the ranch.
Derived words: halterbreak
halterini
halterkini
halterless
halterneck
halter neck
halterpath
halter-sack
halter-top
riding halter
slip-halter
unhalter
wag-halter
Translations:
hatchling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hatch + -ling. Sense 2 in reference to the term crack one's egg (“realize one is transgender”).
Base: hatch
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: hatchlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A newly hatched bird, reptile or other animal that has emerged from an egg.
pos: noun
examples: The hatchling alligator had just broken out of its shell but was already trying to follow its mother, who hunted hatchling birds.
Hatchling nautiluses emerge, after nearly a year's gestation, as miniature adults and then immediately start swimming around, searching for food in the depths.
gloss: A person who has (especially recently) realized that they are transgender.
pos: noun
Related words: fledgling
nestling
Derived words: posthatchling
Translations:
intercostal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
nautical
sciences
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English costal
English intercostal
From inter- + costal.
Inflected forms:
form: intercostals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Between the ribs of an animal or person.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Between the ribs of a boat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any of the intercostal muscles.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that is between the ribs of an animal.
pos: noun
gloss: Hull reinforcing inserted between frames or bulkheads of a boat.
pos: noun
Related words: entrecôte
Derived words: intercostally
intercostal space
Translations:
inculpatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inculpate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -tōriusder.
Middle English -orie
English -ory
English inculpatory
From inculpate + -ory.
Inflected forms:
form: more inculpatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inculpatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That causes someone to be blamed for something.
pos: adj
Antonyms: exculpatory
exonerating
Translations:
quietude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French quiétude, from Late Latin quiētūdō, from Latin quiētus, perfect passive participle of quiēscō (“rest”).
Inflected forms:
form: quietudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: tranquility
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: But the castle was not destined to remain long in its present quietude. One morning Lord Avonleigh received a packet from London, whose contents filled him with joy...
Stopping steam services on the West Coast line from Brighton are confined to the Horsham push-pull trains, which diverge at Shoreham to seek the rural quietude of Bramber, Steyning, Henfield, and Partridge Green, with a run by the banks of the Adur as a pleasant prelude.
Translations:
sullen
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English soleyn, from Anglo-Norman soleyn (“alone”), from Old French sole (“single, sole, alone”), from Latin sōlus (“by oneself alone”). The change in meaning from "single" to morose occurred in Middle English.
Inflected forms:
form: sullener
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sullenest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sullens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
pos: adj
examples: Still she entreats, and prettily entreats, / For to a pretty ear she tunes her tale; / Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets, / ‘Twixt crimson shame and anger ashy-pale;
And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast.
2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring.
Sullen and bored the kids stay / And in this way wish away each day
gloss: Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
pos: adj
examples: a sullen atmosphere
Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
He added not; and Satan bowing low / His gray diſſimulation, diſappear'd / Into thin Air diffuſ'd: for now began / Night with her ſullen wing to double-ſhade / The Deſert; Fowls in thir clay neſts were couch't; / And now wild Beaſts came forth the woods to roam.
No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows, / The dreaded East is all the wind that blows.
gloss: Sluggish; slow.
pos: adj
examples: The larger [stream] was placid, and even sullen, in its course.
When ends life's transient dream, / when death’s cold, sullen stream / shall o'er me roll,
gloss: Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Such sullen planets at my birth did shine, / They threaten every Fortune mixt with mine.
she meets again / The savage murderer's sullen gaze,
gloss: Obstinate; intractable.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Things are as sullen as we are, and will be what they are whatever we think of them.
gloss: One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: He sit neither with seint Johan, / Symond ne Jude, / Ne with maydenes ne with martires, / Confessours ne wydewes; / But by hymself as a soleyn, / And served on erthe.
gloss: Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: And let them die that age and sullens have;
If she be not sick of the sullens, I see not the least infirmity in her.
[M]y brother […] charged my desire of being excused coming down to sullens, because a certain person had been spoken against, upon whom, as he supposed, my fancy ran.
Synonyms: glum
gloomy
grouchy
gruff
ill-tempered
ill-humored
moody
morose
sulky
sullen
Antonyms: cheerful
content
lighthearted
pleased
Related words: peevish
Derived words: sullenly
sullenness
unsullen
Translations:
Ionian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Ionia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -n
English Ionian
From Ionia + -n.
Inflected forms:
form: Ionians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Ionians, one of the races of Ancient Greece.
pos: noun
Translations:
flyboarding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps modeled on fly-tipping. See board.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Publicizing a real estate agent by putting up fake “sold” or “for sale” signs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
fly-posting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flyposting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of posting posters in prohibited or illegal areas, especially for advertisement purposes
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pulsar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Blend of pulsating + (radio) star, patterned after quasar. Coined by British astronomers Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell in 1968, and first used in print in The Daily Telegraph. By surface analysis, pulse + -ar
Inflected forms:
form: pulsars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically.
pos: noun
examples: Rapidly rotating dead stars, pulsars are so named because as they spin, they release beams of electromagnetic radiation across space that appear to pulse like celestial lighthouses.
But a pulsar called PSR J1023+0038, located about 4,500 light-years away from Earth in the Sextans constellation, is even more unusual in that some of the pulses are brighter than others, almost like it’s switching between different modes.
Translations:
magnetar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Blend of magnet + pulsar. By surface analysis, magnet + -ar.
Inflected forms:
form: magnetars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A neutron star or pulsar with an extremely powerful magnetic field, especially those on which starquakes occur, thought to be the source of some gamma-ray bursts.
pos: noun
examples: This signal could be detected with Advanced LIGO-class detectors up to the distance of the Virgo cluster, where ≥ 1 yr⁻¹ magnetars are expected to form.
2008, W. Becker, F, Haberl, J Trümper, 14: Pulsars and Isolated Neutron Stars, Joachim E. Trümper, Günther Hasinger (editors), The Universe in X-Rays, page 193,
The radio-silent neutron stars include anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs), soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), and “quiescent” neutron star candidates in SNRs. There is growing evidence that AXPs and SGRs are indeed magnetars (see [109] for a review).
One of most mysterious feature[s] of magnetars is their X-ray luminosities, which always exceed the rotational energy loss. Thus, the energy source of the radiation of magnetars is a mysterious question.
Translations:
fly-poster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fly-posters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A poster, especially for advertisement purposes, put up illegally
pos: noun
gloss: One who posts such posters
pos: noun
Related words: fly-posting
Translations:
long-period
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of non-periodic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: short-period
Translations:
short-period
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having an orbital period of less than 200 years, especially said of comets
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: long-period
Translations:
carshare
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From car + share.
Compound parts: car
share
Inflected forms:
form: carshares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carsharing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: carshared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: carshared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To participate in a system of car sharing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
dystrophy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dys- + -trophy, literally “bad growth”, as in the opposite of growth.
Base: dys
Inflected forms:
form: dystrophies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dystrophia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A wasting of body tissues, of either genetic origin or due to inadequate or defective nutrition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
discontinuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English continuous
English discontinuous
From dis- + continuous.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: having breaks or interruptions; intermittent
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The high capital costs of electrification are cited, with a suggestion that in challenging locations discontinuous electrification could be considered.
gloss: having at least one discontinuity
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: broken
fitful
ragged
catchy
discontinuous
intermissive
intermittent
patchy
spasmodic
stop-start
Antonyms: continuous
Related words: discontinuity
in fits and starts
irregular
unsteady
Derived words: discontinuously
discontinuousness
Translations:
discontinuity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin discontinuitās, from discontinuus, equivalent to dis- + continuity.
Base: continuity
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: discontinuities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap.
pos: noun
examples: structural discontinuity
sharp discontinuity
detect a discontinuity
The data shows a clear discontinuity in temperature around 1990.
Geologists noted a discontinuity between the two rock layers.
Shock waves are sudden discontinuities propagated in compressible media – usually air.
gloss: A point in the range of a function at which it is undefined or discontinuous.
pos: noun
gloss: a subterranean interface at which seismic velocities change
pos: noun
Synonyms: discontinuity
noncontinuity
unevenness
Antonyms: continuity
Related words: discontinuous
Derived words: discontinuity systematics
Gutenberg discontinuity
Moho discontinuity
Mohorovičić discontinuity
Mohorovicic discontinuity
Translations:
backwards
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From backward + -s. See also -s (“used in the formation of certain adverbs: backwards, downwards, inwards, etc.”).
Base: backward
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: more backwards
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most backwards
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more backwards
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most backwards
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.
pos: adv
examples: The length of the stoppages could not well be reduced; indeed, they are already too short if we are to believe the tale now current of a wandering Jew sort of passenger—a lady of advanced years who can only alight from a train backwards. Every time she begins to get out a porter rushes up crying "Hurry up, ma'am; train's going!"—and pushes her in again!
My train back is a Class 800 bi-mode. These are not too bad, except for their awful seats - compared with the seats on the HST, they are a step backwards.
Derived words: ass-backwards
Translations:
voiced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
phonetics
phonology
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sounded with vibration of the vocal cords. For example, the phone [z] is voiced, while [s] is unvoiced.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a specified kind of voice.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: a shrill-voiced little boy
gloss: That contains voice.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The unvoiced signal is smaller energy than voiced signal and, so, this section is applied the smaller threshold.
Derived words: gravel-voiced
semi-voiced
silver-voiced
Translations:
conal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cone
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English conal
From cone + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more conal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Shaped like a cone or funnel; conic.
pos: adj
Translations:
crypto
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: All senses trace back to clippings of words derived from the prefix crypto-, developed at various times in the 20th and 21st centuries. During the 2010s and 2020s, the "cryptocurrency" sense has become the dominant sense. The "cryptography" sense predates that one; thus, a computer or math geek in earlier decades would be referring to cryptography when using this word. The "secret supporter or follower" sense is clipped from such terms as cryptofascist and cryptocommunist. The several informal senses in medicine referring to several microbe genera or the diseases they cause have existed since circa the mid-20th century.
Inflected forms:
form: more crypto
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crypto
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Secret or covert.
pos: adj
Translations:
documentary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-der.
Proto-Italic *dokeō
Latin doceō
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Latin documentumbor.
French document
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
French -aire
French documentairebor.
English documentary
From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum. Equivalent to document + -ary.
Base: document
Affixes: -ary
Inflected forms:
form: documentaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to, or based on documents.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a documentary film
Just as there is a tradition of history painting, so there is one of history photographs — which of course are not documentary. They're posed as the world was supposed to be.
gloss: A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.
If you watched Victoria Beckham’s lavishly produced Netflix documentary last October, you might have wondered why it didn’t even glance on the biggest elephant in Brand Beckham’s room[…]. But most big documentaries these days aren’t documentaries any more in the way previous practitioners of the craft might have understood the word. As her husband’s was before it, Victoria’s doc was a self-commissioned advertorial on which the subject also served as executive producer.
gloss: Such works collectively, as a genre.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Such sequences draw attention to the affective appeals that environmental documentary typically makes, precisely by absenting those appeals.
Antonyms: fiction
Related words: cinéma vérité
Derived words: documentarily
documentariness
documentary hypothesis
nondocumentary
predocumentary
quasidocumentary
undocumentary
antidocumentary
doco
docucomedy
docudrama
docufantasy
docufiction
docufilm
documedia
documemoir
documentarian
documentarist
documentarylike
documercial
docuseries
docusoap
docutainment
drama documentary
dramamentary
false documentary
fictional documentary
fuckumentary
microdocumentary
minidocumentary
mockumentary
photodocumentary
pseudodocumentary
rockumentary
schlockumentary
semidocumentary
shockumentary
soapumentary
stalkumentary
vlogumentary
webumentary
Translations:
coelom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from Ancient Greek κοίλωμα (koílōma, “hollow, cavity”). Cognate with coeliac.
Inflected forms:
form: coeloms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: celom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: coeloma
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: coelome
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cœlom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: cœloma
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: cœlome
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A fluid-filled cavity within the body of an animal. The digestive system is suspended within the cavity, which is lined by a tissue called the peritoneum.
pos: noun
Translations:
jewellery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English juelrye, from Old French juelerye, equivalent to jewel + -ery.
Base: jewel
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: jewelleries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jewelry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Canada
US
sometimes
Senses:
gloss: Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The jewellery was very expensive in that shop.
She had more jewellery ornamented about her than any three ladies needed.
“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared.[…]”
gloss: Any tools, instruments, devices, etc., placed within a drill pipe.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
examples: The rig simply retrieves the old pipe and runs a new pipe back in the hole (the completion string). Any special items on the string other than the pipe itself are referred to as "jewellery". These can be any number of things, from down-hole motors to mandrels and radioactive sources for survey purposes.
gloss: The shop from which a jeweller trades or makes jewellery
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: chewelry
costume jewellery
jewel
jeweler
jeweller
jewellery armoire
Derived words: Jewellery Quarter
Translations:
nibbles
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nibble
Middle English -es
English -s
English nibbles
From nibble + -s.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Small forms of finger food or snacks such as nuts or potato chips (crisps), often eaten as an accompaniment to drinks.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
comitative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin comitātum (“that which is accompanied”).
Inflected forms:
form: comitatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the grammatical case that is used in some languages to indicate accompaniment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The comitative case, or a word in this case.
pos: noun
Translations:
dilate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1393, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English dilaten, from Old French dilater, from Latin dīlātō (“to spread out”), from dī- + lātus (“wide”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of dilatate.
Inflected forms:
form: dilates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dilating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dilated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dilated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: delate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To enlarge; to make bigger.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The eye doctor put drops in my eye to dilate the pupil so he could see the nerve better.
gloss: To become wider or larger; to expand.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His heart dilates and glories in his strength.
gloss: To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Do me the favour to dilate at full / What hath befallen of them and thee till now.
But still they on their ancient joys dilate.
Houellebecq’s men[…] dilate lovingly upon the makes and models of cars and appliances, and the subsidiary brands of hospitality and conglomerates.
gloss: To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: An experimenter in New York has recently advocated what he is pleased to call temporary forcible dilatation of the trachea in the treatment of membranous croup, his idea being to introduce into the trachea a dilator and to forcibly dilate, every few hours if need be, and he reports favorable results.
In very tight and obstinate stricture I sometimes dilate every day, but as soon as it has been stretched up to 23 or 24, I dilate every other day, or at greater intervals, keeping the instrument in place several minutes.
He gave her some of the dilators he used to dilate her vagina shortly after the surgery and encouraged her to do it frequently.
It is important to realize that a number of these women do not want to have their vaginismus treated but only to achieve pregnancy. […] The use of hard plastic rods with increasing diameters, a sort of pseudopenis, can be useful, provided it is explained to the woman that these rods are not used to dilate her vagina but are a means of training the relaxation of her pelvic muscles and of getting these muscles under control.
Related words: dilute
Derived words: bronchodilate
dilatability
dilatable
dilatancy
dilatative
dilatingly
dilation
dilative
dilatometer
dilatometry
dilaton
nondilating
postdilate
predilate
redilate
undilating
vasodilate
Translations:
academia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)der.
New Latin acadēmī̆abor.
English academia
Borrowed from New Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attica hero Akademos. Doublet of academe, academy, and Akademeia. Modern sense of “the world of universities and scholarship” recorded from 1956.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
pos: noun
tags: collective
uncountable
examples: Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
gloss: Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.
Related words: academe
academic
academical
academically
academician
academics
Academy
academy
Akademeia
Derived words: academentia
academian
dark academia
light academia
Translations:
mythopoetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From mytho- + poetic; since 1880.
Base: poetic
Affixes: mytho-
Inflected forms:
form: more mythopoetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mythopoetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.
pos: adj
gloss: Being a creative interpretation.
pos: adj
gloss: Given the quality of a myth or a poem, used typically in opposition to a purely factual account.
pos: adj
examples: Nor is it, as poetry, concerned with any ultimate explanation of the product of mythopoetic fancy.
gloss: Of or relating to the mythopoetic men's movement.
pos: adj
examples: Darren Staloff's lecture Search for a Meaningful Past: Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History, The Teaching Company
"An example of the former, of the mythopoetic history, may be Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, or Ecce Homo his own mythopoetic autobiography."
"To paraphrase Kelly (1994), we should not be surprised that Nature, having subjugated the bulk of inert matter on Earth, would go on to subjugate the mythopoetic narratives that are the basis of the moral codes that constitute this still culturally diverse world."
Synonyms: mythopoeic
mythopoetical
Derived words: mythopoetically
mythopoeticize
Translations:
legally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From legal + -ly. Piecewise doublet of leally and loyally.
Base: legal
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more legally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most legally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: As permitted by law; not contrary to law.
pos: adv
examples: You can legally park in the lot on weekends without paying the fee, they won't ticket you.
On the question of whether a memorandum of understanding is legally binding, British courts have held that this is determined by the presence (or, as the case may be, absence) of an intention to create a legal obligation, on the part of the states parties concerned, at the time of entry into the arrangement.
gloss: From a legal perspective.
pos: adv
examples: Legally, I think you are covered, but there are angry guys with baseball bats outside.
After filing paperwork to change his name, the rapper, born Kanye Omari West, finally got what he asked for, and will be legally known as “Ye.”
Derived words: legally blind
semilegally
Translations:
illative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin illātīvus (“illative”), from Latin illātus, perfect passive participle of inferō (“carry or bring into somewhere; bury; conclude”), from in + ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”).
Inflected forms:
form: illatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to an illation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an illative consequence or proposition
an illative conjunction, such as "for" or "therefore"
gloss: Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards or into something.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A word or phrase that expresses an inference (such as for or therefore).
pos: noun
gloss: An illation.
pos: noun
gloss: The illative case, or a word in that case.
pos: noun
Related words: illation
infer
inference
Derived words: illative case
illatively
short illative
Translations:
fixer-upper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a reduplicating suffixation of fix up, equivalent to fix + -er + up + -er.
Base: fix
Affixes: -er
-er
Inflected forms:
form: fixer-uppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A house, property, car, or other object that needs to be fixed up or repaired, often purchased as an investment.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
examples: 2003, Jay P. DeCima, Investing in Fixer-Uppers: A Complete Guide to Buying Low, Fixing Smart, Adding Value, and Selling (or Renting) High, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN.
gloss: A potential romantic partner who may need some motivation to improve their personality or habits.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
examples: Don't be seduced into a relationship with someone who seems to be a "fixer-upper." Attempts at renovating people usually fail.
gloss: A person who tinkers or fixes things up; in particular, someone who fixes up houses, properties, etc. as an investment.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Synonyms: doer-upperer
fix-it-upper
Related words: handyman's special
Translations:
repaired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
rocking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Medieval Latin roccabor.?
Old English *rocc
Early Medieval Latin rocca
Anglo-Norman roquebor.
Middle English rokke
English rock
English -ing
English rocking
From rock + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more rocking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rocking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rockings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Shaking, swaying or moving back and forth.
pos: adj
gloss: Excellent; great.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: The motion of something that rocks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Every part of a tree will not do for this purpose, as some branches may not be sufficiently forked; others may not be sufficiently strong; and others may be too much exposed to the rockings of the wind.
gloss: The abrading of a copper plate with a rocker, preparatory to mezzotinting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The motion by which the design on a steel mill is transferred to a copper cylinder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: rockingly
rocking chair
rocking horse
rocking stone
gray rocking
grey rocking
rocking beam
rocking grate
rocking pier
rocking stool
rocking tree
Translations:
fire-eater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fire-eaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fire eater
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fireeater
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
pos: noun
gloss: A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: "But he is a regular fire eater!"
"He's a bad man—a blamed bad man!" fluttered Danny Griswold.
"That's right," nodded Lewis Little. "He really wants to fight with swords, I believe."
gloss: An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
examples: Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it.
Translations:
meteoroid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English meteor
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 meteoroid
From meteor + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: meteoroids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A relatively small (sand- to boulder-sized) fragment of debris in a star system that produces a meteor when it hits the atmosphere
pos: noun
Translations:
masochist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch + -ist. Coined by Richard von Krafft-Ebing and popularized by Freud in relation to sadomasochism.
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: masochists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who enjoys pain or humiliation, or who derives pleasure from harming oneself or being harmed by others.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who puts up with teasing.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
slang
Related words: glutton for punishment
masochism
Derived words: masochistic
masocore
nonmasochist
sadomasochist
Translations:
glum
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.
Inflected forms:
form: glummer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: glummest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Despondent; moody; sullen.
pos: adj
examples: I[…]frighten people by my glum face.
[…] and the prospect of three more days of teaching before the weekend break, Mr. MacPherson felt unusually glum.
A glummer look replaced the already glum look on Arthur Dent's face.
U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who had sought to save Chevron during hours of argument in January, looks slightly glum in her seat at the counsel tables.
Translations:
pleasantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English pleasauntly; equivalent to pleasant + -ly.
Base: pleasant
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more pleasantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pleasantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: pleasauntlie
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: plesantlie
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: pleasauntly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: plesantly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: plesauntly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a pleasant manner; so as to achieve a pleasant result.
pos: adv
examples: He smiled pleasantly at passersby.
They were pleasantly surprised at the result.
gloss: Lightly
pos: adv
gloss: Ludicrously; facetiously.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: In workhouses, pleasantly so named, because work cannot be done in them.
Mr Venus, reminded of the duties of hospitality, produced some rum. In answer to the inquiry, 'Will you mix it, Mr Wegg?' that gentleman pleasantly rejoined, 'I think not, sir. On so auspicious an occasion, I prefer to take it in the form of a Gum-Tickler.'
Translations:
egomaniac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ego- + -maniac.
Base: ego
Inflected forms:
form: egomaniacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person obsessed with their own (supposed) importance.
pos: noun
examples: He's a raving egomaniac: all he ever talks about is himself and how important he is.
Translations:
fancier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fancy
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 fancier
From fancy (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: fanciers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who fancies; a person with a special interest, attraction or liking for something.
pos: noun
examples: She's definitely a cat fancier: she has nine of them in her home and the walls are covered with pictures of more.
Even so, most lily fanciers would rather have a colony of goldbands than any other species or hybrids in existence.
gloss: A person who breeds or grows a particular animal or plant for points of excellence.
pos: noun
gloss: One who fancies or imagines.
pos: noun
Derived words: dog fancier
Translations:
fated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This scheme was fated to be forgotten, at any rate in the form of the 1820 proposal.
Kristi Noem[…] may have committed a class two misdemeanor offence when her fated dog Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer Noem deemed “untrainable” for hunting pheasant, killed a neighbor’s chickens.
Antonyms: undestined
undoomed
unfated
unpreordained
Translations:
Menno
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: Mennos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mennonite.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
Mennonite
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Eponymous to Menno Simons, the second-generation leader of the denomination, + -ite. Menno's own name is of West Frisian origin and was originally spelled Minne (compare the name Mein, itself ultimately related to *magan (“to be able”)).
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: Mennonites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Mennonite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Mennonite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A member of any of a group of Protestant churches or denominations in the Anabaptist tradition, practicing credobaptism and committed to nonresistance and nonviolence, many of whom may wear plain dress and shun modern technology.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or related to a Mennonite or Mennonites or to their movement and church(es).
pos: adj
Translations:
L-shaped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Shaped like the letter L or its mirror image.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
alumina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the combining form of Latin alumen + -a.
Inflected forms:
form: aluminas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aluminia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Aluminum oxide, especially when used in mining, material sciences or ceramics, a refractory solid compound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The apocrenates of iron and manganese are slightly soluble; those of lime, magnesia and alumina are insoluble.
Translations:
aluminate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English aluminic
English -ate
English aluminate
From aluminic + -ate.
Inflected forms:
form: aluminates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A compound, containing aluminium and oxygen with more electropositive elements, that is a salt of the hypothetical aluminic acid
pos: noun
Translations:
miffed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English miff
English -ed
English miffed
From miff + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more miffed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most miffed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat indignant, irritated, angry, in a snit, put out or annoyed.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: I was miffed at Rick for his behavior. I was miffed at the coach, not for his naivete of deafness, but for his arrogance, which converted his ignorance to stupidity.
And also, it's generally not a good idea to prank someone who's already miffed at you.
Donors might be miffed to find that a magnificent gift was not earmarked for rescue.
gloss: Confused; unable to understand.
pos: adj
tags: UK
regional
Derived words: miffedly
miffedness
unmiffed
Translations:
sandfly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sand + fly.
Compound parts: sand
fly
Inflected forms:
form: sandflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sand fly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small flies of the genera Lutzomyia and Phlebotomus whose females suck the blood of vertebrates and thus spread leishmaniasis.
pos: noun
gloss: A small fly of the genus Austrosimulium.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
gloss: A biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae).
pos: noun
tags: US
Related words: midge
no-see-um
punkie
punky
sand flea
Derived words: sandfly fever
Translations:
spermatheca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sperma-
English theca
English spermatheca
From sperma- + theca.
Inflected forms:
form: spermathecas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spermathecae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small sac within the reproductive tract of some female invertebrates, such as insects, which stores sperm until it is used to fertilize the ova.
pos: noun
Translations:
codling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English codling, codeling, equivalent to cod + -ling.
Base: cod
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: codlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young small cod.
pos: noun
examples: Here a couple of old men in whiskers and spectacles leant over us, making strange sounds. Some codling had got caught in the net the same time as we were. These the old men threw back into the sea; but us they seemed to think very precious. …
gloss: A hake (cod-related food fish), especially one from the genus Urophycis.
pos: noun
Derived words: red codling
Translations:
cross-fertilization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
English fertilization
English cross-fertilization
From cross- + fertilization.
Inflected forms:
form: cross-fertilizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cross-fertilisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fertilization by the union of gametes of different plants (sometimes of different species).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The mutual exchange of ideas or concepts from different fields for mutual benefit.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: His fame led to some curious cultural cross-fertilizations. In Japan, the Yamamoto-clad singer stirred up a singular fanaticism—so much so that Japanese charter flights traveled all the way to Kinshasa, while in Tokyo, clone bands skilled at his kind of soukous multiplied.
Translations:
strangulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin strangulatio (“choking, suffocation”), from strangulare (“to choke, suffocate”); see strangle.
Inflected forms:
form: strangulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of strangling or the state of being strangled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Road congestion in the Manchester and Liverpool areas has already reached strangulation point and it is regarded as impossible for the roads to handle this displaced traffic; buses already take up to three times as long as the trains to cover the same distance.
gloss: The constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: strangle
strangulate
Translations: