yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
extrajudicially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From extrajudicial + -ly.
Base: extrajudicial
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Outside of the legal system.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Ijaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Ijaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ijaw
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a collection of peoples mostly indigenous to forest regions within the Niger Delta in Nigeria.
pos: noun
Translations:
louden
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From loud + -en.
Base: loud
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: loudens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: loudening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: loudened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: loudened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To become louder.
pos: verb
examples: The shouts of the bookies were now loudening outside in the sunlight, and when I'd slipped on my raincoat we went out to see what we could of the Light Weight Race.
Translations:
self-affliction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + affliction.
Base: affliction
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-afflictions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The infliction of pain or suffering on oneself
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
granulator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From granulate + -or.
Base: granulate
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: granulators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: granulater
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A machine that forms material into granules.
pos: noun
Translations:
handloading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, hand + loading. The verb (handload) is possibly a back-formation from the noun.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The loading of cartridges for firearms when it is done by hand and (especially) at home (in semi-homemade manner): assembling them from the individual components (e.g., casing, primer, gunpowder or other charge, and shot or bullet).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: With handloading of their practice rounds, they can save money, especially in light of how expensive the store-bought cartridges can be these days.
gloss: The loading of a firearm, usually a pistol or rifle, by hand.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: handload
handloader
Translations:
chapeau-bras
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: French
Inflected forms:
form: chapeaux-bras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bicorne hat designed to be compressed and carried under the arm, formerly worn on dress occasions by men in the 18th century, and later in the United States Army by general and staff officers.
pos: noun
Translations:
shotshell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From shot + shell.
Compound parts: shot
shell
Inflected forms:
form: shotshells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shotgun cartridge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Handgun and rifle cartridges loaded with lead shot canisters instead of bullets, intended for pest control.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
trainset
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From train + set.
Compound parts: train
set
Inflected forms:
form: trainsets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A locomotive and carriages coupled together to form a unified set of equipment.
pos: noun
gloss: a self-propelled electric or diesel multiple unit, consisting of a fixed number of permanently coupled passenger vehicles.
pos: noun
Translations:
H-piece
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Inflected forms:
form: H-pieces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of a plunger pump that contains the valve.
pos: noun
Translations:
double-geared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: double-geared drill press
double-geared milling machine
Translations:
toyline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From toy + line.
Compound parts: toy
line
Inflected forms:
form: toylines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toy line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A series of related toys produced by the same company.
pos: noun
examples: Early Japanese anime superstar artists like mecha designer Shoji Kawamori and Kazutaka Miyatake participated in this toyline, creating some futuristic vehicles and robots.
Translations:
line-height
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Inflected forms:
form: line-heights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The height of a line of text.
pos: noun
examples: Therefore, you could give an inline nonreplaced element a line-height of 1em and still have its background overlap the content of other lines.
Translations:
sightedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sighted + -ness.
Base: sighted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being sighted, or having the ability to see.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Bill said that he learned to be tactful — if Art asked where something was, a telephone for example, Bill would feign not knowing himself, so as not to emphasize his sightedness, then appear to find out and tell him.
Translations:
cocksucking
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cock + sucking.
Compound parts: cock
sucking
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fellatio.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
vulgar
examples: Anita Bryant says that cocksucking is a form of human cannibalism; she decries the loss of the child that is the sperm.
gloss: Used as an intensifier for something objectionable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
vulgar
examples: “Twenty-five goddamn cocksucking years,” the old man said.
You all rap a story you tell me is glorious as Galahad's gallop is near, but your lies can't deceive me I know that you'll leave me crying these cocksucking tears.
Translations:
stoppingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stopping + -ly.
Base: stopping
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a way that causes something to stop.
pos: adv
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: a heart-stoppingly beautiful man
Over a dirty hemp tunic he'd thrown a jerkin of goat's pelt in the manner of goatherds, two splints on the ankles were tied blood-stoppingly fast with leather thongs.
Neither of them detracted from how traffic-stoppingly handsome he was, but they were enough to inspire questions and the ensuing jokes about how she'd beaten him up.
Translations:
khums
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Arabic خُمْس (ḵums, “fifth”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Shi'ite tax of one-fifth of various profits (e.g. one's surplus income, or business profits).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
baitcasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: From bait + casting.
Compound parts: bait
casting
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
gunsmoke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gun + smoke.
Compound parts: gun
smoke
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Smoke produced by the firing of a gun.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: You can almost smell the horses, the high chapparal ^([sic]), the gunsmoke.
A cloud of gunsmoke, well over a mile distant, indicated the presence of a battery of the huge cannons. After the wind blew the cloud away, he could spot the actual guns themselves.
Translations:
moonglow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From moon + glow.
Compound parts: moon
glow
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: moonlight
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Her back arched, and in the moonglow she looked like a pagan offering, mysterious, delectable, irresistible.
Translations:
homecooked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From home + cooked.
Compound parts: home
cooked
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cooked or prepared in a traditional manner as would be done at home.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Dish out lots of homecooked foods like pot roast, meat loaf, Maine beans and franks, homestyle fries, fish chowder and fresh-baked breads[…]
Translations:
brain-melting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more brain-melting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brain-melting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: overwhelming in a way that prevents coherent thought
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: And I was already suffering from a brain-melting lack of sleep anyway. But despite all that, I was actually feeling surprisingly fresh.
Translations:
woodyard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wood + yard.
Compound parts: wood
yard
Inflected forms:
form: woodyards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A yard where wood is stored and processed.
pos: noun
Translations:
dustbag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dust + bag.
Base: dust
Inflected forms:
form: dustbags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dust bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dust-bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The bag inside a vacuum cleaner where collected dust is stored.
pos: noun
examples: These may contain filters manufactured without the use of harmful materials and may not require a dustbag. Dyson vacuum cleaners are examples of designs with such characteristics.
gloss: A bag in which clothing can be protected from damage.
pos: noun
examples: […] old textbooks and dusty encyclopedias, clothing hanging from rafters in dustbags, and all the other useless and superfluous stuff usually found in attics.
Derived words: dustbagged
Translations:
sideslip
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From side + slip.
Compound parts: side
slip
Inflected forms:
form: sideslips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: side-slip
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sideslips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sideslipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sideslipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sideslipped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: side-slip
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A flight manoeuvre that uses opposing rudder and aileron inputs to move the aircraft sideways without turning it.
pos: noun
gloss: A flight manoeuvre that uses opposing rudder and aileron inputs to move the aircraft sideways without turning it.
pos: noun
gloss: A flight condition where an aircraft's longitudinal axis is not aligned with its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
pos: noun
gloss: The angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
gloss: To perform, or place an aircraft in, a sideslip.
pos: verb
Translations:
lang: French
word: glissade
lang: Portuguese
word: glissada
lang: Portuguese
word: glissagem
gunfighting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gun + fighting.
Compound parts: gun
fighting
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: combat with guns
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
homegoing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From home + going.
Compound parts: home
going
Inflected forms:
form: homegoings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A voyage or journey home.
pos: noun
examples: On reaching the fresh air he was sufficiently unsteady to incline the row of three at one moment as if they were marching to London, and at another as if they were marching to Bath - which produced a comical effect, frequent enough in families on nocturnal homegoings; and, like most comical effects, not quite so comic after all.
gloss: An African-American Christian funeral rite marking the going home of the deceased to the Lord or to Heaven.
pos: noun
Translations:
lawned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lawn + -ed.
Base: lawn
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Provided with a lawn.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a lawned garden
Translations:
spellcasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From spell + casting.
Compound parts: spell
casting
Inflected forms:
form: spellcastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spell casting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: spell-casting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The casting of magic spells.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The true mages, lifelong students of the arcane arts, practiced their trade with due respect for the magic, ever wary of the potential consequences of their spellcastings.
Lewis unwittingly brings Izard back from the dead trying to impress a schoolmate with his spellcasting abilities, and all magical Hell breaks loose.
Translations:
millhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mill + house. Doublet of Mulhouse.
Compound parts: mill
house
Inflected forms:
form: millhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A building housing a gristmill, especially a domestic building that is also a mill.
pos: noun
Translations:
allsorts
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Liquorice allsorts.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: People are like a bag of allsorts; we are all different.
Translations:
highback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
Etymology: From high + back.
Compound parts: high
back
Inflected forms:
form: highbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Part of a boot binding that extends from the back of the foot to cover the lower leg.
pos: noun
Translations:
cammies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: camouflage clothing
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
slang
Translations:
lunchbreak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lunch + break.
Compound parts: lunch
break
Inflected forms:
form: lunchbreaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lunch break
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A period of rest from work for the purpose of eating lunch.
pos: noun
Translations:
grandpop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From grand- + pop.
Base: pop
Affixes: grand-
Inflected forms:
form: grandpops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: grandfather
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
Translations:
woodfire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wood + fire.
Compound parts: wood
fire
Inflected forms:
form: woodfires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fire that uses wood for fuel.
pos: noun
Translations:
sweetums
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sweet + -ums.
Base: sweet
Affixes: -ums
Inflected forms:
form: sweetums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Affectionate term of address for a pet, child, etc.
pos: noun
examples: ‘I want more bacon.’ / ‘There’s more in the frying pan, sweetums,’ said Aunt Petunia, turning misty eyes on her massive son. ‘We must feed you up while we’ve got the chance … I don’t like the sound of that school food …’
Translations:
candy-striped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having alternate stripes of white and color, like a candy cane.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
semi-active
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From semi- + active.
Base: active
Affixes: semi-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Partially active
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
endif
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From end + if.
Compound parts: end
if
Inflected forms:
form: endifs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: end-if
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: end if
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A directive, in several programming languages, that marks the end of an if statement, especially one containing multiple if ... then ... else statements.
pos: noun
Translations:
Justice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From justice
Inflected forms:
form: Justices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Jestice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Justiss
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The title of a justice of court.
pos: noun
Translations:
datalog
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From data + log.
Compound parts: data
log
Inflected forms:
form: datalogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of data collected from a single source.
pos: noun
Translations:
walkaround
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Etymology: Deverbal from walk around.
Inflected forms:
form: walkarounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A competitive dance in blackface minstrel shows of the 19th century.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The music for such a dance.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A walk taken around an office, hospital, etc. in order to communicate with staff members and gauge progress.
pos: noun
gloss: A costumed character who mingles with visitors at a theme park etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
hardpack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hard + pack.
Compound parts: hard
pack
Inflected forms:
form: hardpacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The muzzle was filled for some inches with hardpack snow, after he had dug that out with his knife, he found the lock frozen up and snow all over the nipple.
Field reports indicate that the new cutting edge here pictured performs exceptionally well in rock, shale, limestone, hardpack clay, sandstone and other tight formations.
Unlike powder, hardpack permits great speed (no spiny arms on those balls of ice to drag on your ski bottom). Where powder is sluggish, crudely transmitting your body movements to the snow, hardpack is the snow of precision.
gloss: A hard package, especially of cigarettes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: That's where she met Vic--tall, hawkfaced, blackhaired, wearing tight Levis and a black T-shirt with the pocket over his heart stretched around a hardpack box of Parliaments.
Anderson came over to me and I noticed his ammo bandoliers were full of Marlboro hardpacks.
Outside, Billy broke the cellophane on a hardpack of Marlboro Reds, tore out the foil, and extracted a cigarette.
Antonyms: softpack
Translations:
mankiller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English man-killer, equivalent to man + killer.
Compound parts: man
killer
Inflected forms:
form: mankillers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who kills a human being.
pos: noun
examples: Hence we may account not only for the grasshopper war of the Indians, but for the grasshopper duels among our midshipmen, military officers, members of Congress, and others who have been educated for mankillers.
Translations:
foregrip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From fore- + grip.
Base: grip
Affixes: fore-
Inflected forms:
form: foregrips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pistol grip-type forestock on the front of a firearm that improves handling characteristics, counters the effects of recoil, and is cooler to the touch than a standard forestock.
pos: noun
Translations:
counterfire
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: firefighting
government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From counter- + fire.
Base: fire
Affixes: counter-
Inflected forms:
form: counterfires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: counterfires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: counterfiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: counterfired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: counterfired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The firing of weapons in response.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The Nationalist Defense Ministry claimed Communist guns on the mainland coast were silenced by effective counterfire. By Nationalist count, the Reds fired 444 shells, of which 162 hit Matsu Island, 112 Peikantang Island and 170 landed in the sea.
The second attack vehicle had difficulty navigating around the debris from the first attack, and was met with defensive counterfire by security personnel assigned to the hotel.
gloss: A smaller fire lit at some distance from a wildfire, in order to develop a firebreak.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To light a smaller fire at some distance from a wildfire, in order to develop a firebreak.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
landbased
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From land + based.
Compound parts: land
based
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Based or situated on land.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The number of vessels participating in the landbased fishery has declined since the 1970's.
Translations:
unadaptable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Italic *aptos
Latin aptus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin apiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
▲
Latin -ō
Latin -tō
Latin aptō
Latin adaptōder.
Middle English *adapten
English adapt
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 adaptable
English unadaptable
From un- + adaptable.
Base: adaptable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unadaptable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unadaptable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not adaptable.
pos: adj
Translations:
cory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cories
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any fish belonging to the genus Corydoras, a group of South American freshwater catfish.
pos: noun
examples: All the tetras in my tank (3 species - black neons, Pristellas, and red eyes) died within a 36 hour period. The corys and otos in the same tank are fine.
There was no change in water quality, feeding habits, or water temperature. I have no idea why all the tets would die in such a short time span.
Translations:
self-loathing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + loathing.
Base: loathing
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-loathing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-loathing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Loathing oneself.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-disgust
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + disgust.
Base: disgust
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Disgust with oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: self-hatred, self-loathing, self-reproach
Translations:
transpennine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trans- + Pennine.
Base: Pennine
Affixes: trans-
Inflected forms:
form: transPennine
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Across the Pennines
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dualling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dual + -ing.
Base: dual
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: duallings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dualing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The conversion of a road into a dual carriageway
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: Way back in 1971, the Government of the day first published plans for a high-capacity road network, which included the dualling of the A47 from King's Lynn to Great Yarmouth.
Translations:
fireteam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From fire + team.
Compound parts: fire
team
Inflected forms:
form: fireteams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small unit of infantry.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: My fireteams are spread thin. We can't hold out forever.
Translations:
geoinformation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From geo- + information.
Base: information
Affixes: geo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: geospatial information
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
tiltrotor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tilt + rotor.
Compound parts: tilt
rotor
Inflected forms:
form: tiltrotors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An aircraft that has powered rotors mounted on engine pods that can rotate to provide lift and/or propulsion
pos: noun
Translations:
world-system
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: world-systems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A socioeconomic system that encompasses part or all of the globe and is typically larger than a single country.
pos: noun
Translations:
tittied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From titty + -ed.
Base: titty
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a specified kind of breasts.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
slang
examples: As he stood there, his legs spread and his hands on his hips like a man who knew what he was doing, he saw his big tittied neighbor pull up in her car.
Translations:
bigamously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bigamous + -ly.
Base: bigamous
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more bigamously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bigamously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a bigamous manner.
pos: adv
examples: After moving abroad, he bigamously married a second woman.
Translations:
prizegiving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From prize + giving.
Compound parts: prize
giving
Inflected forms:
form: prizegivings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ceremony where a prize is awarded.
pos: noun
Translations:
nightwalker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: * night + walker
* (vampire): since they are traditionally said to avoid sunlight and go out at night.
Compound parts: night
walker
Inflected forms:
form: nightwalkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prostitute who looks for clients on the streets.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
euphemistic
gloss: A vampire.
pos: noun
gloss: A noctambulist or sleepwalker.
pos: noun
Related words: daywalker
nightwalking
Translations:
gunshop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gun + shop.
Compound parts: gun
shop
Inflected forms:
form: gunshops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shop where guns are sold.
pos: noun
examples: Indeed, laundry operator P. H. Fellehy saw Ike in the gunshop a little after 2:00 p.m. "with his hand under his jaw, kneeling on the counter." Fellehy also saw "a large crowd of people" near the store.
Translations:
townsperson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From town + -s- + person.
Base: town
Affixes: -s-
Inflected forms:
form: townspersons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: townspeople
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inhabitant of a town.
pos: noun
examples: It is the tunes of townspeople only, principally of those in the capital Sanʿa that are original; while the folk-song of the village Jews, who live in close contact with the Arabs, is strongly influenced by Arabic music.
Many sources claim that the original Groundhog Day took place in 1887, when residents of Punxsutawney set out to Gobbler’s Knob, known as Phil’s “official” home, but the first piece of evidence Yoder found of townspeople trusting a groundhog for the weather, a diary entry, was dated 1840.
Antonyms: villager
Translations:
countryfolk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From country + folk.
Compound parts: country
folk
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: People who live in the country; rural dwellers.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
hazelwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hazel + wood.
Compound parts: hazel
wood
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The wood of the hazel.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
whaleback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: * whale + back.
* (ship): From its whale-like appearance when fully loaded.
Compound parts: whale
back
Inflected forms:
form: whalebacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curves above the waterline from vertical to horizontal.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A landform (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale.
pos: noun
Translations:
streambank
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stream + bank.
Compound parts: stream
bank
Inflected forms:
form: streambanks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The bank of a stream.
pos: noun
Translations:
naughties
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From naughty + -s.
Base: naughty
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Naughty people or things.
pos: noun
tags: informal
plural
plural-only
Translations:
unfrosted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + frosted.
Base: frosted
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not frosted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unfrosted cake
Translations:
sannyasin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sannyasins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Hindu in the sannyasa stage.
pos: noun
Translations:
beanfield
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bean + field.
Compound parts: bean
field
Inflected forms:
form: beanfields
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A field where beans are grown.
pos: noun
Translations:
lightkeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From light (noun) + keeper (noun).
Compound parts: light
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: lightkeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: light-keeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The person who has charge of the light in a lighthouse or lightship.
pos: noun
Translations:
upness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From up + -ness.
Base: up
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state, quality, or condition of being up
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: As well as encouraging externalization of mystery, male genitalization seems to encourage men to prize the qualities of hardness, upness, and linearity.
Sometimes ups, to smarten up, ask downs to come into a program created by ups to explain and justify their downness. The ups call this "human relations training." Of course, ups never have to explain their upness; that is why they are ups.
gloss: The property of being an up quark.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: fed-upness
grown-upness
made-upness
messed-upness
Translations:
datalink
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From data + link.
Compound parts: data
link
Inflected forms:
form: datalinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The protocol layer that transfers data between adjacent network nodes in a wide area network or between nodes on the same local area network segment.
pos: noun
Translations:
Who-athon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Who + -athon.
Base: Who
Affixes: -athon
Inflected forms:
form: Who-athons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A marathon of the British science-fiction series Doctor Who.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Makes me wish I had a VCR so I could blow the dust off of all my video tapes and have a Who-athon.
To set the scene for the new series, UKTV Gold is showing all of the last one, created by Russell T Davies and starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Billie Piper as his companion Rose. The Who-athon will screen from 11am-6pm on Saturday, and from 11am-6pm on Sunday.
But the Who'''-athon starts early on Saturday morning, with retrospectives on each doctor and classic episodes starting on UKTV at 6.30am and running throughout the day - and on Sunday, too.
Translations:
ill-thought-out
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not considered carefully enough.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an ill-thought-out proposal
Translations:
vinal
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Introduced as a generic term by the Federal Trade Commission.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: vinylal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: polyvinyl alcohol fibers
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: Produced by, or originating in, wine.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To return then to the great chanel, and thread of our Diſcourse, the examples and experiment which I have already inſiſted upon in confirmation of the reaſons which I have alleged, do dearly demonſtrate, that the bodies which draw the atomes diſpersed in the aire, attract unto themſelves with a greater power and energy ſuch as are of their own nature, than ſuch as are heterogeneous, and of a ſtrange nature; As wine doth the vinal ſpirits;[…]
Their vinal Steams evaporating, they / Felt of their uſual Vigour a Decay;[…]
But, alas, the red wine which he sent to the boatmen took the taste of the bargeman’s wife, a red-faced sot of a woman. She drank it to the last drop, and then flew to arms and almost murdered a servant wench with oyster-shells. Then she rushed on deck, tackled her husband, and tried to pitch him overboard. There is vinal energy for you.
Translations:
wolf-hunter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wolf-hunters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wolfhunter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person (or, rarely, a thing) that hunts (to kill) wolves.
pos: noun
Translations:
Lorcan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Lorca + -an.
Base: Lorca
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Lorcan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Lorcan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), Spanish poet.
pos: adj
Translations:
Basilian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Basil + -ian.
Base: Basil
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Basilians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to Saint Basil the Great.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: a member of any of the religious orders tracing their origin to Saint Basil the Great
pos: noun
Translations:
Wa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Burmese ဝ (wa.).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic group in Myanmar and China.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
short-sheet
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: short-sheets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: short-sheeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: short-sheeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: short-sheeted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: short sheet
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To play a prank by folding someone's bed sheets to make the space for lying in the bed unusably short.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
Translations:
spiderling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spider + -ling.
Base: spider
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: spiderlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An immature spider.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Boerhavia.
pos: noun
Translations:
superfun
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + fun.
Base: fun
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: more superfun
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most superfun
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely fun.
pos: adj
examples: I figured I'd never be able to compete with what I considered the most perfect wedding in existence, so I concentrated on making mine superfun.
Thanks to Sherry Yard, for making Spago a superfun place to work from when in So Cal.
Where, according to the rusty sign dangling over the entrance, a superfun, amazing time awaits the entire family.
Translations:
Rabha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Rabhas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an Indo-Mongoloid tribe of West Bengal and Assam.
pos: noun
examples: One forest officer, stationed in the buffer of the Buxa Tiger Reserve, argued that 80% of the illegal fellings are carried out by forest villagers and that more or less all Rabhas are involved.
Translations:
Afro-Palestinian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Afro- + Palestinian.
Base: Palestinian
Affixes: Afro-
Inflected forms:
form: more Afro-Palestinian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Afro-Palestinian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to inhabitants of Palestine that have African heritage.
pos: adj
Translations:
Anglo-Palestinian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Anglo- + Palestinian.
Base: Palestinian
Affixes: Anglo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, relating to, or between England, or Britain, and Palestine
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mini-Palestine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mini-Palestines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Palestinian state with borders that are smaller than the 1967 lines.
pos: noun
Translations:
mini-Palestinian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mini- + Palestinian.
Base: Palestinian
Affixes: mini-
Inflected forms:
form: more mini-Palestinian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mini-Palestinian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to a mini-Palestine
pos: adj
Translations:
pre-Palestinian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + Palestinian.
Base: Palestinian
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Existing before the establishment of the State of Palestine, Mandatory Palestine or medieval or classical Levantine provinces of the same name.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
purell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Trademark genericization, from the brand name Purell.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: alcohol-based hand sanitizer gel.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
pleeease
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Elongated form of please.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The chairman, rapping loudly, had to shout the others down. "Comrades, comrades, let him finish, let him finish, pleeease!"
"Can we, pleeease?" Malik grinned wryly, broke a baggy of weed out, and started stuffing the pipe."
You WILL do as I command; with pressure steadily crushing down upon the hueless ones, “pleeease, pleeease,” begged the collective.
“Please, Mom, pleeease?” Melanee joins in the begging. “Pleeease, Mom?”
Translations:
childline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From child + line, from the company name ChildLine.
Compound parts: child
line
Inflected forms:
form: childlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A telephone counselling service for children and young people.
pos: noun
tags: India
examples: A childline service has been initiated by the ministry under the integrated programme for street children.
At the time of the Gujarat earthquake, the Childline India Foundation (CIF) had been established with childlines in several cities and district towns of India.
The Committee, Special Juvenile Police Units, public servants, childlines, voluntary organizations, social workers and the children themselves may refer a child to such shelter homes.
Translations:
picturephone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From picture + phone; a trademark of the 1960s for the earliest such device.
Compound parts: picture
phone
Inflected forms:
form: picturephones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: videophone
pos: noun
examples: The program has twelve picturephones that link Illinois State Psychiatric Institute (ISPI) with Illinois State Pediatric Institute (one city block away) […]
So a long time ago, I was a true believer in picturephones as the logical extension of the telephone. Although the design I suggested for 2001 was clearly fiction, AT&T spent $500 million in designing and manufacturing its picturephone of the early 1970s.
Translations:
samesies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From same + -sies.
Base: same
Affixes: -sies
Inflected forms:
form: samsies
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The same.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: […] a thousand thank yous to Rowan Lawton – super agent/enabler/general favourite person. Samesies to Lynne Drew and Thalia Suzuma, thank you for being so patient and so helpful and generally helping this book (and all the others) exist.
At one point, two of the friends opted to buy the same style of shoes as the other (whereupon one of the women was heard gleefully to use the word 'samesies') – another testament to the power of peer influence.
Hey bro. Wats up? Anthony texted back. Nothin much, jus layin in bed. You? His phone dinged again a few seconds later. Samesies man.
Translations:
sweetgrass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sweet + grass.
Compound parts: sweet
grass
Inflected forms:
form: sweetgrasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: mannagrass, in genus Glyceria
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Hierochloe odorata (syn. Anthoxanthum nitens), an aromatic herb native to northern Eurasia and North America
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Muhlenbergia filipes, a grass native to the southeastern United States
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: Sweet Grass County
Translations:
anti-fan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + fan.
Base: fan
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: anti-fans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who dislikes something (generally a creative work, fictional character, or person), but is still interested in it, devoting time to mocking or criticizing it.
pos: noun
examples: These anti-fans often claim to act out of concern for young Twilight fans who may look to Twilight's characters— and author— as role models.
Jonathan Gray describes these anti-fans by saying, 'Opposed and yet in some ways similar to the fan is the anti-fan: he/she who actively and vocally hates or dislikes a given text, personality, or genre' (2005, 840).
Such stories are generally considered the work of Harry Potter anti-fans, a group of individuals who actively dislike the books or the films (or both) and seek to degrade the characters in various and sundry ways (Hetcher 7).
Translations:
anti-fandom
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + fandom.
Base: fandom
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: anti-fandoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more anti-fandom
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-fandom
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The anti-fans of a television show, movie, book, fictional character, etc., taken as a group.
pos: noun
examples: The Comic-Con confrontation is just one example of this tension, as Twilight seems to inspire a particularly active anti-fandom, which can be seen both in mainstream media accounts of clashes between fans and anti-fans and in the online forums we analyze in this chapter.
That [Bob] Dylan might be involved in a game with his critics implies that he actively provoked his own anti-fandom.
From the point of view of fan studies, anti-fandom constitutes a response to something that “is perceived as harming a text as a whole,” such as Star Wars fans' antipathy for the character Jar Jar Binks (Gray 2003, 73).
gloss: Opposed to fandoms as a whole
pos: adj
tags: Internet
Antonyms: fandom
Translations:
Oso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish oso (“bear”).
Inflected forms:
form: Osos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A supporter of the Bear Flag revolt in California.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The legacy of the Bear Flaggers lives on in the State of California. The state adopted and proudly flies the bear flag, first designed at Sonoma by the Osos.
Nevertheless, the Bear Flag Republic was born. Fremont heard of it, and took ninetv men into Sonoma on the excuse of protecting the people there. He hijacked the Bear Flag revolt, calling himself Oso Numero Uno (Number One Bear).
On June 14, 1846, thirty American horsemen known as the Osos (Bears) arrived in Sonoma, under the encouragement of General John Charles Frmont. Americans had ventured into California in the early 1840s to obtain land, but the Mexican government would not allow them to own property or hold offie. The Osos captured General Vallejo at the Sonoma Barracks without violence and proclaimed the California Republic by raising a flag depicting a bear.
Translations:
starfighter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From star + fighter.
Compound parts: star
fighter
Inflected forms:
form: starfighters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fictional type of spacecraft that is intended to be used like a fighter plane in outer space.
pos: noun
Translations:
far-rightist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From far right + -ist.
Base: far right
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: far-rightists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: far rightist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who holds far-right views.
pos: noun
Translations:
Willapa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Willapas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Willapa
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Willapah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Willopa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Willopah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of an Athabaskan-speaking people in Washington, United States.
pos: noun
Translations:
ill-looking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-looking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-looking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: having an unhealthy appearance
pos: adj
gloss: unattractive; ugly
pos: adj
gloss: of evil or sinister appearance
pos: adj
Translations:
T-bar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
transport
vehicles
Inflected forms:
form: T-bars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of ski lift where skiers/snowboarders are dragged up the ski run while they slide along on their skis/snowboards on the slope. They hang onto a T-shaped bar, a crossbar handle and a lead shaft linking to the drive cable.
pos: noun
gloss: A T-top.
pos: noun
gloss: A girl's shoe resembling a Mary Jane, with a T-shaped strap and buckle at the front.
pos: noun
examples: Types of women's and girls' shoes were limited to court shoes (pumps), Alberts, ties, I-bars, T-bars, ankle straps, […]
gloss: A T-shaped bar forming part of a toggle clasp for fastening jewelry.
pos: noun
gloss: A T-shaped bar forming part of weightlifting apparatus
pos: noun
gloss: A T-shaped bar connecting the counter at the bar of a licensed premises to the taps used to pour drinks.
pos: noun
Translations: