yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
brank
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare Scottish Gaelic brangus, brangas (“a sort of pillory”), Irish brancas (“halter”), or Dutch pranger (“fetter”).
Inflected forms:
form: branks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: branks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: branking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: branked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: branked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
gloss: A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
UK
dialectal
obsolete
plural-normally
examples: Your armour gude ye mauna shaw, / Nor yet appear like men o' weir; / As country lads be a' array'd, / Wi' branks and brecham on each mare.
gloss: To put someone in the branks.
pos: verb
gloss: To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
UK
dialectal
gloss: To prance; to caper.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
examples: Donald came branking down the brae
Wi' twenty thousand men.
Derived words: branky
Translations:
baillie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: baillies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The jurisdiction of a bailie or bailiff; a bailiwick.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The equivalent of alderman in some Scottish cities.
pos: noun
examples: To ease street traffic congestion, improve transport facilities, and reduce unemployment, one Glasgow baillie has suggested establishing a Regional Passenger Transport Board.
Derived words: baillie brushkie
Translations:
bailie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French bailli (“land steward; officer of justice”).
Inflected forms:
form: bailies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bailiff.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: The chief magistrate of a Scottish barony or part of a county, with functions like a sheriff's.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A municipal officer in Scotland corresponding to an English alderman.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Related words: bailiff
bailiwick
Derived words: baron-bailie
water bailie
Translations:
adulterated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The adjectival sense's relation to adultery is the common theme that corruption or pollution has occurred; more at adulterate. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Intentionally tainted with impurities (usually as motivated by cheapening the production of a food product or enhancing the psychotropic effects of a street drug).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: laced, tainted, contaminated; see also Thesaurus:contaminated
The problem of adulterated milk has periodically reemerged as a public health menace, from New York in the 1850s to China in 2008.
Heroin is often adulterated with fentanyl.
A thin, crunchy lemon and thyme rosti was essentially the pimped-up aesthetic of the Kettle chip. That's OK. I like Kettle chips.
Translations:
tailrace
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tail + race.
Compound parts: tail
race
Inflected forms:
form: tailraces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of a millrace that carries water away from a water wheel.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: The part of a hydropower facility that carries water away from a turbine.
pos: noun
Translations:
stockman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-
Proto-Germanic *stikanąder.
Proto-Germanic *stukkaz
Proto-West Germanic *stokk
Old English stocc
Middle English stok
English stock
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English stockman
From stock + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: stockmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who raises or looks after livestock.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: stockkeeper, stockraiser, herder, rancher, cowboy
A Jew who purchases [such] veal might say: "The stockman is the culprit; I am not doing anything wrong. We would reply with the well-known halakhic principle: "Ein mahzikin b'yedei ovrei averah" — one may not aid and abet a transgressor.
gloss: A man who works in a stockroom.
pos: noun
Derived words: stockmanship
Translations:
souter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soutere, from Old English sūtere, from Latin sūtor (“shoemaker, cobbler”).
Inflected forms:
form: souters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shoemaker or cobbler.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
examples: There is no work better than another to please God : to pour water , to wash dishes , to be a souter (cobbler) , or an apostle
He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor, an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at.
Translations:
solander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From D. C. Solander, Swedish botanist.
Inflected forms:
form: solanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Solander
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A box, in the form of a book, used for keeping botanical specimens etc; drop-spine or clamshell box
pos: noun
examples: Among the many unmatted drawings in the solander box was a large, colorful chalk and pastel Christ Child on greenish-blue laid paper ...
Translations:
headstall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From head + stall.
Compound parts: head
stall
Inflected forms:
form: headstalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of a bridle that fits over a horse's head and supports other elements.
pos: noun
examples: Why, Petruchio is coming […] his horse hipp’d […] with a half-cheek’d bit, and a head-stall of sheep’s leather which, being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now repaired with knots […]
Another, that would seeme to have more wit, / Him by the bright embrodered hed-stall tooke […].
He turned back, slipped the bit in Dox’s mouth, and laced the big flop ears into the headstall.
Then the smith Ilmarinen / the everlasting craftsman / out of steel formed a bridle / forged a headstall [translating päitset] of iron […].
gloss: A phorbeia.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: headpiece
headcollar
Translations:
helpmate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: A folk-etymological alteration of helpmeet, by reanalysis as help + mate.
Inflected forms:
form: helpmates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who supplies help or companionship.
pos: noun
gloss: A wife or spouse.
pos: noun
examples: The host himself was one of those very quiet men whom we usually see linked to the most active helpmates.
gloss: A recreational problem in chess in which both sides cooperate to achieve a specific goal.
pos: noun
Translations:
Homburg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the town of Bad Homburg, Germany, where it was first worn.
Inflected forms:
form: Homburgs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: homburg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of men's felt fedora; a stiff felt hat similar to a trilby.
pos: noun
examples: The man was about thirty-five, very handsome, extremely well-dressed, with striped trousers, a black Homburg and a Burberry raincoat.
He was a tall lean man with a voice like a rasping crow. Impeccably dressed and hatted with a dark Homburg.
Harold Gould as Kid Twist (with a great mustache) wore the best Homburg in recent memory, and Redford always kept his fedora atilt at just the right, rakish angle.
Translations:
homeopath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From homeo- + -path, related to German Homöopath.
Base: homeo
Inflected forms:
form: homeopaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: homoeopath
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: homœopath
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who practices homeopathy.
pos: noun
Translations:
incunabula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Early printed books.
pos: noun
gloss: Collectively, the early works of a writer; juvenilia.
pos: noun
Translations:
industrialism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English industrial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English industrialism
From industrial + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: industrialisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The socioeconomic system based upon the industrial production of manufactured goods, rather than on agriculture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
non-scientific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.
Latin sciō
Latin sciēns
Latin -ia
Latin scientia
Proto-Italic *-fakos
Latin -ficus
Medieval Latin scientificusder.
Middle French scientifiquebor.
English scientific
English non-scientific
From non- + scientific.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not scientific, or lacking scientific rigor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
disadvantaged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more disadvantaged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disadvantaged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking an advantage relative to another.
pos: adj
examples: Devon's economy may be more broadly based, but like Cornwall it is still disadvantaged compared with other counties of southern England.
gloss: Poor; in financial difficulties.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
examples: And it gets better. If 10% of those 17,000 new jobs employ people from a disadvantaged background, the value rises to £8.3bn.
Derived words: academically disadvantaged
disadvantagedness
nondisadvantaged
previously disadvantaged
undisadvantaged
Translations:
coruscating
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: coruscatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more coruscating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most coruscating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of coruscation.
pos: noun
examples: There were tremblings, flashings, coruscatings of sparks which were dying as they were born.
gloss: Characterised by intellectual and rhetorical brilliance; blazing or glittering with rhetorical force.
pos: adj
gloss: Scathingly critical; blistering.
pos: adj
Translations:
horndog
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From the sexual sense of horn (late 18c. slang expression to have the horn, from which came horny) + dog (“sexually aggressive man”).
Compound parts: horn
dog
Inflected forms:
form: horndogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: horn dog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: horn-dog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person (particularly a man) who is fixated on sex.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: In addition, lest we forget, Clinton’s reputation as the world’s biggest horndog was by this time well known to all of us.
She jumped in his face and shouted, “Fuck off, horndog!” with such viciousness that he screamed and leaped back into the doorway, then meekly called “Sorry” after her as she passed.
He’s not a horndog. And he’s not gonna be anybody’s white man if he doesn’t pay attention.
“I wanted to explore the sexiness and fun of that world and show that some gay lives thrived and flourished,” says Kijak. “Let’s be frank about it: he was a horndog!”
Translations:
disconnectedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disconnected
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English disconnectedness
From disconnected + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being disconnected.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
scrag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps related to Norwegian skragg (a lean person), dialectal Swedish skragge (old and torn thing), Danish skrog (hull, carcass); perhaps related to shrink.
Inflected forms:
form: scrags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scrags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scragging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scragged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scragged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A thin or scrawny person or animal.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: In any event he might have wakened the long scrag by so doing.
gloss: The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
gloss: The neck, especially of a sheep.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A scrog.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: As they entered the foothills they came upon a dusty old diligence with six horses in the traces grazing the dry grass in a fold among the barren scrag.
gloss: A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
slang
gloss: A rough or unkempt woman.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
derogatory
slang
examples: The large guy said that he couldnt sit down the front because of an eye condition, and she said, out loud, "too bad, go down the front".
This was all heard by most of the crowd, 1 guy called her a bitch, i spoke out loud "what a scrag" which her boyfriend heard, he turned around agro like to defend her, when another guy yelled out "if you get agro about that son, ill be over there to show your girlfriend some manners", to which he promplty sat down :-), but after that she put her feet up on the seat in front of her !!
Post scrag fight, Buffy is sweetness and light in her cardy and teeny tiny handbag (plus blonde hair) contrasting with Faith who is lying in bed with her kill-me-thrill-me cutoff shorts (plus brunette hair).
Get a life, you stupid scrag.
gloss: A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
pos: noun
gloss: To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
obsolete
examples: An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out.
gloss: To harass; to manhandle.
pos: verb
examples: '...I urged him ... to ... try the Ickenham System ... a little thing I knocked together in my bachelor days ... it has a good many points in common with all-in wrestling and osteopathy. I generally recommend it to diffident wooers and it always works like magic...'
Johnny stared.
'You mean you told McMurdo to … scrag her?'
gloss: To destroy or kill.
pos: verb
examples: [...] I went out lookin' for a line of retreat for my men. A man found me. I abolished him—privatim—scragged him.
But they'll scrag you for it, you know, if you do. They scrag anyone who speaks to me.
Derived words: scrag end
scrag whale
Translations:
militancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: militancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being militant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
Remembrancer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: Remembrancers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several former officials in the Court of Exchequer.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A similar official of the City of London Corporation.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: “Thank you. Tuesday evening, in four days’ time, Daedra West hosts a gathering, the venue yet to be announced. Possibly one of the guildhalls. Her guest list, so far, is interesting.” She looked at Lev. “The Remembrancer himself may be there. Lesser faces from the City.[…]
In particular, Harkaway told him about the unelected offices of the Lord Mayor and the City Remembrancer, who can be mistaken for figureheads but, in fact, have extensive powers.
Translations:
newsworthiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English newsworthy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English newsworthiness
From newsworthy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being newsworthy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
neighborliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English neighbor
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English neighborly
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English neighborliness
From neighborly + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: neighbourliness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being neighborly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
negativeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English negative
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English negativeness
From negative + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: negativenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being negative; negativity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: positiveness
Translations:
neediness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English nedynesse; equivalent to needy + -ness.
Base: needy
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: needinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being needy.
pos: noun
examples: The kind of family neediness experienced by homemakers differed between classes.
Translations:
ragman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rag + man.
Compound parts: rag
man
Inflected forms:
form: ragmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man.
pos: noun
examples: For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.
Oh, the ragman draws circles / Up and down the block / I'd ask him what the matter was / But I know that he don't talk
Translations:
nerveless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nerve
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English nerveless
From nerve + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more nerveless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nerveless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking nerve: fearful; cowardly.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking a nervous system.
pos: adj
gloss: Devoid of nerves: calm, controlled, cool under pressure.
pos: adj
examples: Little Sea and Desire, blessed, nerveless savages, were sound asleep.
There was no distracting Rosol's ice-calm as he killed the fifth set and match. Ace, cross-court forehand winner, ace, forehand winner – a blistering eighth game took him to 5-3 and informed Nadal precisely how nerveless the Czech was.
Derived words: nervelessly
nervelessness
Translations:
nervy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nerve
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English nervy
From nerve + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: nervier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: nerviest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having nerve; bold; brazen.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: It takes a nervy man to promulgate such stuff, and Ted Nelson has made a career out of being nervy.
gloss: Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: Blackpool continue to thrive on the adrenalin rush of the end-of-season shoot-out and are heading for a second Wembley date in two years after negotiating a nervy path past Birmingham.
She has been asked on a date to see The Barber of Seville in the company of society’s wealthiest and most eligible bachelor, the Hon Jeremy Malcolm (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù) who is bored by her nervy and untutored chatter.
gloss: Strong; sinewy.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: And, for those simple times, his garments were / A chieftain-king's: beneath his breast, half bare, / Was hung a silver bugle, and between / His nervy knees there lay a boar-spear keen […]
gloss: Jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.
pos: adj
Related words: nervous
Derived words: nervily
nerviness
Translations:
neglectful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From neglect + -ful.
Base: neglect
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more neglectful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most neglectful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: neglectfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Tending to neglect; failing to take care of matters which require attention; forgetful.
pos: adj
examples: Neglectful of her fine voice, she was obviously attending more to her companions than to her own singing;...
The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know, where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began.
2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 243a-b,
That they were too neglectful of ordinary people like us and overlooked us.
Translations:
need-based
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Inflected forms:
form: more need-based
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most need-based
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Derived from need rather than earned by merit, regarding financial or other assistance.
pos: adj
Translations:
habitus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
zoology
Etymology: From Latin habitus (“habit”), from habeō (“have; maintain”). The plural habiti is a misconstruction, as the Latin plural is in fact habitūs. habiti may have been influenced by Latin habitī, the plural of the participle habitus; however, it is not the etymon of the English term.
Inflected forms:
form: habiti
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: habitus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: habituses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Habitude; mode of life; bearing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: General appearance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [M]any species having eschariform zoaria in quiet water are able to assume the membraniporiform habitus in strongly agitated water.
gloss: habit
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: the general shape and appearance of the body, usually with reference to weight, adipose distribution, posture, and gait; most often called by the collocation body habitus.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The lifestyle, values, dispositions and expectations of particular social groups that are acquired through the activities and experiences of everyday life.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A wrestler could gain the rank of ōzeki based on his competitive achievements, but the promotion to yokozuna implied the presence of a certain habitus than embodied the quintessential traditional Japaneseness.
gloss: The liturgical clothing of monks, nuns and the clerical community, metaphorically referring to the religious mode of life.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: cleft habitus
Translations:
nosed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having some specific type of nose.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Translations:
nosing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nosings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An animal's pushing or exploration with the nose.
pos: noun
examples: The hours of the day often follow such a beginning like a wagging tail follows through the nosings and affections and fireside dreamings of a happy dog.
gloss: That part of the treadboard of a stair that projects over the riser.
pos: noun
gloss: Any similar projection, such as the projecting edge of a moulding.
pos: noun
Translations:
edgeware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: From edge + -ware (“software”).
Base: edge
Affixes: -ware
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Computer software that is noticeably cutting-edge, that is, significantly innovative.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Oldsmobile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: Named after Ransom E. Olds, who founded a motor company in 1897. His early companies' names included his surname, and the automobiles were first marketed as Olds automobiles. That collocation was quickly blended informally by the public to produce Oldsmobile, which was soon also used by the company itself. The poker senses of the word refer to the Oldsmobile 98.
Inflected forms:
form: Oldsmobiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A car of this brand.
pos: noun
examples: She was a family friend. I remember riding in her car as a child. It was an Oldsmobile and seemed a bit plush and expensive compared with our car.
He has a classic Oldsmobile in his garage. It's one of those ones with a huge V-8.
"Come on," Jason says, getting out of his Oldsmobile. "You don't want to waste any time."
gloss: A lowball hand with a nine and an eight as the two highest cards
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Two pair nines and eights
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A nine and an eight as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
savaging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: savagings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vicious attack or criticism.
pos: noun
examples: savagings in the newspapers
gloss: Aggressive behavior, by a mother animal toward her offspring
pos: noun
Translations:
Rickey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Rickeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cocktail made with lime (citrus fruit) and carbonated water.
pos: noun
examples: Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice.
Translations:
prebend
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French prebende, from Medieval Latin prebenda, from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus, verbal adjective of praebere. Doublet of provender.
Inflected forms:
form: prebends
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prebends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prebending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prebent
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prebent
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The property or other source of this endowment.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: He is said to have added prebends to Southwell; it is more probable that he gave estates to the church which were afterwards made into separate prebends.
gloss: Political patronage employment.
pos: noun
gloss: A prebendary.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby
a lease of the prebend of Withington
gloss: To bend in advance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For large and/or dense bones compression plate fixation achieves absolute stability but the fragments have to be in contact remote to the plate by prebending the plate.
Related words: prebendalism
prebendary
Derived words: prebendal
prebendship
Translations:
postulant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From French postulant, present participle of postuler.
Inflected forms:
form: postulants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person seeking admission to a religious order.
pos: noun
examples: After their six-month postulancies are over and they have mastered all the chants and books of monastic regulations, the postulants are finally ready to ordain as novice monks […]
gloss: A person who submits a petition for something; a petitioner.
pos: noun
examples: But when the three postulants returned with Sabine it was clear that the results had been far from satisfactory, perhaps because of the massive potations of the old lady.
Translations:
overmantel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English mantel
English overmantel
From over- + mantel.
Inflected forms:
form: overmantels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A decorative structure, usually plasterwork or carved wood, and sometimes containing a mirror, over a mantelpiece.
pos: noun
examples: Ushered into the small front room, Podson found himself restored to a habitable world. A tightly stuffed couch, chintz-covered armchairs, an overmantel mirror with swans painted on it, flowers in various vases, photos in metal frames.
She strode to the fireplace and examined a lidded crystal vase on the overmantel.
Translations:
interferon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From interfere + -on (suffix: chemical compound), from its role interfering with viral replication.
Base: interfere
Affixes: -on
Inflected forms:
form: interferons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of glycoproteins, produced by the immune system, that prevent viral replication in infected cells.
pos: noun
Translations:
isobutane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From iso- + butane. From being an isomer of butane, different from n-butane (“'normal' butane”).
Base: butane
Affixes: iso-
Inflected forms:
form: isobutanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hydrocarbon, a particular isomer of C₄H₁₀ found in natural gas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
malleolus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin malleolus (“a small hammer or mallet”); itself from malleus (“a hammer, mallet”) + -olus (“diminutive suffix”).
Base: malleus
Affixes: -olus
Inflected forms:
form: malleoli
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: malleoluses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The bony prominence with a shape likened to a hammerhead, especially each of those at the distal end of the fibula or tibia, on either side of the ankle joint.
pos: noun
Translations:
cupule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cup
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, *-dʰlom
Latin -ulader.
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulusder.
▲
Latin -ulader.
▲
Proto-Indo-European *-tlomder.
Latin -ulumder.
French -uleder.
English -ule
English cupule
From cup + -ule.
Inflected forms:
form: cupules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any small structure shaped like a cup, such as at the base of an acorn, or the sucker on the feet of some flies.
pos: noun
examples: Then they extract a three-angled beechnut from its cupule, weigh it, and push it into the loam.
Translations:
kush
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ellipsis of Hindu Kush, the place of origin.
Inflected forms:
form: Kush
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cush
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Marijuana, especially Cannabis indica (a variety of marijuana originating in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, strains of which often have high THC content).
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Baby, who you callin' soft / Don't make me smoke up all your kush / Don't make me pop your cheap ass pills
Smoking on that kush all in our section / Like it's legalized
Later in the day, Siyad is heard on a wiretap telling another man that he received “1.5 of kush” (slang for marijuana) from “Rob Ford’s driver.” Later Siyad tells another person, a woman, that what he received was actually “Rob Ford’s kush.”
gloss: A synthetic cannabinoid-like recreational drug prevalent in Sierra Leone.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
factfinder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: law
Etymology: From fact + finder.
Compound parts: fact
finder
Inflected forms:
form: factfinders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a legal proceeding, the person or persons given the task of weighing all evidence presented and determining the facts of the case in light of that evidence; the jury, or where there is no jury, the judge.
pos: noun
gloss: One who finds facts.
pos: noun
Related words: finder of fact
trier of fact
Translations:
coring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: corings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The production of a core by means of drilling
pos: noun
Translations:
bouffe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bouffes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bouffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bouffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bouffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make bouffant.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I thought about bouffing my hair again.
Translations:
mischievousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mischievous
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English mischievousness
From mischievous + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: mischievousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being mischievous; the tendency to make mischief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Up to the recent accident, which is attributed to the mischievousness of someone in releasing safety devices on the wagon, the railway has enjoyed an accident-free record.
Translations:
mydriasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin mydriasis, from Ancient Greek μυδρίᾱσις (mudríāsis, “undue enlargement of the pupil”), from μύδρος (múdros, “mass of red hot material in a forge”), possibly because the pupil is particularly bright or sparkling when dilated, or because of the red eye effect when exposed to a flash of light.
Inflected forms:
form: mydriases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of having abnormally large and dilated pupils due to illness or narcotics, particularly stimulants such as methamphetamine, cocaine, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: miosis
Translations:
pinnule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Latin pinnula.
Inflected forms:
form: pinnules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the ultimate leaflets of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf; a subleaflet.
pos: noun
gloss: A part or an organ which resembles the barb of a feather, particularly the side branches on the stalks of crinoids; Any of the lateral divisions of the finger-like stalks of an encrinite.
pos: noun
Synonyms: pinnula
Derived words: pinnulate
Translations:
dourly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dour
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English dourly
From dour + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more dourly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dourly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a dour manner.
pos: adv
examples: The housekeeper looked up over the top of her reading glasses a trifle dourly.
Translations:
trenching
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trenchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more trenching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trenching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The excavation of a trench.
pos: noun
gloss: trenchant
pos: adj
Translations:
trenched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more trenched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trenched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
unenforceable
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-
English enforce
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 enforceable
English unenforceable
From un- + enforceable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unenforceable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unenforceable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unenforcible
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to be enforced.
pos: adj
examples: A California law that ensures many gig workers are considered independent contractors, while affording them some limited benefits, is unconstitutional and unenforceable, a California Superior Court judge ruled Friday evening.
Translations:
irresolvable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English ir-
English resolve
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 resolvable
English irresolvable
From ir- + resolvable.
Inflected forms:
form: more irresolvable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irresolvable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: irresolvables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Impossible to resolve; insoluble.
pos: adj
gloss: Impossible to separate into its component parts.
pos: adj
gloss: A problem that cannot be resolved.
pos: noun
Antonyms: resolvable
Derived words: irresolvability
irresolvableness
irresolvably
Translations:
Quasimodo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From the opening of the introit of the day’s Tridentine Mass in Ecclesiastical Latin: quasi modo genitī īnfāntēs (“as newborn babes …”).
Inflected forms:
form: Quasimodos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The first Sunday after Easter Sunday.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: Easter Week < Eastertide < Octave of Easter < Eastertime < calendar
Translations:
multilateralism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English multilateral
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English multilateralism
From multilateral + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: multilateralisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unbiased trade between nations, in contrast to bilateralism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A system by which nations consult others in matters of foreign policy, by way of organisations such as the United Nations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, a lifelong opponent of multilateralism and its institutions, had pushed for a hardline position, particularly on the role of the IMF.
Derived words: minilateralism
Translations:
Kele
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Bantu ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
arsenite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: arsenites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any oxyanion of trivalent arsenic, especially the AsO₃³⁻ anion (or protonated derivatives); any salt containing this anion, or any ester of arsenious acid
pos: noun
Translations:
banya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian ба́ня f (bánja). Doublet of bagnio, bain, and balaneion.
Inflected forms:
form: banyas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of steam bath, popular in Russia (and in some parts of Alaska as well).
pos: noun
examples: The Russian public steam bath (banya) is a cultural hybrid which borrows freely from the Finnish sauna and the Turkish political detention centre.
Translations:
machine-gun
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: machine-guns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: machine-gunning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: machine-gunned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: machine-gunned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fire a machine gun.
pos: verb
gloss: To shoot (people, etc.) with a machine gun.
pos: verb
examples: During a time when the New Right is becoming increasingly powerful, when gay people are machine-gunned down in the streets, lesbians and gay men are recognizing the necessity of helping each other out.
gloss: To shoot (something) out of or as if out of a machine gun.
pos: verb
examples: The opportunity for examining this historical phenomenon was lost on the producers of Making Sense of the Sixties, as images of rock festivals and tragedies were machine-gunned at the viewer, presumably to recreate a sense of the general confusion (as opposed to the cultural excitement) of the period.
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: metrallar
lang: Portuguese
word: metralhar
made-to-measure
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Designed and made to individual specifications. (usually of men's clothing)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
made-to-order
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare bespoke, as similar derivation of “made to request” from “speech, command”.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Made for a specific individual, but not always to individual specifications.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: also: Thesaurus:custom-made
ready-made
Translations:
mailbag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mail + bag.
Compound parts: mail
bag
Inflected forms:
form: mailbags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mail bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A strong canvas bag used for the transportation of mail.
pos: noun
examples: The communicating doors of adjoining vehicles are opened simultaneously by pressing a large push-button located a suitable height for a man loaded with mailbags to contact it with his shoulder; after a time-lag of seven seconds the doors close automatically.
gloss: A smaller bag, slung from the shoulder, used by a mail carrier during the delivery of mail.
pos: noun
gloss: The correspondence received by a publishing entity such as a magazine or website.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: In our mailbag this month, we've got no less than 12 letters from those of you who think that Jones should not have been benched.
Related words: mail carrier
mailman
mailwoman
Translations:
mail-order
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mail-orders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mail-ordering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mail-ordered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mail-ordered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To buy or sell goods to be delivered by mail.
pos: verb
examples: If you want to buy one of the albums reviewed in my article, or any women's music recording, it's not necessary to mail order them unless you can't get to a store. Thanks to Merle and other local distributors around the country, many stores carry women's music.
Translations:
mailorder
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Ordered to be delivered to one's home
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
make-do
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English make dodeverb.
English make-do
Deverbal from make do.
Inflected forms:
form: more make-do
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most make-do
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: make-dos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: improvised, makeshift
pos: adj
gloss: A temporary or makeshift expedient.
pos: noun
examples: Even the play-acting of destructive power is only a run-through, or make-do, for the real thing, a way of familiarizing the participants to these roles when the real thing comes along.
Translations:
curated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Produced by curatorial process; reviewed by a curator.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Literature-based knowledge vendors often claim to lease various products, including algorithmically extracted facts, and human-curated literature references.
Translations:
rightness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English rightnesse, riȝtnesse, rihtnesse, from Old English rihtnes, rehtnis, from Proto-West Germanic *rehtanassī (“rightness, justice”), equivalent to right + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian rjochtens (“rightness”), Middle Dutch rechtenesse (“rightness, justification”), Old High German rehtnissa (“justice”).
Base: right
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: rightnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being right; correctness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The result or product of being right; something correct.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: The property of being on, or moving toward, the right.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I think we are inclined to think the leftness and rightness can be represented because there is a word in our language that means left, and another that means right, and we understand those words.
Translations:
dinkum
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Earliest recorded use in the phrase fair dinkum in 1879, from Australia. Also recorded (slightly later) from Derbyshire and Lincolnshire dialect. Perhaps related to Gloucestershire dialect ding (“to work hard”).
Inflected forms:
form: more dinkum
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dinkum
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Genuine, true, honest, on the level.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
examples: Hon. Sir Ross McLarty: We were always dinkum.
Mr. MAY: The ultimate result showed how dinkum the hon. member was.
The dinkum Aussie everyone talks about, almost always with a certain unreal sentimentality, is clearly a worker.
Larry's jeep was behind mine, and as I went past an intersection, I saw a lot of their chaps around a dinkum super Mark VI tank — p'raps a Mark VII or VIII. I didn't have a chance for a proper dinkum look-see, what?
He explained that he was due to have a game of hazards that night with a couple of Italian prospectors and that he was doctoring the dice so that they would do just what he wanted them to do.
‘Tim, is this game dinkum?’ asked Ted.
Highly indignant that such a suspicion should arise, he replied angrily:
‘Of course it's dinkum. They'll have loaded dice too!’
Translations: