yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
self-knowledge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English knowledge
English self-knowledge
From self- + knowledge.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Knowledge or insight into one's own character, abilities, feelings, or motivations; self-understanding.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A girl's love is half poetry, an unconscious preference till startled into self-knowledge. Isabella had been grateful for Mr. Glentworth's kindness—struck with his cultivated mind, and impressed with his distinguished appearance; so were all her sisters; but she alone was timid in expressing that admiration; in her alone had they inspired that feeling, which, shy, vague, and tender, is love.
Translations:
self-pitying
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English pitying
English self-pitying
From self- + pitying.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-pitying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-pitying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pitying oneself; marked by self-pity.
pos: adj
examples: Yet The Smiths' hopelessness has also turned listeners off. Their music seems at times too self-indulgent and self-pitying to be taken seriously.
Translations:
self-preservation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English preservation
English self-preservation
From self- + preservation.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The instinctive behavior that protects oneself from harm.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I'm gonna love me, for the rest of my days / Encourage the babies every time they say / Self-preservation is what's really going on today
I'm here to tell you want to do. And if self-preservation is an instinct you possess, you better fuckin' do it and do it quick.
Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
Translations:
self-protection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Late Latin pro-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-der.
Proto-Italic *tegō
Late Latin tegō
Late Latin prōtegō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Late Latin -tiō
Late Latin prōtēctiōder.
Old Frenchbor.
Middle English
English protection
English self-protection
From self- + protection.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of self-defense.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-realization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís
Proto-Italic *reis
Latin rēs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin reālisder.
Old French reel
French real
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izārebor.
Old French -iser
French -iser
French réaliser
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ation
Middle French -ation
French -ation
French réalisation
English realization
English self-realization
From self- + realization.
Inflected forms:
form: self-realizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fulfillment of one's own abilities or capacities; self-actualization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We must, as a movement, address the needs of our Gay/Lesbian youth whose experience of puberty, instead of providing a joyous self-realization and affirmational discovery, plunges them into a snake pit of self-loathing.
gloss: The direct experience of being, in relation to one's inner nature as an unbounded creator of one's reality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A realization about oneself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1934, comment by Abdullah Yusuf Ali on Sura 38 verse 24 of the Qur'an
Judged by the highest standard of those nearest to God, the thought of self-pride and self-righteousness had to be washed off from him [King David] by his own act of self-realisation and repentance.
Translations:
self-regulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English regulation
English self-regulation
From self- + regulation.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The regulation by a person of their own behaviour without external control, governance, or monitoring.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: willpower
gloss: The regulation by an organization of its own operation without external control, governance, or monitoring.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: self-governance; autonomy
gloss: The regulation by a device or machine of its own operation without external control, governance, or monitoring.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: automation
Translations:
self-regulatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English regulatory
English self-regulatory
From self- + regulatory.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That regulates without external control or monitoring.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One of the primary ways autistic people use stimming is as a self-regulatory mechanism and adaptive response to inaccessible sensory landscapes.
Translations:
self-seeker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English seeker
English self-seeker
From self- + seeker.
Inflected forms:
form: self-seekers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: selfseeker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A self-seeking person.
pos: noun
examples: 'They are all self-seekers - every one.'
Translations:
self-seeking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English seeking
English self-seeking
From self- + seeking.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-seeking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-seeking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Mindful of, or promoting, only one's own interests.
pos: adj
gloss: That searches for a target automatically.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The selfish promotion of one's own interests.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-starting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English starting
English self-starting
From self- + starting.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That starts by itself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Energetic and resourceful.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: self-starter
Translations:
self-support
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English support
English self-support
From self- + support.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The capacity of independent support; self-sufficiency.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The act or means of supporting oneself financially; livelihood
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The self-sale of a destitute person for self-support or support of family.
Translations:
self-supporting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English supporting
English self-supporting
From self- + supporting.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-supporting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-supporting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by self-support.
pos: adj
examples: With a self-supporting body and without separate underframe, this design offers scope for improved sound insulation; […].
Now that's really very kind and generous of you; very thoughtful indeed, Mr. Dixson. Yes, we have a variety of useful organisations in the parish, and most of them, as you tactfully suggest, are not by any means self-supporting.
Translations:
self-will
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English self-wil, self-wille, from Old English sylfwill, selfwill, selfwille (“self-will”), from Proto-West Germanic *selbawilljō, from Proto-Germanic *selbawiljô (“self-will”), equivalent to self- + will. Cognate with Old High German selbwillo, selpwillo, Old Norse sjalfvili.
Base: will
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being willful and ignoring opposition.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This Marian principle indicates that women ought to divest themselves of self-will in order to be obedient to the word of God as articulated by male spokesmen.
Translations:
silvered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more silvered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most silvered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Coated with silver, made reflective or shiny by application of metal.
pos: adj
gloss: Hoary with age; silver-haired.
pos: adj
examples: Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible dollmaker, and since his recent fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticized) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age.
Derived words: half-silvered mirror
nonsilvered
unsilvered
Translations:
leans
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A dangerous sensory illusion where the pilot of an aircraft believes themselves to be in a bank when they are actually wings-level, or vice-versa, often resulting in spatial disorientation and loss of control of the aircraft.
pos: noun
examples: If you don't use your flight instruments when flying in cloud, you can easily get the leans and enter a fatal graveyard spiral.
Translations:
nosiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nosy
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 nosiness
From nosy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: nosinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being nosy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
newspaperman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From newspaper + -man. Compare paperboy.
Base: newspaper
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: newspapermen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
neutralization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French neutralisation. By surface analysis, neutral + -ization or neutralize + -ation.
Base: neutralize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: neutralizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neutralisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of neutralizing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tricorder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: The name of such a device in Star Trek, from tri- (referring to its three input keys, which by default cover geological, meteorological, and biological functions) + (re)corder
Inflected forms:
form: tricorders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fictional futuristic handheld device used for scanning, which may be specialized for medical, technical, or other purposes.
pos: noun
examples: PLEASE TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES AND TRICORDERS
gloss: A real-world advanced handheld medical scanner.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
sultani
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sultanis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An infrequently minted coin and former currency unit in Ottoman Tunisia, at one point worth 80 nasris.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
animalistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English animal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -istic
English animalistic
From animal + -istic.
Inflected forms:
form: more animalistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most animalistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of and/or resembling an animal.
pos: adj
gloss: In the behaviour of an animal savage; untamed.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to animalism.
pos: adj
Derived words: animalistically
Translations:
garibaldi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The jacket is named after Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi, who wore a red shirt of similar appearance. The biscuit is also named after Garibaldi.
Inflected forms:
form: garibaldis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a biscuit consisting of currants squashed between layers of flaky pastry.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A bright yellow/orange damselfish, of the genus Hypsypops, from the seas of southern California.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of jacket worn by women.
pos: noun
Translations:
desorption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: desorptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process in which atomic or molecular species leave the surface of a solid and escape into the surroundings; the reverse of absorption or adsorption.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
wharfage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną
Proto-West Germanic *hwerban
Old English hweorfan
Middle English wharf
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
Middle English wharfage
English wharfage
From Middle English wharfage; equivalent to wharf + -age.
Base: wharf
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: wharfages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dock, quay, or pier.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Wharfs collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is pleasant to swim well out into the stream of the river, and, with one’s chin on a level with the wide stretch of water, take in a “trout’s-eye view” of the little town, ascending in tiers of wharfage, trees, grey ramparts, more trees, and clustered roofs, with the old cathedral of the Trinity poised guardian-like above the crumbling walls of the Kremlin.
It was also pointed out wharfage and factory sites with river and canal frontage were adjoining.
gloss: A fee charged for using a wharf.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If the owner of goods deposited at a wharf sells them, and gives notice to the wharfinger of such sale, on tendering the wharfage then due, he is discharged from liability for future wharfage.
the wharfage or shorage rates are 10 cents per cord of wood, 10 cents per thousand feet of lumber, and 1 cent per tie, and these rates do not include handling
Related words: marina
Derived words: wharfinger
Translations:
super-note
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English note
English super-note
From super- + note.
Inflected forms:
form: super-notes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bill of high-quality forged US currency.
pos: noun
Translations:
half-cocked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not fully cocked.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not fully prepared.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: go off half-cocked
Translations:
half-hour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From half- + hour.
Base: hour
Affixes: half-
Inflected forms:
form: half-hours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: half hour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: halfhour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
pos: noun
gloss: The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour.
pos: noun
examples: The great clock of the castle sounded the half-hour—he had another half-hour to wait, ere the approach of Count Deckendorff; […]
India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.
Derived words: half-hourlong
half-hourly
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: puoli
lang: Portuguese
word: meia hora
lang: Swedish
word: halv
half-price
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English half-
English price
English half-price
From half- + price.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: For sale at half the normal price.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: For sale at half the normal price.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: West Midlands residents who have just found a new job can get two months' free rail, bus and tram travel to work, plus half-price tickets for a further four weeks, under a new Workwise scheme.
Translations:
half-witted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English half-
English witted
English half-witted
From half- + witted.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having low intelligence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "These girls were a little queer, to be sure, almost half-witted, but that came from their having seen fairies," he added, with an indignant look at the squire.
Translations:
handhold
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hand + hold.
Compound parts: hand
hold
Inflected forms:
form: handholds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A projection that one may hold onto for support, e.g. in mountain climbing.
pos: noun
examples: An on-board cleaner passes through, disinfecting every grabrail and handhold as they pass.
gloss: An act of holding hands.
pos: noun
examples: Miley [Cyrus] and Maxx [Morando] are photographed together at a Gucci event, and this hand-hold makes it pretty clear they're a couple: [an image of Miley Cyrus and Maxx Morando holding hands]
gloss: The manner in which dancers hold each other's hands during a dance.
pos: noun
Derived words: handholdless
Translations:
shackled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Restrained by shackles, chained.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
spello
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spell + -o, modeled on typo.
Base: spell
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: spellos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A homophonic spelling mistake.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: He also wondered why I couldn't spell properly - I had to explain the difference between a typo and a spello.
It was a typo, not a spello.
Anyway, I'm afraid I would decide to call "sited" in the thesis an error; not a typo or a thinko, but a spello.
Translations:
Pixie-bob
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Pixie-bobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pixie-Bob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A domestic cat of a breed developed to resemble the North American bobcat.
pos: noun
Translations:
Singapura
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Derived from Malay Singapura, from Sanskrit सिंहपुर (siṃhá-pura), from सिंह (siṃha, “lion”) + पुर (pura, “city”).
Compound parts: सिंह
पुर
Inflected forms:
form: Singapuras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A domestic cat of a small breed with large eyes and ears, brown ticked coat and blunt tail.
pos: noun
Translations:
Skookum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Skookums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A domestic cat of a small, short-legged breed.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of Native American-themed souvenir doll once common in tourist areas.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
Translations:
Snowshoe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From snowshoe.
Inflected forms:
form: Snowshoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A domestic cat of a particular breed with a light body and darker ears, face, legs, and tail.
pos: noun
Translations:
Sphynx
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Sphynx
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sphynxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sphynx
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A domestic cat of a breed with little or no hair, a narrow long head, and webbed feet.
pos: noun
examples: Sphynx cats are often called hairless cats. But Sphynx do have hair. Very short, fine hairs called down cover the Sphynx’s body.
Translations:
shoemaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *skōhaz
Proto-West Germanic *skōh
Old English sċōh
Middle English scho
English shoe
English making
English shoemaking
From shoe + making.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The making of shoes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
monospace
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mender.
Proto-Hellenic *mónwos
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
Latin spatiumbor.
Old French espace
Anglo-Norman spacebor.
Middle English space
English space
English monospace
From mono- + space.
Inflected forms:
form: monospaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: monospacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: monospaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: monospaced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of a typeface, having characters with uniform width.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To type, typeset, or design text using a typeface that has the same width for each character.
pos: verb
Antonyms: proportional
Translations:
nilgai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Hindi नीलगाय (nīlgāy, “nilgai”), from नीला (nīlā, “blue”) + गाय (gāy, “cow”).
Compound parts: नीला
गाय
Inflected forms:
form: nilgais
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nilgai
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nilghai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nilghau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nilgau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nylghau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nylgau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: neelghau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: neelgye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large antelope, of species Boselaphus tragocamelus, of India; blue bull.
pos: noun
Translations:
hand-to-hand
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Close together, within arm's reach.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
gloss: Especially, describing fighting (armed or unarmed) done within reach rather than at range.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: soldiers trained in hand-to-hand combat
Hemingway's subject for the epilogue was the mano a mano (or hand-to-hand, a duel) between Spain's two leading matadors, Luis Miguel Dominguin and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordonez.
Translations:
surfaced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a (particular kind of) surface.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: The master plan for the site includes 3.3km of new surfaced and unsurfaced walking routes, more than 1km of new bridleways and cantering routes, and retention of the 2.3km Old Shire Lane bridleway.
Translations:
surfacing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: surfacings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Material used to make a surface.
pos: noun
examples: asphalt road surfacings
gloss: The act of coming above the surface.
pos: noun
examples: The researchers measured the number of surfacings per minute by each dolphin.
I practice nightly, I try to keep ahead. / This art of surfacing is all but dead.
Translations:
mutism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French mutisme, from Latin mutus (“mute”), equivalent to mute + -ism.
Base: mute
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: mutisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The inability to speak, be it from psychological or physical cause.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
heli-ski
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: heli-skis
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: heli-skiing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: heli-skied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: heli-skied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: heliski
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To ski down a mountain or glacier that has been reached by helicopter rather than a normal ski lift.
pos: verb
examples: I've guided heli-ski trips where we've been dropped on top of beautiful, untouched, 30-degree slopes.
Translations:
hard-hitting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hard-hitting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: harder-hitting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hard-hitting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hardest-hitting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Aggressively vigorous or forceful.
pos: adj
examples: A packed schedule of 13 different inquiries ranged from parking on pavements to filling potholes, plus a hard-hitting examination of the Government's proposed Airports National Policy Statement and its recommendation to grant approval for a third runway to be built at Heathrow.
I found a Chugging Mask in the demo, which increased my health stat every time I drank a healing potion on full health, and then focused on piling on armour so I could wade through smaller encounters unscathed, and chug my way into tankhood so I could survive harder-hitting foes.
The hardest-hitting message of the weekend comes not from Huff but from guest speaker Charlotte Gambill, a UK-based traveling preacher who frequently speaks at women’s gatherings.
Translations:
heartbreaking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From heart + breaking.
Compound parts: heart
breaking
Inflected forms:
form: more heartbreaking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heartbreaking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: heart-breaking
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: heartbreakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heart-breaking
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That causes great grief, anguish or distress.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: heartrending, heartwrenching
Things went well with the clearing on Friday, but by Saturday, February 3, a 70 m.p.h. blizzard set in, and against such heartbreaking conditions, although an effort was made with the plough to keep open the sections cleared on the previous day, ground was gradually lost, [...].
But even with these caveats, it remains a stunning and heartbreaking piece of cinema that strikes a particular chord with LGBTQ+ viewers.
gloss: The breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.
pos: noun
examples: One could argue that Eliot's "great heartbreakings" were the overt physical signs of the inner psychological transformations achieved through brainwashing, cultural attack, and epidemic mortality.
Translations:
heartrending
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From heart + rending.
Compound parts: heart
rending
Inflected forms:
form: more heartrending
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heartrending
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: heart-rending
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That causes great grief, anguish or distress.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: heartbreaking, heartwrenching
[T]he old man, who appeared to be an ardent fisherman, told me of the large trout he caught in the neighbourhood thirty years ago, when he came here from Gudbrandsdale, and made the most heartrending complaints of the decrease of fish and increase of saw-dust, just as Sir Humphry Davy makes in his Salmonia.
It wavered an instant—then there was a heartrending crash—and the canary-coloured cart, their pride and their joy, lay on its side in the ditch, an irredeemable wreck.
gloss: That elicits deep sympathy.
pos: adj
examples: I am suddenly assaulted by the most heartrending puppy-dog eyes I've ever seen as Emi pouts.
Oh, Marilla, it was heartrending. Mr. Phillips made such a beautiful farewell speech beginning, ‘The time has come for us to part.’ It was very affecting. And he had tears in his eyes too, Marilla.
These walls, under close examination, reveal messages carved in desperation by long ago victims. “If I must die, I beg it be done quickly,” reads one heartrending scrawl, signed by a man known only as Anthony.
Synonyms: soulrending
Derived words: heartrendingly
Translations:
epenthetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπενθετικός (epenthetikós, “inserted”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to epenthesis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: “I’ve added a little vowel between the t and the r,” Baron says. “It elongates the word, it adds an extra syllable to the word, it emphasizes the word. There’s a name for this: epenthetic vowel.”
gloss: Inserted into a word.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: epenthesis
Derived words: epenthetical
epenthetically
Translations:
execution-style
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Resembling an execution; with the victim aware, but unable to defend themselves or resist.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
gloss: In a manner resembling that of an execution.
pos: adv
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
Translations:
click-through
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: advertising
business
marketing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English click throughdeverb.
English click-through
Deverbal from click through.
Inflected forms:
form: click-throughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clickthrough
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: click-thru
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: clickthru
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or an instance of clicking through from one webpage to another.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
uncountable
gloss: An online advertising performance metric representing an individual responding to an ad by clicking on it.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
especially
uncountable
Translations:
dentary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French dentaire.
Inflected forms:
form: dentaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or bearing, teeth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The dentary bone.
pos: noun
Translations:
heavy-duty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: heavier-duty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: heaviest-duty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Designed to withstand hard usage without breaking; hard-wearing.
pos: adj
examples: The cars are constructed to the normal B.R. standard coach specifications and mounted on heavy-duty B.R.2 type bogies with B.T.R. rubber vibro-insulators on the bearing springs.
gloss: Very serious, intense, or demanding.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Stewart has 18 years of programming experience, and he's one of only a handful of people at the St. Petersburg computer consulting company who can handle such heavy-duty programming. Such skills can earn a programmer of Stewart's caliber about $70,000 a year.
Summit still has to ... summit some final steps before it can start crunching heavy-duty science.
No matter how great a football prospect is, they’re often only gradually exposed to the rigors of heavy-duty competition.
Related words: heavy duty
industrial-strength
Derived words: heavy-duty vehicle
Translations:
hemmer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *himaz
Old English heom
Middle English hem
English hem
English -er
English hemmer
From hem + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: hemmers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, hems.
pos: noun
gloss: A device, attached to a sewing machine, that turns over the edge of a fabric before stitching it down.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool for turning over the edge of sheet metal to make a hem.
pos: noun
Translations:
cityscape
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English city
English landscapebf.
English -scape
English cityscape
From city + -scape.
Inflected forms:
form: cityscapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The view of the buildings of a city, usually referring to a pictured landscape.
pos: noun
Translations:
coaling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: coalings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The supplying of a ship or steam locomotive with coal.
pos: noun
examples: Apart from brief intervals for watering and coaling, No. 2395 is continuously in steam each week from 4 a.m. on Monday until 3 a.m. on the following Sunday.
Translations:
word-wheeling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A method of database searching that produces an instantly refreshed list of results as the user enters each character of the term.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Sherpa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tibetan ཤར་པ། (shar pa, literally “eastern people”), from ཤར (shar, “east”) + པ (pa, nominalizing suffix). The reason for this derivation is unclear, but a common explanation notes that the Sherpas originated in eastern Tibet. The community is based in the Nepalese highlands, however, which is south of Tibet.
Inflected forms:
form: Sherpas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sherpa
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a particular Himalayan ethnic group living in Nepal and Tibet, known especially as mountaineers.
pos: noun
gloss: A high-ranking government official who works tirelessly in the background to conclude the text of an official communiqué, typically from a G7 or G20 summit.
pos: noun
examples: Sherpas from the European Union and 19 countries worked through the week to salvage a meaningful joint statement, culminating in an all-night session on Friday.
Translations:
sherpa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sherpa. The verb derives from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: sherpas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A local mountain guide or porter, particularly a male of the Nepalese Sherpa people so employed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Climbers have warned of overcrowding on K2 — the world’s second highest mountain and one of its deadliest — after a sherpa took video of queues snaking towards the summit.
gloss: An expert accompanying a high-ranking leader to a summit meeting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A synthetic fabric with a long, thick pile, similar to faux fur, imitation lamb wool, or fleece.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: advance person
emissary
Translations:
lumia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lumias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A certain pear-shaped citrus fruit.
pos: noun
Translations:
biopharmaceutical
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English pharmaceutical
English biopharmaceutical
From bio- + pharmaceutical.
Inflected forms:
form: biopharmaceuticals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more biopharmaceutical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most biopharmaceutical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any drug produced using biotechnology.
pos: noun
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
biopharmaceutics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English pharmaceutics
English biopharmaceutics
From bio- + pharmaceutics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of the chemical and physical properties of drugs, and the relationship between these, dosage, and activity
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
gabelle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French gabellebor.
English gabelle
Borrowed from French gabelle.
Inflected forms:
form: gabelles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
pos: noun
examples: The proceeds of the gabelle on retail wine were pledged directly to repayment of the forced loans imposed during Baumgarten and Sterz's raid in 1364.
Salt, for example, was a state monopoly, and the tax on it – the much-detested gabelle – was levied at six different levels in the various regions […]
Translations:
Tans
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The Black and Tans, a British irregular army group operating against Irish republicans in the War of Independence 1920/21.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
plural
plural-only
examples: Intuitively, on Bloody Sunday, the Tans recognized where their trouble lay: the Irish were playing their own game once again.
Close quarter fighting did not suit them. It does not suit the Essex or the Tans.
The Dawn contains two problems for its male protagonists: namely, Ireland's fight against the British forces, the RIC, and the Tans, and the patriotic commitment of the Malone family's sons.
Translations:
reproaching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: reproachings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of showing reproach.
pos: noun
examples: Secondly, the churches themselves may be separated from, who tolerate their members in such causeless reproachings.
Translations:
decapod
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from French décapode. By surface analysis, deca- + -pod.
Inflected forms:
form: decapods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having ten legs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any of various animals having ten legs or similar appendages, especially mollusks such as squid and cuttlefish.
pos: noun
gloss: Any crustacean of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters.
pos: noun
gloss: A nickname for either the 0-10-0 or 2-10-0 train configurations.
pos: noun
examples: Naturally, odd pairs of engines and solitary examples lend themselves admirably to nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service.
Derived words: decapodal
decapodan
decapodid
Decapod iridescent virus 1
decapodous
Translations:
ringed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Marked with rings, circles, or loops.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Wearing a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
literary
not-comparable
examples: I was born of a true man and a ring'd wife, and I can't argue upon it; but I and my old woman 'ud burn upon it, that would we.
Derived words: blue-ringed octopus
eye-ringed flatbill
gold-ringed cat snake
little ringed plover
locally ringed space
nose-ringed
ringed dove
ringed kingfisher
ringed paper wasp
ringed plover
ringed seal
ringed snake
ringed space
ringed spinytail iguana
ringed worm
ringed xenica
rose-ringed parakeet
unringed
Translations:
rudd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Akin to rud, ruddy, ruddock. Via Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (whence also red) cognate with German Rotfeder, Irish ruán, Slovene rdečeperka.
Compare typologically Bulgarian червеноперка (červenoperka) (<+ червен (červen)), Macedonian црвеноперка (crvenoperka) (<+ црвен (crven)), Russian краснопёрка (krasnopjórka) (<+ красный (krasnyj)); Turkish kızılkanat (kızıl + kanat).
Inflected forms:
form: rudds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rudd
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.
pos: noun
examples: Within minutes of starting I had my first fish a rudd about a pound, this was followed by a tench about five pounds.
gloss: Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: lloskë
lang: Hungarian
word: kele
lang: Turkish
word: kızılkanat
populist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *poplos
Old Latin populus
Latin populus
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English populist
From Latin populus + English -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: populists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more populist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most populist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who advocates populism (a movement against ruling elites who are presumed not to act in the interests of the ordinary citizen).
pos: noun
examples: Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.
On top of all that, rightwing populists and leftwing progressives have made significant inroads into western politics.
So as to not throw too much of the blame on American populists, the right in other Western countries is also guilty of adopting this crass and anti-intellectual brand of politics.
gloss: A politician who advocates specific policies just because they are popular.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who advocates democratic principles.
pos: noun
gloss: Democratic.
pos: adj
gloss: Put forward just because it would be popular.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to populism.
pos: adj
examples: On the right, this can look like gleeful cruelty, sadistic memes, posts that “own the libs” or sensationalized claims about fraud and conspiracy. On the left, it could be social justice messaging, online identity politics or populist economic proposals to, say, tax the rich.
Synonyms: populistic
Derived words: antipopulist
ecopopulist
flopulist
macropopulist
neopopulist
prepopulist
pseudopopulist
sadopopulism
sadopopulist
slopulist
technopopulist
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: պոպուլիստ
roman: populist
lang: Catalan
word: populista
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 民粹主義者 /民粹主义者
roman: míncuì zhǔyì zhě
lang: Czech
word: populista
lang: Danish
word: populist
lang: Esperanto
word: popolisto
lang: Finnish
word: populisti
lang: French
word: populiste
lang: Galician
word: populista
lang: German
word: Populist
lang: Hebrew
word: פופוליסט
roman: populíst
lang: Hungarian
word: populista
lang: Korean
word: 대중주의자
roman: daejungjuuija
lang: Korean
word: 포퓰리스트
roman: popyulliseuteu
lang: Latin
word: plebicola
lang: Portuguese
word: populista
lang: Spanish
word: populista
puncturing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: puncturings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is punctured.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That the Beatles had not yet found out remained a hallucination with Brian, despite grins exchanged behind his back, and despite John Lennon's occasional brutal puncturings of the masquerade.
We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]
Translations:
twerp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of uncertain origin; originally British slang of the 1910s. In a letter, dated 6 October 1944, J. R. R. Tolkien mentions a contemporary of his at Oxford University T.W. Earp, calling him "the original twerp"; but no corroborating evidence for this etymology has come to light. Other suggestions include: a clipping of Antwerp (“type of racing pigeon that flew between Antwerp and London”); the onomatopoeic twirp (“imitation of the sound of a bird”); a dialectal variant of dwarf (compare Middle English dwerf); Welsh twp (“a fool”).
Inflected forms:
form: twerps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: twirp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fool, a twit.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: Now you've broken it, you twerp!
There's many an airman just finishin' his time. There's many a twerp signing on.
gloss: A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible.
pos: noun
tags: US
childish
colloquial
examples: Get out of my way, you little twerp!
gloss: A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling).
pos: noun
tags: US
childish
colloquial
Related words: derp
twerk
Derived words: twerpish
twerpy
Translations:
sashaying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sashayings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The movement of one who sashays.
pos: noun
Translations:
reacquaint
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English acquaint
English reacquaint
From re- + acquaint.
Inflected forms:
form: reacquaints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reacquainting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reacquainted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reacquainted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To acquaint again; to reintroduce or refamiliarise.
pos: verb
Translations: