yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
chatline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From chat + line.
Compound parts: chat
line
Inflected forms:
form: chatlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chat line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A telephone service in which a caller may converse with an operator on a specific subject.
pos: noun
gloss: A similar service which allows conversation among a number of separate callers.
pos: noun
Related words: chat-up line
Translations:
doorman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English door
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English doorman
From door + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: doormen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who holds open the door at the entryway (entrance) to a building, summons taxicabs, and provides an element of security; in apartment buildings, he also accepts deliveries and may perform certain concierge type services.
pos: noun
Translations:
downburst
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From down- + burst, coined by American meteorologist Horace R. Byers and Japanese and American meteorologist Tetsuya T. Fujita in November 1975.
Base: burst
Affixes: down-
Inflected forms:
form: downbursts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A powerful downward air current, especially one during a thunderstorm, often creating powerful divergent horizontal winds and strong wind shear upon impacting the surface.
pos: noun
Translations:
downmarket
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English down-
English market
English downmarket
From down- + market.
Inflected forms:
form: more downmarket
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most downmarket
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more downmarket
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most downmarket
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: downmarkets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: downmarketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: downmarketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: downmarketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Designed for low-income consumers.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: low-end
gloss: Of, or relating to the less prestigious sector of the market.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: low-end
gloss: Towards the less prestigious sector of the market.
pos: adv
examples: Sadly, by the 1970s the arcade had gone downmarket with brash shop fronts and cheap shops, some of doubtful reputation.
gloss: To render or become downmarket.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If there has been a genuine dissemination of a certain degree of readership, of artistic interest and, very notably, of musical awareness and response, there has also been a 'downmarketing', a vulgarization of culture […]
As Rob Plant explained, there is a “downmarketing” process when tourists experience problems with their initial accommodation plans and settle for the next level: for example, from one-star hotel down to backpacker hostel.
Related words: down and out
down at heel
Translations:
downtrodden
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *dountroden, past participle of Middle English dountreden (“to tread down, trample”), equivalent to down- + trodden.
Base: trodden
Affixes: down-
Inflected forms:
form: more downtrodden
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most downtrodden
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Oppressed, persecuted or subjugated.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Trodden down.
pos: adj
examples: a patch of downtrodden soil
Derived words: downtroddenly
downtroddenness
Translations:
anthropomorphize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, anthropo- + morph + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: anthropomorphizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: anthropomorphizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: anthropomorphized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: anthropomorphized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: anthropomorphise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To endow with human qualities.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To ascribe or attribute human characteristics and behaviors to entities.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Bonnie Lucas further anthropomorphizes the flower in her watercolors, combining it surreally with the human female figure[…]
A month away from twenty-six and there you are, in the middle of a Monday afternoon, genuinely engaged in the madcap antics of a slope-headed, claymated man and his anthropomorphized horse.
It has been two months since I last checked my feed, during which time Facebook has sent me notifications I didn't sign up for, informing me every time someone posts, and invited me to attend locally organised focus groups. […] Of course, I am anthropomorphising a machine; no one is in charge of all this.
But for some animal-obsessive ceramists, anthropomorphizing as a sculptural approach is a zany (and speedy) joy.
I do think that this perspective offers a useful corrective to the tendency to anthropomorphize large-language models, but there is another aspect to the compression analogy that is worth considering.
Related words: anthropomorphic
anthropomorphically
anthropomorphism
anthropomorphization
Derived words: anthropomorphizable
unanthropomorphized
Translations:
chervil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English chervell, from Old English cerfille, from Anglo-Norman chervele (compare Jèrriais chèrfi), from Latin caerefolium, from Ancient Greek χαιρέφυλλον (khairéphullon).
Inflected forms:
form: chervils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A leafy herb, Anthriscus cerefolium, resembling parsley.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.]
gloss: Leaves from the plant, used as an herb in cooking, which have a mild flavor of anise.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: No herb, except perhaps tarragon, is quite so French as chervil, an association that is not surprising for a nation known for its celebration of fine food and the subtle use of herbs.
Cook fresh chervil leaves very little, if at all. They are best when added to a dish after it has been cooked, or toward the end of the cooking time.
Derived words: sea chervil
turnip rooted chervil
bur chervil
wild chervil
Translations:
lovage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English loveache, a folk-etymological alteration, after love and ache (“parsley”), of Anglo-Norman luvasche and Old French luvache, loveche et al., and Middle French levesche, from Latin levisticum, probably alteration of Latin ligusticum, substantivization of the neuter of Ligusticus (“Ligurian”), ultimately from Ancient Greek Λιγυστικός (Ligustikós, “Ligurian”), from Λίγυς (Lígus, “Ligurian”). This replaced the Old English name lufestiċe (literally “love-stitch”), which was also derived from levisticum and altered by folk-etymology.
Inflected forms:
form: lovages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A perennial Mediterranean herb, of species Levisticum officinale, with odor and flavor resembling celery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A liquor made from this herb.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Various species in the genus Ligusticum (generally with an adjective to differentiate them from Levisticum)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: Scots lovage
Szechuan lovage
Translations:
toughness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Middle English toughnesse, towghnesse, towghenesse, equivalent to tough + -ness.
Base: tough
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: toughnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being tough.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being tough.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A formidable difficulty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: graph toughness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: твърдост
roman: tvǎrdost
lang: Finnish
word: sitkeys
lang: Finnish
word: ankaruus
lang: Finnish
word: kovuus
lang: French
word: solidité
lang: French
word: dureté
lang: French
word: endurance
lang: German
word: Zähigkeit
lang: Italian
word: robustezza
lang: Romanian
word: tenacitate
stylebook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From style + book.
Compound parts: style
book
Inflected forms:
form: stylebooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A manual containing an organization's standardized usage conventions for how to write.
pos: noun
examples: I have a copy of the UPI stylebook, which I check when I need to know how to write something.
Translations:
checker
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English check
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English checker
From check + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: checkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chequer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: checkers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: checkering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: checkered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: checkered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chequer
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which checks or verifies something.
pos: noun
examples: So, keep in mind that Microsoft Word’s Spelling tool is as much a “typo” tool as a checker of spelling.
gloss: One who makes a check mark.
pos: noun
examples: "Essentially," said a senior vice president of the FHLBB of Dallas, "we were checkers of boxes."
gloss: The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
pos: noun
examples: There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.
Bud Brown said something to the checker he was supervising; she had been craning around to see what was happening. She flushed and began to run her calculator again.
gloss: One who hinders or stops something.
pos: noun
gloss: To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: box checker
fact checker
grammar checker
heat checker
pecker checker
spell checker
spell-checker
spelling checker
typechecker
Translations:
churchman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From church + man. Compare kirkman and German Kirchmann.
Compound parts: church
man
Inflected forms:
form: churchmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A churchwarden.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A person (originally a man) of authority in a Christian religious organization (a church).
pos: noun
examples: The bishop, a highly placed churchman, stated the religion's opinion.
gloss: A member or adherent of an established church, especially the Church of England.
pos: noun
examples: I replied, ‘I attended St. James's, St. Martin's, and St. Ann's, Soho;’—‘So,’ said he, ‘you are a churchman.’
Thus they say the king of Great Britain, must maintain episcopacy in England, and presbyterianism in Scotland, whether he be a presbyterian as king William, a Lutheran as George I. or a true churchman as his present Majesty.
It was a brave sight on a Sunday morning to see those old Tottenhamites—each with his comfortable lady-wife on his arm—proceeding in their stiff Sunday best to the morning service; pitying the Quaker friends they met on their way for their incomplete and unenlightened faith—the Quakers, of course, pitying the Churchmen for theirs.
Derived words: churchmanly
churchmanship
free churchman
High Churchman
Low Churchman
Translations:
graben
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from German Graben (“ditch”), from the verb graben (“to dig”).
Inflected forms:
form: grabens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: graben
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area.
pos: noun
examples: 1959, Robert G. Yates, George A. Thompson, Geology and Quicksilver Deposits of the Terlingua District, Texas, U. S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 312, page 49,
The magnitude and shape of the large grabens strongly suggest that, when they formed, material much more mobile than ordinary rocks was present at a depth no greater than a few miles.
This system includes the Syrian and Lebanese grabens; the grabens of the Dead Sea, Wadi al Arabah, Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez, Red Sea, and Gulf of Aden; and the Ethiopian graben.
1997, Jean-Marie Rouchy, 2: Paleogene Continental Rift System of Western Europe, Georges Busson, B. Charlotte Schreiber (editors), Sedimentary Deposition in Rift and Foreland Basins in France and Spain (Paleogene and Lower Neogene), page 83,
Migration of the subsidence axis has been revealed by the detailed sedimentological studies in most of these grabens, particularly in the Bresse basin (Curial 1986; Moretto 1986/1987) and in Manosque-Forcalquier.
2015, C. F. Burgess, et al., Chapter 35: The Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of Lake Tanganyika: A Case Study of Continental Rifting, W. Manspeizer (editor), Triassic-Jurassic Rifting: Continental Breakup and the Origin of the Atlantic Ocean and Passive Margins, Part A, page 866,
These distinct zones of strike-slip or scissor faulting which separate adjacent half-grabens were termed interbasinal ridges and hinged highs by Rosendahl et al. (1986).
Translations:
redaction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French rédaction or its etymon New Latin redactiō (“redaction”), from Latin redigō (“to lead back, collect, prepare, reduce to a certain state”), from red- (“back”) + agō (“to put in motion, to drive”). By surface analysis, redact + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: redactions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An edited or censored version of a document; a product resulting from the process of editing or censoring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The government supplied only the redaction to the reporters; the original was kept secret.
The content of this codex is a redaction of information from various earlier works. [≈ edited selection]
gloss: The change or changes made while editing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The process of editing or censoring.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The Expense Claims made by Members of Parliament must be subject to redaction before publication under the Freedom of Information Act. [≈ censoring]
Related words: redact
redactor
recension
Derived words: over-redaction
redactional
Translations:
isolated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
board-games
chess
climatology
games
mathematics
medicine
meteorology
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: A rendering into English of French isolé.
Inflected forms:
form: more isolated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most isolated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
pos: adj
examples: an isolated tree in the mountains
Antarctica, like outer-space, is known as an ICE environment – isolated, confined and extreme – meaning unlike other isolated communities, the rate of change for its vocabulary can be slower.
gloss: Happening or occurring only once.
pos: adj
examples: isolated case
an isolated occurrence
And while one isolated act of kindness may seem random, it can lead to much more.
gloss: Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
pos: adj
gloss: Affecting ten to twenty percent of a forecast zone.
pos: adj
gloss: Which has been extracted from the organism.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a condition or abnormality: occurring in the absence of associated conditions or abnormalities.
pos: adj
gloss: Minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes).
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc.
pos: adj
examples: I feel so isolated among my workmates
Derived words: isolate
isolated horizon
isolatedly
isolatedness
isolated pawn
isolated system
nonisolated
optoisolated
socially-isolated
unisolated
Translations:
expungement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expunge
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English expungement
From expunge + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: expungements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of expunging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which the record of a criminal conviction is erased, destroyed or sealed.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
examples: In a memorandum in support of the expungement motion, Atty. John Ward argues that the retention of his clients' records "is and will be of great harm to them."
Related words: ex-con
pardoning
acquital
commutation
conviction
amnesty
innocence
guilt
no contest
non compos mentis
Translations:
contango
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The term originated in early-19th-century England, and is believed to be a corruption of continuation, continue or contingent. In the past on the London Stock Exchange, contango was a fee paid by a buyer to a seller when the buyer wished to defer settlement of the trade they had agreed. The charge was based on the interest forgone by the seller not being paid.
Inflected forms:
form: contangos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: contangoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The situation in a futures market where prices for future delivery are higher than prices for immediate (or nearer) delivery, indicating the expectation that the price of the underlying asset will go up.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: most of these other commodities are generally in contango
gloss: The amount by which prices for future delivery are higher than prices for near delivery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Normally new buyers would go after the March silver contract, especially with such a small contango.
gloss: Fee paid by a buyer to the seller on settlement day when the buyer wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Yesterday was Settling Day in Consols, and Monday next the Settling of Omnium. Owing to the great scarcity of money, the Contango on both is extremely great, nearly equal to 15 per cent. for money, from account to account.
Synonyms: forwardation
Antonyms: backwardation
Related words: contangoed
contangoing
contango day
Translations:
backwardation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
stock-market
Etymology: From backward + -ation (suffix denoting an action or process).
Base: backward
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: backwardations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In full normal backwardation: the situation in a futures market where the price for future delivery of a commodity (the forward price) is lower than the price for immediate delivery (the spot price) or nearer delivery, generally arising from a near-term shortage of the commodity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A situation in which short-term interest rates are higher than long-term interest rates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The situation in a stock market where the offer price for stock is lower than the bid price.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In the London Stock Exchange: a fee paid by a seller on settlement day either to the buyer or to a third party who lends stock, when the seller wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Translations:
flibbertigibbet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From late Middle English [Term?] first attested 1549 probably imitative of nonsense uttered by gossips. Usage as an imp or fiend and name of the Devil from around 1603.
Alternatively (but far less likely), an alteration of flibbergib (“toady, sycophant”), derived potentially from an Old Norse *fleipra-geipa(re) (“babbler of nonsense”). The hypothetical Old Norse term would have been a compound of fleipra (a variant of fleipa (“to babble, tattle”)), and geipa (“to talk nonsense, to boast”) or geipare (“one who speaks nonsense, braggart”). fleipa is notably the ancestor to the flip- part of the English word flippant. It is of note that the original meaning of flibbergib was “chatterer”.
Inflected forms:
form: flibbertigibbets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An offbeat, skittish person; especially said of a young woman.
pos: noun
examples: All this responsibility at such an early age made her a bitchy flibbertigibbet.
gloss: A flighty person; someone regarded as silly, irresponsible, or scatterbrained, especially someone who chatters or gossips.
pos: noun
examples: “Thou flibbertigibbet,” cried Catwezle, who had been listening, “all is clear as springwater. This Rapkyn was a sorcerer!”
‘Ignorant girls. Dizzy young things. It seems to be my fate always to be landed with these flibbertigibbets.’
gloss: An imp, a fiend.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Derived words: flibbertigibbety
Translations:
genteel
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French gentil (“gentile”), from Latin gentīlis (“of or belonging to the same people or nation”), from gēns (“clan; tribe; people, family”) + adjective suffix -īlis (“-ile”). Doublet of gentle, gentile, and jaunty. See also gens, gender, genus, and generation.
Inflected forms:
form: more genteel
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most genteel
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Affectedly proper or refined; somewhat prudish refinement; excessively polite.
pos: adj
examples: Genteel America was handicapped by meagerness of soul, thinness of temper, paucity of talent.
gloss: Polite and well-mannered.
pos: adj
examples: Indeed I would advise every ſingle lady, if poſſible, to attend her inamorato, pretty frequently at the card table; and however genteel and agreeable his behaviour should be to herſelf, if he is haſty or pettiſh with any one else in company, she may depend on the ſame fate when once the knot is tied.
gloss: Stylish or elegant.
pos: adj
gloss: Aristocratic.
pos: adj
Related words: gentleman
Derived words: genteel business
genteelish
genteelism
genteelize
genteel lady
genteelly
genteelness
pseudogenteel
shabby-genteel
ultragenteel
ungenteel
Translations:
noncom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening of non-commissioned.
Inflected forms:
form: noncoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: non-com
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A non-commissioned officer, such as a sergeant (army) or petty officer (navy).
pos: noun
examples: Noncoms in uniform photograph you, full-face and profile; they take your fingerprints.
Translations:
flyleaf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-West Germanic *fleugan
Old English flēogan
Middle English fliender.
English fly
English leaf
English flyleaf
From fly + leaf.
Inflected forms:
form: flyleafs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flyleaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blank leaf at the front or back of a book.
pos: noun
examples: The flyleaf of Alice Walker's The Color Purple calls the book "honest, poignant, laughing, defiant...a story about heroic lives, love, and the nature of god.... It breaks new ground in fiction with its portrayal of women."
The scribbles on the margins, the occasional date on the flyleaf, the faded bus ticket marking a page for a reason today mysterious, all try to remind me of who I was then.
gloss: A blank leaf at the front or back of a book.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: endpaper
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: pàgina de respecte
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 扉頁 /扉页
roman: fēiyè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 襯頁 /衬页
roman: chènyè
lang: Dutch
word: schutblad
lang: Finnish
word: tyhjä sivu
lang: French
word: page de garde
lang: German
word: Vorsatz
lang: German
word: Vorsatzblatt
lang: Hebrew
word: דף מגן
lang: Icelandic
word: saurblað
lang: Japanese
word: 遊び紙
roman: asobigami
lang: Portuguese
word: guarda
lang: Russian
word: форза́ц
roman: forzác
lang: Russian
word: фо́рзац
roman: fórzac
lang: Spanish
word: guarda
lang: Swedish
word: försätts
lang: Swedish
word: försättsblad
shitless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shit + -less. Compare scare the shit out of.
Base: shit
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having an empty bowel; greatly frightened; see usage notes below.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
vulgar
examples: The movie The Ring scared me shitless as a child.
Translations:
intimidating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more intimidating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intimidating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Threatening, producing feelings of fear or timidity.
pos: adj
Translations:
backroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of back + room
Inflected forms:
form: backrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back room
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A room near the rear of a premises.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
figuratively
often
examples: Near-synonym: smoke-filled room (meeting place of crooked insiders)
backroom deals
backroom bargaining
It is known that means of using this end of the former NLR and Broad Street station to take an overspill of traffic from Liverpool Street have been under backroom study for some time.
The vote for a new prime minister will involve plenty of backroom bargaining, while Thailand struggles to revive its faltering economy.
gloss: A room near the rear of a premises.
pos: noun
examples: We had thought that they were out of the old model, but somebody checked in the backroom and found a case of them.
Related words: backroom boy
backroom staff
Derived words: Backrooms
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: darrere
lang: Finnish
word: takahuone
lang: French
word: pièce à l'arrière
lang: German
word: Hinterzimmer
lang: Italian
word: retrobottega
lang: Polish
word: zaplecze
lang: Portuguese
word: fundos
lang: Spanish
word: apartado
lang: Spanish
word: rebotica
lang: Turkish
word: arka oda
countless
Part of speech: det
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin com-
Latin putus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin putō
Latin computō
Anglo-Norman counterbor.
Middle English counten
English count
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 countless
From count + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A huge and uncountable number of; too many to count; innumerable.
pos: det
examples: There are countless stars in the sky.
He endured countless insults hurled at him before people finally respected him for his courage and his great ability as a baseball player.
gloss: Synonym of uncountable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The stars in the sky are countless.
gloss: Too large to be counted to.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Just stop and think deeply for a moment and realize the countless number of the grains of sand of the seashore; the countless number of drops of water that go to make up the waters of the earth; […]
Synonyms: numberless
incalculable
Derived words: countlessly
countlessness
Translations:
dismember
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French desmembrer, from des- (“de-”) + membre (“limb”) + -er (“verbal suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: dismembers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dismembering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dismembered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dismembered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dismembre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To remove the limbs of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Death by drawing and quartering usually dismembered the condemned person.
gloss: To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The killer methodically dismembered the bodies of his victims.
The American Civil War nearly dismembered the Union.
Derived words: dismemberment
dismemberer
Translations:
sommelier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French sommelier (“originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden carrying wine”), from somme (“pack”) + -ier (suffix forming the names of jobs). somme is from Vulgar Latin *sauma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).
Base: somme
Affixes: -ier
Inflected forms:
form: sommeliers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.
pos: noun
examples: The sommelier recommended the perfect wine, opened the bottle with panache, and served it into glasses.
A Sommelier or wine steward organizes a restaurant's entire wine program, from tasting to pairing of wines with foods the chef might prepare according to seasonal meat, seafood, and produce availability, to ordering and keeping inventory, staying on top of local, domestic, and foreign releases, and educating waitstaff about wines and their nuances. […] A Sommelier must make novice wine drinkers comfortable and explain wine complexities simply, while knowing wines well enough to satisfy the most demanding customer.
There's a new kid on the block: the tea sommelier. […] In the Western world, the first acting tea sommelier on the scene was Helen Gustafson, although the title was never bestowed her. […] She stayed at the restaurant for twenty years, and although she did not have the formal title of tea sommelier—no one did at the time—many in the industry credit her with leading the charge that has resulted in fine-dining establishments improving their tea service.
The fMRI [functional magnetic resonance imaging] brain images of sommeliers show that their brains act very differently from ordinary brains when they taste wine. An Italian radiology research group (Castriota-Scanderbeg et al., 2005) showed activation of the cerebral network in the left insula and adjoining orbito-frontal cortex in sommeliers.
Translations:
implicitly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English implicit
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English implicitly
From implicit + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more implicitly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most implicitly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an implicit or implied manner.
pos: adv
examples: tell someone implicitly
He was punished for asking for answers implicitly during the exam.
I will sometimes omit the features that need to agree on the arcs, just to keep the diagrams simpler. I will also often omit many features of the head categories, such as count, mass, name, and number agreement features, again for simplicity of presentation. But keep in mind that all these agreement features are implicitly there.
gloss: Without doubting or questioning.
pos: adv
Antonyms: explicitly
Translations:
herbaceous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
biology
botany
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences
oenology
wine
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-dʰ?
Latin herba
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂-k-s
Proto-Italic *-āks
Latin -āx
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Indo-European *-éyos
Proto-Italic *-ejos
Proto-Italic *-eos
Latin -eus
Latin -āceus
Latin herbāceusbor.
English herbaceous
Borrowed from Latin herbāceus (“grassy”).
Inflected forms:
form: more herbaceous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most herbaceous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not woody, lacking lignified tissues.
pos: adj
examples: […] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration.
Iversen holds that these changes indicate the arrival of farmers, the phase of Landnam or land occupation, that the charcoal comes from clearance fires; that herbaceous pollen suggests the opening-up of the land; cereals, fields; the plantains, weeds; and birch and hazel, regeneration of the forests after the exhaustion of the plot.
gloss: Not woody in flavor.
pos: adj
gloss: Feeding on herbs and soft plants.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: The hippopotamus is an herbaceous animal.
Antonyms: woody
Derived words: herbaceously
herbaceousness
nonherbaceous
subherbaceous
Translations:
dewberry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dew + berry.
Compound parts: dew
berry
Inflected forms:
form: dewberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: The purple to black berries of these plants.
pos: noun
Derived words: California dewberry
Enslen's dewberry
Pacific dewberry
Young dewberry
Translations:
mantelpiece
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mantel + piece.
Compound parts: mantel
piece
Inflected forms:
form: mantelpieces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mantel piece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mantle piece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mantel-piece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: mantle-piece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: mantlepiece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A shelf that is affixed to the wall above a fireplace.
pos: noun
examples: The medium was leaning with her elbow on the mantel piece, austere and aloof.
Translations:
Dhivehi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Dhivehi ދިވެހި (divehi)bor.
English Dhivehi
Borrowed from Dhivehi ދިވެހި (divehi).
Inflected forms:
form: Divehi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Indo-Aryan language, the official language of the Republic of Maldives.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
anaphoric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-
Proto-Hellenic *aná
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ)
Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰφέρω (ănăphérō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰφορᾱ́ (ănăphorā́)bor.
English anaphora
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English anaphoric
From anaphora + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more anaphoric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anaphoric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, an anaphora.
pos: adj
Translations:
weeding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: weedings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The removal of weeds; the process by which something is weeded.
pos: noun
examples: My garden requires regular weedings.
Translations:
archbishopric
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English erchebischopriche, from Old English arċebisċeoprīce, arċebisċoprīċe, equivalent to archbishop + -ric.
Base: archbishop
Affixes: -ric
Inflected forms:
form: archbishoprics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rank or office of an archbishop.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: see
A bishop of Bath […] was considered after due reflection to be an unsuitable man for the Archbishopric, because he had too many illegitimate children—not some, but too many.
gloss: The jurisdiction of an archbishop.
pos: noun
examples: St. Salvadore in the Bahia los todos Santos, is an Archbishoprick and Seat of the Viceroy, the chief Port of Trade for Importation […]
Related words: bishopric
Translations:
instantiate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin instāntia + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, instance + -ate.
Base: instāntia
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: instantiates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: instantiating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: instantiated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: instantiated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: instanciate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To represent (a concept, theme, or principle) by an instance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To see and test the result of one's CSS for any particular HTML element, one must instantiate that element in a document.
In the eighteenth century, this was instantiated in writings which developed the view that ‘savages’ exhibited more virtue and moral nobility than their conquerors.
gloss: To create an object (an instance) of a specific class.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To instantiate a class, we call its constructor.
Related words: coinstantial
instantial
Derived words: coinstantiate
coinstantiated
coinstantiation
instantiable
instantiatable
instantiation
instantiator
reinstantiate
reinstantiation
uninstantiate
uninstantiated
Translations:
interminably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English interminable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English interminably
From interminable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: in an interminable manner; (seemingly) endlessly
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
instantiation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A coinage of the twentieth century, from instantiate + -ion, itself coined in 1946 from instance + -ate. The latter, in the sense "a case, an example", from Middle English instance, from Medieval Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence; also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from Latin īnstāns (“urgent”); see English instant.
Base: instantiate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: instantiations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The production of an instance, example, or specific application of a general classification, principle, theory, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Something resulting from the act of instantiating; an instance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I can name numerous instantiations of this gift of luck at work in my hostʼs life.
gloss: A creation of an instance of some class or template.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Related words: coinstantial
coinstantiate
instance
instancy
instant
instantaneous
instantial
instantiate
reinstantiate
Derived words: coinstantiation
existential instantiation
polyinstantiation
reinstantiation
uninstantiation
Translations:
pudge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pudges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something short and fat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Excess body fat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 2002, extract from Christine Lincoln, Sap Rising, in Marita Golden, E. Lynn Harris (editors), Gumbo: An Anthology of African American Writing, Random House (Broadway Books), page 676,
The smell of her skin and hair after I have given her a bath, me nibbling at the layers of pudge on her legs and arms, around her neck—I drown in the scent of all that innocence.
Their faces are long and graceful and missing the pudge of the others.
He is high-booted (over rather skinny legs), with a tiny bit of a paunch showing, an intimation of genital endowment, and a sort of nice half smile (a tidge of pudge in the cheeks and jowls), his left hand leaning against and rather caressing a very bold phallic cannon's spout.
Related words: pudgy
podge
Translations:
palmy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English palm
English -y
English palmy
From palm + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: palmier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: palmiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to, or abounding in palm trees.
pos: adj
examples: From Greenland’s icy mountains,
From India’s coral strand,
Where Afric’s sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error’s chain.
gloss: Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Elliston was, in his day, the Napoleon of Drury Lane; but, like the conqueror at Austerlitz, he suffered his declensions, and the Surrey became to him a Saint Helena. However, once an eagle always an eagle; and Robert William was no less aquiline in the day of adversity than in his palmy time of patent prosperity.
“It must have been just like the palmy days of the British Drama.”
So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.
Not many people would argue with his opening insight—that in 1939 people attending the World's Fair gobbled up the optimistic view of the future offered in Flushing Meadows, while people now, in much palmier times than in the late Depression, with World War II looming, are generally pessimistic.
gloss: Made out of palm leaves or palm sap.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Derived words: palminess
Translations:
quadripartite
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin quadripartītus (“divided into four parts”).
Inflected forms:
form: quadrapartite
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: quadrupartite
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: quadripartites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quadrapartite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: quadrupartite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Divided into four parts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The walk down to the Underground station is equally easy, as you pass through the restored undercroft along an arcade of two-way spanning 'quadripartite' arches.
gloss: Involving four parties or participants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A treatise divided into four parts.
pos: noun
Related words: quadripartition
Derived words: quadripartitely
quadripartitism
Translations:
fanboy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From fan + boy.
Compound parts: fan
boy
Inflected forms:
form: fanboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fanboi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fanboys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fanboying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fanboyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fanboyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fanboi
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
slang
examples: (It's in the nature of comic book fanboy obsessiveness that all of these Eras and Ages and such have been religiously chronicled; it's equally in their nature that no two fanboys can ever agree about anything about any of these Ages and Eras; everything is up for debate, eternally and in microscopic detail.)
Six years and seven titles later, their company, Top Cow, is the third-biggest-grossing comic line, thanks mainly to a pair of blood-soaked, modern-day Gothics that have been a hit both with fanboys and a growing number of women.
Apple fanboys have always devoted equal parts of their mind to genuine reasons to praise their chosen corporation, and to blindly ignoring its faults.
gloss: To worship, support, drool over the object of affection; to be a fanboy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: James has a tendency to fanboy when something he likes is done wrong.
2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, New York: Penguin, [Acknowledgements],
To Yusef Komunyakaa, thank you for […] tolerating my fanboying when, by luck, I sat down beside you one rainy night in a West Village theater […] and kept yapping about everything and nothing at all.
Translations:
clueless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clue
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 clueless
From clue + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more clueless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most clueless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without any clues or hints.
pos: adj
tags: literally
examples: The shifting shapes mimicked the dilemma of the nearly clueless mystery of the Higgins Grove murders. As soon as the picture formed into something recognizable, it morphed into something else.
gloss: Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Antonyms: clueful
informed
Related words: zone out
Derived words: cluelessly
cluelessness
Translations:
Labradoodle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Labrador + poodle.
Compound parts: Labrador
poodle
Inflected forms:
form: Labradoodles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dog that is a cross between a Labrador and a poodle.
pos: noun
examples: Now there are dozens of mixes, most of which are a poodle blend. There is the goldendoodle, labradoodle, maltipoo, schnoodle, shihpoo, and the puggle, a mix of a pug and a beagle.
Participating pooches must be between 12-20 weeks old at the time of taping. This year, two labradoodles, a pomsky and a corgi are among members the Central Florida contingent.
Translations:
offshoring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: offshorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The location of a business in another country for tax purposes or lowering production costs, as the labor.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
balti
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Urdu بالٹی (baalti, “pail”), originally coined by Birmingham restaurateur Afzal Butt because English people had difficulty pronouncing karahi, the name of the dish used for cooking this food.
Inflected forms:
form: baltis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large iron pan having two handles, especially used in Pakistani cuisine
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A style of curry traditionally cooked in a balti pan, typically stir-fried and served with a relatively dry sauce.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: For in time, balti became an enduring British cultural entity all of its own—even as Jim Davidson and his fellow bullies lapsed into obscurity.
gloss: A dish cooked in this style.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: balti house
Translations:
Balti
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Baltis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Balti
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A people who live in Baltistan, Gilgit and Kargil.
pos: noun
Translations: