yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
hepcat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From hep + cat, from hep (“sophisticated, aware”). Compare cat (“jazz enthusiast”). Attested in the sense of “sophisticated person” from the 1920s.
Compound parts: hep
cat
Inflected forms:
form: hepcats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hep cat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hep-cat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hip cat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A jazz performer, especially one from the 1940s and 1950s.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A person associated with the jazz subculture of the 1940s and 1950s.
pos: noun
tags: dated
humorous
informal
often
examples: Everybody is asking, Why is Harry such a solid sender? Well, hear my version. As you are seated or are trying to stay seated you feel that sensation that hits every hep-cat. First your feet get the sensation, then it runs up your leg and you start to keep time to the music with your feet and you feel like getting up and jiving to that fine music that comes out of the magic trumpet of Harry James.
Leaders of the eight or nine name dance bands, who can throw a cordon of jitterbugging youths around any big city's theatre on a half hour's notice, are not complaining aloud these days, but privately they admit that “government competition” is having a lot to do with their ability to get it hot or sweet to suit the mood of the hepcats.
'Most of the real hep-cats smoke reefers,' explained Leiter. 'Wouldn't be allowed most places.'
gloss: A sophisticated person, one who is stylish.
pos: noun
tags: dated
informal
examples: Finally the door opens and out comes Alex Aums in a sharp blue suit, like a hepcat, cigarette in mouth, squinting at us narrow-eyed, “O there you are,” to me, “how’ve you been? Wont^([sic]) you come in?” indicating the office.
Today he’s [Hugh Hefner is] just a sleazy oldster, but in the beginning he was a faux philosopher, preaching a gospel cribbed from bohemia and various Freudian enemies of repression, in which the blessed pursuit of promiscuity was the human birthright. But really a male birthright, for a certain kind of man: The sort of hep cat who loved inviting the ladies back to his pad “for a quiet discussion on Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex.”
Related words: beatnik
bebopper
cool cat
Translations:
fusebox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fuse + box.
Compound parts: fuse
box
Inflected forms:
form: fuseboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small distribution board containing the fuses or circuit breakers for a domestic electricity power supply.
pos: noun
Translations:
bismarck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named for the German statesman Otto von Bismarck.
Inflected forms:
form: bismarcks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dessert pastry:
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Northwestern
US
gloss: A dessert pastry:
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Midwestern-US
Northern-US
US
gloss: A dessert pastry:
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Related words: Berliner
Burlington bun
Dutch baby pancake
Dutch baby
Dutch puff
jambuster
jelly doughnut
Translations:
raddle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a variation of reddle, ruddle. Related to red.
Inflected forms:
form: raddles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: raddles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: raddling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: raddled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: raddled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A red ochre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
pos: verb
gloss: To interweave or twist together.
pos: verb
examples: raddling or working it up like basket work
gloss: To do work in a slovenly way.
pos: verb
Related words: ruddy
raddled
Translations:
rann
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Irish rannbor.
English rann
Borrowed from Old Irish rann.
Inflected forms:
form: ranns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stanza of Irish poetry.
pos: noun
examples: Our greatest living phonetic expert (wild horses shall not drag it from us!) has left no stone unturned in his efforts to delucidate and compare the verse recited and has found it bears a striking resemblance (the italics are ours) to the ranns of ancient Celtic bards.
Translations:
rappel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French re-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *pel-
Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-né-der.
Proto-Italic *pelnōder.
Latin pellō
Latin appellārebor.
French appeler
French rappelerbor.
English rappel
Borrowed from French rappeler (“to pull through (a rope)”).
Inflected forms:
form: rappels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rappels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rappelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rappeling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rappelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rappelled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rappeled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rappeled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Descent by means of a rope.
pos: noun
gloss: To abseil.
pos: verb
gloss: To call back a hawk.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Derived words: rappeller
Translations:
rath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Irish ráthbor.
English rath
Borrowed from Old Irish ráth.
Inflected forms:
form: raths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.
Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth’s colonial grants—linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and “little people” of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations.
Translations:
dutifully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dutiful
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English dutifully
From dutiful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more dutifully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dutifully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: dutiefully
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: With a regard to duty; in a dutiful manner.
pos: adv
examples: Ives, who is better known for sliminess than courage, approached Samson who was dutifully attending his feudal lord Grouty as usual[…]
But most Israeli mechanics say "breaks," with the "r" sound dutifully transformed from the American dog-barking noise to an upscale Frenchlike trill.
22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club Cabin Boyhttp://www.avclub.com/articles/cabin-boy,71269/
When news arrives that the school must graduate Nathanial to official “Fancy Lad” status early and put him on the Queen Catherine first class to run the Mayweather in Hawaii, the headmaster dutifully complies, but Nathanial gets in a few parting shots on his way out the door.
Dutifully socking away a chunk of your salary each month may seem like a surefire path to a comfortable retirement. But there are plenty of ways you could be sabotaging that savings.
The stereotypical image of the Jain renunciant is a monk (or possibly nun) dutifully sweeping the ground gently before him with a small broom […].
For entirely self-serving reasons, ministers and civil servants never dispelled the public belief that uncaring 'fat cat' privateers or foreign state railways were in control, ramping up fares and creaming off profits which either enriched shareholders or subsidised European rail fares. DfT left train operators to 'take the heat' - which they dutifully did, fearful of speaking up and 'biting the hand that feeds'.
Translations:
boysenberry
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Boysen + berry, named after its creator Rudolph Boysen.
Compound parts: Boysen
berry
Inflected forms:
form: boysenberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hybrid berry created from crossing blackberry, red raspberry, and loganberry.
pos: noun
examples: Like all caneberries, boysenberries are an etaerio or aggregate fruit containing several drupelets.
As mesmerizing as it is to watch Kristen Kish whip up bacon and cinnamon waffles with boysenberry and strawberry jam, imagine playing poker with Hosea Rosenberg.
Here’s a grocery list of foods Chestnut has eaten competitively, drawn from his Major League Eating bio: apple pie, asparagus, boysenberry pie, brats, burritos, chicken spiedies (a kind of sandwich), chicken wings, chili, corned beef sandwiches, eggs, fish tacos, funnel cake, grilled cheese sandwiches, gyoza, Krystal hamburgers, horseshoe sandwiches, hot dogs, ice cream, jalapeno poppers, kolaches, pastrami sandwiches, Philly cheesesteaks, pierogi, pizza, pork ribs, pulled pork, poutine, salt potatoes, shrimp, tacos, tamales, turkey and Twinkies.
gloss: A colour of the purple colour spectrum, based on the same fruit's colour, whose hexadecimal code is #873260, RGB is rgb(135, 50, 96), CMYK is (63%, 29%, 47%) and HSL is hsl(328°, 46%, 36%).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
notated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
annotate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin annotātus, past participle of annotāre (an alternative form of adnotāre), from ad- (“to”) + notāre (“to mark, note”). By surface analysis, an- + note + -ate.
Base: notāre
Affixes: ad-
Inflected forms:
form: annotates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: annotating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: annotated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: annotated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To add annotation to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He read the poem carefully, then annotated it with a felt pen.
Translations:
leaden
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English leden, leaden, from Old English lēaden (“leaden, of lead”). Cognate with West Frisian leaden (“leaden”), Dutch loden (“leaden”). By surface analysis, lead + -en.
Inflected forms:
form: more leaden
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most leaden
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: leadens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: leadening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: leadened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: leadened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of or related to the metal lead, particularly
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Of or related to the metal lead, particularly
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The sky was dark and overcast, a leaden pall producing a deep gloom.
It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the leaden skies in continual drizzling showers.
gloss: Of or related to the metal lead, particularly
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
 And leaden-eyed despairs,
 Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
 Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
Which break a teachless nature to the yoke.
gloss: Of or related to the metal lead, particularly
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: To make or become dull or overcast.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Derived words: fly with leaden wings
leaden flycatcher
leaden-hearted
leadenly
leadenness
with leaden wings
Translations:
copperplate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From copper + plate.
For the plate used for engraving: in the 1660s.
As a term for the printed product: from 1817.
Of the especially clear writing used in such prints: from the 1820s.
Use as a verb (the past participle copperplated) is from 1822.
Base: copper
Inflected forms:
form: copperplates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: copperplates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: copperplating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: copperplated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: copperplated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A copper plate, either etched or engraved, to make a recessed pattern.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A print made from such a plate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A style of handwriting based on that used on such prints; English round hand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1999. Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 36 (2001 Perennial paperback edition).
The village school was a fine school […] He learned his reading and had a fair copperplate hand.
gloss: To engrave on and print from a copperplate.
pos: verb
Translations:
guyliner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of guy + eyeliner.
Compound parts: guy
eyeliner
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: I threaded my way through a crowd of Goths slouching against cars in guyliner and black pants[…]
Trevor looks kind of emo, rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.
[…] What exactly is going on with JD Vance’s lashes? Sootily outlined with a dense fringe, his eyes caught the attention of many debate watchers who wondered if Vance was into guyliner.
Translations:
dol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Clipping of Latin dolor (“sorrow, pain”). Doublet of dolor.
Inflected forms:
form: dols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The unit of measurement for pain.
pos: noun
Translations:
parietal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
archaeology
biology
botany
history
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin parietālis, from pariēs (“wall”).
Inflected forms:
form: more parietal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most parietal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: parietals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the wall of a body part, organ or cavity.
pos: adj
examples: Hydrochloric acid is secreted by the parietal cells of the gastric glands, located on the wall of the fundus of the stomach.
The superior aspect of the supramarginal gyrus lies underneath the euryon, which corresponds to the most prominent point of the parietal tuberosity or bossa […]
gloss: Of or relating to the parietal bones.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to college living and, especially, its regulation.
pos: adj
examples: At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee.
gloss: Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; said of a placenta.
pos: adj
gloss: Either of the two parietal bones, on the top and side of the skull.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the scales of a snake that are located on the head and connected to the frontals towards the posterior.
pos: noun
gloss: A flat Roman wall tile with roughened surface, used as a base for plasterwork.
pos: noun
gloss: Dormitory rules governing visits from members of the opposite sex.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: antiparietal
biparietal
capsuloparietal
centroparietal
dorsoparietal
epiparietal
extraparietal
frontoparietal
inferoparietal
interparietal
intraparietal
lateroparietal
medioparietal
occipitoparietal
parietal art
parietal bone
parietal cell
parietal foramen
parietal lobe
parietally
parietal pleura
posteroparietal
postparietal
preparietal
sphenoparietal
squamosoparietal
subparietal
temporoparietal
transparietal
uteroparietal
ventroparietal
visceroparietal
visuoparietal
Translations:
rax
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Shortening of barracks.
Inflected forms:
form: rax
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: raxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: barracks
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Eventually they just broke our base and took out every single one of our raxes.
Translations:
unsettling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more unsettling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsettling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unsettlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
pos: adj
examples: More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt[…]
gloss: The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
pos: noun
examples: But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.
Translations:
mesmerized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from mesmerism, a pseudoscientific theory and practiced originating with and named after Franz Anton Mesmer and also known as animal magnetism.
Inflected forms:
form: more mesmerized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mesmerized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mesmerised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Spellbound or enthralled.
pos: adj
gloss: Hypnotized.
pos: adj
Translations:
callused
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English callus
English -ed
English callused
From callus + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more callused
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most callused
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: calloused
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having calluses.
pos: adj
examples: Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns: These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power.
Translations:
oversized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English size
English -ed
English sized
English oversized
From over- + sized.
Inflected forms:
form: more oversized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oversized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very large; especially of something larger than normal for its type.
pos: adj
Translations:
partway
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English part
English way
English partway
From part + way.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: To some extent.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The timetable for May-December 2022 reveals a service partway back to its pre-COVID level.
gloss: In part; part of the way; some of the way.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Daisy Ridley has reawakened the debate over “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s” biggest reveal, saying that the character of Rey’s lineage wasn’t clear to her even partway through filming the final chapter of the trilogy.
NR is promising ambitious plans for Oxford Road station partway along the crowded [Castlefield] corridor.
Related words: halfway
Translations:
counterinsurgency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *komterosder.
Proto-Italic *komterād
Latin contrāder.
Old French contre-
Anglo-Norman countre-bor.
Middle English counter-
English counter-
English insurgent
English -cy
English insurgency
English counterinsurgency
From counter- + insurgency.
Inflected forms:
form: counterinsurgencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any political or military action taken to defeat insurgency, especially during guerrilla warfare.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The United States will continue to pursue a military and civilian counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
Mr. Petraeus almost single-handedly forced a profound evolution in the country’s military thinking and doctrine with his philosophy of counterinsurgency, focused more on protecting the civilian population than on killing enemies.
Translations:
goading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: goadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody is goaded.
pos: noun
examples: This fact refutes the doctrine that the goadings of a guilty conscience in this life, constitute the only punishment for sin[…]
Translations:
Sundanese
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ (sunda).
Inflected forms:
form: Sundanese
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 42 million.
pos: noun
examples: According to these reports, which could not be verified, the Sundanese were preparing to declare their freedom from the new Indonesian Republic and to ask the Dutch for military protection.
While he is now revered as a local and national hero of the Betawi, according to older legends he was in fact a Sundanese who came to Batavia from Cirebon.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Sundanese people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
remembering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rememberings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: remembryng
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is remembered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ‘I do remember,’ he said, ‘only Pooh doesn’t very well, so that’s why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it’s a real story and not just a remembering.’
The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.
In this process participants become immersed in the dynamic interplay of rememberings, communal extraction, imaginings, expectings, etc., and of singular perceptions of each of these separately and as they come together […]
Translations:
downwards
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English down
English -wards
English downwards
From down + -wards.
Inflected forms:
form: more downwards
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most downwards
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Towards a lower place; towards what is below.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Gravity pulls everything downwards.
gloss: Towards something which is lower in order, smaller, inferior, etc.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: After the rise in oil prices, the economy headed downwards.
gloss: Downward.
pos: adj
Synonyms: downward
down
Antonyms: upwards
up
Translations:
wearily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English werily, werelye, equivalent to weary + -ly.
Base: weary
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more wearily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most wearily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a weary manner; feeling weary.
pos: adv
examples: "Yes," said Marvin. "Wearily I sit here, pain and misery my only companions."
People living in the Portishead area have grown wearily familiar with delays and cost overruns since reopening the railway (part of the MetroWest project) was approved in 2012.
gloss: In a weary manner; causing weariness.
pos: adv
Translations:
tartrazine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tart(a)r
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti
Proto-Hellenic *gʷyṓw-ō
Proto-Hellenic *ďṓwō
Ancient Greek ζώω (zṓō)
Ancient Greek ζῶ (zô)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ)
French azotebor.
English azote
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English azine
English tartrazine
From tart(a)r + azine.
Inflected forms:
form: tartrazines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lemon-yellow azo dye used as a food colouring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Rowlands and Gorecki said that existing methods to turn tissue transparent use solutions that have side effects such as dehydration and swelling and can alter the structure of the tissue. However, tartrazine was used at a low concentration, and its effects were easily undone, potentially facilitating prolonged study of biological processes in live animals, they wrote.
The European Union requires a warning label on products that contain three artificial food dyes approved in the U.S.:
Yellow No. 5, also known as tartrazine.
Red No. 40, also called E129 or Allura Red AC.
Yellow No. 6, called sunset yellow or E110.
Translations:
thank-you
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of thank + you.
Inflected forms:
form: thank-yous
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thankyou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thank you
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An expression of gratitude.
pos: noun
examples: I must offer a big thank-you to my agent for getting me this job.
gloss: That expresses thanks.
pos: noun
examples: a thank-you letter
Translations:
diimide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Hellenic *dwi-
Ancient Greek δῐ- (dĭ-)bor.
Latin di-bor.
English di-
Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor.
Latin Ammōn
Latin ammoniacusder.
English ammonia
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English amide
English imide
English diimide
From di- + imide.
Inflected forms:
form: diimides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The compound HN=NH
pos: noun
gloss: Any azo compound derived from this simple compound
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: diazene
diimine
Translations:
rhombencephalon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: From rhomb + encephalon.
Compound parts: rhomb
encephalon
Inflected forms:
form: rhombencephalons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rhombencephala
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The hindbrain.
pos: noun
Translations:
dihydroxy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Hellenic *dwi-
Ancient Greek δῐ- (dĭ-)bor.
Latin di-bor.
English di-
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
English oxy
English hydroxy
English dihydroxy
From di- + hydroxy.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Containing two hydroxy functional groups.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
garrote
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish garrote. Doublet of garrot.
Inflected forms:
form: garrotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: garotte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: garrotte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: garrotes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: garroting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: garroted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: garroted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: garotte
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
form: garrotte
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: I have twenty times done that which by Busnée law should have brought me to the filimicha (gallows), yet my neck has never yet been squeezed by the cold garrote.
[…] promising that, by so doing, the painful death to which he had been sentenced should be commuted for the milder form of the garrote,—a mode of punishment by strangulation, used for criminals in Spain.
The prison, scaffold, garrote, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work, / The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
The Spanish had responded to the insurgency with characteristic brutality. They gave rebels the "usual four shots in the back" or the garrote—an iron collar tightened around the victim's neck with a screw until he was strangled to death.
gloss: Something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation.
pos: noun
examples: The mob boss was known for having his enemies executed with a garrote of piano wire.
gloss: To execute by strangulation, to kill using a garrote.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I have not a sou, and for want of a few crowns I shall be garroted within a month unless I can escape, though, as I told you before, I have done nothing, a mere bagatelle; but the worst crimes in Spain are poverty and misery.
gloss: To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “And then Lee may have fallen into the river, and Norton been garrotted. It is certainly a formidable indictment that you have against Bellingham; but if you were to place it before a police magistrate, he would simply laugh in your face.”
About this time the police reports were full of cases of garrotting. The victim was seized from behind, one man gagged or burked him, while another picked his pocket.
Related words: garrot
Derived words: garroter
Translations:
reata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish reatabor.
English reata
Borrowed from Spanish reata.
Inflected forms:
form: reatas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: riata
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lariat or lasso.
pos: noun
tags: Texas
examples: The riders overtook them laughing and circled the cart at a full gallop until one of them took down his reata and dropped a loop over the mule’s head and brought it to a halt.
Translations:
lariat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: From Spanish la reata (“the lasso”).
Inflected forms:
form: lariats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lariats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lariating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lariated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lariated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A lasso.
pos: noun
examples: Not so circumscribed in expedient for the reduction of surplus wealth were those lairds of the lariat who had womenfolk to their name.
I'm putting on my riding hat / Got my boots and my lariat / Ooh hoo I'm dressing up in style
gloss: A tether.
pos: noun
gloss: An attack where the wrestler runs towards an opponent, wraps his arm around their upper chest and neck and then forces them to the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: To lasso.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Here they dismounted, lariated their horses, in order that they might enjoy the long, green grass growing near the banks of the brook; and bathing their faces in the cool, sparkling water, they partook sparingly of their provisions.
Synonyms: rope
lasso
Derived words: lariat ether
Translations:
risp
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rispen, from Old Norse rispa (“scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *ripsōną (“to rend; rip; tear open”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyb- (“to tear; snatch; pluck; reap”). Compare also Old Norse rifsa (“to plunder; reave”).
Inflected forms:
form: risps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: risping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: risped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: risped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: resp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: risps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: resp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To rub together, to rasp or grate.
pos: verb
gloss: A rubbing or grating together.
pos: noun
examples: [T]hat Greek waste silent but for the risp of the tettix and the wash of listless wind through the spare grass.
Translations:
convexity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English convex
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English convexity
From convex + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: convexities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being convex.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A convex line or surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: concavity
Derived words: concavo-convexity
hyperconvexity
non-convexity
nonconvexity
polyconvexity
pseudoconvexity
quasiconvexity
Schur-convexity
subconvexity
vega convexity
Translations:
rowel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.
Inflected forms:
form: rowels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rowell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rowels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roweling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: rowelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: roweled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: roweled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: rowelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: rowelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: rowell
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small spiked wheel on the end of a spur of certain types.
pos: noun
examples: I / Perceive 'tis an advantage for a man to vvear ſpurres, / The rovvell of Knight-hood does gingle in the eare of their / Vnderſtanding.
The deep and sharp rowels with which Ivanhoe’s heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy,[…].
The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur.
The Lone Ranger will storm in at the head of a posse, rowels tearing blood from the stallion’s white hide, to find his young friend, innocent Dan, swinging from a tree limb by a broken neck.
He nodded at the Americans. Buena suerte, he said. He put the long rowels of his spurs to the horse and they moved on.
gloss: A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
pos: noun
examples: The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.
gloss: A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
pos: noun
gloss: To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fit with spurs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To apply the spur to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to rowel a horse
When the first dogs barked Glanton roweled his horse forward and they came out of the trees and across the dry scrub with the long necks of the horses leaning out of the dust avid as hounds […].
gloss: To incite; to goad.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: He would have been completely ignorant of what was going on if Frank, periodically roweled by the viciously anti-labor stand of the Pittsburgh newspapers, hadn't felt the need of an audience.
Derived words: rowel-head
Translations:
ruckle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of ruck.
Inflected forms:
form: ruckles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ruckling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ruckled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ruckled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ruckles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To crease or wrinkle.
pos: verb
gloss: A disordered collection.
pos: noun
examples: Seldom he comes by this way ; but he is amang them yonder, wi' a hookit nose and chin, grey blear'd een, lang black hair, and a ruckle o' duds for claise o' a' sorts, wi' bits o' embroidery sewed on them.
She can't sit in the car by herself for a couple of hours whilst I clamber up a rocky river bed to see a ruckle of stones and a view that you can't see for the rain and mist, so I magnanimously say I'll come with her.
The ground there is a ruckle of loose stones arranged in flat beds by running water, possibly by streams which flow out of 'the Gulf of Mexico,' or whatever the name of the highest corrie may be.
My father said to me after the harvest, 'Now your mother's a ruckle of bones in the kirkyard, there's nobody to knit sea stockings for us.
gloss: A wrinkle.
pos: noun
examples: After the second lunch, with a little more to drink, he helped her into her coat more zealously, smoothing the material down over one should blade as if the cloth had suddenly thrown up a ruckle.
When she was little and I went to see her in bed, I often thought she wasn't there. She lay so neatly and so straight, without a ruckle and with her head just under the top of the bedclothes.
It meant ruckling his sock right down, and nobody likes a ruckly sock, but this was no time to be stopped by a ruckle.
Derived words: ruckly
Translations:
saltillo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish saltillobor.
English saltillo
Borrowed from Spanish saltillo.
Inflected forms:
form: saltillos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In Mexican languages, especially Nahuatl, a glottal stop or fricative sound.
pos: noun
gloss: In mostly Hispanophone countries, especially Mexico, an apostrophe-like letter (lowercase ꞌ and in some orthographies capital Ꞌ) used to represent a glottal stop.
pos: noun
Translations:
runnel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English runel, rennel, rinel, from Old English rynel (“that which runs; runner; stream”), from Proto-Germanic *runilaz, equivalent to run + -el. Cognate with Scots rinel, rinnal (“stream; runnel”), Swedish rännel (“runner; runnel”).
Base: run
Affixes: -el
Inflected forms:
form: runnels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rinel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rindle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: runnels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: runneling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: runnelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: runneled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: runneled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: runnelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: runnelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: rinel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: rindle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small stream, a rivulet.
pos: noun
examples: Spring, is ye comen in, / Dappled larke singe, / Snow melteth, / Runnel pelteth, / Smelleth wind of newe buddinge.
Every little runnel in the bay was astir, and yet the land around him was as dry as flax, and no drop of rain had fallen.
[…] great chambers in the rock where all sorts of plants were growing, under windows which had been cut to let in the sun, and glazed to adjust his warmth, and where runnels of water ran between fruit trees and seedlings, pumpkin plants and herbs.
gloss: A small artificial channel for water to flow in.
pos: noun
examples: Still lower down the slope, on a staircase by the Eastern Bastion, there is an elaborate piece of hydraulic science for checking the flow of water. A stone runnel is made to descend the stairs in a series of parabolic curves which would subject the water to friction, and thus reduce its velocity and the consequent danger of a flood on the pavement below.
gloss: To create channels for directing the flow of liquid.
pos: verb
examples: Not all saltmarshes are suited to habitat modification, but where they are, runnelling provides long-term and cost-effective control with minor non-target impacts.
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
The people who settled here weren’t farmers. They hunted. Yet they built a large amphitheater of mud, a platform carefully runneled to carry liquid—possibly blood.
Translations:
sabir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sabir.
Inflected forms:
form: sabirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a lingua franca
pos: noun
examples: My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge.
Translations:
Sabir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly a native Turkic formation; see Sabir. Cognate to Greek Σαβίνος (Savínos), Σάβιροι (Sáviroi).
Inflected forms:
form: Sabirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Savir
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a (possibly Turkic) people or tribe who lived around the Caspian before the arrival of the Avars.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
fineness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fine
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 fineness
From fine + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: finenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or degree of being fine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ratio, in a precious metal, of the primary metal to any additives or impurities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ratio of length to width of a ship, aircraft or rocket
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: overfineness
Translations:
Minoan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Sir Arthur Evans, not knowing the Minoan term for “Minoan” at the time, coined this name in the early 20th century, from Ancient Greek Μίνως (Mínōs), the mythical king of Crete. The actual name is probably reflected in Egyptian kftjw (perhaps reconstructible as *Káftayu) and Biblical Hebrew כַּפְתּוֹר (Kaftor, “Caphthor”).
Inflected forms:
form: Minoans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the civilization that developed in Crete from the neolithic period to the Bronze Age (about 3000-1050 B.C.E.).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the writing systems (Linear A and Linear B) used in Crete and later in mainland Greece.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the ancient language of the Minoans which died out by the beginning of the 1st millennium B.C.E.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person who belonged to the Minoan civilization.
pos: noun
Translations:
respecting
Part of speech: prep
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: regarding; considering
pos: prep
examples: I wrote to him respecting the proposed lawsuit.
Translations:
stopping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
dentistry
medicine
mining
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: stoppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something that stops; a halt.
pos: noun
examples: constant startings and stoppings
gloss: Material for filling a cavity in a tooth.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: an amalgam stopping
curious antiquaries, sifting the ruins of time, when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth
Then one day a big stopping came out of one of my back teeth.
gloss: A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
pos: noun
gloss: A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
pos: noun
examples: 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
The drawing poultices and stoppings of farriers are often highly injurious, instead of abating inflammation .
Synonyms: moratorium
recess
Derived words: heartstopping
hot-stopping
manstopping
nonstopping
non-stopping
prestopping
pre-stopping
puckstopping
showstopping
stopping distance
stoppingly
stopping-out
stopping power
stopping service
stopping time
stopping train
th-stopping
Translations:
blowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English blowynge, blowyng, from Old English blāwung (“blowing”), equivalent to blow + -ing.
Base: blow
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: blowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who blows, or that which blows.
pos: noun
examples: the blowings of a trumpet
the puffings and blowings of an unfit runner
[…] the tea had been poured from the cups into the deep saucers from which it would have been drunk with genteel blowings and whiffings, according to the custom of the time.
Translations:
declaring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English declaring, declaryng, declaringe, declarynge, equivalent to declare + -ing (gerund ending).
Base: declare
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: declarings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making something known; announcing; proclaiming
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
gaining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Gain; profit.
pos: noun
examples: […] yet, when the Doctor was about it, he might as well have told the public, that my gainings were annually thirty thousand, instead of three […]
Translations:
sadhu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit साधु (sādhú, “good; good man, holy man”).
Inflected forms:
form: sadhus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (enjoyment), artha (practical objectives) and even dharma (duty).
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
examples: Then again these figures take no account of the thousands of beggars who travel free in India. Many of these are religious "Sadhus", dressed often in nothing but a loin-cloth, or even less, and their bodies smeared with ashes. A large number of these men are nothing but impostors, but the Hindu railway staff usually are afraid to interfere with them.
It was clad in white in the manner of an Indian sadu or holy man, and it was walking barefoot on the grubby pavements.
So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances, obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location, carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me, and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu.
Translations:
waitstaff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wait + staff.
Compound parts: wait
staff
Inflected forms:
form: waitstaffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wait staff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: waiting staff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Collectively, staff employed to wait at tables in a restaurant.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
uncountable
usually
Translations:
priced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a price of the kind specified.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
Translations: