yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unselect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English select
English unselect
From un- + select.
Inflected forms:
form: unselects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unselecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unselected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unselected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cancel a previous selection, especially by removing a mark from a tick box.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reverse the previous selection of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: deselect
Translations:
unpatched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English patched
English unpatched
From un- + patched.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not fitted with patches.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ragged, unpatched jeans
gloss: For which a patch is not yet available.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 2007, Harris et al, Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook
Microsoft is actually pretty good about warning users about active attacks abusing unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.
gloss: Not patched; to which a patch has not been applied.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When working with kernel patches, it's a good idea to apply them to a clean, unpatched kernel.
Translations:
unreasoned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English reasoned
English unreasoned
From un- + reasoned.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not reasoned; irrational.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
unreferenced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English referenced
English unreferenced
From un- + referenced.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not referenced.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
unpolite
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + polite. Compare earlier unpolished.
Base: polite
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unpolite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unpolite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unsophisticated, not refined; coarse, uncultured.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Lacking in good manners; impolite, discourteous.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
examples: [H]e has all along, by his threatening and unpolite behaviour to my friends, and whenever he ſpeaks of them, given me reaſon to conclude, that there is more malice to them, than regard to me, in his perſeverance.
Translations:
uninitialized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English initialized
English uninitialized
From un- + initialized.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not initialized.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
zina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic زِنَى (zinā)bor.
English zina
Borrowed from Arabic زِنَى (zinā).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Adultery, fornication.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
dro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of hydroponic.
Inflected forms:
form: 'dro
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Marijuana grown hydroponically.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: They upset for sho', cause they think they know / That they catching me with plenty of the drank and dro
Premro, full of that dro.
The 'Licious Lovers / Known for the closed lips / Letting the 'dro drift/whole click, boat trips/Pocono slope shit / Running our own shit
Translations:
blogroll
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of blog + logroll, or as back-formation from blogrolling.
Compound parts: blog
logroll
Inflected forms:
form: blogrolls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blogger's list of hyperlinks to other blogs that he/she recommends.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
aimbot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From aim + bot.
Compound parts: aim
bot
Inflected forms:
form: aimbots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aimbots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aimbotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aimbotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aimbotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A program or patch that allows the player to cheat by having the character's weapon aimed automatically.
pos: noun
examples: For the British, in the first confrontation, [a range-clock system] probably would've been somewhat useful - especially if Iron Duke was giving the ranges, considering that thing seemed to have an aimbot installed - but it would've maybe only marginally improved things for the British, I think.
gloss: To cheat in a video game using an aimbot.
pos: verb
Translations:
tagboard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tag + board.
Compound parts: tag
board
Inflected forms:
form: tagboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tag board
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small message board on a webpage, usually located in the sidebar, where visitors can leave a name and short message.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
dated
rare
examples: The purpose of cam girl blogs vary wildly. They may contain anything from one-line entries about how the girl is feeling that day[…] or when she will be online to chat (often conducted via a tagboard—an instant message board—on her site), […]
gloss: Synonym of oaktag.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Lay one piece of tagboard, 14" x 4", on the wrong side of the cretonne, 2 1/4" x 5", with a one-half-inch border of cretonne on all four sides. Draw a pencil line on the cretonne around the tagboard, then remove the[…]
Cut two equal pieces of tagboard the size of a greeting card.
Translations:
supermajor
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs
Proto-Italic *magjōs
Latin maiorder.
Middle English major
English major
English supermajor
From super- + major.
Inflected forms:
form: supermajors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very major; of great significance or importance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An interval larger in size than a major interval but smaller than the next largest minor interval.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any of the world's largest privately owned oil and gas companies.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Freeman prefers smaller yet still diversified companies with stronger growth profiles than the supermajors, like Apache, which has interests in natural gas as well as oil, and Occidental Petroleum, which produces oil, gas and chemicals. […] “The supermajors are still a great place to be because they’re starting to bring large projects on line that have been years in the making,” she said.
Not surprisingly, the oil “supermajors” and the IEA disagree. […] Currently, Exxon Mobil vies with Apple as the world’s biggest listed company. Yet Exxon and the other oil supermajors are more vulnerable than they look (see article).
International oil companies operating in Africa range from the supermajors to majors, the still smaller independents, and finally the lean frontier specialists that operate in emerging producers.
gloss: A very large soldier ant, bigger than a major.
pos: noun
Translations:
squinty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English squint
English -y
English squinty
From squint + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: squintier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: squintiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Afflicted with a squint.
pos: adj
gloss: Sidelong, slanting, askew.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
examples: That frame is a bit squinty, you'll have to right it.
Derived words: squintily
squintiness
Translations:
unce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See ounce.
Inflected forms:
form: unces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Early Modern spelling of ounce.
pos: noun
examples: TAke the oyle of Castoreum two vnces, oyle roset, and oyle of better Almondes of eche an vnce, of Aqua vite two vnces, mingle al together and seeth it vntill the Aqua vite be consumed.
[…] and when you wil vse it, take of this pouder, iij. Vnces, of Bole armoniack half an vnce, of Puluis alcamisticus one vnce.
[…] of the séedes of Anise, and cumine, eche one vnce, raysons the stones piked oute, a handfull, boyle all these in a sufficient quantitie […]
Translations:
deployability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deploy
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English deployability
From deploy + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: deployabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The extent to which something is deployable
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
deployable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French déployable, deploy + -able.
Base: deploy
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more deployable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deployable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: deployables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be deployed.
pos: adj
examples: […] Germany had 284,500 active personnel in the armed forces with only 7500 readily deployable forces and 6810 committed to peace support operations; France had 259,050 personnel[…]
gloss: Ejectable, separable from the aircraft.
pos: adj
examples: It played a significant role in the evolution of the deployable recorder, and offers an attractive alternative to "fixed recorders" in a "dual redundancy" installation (discussed later)
For example, helicopters that ditch at sea are often unrecoverable and consequently, despite the systems' higher cost and increased complexity, the Navy needed deployable recorder systems for its helicopters.
gloss: Something, such as a software package or a military resource, that may be deployed.
pos: noun
Derived words: nondeployable
undeployable
Translations:
over-consumption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
Latin cōnsūmptiōder.
Old French consumpcionbor.
Middle English consumpcioun
English consumption
English over-consumption
From over- + consumption.
Inflected forms:
form: overconsumption
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An excessive level of consumption
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
one-stop
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: management
Etymology: Generalization of one-stop shop.
Inflected forms:
form: one-stops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Describing a service operation at which all of a customer's needs may be satisfied without visiting another.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: At a local microlevel 'one-stop' or 'one-window' service delivery arrangements have proved popular.
Features like storefronts for brands could be understood as attempts by TikTok to catch up to Instagram’s own recent attempts at becoming a one-stop shopping destination.
gloss: A wholesaler serving the music industry.
pos: noun
examples: Independent R&B music retailers around the country are banding together into coalitions, seeking to create the buying power of a chain and get increased attention and service from labels and one-stops.
Translations:
Olympism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Olympic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English Olympism
From Olympic + -ism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A spirit or ideals of the Olympic Games
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The advocacy or promotion of these principles
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
enteropathy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From entero- + -pathy.
Base: entero
Inflected forms:
form: enteropathies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An intestinal disorder or disease.
pos: noun
Translations:
beta-sitosterol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: β-sitosterol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A phytosterol found in many plant sources; it is used to reduce blood cholesterol
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
winching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: winchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The application of a winch.
pos: noun
examples: For instance, repeated shaking can be hazardous—gusty winds uproot trees at speeds well below those of steady winds and at forces lower than those predicted by experimental winchings.
Translations:
stuntwoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stunt + woman.
Compound parts: stunt
woman
Inflected forms:
form: stuntwomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman who performs stunts.
pos: noun
Translations:
nurturance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nurture
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English nurturance
From nurture + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: nurturances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The provision of physical and emotional care.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Rousseauist responsiveness and nurturance automatically flip over into their opposites.
gloss: The act of supporting, fostering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The colossal stupidity of the one-party strategy has had three disastrous effects: the nurturance of right-wing Republican homophobes, the weakening and silencing of pro-gay, progressive Republicans, and the allowance of lacklustrer, liberal Democrats to exploit us at their will and ignore us at their convenience.
Translations:
nucleocapsid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *knuks
Latin nux
Latin nucleuslbor.
English nucleus
English nucleo-
English capsid
English nucleocapsid
From nucleo- + capsid.
Inflected forms:
form: nucleocapsids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The core structure of a virus, consisting of nucleic acid surrounded by a coat of protein
pos: noun
Translations:
nonuse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
Proto-Italic *oissos
Latin ūsus
Old French usbor.
Middle English use
English use
English nonuse
From non- + use.
Inflected forms:
form: nonuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: non-use
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The failure to make use of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sacred values, and the taboos that protect them, can be attached to resources that we decide are genuinely precious, such as identifiable lives, national borders, and the nonuse of chemical and nuclear weapons.
Translations:
neurotropic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more neurotropic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most neurotropic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: neurotropical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to neurotropism.
pos: adj
Translations:
hydrokinetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
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 kinetic
English hydrokinetic
From hydro- + kinetic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to hydrokinetics
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the kinetic energy of moving fluids
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: hydrokinetically
Translations:
bottlenose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bottle + nose. The creatures have a bottle-shaped nose.
Compound parts: bottle
nose
Inflected forms:
form: bottlenoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: bottlenose dolphin.
pos: noun
gloss: bottlenose whale.
pos: noun
gloss: bottlenose skate.
pos: noun
gloss: The beak or rostrum of a dolphin.
pos: noun
examples: I didn’t have a mirror, but I could guess how gross I looked. I had this huge, long bottlenose sticking out of my otherwise normal face. My skin was gray rubber. And when I felt behind me with my rapidly shriveling hands, I could feel the triangular blade of a dorsal fin rising out of my spine.
The dolphin’s bottlenose struck the boy causing fatal internal injuries.
Lilia leaned over the side and Merovinge rose up and touched her nose with the tip of her dolphin's bottlenose while Clovis said, "The water is quite pleasant folks."
A dolphin might be thinking of ripping your heart out, or poking you to death with its bottlenose, the way it might do to a shark, but since it’s always smiling, you think it’s your friend.
Translations:
ray-finned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
form: rayfinned
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of the Actinopterygii taxonomic class, all having in common lepidotrichia (a kind of fin made of webs of skin supported by bony or horny spines).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sportsperson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sports + person.
Compound parts: sports
person
Inflected forms:
form: sportspersons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sportspeople
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who plays sport, regardless of gender.
pos: noun
Translations:
whitethroat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From white + throat; so-called because the male of the species has a white throat.
Compound parts: white
throat
Inflected forms:
form: whitethroats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sylvia communis, a species of typical warbler.
pos: noun
Translations:
big-headed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more big-headed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most big-headed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Arrogant, having an exaggerated perception of one's positive qualities.
pos: adj
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, headed.
pos: adj
Related words: big head
bighead
Derived words: big-headed jack
big-headed sculpin
big-headed rice rat
big-headed turtle
big-headedness
Translations:
lang: Hungarian
word: nagyfejű
lang: Russian
word: голова́стый
roman: golovástyj
lang: Russian
word: большеголо́вый
roman: bolʹšegolóvyj
lang: Spanish
word: sholón
lang: Ukrainian
word: голова́тий
roman: holovátyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: великоголо́вий
roman: velykoholóvyj
colectivo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish colectivo. In reference to shared taxis, clipping of taxi colectivo. Doublet of collective.
Inflected forms:
form: colectivos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of bus or shared taxi in South America.
pos: noun
gloss: A government-backed far-left paramilitary group in Venezuela
pos: noun
Translations:
firebird
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fire + bird, so called because of their bright red or orange plumage.
Compound parts: fire
bird
Inflected forms:
form: firebirds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scarlet tanager (Piranga olivacea). (This species is now classified as belonging to the cardinal family: Cardinalidae)
pos: noun
gloss: A Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula).
pos: noun
gloss: A vermilion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus).
pos: noun
gloss: A magical and prophetic glowing or burning bird from a faraway land, which is both a blessing and a harbinger of doom to its captor
pos: noun
Translations:
strumming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: strummings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to strum
pos: noun
Translations:
comuna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: comunas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The smallest administrative subdivision in Chile.
pos: noun
Translations:
damselfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From damsel + fish.
Compound parts: damsel
fish
Inflected forms:
form: damselfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: damselfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Most fish in the Pomacentridae family.
pos: noun
Translations:
dashi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 出汁 (dashi, “essence, dashi soup”) (hiragana だし), from noun form of 出す (dasu, “to draw, to extract”).
Inflected forms:
form: dashis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of soup or cooking stock, often made from kelp.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Kombu (KOHM-boo): This Japanese seaweed is used to make dashi, an Asian soup stock, and to flavor rice and stews.
A great dashi (stock) is essential, as it is the crucial element in soups, dipping sauces, nimono (simmered dishes) and nabemono (hotpot dishes), and for cooking fish and vegetables.
Dashi is the basic soup stock for many Japanese dishes including noodle soups.
Translations:
cinerary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin cinerārius.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or containing ashes, especially those of a cremated person.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cooldown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cool downdeverb.
English cooldown
Deverbal from cool down.
Inflected forms:
form: cooldowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rest period between sets or workout sessions, when cooling of body temperature may occur.
pos: noun
gloss: Any rest period between sessions of an activity or event.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Any rest period between sessions of an activity or event.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I had to wait for the cooldown to finish before recasting the spell.
Private Terminal: After using a power, you must wait for it to recharge before using it again.
Private Terminal: This is called the cooldown period. When a power is in cooldown, its icon is gray. A red icon indicates that the power cannot affect the current target.
gloss: Any rest period between sessions of an activity or event.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Don't waste your cooldown on weak enemies!
Related words: frag
Translations:
verticality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From vertical + -ity; compare French verticalité.
Base: vertical
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: verticalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Verticalness; the state or condition of being vertical.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For these complicated reasons, although, when the sun is vertical, and darts a perpendicular ray, it is supposed to strike with greatest force; yet, in those countries where it is vertical twice a year, in passing to and from the Tropic of Cancer, the greatest heat is not during the instant of its verticalities, but some weeks after, when it is returning from one Tropic to the other, and its rays oblique.
1847, Raphael Brandon and Joshua Arthur Brandon, An Analysis of Gothick Architecture, London: P. Richardson, Introduction, pp. 2-3,
A tendency to direct verticality, placing itself in, perhaps, violent contrast with the Romanesque horizontalism of the Anglo-Norman, had been in the Early English Gothick, the special characteristick of that beautiful style.
From their garden, a precarious terrace in a world of verticality, we could look down two or three thousand feet into the Teesta Valley below, an inky well imprisoning a fleet of porcelain clouds.
Translations:
horizontality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English horizontal
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English horizontality
From horizontal + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: horizontalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Horizontalness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Craving horizontality, we move into the bedroom.
Translations:
frameset
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From frame + set.
Compound parts: frame
set
Inflected forms:
form: framesets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bicycle's frame plus the front fork.
pos: noun
gloss: The set of frames that constitute the layout of a webpage.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: The reloading of the frameset is obviously less attractive than simply changing the location of one frame.
Translations:
new-mown
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: newmown
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That has recently been mown.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Phosgene has the odor of new-mown hay and chlorine has a strong bleach or chlorine odor.
Translations:
moneyless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English moneyeles, equivalent to money + -less.
Base: money
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more moneyless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most moneyless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having no (or very little) money.
pos: adj
examples: The result, say the few moneyless militants, is a divided national Indian leadership populated by Uncle Tomahawks, or “apples,” red on the outside, white on the inside.
"There's a lot of times I wished I would have died because I was pathetic," [Stewart] says matter of factly. "I guess I started digging a hole for myself and it got so bad I got homeless, moneyless, friendless. I just started covering myself up instead of climbing out of the hole."
gloss: That does not use money as a means of exchange.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: nonmoney
In eras when trade was largely by barter and taxes were usually paid in kind, moneyless transactions could constitute a large percentage of a national economy.
Related words: unmoneyed
cashless
Derived words: moneylessness
Translations:
quarryman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quarry
English -man
English quarryman
From quarry + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: quarrymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man involved in quarrying (mining for stone).
pos: noun
examples: Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo.
He then described how a quarryman had bought the mineral rights of an estate at Melkridge, on the route of the Roman Wall, for twenty-one years.
Translations:
quart-pot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From quart + pot.
Compound parts: quart
pot
Inflected forms:
form: quart-pots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tin pot holding a quart of liquid, used for measurement or drinking.
pos: noun
Translations:
microsatellite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aerospace
biology
business
engineering
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
space-science
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English satellite
English microsatellite
From micro- + satellite.
Inflected forms:
form: microsatellites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A miniature satellite.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of a group of polymorphic loci in DNA that consist of repeat units of just a few base pairs.
pos: noun
gloss: An artificial satellite between 10 and 100 kilograms in mass.
pos: noun
Synonyms: microsat
Translations:
metasoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor.
English meta-
English soma
English metasoma
From meta- + soma.
Inflected forms:
form: metasomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The posterior part of the three-part body-structure of many arthropods, the other two parts being prosoma and mesosoma.
pos: noun
Translations:
megafaunal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English megafauna
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English megafaunal
From megafauna + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to megafauna.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
skeeter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of a variant pronunciation of mosquito. Compare tater, mater.
Inflected forms:
form: skeeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: skeeters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skeetering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skeetered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skeetered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A mosquito.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
examples: One day brought the rain and the rain stayed on
And the swamp water overflowed.
Skeeters and the fever grabbed the town like a fist
Doctor Jackson was the first to go.
gloss: To skitter.
pos: verb
examples: The tire bumped on gravel, skeetered across the road, crashed into a barrier and popped me like a cork onto pavement.
They skeetered out and then made an elegant racing turn and skeetered directly into her.
The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist.
Bullets skeetered across the rocks, snapping off fragments in deadly shrapnel bursts, gouging furrows in the serir around the advancing men.
A twilight fox skeetered across the car park.
Translations:
marly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English marl
English -y
English marly
From marl + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: marlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: marliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing or resembling marl.
pos: adj
Translations:
mard
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: marded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: marded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cosset (a child)
pos: verb
tags: Yorkshire
gloss: An irritable mood.
pos: noun
Translations:
Badger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See Badger State.
Inflected forms:
form: Badgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or resident of the American state of Wisconsin.
pos: noun
Translations:
Buckeye
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Buckeyes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or resident of the American states of Ohio or Arizona.
pos: noun
Translations:
Hawkeye
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Hawkeyes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or resident of the American state of Iowa.
pos: noun
Translations:
gurl
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English gurlen
English gurl
Inherited from Middle English gurlen (“to growl, rumble”).
Inflected forms:
form: gurls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gurling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gurled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gurled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To growl or snarl.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
Scotland
examples: The poor little doctor, thus rudely and suddenly aroused from his tipsy sleep, looked excessively bewildered when he opened his eyes, and met the glare of ferocious delight that Darby Kelleher cast upon him, and he gurled out, “What's the matter?” as well as the grip of Darby's hand upon his throat would permit him.
“Weel may ye mind, yon night sae black, Whan fearfu' winds loud gurled, And mony a lum dang down—and stack, Heigh i' the air up swirled, Alangst yon brae, ye clam, and stack,
Translations:
Catalonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Catalonia
English -an
English Catalonian
From Catalonia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Catalonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Catalan.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The large Benedictine order living at Montserrat is devoted to preserving Catalonian culture—a mission that endears them to the Catalans. (So much so that in tribute, thousands of Catalonian girls are named Montserrat—Montse for short.)
gloss: Catalan.
pos: noun
Translations:
Strombolian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian Strombolibor.
English Stromboli
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Strombolian
From Stromboli + -ian.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the island or volcano of Stromboli.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Describing a volcanic eruption characterized by a fiery fountain of lava from a single, central crater.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
volcanically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English volcanic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English volcanically
From volcanic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more volcanically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most volcanically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: By means of a volcano.
pos: adv
gloss: In a volcanic (explosive) manner.
pos: adv
tags: figuratively
Translations:
stratovolcano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English strato-
Doric Greek Ϝέλχανος (Wélkhanos)der.?
Latin Vulcānusbor.
Italian Vulcano
Italian vulcanobor.
English volcano
English stratovolcano
From strato- (“layer”) + volcano.
Inflected forms:
form: stratovolcanoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stratovolcanos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tall conical volcano, composed of layers (or strata) of hardened lava, tephra and ash.
pos: noun
Translations:
spondylolisthesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin spondylolisthesis, equivalent to spondylo- (“spine”) + Ancient Greek ὀλισθάνω (olisthánō, “to slip, slide”) + -esis.
Affixes: spondylo-
-esis
Inflected forms:
form: spondylolistheses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A forward displacement of a vertebra over a lower vertebra, due to a congenital defect or injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
raptorial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English raptor
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English raptorial
From raptor + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: more raptorial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most raptorial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like or resembling a raptor; seizing or plundering, like a bird of prey.
pos: adj
examples: When its legs are extended, it measures one and a half inches wide, and the raptorial claws hint that it is a fierce predator.
Translations:
logout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English log outdeverb.
English logout
Deverbal from log out.
Inflected forms:
form: logouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of logging out.
pos: noun
Translations:
lymphangioma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lymph-
English angioma
English lymphangioma
From lymph- + angioma.
Inflected forms:
form: lymphangiomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lymphangiomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A benign tumour of the lymph vessel.
pos: noun
Translations:
lymphedema
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: lymphedemas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lymphoedema
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lymphœdema
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The swelling of tissue due to retention of fluid in the lymph vessels.
pos: noun
Translations:
lymphopenia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From lympho- + -penia.
Base: lympho
Inflected forms:
form: lymphopenias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of having an abnormally reduced number of lymphocytes in the blood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
telangiectasia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Mid 19th century New Latin, from telo- + angiectasia, reflecting Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “end, telo-”) + Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “vessel, angio-”) + Ancient Greek ἔκτασις (éktasis, “stretching out, extension”) + Latin -ia.
Base: angiectasia
Affixes: telo-
Inflected forms:
form: telangiectasias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: telangiectasiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: telangiectasiæ
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
Senses:
gloss: A condition characterized by dilatation of the capillaries, causing them to appear as small red or purple clusters, often spidery in appearance, on the skin or the surface of an organ.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Chronic venous disease includes cosmetically undesirable telangiectasias, varicose veins, venous ulceration, and claudication.
Translations:
unrepaired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English repaired
English unrepaired
From un- + repaired.
Inflected forms:
form: more unrepaired
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unrepaired
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not repaired.
pos: adj
Translations:
Rothschild
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Rothschild family.
Inflected forms:
form: Rothschilds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Rothschildren
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: A very rich person.
pos: noun
Translations:
sandblasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sandblastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is sandblasted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
in-joke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From in (“having familiarity or involvement with somebody”, adjective) + joke.
Inflected forms:
form: in-jokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of inside joke (“a joke that is understood or meant to be understood only by certain people who are aware of the details”).
pos: noun
examples: Well, it’s a bit of an in-joke, but Fred has been going to start that diet “tomorrow” for the last few months.
We have an in-joke; whenever someone sings a wrong note, they wipe the mistake off their music with an obvious gesture.
Perhaps these quotations arose from some in-joke of Yule’s, but whatever the case the lexicographical worth of these citations is dubious.
Intentionally or not, the movie [Ralph Breaks the Internet] makes Disney feel as enormous as the internet itself, containing a series of micro-targeted idiosyncrasies and in-jokes that are nonetheless controlled by a cultural monolith (whether that's Disney or whatever massive corporation owns your local ISP).
The marketing of this relatively new money has so far been limited mostly to ads on trade websites and targeted pushes on social media, where aficionados swap meme-fueled in-jokes about coin values rocketing to the moon.
Translations:
malinvestment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin maleder.
Old French mal-
English mal-
English investment
English malinvestment
From mal- + investment.
Inflected forms:
form: malinvestments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An incorrect or unwise investment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Action by R. B. Carman against the executors of the will of John Wightman to recover the amount due upon a mortgage, and counterclaim by defendants against R. B. Carman, James Leitch, and R. A. Pringle, for malinvestment of funds, etc.
Even if market participants realize that price signals may be distorted, they have no good way to know what the undistorted set of prices would be, so malinvestment takes place during the boom phase of the business cycle.
It is painful for the owners of malinvestments but fast and efficient.
Translations:
Confucianist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Mandarin 孔夫子 (Kǒng Fūzǐ)
Latin -ius
New Latin Cōnfuciuslbor.
English Confucius
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Confucian
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English Confucianist
From Confucian + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more Confucianist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Confucianist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Confucianists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Related to the teachings of Confucius; Confucian.
pos: adj
gloss: A follower of the teachings of Confucius; a Confucian.
pos: noun
Synonyms: Confucian
Translations:
microlight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
English microlight
From micro- + light.
Inflected forms:
form: microlights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ultralight aircraft.
pos: noun
examples: I’ve flown in flimsy microlights, soaring serenely above rich farmland. I’ve ridden tactical combat helicopters missions, skimming the desert floor and banking hard around sand dunes.
One of the things making the trip possible is Rutherford’s microlight aircraft. Microlights are small one or two-seat planes used for leisure or personal transport. If she completes her trip, Rutherford will also claim the record for the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo in a microlight aircraft.
gloss: The smallest manned aircraft classification, composed of ultralights and verylights; smaller than light aircraft.
pos: noun
gloss: A very small light.
pos: noun
examples: "I took $100, bought microlights and made the gloves myself," said Lim.
Derived words: microlighting
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: mikrovliegtuig
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: mikrofly
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: mikrofly
microfracture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Latin frangō
Latin frāctūrus
Latin frāctūrader.
Old French fracturebor.
Middle English fracture
English fracture
English microfracture
From micro- + fracture.
Inflected forms:
form: microfractures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very small, or fine, fracture, especially one of a series in bone.
pos: noun
Translations:
longclaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From long + claw.
Compound parts: long
claw
Inflected forms:
form: longclaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several passerine birds of the genus Macronyx, that have long hind claws
pos: noun
Translations:
longline
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
firefighting
fishing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: Etymology tree
English long
Middle French lignerbor.
English line
English longline
From long + line.
Inflected forms:
form: long-line
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: longlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: long-line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: longlines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: longlining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: longlined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: longlined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: long-line
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: longer than usual; especially reaching to the hips
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Strapless longline bra, with wired underbust and flexible boning, smooths womanly curves.
In the dressing room, the smiling attendant helped her into the longline corset with its built-in bra.
gloss: Gear consisting of a long and thick mainline, with baited hooks attached at intervals by means of branch lines called snoods or gangions.
pos: noun
gloss: A long cable used to raise or lower loads from a helicopter when landing is not possible.
pos: noun
gloss: To fish with a line of this kind.
pos: verb
examples: The Japanese, always on the prowl for something else to take out of the sea, have been longlining sharks for years, and eating them in a variety of ways.
Translations:
lunker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lunkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything, especially a sport fish, that is especially large for its type; a whopper.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
kutum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kutums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A freshwater fish (Rutilus kutum) native to the Caspian Sea.
pos: noun
Translations:
killable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kill
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English killable
From kill + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more killable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most killable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be killed.
pos: adj
gloss: Fit to be killed, especially as a source of food.
pos: adj
Derived words: unkillable
Translations:
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܡܸܬ݂ܩܲܛܠܵܢܵܐ
roman: miṯqaṭlānā
lang: Czech
word: zabitelný
lang: Dutch
word: doodbar
lang: French
word: tuable
lang: German
word: tötbar
lang: Portuguese
word: matável
lang: Russian
word: убиваемый
roman: ubivajemyj
lang: Slovak
word: zabiteľný