yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
regularly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English regular
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 regularly
From regular + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more regularly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most regularly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With constant frequency or pattern.
pos: adv
examples: We regularly buy lottery tickets from the corner store.
Wax models of the pudenda of both sexes were regularly placed before the altar.
Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did.
gloss: normally; ordinarily.
pos: adv
examples: Noemi decided to dress regularly for the party, instead of going for an outrageous outfit.
The period of life at which initiation takes place is regularly puberty.
Synonyms: routinely
Derived words: unregularly
Translations:
scamper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1687. Origin uncertain, but possibly from Dutch schamperen, from Old French escamper, from Vulgar Latin *excampāre.
Inflected forms:
form: scampers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scampers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scampering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scampered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scampered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A quick, light run.
pos: noun
gloss: To run lightly and quickly, especially in a playful or undignified manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The dog scampered after the squirrel.
[W]hy if you don't ſcamper, you'll be baſtil'd, before you can ſay, "Killarney."
And so saying he scampered off to the hill, to the amusement of honest Plat; and it is likely lost no time in making his advances to the young widow.
The younger and lighter members of his tribe scampered to the higher branches of the great trees to escape his wrath; risking their lives upon branches that scarce supported their weight rather than face old Kerchak in one of his fits of uncontrolled anger.
Three minutes later, Luka Modric scampered down the right, clipped a cross to the near post and Ronaldo’s clipped finish gave the remainder of the match an air of inevitability.
Translations:
repellent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Latin repellēns. Equivalent to repel + -ent.
Base: repel
Affixes: -ent
Inflected forms:
form: more repellent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most repellent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: repellant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: repellents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: repellant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Repulsive, inspiring aversion.
pos: adj
examples: The mixture of whey, beetroot juice, and spirulina seems repellent to me.
People are rightly and justifiably terrified with our culture. Many aspects of it are destructive and repellant.
[Martin] Heidegger's repellent political beliefs do not contaminate his philosophical work.
gloss: Resistant or impervious to something.
pos: adj
examples: All that fabric's supposed to be dust-repellent.
gloss: Tending or able to repel; driving back.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: These particles exercise a-highly repellent force.
gloss: A substance or solution used to repel insects, dangerous animals, or other pests.
pos: noun
examples: None of the mosquito repellents we've tried work.
gloss: A substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something.
pos: noun
examples: They applied dirt repellent to the sports car.
gloss: Someone or something that repels.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
obsolete
Derived words: insect repellent
chemorepellent
excitorepellent
interrepellent
nonrepellent
pussy repellent
Quarpel
repellency
repellently
unrepellent
water repellent
Translations:
bagpipes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From earlier bagpipe, from Middle English bagpipe; equivalent to bag + pipes.
Compound parts: bag
pipes
Inflected forms:
form: bagpipe
pos: noun
tags: singular
form: bagpipe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A musical wind instrument possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
examples: Bagpipes are traditionally played in most Celtic regions and many former parts of the British Empire.
“Iʼll tell you something: there is nothing in the world like the sound of the bagpipes to raise a manʼs morale, to lift his spirits, and give him strength.”
Translations:
trotter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er.
Base: trot
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: trotters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who trots.
pos: noun
examples: Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.
... empiricism “A lame cripple going along the right road can overtake a trotter if the latter is running along the wrong road. Moreover, the faster the trotter runs, once having lost the path, the further he lags behind the cripple”.[…]
gloss: In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.
pos: noun
examples: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
gloss: The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.
pos: noun
examples: grange cookbook recipes for trotters
Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.
In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement.
gloss: A person's foot.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.
gloss: A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
examples: One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^([sic]) of his county.
Derived words: bogtrotter
globetrotter
pig's trotter
term-trotter
trotter case
trotter-man
Translations:
tusk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz
Proto-West Germanic *tunsk
Old English tūsc
Old English tūx
Middle English tusk
English tusk
From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tūsc, tūx (“canine tooth, tusk, molar”), from Proto-West Germanic *tų̄sk, *tunsk, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“canine tooth”), extended form of *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth”) (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 (tunþus, “tooth”) and *𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (*tundi, “thorn, tooth”). Doublet of tush. More at tooth.
Inflected forms:
form: tusks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tusks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tusking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tusked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tusked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
pos: noun
examples: Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
gloss: A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
pos: noun
gloss: A tusk shell.
pos: noun
gloss: A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
pos: noun
gloss: A sharp point.
pos: noun
gloss: The share of a plough.
pos: noun
gloss: To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
pos: verb
gloss: To gore with the tusks.
pos: verb
gloss: To bare or gnash the teeth.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Related words: tusked
tusker
tusklike
tusky
tusk tenon
Derived words: detusk
milk tusk
tusked
tuskless
tusklike
tuskwise
tussock
Translations:
walrus
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse-whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross.
Inflected forms:
form: walruses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: walrus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: walrusses
pos: noun
tags: plural
uncommon
form: walri
pos: noun
tags: humorous
nonstandard
often
plural
proscribed
uncommon
form: walrii
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: walruses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: walrusses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
uncommon
form: walrusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: walrussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
uncommon
form: walrused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: walrused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: walrussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
uncommon
form: walrussed
pos: verb
tags: past
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: A large Arctic pinniped having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
pos: noun
examples: Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse.
gloss: A man with a walrus moustache.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
sometimes
examples: You old walrus, don't you think it is time for you to lop your whiskers off?
One, a rumpled, whiskered walrus of a man, held a lantern near Mother's face.
gloss: To hunt walruses
pos: verb
examples: It's strange to see parties of merrymakers gather where I nearly drowned, and later walrused with David Isaakovich, Father Basil and the rest of them.
gloss: To be like a walrus
pos: verb
examples: Gaddy walrused herself from the back seat
gloss: To be like a walrus
pos: verb
examples: His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth
gloss: To be like a walrus
pos: verb
examples: Where a mammal had its canine teeth, great fangs walrused down from the grezzen's upper jaw, as long as scimitars and as thick as human thighs.
Derived words: Ambien walrus
she-walrus
walruslike
walrus moustache
walrus mustache
walrus operator
Translations:
flipper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
ball-games
business
cricket
dentistry
entertainment
finance
games
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sports
theater
Etymology: From flip + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Flappert (“flipper, wing”).
Base: flip
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: flippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flippers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flippering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flippered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flippered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In marine mammals such as whales (or other aquatic animals such as sea turtles), a wide, flat limb adapted for swimming.
pos: noun
gloss: A wide, flat, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.
pos: noun
gloss: A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.
pos: noun
examples: Early pinball machines demanded that a player shake the entire table in an effort to guide the ball through the obstacles (pins—hence the name). Later iterations had mechanical flippers like today's, but more of them—six, which were distributed three on each side up and down the body of the machine.
gloss: A small flat used to support a larger one.
pos: noun
examples: The flipper is designed to give support by standing at a 90-degree angle to the flat. It probably gets its name from its appearance: cut out like a piece of profile scenery, it resembles the flipper of a marine animal, […]
When standing alone, a flat may have a small extension, a FLIPPER, for added strength.
gloss: A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
pos: noun
gloss: Television remote control, clicker.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
gloss: The hand.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: Give me your flipper, old man, and tell me if I can be of any service to you. I'll do what you want at all hazards.
gloss: A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
pos: noun
examples: Dr. Woo attempts to distinguish Blakeslee by pointing out that “one can fondle a breast without having anything to do with dentistry, but one cannot take molds, fabricate and insert flippers into another person's mouth without practicing dentistry."
gloss: A kitchen spatula.
pos: noun
examples: Remember the mornings when you help me fix eggs and pancakes for breakfast. You always had to use the “flipper” to turn the pancakes and eggs.
gloss: Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit.
pos: noun
examples: Two notable examples of Zombie Formalism would be the electroplated silver monochromes of Jacob Kassay (b. 1984) and the “Rain Paintings” of Lucien Smith (b. 1989), both recent favorites of the art flippers.
gloss: Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin.
pos: noun
gloss: To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.
pos: verb
Related words: fin
Derived words: burger flipper
flipper baby
flipperless
flipperlike
flipperling
flippery
foreflipper
hindflipper
squareflipper
Translations:
pinball
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: From pin + ball.
Compound parts: pin
ball
Inflected forms:
form: pinballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pinballs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pinballing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pinballed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pinballed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A game, played on a device with a sloping base (a pinball machine), in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ball used in pinball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A situation where a ball is frantically kicked between many players.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The opener came from a Jarvis ball which struck Aleksandar Kolarov en route to a lively round of pinball between City players before it was poked in by Milijas.
gloss: To dart about rapidly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Like most immigrants, Gibbs came South for economic reasons and soon found himself pinballing around a world circumscribed by the hot growth markets...
They went off the road and pinballed alongside a stretch of guardrail as the Bambis scattered.
Synonyms: silver ball
Derived words: pinballer
pinball machine
Translations:
bleep
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
medicine
music
sciences
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: bleeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bleeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bleeping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bleeped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bleeped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A general euphemism for any expletive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: What the bleep are you doing?
Who the bleep are you, Bob Kavin, to tell lesbians whether or not it's "appropriate" for us to gather together as women?
gloss: A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: See, there are a huge number of people in this city who look like goths and talk the talk and claim to enjoy much of the same music I do, so it confuses me somewhat that the clubs all play bleep. I would have thought there would be enough people to make something else work.
A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths. All you have to do is look. At InsanitoriuM we have a large, young, crowd that would up and leave if we started playing bleep at them, and we're not alone.
gloss: A pager, usually one held by a doctor or nurse in a hospital.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: To emit one or more bleeps.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.
The basic toilet has quite a heavy door, which then bleeps to remind you to lock it - with a nice, peace of mind, manual lock.
gloss: To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To contact someone by pager.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: If his condition gets any worse, please bleep the registrar on call.
Derived words: bleep test
bleepable
bleeper
bleep out
bleepy
bullbleep
unbleeped
Translations:
halibut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English *halibutt, equivalent to holy + but (“flatfish”), since the fish was often eaten on holy days. Cognate with Dutch heilbot, German Heiligbutt, Heilbutt, Heilbutte, Danish helleflynder, Swedish helgeflundra, and Norwegian Nynorsk hellefisk.
Compound parts: holy
butt#Etymology 4
Inflected forms:
form: halibuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: halibut
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hallibut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: holibut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: halibutt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: holibutt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.
pos: noun
examples: [...] she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut.
Translations:
obduracy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obdurate
English -cy
English obduracy
From obdurate + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: obduracies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.
pos: noun
examples: By this hand thou, thinkeſt me as farre in the diuels booke, as thou and Falſtaffe, for obduracie and perſiſtancie, let the end trie the man, [...]
It might also serve to condemn the obduracy and hard-heartedness of the Jews, who relented not, when even the earth trembled and the rocks rent.
True mountain Liberty alone may heal
The pain which Custom's obduracies bring.
She snatched up a stick and hit Cora across the rump with it. The stick was rotten and broke, without having caused Cora to budge an inch. Exasperated at an image of obduracy, the old woman scrabbled up another stick and began whacking at Cora with it[.]
Chanderpaul's obduracy might have broken lesser men, but Panesar more than matched him for relentlessness.
Translations:
idiomatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰδιωματικός (idiōmatikós, “related to an idiom”), from ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “idiom”).
Inflected forms:
form: more idiomatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most idiomatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: idiomatick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: idiomatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: idiomatick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining or conforming to idiom, the natural mode of expression of a language.
pos: adj
examples: The inclusion or omission of definite articles follows idiomatic norms in each language and depends on context and intent.
In English, the only idiomatic position for a pronoun as the object of a phrasal verb is before the particle, whereas a noun as object can fall either before or after the particle; thus only he picked them up but either he picked his tools up or he picked up his tools.
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of an idiom.
pos: adj
examples: An idiomatic phrase that warns us against Pollyannaism is "don't count your chickens before they're hatched".
gloss: Using many idioms.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to parts or pieces which are written both within the natural physical limitations of the instrument and human body and, less so or less often, the styles of playing used on specific instruments.
pos: adj
gloss: Following the conventions of the language, or doing things in the common way for the language, rather than code that is ported from another language and therefore may not follow the common conventions.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of idiom.
pos: noun
examples: A preprocessing (or text normalization) module is necessary as a front end, since TTS [text-to-speech] systems should in principle be able to read any text, including numbers, abbreviations, acronyms, and idiomatics in any format.
Antonyms: unidiomatic
nonidiomatic
Related words: idiom
idiomatical
idiomaticity
idiomaticize
idiomaticness
Derived words: idiomatically
idiomatize
idiomatology
non-idiomatic
Translations:
Yorkshire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Yorkschire; equivalent to York (“English city”) + shire. Displaced native cognate Middle English Everwich schire, from Old English Eoforwīcsċīr.
Base: York
Inflected forms:
form: Yorkshires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Yorkshire pudding.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A Yorkshire canary.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The Yorkshire Canary Club was founded in 1894. The Yorkshire can be up to 6¾ inches in length, and stands tall so that its height is obvious. Yorkshires are available in many colors and can have variegations on them.
Translations:
Gentoo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of Anglo-Indian origin (17th century), apparently a borrowing from Portuguese gentio (“heathen”) (compare gentile (“pagan”)).
Inflected forms:
form: Gentoos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A non-Muslim inhabitant of India, a Hindu; specifically, in Southern India, an ethnic-Telugu.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The Greeks, and all the Celtic nations, accordingly, burned the bodies of the dead, as the Gentoos do at this day; while the Egyptians, among whom fuel was extremely scarce, placed them in pyramidal monuments, which were the symbols of fire; hence come those prodigious structures which still adorn that country.
1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Spiritual Laws” in Essays (First Series), Boston: James Munroe, p. 133,
The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing, unless it have an outside badge, — some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat, or Calvinistic prayer- meeting, or philanthropic society, or a great donation, or a high office, or, any how, some wild contrasting action to testify that it is somewhat.
gloss: The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua), a species of penguin.
pos: noun
Translations:
halogen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt" or "sea”) + γεν- (gen-), "to produce" (coined by Berzelius in 1842). By surface analysis, halo- (“salt”) + -gen (“forming”).
Inflected forms:
form: halogens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any element of group 17, i.e. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine and tennessine.
pos: noun
examples: Plant 12 also stored super sacks of bromochloro-5,5-dimethylimidazolidine-2,4-dione (BCDMH), which is a granular solid oxidizer with a halogen odor that, in addition to chlorine gas and hydrogen chloride, can also release bromine gas and hydrogen bromide upon decomposition.
gloss: A light fixture in which the filament is surrounded by an atmosphere of a halogen gas.
pos: noun
Related words: halide
halite
Derived words: dehydrohalogenate
dihalogen
halogenase
halogenate
halogenation
halogenite
halogen lamp
halogenoderma
halogenous
halogen oven
halogen stove
halon
halothane
interhalogen
nonhalogen
organohalogen
radiohalogen
Translations:
incandescent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French incandescent, from Latin incandescens, from incandesco (“be heated, glow”), from in- (intensifying prefix) + candesco (“become white”), from candidus (“white”).
Base: candesco
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more incandescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incandescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: incandescents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Emitting light as a result of being heated.
pos: adj
examples: We will all go together when we go / All suffused with an incandescent glow
Rather than burning out as incandescent bulbs do, L.E.D.’s light output dims over tens of thousands of hours. L.E.D.’s are also more resistant to vibration than incandescents or screw-in fluorescent bulbs, and do not flicker or hum.
gloss: Shining very brightly.
pos: adj
examples: Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].
gloss: Showing intense emotion, as of a performance, etc.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The incandescent performance enraptured the audience.
gloss: Extremely angry; furious.
pos: adj
examples: She is incandescent with rage because someone stole her wallet.
gloss: An incandescent lamp or bulb.
pos: noun
examples: Compact fluorescents are typically rated at 7,500 to 10,000 hours, and incandescents at about 1,500 hours.
Related words: incandescence
incandescently
Derived words: incandescent lamp
nonincandescent
subincandescent
Translations:
catacomb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English catacombe, from Old English catacumbe, catacumbas pl, from Late Latin catacumbae pl, name of the underground cemetery of St. Sebastian in Rome, of unclear origin. Perhaps a dissimilation (influenced by *cumbō (“to lie, recline”)) of Late Latin cata tumbās (literally “among the tombs”) (from Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “under”) and τύμβος (túmbos, “tomb”)). Some sources suggest Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “drinking vessel”) as an alternative etymon, but the semantic link is unclear.
Inflected forms:
form: catacombs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome.
pos: noun
tags: often
plural
examples: Meronyms: crypt, ossuary
Translations:
precision
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bridge
games
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French precision. Equivalent to precise + -ion.
Base: precise
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: precisions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being precise or exact; especially, both exact and accurate.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: exactitude, exactness; accuracy
gloss: The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: repeatability; reproducibility
The classic example of the difference between precision and accuracy is that in target practice, if the grouping is tight but the group is off-center, your precision is good but your accuracy needs calibration.
gloss: The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Used for exact or precise measurement.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: precision instruments
gloss: Made, or characterized by accuracy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But there was nothing he could do about Villa's second when Agbonlahor crossed from the left and Bent finished with a precision volley.
Synonyms: exactitude
Related words: accuracy
Derived words: arbitrary-precision
arbitrary-precision arithmetic
double-precision
double precision
high-precision
hyperprecision
imprecision
multiprecision
non-precision approach
overprecision
precision agriculture
precisional
precision approach
precision dice
precision die
precision F-strike
precisionism
precisionist
precisionize
precision medicine
pseudoprecision
quadruple-precision
single-precision
ultraprecision
underprecision
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: tarkkuus
lang: Polish
word: dokładność
lang: Russian
word: то́чность
roman: tóčnostʹ
improbable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin improbābilis. By surface analysis, im- + probable.
Inflected forms:
form: more improbable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most improbable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not likely to be true.
pos: adj
examples: It's highly improbable that aliens abducted you.
Improbabile, that cannot be prooued, improbable.
Nay, if he be of a proud humour, […] he will not Bate an Ace of abſolute certainty, but however doubtful or improbable the thing is, coming f[r]om him it muſt go for an indiſputable truth.
It is highly improbable that the drafter of the notice ever visualised the form that heavy vehicles of the future would take, but the comprehensive wording still covers modern types.
gloss: Not likely to happen.
pos: adj
examples: Due to the loss of power, it is improbable that we will begin on time.
Antonyms: probable
Related words: probability
probably
impossible
Derived words: improbability
improbableness
improbably
statistically improbable phrase
superimprobable
Translations:
biochemistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chimiabor.
Middle French chymie
French chimie
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 -istabor.
French -iste
French chimistebor.
English chemist
Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye
English -ry
English chemistry
English biochemistry
From bio- + chemistry.
Inflected forms:
form: biochemistries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism; the study of such chemistry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: My aunt has a degree in biochemistry.
gloss: The chemical characteristics of a particular living organism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The biochemistries of fungal and bacterial cells are quite distinct.
They [viruses] use more varied biochemistry than cellular life, storing their genetic information as both single- and double-stranded DNA as well as RNA.
gloss: The biochemical activity associated with a particular chemical or condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Our study compared the biochemistries of epilepsy and Parkinson's.
The biochemistry of NO differs from that of NO₂.
Related words: biochemical
biochemically
biochemist
bioscience
biotech
biotechnology
mbio
microbiology
molbio
molecular biology
orgo
organic chemistry
physiology
Derived words: autobiochemistry
clinical biochemistry
geobiochemistry
glycobiochemistry
metallobiochemistry
neurobiochemistry
photobiochemistry
physiobiochemistry
soil biochemistry
xenobiochemistry
Translations:
carbonate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French carbonate, equivalent of carbon + -ate (“suffix used for salts of acids ending in -ic”).
Base: carbon
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: carbonates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carbonates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carbonating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: carbonated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: carbonated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of carbonic acid.
pos: noun
examples: A sample of carbon removed from the ocean in the solid form of calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide from UCLA's SeaChange program -- now known as Equatic -- in 2023.
McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated. The minerals include sodium phosphates, carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and fluorides, some of which are necessary to the formation of life.
gloss: To charge (often a beverage) with carbon dioxide.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
intransitive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
probability
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English transitive
English intransitive
From in- + transitive.
Inflected forms:
form: intransitives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often."
gloss: Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
examples: 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further.
gloss: Of a set of dice: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See intransitive dice and intransitive game.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An intransitive verb.
pos: noun
examples: This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).
Synonyms: neuter
nontransitive
Antonyms: transitive
Related words: ergative
Derived words: intransitively
intransitiveness
intransitive preposition
intransitive verb
intransitivity
intransitivization
intransitivize
Translations:
silicone
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From silicon + -one. Originally obtained by the attempted synthesis of the silicon equivalent of a ketone.
Base: silicon
Affixes: -one
Inflected forms:
form: silicones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: silicones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: siliconing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: siliconed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: siliconed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic replacements for body parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [H]e had little time or respect for the rich skip bitches who were his neighbours, useless fake-tanned women with plastic smiles and silicone tits who spent their husbands' money on afternoon teas, endless shopping and personal trainers.
gloss: To join or treat (something) with a silicone-based product.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: silicone the bathtub to the tile
Structural glazing or siliconing of window units is, according to Donald F. Kelly, Jr., president of AMPAT, the bonding of glass to a metal frame.
gloss: To enhance or reconstruct (a body part) with a prosthesis containing silicone.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: The next girl, with huge, perfectly spherical, siliconed breasts perched high on her slender chest, got the loudest roar. ‘Oh, there are two things I like about her!’ shouted the DJ. ‘How about you, boys?’
gloss: Having had cosmetic surgery, especially breast enlargement.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: Besides, the bevy of silicone beauties surrounding him would have been difficult, not to mention ego-crushing, to wade through.
They want to see men covered in sweat, lying in bed with some unknown, blank, silicone actresses — they want sculpted bodies, they don't give a shit about performance.
Nowadays it is a cliché to associate silicone women with narco aesthetics, overdrawn Pamela Anderson clones popularized by telenovelas.
Translations:
reperfusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Italic *peri-
Latin per-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-?
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰunédti ~ ǵʰundénti
Proto-Italic *hundō
Latin fundō
Latin perfundō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin perfūsiō
Middle French perfusion
English perfusion
English reperfusion
From re- + perfusion.
Inflected forms:
form: reperfusions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The restoration of blood flow to an organ, after it was cut off (e.g. in an operation).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: ischemia
Translations:
brujo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: brujos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male practitioner of brujería.
pos: noun
Translations:
inert
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French inerte, from Latin iners (“inactive, inert”).
Inflected forms:
form: more inert
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inert
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inerts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inerts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inerting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inerted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inerted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Unable to move or act; inanimate.
pos: adj
examples: "As for the other forms of magic, previous systems of magic are now accessible if one knows how to do so, though no human alive should know how. This does mean some magical objects and wands rendered inert by previous changes will work again."
gloss: Sluggish or lethargic.
pos: adj
gloss: Not readily reacting with other elements or compounds.
pos: adj
gloss: Having no therapeutic action.
pos: adj
gloss: A substance that does not react chemically.
pos: noun
gloss: To fill with an inert gas to reduce the risk of explosion.
pos: verb
Related words: inertia
Derived words: anti-inert-neutrino
bioinert
inert antineutrino
inert gas
inertitude
inertly
inertness
inert neutrino
inert pair effect
mucoinert
noninert
practico-inert
Translations:
c-word
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: c-words
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: C-word
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The word cunt, regarded as vulgar and a swear word.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: The c-word (cunt) is delivered here with a kind of despairing calm, as if the cuntishness of the British c-words (cunts) was just a sad matter of fact.
gloss: The word crap, often considered mildly vulgar.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: Less frequently, a word like cock or cock-sucker, camel-jockey, Chink, ching chong, or cracker, regarded as taboo or offensive.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: Any word beginning with c that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context, like clitoris, condom, cancer, or communism.
pos: noun
examples: Nor can federal AIDS educators bring themselves to mention the c''' word, condom, a strange reticence not shared by any other Western government except that of Catholic Ireland. The CDC has gone through bizarre contortions to avoid naming the, uh, latex device.
So, the term craft is now tainted. It’s association with weird beer imbibed by stuck up people is going to be hard one to shake. Anyone with that connection in their mind is instantly going to shut down when the c-word is mentioned.
‘Cancer’ is a frightening word and once mentioned, death is probably everyone’s next thought.
Related words: b-word
d-word
e-word
f-word
g-word
G-word
h-word
i-word
j-word
k-word
l-word
m-word
n-word
o-word
p-word
q-word
Q-word
r-word
s-word
t-word
u-word
v-word
w-word
x-word
y-word
z-word
related terms C-bomb
f-bomb
f-slur
L-bomb
n-bomb
Q-slur
r-slur
Translations:
s-word
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: s-words
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The word shit, regarded as a vulgar word.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: The word slut, regarded as a vulgar word.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: The word Sambo, regarded as a offensive racist word.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: The word spastic, regarded as an offensive word.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
euphemistic
gloss: The word spic, regarded as a vulgar word.
pos: noun
tags: US
euphemistic
gloss: Any word beginning with s that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context; for example, socialism.
pos: noun
Related words: b-word
c-word
d-word
e-word
f-word
g-word
G-word
h-word
i-word
j-word
k-word
l-word
m-word
n-word
o-word
p-word
q-word
Q-word
r-word
t-word
u-word
v-word
w-word
x-word
y-word
z-word
related terms C-bomb
f-bomb
f-slur
L-bomb
n-bomb
Q-slur
r-slur
Translations:
monatomic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mon-
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek *τομός (*tomós)
Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos)bor.
Latin atomusbor.
Middle French athomebor.
Middle English attome
English atom
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English atomic
English monatomic
From mon- + atomic.
Inflected forms:
form: monoatomic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of an element, consisting of a single atom in the molecule, for example, the noble gases. Note: Strictly speaking, a molecule has at least two atoms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
molecule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin mōlēs
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
New Latin -cula
New Latin moleculalbor.
French moléculebor.
English molecule
Borrowed from French molécule, from New Latin molecula (“a molecule”), diminutive of Latin moles (“a mass”).
Inflected forms:
form: molecules
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moleculae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moleculæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The smallest particle of a specific element or compound that retains the chemical properties of that element or compound; two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.
pos: noun
examples: Hydrogen chloride is a diatomic molecule, consisting of a hydrogen atom and a chlorine atom.
The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. This system splits water molecules and delivers some of their electrons to other molecules that help build up carbohydrates.
Clinical trials testing the molecule in humans have been underway for three years, Sinclair said.
gloss: A tiny amount.
pos: noun
Synonyms: molecule
Related words: molecular
chemical compound
Derived words: antimolecule
astromolecule
bimolecule
biomolecule
cell adhesion molecule
cell-adhesion molecule
fuel molecule
giant molecule
glycomolecule
God molecule
gram molecule
immunomolecule
metamolecule
micromolecule
molfile
nanomolecule
phytomolecule
polycule
polymolecule
protomolecule
pseudomolecule
quasimolecule
Rydberg molecule
single-molecule magnet
small molecule drug
spirit molecule
submolecule
supermolecule
supramolecule
Translations:
lesser
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English less
English -er
English lesser
From less + -er.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the smaller in size (littler), in value, in importance etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: lesser panda
lesser yellowlegs
Translations:
surly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 16th-century alteration of sirly, from sir + -ly.
Base: sir
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: surlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: surliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly.
pos: adj
gloss: Threatening, menacing, gloomy.
pos: adj
examples: The surly weather put us all in a bad mood.
gloss: Lordly, arrogant, supercilious.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Derived words: surlily
surling
unsurly
surliness
Translations:
charging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: chargings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or process of charging (as of a battery).
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Smith is called for charging, and the Nimrods will get the ball.
Derived words: charging point
charging station
congestion charging
smart charging
Translations: