yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
corny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English corny, equivalent to corn (“a type of cereal or grain”) + -y. Piecewise doublet of grainy. In the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.
Base: corn
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: cornier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: corniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Boring and unoriginal.
pos: adj
examples: The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.
I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody’s father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Haas would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents.
gloss: Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
pos: adj
examples: The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny.
He sent a bouquet of twelve red roses and a card: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, So are you." How corny is that?
gloss: Uncool, stupid, lame.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Dreya shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "I'm going to bed. Y'all corny."
“You and your silly bitch better give me fifty feet before both y'all corny asses get slam dunked in that pool.”
Y'all haters corny with that Illuminati mess
"No, no, no," James said Wednesday (via ESPN). "That's wack. That's wack. Why? You got to earn your spot to be in the postseason. No consolation for finishing last. That's corny. That's corny. That's wack. To play for what? What are they playing for?"
gloss: Containing corn.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Country Cornbread Muffins (page 290) / Marlene Says: The cool crunchy salad and slightly sweet corny muffins are perfect partners to the creamy, spicy black bean soup.
There are cornbread recipes, and there are cornbread recipes. This one absolutely sings. Based on her daddy’s, and then her sister’s, beloved skillet-made bread, Maggie’s own recipe developed over time. It’s more about method, she says, but using stone-ground cornmeal and whole buttermilk are just as important. And a hot, seasoned cast-iron skillet is a must. What emerges is a rich “corny” bread, an almost melting soft interior encased in a ridiculously toothsome crust.
“CORNY” BREAD MUFFINS + HONEY BUTTER (GRAIN-, DAIRY-, SOY-, NIGHTSHADE-FREE) Well, making cornbread without corn is kinda tricky, but since corn is indeed a grain, “real” cornbread will not be found here.
Fiesta Corny Muffins / Cornbread goes with everything: salad, soup, and chili.
Have beans, bacon, and cornbread for dinner.[…]Have peas, bacon, and corny bread for dinner.
gloss: Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: The corny ear.
gloss: Tipsy; drunk.
pos: adj
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: Yen day when aw was corney.
gloss: Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
Derived words: cornily
corniness
uncorny
Translations:
doo-doo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reduplication of doo.
Inflected forms:
form: doodoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Excrement.
pos: noun
tags: childish
colloquial
euphemistic
often
uncountable
examples: Like a fly to doo-doo / You need me like a bird needs wings
Child: You're a doo-doo head.
gloss: Difficulty; trouble.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
examples: Profit margins are down and we're all in deep doo-doo.
Synonyms: poo-poo
Related words: doody
Derived words: doodoohead
doo-doo hole
Translations:
wolfish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wl̥kʷós?
Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos
Proto-Germanic *wulfaz
Proto-West Germanic *wulf
Old English wulf
Middle English wolf
English wolf
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English wolfish
From wolf + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more wolfish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wolfish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wolvish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, like, or pertaining to a wolf.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, like, or pertaining to a wolf.
pos: adj
examples: a wolfish appetite
“[…] Here, Fangs! Fangs!” he ejaculated at the top of his voice to a ragged wolfish-looking dog […]
He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.
gloss: Fierce; menacing; savage.
pos: adj
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: въ́лчи
roman: vǎ́lči
lang: Finnish
word: suden-
lang: Finnish
word: susi-
lang: French
word: lupin
lang: French
word: louvesque
lang: Russian
word: во́лчий
roman: vólčij
lang: Ukrainian
word: во́вчий
roman: vóvčyj
imperceptibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English imperceptible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English imperceptibly
From imperceptible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more imperceptibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most imperceptibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not noticeably; such that it cannot be detected, through being too small or too fast, etc.
pos: adv
examples: No one noticed that he had moved imperceptibly backwards.
It often happens that the most important results in the natural world are brought about by causes which operate silently, if not imperceptibly.
The moon moved imperceptibly towards setting.
Which means that at the moment Raven entered her, a very small hypodermic needle slipped imperceptibly into the engorged frontal vein of his penis, automatically shooting a cocktail of powerful narcotics and depressants into his bloodstream.
Translations:
noticeably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English noticeable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English noticeably
From noticeable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more noticeably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most noticeably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a noticeable way.
pos: adv
examples: We all saw it: he paled noticeably.
gloss: To a detectable degree, sufficient to be noticed.
pos: adv
examples: It suddenly became noticeably cooler when the sun went behind a cloud.
My best subject was the nature table, because I brought in the shiversome newts with their uterine flanged backs. I was moderately bullied. There were kids more noticeably tormentable than me.
A normally bustling border crossing between Tanzania and Malawi was noticeably quieter than usual on Thursday as a result of an escalating regional trade row.
gloss: In truth and observably.
pos: adv
tags: modal
examples: Noticeably, what had been merely annoying to her was becoming infuriating.
Synonyms: evidently
plainly
Translations:
menacing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more menacing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most menacing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: menacings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of threatening in its various senses.
pos: adj
examples: menacing look
menacing smile
menacing tone of voice
gloss: The act of making menaces or threats.
pos: noun
examples: 1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation
They remember his subornings, menacings, bribings, cuttings, maimings, hangings, and burnings.
Translations:
detectable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English detect
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 detectable
From detect + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more detectable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most detectable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be detected, noticeable.
pos: adj
examples: There was a detectable pause before he continued. We all noticed it but no one commented.
Antonyms: subdetectable
undetectable
Translations:
detected
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been noticed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The detected submarine was tracked by sonar, it was easy once they knew where to look.
Antonyms: undetected
non-detected
Translations:
imperceptible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English imperceptible, from Middle French imperceptible and its etymon Medieval Latin imperceptibilis. By surface analysis, im- + perceptible.
Inflected forms:
form: more imperceptible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most imperceptible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: imperceptibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not perceptible, not detectable, too small in magnitude to be observed.
pos: adj
examples: We all missed the imperceptible shake of his head as he tried to warn us without being seen.
For this ſtone may have naturally grown into this very ſhape, and the ſeeming aſhes may be no aſhes, that is no remainders of any ſewell burnt there, but ſome unexplicable and imperceptible Motions of the Aire, or other particles of this fluid Matter that is active every where, have wrought ſome parts of the Matter into the form and nature of aſhes, and have fridg’d and plaid about ſo, that they have alſo figured thoſe intelligible Characters in the ſame.
A narrow, almost imperceptible path led them through the thickest of the wood. Two or three times they had to creep under boughs which, but for the ease with which they gave way, would seem never to have admitted a passage before.
To my unpractised eye, the undulations in the track were quite imperceptible, but the engineer's hand on the throttle was never still.
Very small benefits may be imperceptible. And it is plausible to claim that an 'imperceptible benefit' is not a benefit.
gloss: Beyond the purview of man; too great and all-encompassing to be perceived.
pos: adj
gloss: Something that is imperceptible.
pos: noun
examples: The worm that cauſeth it, is it any thing elſe but one of thoſe little Creatures, that hath deprived it ſelf from all ſocitety, to eſtabliſh it ſelf a Gyant in its own Countrey? If you ask me, VVhy they are bigger then other imperceptibles? I muſt ask you, VVhy Elephants are bigger then we?
I come next to ſome other ſtrange Acquirements obtained by the helps of theſe Glaſſes; and particularly for the diſcerning the Imperceptibles of Nature; ſuch as, the Soul, Thought, Honeſty, Religion, Virginity, and an Hundred other nice things, too ſmall for humane Diſcerning.
The Church assures the faithful that in the Eucharist one imperceptible is changed into another: the mind illumined by faith recognizes the change and says, Here is a miracle, here is something out of the usual course of nature.
It was a lazy Sunday. What made it meaningful were not the facts or details, but the imperceptibles. Inner life. The smell of the beach grass and the feel of sand on a bathroom floor when changing out of a swimsuit. The heat of American summer.
Synonyms: imperceivable
imperceptible
indiscernible
insensible
undetectable
undiscernible
undistinguishable
unperceivable
Antonyms: perceptible
Derived words: imperceptibility
imperceptibleness
imperceptibly
Translations:
archaeological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios)
Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía)
Ancient Greek ἀρχαιολογίᾱ (arkhaiologíā)
English archaeology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English archaeological
From archaeology + -ical. By surface analysis, archaeo- + -logical.
Inflected forms:
form: more archaeological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most archaeological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: archæological
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: archeological
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Canada
US
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the science or research of archaeology.
pos: adj
examples: A living floor is, in archaeological terms, the floor of a cave upon which people lived and which retains evidence of their activities.
The remains of 62 people were dug up at the previously unknown archaeological site near Garforth.
Translations:
gunman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gun
English -man
English gunman
From gun + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: gunmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person armed with a gun, especially a gunned evildoer.
pos: noun
examples: "I've known a heap of gun fighters in my day. An' Jean Isbel don't ran true to class. Shore there never was a gunman who'd risk cripplin' his right hand by sluggin' anybody."
Mohamed Merah, the man believed to be the gunman on a scooter who killed seven people in south-western France, was killed in an armed siege after police surrounded his block of flats in Toulouse.
gloss: An American.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
Related words: gunwoman
Derived words: lone gunman
Translations:
non-venomous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English venomous
English non-venomous
From non- + venomous.
Inflected forms:
form: nonvenomous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not producing venom.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The python is a nonvenomous snake.
Translations:
medially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Italic *meðjos
Latin medius
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin mediālisbor.
English medial
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 medially
From medial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In or relating to the middle.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In a medial direction or location; near or along the midline.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In a medial direction or location; nearer or toward the midline.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Inside a word; neither initially nor finally.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: laterally
laterally
initially
finally
Derived words: admedially
inferomedially
paramedially
plantomedially
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: przyśrodkowo
tuatara
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Māori tuatarabor.
English tuatara
Borrowed from Māori tuatara.
Inflected forms:
form: tuataras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tuatara
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reptile, Sphenodon punctatus, native to New Zealand, that resembles a lizard and is the only surviving specimen of the order Rhynchocephalia.
pos: noun
examples: In New Zealand the dinosaurs had perished 65 million years before, as they had elsewhere on the globe; but the sphenodons or tuataras who had been their contemporaries from Jurassic times persisted, in New Zealand but nowhere else, for reasons that remain obscure.
Translations:
let-down
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English let downdeverb.
English let-down
Deverbal from let down.
Inflected forms:
form: let-downs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: letdown
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A disappointment or anticlimax.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: After seeing all the advertisements, the show itself was quite a let-down.
Journalists aside, are we so used to people looking glossier and younger in their profile photos—whether on social media or for work—that a certain percentage of “let-down” is baked into our expectations of meeting them in person?
gloss: The neurohormonal release of milk in dairy cows or in breastfeeding human mothers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The majority of peasant farmers in the tropics allow the calf to suckle before milking in order to obtain a let-down of milk.
Occasionally a baby will be caught off-guard by mother's strong let-down and he will choke and sputter a bit.
Through oxytocin mediation, these afferent pathways become so well established that letdown can occur even when the mother merely thinks of her baby.
gloss: The clearance of an aircraft to descend through clouds to clear air below, or the process of granting such a clearance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The flight received a radar letdown from air traffic control.
Related words: let down
Translations:
fado
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese fado (“fate”), from Latin fātum. Doublet of fate.
Inflected forms:
form: fados
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in nature; the structure of the song is of greater importance.
pos: noun
Translations:
luminosity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Borrowed from French luminosité or else a native formation from luminous + -ity.
Base: luminous
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: luminosities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the state of being luminous, or a luminous object; brilliance or radiance
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They reported encountering a luminosity of great intensity and loving angelic beings.
gloss: the ratio of luminous flux to radiant flux at the same wavelength; the luminosity factor
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The rate at which a star radiates energy in all directions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We recognize the same pattern as in the left panel, with dM stars being much less frequent flarers than dMe stars of similar luminosity.
We derive rotation periods, photometric activity indices, flaring energies, mass loss rates, gyrochronological ages, X-ray luminosities and consider implications for the planetary magnetospheres and habitability.
Derived words: Eddington luminosity
high-luminosity
low-luminosity
luminosity distance
luminosity function
nonluminosity
overluminosity
solar luminosity
superluminosity
underluminosity
Translations:
slog-sweep
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: slog-sweeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slog-sweeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slog-sweeping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slog-swept
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slog-swept
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: a shot played, on one knee, with a horizontal bat, hitting the ball hard into the air on the leg side
pos: noun
gloss: to play such a shot
pos: verb
Translations:
preceding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English precedyng, precedenge, present participle of Middle English preceden (“to precede”), equivalent to precede + -ing.
Base: precede
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: præceding
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On the preceding Monday Shobana had gone on vacation.
Antonyms: succeeding
Translations:
posting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: accounting
business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: postings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to post.
pos: noun
gloss: An item inserted into a register, ledger or diary.
pos: noun
gloss: An item inserted into a register, ledger or diary.
pos: noun
gloss: A message posted to a computerized bulletin board, a newsgroup, a blog, etc.
pos: noun
examples: […] Internet postings, speeches, heckling, cartoons, faxes, composites, noises, threats, incitements, videos, ads, prayers, classes, live and filmed nudity (frontal, sideal, backal), defamation, blasphemy, and digital communication [...]
gloss: The place where a soldier or airman is posted for duty; the time spent there.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Derived words: billposting
bottom-posting
crossposting
cross posting
doomposting
fly-posting
past-posting
posting date
posting house
posting inn
rage-posting
top-posting
wildposting
Translations:
garter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English garter, from Old Northern French gartier, from Old French garet (compare Old French jartier, from jaret), from Gaulish *garrā, from Proto-Celtic *garros (“calf, shank”) (compare Cornish gar, Cornish gar,Middle Welsh garr, Old Irish gairr). Cognate with French jarretière.
Inflected forms:
form: garters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: garters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gartering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gartered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gartered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
pos: noun
gloss: A bendlet.
pos: noun
gloss: An elastic band encircling any article of clothing.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
gloss: One of a set of tapes stretched out horizontally for acrobats and equestrians to leap over as part of a circus act or display of skill.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: GRAND TRAMPOLINE, by Mr KING, (from Astley's Amphitheatre, London) who will introduce a great variety of leaps. Somerset 1 - Somerset in the Air - while in that position lie will fire two pistols. Somerset 2 - Over garters 12 feet high.
Mrs. Ashton will then make her entree in a beautiful act of equestrianism, entitled "The Mountain Maid," on a rapid courser, taking an aerial flight through hoops, and over garters, &c.
Madame HENRIQUES, the greatest Female Rider of the present day over Garters, Banners, through Hoops, Balloons, &c., &c, will appear every evening in her great unrivalled principal act.
Over men and horses, hoops and garters,
Lastly through a hogshead of real fire.
In this way, Mr. K. will challenge the world.
gloss: to fasten with a garter
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To wear a garter
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Lady Hester loathed the coarse, deluded and lecherous Princess Caroline, who showed off to Smith by 'dancing about, exposing herself, like an opera girl', and even gartering below the knee:
Derived words: arm garter
Chinese garter
garter belt
garterless
garterlike
garter snake
garter stitch
have someone's guts for garters
jazz garter
Order of the Garter
prick the garter
sleeve garter
ungarter
Translations:
permanently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English permanently; equivalent to permanent + -ly.
Base: permanent
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more permanently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most permanently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a permanent manner; lastingly.
pos: adv
examples: We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
ADAS are aimed to assist the drivers, who always remain responsible for vehicle control and shall permanently monitor the environment and vehicle/system performance Informal document GRVA-18-07/Rev.2, Proposal for amendments to ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2024/2, UN Regulation on uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regard to Driver Control Assistance Systems, UNECE, 22-26 January 2024
gloss: Forever.
pos: adv
examples: Necromancers were thought to have the power of restoring activity to the dead, either temporarily or permanently[.]
Friday’s vote has permanently redefined the kilogram and sent Le Grand K into retirement.
Antonyms: temporarily
transiently
Derived words: nonpermanently
permafrozen
semipermanently
Translations:
bivalve
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
English valve
English bivalve
From bi- (“two”) + valve.
Inflected forms:
form: bivalves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any mollusc belonging to the taxonomic class Bivalvia, characterized by a shell consisting of two hinged sections, such as a scallop, clam, mussel or oyster.
pos: noun
gloss: A pericarp in which the seedcase opens or splits into two parts or valves.
pos: noun
Related words: univalve
Derived words: bivalvate
Translations:
intertidal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English tidal
English intertidal
From inter- + tidal.
Inflected forms:
form: intertidals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the part of a shore between the high water and the low water.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An intertidal zone or an organism that inhabits such a zone
pos: noun
Translations:
shellfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English schellefyssch, from Old English sċielfisċ. Equivalent to shell + fish.
Compound parts: shell
fish
Inflected forms:
form: shellfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shellfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: shellfisher
shellfishery
shellfishing
Translations:
fracture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Latin frangō
Latin frāctūrus
Latin frāctūrader.
Old French fracturebor.
Middle English fracture
English fracture
From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin frāctūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle frāctus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.
Inflected forms:
form: fractures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fractures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fracturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fractured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fractured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
pos: noun
examples: Hall found the immediate cause at Rickerscote to have been the complete fracture of an axle on STS 53241, the freight train's ninth wagon. The fracture had been caused by fatigue initiated by corrosion pitting on the axle surface.
gloss: A break in bone or cartilage.
pos: noun
gloss: A fault or crack in a rock.
pos: noun
gloss: To break, or cause something to break.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: “You fracture me, Frankie,” Patsy said. “You should take that act on the road. Howsabout now?” This is the way it would go whenever I showed up at Patsy's, a dual of digs and wisecracks with the disapproving groans of those within earshot.
Related words: fractal
fraction
fragment
Derived words: antifracture
Bennett fracture
Bennett's fracture
boxer's fracture
brittle fracture
chalkstick fracture
Colles' fracture
complicated fracture
compound fracture
compression fracture
cryofracture
Don Juan fracture
ductile fracture
Dupuytren's fracture
fractural
fracture mechanics
fracture plane
fractureproof
Galeazzi fracture
greenstick fracture
hairline fracture
hangman's fracture
hip fracture
Holstein-Lewis fracture
hydrofracture
incomplete fracture
Jones fracture
Lisfranc fracture
macrofracture
Maisonneuve fracture
microfracture
mono-fracture
multifracture
nanofracture
nightstick fracture
nonfracture
oblique fracture
open fracture
pilon fracture
postfracture
Pott's fracture
prefracture
pseudofracture
Rolando fracture
Salter-Harris fracture
simple fracture
Smith's fracture
stress fracture
tracheal fracture
vowel fracture
refracture
fractile
fracturable
nonfracturing
Translations:
occurring
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: occurrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of something occurring; an event or happening.
pos: noun
examples: The perceived and known fact on which this discussion is based, is not the difference between the occurring and the non-occurring of an act (for non-occurring does not say impossibility), nor the difference between possibility and impossibility of the act (for the possibility cannot be perceived), but the difference between the occurring and the impossibility.
While it was noted above that the interaffecting of the present by the occurrings and implyings of the past provides a means of generating a sense of a personal past through the accumulation of bodily-relevant occurrings and implyings, […]
gloss: That occurs in a specified manner.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: naturally occurring macromolecules
Derived words: non-occurring
Translations:
measured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more measured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most measured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has been determined by measurement.
pos: adj
examples: He ran over a measured mile.
Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
gloss: Deliberate but restrained.
pos: adj
examples: He argued in measured tones.
But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
⁠A use in measured language lies;
⁠The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
This procedure was very tedious for me. Although she was definitely in a somnambulistic state, her answers were coming very slowly with carefully measured caution.
gloss: Rhythmically written in meter; metrical.
pos: adj
examples: As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.
Derived words: immeasured
measured drop
measuredly
measured mile
measuredness
nonmeasured
premeasured
unmeasured
Translations:
functioning
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more functioning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most functioning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: functionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: functional, working
pos: adj
examples: The other factions believe that those who are Factionless are nomads and outcasts. But they are actually a fully functioning community.
gloss: Of a person, mentally disabled but still able to survive in wider society.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
examples: Oh, he looked pretty functioning to me.
gloss: Action of the verb function.
pos: noun
gloss: Manner by which something functions; the workings.
pos: noun
Derived words: functioning time
high-functioning
low-functioning autism
nonfunctioning
subfunctioning
hyperfunctioning
Translations:
delivered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has been, or will be, delivered in a specific manner.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: delivered duty paid; delivered ex ship
Translations:
absorbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *srobʰéyeti
Proto-Italic *sorβeō
Latin sorbeō
Latin absorbeō
Old French assorbir
Middle French absorberder.
English absorb
English -ed
English absorbed
From absorb + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more absorbed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most absorbed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.
pos: adj
examples: fully absorbed
deeply absorbed
She was so absorbed in her book that she didn’t hear the phone.
The scientist remained absorbed in his experiments.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:absorbed.
gloss: That has been taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.
pos: adj
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:absorbed.
Derived words: absorbedly
absorbedness
malabsorbed
nonabsorbed
preabsorbed
unabsorbed
Translations:
busboy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Clipping of omnibus (“assistant waiter”) + boy.
Compound parts: boy
Inflected forms:
form: busboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An assistant waiter; one who clears plates from and cleans tables.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
middleware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English middle
Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)
Old English sōfte
Middle English softe
English soft
Proto-Germanic *warō
Proto-West Germanic *waru
Old English waru
Middle English ware
English -ware
English softwarebf.
English -ware
English middleware
From middle + -ware.
Inflected forms:
form: middlewares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Software that functions at an intermediate layer between applications and operating system or database management system, or between client and server.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Networking software or hardware that is deployed in the middle of, as opposed to serviced by, a packet network to enhance or provide some network function, such as caching, filtering, or firewall functionality.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: message-oriented middleware
Translations:
milady
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Partly representing a colloquial pronunciation of my + lady, partly from French milady, from English my Lady. Compare milord.
Compound parts: my
lady
Inflected forms:
form: miladies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: m'lady
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: miladies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: miladying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: miladied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: miladied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: miladyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: miladyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: m'lady
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An English noblewoman or gentlewoman; the form of address to such a person; a lady.
pos: noun
tags: historical
humorous
gloss: To address as “milady”.
pos: verb
examples: It may be as well to warn travellers of certain suspicious, half-genteel-looking men, speaking bad English, and Miladying every female.
To the ignorant Italians who milorded or miladied them, they were always anxious to explain that they “had no titles, and would be sorry to have any,”—that the members of the House of Lords were for the most part mere upstarts, and that the true nobility of England were the old land-owners,—the county families,—before whose names men only placed the plain Mr. and Mrs. by which they themselves, the Crawleys, preferred to be designated.
With Czipra, tête-à-tête, he spoke also “per tu;” before others he miladyed her.
Within a space of twenty-four hours, I’ve gone from being “Miss Lattimar” to “Mrs Newell” to “Countess of Fensworth”. When the shopkeepers “miladyed” me this morning, I kept looking around to see which titled female had arrived.
“He thinks of himself as an old-fashioned knight. Lots of chivalry. I will get miladyed to death. He will probably try to serenade me.”[…]Prepare to be good-sirred and miladyed to death, if not by Cedric, then by his parrot.
Translations:
militant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French militant, from Latin mīlitāns, present participle of mīlitāre (“to serve as a soldier”).
Inflected forms:
form: more militant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most militant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: militants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.
pos: adj
examples: The upper tiers of the foreign ministry were quick to embrace a militant policy.
Senior members of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian militant network blamed for the deadly Bali bombings, have announced they are disbanding the group, according to a report by a Jakarta-based think tank on Thursday.
gloss: Aggressively supporting of an idea, group, political or social cause, etc.; adamant, combative.
pos: adj
examples: The physiological state is not itself militant against erotic expression.
gloss: A soldier, a combatant.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction.
pos: noun
examples: [Jim Owles] lamented the declining influence of militant organizations and tactics, stating that militants "help keep the rest of us honest," and prevent moderates from selling out.
Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.
Officials in Pakistan have confirmed that at least 250 schoolchildren between 12 and 18 years old and several teachers were taken hostage by at least seven militants inside a high school in Domail.
gloss: Someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
Synonyms: warrish
Related words: militance
military
militia
Derived words: antimilitant
hypermilitant
militantism
militantly
militantness
Militant Tendency
nonmilitant
supermilitant
ultramilitant
unmilitant
Translations:
scriptorium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō
Medieval Latin scrībō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Medieval Latin -tor
Medieval Latin scrīptor
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Medieval Latin -ium
▲
Medieval Latin scrībō
▲
Medieval Latin -tor
▲
Medieval Latin -ius
Medieval Latin -tōrius
Medieval Latin -tōrium
Medieval Latin scrīptōriumbor.
English scriptorium
From Medieval Latin scrīptōrium, from Latin scrīptōrius (“pertaining to writing”). Doublet of escritoire.
Inflected forms:
form: scriptoria
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scriptoriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The rules of the scriptorium varied in different monasteries, but artificial light was forbidden for fear of injury to the manuscripts, and silence was always enforced.
Very soon, however, I hesitated. It was labour-intensive work, scriptorium-slow.
Nevertheless, Aland criticized Martin's suggestion that the codex was the product of the scriptorium attached to a monastery,⁵³⁶ on the grounds that there is no evidence for the existence of monasteries in the year 200, or for the existence of scriptoria at all connected with the Church at that early date.
Among the earliest Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts is the Book of Durrow, a Gospel book that may have been written and decorated in the monastic scriptorium at Iona, although its provenance is not documented.
Translations:
postscript
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin postscriptum, from Latin, neuter of postscriptus, past participle of postscrībō (“write after”), from post (“after”) + scrībō (“write”). By surface analysis, post- + script.
Inflected forms:
form: postscripts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: post script
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: postscriptum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: post scriptum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: PS
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: P.S.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: p.s.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: postscripts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: postscripting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: postscripted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: postscripted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: post script
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: postscriptum
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: post scriptum
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: PS
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: P.S.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: p.s.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An addendum to a letter, added after the author's signature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: As a rule Julian dictated to secretaries, and so fast that Libanius says the "tachygraphers" were unable to keep pace with him, but certain postscripts are marked "with his own hand."
gloss: An addition to a story, play, etc. after its completion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In a moving post-script to the novel, Forster tells the reader that the book was inspired by a visit to the home of Edward Carpenter.
And then a curious postscript: I share your dislike of the shortening of names but I must say that I'm not sure 'Alexandra' is entirely suitable for you. It seems to me that you require a name with rather more brio. I see you as a 'Lexie'. What do you think?
gloss: To extend (a letter or another document) with additional remarks.
pos: verb
Derived words: post-postscript
Translations:
theologically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English theological
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English theologically
From theological + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more theologically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most theologically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a theological manner.
pos: adv
examples: The themes taken up by Mr. Delumeau are analyzed theologically and psychologically.
gloss: Concerning theological matters.
pos: adv
examples: In the outer reaches of the Magasphere, it would be fair to say the advent of the first pope from the US has not been greeted with unbridled enthusiasm. Take Laura Loomer, the thirtysomething influencer and conspiracy theorist, whose verdict on Leo XIV was as instant as it was theologically uninformed: “Anti-Trump, anti-Maga, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis.”
Translations:
Thessalian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Thessaly
English -an
English Thessalian
From Thessaly + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Thessalians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Thessaly in Greece.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Thessaly.
pos: noun
Translations:
thin-skinned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more thin-skinned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thin-skinned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: She's rather thin-skinned when it comes to comments about her work.
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thin, skinned.
pos: adj
examples: You must handle thin-skinned fruits carefully to avoid bruising them.
Antonyms: thick-skinned
Derived words: thin-skinnedness
Translations:
peeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English peep
English -er
English peeper
From peep + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: peepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The eye.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
in-plural
examples: Check out the gorgeous peepers on that guy!
1938, Louis Armstrong (and lyrics by Johnny Mercer), Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get them peepers?
Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get those eyes?
The witness stand. Goldminers giving evidence, sure he's violent didn't I see him with my own peepers chasing those poor kids up on the roof.
gloss: Someone who peeps; a spy.
pos: noun
examples: Who's there? peepers, intelligencers, eavesdroppers?
If listeners seldom hear good of themselves, it is also true that peepers sometimes see more than they like; and Betty, the cook, as she reached the landing, glancing askance with ominous curiosity, beheld a spectacle, the sight of which nearly bereft her of her senses.
gloss: A private detective.
pos: noun
tags: dated
derogatory
slang
examples: So you go to see this peeper, this Marlowe. That was your mistake.
gloss: A peeping tom.
pos: noun
gloss: An animal, such as some frogs, having a shrill, high-pitched call.
pos: noun
gloss: A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Derived words: leaf peeper
pixel-peeper
pixel peeper
spring peeper
Translations:
third-rate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
Inflected forms:
form: third rate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: third-rates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: third rate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 64–80 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 500–650, and weighing approximately 1,750 tons burthen.
pos: adj
tags: UK
historical
not-comparable
gloss: Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: He was smoking a cherry-wood pipe, and looked on the whole as if he had borrowed his outfit from the wardrobe of a third-rate dramatic company.
I consider it to now be a third-rate service run without any excuses being offered.
gloss: A third-rate ship of the line.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
Related words: fifth-rate
first-rate
fourth-rate
second-rate
sixth-rate
Translations: