yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
combustible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French combustible, equivalent to combust + -ible.
Base: combust
Affixes: -ible
Inflected forms:
form: more combustible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most combustible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: combustibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of burning.
pos: adj
examples: Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught fire.
Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
The rest were undergoing special underbody cleaning safety checks at TfW depots, after speculation that the cause of the incidents may have been a build-up of engine oil and combustible material such as fallen leaves and general detritus.
gloss: Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
pos: adj
tags: dated
figuratively
examples: Arnold, however, was a combustible character.
The world’s richest man has inserted himself in some of the world’s most combustible conflicts.
gloss: A material that is capable of burning.
pos: noun
examples: A wheel, wrapt in combustibles, was kindled and rolled down the hill.
gloss: A cigarette or a similar product intended for smoking, as opposed to an electronic cigarette.
pos: noun
examples: In total three-quarters of the western Big Tobacco giants' sales last year came from so-called combustibles as vaping sales are plateauing.
Related words: combust
combustibility
combustion
Derived words: autocombustible
combustibleness
combustibly
multicombustible
non-combustible
noncombustible
polycombustible
uncombustible
Translations:
supererogatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From Latin superērogātōrius (“supererogatory”), from superērogātiō (“payment in addition”), from superērogō (“pay out over and above”), from super (“above”) + ērogō (“pay out, expend”); from ex (“out of, from”) + rogō (“ask; request”).
Inflected forms:
form: more supererogatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most supererogatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to supererogation; doing more than is required.
pos: adj
examples: They passed into the ancient shipyard which lay beyond, and which was now a mere vague, grass-grown approach to the waterside, bestrewn with a few remnants of supererogatory timber.
"In now you come," she ordered, "and we make love." That seemed supererogatory to David Jones, who, under the gaze of the painted deer, got in there and did as he was told.
It is, for example, not clear whether “love thy enemy” is a precept or a supererogatory counsel.
It [capitalism] increasingly deploys not just bureaucratic repression but an invested, overt, supererogatory sadism.
gloss: Of a deed or action, morally benevolent and exceeding the strict requirement of God.
pos: adj
Related words: supererogate
supererogation
Derived words: supererogatorily
Translations:
lectin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin lēctus (“chosen”) + -in. Coined by W.C. Boyd in 1954.
Base: lēctus
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: lectins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of proteins that bind specific carbohydrates.
pos: noun
examples: The result proved less about the safety of genetic engineering than it did about the safety of lectins – known animal poisons.
Soybeans are another excellent source of plant proteins but they are also on the list of high lectin foods. They are very important to vegans and vegetarians as they make it easy for them to get adequate proteins in their diet.
Translations:
betting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bettings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Describing one who bets or gambles.
pos: adj
examples: If I were a betting man, I'd wager my next pay check he couldn't do that again.
gloss: The act of placing a bet.
pos: noun
examples: Once the field was prepared, and preliminaries of the game all settled, the bettings all made and goods all “staked,” night came on without the appearance of any players on the ground.
Translations:
coucher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
law
lifestyle
papermaking
Etymology: From Middle English coucher, from Anglo-Norman; equivalent to couch + -er.
Base: couch
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: couchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who couches.
pos: noun
gloss: One who couches paper.
pos: noun
gloss: A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
examples: She [the Herring-Buss] imployeth[…]at Land Viewers, Packers,[…]Couchers to make the Herrings lawful Merchandizes.
gloss: The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.
pos: noun
examples: bookes, and specially of Grayles, Couchers, Legends, Processionailes[…]
Translations:
groundskeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From grounds + keeper.
Compound parts: grounds
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: groundskeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: groundkeeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who takes care of the upkeep of grounds (gardens, a playing field, woodlands, etc.)
pos: noun
Translations:
glam
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of glamour.
Inflected forms:
form: glammer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: glammest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: glams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: glamming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: glammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: glammed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Glamorous.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: To make glamorous or more glamorous.
pos: verb
Translations:
curative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French curatifbor.
English curative
Borrowed from Middle French curatif.
Inflected forms:
form: more curative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most curative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: curatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
pos: adj
examples: The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.
Making this request is not considered a curative measure but only for preventive purposes, as the Rambam rights, "A healthy man may read scriptural passages and psalms in order to merit of this reading and be with him and protect him from danger and hurtful influences."
He was just as interested in preventive care as he was in curative measures.
gloss: Remediative.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: a curative jury instruction to disregard the sheriff's testimony
gloss: A substance that acts as a cure.
pos: noun
Related words: therapeutic
remedial
Derived words: curatively
curativeness
noncurative
subcurative
Translations:
depressing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more depressing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most depressing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing depression or sadness.
pos: adj
examples: The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off.
gloss: Causing a reduction in economic activity.
pos: adj
examples: The policy may have a depressing effect on some branches of industry.
Synonyms: grim
Derived words: depressingly
depressingness
superdepressing
undepressing
Translations:
enjoyable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English enjoy
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 enjoyable
From enjoy + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more enjoyable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enjoyable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pleasant, capable of giving pleasure.
pos: adj
examples: That was an enjoyable day; I had a lot of fun.
Translations:
goth
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From gothic rock, first used by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aesthetic similarity to dark and moody 19th century gothic fiction and earlier gothic art and architecture, from Late Latin gothicus (“Gothic, barbaric”), from Ancient Greek Γοτθικός (Gotthikós), from Ancient Greek Γότθοι (Gótthoi, “Goths”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), proposed to derive from unattested Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta).
Inflected forms:
form: goths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gother
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gothest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A punk-derived subculture of people who predominantly dress in black, associated with mournful music and attitudes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I think that goth could flower in nerdcore's embrace.
I converted Edward Gorey's lettering into a typeface,
befriended vampires on LJ and MySpace,
even put that spooky echo filter on the bass[…]
Philip has been into goth for many years, haven't you dear?
gloss: A style of punk rock influenced by glam rock; gothic rock.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A person who is part of the goth subculture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: And how come you never see goths driving cars?
We drive cars... We're just like you really, except that we listen to Cradle of Filth.
We saw a solitary goth hanging out on a ledge by the train station.
gloss: A member of an alternative subculture based around rock music.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
examples: Goth bashing became horribly fashionable in the noughties. In August 2007, another peaceful goth couple were attacked in a skate park because of the way they looked.
gloss: Relating to goth music or people.
pos: adj
examples: With her black clothes and dyed hair, Melanie looked very goth compared to her classmates.
One of them looked like a total freak who had come straight off a Cirque du Soleil stage, with blue streaks in her hair, goth bracelets up her arm and so much black eyeliner that she could be on the set of Cleopatra.
Derived words: cybergoth
gothabilly
gothdom
gothette
gothify
goth-like
gothling
Gothmas
gothness
goth out
goth up
gothwear
gothy
mallgoth
neogoth
netgoth
Translations:
calender
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * From Middle French calandre, from Late Latin calendra, altered from Latin cylindrus (“cylinder”), from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros). Doublet of calander and cylinder.
* This spelling calender was introduced in the 17th century to differentiate the machine from the chronological senses of calendar.
Inflected forms:
form: calenders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: calenders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: calendering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: calendered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: calendered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance; it consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.
pos: noun
gloss: One who pursues the business of calendering.
pos: noun
gloss: To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper etc., as in a calender.
pos: verb
examples: He brought out the placard, which was quite a work of art. It was nearly two feet long, printed on calendered paper, with a selection of colors so bright that they shone even in the moonlight.
Derived words: calendry
runic calender
supercalender
Translations:
foursome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr
Proto-Germanic *fedwōr
Proto-West Germanic *feuwar
Old English fēower
Middle English four
English four
English -some
English foursome
From four + -some.
Inflected forms:
form: foursomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group of four, a quartet or a game (such as golf) played by four players, especially by two teams of two.
pos: noun
examples: The fired-up foursome takes itself very seriously, singing politically charged lyrics, which, in the tradition of Strife and Damnation AD, are strategically placed in the middle of slamming, moshable breakdowns.
And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves.
Also, since the players teed off simultaneously, the infamous "shotgun start," with several foursomes at each tee box, the tournaments ran notoriously slow.
gloss: A sex act between four people.
pos: noun
Synonyms: tetrad
Related words: threesome
Derived words: foursome reel
greensome
mixed foursome
Translations:
foothold
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: climbing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From foot + hold.
Compound parts: foot
hold
Inflected forms:
form: footholds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A solid grip with the feet.
pos: noun
gloss: A secure position from which it is difficult to be dislodged.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I’ve always looked for a secure foothold
A secret formula that can free me from myself
gloss: Airhead, beachhead, bridgehead, lodgement.
pos: noun
examples: Based on status report 16-C, it seems we're no closer to gaining a foothold in any sector. Without decent recon and greater intel on this enemy, I'm starting to think our efforts are futile. The risks involved and continued loss of resources and lives makes it hard to justify.
Related words: footholder
Translations:
Chianti
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian chianti, after Chianti, its area of production. Through Latin from the Etruscan 𐌂𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌄 (clante).
Inflected forms:
form: Chiantis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chianti
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hilly geographic region in central Tuscany, Italy, famous for red wines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A Tuscan red wine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
canasta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From Spanish canasta. The game originates from Uruguay.
Inflected forms:
form: canastas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “Do you know something, Fred?” she announced, “I won four dollars and eighty-five cents playing Canasta this afternoon.”
“Canasta!” exclaimed Mr. Grimes, “I didn′t know you could play that silly game.”
Imagine, first, two players who engage in a game of canasta according to a standard set of rules.[…]We may imagine, however, that at a certain moment the two canasta players cease to play canasta and start a discussion of the rules.
Modern American Canasta is a younger cousin of the game of Canasta I explain here.
gloss: A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas, and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one canasta.
Translations:
barmaid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bar + maid.
Compound parts: bar
maid
Inflected forms:
form: barmaids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman who serves in a bar.
pos: noun
examples: At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.
Translations:
barman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bar
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English barman
From bar + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: barmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who works in a bar.
pos: noun
examples: NOT so long ago there was a beer commercial on British TV in which two pointy-headed aliens order a pint in a rural pub. “Up from London, are we?” the barman asks politely.
Translations:
astound
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English astouned, astoned, astuned, past participle of astounen, astonen, astunen (“to astonish”). More at astonish.
Inflected forms:
form: astounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: astounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: astounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: astounded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To astonish, bewilder or dazzle.
pos: verb
examples: 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 8,
These thoughts may startle well, but not astound
The vertuous mind […]
The yell which Isaac raised at this unfeeling communication made the very vault to ring, and astounded the two Saracens so much that they let go their hold of the Jew.
The vices of the poor sometimes astound us here; but when the secrets of all hearts shall be made known, their virtues will astound us in far greater degree. Of this I am certain.
1982, Paul Auster, “On the High Wire” in The Art of Hunger, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1992, p. 240,
A young man had strung a wire between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral and walked and juggled and danced on it for three hours, astounding the crowds of people below.
Translations:
weeny
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly imitative from teeny weeny, or from wee + -y
Inflected forms:
form: weenier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: weeniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: weenies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Minuscule.
pos: adj
tags: childish
gloss: A wiener, a hot dog.
pos: noun
gloss: A penis
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
shish
Part of speech: intj
verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
cooking
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Phonetic alteration of shush.
Inflected forms:
form: shishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shished
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Used to request quiet; similar to shh.
pos: intj
tags: onomatopoeic
gloss: To be quiet; to keep quiet.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
onomatopoeic
examples: He wouldn’t shish, so I kicked him.
Shish, my parents are back!
Shish it!
gloss: On a skewer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ketty wanted one of those healthy kebabs, so we walked down to the kebab shop on Hanmore Park High Street. She ordered shish chicken and salad in a pitta.
gloss: The spine of a shish kebab structure.
pos: noun
Translations:
gogo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gogos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An elasticated hair band.
pos: noun
Translations:
scorching
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more scorching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scorching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: scorchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very hot.
pos: adj
examples: It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.
gloss: Bitterly sarcastic; scathing; withering.
pos: adj
examples: Very probably he resolved never to repeat the request which had drawn forth such a scorching rebuke; but there is no evidence of his determination to forsake his iniquitous practices generally.
gloss: Sexy, sexual, attractive.
pos: adj
examples: A ton of scorching content gets released all the time, and it turns out the newest sex movies of 2022 could basically double as (ethical!) porn; they’re that hot.
gloss: Of speed when driving, running, etc.: Very high.
pos: adj
examples: Dan Patch clocked a scorching 1:55.5 flat.
gloss: The act or result of something being scorched.
pos: noun
examples: There were several slight scratches and scorchings about the face, sides of the neck and shoulders[…]
Green wood hardens after about four or five scorchings in the fire, but several scorchings are required to drive out the sap.
Derived words: scorching hot
Translations:
go-go
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: 1964, US, partly from Whisky a Go Go, an influential American nightclub (in turn from French à gogo (“abundant”)), partly by reduplication of go, from 1962 slang the go (“the rage, fashionable”), from sense the go (“in motion”) as in on the go.
Compare to French yéyé (yeah-yeah), of contemporary coinage.
Inflected forms:
form: go-gos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: go-going
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: go-goed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: go-goed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A style of funk music from the 1970s.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of or relating to this style of music.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the style of music played at discotheques.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Fast and lively.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To dance to this style of music, with the aim to entertain
pos: verb
examples: Then he looked at me with all earnestness and said to me, "Miss, Laura, would you go-go for me?"
Translations:
leptospirosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Leptospira + -osis.
Affixes: -osis
Inflected forms:
form: leptospiroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
loafer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps short for landloafer, possibly a partial translation of German Landläufer (compare dialectal German loofen (“to run”), and English landlouper); or more likely connected to Middle English love, loove, loffinge, looffinge (“a remnant, the rest, that which remains or lingers”), from Old English lāf (“remainder, residue, what is left”) (more at lave), which is akin to Scots lave (“the rest, remainder”), Old English lǣfan (“to let remain, leave behind”) (more at leave).
Inflected forms:
form: loafers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An idle person.
pos: noun
examples: The garden was bounded by a three-foot brick wall with a fringe of wood rails upon the top, and against this wall was leaning a stalwart police constable, surrounded by a small knot of loafers, who craned their necks and strained their eyes in the vain hope of catching some glimpse of the proceedings within.
Along this unequal way, where loafers sat on whittled benches, lounged in doorways, leaned against porch props, Dan Gustin went pegging in his high-heeled boots like a mule in a Mexican chain hobble, holding a straight course for the hotel, past the doors of temptation.
gloss: A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.
pos: noun
examples: Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.
Synonyms: penny loafer
Derived words: loaferdom
loaferish
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: лоуфър
roman: loufǎr
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 懶佬鞋 /懒佬鞋
roman: laan⁵ lou² haai⁴
lang: Finnish
word: louferi
lang: French
word: mocassin
lang: Galician
word: mocasín
lang: German
word: Loafer
lang: German
word: Slipper
lang: German
word: Schlüpfschuh
lang: German
word: Trotteur
lang: Indonesian
word: pantofel
lang: Irish
word: lófaire
lang: Italian
word: mocassino
lang: Japanese
word: ローファー
roman: rōfā
lang: Navajo
word: kébiiʼníʼdíʼisí
lang: Polish
word: loafersy
lang: Portuguese
word: sapatilha
lang: Spanish
word: mocasín
glitz
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from glitzy, in turn from German glitzern (“glint”). Cognate with Old Norse glitra, glita (“glitter”) and Gothic 𐌲𐌻𐌹𐍄𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (glitmunjan, “glisten”).
Inflected forms:
form: glitzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glitzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: glitzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: glitzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: glitzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Garish, brilliant showiness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The glitz of the award ceremony was obvious.
[…] the newly rich hanker after old aristocratic glitz.
gloss: To make glitzy.
pos: verb
Translations:
presymptomatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English symptomatic
English presymptomatic
From pre- + symptomatic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: relating to the early stages of a disease, before all symptoms have developed and when therefore accurate diagnosis is not possible.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
spirochete
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From translingual Spirochaeta.
Inflected forms:
form: spirochetes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spirochaete
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several coiled bacteria of the order Spirochaetales, most of which are pathogenic to both humans and other animals.
pos: noun
Translations:
annatto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a Cariban language.
Inflected forms:
form: annattos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anato
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: anatto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: annotto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: arnatta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: arnotta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: arnotto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree; the fruit of the tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking, containing bixin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A fugitive orange-red dye obtained from this seed and fruit pulp through maceration and fermentation, used as textile dye and skin dye, containing bixin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: achiote
Related words: anatto
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: annatto
lang: Finnish
word: annatton siemen
lang: Khmer
word: គ្រាប់ដកគាំ
roman: krŏəpdɑɑkkŏəm
lang: Portuguese
word: urucu
lang: Portuguese
word: urucum
lang: Portuguese
word: achiote
lang: Russian
word: анна́то
roman: annáto
lang: Spanish
word: achiote
lang: Spanish
word: caituco
lang: Spanish
word: bija
lang: Spanish
word: onoto
lang: Spanish
word: urucú
lang: Vietnamese
word: hạt điều màu
instinctively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English instinctive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English instinctively
From instinctive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more instinctively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most instinctively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Innately; by instinct; without being taught.
pos: adv
examples: Fish instinctively know how to swim; most humans don't.
She loved him so passionately, and he was so godlike in her eyes; and being, though untrained, instinctively refined, her nature cried for his tutelary guidance.
'I am, perhaps, overgreedy, but I sense a good cook instinctively.'
While Conservative and Labour MPs instinctively had deep political differences, they were united in the cold view that at the end of the 1950s, Britain's railways were friendless and almost finished.
Translations:
innately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English innate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English innately
From innate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more innately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most innately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an innate manner, referring to a property that is possessed merely by its nature.
pos: adv
examples: Fish innately know how to swim, they don't go to school to learn it.
Every mitzvah we perform as Jews was given innately at Mount Sinai. When a rabbi expounds a new law or practice, he is simply revealing something that was hidden in the Torah from the start.
Translations:
spanking
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spank
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English spanking
From spank (“to move energetically”) + -ing.
Base: spank
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: spankings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fast and energetic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a spanking pace
'I'd like nothing better this minute,' said Mr Browne stoutly, 'than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.'
On both the Gothland and the Öland Railway, a spanking railcar provides an alternative to riding in the wayward, steam-driven mixed train, but the latter is the proper conveyance for a real railway lover, even over the flat, limestone plains which form much of the Baltic island scenery.
gloss: Brisk and fresh.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
often
examples: a spanking breeze
gloss: An intensifier.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
usually
examples: brand spanking new
a spanking good time
spanking clean
spanking white
gloss: A form of physical punishment in which a beating is applied to the buttocks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Domestic spanking is often endured over the knee (or lap), formal spanking rather applied over a contraption such as a trestle or A-frame, with or without constraints.
gloss: An incident of such punishment, or such physical act in a non-punitive context, such as a birthday spanking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Some people think spankings of any sort constitute child abuse.
Synonyms: striking
Derived words: antispanking
Translations:
wading
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wade
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English wading
From wade + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Appropriate to wade in.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The pool is too small for doing laps: it’s only a wading pool.
gloss: Usually of a bird: which wades.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Flamingos are wading birds.
Derived words: wading bird
wading pool
Translations:
genki
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
Japanese げんきbor.
English genki
Borrowed from Japanese げんき (“energetic, peppy”).
Inflected forms:
form: genki
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more genki
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most genki
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A playful, hyperactive girl.
pos: noun
gloss: Playful and hyperactive.
pos: adj
examples: I was really struck by how many of the bishoujo cliches it managed to bring up. We already have the older sister, younger sister, childhood friend, and exotic transfer student. We have a genki girl, a ditzy girl, a hime-sama, and a meido.
Akira, the genki red head, is accosted by Kyouko, a predatory blond girl in her high school.
Translations:
chimney-money
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A tax formerly paid on all chimneys in England.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 17 May 1664 House of Lords Journal, Vol II 1660-1666, pp 619-626.
"In the next Place, we reviewed the Act for Chimney-money, which we intended a great Branch of Your Majesty's Revenue, although by some Mistakes it is fallen short: And, in Hopes Your Majesty may improve that Receipt, we have prepared a Bill for the collecting that Duty by such Officers as Your Majesty and Your Successors shall from Time to Time think fit to appoint." - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.
Translations:
chimney-duty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A tax formerly paid on all chimneys in England.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
Translations:
jawbreaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From jaw + breaker.
Compound parts: jaw
breaker
Inflected forms:
form: jawbreakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jaw-breaker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jaw breaker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical.
pos: noun
examples: If somebody microwaves a large jawbreaker and nibbles on the outside, a crack can cause molten candy to burst out and cause painful burns. Exploding jawbreakers have been documented on television news and in police reports.
gloss: A long, hard-to-pronounce word.
pos: noun
examples: The word “callipygous” is something of a jawbreaker.
gloss: A hard blow to the side of the face.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Bendoff went pluckily forward, but only to receive a jawbreaker from Couper's left, […]
Related words: crackjaw
niggerball
Translations:
simulated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Invented in imitation of a particular thing or of a specific condition; artificial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
structured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English structure
English -ed
English structured
From structure + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more structured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most structured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having structure; organized.
pos: adj
examples: Over the centuries the movement of clans and tribes of people has provided the kind of crop that would emerge if a blind god had sprinkled seeds at random on a field - a vast array of diverse patterns, usually not even interlocking or decussated, but crossed and intersected by every kind of structured diversity.
Dr. Jessie Voigts, a homeschooler and founder of Wandering Educators, a global community of educators sharing travel experiences, said it doesn’t matter if this time is structured or unstructured, so long as the kids get outside.
Translations:
adrenochrome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
fiction
literature
media
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
Etymology: From adreno- + -chrome.
Base: adreno
Inflected forms:
form: adrenochromes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An oxidation product of adrenaline or epinephrine; its semicarbazone is used as a drug to reduce bleeding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Investigation of the chemical constitution showed that it has the properties of N-methyl-2:3-dihydro-3-hydroxyindole-5:6-quinone. The shorter name adrenochrome is proposed for this substance. […] Adrenochrome is a very unstable substance: it is completely destroyed in 4 min. by 1% hydrochloric acid, and in 40 sec. by 1% ammonia.
gloss: A fictional drug obtained from human adrenal glands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “[…]He's one of these Satanism freaks. He offered me human blood—said it would make me higher than I'd ever been in my life,” he laughed. “I thought he was kidding, so I told him I'd just as soon have an ounce or so of pure adrenochrome—or maybe just a fresh adrenalin gland to chew on.”
It also revives old slurs, but instead of openly accusing Jews of drinking the blood of gentile children, various euphemisms are employed: “Coastal elites,” “Hollywood,” and “George Soros” are now said to be harvesting a chemical called adrenochrome to prolong their life spans.
Translations:
kyrie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin Kyrie, contraction of the Ancient Greek phrase Κύριε ἐλέησον (Kúrie eléēson, “Lord, have mercy”), from Ancient Greek Κύριε (Kúrie), vocative form of Κύριος (Kúrios, “Lord”), from κῦρος (kûros, “supremacy, authority”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēw-, *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, spread out, be strong, prevail”).
Inflected forms:
form: kyries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short prayer or petition including the phrase kyrie eleison, meaning “Lord, have mercy”.
pos: noun
gloss: A setting of the traditional kyrie text to music for a Mass.
pos: noun
Related words: kyriarchy
Kyriale
Translations:
zek
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian зэ́к (zɛ́k), probably representing a pronunciation of з/к (z/k), Soviet abbreviation of заключённый каналоармеец (zaključónnyj kanaloarmejec, “prisoner member of the [White Sea–Baltic] Canal army”).
Inflected forms:
form: zeks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prisoner at a Russian prison, especially (historical) at a Soviet labour camp.
pos: noun
examples: Every prisoner who recants is a potential influence on other zeks to do likewise.
There are the zeks, the survivors of the gulags, some honest about their experiences, others still deluded or traumatised decades later.
Translations:
xerosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From xero- + -osis.
Base: xero
Inflected forms:
form: xeroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dryness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Xerosis is a consequence of the skin's loss of natural moisturizing factors and loss of moisture from the stratum corneum and intercellular matrix (Hill, 2008).
Translations:
dryness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dryenesse, drynesse; equivalent to dry + -ness.
Base: dry
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: drynesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lack of moisture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Dr. Khorana added that this is especially true of cleansers that feature surfactants like sodium lauryl sulfate, as this class of ingredients can cause “dryness, irritation and eczema.”
gloss: The degree to which something is dry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
predominantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English predominant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English predominantly
From predominant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more predominantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most predominantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a predominant manner. Most commonly or frequently by a large margin.
pos: adv
examples: The membership is predominantly elderly, as 90% are over age 60.
Both groups are predominantly confined to areas with warm to tropical climates[…]
The first phase of our pilot study found that the signage on the campus grounds was well regulated by the institution and was predominantly English.
“With the food packages that we drop off, we are adding messages in the local dialect of Xhosa, because this is predominately for the Xhosa areas,” Kolisi said.
Translations:
howling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English howlynge, howelynge, equivalent to howl + -ing (gerund suffix).
Base: howl
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: howlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of producing howls.
pos: noun
examples: The howling of wolves is haunting at night.
gloss: That howls.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: howling wind
A few minutes later a howling mob was at the door.
We have already seen in Chapter I how man stepped upwards from the level of a howling brute to the higher level of an articulate being, and thence to the still higher level of a singing creature.
It consisted of marching on to College green or St Stephen's green on a day when there was a howling gale and the wind was blowing about us –I am sure hon. Members today are familiar with this –to utter a few, well-chosen platitudes.
gloss: That causes one to howl or feel like howling; deeply distressing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ah! the death of the poor, the empty entrails, howling hunger, the animal appetite that leads one with chattering teeth to fill one's stomach with beastly refuse in this great Paris, so bright and golden!
Some agency must control the allocation of frequencies or all our airways would be a howling chaos: but there is no rational justification for the kind of regulation that the Federal Communications Commission proposes for our industry.
A pervasive sense of optimism led settlers in southern New Zealand to transform their properites from a 'howling wilderness' to a humanised rural landscape.
gloss: Used as an intensifier
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: Those were days that I had success, for I could see it, and feel it, and taste it, and my patrons caught the contagion and we had a howling success .
Boy, what a howling triumph if we should find our way out of here and go walking into Stark House by night !
The majority of your audience comes to your tale with one hopeful expectation: Tell me a howling good story.
Derived words: howlingly
Translations:
wheeled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more wheeled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wheeled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having wheels; on wheels.
pos: adj
examples: a wheeled vehicle
An occasional Afghan makes a good bushman. These rare birds, with the help of natives, found that by winding in and out over the soft ground of the valleys they could bring a camel-train where no wheeled transport could go.
gloss: Having the specified number or type of wheels.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: a three-wheeled car
an iron-wheeled chariot
Translations:
wearer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English werer, werere, equivalent to wear + -er.
Base: wear
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: wearers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who wears.
pos: noun
examples: On Saint Patrick's day I put on my green shirt and join the wearers of the green.
Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer.
Translations:
presbytery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English presbetory, presbytory (“part of church reserved for clergy”), from Late Latin presbyterium (“group of presbyters, part of church reserved for clergy”), from Ancient Greek πρεσβῠτέρῐον (presbŭtérĭon, “group of presbyters”), from πρεσβῠ́τερος (presbŭ́teros, “elder, priest”) + -ῐον (-ĭon). By surface analysis, presbyter + -y. Doublet of presbyterium.
Inflected forms:
form: presbyteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The home of a Roman Catholic parish priest.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: curatage, parsonage, vicarage
gloss: A section of a church reserved for the clergy, containing the altar.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: chancel (broadly synonymous)
gloss: Presbyters collectively; the body of presbyters of a congregation.
pos: noun
examples: Meronym: presbyter
gloss: The district (jurisdiction) of those presbyters.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: diocese, parish
gloss: A body of elders in the early Christian church.
pos: noun
Derived words: archpresbytery
presbyterial
presbyterian
Presbyterian
Translations:
birk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Northern Middle English birk, birke, byrke (“birch”), (southern Middle English birche). More at birch.
(tree): Cognate with Scots birk.
Inflected forms:
form: birks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A birch tree.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
examples: Shadows of the silver birk / Sweep the green that folds thy grave.
gloss: A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).
pos: noun
Translations:
nucleation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: nucleations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The first stage of a phase transition in a small region.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The formation of cell nuclei.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: binucleation
centronucleation
denucleation
epinucleation
exonucleation
heteronucleation
micronucleation
misnucleation
mononucleation
multinucleation
postnucleation
prenucleation
renucleation
tetranucleation
tribonucleation
Translations:
autodidactic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos), from αὐτός (autós, “self”) + διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach”). By surface analysis, autodidact + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or being an autodidact; self-taught; self-educated.
pos: adj
examples: Albert Einstein was autodidactic.
Translations:
yttria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ytterby, a town in Sweden.
Inflected forms:
form: yttrias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: yttrium oxide
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
oxidative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From oxide + -ative or oxidate + -ive.
Base: oxide
Affixes: -ative
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or produced by oxidation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
Antonyms: reductive
Translations:
predicatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English predicative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English predicatively
From predicative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: As a predicate; giving information about the subject of a sentence.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Dutch adjective ‘af’ can only be used predicatively.
Translations:
responder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English respond
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English responder
From respond + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: responders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who responds.
pos: noun
examples: As Levinson (1983: 334) points out, signs of dispreference in turn taking include: (a) Delays: notably a pause, or a time gap, before the responder replies to the preceding turn […]
gloss: A person who responds to an emergency situation or other summons.
pos: noun
examples: 911 responders arrived at the scene within five minutes after the call.
Related words: responser
responsor
Derived words: autoresponder
first responder
hyperresponder
non-responder
nonresponder
seroresponder
transponder
Translations: