yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
smock
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
Etymology: From Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”).
Akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga (“to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through”); compare with Lithuanian smukti (“to glide”). See also smug, smuggle.
Inflected forms:
form: smocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: smocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: smocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
pos: noun
examples: c. 1960s (version), 14th century' (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
Before the folk herself stripped she,
And in her smock, with foot and head all bare,
Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
gloss: A blouse; a smock frock.
pos: noun
examples: And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.
gloss: A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To apply smocking.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: lady smock
lady's smock
land smock
smell-smock
smock-face
smock-faced
smockful
smockless
smocklike
smock-smelling
smock mill
smock race
smocker
Translations:
unvoiced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English voiced
English unvoiced
From un- + voiced.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not spoken or expressed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I could guess her unvoiced opinon.
gloss: Spoken without vibration of the vocal chords.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Both EE and SSBE feature glottal stops – unvoiced Ts – but in EE it can happen in the middle of words – eg “wa’er for “water” – whereas in SSBE it happens only at the end of words.
gloss: That does not contain voice.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The unvoiced signal is smaller energy than voiced signal and, so, this section is applied the smaller threshold.
gloss: Of an IRC user: not granted voice privileges.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
not-comparable
Related words: surd
Translations:
teleportation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined by author Charles Fort in his 1931 book Lo! from tele- + transportation.
Base: transportation
Affixes: tele-
Inflected forms:
form: teleportations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.
pos: noun
Translations:
opossum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-
Proto-Algonquian *aθemwa
Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-aʔθemwa
Powhatan aposoumbor.
English opossum
From Powhatan aposoum (“white animal”), from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-aʔθemwa (“white dog”); compare Ojibwe waabasim (“white dog”).
Inflected forms:
form: opossums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae in the order Didelphimorphia.
pos: noun
Translations:
telescopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
English tele-
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scope
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -scopic
English telescopic
From tele- + -scopic, after telescope.
Base: tele
Inflected forms:
form: more telescopic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most telescopic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or carried out by means of, a telescope.
pos: adj
examples: Within a year or two of Galileo's telescopic discoveries no one disputed that the moon had mountains, Jupiter had moons, Venus had phases and the sun had spots […].
gloss: Seen by means of a telescope; only visible through a telescope.
pos: adj
examples: telescopic stars
gloss: Capable of seeing distant objects; far-seeing.
pos: adj
gloss: Able to be extended or retracted by the use of parts that slide over one another.
pos: adj
examples: telescopic baton
gloss: Referring to parts being extended or retracted along coinciding axes (with or without direct contact between the parts).
pos: adj
Related words: telescope
microscopic
macroscopic
naked-eye
Derived words: nontelescopic
phototelescopic
pretelescopic
radiotelescopic
telescopical
telescopically
telescopic sight
telescopic star
telescopic vision
telescoping
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: телескопичен
roman: teleskopičen
televise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from television.
Inflected forms:
form: televises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: televising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: televised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: televised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: televize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: To broadcast, or be broadcast, by television.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was one of the first major events to be televised.
Translations:
telecast
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tele- + -cast, from broadcast.
Affixes: tele-
-cast
Inflected forms:
form: telecasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: telecasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: telecast
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: telecast
pos: verb
tags: past
form: telecasted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
participle
past
proscribed
sometimes
form: telecasted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
past
proscribed
sometimes
form: telecasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To broadcast by television.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cooley currently is ironing out details of the proposed kinescoping with Klaus Landsberg, topper at KTLA, over whose facilities the hour-long show has been telecast […]
[The Kumbh Mela festival] would be telecast across the country.
gloss: To broadcast a television program.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: A television broadcast, especially outside of a studio.
pos: noun
examples: By the time the telecast starts, you’ll be an industry insider.
Derived words: retelecast
Translations:
oho
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English o ho; o, ho; equivalent to o + ho.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Expressing surprise or gloating realisation; aha.
pos: intj
examples: "There is Kate, taking no heed of anybody; sensible old darling — she goes at her tea and cake — Oho! she has not touched them!"
"Oho, my boy, that's the woman who keeps you here! Mrs. Neff hinted at it, but I wouldn't believe it till I had it from you."
"Oho," he said, "a vile thing to say. It is. I am losing check upon my tongue, it is running free like a riderless horse. And I don't give a damn. I can say at last what I wanted for years to say, years of being politic and demure. No longer."
"Oho! Now I see where he's going with this, Frank thinks. Would have seen it earlier if I hadn't been so tired."
gloss: The sound of weeping; boohoo.
pos: intj
tags: archaic
examples: "Oho, oho, oho!" she wailed. "I didn't know; I didn't know. I meant no harm; indeed I didn't, ma'am."
Translations:
mockney
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of mock + Cockney.
First published use in 1967, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Compound parts: mock
Cockney
Inflected forms:
form: mockneys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more mockney
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mockney
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An inauthentic imitation of Cockney accent and vocabulary.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
gloss: A person who speaks in this way.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
gloss: Characteristic of a mockney.
pos: adj
Translations:
inauthentic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English authentic
English inauthentic
From in- + authentic.
Inflected forms:
form: more inauthentic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inauthentic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not authentic or genuine; spurious.
pos: adj
examples: But only in recent years, experts say, have they begun routinely disenrolling Indians deemed inauthentic members of a group.
Translations:
morphing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: morphings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The smooth transformation of one image into another using digital tweening.
pos: noun
Translations:
tweening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tweenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A technique in film animation for generating intermediate frames such that one image evolves smoothly into the next.
pos: noun
Translations:
plaintive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pleintif, plentyff, from Old French pleintif (“aggrieved, lamenting”) (whence modern French plaintif), from plainte (“lament, complaint”); see plaint. Doublet of plaintiff.
Inflected forms:
form: more plaintive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plaintive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
pos: adj
examples: a typically plaintive song from Radiohead
I can see by your plaintive smile something is wrong, so spill it.
When my wife and I heard a plaintive whinny from our laundry room the other day, we knew that our old dryer had cycled its last load.
Translations:
moulin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French moulin, from Late Latin molinum (“mill”). Doublet of moline and mill.
Inflected forms:
form: moulins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface.
pos: noun
Translations:
crevasse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
Inflected forms:
form: crevasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crevasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crevassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crevassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crevassed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
pos: noun
gloss: A breach in a canal or river bank.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Any cleft or fissure.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers.
gloss: A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: […] he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled.
gloss: To form crevasses.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fissure with crevasses.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
entomologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English entomology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English entomologist
From entomology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: entomologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scientist who studies insects.
pos: noun
examples: The noted entomologist Charles W. Woodworth suggested the use of Drosophila melanogaster for genetic studies.
He kindly offered me a room during my stay in Amboyna, and introduced me to his junior, Dr. Doleschall, a Hungarian and also an entomologist.
DENR entomologists recall that beetle infestation of the agohos is similar to another which killed thousands of pine trees in Benguet in 1981.
Colorado stood at the brink of an outbreak that another Forest Service entomologist would dub “Beetlegeddon.”
An entomologist named a new species of millipede Nannaria swiftae after pop star Taylor Swift.
The team, made up of entomologists and electrical engineers, attached AprilTags, a kind of QR code that is smaller than the nail on your little finger, to the bees using glue.
Translations:
phylogeny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from German Phylogenie, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, a neologism created as if borrowed from a Classic Greek word φυλογένεια (phulogéneia), composed from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”) + -γένεια (-géneia, “-geny (generation, production)”), equivalent to phylo- + -geny.
Affixes: phylo-
-geny
Inflected forms:
form: phylogenies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was a bestiary more than a hundred years old, its entries organised by a quaintly outdated phylogeny and illustrated with hand-tinted plates.
gloss: A phylogenetic diagram.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Holonym: tree of life
gloss: The historical development of a human social or racial group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Understanding the phylogeny of this musical group helps us understand its music.
gloss: The historical development of any thing, idea, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Indeed, in a recent review article, Mithen (2009) traces the phylogeny of human communication […]
Synonyms: phylogenesis
Related words: phylogenetics
phylogenic
phylesis
ontogeny
philoxenia
Derived words: blastophyly
cophylogeny
cormophyly
cytophylogeny
geophylogeny
histophyly
macrophylogeny
megaphylogeny
monophylogeny
morphophyly
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
organophyly
phylogenist
physiophyly
polyphylogeny
subphylogeny
Translations:
dangling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: danglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Suspended from above.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In a state of suspense.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: Well, don't leave me dangling. Tell me what happened!
gloss: The act of hanging something so that it can move freely; suspension.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of following or trailing around.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] Falkner's quick-sighted honour would not have tolerated your brother's danglings at the skirts of beauty.
Translations:
tutti
Part of speech: adv
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian tutti, from Latin totus (“all”).
Inflected forms:
form: tuttis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage with a reduced number of voices.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: All together; with all playing at once.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a tutti passage
gloss: A passage in which all members of an orchestra are playing
pos: noun
examples: Even so, the orchestra endowed tuttis with a positively radiant glow.
Translations:
freezer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
neuroscience
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English freeze
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 freezer
From freeze + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: freezers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).
pos: noun
examples: The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.
It’s easy to grab plastic-wrapped daifuku at Japanese grocery stores in New York, and to spot boxes of mochi ice cream in supermarket freezer aisles.
Fridges contain gases that can cause serious environmental damage and are among the most toxic white goods if not disposed of correctly, along with freezers and air conditioning units.
gloss: The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: fridge, fridge-freezer, refrigerator, refrigerator-freezer
gloss: A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.
pos: noun
gloss: A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.
pos: noun
examples: […] "freezer" cartridges (such as the Action Replay), as a convenient way to take control […]
The execution of the program was suspended with a special hardware expansion, the freezer, and the contents of the memory were saved to disk.
Derived words: biofreezer
bumfreezer
chest freezer
deepfreeze
deep-freeze
deep freeze
flash freezer
freezer bag
freezer block
freezer burn
freezer cooking
freezerful
freezerless
freezer paper
freezer-proof
freezer ship
freezerware
fridge-freezer
keezer
refrigerator-freezer
ultrafreezer
walk-in freezer
Translations:
square-rigged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having (approximately) square sails rigged onto spars perpendicular to the keel.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Smartly dressed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A handsome square-rigged fellow in a double-breasted blue uniform, not burnt, stood at her shoulder.
Antonyms: fore-and-aft-rigged
Translations:
square-rigger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: square-riggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A square-rigged ship.
pos: noun
Translations:
televisual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
English tele-
English visual
English televisual
From tele- + visual.
Inflected forms:
form: more televisual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most televisual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of or relating to television
pos: adj
gloss: suitable for broadcasting on television
pos: adj
gloss: telegenic
pos: adj
Derived words: metatelevisual
nontelevisual
pretelevisual
televisuality
televisualization
televisualize
televisually
Translations:
telegenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tele- + -genic, by analogy with photogenic.
Base: tele
Inflected forms:
form: more telegenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most telegenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having an appearance and exhibiting qualities thought to be attractive to television viewers.
pos: adj
examples: The young politician was very telegenic.
Then again, TV politicking simply selects for politicians who are good at TV — charismatic-cool like Mr. Obama, provocative-hot like Mr. Trump — and being telegenic does not necessarily mean having good policy or judgment or decision-making instincts.
gloss: televisual
pos: adj
Related words: face for television
Derived words: telegenically
telegenicity
untelegenic
Translations:
superset
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
sports
weightlifting
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English set
English superset
From super- + set.
Inflected forms:
form: supersets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: supersets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: supersetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: supersetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: supersetted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: (symbol: ⊇) With respect to another set, a set such that each of the elements of the other set is also an element of the set.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: Near-synonyms: supergroup (broad sense), superclass, supercategory
The set of human beings is a superset of the set of human children.
The set of characters "LBPG" is a superset of the set of characters "PG".
gloss: Two or more different physical exercises performed back to back (i.e., without a period of rest between them). The exercises may employ the same muscle group, or opposing muscle groups.
pos: noun
examples: While some lifters insist that supersets must consist of consecutive exercises for the same bodypart, others would bet their weight belts that supersets involve opposing bodyparts.
A superset is a combination of two or three different exercises back to back. For example, you start with bodyweight press up and switch to TRX chest press with few seconds to no rest in between.
gloss: To perform (different physical exercises) back to back, without a period of rest between them.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: An example would be cable curls supersetted with tricep pushdowns, or leg extensions supersetted with leg curls.
“If you’re using more than one piece of equipment, make sure you’re close to them at all times,” says fitness coach JC Deen of JCD Fitness. Walk away for more than 15 to 30 seconds, and most people will assume you’re done, Deen says. “Supersetting is a luxury, not a necessity,” adds strength coach and author Bret Contreras. Bottom line: “If the gym is busy, don’t superset!”
Antagonist supersets involve supersetting opposite motions or muscle groups.
Translations:
utu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Māori utubor.
English utu
Borrowed from Māori utu.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Compensation for a wrong suffered; reciprocal exchange or payment; (loosely), payback, revenge.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
uncountable
examples: Utu determined that relations among individuals, and between families, communities and tribes, were governed by mutual obligation and an implicit keeping of social accounts […].
Utu demanded that both favors and grievances be repaid in kind, but it was the grievances, naturally, that caused the most trouble.
The match had been touted as a chance for utu after the 1999 and 2007 All Blacks World Cup defeats.
Translations:
deep-freeze
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: deep-freezes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deep-freezing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deep-froze
pos: verb
tags: past
form: deep-freezed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
form: deep-frozen
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deep-freezed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To freeze at very low temperatures.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
proprioception
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From proprioceptor, from Latin proprius (“one's own”) + reception. Coined by British neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington in 1906.
Base: proprius
Inflected forms:
form: proprioceptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] it is achieved through a neuromuscular feedback system known as proprioception or kinaesthetic awareness, as well as through an auditory control system in which the ear monitors the sound and makes […]
Sometimes referred to as our sixth sense, proprioception is what helps high-level athletes take a penalty without looking at the ball, or orient themselves in the air while doing a twisting somersault.
Translations:
gestalt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gestalt (“shape, figure, form”).
Inflected forms:
form: gestalts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gestalten
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Gestalt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being).
pos: noun
examples: Mary did not approve of the Eleanor gestalt. "I been to Woonsocket S.D., Eleanor McGovern's hometown," she said, "and nobody there? I mean nobody? dresses like that."
Thus one activity, talking, is understood in terms of another, physical fighting. Structuring our experience in terms of such multidimensional gestalts is what makes our experience coherent.
[…] depending on the kinds of speech children hear directed to them, they may first learn unanalyzed "gestalts" (e.g., social expressions like "What's that?" uttered as a single unit) instead of learning single words that are then freely recombined […]
So different were our appearances and approaches and general gestalts that we had something of an epic rivalry from '74 through '77.
The clusters of behavioral gestalten... the probability factors... the subtypes of crimes... the constellations of criminal subtypes...
Obviously it was related to the entire gestalt of Simon's polyphobia and compensatory counterphobia. The boys used to watch horror movies on late-night television […]
“He [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] also said, ‘We’re making vaccinations available. We’re doing this for vaccination. We’re doing that for vaccination.’ So if you take the gestalt of it, the gestalt was, ‘Let’s get vaccinated!’”
Translations:
conjunctiva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From 1540s late Middle English, borrowing from Medieval Latin conjūnctīva (“serving to connect, connective”, feminine), ellipsis of membrāna conjūnctīva (“conjunctive membrane”).
Inflected forms:
form: conjunctivas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conjunctivae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clear mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and the exposed surface of the eyeball or sclera.
pos: noun
examples: There is a third inner eyelid, highly developed and of beautiful mechanism: this is the nictitating membrane, or "winker" (nictito, I wink), a delicate, elastic, translucent, pearly-white fold of the conjunctiva. While the other lids move vertically and have a horizontal commissure, the winker sweeps horizontally or obliquely across the ball, from the side next the beak to the opposite.
Translations:
mastery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English maistery, maistrie, mastere, mastry, from Old French maistrie, equivalent to master + -y.
Base: master
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: masteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: masterie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
gloss: Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill.
The voice of them that shout for mastery.
Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.
gloss: The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He […]could attain to a mastery in all languages.
The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.
At Tebay however, he began to get the mastery over these untoward conditions, and actually got back a little time up to Shap, after which all was plain sailing.
gloss: A contest for superiority.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: […] pastimes of wrestling, and like maſteries betweene the Citizens of London and others of the Suburbes […]
Rury has given the word for some rare sport — a bout of games and masteries between me and Marcos Serkman to prove which is the better man.
Come, Paolo, we two have never held / A mastery between us — tell me out!
gloss: A masterly operation; a feat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: Ye welsh men..brake out vpon the Englysshe men in ye Bordour..and there made masteryes for a whyle.
That ye maye knowe..what masteryes they haue played.
By a number of odde speeches..you doo yet suppose to haue wrought a mastery.
Why, thou cowardly knave, no stronger than a duck, Darest thou try masteries with me a-pluck.
To accomplish this is a great mastery, a rare mastery: but it is an accomplishment that seems to have been Rowlandson's easily whenever he would.
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully.
gloss: The philosopher's stone.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
Related words: master
Derived words: flipped mastery
mastery learning
nonmastery
premastery
self-mastery
Translations:
reversible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
law
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
Etymology: Probably from Middle French, equivalent to reverse + -ible.
Base: reverse
Affixes: -ible
Inflected forms:
form: reversibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be reversed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] the Welwyn bottleneck will be relaid with high-speed turnouts and resignalled for reversible working.
gloss: Able to be worn inside out.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: That boy, Louis, is in his way a masterpiece. Do you know, every article of clothing that he wears is reversible, so that he can present quite a different appearance at the shortest notice!
gloss: Capable of proceeding in either direction.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Capable of returning to the original state.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Capable of returning to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Providing sufficient reason for a court decision to be overturned on appeal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A garment that can be worn inside out.
pos: noun
Antonyms: irreversible
Derived words: bioreversible
bireversible
endoreversible
irreversible
microreversible
nonreversible
photoreversible
pseudoreversible
quasireversible
reversibility
reversibleness
reversibly
thermoreversible
unreversible
Translations:
donjon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A variant of dungeon remodelled on its etymon, Old French donjon.
Inflected forms:
form: donjons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fortified tower and main residence of a motte or early castle; a keep.
pos: noun
examples: It was a fortress of no great size, consisting of a donjon, or large and high square tower, surrounded by buildings of inferior height, which were encircled by an inner court-yard.
[…] the prison fortress called Qomr, a mound of yellowish brick rising up from the left back of the turbid river, in whose donjon by long tradition the warlord was obliged to lay his head.
Translations:
ot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ѿ / ѿ.
pos: noun
Translations:
temperamental
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English temperament
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English temperamental
From temperament + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more temperamental
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most temperamental
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to, or caused by temperament.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious.
pos: adj
gloss: User-unfriendly, unstable, that is complicated or has poorly written instructions and is subsequently difficult to operate; unpredictable and erratic.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Derived words: temperamentalism
temperamentalist
temperamentality
temperamentally
untemperamental
Translations:
temperament
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
music
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English temperament, borrowed from Middle French tempérament, from Latin temperāmentum.
Inflected forms:
form: temperaments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: President Taft did not have the temperament either to dominate or to work with his Congress.
gloss: A tendency to become irritable or angry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule […]
gloss: Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: artistic temperament
circular temperament
circulating temperament
equal temperament
good temperament
Helmholtz temperament
intemperament
judicial temperament
meantone temperament
miracle temperament
quasi-Pythagorean temperament
schismic temperament
temperamented
well temperament
Translations:
pericardium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
cardiology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek περικάρδιον (perikárdion)lbor.
English pericardium
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek περικάρδιον (perikárdion).
Inflected forms:
form: pericardia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pericardiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A serous membrane that surrounds the heart allowing it to contract.
pos: noun
examples: The Pericardium is sometimes swelled, as overcharged with too great a quantity of Serous Liquor, making a kind of Dropsie […]
Translations:
endocardium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
cardiology
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: endocardiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: endocardia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin serous membrane that lines the interior of the heart.
pos: noun
Translations:
specificity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
medicine
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From specific + -ity, perhaps modelled after French spécificité. First attested in 1829.
Base: specific
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: specificities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being specific rather than general.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Congress must set a clear standard: Police should prove with specificity what's on your phone before forcing it open, and only after the device's owner has consulted with a lawyer. Doing so would provide citizens a means to ensure police follow warrant requirements without sacrificing law enforcement's ability to pursue the crime they're investigating.
gloss: The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Coordinate term: sensitivity
gloss: The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: specificness
individuality
particularity
peculiarity
propriety
singularity
specialty
specificity
Antonyms: nonspecificity
genericity
Derived words: allospecificity
aspecificity
bispecificity
cardiospecificity
chemospecificity
conspecificity
diastereospecificity
enantiospecificity
heterospecificity
heterosubspecificity
homospecificity
hyperspecificity
immunospecificity
interspecificity
intraspecificity
isospecificity
monospecificity
multispecificity
neospecificity
neurospecificity
nonspecificity
organospecificity
overspecificity
paraspecificity
phosphospecificity
polyspecificity
regiospecificity
serospecificity
stereospecificity
subspecificity
transspecificity
ultraspecificity
unspecificity
xenospecificity
Translations:
bree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English brewe, bre, bregh, from Old English brēġ (“eyelid”) (Anglian dialect). Compare West Saxon brǣw, brēaw, brēaġ (“eyelid”), from Proto-Germanic *brēwō. Cognate with Dutch (wenk)brauw, German Braue. Compare brae from the same source. Apparently related to brow.
Inflected forms:
form: brees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The eyelid.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
dialectal
obsolete
gloss: The eyebrow.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
dialectal
obsolete
gloss: The brow; forehead.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
balbriggan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Balbriggan, a place in Ireland.
Inflected forms:
form: balbriggans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unbleached, knitted, cotton fabric mostly used for underwear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bidet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French bidetbor.
English bidet
Borrowed from French bidet.
Inflected forms:
form: bidets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus.
pos: noun
gloss: A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: For joy of which I will return to myself, mount my bidet in a dance
Derived words: Bidet
bidet shower
bidet spray
bidet sprayer
Translations:
backscratcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From back + scratcher; also, by surface analysis, backscratch + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: backscratchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back scratcher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch their own back.
pos: noun
gloss: A participant in corruption, such as a briber or pay-to-play participant.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncommon
examples: Pierre-Gilles had made a name for himself, but also wanted to give credit to his collaborators, whom he was always careful to cite in lectures, to the point that, for a joke, Daniel Saint-James and his colleague Gobalakichena Sarma created a "backscratchers club" named the 'Société de la brosse à reluire mutuelle' (SABRM) — mutual backscratching society — appointing Pierre-Gilles as its honorary chairman. The members of this club, which included the other musketeers, numerous physicists from Saclay, etc., were obliged to mention the other members in all their lectures, even if they hadn't contributed to the results!
Related words: backscratching
scratch someone's back
you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
Translations:
behaviorism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-der.
Proto-Germanic *habjaną
Proto-West Germanic *habbjan
Proto-West Germanic *bihabbjan
Old English behabban
Middle English behaven
Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *haβēō
Latin habeō
Old French avoirbor.
Middle English havour
Middle English behavoure
English behavior
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English behaviorism
From behavior + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: behaviorisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: behaviourism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An approach to psychology focusing on observable behavior which, generally assuming that behavior is determined by the environment and denying any independent significance for mind, largely ignores any pathophysiological processes which may, or may not, underlie subjective, behavioral phenomena.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Behaviorism is considered by most philosophers of medicine, to be an expression of the weaker, minimalist interpretation of the 'medical model' of clinical psychology because it focuses the study and classification of mental disorders upon a phenomenological, rather than a pathophysiological, approach to the subject.
Translations:
behaviourism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English behaviour
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English behaviourism
From behaviour + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: behaviourisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Standard spelling of behaviorism.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Translations:
overdrive
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From Middle English overdriven, from Old English oferdrīfan, equivalent to over- + drive. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurdrieuwe (“to overdo, overstate”), Dutch overdrijven (“to exaggerate”), German Low German overdrieven, överdrieven (“to overdo, exaggerate”), German übertreiben (“to overdo, exaggerate”), Norwegian overdrive (“to exaggerate”).
Base: drive
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overdrives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overdriving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overdrove
pos: verb
tags: past
form: overdriven
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overdrives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A gear, on an automobile, higher than the traditional top gear, mainly to allow better fuel economy at highway speeds. In the 21st century, such gears are no longer viewed as "extra" and thus rarely called by this name.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: top gear
In the 1970s, many transmission designs were revised to add an overdrive gear.
Cruising in overdrive at legal highway speed keeps rpm right at 1800, depending on rear-axle ratio.
gloss: A state of heightened activity.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: overdrive pacing
The campaign has been in overdrive since the recent announcement.
It is true, though it's got nothing to do with me, that the building boom that created the Bombay of my childhood went into overdrive in the years before my birth
So, Mr. Zuckerberg has kicked his company into overdrive with a strong message: It’s time to do more with less.
gloss: Freewheeling (driving a vehicle with the transmission in neutral) on downhill stretches to achieve higher fuel economy and/or speed than otherwise. In colloquial registers, ethnically bigoted variants have been common, such as Jewish overdrive (alluding to the stereotype of miserly Jews) or Mexican overdrive or Polish overdrive (alluding to stereotypes of foolishness and poverty).
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
slang
uncountable
examples: Of course overdrive is forbidden for dump trucks in the quarry because it is unsafe, but unscrupulous workers were found to be using it because of a perverse incentive involving tonnage piece rates.
gloss: A gear ratio higher than 1:1: one in which a single revolution of the driving element corresponds to more than one revolution of the driven element.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: hyperdrive
oversteer
understeer
upshift
Derived words: Georgia overdrive
Jewish overdrive
Mexican overdrive
Polish overdrive
Translations:
keystroke
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From key + stroke.
Compound parts: key
stroke
Inflected forms:
form: keystrokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: keystrokes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: keystroking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: keystroked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: keystroked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of pressing an input key; a keypress on a computer keyboard or a typewriter, or a similar input device.
pos: noun
gloss: To enter (data etc.) by pressing keys on a keyboard.
pos: verb
examples: I keystroked the entire manual, in addition to the keystroking done by the Technical Support and Test groups.
Translations: