yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
weak-bladdered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more weak-bladdered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most weak-bladdered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: suffering from a leaky or overactive bladder
pos: adj
Translations:
self-generating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + generating.
Base: generating
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Producing something (such as electrical power) within or for itself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a self-generating gas lamp
Translations:
bull-running
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bull-runnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: running of the bulls
pos: noun
Translations:
exo-steric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From exo- (“outside”) + -steric.
Base: exo
Inflected forms:
form: more exo-steric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exo-steric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That binds a compound on an outside position.
pos: adj
Translations:
hubster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Probably from blend of hubby; roadster, teamster, etc., or equivalent to hub(by) + -ster.
Base: hubby
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: hubsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A husband.
pos: noun
tags: endearing
informal
Translations:
thumb-indexed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a book, having a thumb index.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
toony
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From toon + -y.
Base: toon
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more toony
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most toony
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: cartoony
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: From his vantage point close to the ground, Ollie watched the chairlegs bend in a toony manner as they struggled […]
He was also told to keep a toony quality to the delivery, which is displayed well in the plaintive delivery of Roger's line […]
Translations:
doha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: From Hindi दोहा (dohā).
Inflected forms:
form: dohas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of self-contained rhyming couplet in Hindi poetry.
pos: noun
Translations:
red-green
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From red + green.
* (politics): from red representing socialism and green representing environmentalism or Islamism
Compound parts: red
green
Inflected forms:
form: more red-green
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most red-green
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: red-greens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the shades of red and green, as in red-green colorblindness.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of ecosocialist.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to an alliance between socialists and Islamists.
pos: adj
examples: Also the “red-green axis”—or, as French Prime Minister Manuel Valls calls it, “Islamo-leftism”—the partnership between Leftists and Islamists, is entrenched on campuses, as evidenced by myriad political resolutions passed by flagship organizations such as the Middle East Studies Association.
The core of the globalist coalition Houllebecq depicts in Submission subsumes the “Red-Green” coalition between the social-democratic left worldwide and the Muslim immigrants they have welcomed, what Houllebecq elsewhere calls “the unholy collusion between the far-left and radical Islam.”
The Arab states that signed the Abraham Accords with Israel all have a common interest in containing the influence of the Red-Green Alliance.
gloss: Synonym of ecosocialist.
pos: noun
Translations:
Italo-Romance
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of or relating to the Romance lects spoken mainly in the Italian Peninsula, Sicily and Corsica
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
proto-prog
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From proto- + prog.
Base: prog
Affixes: proto-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The earliest work associated with the first wave of progressive rock music.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Negretti
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Probably from Negretti, the name or title of the family which owned the strain.
Inflected forms:
form: Negretti
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Negrettis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: negretti
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Negrette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: negrette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sheep of a Merino strain of Spanish origin, known for having very fine wool.
pos: noun
examples: If a man with large means intends to raise for wool merely, or principally, I leave it open to him to select Negrettes or Combwools, as both will pay with necessary care; and although I belong to the old merino school, I am last to deny the qualities of a Cotswold.
Translations:
Appie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of Appalachian + -ie.
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: Appies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Appalachia.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, an outdoor group in the United States.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
blue-jawed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more blue-jawed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blue-jawed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing a stubble of unshaved beard.
pos: adj
examples: The walls hold tinted photographs of himself and Mim in high school, taken he remembers by a pushy pudgy little blue-jawed crook who called himself a Studio and weaseled his way into the building every spring and made them line up in the auditorium and wet-comb their hair...
Lay there and flirted with the blue-jawed paramedic leaning over him, certain bawdy entendres on expressions like vital signs and dilation until the paramedic radioed ahead to Cambridge City's E. Room to cancel the crash-cart.
gloss: Having a bruised jaw.
pos: adj
Translations:
let-out
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from let out.
Inflected forms:
form: let-outs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: letout
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or an instance of releasing or letting out something.
pos: noun
examples: “I just want you to know that this whole Missteps thing has nothing to do with me or any of my staff.” A let-out of breath. “I don't know who it is, but it sounds like that letter to the editor from back when you were playing? […]”
gloss: An opportunity to avoid or escape from a difficult or unpleasant situation.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
idiomatic
examples: It has of course the brilliant let-out that it does not seek to prove that its statements are true, but only that they are “verifiable”. This principle is relatively weak: Wikipedists are supposed to be able to source their remarks.
Translations:
shit-brown
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shit-browns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dark brown colour, as of excrement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
vulgar
examples: But being the right shade of khaki or shit-brown is not enough.
gloss: of a shit brown hue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
vulgar
Translations:
pre-Platonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Prior to the time of Plato
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pre-Soviet
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + Soviet.
Base: Soviet
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Prior to the formation of the Soviet Union
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Jie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 羯 (Jié), from Middle Chinese 羯 (kjot), itself borrowed from Jie.
Inflected forms:
form: Chieh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ancient tribe of northern China, who were regarded as one of the Five Barbarians by the Han people.
pos: noun
tags: historical
plural
plural-only
Translations:
doubletime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From double + time.
Compound parts: double
time
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A gene in Drosophila melanogaster that produces the DBT protein kinase, used to control circadian rhythm.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
toe-crushing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
business
construction
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
sports
Inflected forms:
form: more toe-crushing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most toe-crushing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A failure of a brick wall in which the bricks at one lower end crack and crumble.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: That crushes the toe or toes.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: That crushes the toe or toes.
pos: adj
examples: Nasty unpolished toe-crushing boots are equally acceptable, but don't let anyone see you wearing neat woolly knee-socks.
Related words: toe-crusher
Translations:
Ginsu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Marketing coinage, intended to evoke the idea of Japanese samurai swords.
Inflected forms:
form: Ginsus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of sharp kitchen knife.
pos: noun
examples: The yearning a man feels when he watches the Food Network springs from the same well of forbidden fantasies that led to Michael Douglas' fiasco-fling with a Ginsu-wielding Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, except that now there's a 180-degree twist.
Translations:
double-head
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
form: double-heads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: double-heading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: double-headed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: double-headed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To haul a train with two locomotives at the head end.
pos: verb
examples: For an excursion organised by the publishers of this journal to Eastleigh and Ashford on April 5, Class T9 4-4-0 No. 30117 and E1 4-4-0 No. 31019 were provided to double-head a special from Charing Cross to Ashford via Maidstone East.
Translations:
anti-alcoholic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + alcoholic.
Base: alcoholic
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-alcoholic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-alcoholic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antialcoholic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: temperance, against the excessive consumption of alcohol
pos: adj
Translations:
bawl-baby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bawl-babies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A crybaby.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
dust-collector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dust-collectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ornamental item or objet d'art, viewed as having no other purpose than to collect dust.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
Translations:
treasure-hunter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: treasure-hunters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who seeks out buried or sunken treasure.
pos: noun
examples: But it found a place in evil incantations accompanying certain rituals used by necromancers, treasure-hunters, and the like.
gloss: A person shopping for special items that they will hold dear.
pos: noun
Translations:
well-merited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fully merited, richly deserved, well-earned.
pos: adj
examples: At each station is a level crossing, in addition to others away from stations, and, as both the road and rail traffic are heavy, the gatekeepers (mostly signalmen) are quite busy and have acquired well-merited mention for reducing delays to road traffic to a minimum.
One is reluctant to sour the well-merited tributes paid to Sir Brian Robertson on his retirement from the Chairmanship of the B.T.C.
Translations:
poggers
Part of speech: intj
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ph₁tós
Proto-Italic *patosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *pet-der.?
Latin patior
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin passiōbor.
Old English passion
▲
Latin passiōbor.
Old French passionbor.
Middle English passioun
English passion
Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg-
Proto-Italic *frūgjōr
Latin fruor
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin frūctus
Old French fruitbor.
Middle English fruyt
English fruit
English passion fruit
▲
Italian melaranciacalq.
Old French Orengeinflu.
▲
Old Occitan auranjainflu.
Old French pomme d'orenge
Old French orenge
Middle French orangebor.
Middle English orenge
English orange
Taíno *wayababor.
Spanish guayababor.
English guava
English POG
English pog
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der.
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ém-po-s
Proto-Italic *kampos
Latin campusbor.
Frankish *kamp
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Frankish *-jan
Frankish *kampijan
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Frankish *-jō
Frankish *kampijōbor.
Medieval Latin campiō
Old French champiunbor.
Middle English champioun
English champion
English champ
English pogchamp
English pog
English -er
English -ers
English poggers
From pog + -ers.
Inflected forms:
form: more poggers
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most poggers
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Expresses strong excitement.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
examples: “Nice,” Chandler said. “Poggers.”
Tomoko Kuroki [to Yuri Tamura]: Pleeeeeeease please kiss me again I won't say poggers afterwards this timeeeeee
gloss: awesome
pos: adj
tags: Internet
predicative
Translations:
garms
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From garments.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: clothing
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
plural
plural-only
examples: Mr Godfrey elaborates: 'Unlike New York, where violence is operating on its own irrational plane, on he streets of London there are only two reasons for trouble: your "garms or your area.
In internet rooms and computer mainframes, there's loads of emails about your mother's blue veins. Not the ones in her legs or the back of her arms, but the ones in her member hidden in her garms.
garms - threads, clothes (London and the South-East): Garms is a term short for garments and, although dating back to Old London, is still in use by the capital's teenagers today. Garms that are buff and criss (cool and stylish, or rude) are of course the best (or nang).
Translations:
non-SPEC
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a species, not listed as a Species of European Conservation Concern, therefore, having a stable population (according to this classification scheme).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
court-packing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of changing the composition or number of members of a judicial body in order to alter the decisions of that body.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Xiaomi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Xiaomi, a Chinese multinational company that produces consumer electronics. Borrowed from Mandarin 小米 (xiǎomǐ), meaning "little rice" or "millet".
Inflected forms:
form: Xiaomis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An electronic product made by Xiaomi, especially a phone.
pos: noun
Translations:
kun-yomi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 訓読み.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A reading of a kanji that is not derived from the kanji's original pronunciation borrowed from Chinese
pos: noun
Translations:
ex-lesbian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ex- + lesbian.
Base: lesbian
Affixes: ex-
Inflected forms:
form: ex-lesbians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman who considers herself to be no longer lesbian, usually due to pseudoscientific conversion therapy.
pos: noun
Translations:
head-spinning
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more head-spinning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most head-spinning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: headspinning
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Incredible, overwhelming.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: It’s all very headspinning, and there is real Yellow Submarine quality to the film’s innocent urgency and idealism which take it to the very brink of incoherence.
Across the country, Democratic voters who have been reeling from Mr. Trump’s sweeping and possibly illegal cuts to government, his head-spinning policy moves, and his politicization of federal law enforcement are growing more and more incensed at their own party’s seemingly feckless response.
Translations:
mould-breaking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From break the mould.
Inflected forms:
form: more mould-breaking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mould-breaking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mold-breaking
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Using or involving the use of original, innovative and unconventional methods; departing from tradition.
pos: adj
tags: UK
Translations:
waka-jumping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of switching parties as a member of parliament.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
uncountable
Translations:
waka-jumper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: waka-jumpers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of parliament who switches parties.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
Translations:
block-scoped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more block-scoped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most block-scoped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: whose scope is limited to a block
pos: adj
Translations:
manyata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: manyatas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manyat
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A segregated Maasai village for warriors.
pos: noun
Translations:
one-ahead
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of billet reading in which the supposedly clairvoyant performer is covertly given information about one of the concealed messages beforehand, and then remains one step ahead while "predicting" the rest of the messages.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
quizlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quiz + -let.
Base: quiz
Affixes: -let
Inflected forms:
form: quizlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short quiz.
pos: noun
examples: Evelyn does the nice thing and tugs weeds away from other people's gravestones, total dead strangers, then she goes and sits near Bruce's dirt, waves me over for a quizlet on Jesus as Peacemaker.
“And done. My love language is a combination of gift giving, physical affection, and '80s television theme songs. Yours is JavaScript.” “Oh, bugger, I've been telling people I'm a Hufflepuff.” “Not all quizlets end in Harry Potter houses, alright?” “Well, they should.”
Translations:
precent
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: precents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: precenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: precented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: precented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To act as precentor, leading songs or prayers in a place of worship.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
conflict-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: gemology
geography
geology
geopolitics
government
jewelry
lifestyle
natural-sciences
politics
Etymology: From conflict + -free.
Base: conflict
Affixes: -free
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not involving any serious disagreement or argument.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Without any conflict or interference with anything else.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If you have a copy of the 1952 BTF film Train Time, you can see a Mr Calloway proposing a retimed freight train. Each individual facet of its schedule is pored over and the schedule is only accepted once it has been 'graphed' and deemed 'conflict-free'.
gloss: Of a mineral or precious gem, not being sold to finance fighting in areas of conflict.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
likkle
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole likkle, from English little.
Inflected forms:
form: more likkle
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most likkle
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Little.
pos: adj
tags: Caribbean
Multicultural-London-English
Yorkshire
slang
examples: I'm in the tub, you on the seat / Lick your lips as I soap my feet / Then you notice likkle carpet burn / My stomach drop and my guts churn
But I roll deep on these / Show these likkle MCs about greaze / Show these likkle MCs about me / I was on my steeze from 2003
A likkle bit of brown for my twitter TL too🤎
Got myself my car / Bagged my degree / Got myself a likkle apartment
Translations:
satellite-framed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Making use of satellite-framing.
pos: adj
Translations:
verb-framed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Making use of verb-framing.
pos: adj
Translations:
earth-diver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: earth-divers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: earth diver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A common character in various traditional creation myths who is sent by a supreme being into the primal waters to find substance (often sand or mud) with which to build habitable land.
pos: noun
Translations:
Bengi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Shortened form of beng(ali) + -i
Base: Bengali
Affixes: -i
Inflected forms:
form: Bengis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic Bengali
pos: noun
tags: London
slang
Translations:
wug
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Pseudoword, coined ex nihilo by American psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason in the 1950s as a word that children taking the test would not have heard before.
Inflected forms:
form: wugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An imaginary creature resembling a bird, used in the Wug Test to investigate the acquisition of the plural form in English-speaking children.
pos: noun
Translations:
covid-crazy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more covid-crazy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most covid-crazy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suffering mentally from the stresses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Translations:
yab
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From yap.
Inflected forms:
form: yabs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yabbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yabbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yabbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To satirize or roast; to abuse verbally.
pos: verb
tags: Nigeria
ambitransitive
examples: But in between the bouts of light-hearted yabbing Fela began to insert serious political challenges. He attacked prevalent attitudes towards self determination which he abhorred. He stated that black people were being robbed.
Translations:
ajinomoto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 味の素 (Ajinomoto).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: monosodium glutamate
pos: noun
tags: Brunei
India
Malaysia
Myanmar
Pakistan
Singapore
uncountable
Translations:
gossamer-thin
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Light and thin.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a flimsy factual basis; unsubstantiated, hard to believe.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
not-comparable
Translations:
centre-right
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From centre + right.
Compound parts: centre
right
Inflected forms:
form: center-right
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Leaning to the right but closer to the centre on the left–right political spectrum than other rightist variants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hand-basher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Inflected forms:
form: hand-bashers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small hand-held light used to illuminate specific areas.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
rad-hard
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: hardened against radiation damage
pos: adj
Translations:
Hatched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fired from one's job for violating the Hatch Act of 1939, which prohibits civil-service employees in the executive branch of the federal government from engaging in certain political activities.
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
not-comparable
Translations:
Obie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: Named after the actress Merle Oberon, whose husband Lucien Ballard used this kind of lighting to hide small scars on her face after a car accident.
Inflected forms:
form: Obies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small lamp positioned over the camera, sometimes used to produce catchlights in the subject's eyes.
pos: noun
Translations:
gavit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Inflected forms:
form: gavits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Armenien style of narthex.
pos: noun
Translations:
covid-safe
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From COVID + -safe.
Base: COVID
Affixes: -safe
Inflected forms:
form: more covid-safe
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most covid-safe
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Safe with regards to reducing the possibility of spreading COVID-19.
pos: adj
Translations:
high-side
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: high-sides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: high-siding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: high-sided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: high-sided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To show off; to strut.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: What do you expect, high-siding in those rags? Man, you are a walking neon sign advertising your vocation.
One night Velvet came into a bar high-siding about the big “sting” his ho had achieved.
Jigz didn't want to high-side or anything.
Translations:
slick-tech
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A style of high-tech architecture with sleek, polished surfaces.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
hive-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Etymology: Deverbal from hive off.
Inflected forms:
form: hive-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of spin-off (“(formation of) subsidiary company”).
pos: noun
Translations:
bubble-wrap
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bubble-wraps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bubble-wrapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bubble-wrapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bubble-wrapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cover in bubble wrap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To excessively protect or shelter someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
Translations:
carry-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: carry-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: a carry-in shop; a carry-in party
gloss: A location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
gloss: A command that adds a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) to an accumulator for the current digit in an addition operation.
pos: noun
examples: A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming.
Translations:
neo-Fascism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fascism
government
history
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The ruling ideology of the Italian Social Republic.
pos: noun
Translations:
top-out
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Deverbal from top out.
Inflected forms:
form: top-outs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: topout
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of topping out, reaching the top of a route.
pos: noun
Translations:
alter-globalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From alter- + globalization.
Base: globalization
Affixes: alter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A social movement in support of global cooperation and interaction, but opposing the negative effects of economic globalization.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
alter-globalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: alter-globalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A proponent of alter-globalization.
pos: noun
Translations:
hypersonics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hypersonic + -ics.
Base: hypersonic
Affixes: -ics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study and development of hypersonic propulsion, and hypersonic aerodynamics.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
defector-in-place
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: defectors-in-place
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who defects to a foreign power but remains in their home country so as to gather information etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
man-marker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Inflected forms:
form: man-markers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A player who man-marks
pos: noun
Translations:
judge-rapporteur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
B-DNA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From B + DNA. Coined by Rosalind Franklin, for the second of two forms discovered during her X-ray crystallography experiments on DNA.
Compound parts: B
DNA
Inflected forms:
form: B-DNAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The default configuration of DNA in cells, right-hand twisting double helix with a significant size difference between major groove and minor groove, and approximately 10 base pairs per twist.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A DNA helix in such a configuration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: A-DNA
DNA
H-DNA
Z-DNA
Translations:
A-DNA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From A + DNA. Coined by Rosalind Franklin, for the first of two forms discovered during her X-ray crystallography experiments on DNA.
Compound parts: A
DNA
Inflected forms:
form: A-DNAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A configuration of DNA in cells, right-hand twisting double helix with a small size difference between major groove and minor groove, wider and more squashed twist than B-DNA; found during transcription and replication.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A DNA helix in such a configuration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
Z-DNA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Z + DNA. From zigzagging of the zigzag configuration DNA.
Compound parts: Z
DNA
Inflected forms:
form: Z-DNAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A configuration of DNA in cells, left-hand twisting double helix, that takes up a zigzagging form due to the natural right-hand twisting tendency of DNA.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A DNA helix in such a configuration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: A-DNA
B-DNA
DNA
H-DNA
Z-RNA
Translations:
H-DNA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From H + DNA. From containing Hoogsteen-type nucleobase bonding, in addition to Watson-Crick normal style bonding of base pairs.
Compound parts: H
DNA
Inflected forms:
form: H-DNAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A configuration of DNA, a triple-stranded DNA helix structure, right-hand twisting, where the third DNA strand fills in the major groove found in B-DNA, bonding to the B-DNA with Hoogsteen-type bonding, forming Hoogsteen base pairs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A DNA helix in such a configuration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: A-DNA
B-DNA
DNA
Z-DNA
Translations:
Z-RNA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Z + RNA. Blend of Z-DNA + RNA. From zigzagging of the zigzag configuration RNA, an RNA analogue of the previously discovered Z-DNA.
Compound parts: Z
RNA
Inflected forms:
form: Z-RNAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A configuration of RNA, left-hand twisting double helix, that takes up a zigzagging form due to the natural right-hand twisting tendency of double-stranded RNA.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An RNA helix in such a configuration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: A-RNA
RNA
Z-DNA
Translations:
A-RNA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From A + RNA. Blend of A-DNA + RNA. From being an RNA analogue of the previously discovered A-DNA.
Compound parts: A
RNA
Inflected forms:
form: A-RNAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A configuration of RNA, right-hand twisting double helix, that forms the default configuration of double-stranded RNA.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An RNA helix in such a configuration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: A-DNA
RNA
Z-RNA
Translations:
Lancia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Lancia.
Inflected forms:
form: Lancias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A car manufactured by Lancia.
pos: noun
Translations:
green-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: green-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: New growth of vegetation, especially in response to seasonal weather changes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
low-risk
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lower-risk
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lowest-risk
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Involving a lesser degree of risk.
pos: adj
examples: Data released by Public Health England on October 9 reveals that public transport remains a relatively low-risk setting for the transmission of Coronavirus when compared with higher-risk areas including households.
Antonyms: high-risk
Translations:
cross-river
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That spans or crosses over or under a river.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It continued functioning during air raids, when other cross-river lines had to be closed.
Translations:
cross-harbour
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That spans or crosses over or under a harbour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
whole-life
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
insurance
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to life insurance cover that does not expire after a fixed term but rather lasts until the covered person's death.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to the full life of an asset.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Under more reliable infrastructure, the strategy calls for improved reliability of existing systems, safe and rapid inspection and repair, and improved reliability, availability and whole-life costs for new assets.
gloss: Relating to a prison sentence lasting for the rest of the prisoner's life.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see whole, life.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Indo-Bangla
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Indo-Bangladeshi
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the Indo-Bangla border clashes
Translations:
jazz-hop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Blend of jazz + hip-hop.
Compound parts: jazz
hip-hop
Inflected forms:
form: jazz hop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jazzhop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fusion subgenre of hip-hop and jazz music; jazz rap.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
non-fattening
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + fattening.
Base: fattening
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: nonfattening
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not fattening; slimming
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
found-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: found-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: found on
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person found by the police consuming alcohol on licensed premises outside opening hours
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
colloquial
examples: Judge Devins convicted Mr Kilkenny of after-hours trading and imposed a fine of €1,500. She also fined each of the found-ons €85 each.
Some Co Donegal gardaí tarnished after-hours drinking prosecutions against a Raphoe publican by planting a found-on in the pub, the Morris Tribunal heard today.
Translations:
non-canon
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From non- + canon.
Base: canon
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not part of canon; outside of the main continuity of a fictional universe.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: Near-synonym: apocryphal
Translations:
freedumb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Blend of freedom + dumb. First use appears c. 1856 as free-dumb.
Compound parts: freedom
dumb
Inflected forms:
form: free-dumb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Stupidity masquerading as love of freedom; an assertion of one's personal liberty which is perceived to be unreasonable or motivated by stupidity.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
slang
uncountable
examples: He lookt rather strocked, an he says: “Aint a man goin to hav no freedumb of speech?” I told him, “Of course, you’ll hav all the freedumb of speech you want—but you came up here from Connettycut an got a clerkship becaus you couldn’t get inter office at home, an you didn’t want ter bone down ter hard work.[…]”
Liberty is great. Even a man that can’t talk, loves his freedumb.
Otherwise they retain their freedom or independence at the expense of being unable to express their ideas in an ordered manner. "Freedumb" versus Freedom!
We hear the cry freedom, freedom, on every side, but it seems some men spell it freedumb.
... all but the local hill-habitators who are all out and bigod they won't have any more cow if they ain't got freedumb to leave tubercles in the milk.
But whoever claims vociferously and advocates 100% freedom within themselves know that it is not so and is only 100% 'FREEDUMB'
... Doob, following Pound's script, gives it as 'Freedumb Forum'.
The freedom for free speech is rapidly becoming freedumb on all four feet.
But justice takes a stand / And releases us from the turmoil, / Freedumb rings from the hand / But not from the soil
But freedumb also tells us that we can do whatever we like, because we're free to ignore those who think they know better.
My first day of terrifying, amazing freedumb flew by in a stupor.
The Mythos Trinity - free-market capitalism, Judaeo-Christianity, and freedumb and dumbocracy - is a ferociously difficult system to overthrow because it appeals so powerfully to so many people.
Freedom or freedumb? Which do you choose?
Translations:
hardware-accelerated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Done using hardware acceleration.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: hardware-accelerated video decoding
Translations:
Armco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the initials of the name of steel manufacturer The American Rolling Mill Company (now AK Steel Holding Corporation).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A type of metal roadside safety barrier.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The car skidded off the road and crashed into the Armco.
Translations:
low-floor
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of buses, trams or trains, built with a floor closer to ground level to ease access for passengers.
pos: adj
examples: To date, only Stadler has brought low-floor trains to Britain, while the major rolling stock makers - Bombardier, Alstom, Siemens and Hitachi - seem wedded to trains with high floors that force passengers in wheelchairs to ask for help to board and alight trains.
Translations:
Charolais
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Charolais
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A breed of cattle, raised primarily for beef, having a large build and a cream-coloured coat.
pos: noun
Translations:
avant-texte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
Etymology: From French [Term?].
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of a written work by analyzing the process of composition, including prior manuscripts, rough drafts, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pre-depression
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: predepression
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the era immediately before the depression.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Before a depression.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Murphy et al. (1988) found that, when the effect of physical illness was controlled, depressed elderly patients (particularly men) had a significantly higher four-year mortality, suggesting that the greater mortality in the depressed group was not due to differences of pre-depression physical health alone.
A child who has dysthymia, or chronic mild depression, captured in the persistent depressive disorder diagnosis in DSM-5, a milder but more chronic set of symptoms over a period of at least 12 months, may not have the cognitive-developmental awareness that their depressive symptoms are different from the emotions of other children, or even their own pre-depression life.
When recovering or recovered from depression, as the sources I consider highlight, some people seem to have a heightened appreciation of beauty, both when compared to when they were depressed, and also when compared to their pre-depression state.
Translations:
x-band
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: x-bands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ultrahigh radio frequency, one within the range of 8.0 to 12.0 GHz.
pos: noun
Translations:
twin-track
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: pursuing two objectives by employing two simultaneous processes
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: In pursuing a twin-track strategy of competition and cooperation, the US has unique strengths.
gloss: Synonym of double-track.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Crossgates to Garforth (Project E3) is the subject of fresh development work, with the DfT interested in TRU Option G. This has the potential to deliver a very different railway to the twin-track one that's there today.
Translations:
oven-ready
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Ready for the oven; already suitably prepared for cooking in an oven.
pos: adj
tags: literally
examples: an oven-ready chicken
gloss: Ready to be implemented or put into place.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: There is no oven-ready solution to this problem.
Translations:
Nikkei
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 日(にっ)系(けい) (nikkei).
Inflected forms:
form: Nikkeis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nikkei
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nikkei
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more Nikkei
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Nikkei
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nikkei
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: overseas ethnic Japanese person (usually has no Japanese citizenship living as citizens of other countries as immigrants or descendants of Japanese immigrants)
pos: noun
gloss: overseas Japanese
pos: adj
Translations:
Tigrayan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Tigray + -an.
Base: Tigray
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Tigrayan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Tigrayan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Tigrayans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.
pos: adj
gloss: A member of a Tigrinya-speaking ethnic group found in the Tigray Region.
pos: noun
Translations:
Librium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Marketing coinage.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The drug chlordiazepoxide.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: These are the minor tranquilizers such as Diazepam (Valium), Chlordiazepoxide (Librium), Oxazepam (Serax), and related benzodiazepines, and Meprobamate, which are used to treat anxiety neurosis.
Named diazepam and marketed as Valium, this drug is about five times as potent as Librium.
Translations:
self-questioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + questioning.
Base: questioning
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-questionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The contemplation of one's actions, beliefs, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Obama’s thoughtfulness is obvious to anyone who has observed his political career, but in this book he lays himself open to self-questioning.
Translations:
RhD
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Rh, abbreviation of Rhesus, and D, a sequential alphabetic designator.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Rhesus factor D, an antigen in the Rhesus system.
pos: noun
Translations:
clear-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: clear-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of clearing up
pos: noun
Translations:
lob-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lob-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An erection; an erect penis.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: She pulled me shoes and socks off and then pulled off me trousers and underpants and threw them onto the chair. I heard lads in the barrack room say that they'd had a lob-on that were so hard it hurt. Now I believed them.
He had to have a lob on to achieve that and he told her that she felt 'so good'.
“Well, get me dick out and give it a jostle or something, darling, I've had a lob on all the way up here.”
Translations: