yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
pyriform
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowing from New Latin pyrifōrmis, from pyrum (“a pear”) + -fōrmis (“-form, -shaped”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of pyriformis.
Base: pyrum
Affixes: -fōrmis
Inflected forms:
form: more pyriform
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pyriform
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: piriform
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pyriforms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: piriform
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pear-shaped.
pos: adj
examples: The chief difference between this brain and that of the Turtle obtains in the large size of the optic lobe and cerebrum as compared with the cerebellum, in the more pyriform figure of the cerebral hemispheres, and in the transverse fissure of the cerebellum.
Most small worms have a pyriform shape. Larger worms living in unconsolidated sediments are cylindrical and elongate. Those in rock fissures or coral crevices have stouter and more pyriform bodies.
In fact, Clavigula is very similar to Glochidorella, differing from this mainly in the absence of perioral disc (vs. presence), shape of pharyngeal bulb (more cylindrical vs. more pyriform) and more robust spicules.
gloss: A pyriform object.
pos: noun
Translations:
showerhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shower
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
English showerhead
From shower + head.
Inflected forms:
form: showerheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shower head
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather, sometimes in adjustable patterns.
pos: noun
gloss: A part of a coffeemaker for dispersing water evenly over the grounds.
pos: noun
examples: The steam then carries the water to the top of the machine where it escapes through the showerhead.
Translations:
voluntourism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of volunteer + tourism with haplology.
Compound parts: volunteer
tourism
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A type of tourism which combines traditional travel and tourism with volunteer work. Travelers are given opportunities to contribute money and/or time to causes related to their destinations.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: As summer looms, many Americans — college students, retirees and others who stand at the cusp of life changes — will make similar choices in search of transformational experiences. An industry exists to make these easier to make: the voluntourism business. A voluntourist is someone like Jack, who wishes to combine exotic vacation travel with volunteer work.
Translations:
dandified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dandified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dandified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic (in dress and habits) of a dandy
pos: adj
Translations:
shakeup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shake updeverb.
English shakeup
Deverbal from shake up.
Inflected forms:
form: shakeups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shake-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A vigorous reorganization, especially of the personnel or procedures of an organization.
pos: noun
Translations:
sheeting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sheet
English -ing
English sheeting
From sheet + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: sheetings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fabric used to make sheets (bedding).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of forming material into sheets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A lining of planks or boards for protecting an embankment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A weathering process in which rock breaks into sheets after compressional stress on it is removed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: satin sheeting
Translations:
shilly-shally
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A reduplication of shall I? An older form was Shill-I-shall-I.
Inflected forms:
form: shilly-shallies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shilly-shallying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shilly-shallied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shilly-shallied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shilly and shally
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: more shilly-shally
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shilly-shally
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To procrastinate.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: "Why, you sees [sic], Captain, your time has come, and you can't shilly-shally any longer. You have had your full swing; your years are up, and you must die like a man!"
1866, Charles Reade, Griffith Gaunt, in The Argosy: Volume 2 - Page 16, published by Strahan and Co.
"She would have come a few months ago, and gladly: I'll write to her."
"Better talk to her, and persuade her."
"I'll do that too, but I must write to her first".
"So do then; but whatever you do, don't shilly-shally no longer."
However the resolutions seem merely calculated to waste time, as they involve a whole preliminary discussion before the really important matters can be settled. If the Liberal party were sincere, there would doubtless be an attempt to turn out the Government at once, on the ground that such shilly-shallying with a matter of such importance cannot be allowed
gloss: To vacillate.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: The shilly-shallying performance on domestic issues that has marked Bush's first two years in office is not the result of ineptitude.
Then Germany lost its halo. It shilly-shallied over Ukraine.
gloss: Indecisive; wavering.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Irwine would think him a shilly-shally fellow ever after.
gloss: Indecision; irresolution.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: shilly-shallier
stand shilly-shally
Translations:
shirtfront
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
business
cricket
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
politics
real-estate
sports
Etymology: From shirt + front.
Compound parts: shirt
front
Inflected forms:
form: shirtfronts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shirtfronts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shirtfronting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shirtfronted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shirtfronted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The front part of a shirt.
pos: noun
examples: In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.
gloss: A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.
pos: noun
examples: I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
gloss: A pitch that is easy to bat on.
pos: noun
gloss: A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: It is explained that a "shirt front" building is one of which only the street elevation is given a finished architectural treatment, the sides and back being of cheaper material, with no attempt at unification with the front.
False fronts, frequently called "shirt fronts," are futile attempts to make a small, cheap house pass for something larger and more valuable.
gloss: To confront in a threatening manner.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
transitive
examples: This was a case of a deputy shirtfronting her leader with an ultimatum and forcing a decision that would come close to wrecking the government's environmental credibility.
Pravda has described Tony Abbott as “a disturbed mind crying out for therapy”: after his threat to “shirtfront” the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Brisbane.
Translations:
shirting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shirt
English -ing
English shirting
From shirt + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: shirtings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any fabric used to make shirts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Shirts collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: sweatshirting
Translations:
smarten
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smart
English -en
English smarten
From smart + -en.
Inflected forms:
form: smartens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smartening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: smartened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: smartened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting.
gloss: To increase the speed of (one's travel on foot, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I braced myself and smartened my pace, shouldering my way through the crowd.
gloss: To augment with computer technology.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How do we achieve this smartening of the grid? The CALM approach in the future will be to use reinforcement learning (RL) controllers as a basis for optimizing the synergy between operators and automation.
Derived words: smarten up
Translations:
smarty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smart
English -y
English smarty
From smart + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: smarties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smartie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An obnoxiously clever or quick-witted person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Don't be stupid, be a smarty come and join the Nazi Party!
Translations:
smasher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smash
English -er
English smasher
From smash + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: smashers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that, or someone who, smashes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher.
gloss: Something that, or someone who, smashes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: An attractive person (see also smashing).
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: You got engaged on the day that I moved out. It's OK / She's a smasher, perfectly suited to the role
gloss: Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: One who passes counterfeit money.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
gloss: The counterfeit money itself.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
Derived words: atom smasher
baggage-smasher
Translations:
smashup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smash updeverb.
English smashup
Deverbal from smash up.
Inflected forms:
form: smashups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An abrupt, damaging breakdown or failure.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A violent collision involving one or more vehicles.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: An instance or the result of smashing; that which has been smashed into pieces.
pos: noun
examples: I discovered that a lot of imported drainage-pipes for the settlement had been tumbled in there. There wasn’t one that was not broken. It was a wanton smash-up.
Translations:
smeary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *smery, *smeri, from Old English smeoruwiġ (“fatty, greasy, unctious, smeary”), from Proto-West Germanic *smerwig, equivalent to smear + -y.
Base: smear
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: smearier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: smeariest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or showing smears.
pos: adj
examples: Pretending to read a smeary newspaper long out of date, which had nothing half so legible in its local news, as the foreign matter of coffee, pickles, fish sauces, gravy, melted butter, and wine, with which it was sprinkled all over, as if it had taken the measles in a highly irregular form, I sat at my table […]
I voice the weary, smeary ones of earth,
The helots of the sea and of the soil.
They had Rembrandt on the calendar that year, a rather smeary self-portrait due to imperfectly registered colour plates.
The letters were executed clumsily, with a smeary black kindergarten exuberance.
gloss: Tending to smear or soil.
pos: adj
examples: […] stamped again and again in smeary red ink that looked like blood, was one word: CANCEL.
gloss: Having a consistency like grease; covered with such a substance.
pos: adj
examples: And are there not diuerse skauingers of draftye poëtrye in this oure age, that bast theyre papers wyth smearie larde sauoring al too geather of thee frying pan?
1896, W. S. Gilbert, The Grand Duke, Act I, in The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, New York: The Modern Library, 1936, p. 675,
When your lips are all smeary—like tallow,
And your tongue is decidedly yallow,
With a pint of warm oil in your swallow,
And a pound of tin-tacks in your chest
Derived words: smearily
smeariness
Translations:
Morlock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in 1895; possibly influenced by Morlach or Moloch.
Inflected forms:
form: Morlocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a troglodyte cannibalistic race described in H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine (1895).
pos: noun
gloss: A brutish troglodyte.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Thus civilian morale became a key issue in war preparations, which were undertaken in a spirit so fretfully suspicious that centralised mass shelters were not constructed for fear of encouraging a deep shelter mentality that would turn London's population into a race of modern Morlocks.
We need a modern White version of that. They go into niggerhoods that border Human areas and patrol. Protect the Human encampments from the invading Morlocks. Do it legally, and call the police to actually grab the criminal n*gs, but be out there in force watching & filming these things.
Translations:
dreamily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dreamy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English dreamily
From dreamy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more dreamily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dreamily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a dreamy manner.
pos: adv
examples: "There are no women like the Arab women," said Haji Zainal Abidin dreamily, lyrically.
Translations:
drawn-out
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more drawn-out
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most drawn-out
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Protracted, made to take a longer period of time than necessary.
pos: adj
Translations:
druidism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English druid
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 druidism
From druid + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: druidisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Druidism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The religion, philosophical beliefs, and attendant ritual practices of the druids.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cogeneration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From co- + generation.
Base: generation
Affixes: co-
Inflected forms:
form: cogenerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The production of heat and/or power from the waste energy of an industrial process.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The simultaneous or serial production of heat and electricity from the same source.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Joint generation; cocreation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The book project is part of a larger effort by Future Earth to build mechanisms for cogeneration of knowledge […]
Related words: generation
trigeneration
Translations:
neophobia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From neo- + -phobia.
Affixes: neo-
-phobia
Inflected forms:
form: neophobias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fear or hatred of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [T]he murdering of Mormons and the massacring of Armenians, express much rather that aboriginal human neophobia, […] than they express the positive piety of the various perpetrators.
In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of anything new or novel), and some would even seem to be remarkably free of catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed).
Between 6 and 12 months, babies are more open to new foods — and new experiences — than they will be later on as toddlers, when a certain amount of “neophobia” or “new means no” is developmentally normal, Ms. Lipner said. “Normal kids transition through a normal pickiness phase,” around 18 months, she said, when “they’re also learning autonomy and control.”
Translations:
nightcap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
baseball
business
clothing
fashion
games
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
sports
textiles
Etymology: From night + cap.
Compound parts: night
cap
Inflected forms:
form: nightcaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: night cap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: night-cap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nightcaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nightcapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nightcapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nightcapped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: night cap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: night-cap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread.
pos: noun
examples: Winston wore a nightcap to stave off the cold.
gloss: A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic.
pos: noun
examples: I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed.
You know the other night, when I had dinner with Afro-Dite? When Jo was in San Francisco? Well we dropped into the Sinners, right, just for a nightcap.
This week I took up the relatively simple challenge of buying breakfast, lunch and dinner—and a nightcap—exclusively from konbini, as well as completing a couple of admin tasks.
gloss: Something that a person reads or listens to before bed.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: "[…] and as a nightcap I happened to pick the copy of Plato […]"
gloss: The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To drink an alcoholic beverage shortly before retiring to bed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Even better than breakfast, though, is nightcapping at the Waffle House . Nightcapping happens after the bars close, but before the southern sunrise: the hours when their jukeboxes play “Freebird” on a continual loop, […]
We nightcapped at the Four Seasons Hotel George V, on the most extravagant cocktails I'd ever purchased in life.
Derived words: Nightcap
nightcap oak
nightcapped
Translations:
ternary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arithmetic
chemistry
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin ternārius (“consisting of three things”), from ternī (“three each”).
Inflected forms:
form: ternaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Made up of three things.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Arranged in groups of three.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To the base three.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Perhaps the prettiest number system of all is the balanced ternary notation
gloss: Having three variables.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound.
gloss: Of an operator taking three operands.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An "if…then…else" construction is called a ternary operator when it is combined in one line of a program.
gloss: A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce.
pos: noun
gloss: The Holy Trinity.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: And albeit these thynges be waighty and truthes of great importance, yet (by the infinite goodnes of the Almighty Ternarie,) Artificiall Methods and easy wayes are made, by which the zelous Philosopher, may wyn nere this Riuerish Ida, this Mountayne of Contemplation […] .
Related words: singular
primary (1st)
secondary (2nd)
tertiary (3rd)
quartary (4th)
septenary
octonary
novenary
nonary (9th)
denary
duodenary
vigenary
centenary (100)
Derived words: biternary
heteroternary
negaternary
nonternary
pseudoternary
ternarily
ternary alloy
ternary code
ternary complex
ternary compound
ternary computer
ternary diagram
ternary expansion
ternary form
ternary Golay code
ternary Golay conjecture
ternary incremental representation
ternary logarithm
ternary logic
ternary name
ternary notation
ternary numeral system
ternary operation
ternary operator
ternary plot
ternary pulse code modulation
ternary quantic
ternary search
ternary search tree
ternary signal
ternary system
ternary tree
Translations:
drawable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English draw
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English drawable
From draw + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more drawable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most drawable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being drawn (represented graphically).
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of being drawn (pulled or extracted).
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of being drawn (deduced or inferred).
pos: adj
examples: a drawable conclusion
Derived words: undrawable
Translations:
drawbar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
road
transport
Etymology: From draw + bar.
Compound parts: draw
bar
Inflected forms:
form: drawbars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An open-mouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.
pos: noun
gloss: A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.
pos: noun
examples: With multiple-unit electric trains one cannot quote figures of drawbar horsepower, because there is no drawbar, as such; […].
gloss: A device to couple a powered road vehicle to a load to transfer tractive effort to the load, either as a push or as a pull.
pos: noun
gloss: A sliding bar on a Hammond organ, controlling the volume of a waveform.
pos: noun
gloss: A device for changing the tools on milling machines.
pos: noun
Synonyms: dragbar
draglink
drawlink
Translations:
drawling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: drawlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of speaking with a drawl.
pos: noun
examples: […] if I yawn over your imperfect sentences, your repeated phrases, your false pathos, your drawlings and denouncingsyour humming and hawing, your oh-ing and ah-ing, your black gloves and your white handkerchief.
Translations:
tallness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tall
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English tallness
From tall + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: tallnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or characteristic of being tall.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The long, skimpy soutane accentuated the tallness of his stature; […] and the straight, black bar of his joined eyebrows[…] suggested something unlawful behind his priesthood, the idea of a chaplain of bandits.
Translations:
chancroid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chancre
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English chancroid
From chancre + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: chancroids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sexually transmitted infection, caused by bacteria of species Haemophilus ducreyi, characterized by painful sores on the genitalia.
pos: noun
gloss: A sore characteristic of this infection.
pos: noun
Synonyms: soft chancre
ulcus molle
Derived words: chancroidal
Translations:
sorrowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Made sad, caused to feel sorrow.
pos: adj
examples: I was sorrowed to hear of your loss.
Translations:
siltstone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From silt + stone.
Compound parts: silt
stone
Inflected forms:
form: siltstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sedimentary rock whose composition is intermediate in grain size between the coarser sandstone and the finer mudstone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
mudstone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
Etymology: From mud + stone.
Compound parts: mud
stone
Inflected forms:
form: mudstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The new fossils come from mudstones in central Poland, in beds that have been dated using other, much more common and cosmopolitan, fossils.
Excavation of the twin bore tunnel will produce around 500,000 tonnes of mudstone and soil, which will be processed on site and then reused to build embankments elsewhere along the route.
Translations:
water-soluble
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Dissolving easily in water.
pos: adj
Translations:
looney-tunes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the adjective looney tunes.
Inflected forms:
form: looney-tunes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Loony, crazy, insane person.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
humorous
examples: 2002, David A. Enyart, Creative Anticipation: Narrative Sermon Designs for Telling the Story, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 155,
Have we, as our culture so often claims, committed our lives to absurdity? Are we religious Looney-Tunes marching to the beat of a demonic drummer?
2002, Robert S. Levinson, Hot Paint: A Neil Gulliver and Stevie Marriner Novel, Tor/Forge, →ISBN, page 295,
Like that looney-tunes in Salt Lake City killed by the police after he gunned down a woman and a security guard and wounded four others at the Mormon Family History Library.
2005, Jack Myers, Row House Days: Tales from a Southwest Philadelphia Childhoo, Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, page 229,
Otherwise, if you let these looney-tunes have the general run of the everyday world, there's no telling what kinds of destruction they may cause if left unchecked.
Translations:
retest
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English test
English retest
From re- + test.
Inflected forms:
form: retests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: retests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: retested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: retested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A repeat test.
pos: noun
gloss: To test again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
right-hander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Inflected forms:
form: right-handers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: righthander
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who is right-handed.
pos: noun
gloss: A slap or punch with the right hand.
pos: noun
gloss: A bend or turn to the right; a right-hand corner.
pos: noun
Translations:
pint-sized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pint-sized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pint-sized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Comparatively small in size.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.
Translations:
plasmonics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plasmon
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English plasmonics
From plasmon + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A proposed analogy to electronics using plasmons
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
hieratic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From Latin hieraticus, from Ancient Greek ἱερατικός (hieratikós), from ἱερατεία (hierateía, “priesthood”), from ἱερατεύω (hierateúō, “be a priest”), from ἱερεύς (hiereús, “priest”), from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred”).
Use pertaining to the Egyptian writing system originates with the Greek phrase γράμματα ἱερατικά (grámmata hieratiká, literally “priestly writing”), which was first used by Saint Clement of Alexandria in the 2nd century AD, as at that time hieratic was used only for religious texts, as had been the case for the previous thousand years.
Inflected forms:
form: hieratics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to priests or other religious authorities, especially pharaonic priests of Ancient Egypt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent.
The witch, repository of hieratic lore and folk legends and occult arcana, became the distributor of philtres and unguents, electuaries and pastilles, herbs and charms and incantations - directed toward sexual pleasures and amatory satisfactions.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the cursive writing system that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system as its ordinary handwritten counterpart.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The papyrus was written in hieratic, a cursive form of hieroglyphics.
gloss: Extremely stylized, restrained or formal; adhering to fixed types or methods; severe in emotional import.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some of the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved.
When Christ was being crucified, so ran the sea-borne, hieratic legend, the earth had opened all through this country, though the coincidence could hardly have impressed anyone then!
They came in among earth-moving machines, a total absence of trees, the usual hieratic geometry, and eventually, shimmying for the sand roads, down in a helix to a sculptured body of water named Lake Inverarity.
gloss: A writing system used in pharaonic Egypt that was developed alongside the hieroglyphic system, primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus, allowing scribes to write quickly without resorting to the time consuming hieroglyphs.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: hieratically
hieraticism
nonhieratic
unhieratic
Translations:
hypogonadal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó)
Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der.
English hypo-
English gonadal
English hypogonadal
From hypo- + gonadal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a defect of the reproductive system which results in lack of function of the gonads (ovaries or testes).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sideman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English -man
English sideman
From side + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: sidemen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soloist playing with a band or group of which he is not a regular member.
pos: noun
gloss: Somebody who is unimportant or irrelevant.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
derogatory
examples: I link for the peng, then I go link for the mud / I just stepped on the ends, sideman don't give me no spud
She told me she loved me, I was like when?
Treated me like a sideman back then
Translations:
sidewise
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-s-ós
Proto-Germanic *wīsaz
Proto-Germanic *-wīsaz
Proto-West Germanic *-wīs
Old English -wīs
Middle English -wis
English -wise
English sidewise
From side + -wise.
Inflected forms:
form: more sidewise
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sidewise
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: sideways
pos: adv
Translations:
signalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English signal
English -ization
English signalization
From signal + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: signalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of signalizing; characterization or differentiation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
signalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English signal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English signalize
From signal + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: signalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: signalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: signalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: signalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: signalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To distinguish, to make noteworthy.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
archaic
transitive
examples: […] God has planted in man a ſenſe of ambition, and a ſatisfaction ariſing from the contemplation of his excelling his fellows in ſomething deemed valuable amongſt them. It is this paſſion that drives men to all the ways we ſee in uſe of ſignalizing themſelves, and that tends to make whatever excites in a man the idea of this diſtinction ſo very pleaſant.
[T]he reign of the Tudors was often signalized by the valour of our soldiers and sailors […].
gloss: To display or make known (an attribute, quality, etc.); to call attention to.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
archaic
transitive
examples: [T]he great Creator hath likevviſe ſignalized his Care and Skill, by giving Animals an architectonick Faculty, to build themſelves convenient places of Retirement, in vvhich to repoſe and ſecure themſelves, and to nurſe up their Young.
An Author who points his ſatyr at a great man, is to be looked upon in the ſame view with the engineer who ſignalized himſelf by this ungenerous practice.
He likewiſe pretended to ridicule the uſe of fire-arms, which confounded all the diſtinctions of ſkill and addreſs, and deprived a combatant of the opportunity of ſignalizing his personal proweſs.
gloss: To point out; to take special note of.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
archaic
transitive
examples: This expression rex Anglorum is rightly signalised by historians as a milestone in our history.
gloss: To communicate with (someone) by means of a signal.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
examples: a ship signalizes its consort
gloss: To indicate; to be a sign of.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
examples: And yet... looking here at this bottle which by its number signalized the day when Colonel Freeleigh had stumbled and fallen six feet into the earth, Douglas could not find so much as a gram of dark sediment[…]
gloss: To furnish (a traffic intersection) with a traffic signal.
pos: verb
tags: British
Canada
English
Oxford
US
transitive
Derived words: signalization
unsignalized
Translations:
siree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sirees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sirree
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sir.
pos: noun
tags: emphatic
slang
examples: "Are you coming?"
"Yes, siree."
Translations:
azoospermia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
urology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English a-
English zoospermia
English azoospermia
From a- + zoospermia.
Inflected forms:
form: azoospermias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The absence of live spermatozooa in the semen.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Infertility was caused by fallopian tube dysfunction and/or male-related factors (a diagnosis of asthenozoospermia and/or asthenoteratozoospermia or azoospermia according to the WHO Laboratory Manual for the Examination and Processing of Human Semen).
Translations:
Delphin
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See dauphin.
Inflected forms:
form: more Delphin
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Delphin
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Delphine
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the dauphin of France; delphinal
pos: adj
examples: The Delphin classics was an edition of the Latin classics prepared in the reign of Louis XIV for the use of the dauphin.
Translations:
westering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wester
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English westering
From wester + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: westerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Moving westward, near the west.
pos: adj
tags: especially
not-comparable
examples: The hills rose scarlet and gold to the north of the little town, and the westering sun shone ruddily and mystically on the crude new stone and plaster buildings of the dusty forum and the wooden walls of the circus some distance to the east.
gloss: A movement to the west.
pos: noun
examples: […] the Passover sacrifice had to be offered between the two evenings, or westerings of the sun.
The "westerings" of their families are part of the frontier saga, different in detail but not in purpose. They all wanted land, better land from which to make a better living. For over a century the pioneer movement had flowed west, […]
Translations:
tongue-and-groove
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Employing tongue and groove joints.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
teff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).
Inflected forms:
form: teffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tef
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fine grain of this plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She begs the cook to help lift the bags of teff and check their weight.
Related words: injera
Translations:
hole-and-corner
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Conducted in secret; clandestine.
pos: adj
examples: The Baron rather frowned on such things, thinking them injudicious at the present stage of affairs, so His Highness had to go about them in a hole and corner manner.
Whatever made you think in the first place that I would give up the security of my happy marriage for a hole-and-corner affair with you?
Translations:
ruddle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rud + -le. Compare German Rötel (“track”), Post-Classical Latin rudellum. Compare to reddle and raddle.
Base: rud
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: ruddles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ruddles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ruddling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ruddled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ruddled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Ruddiness; red coloration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To mark something with red ochre.
pos: verb
gloss: To raddle or twist.
pos: verb
Synonyms: raddle
reddle
Derived words: Lemnian ruddle
ruddleman
Translations:
unplayable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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 playable
English unplayable
From un- + playable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unplayable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unplayable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.
pos: adj
gloss: That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.
pos: adj
examples: Unoriginal, unplayable, overpriced and generally unappealing.
gloss: That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.
pos: adj
examples: Apparently the Edison company failed to consider, or chose to ignore, the fact that their records were made using the “hill and dale” vertical-cut recording groove and therefore unplayable on standard (and much cheaper) gramophones […]
gloss: That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.
pos: adj
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: onbespeelbaar
lang: Finnish
word: pelauskelvoton
lang: Finnish
word: soittokelvoton
lang: French
word: injouable
lang: Polish
word: niegrywalny
lang: Swedish
word: ospelbar
solubilization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English solubilize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English solubilization
From solubilize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: solubilizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of solubilizing something, of rendering it soluble.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
stope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: Apparently related to step, but with uncertain phonological development. Perhaps from a German Low German word like Stoop (“step”), from Middle Low German stōpe (“step”). More at stoop.
Inflected forms:
form: stopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stoping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stoped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stoped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
pos: noun
examples: The other smell […] that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes, from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.
gloss: To excavate in the form of stopes.
pos: verb
gloss: To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
pos: verb
Translations:
columbite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English columbium
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English columbite
From columbium (“niobium”) + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: columbites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A black mineral that is a mixed iron and manganese niobate and tantalate, and is the main ore of niobium and tantalum.
pos: noun
Translations:
combinatorial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or involving combinations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: biocombinatorial
combinatorial analysis
combinatorial auction
combinatorial chemistry
combinatorial class
combinatorial commutative algebra
combinatorial composition
combinatorial control
combinatorial design
combinatorial dual graph
combinatorial enumeration
combinatorial explosion
combinatorial game theory
combinatorial geometry
combinatorialism
combinatorialist
combinatoriality
combinatorialize
combinatorial logic
combinatorially
combinatorial meta analysis
combinatorial method
combinatorial number
combinatorial optimization
combinatorial principle
combinatorial proof
combinatorial species
combinatorial synthesis
combinatorial theory
combinatorial topology
noncombinatorial
Translations:
cloning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: clonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The production of an exact copy of an object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The production of a cloned embryo by transplanting the nucleus of a somatic cell into an ovum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: anticloning
multicloning
polycloning
reproductive cloning
shotgun cloning
telecloning
zoocloning
Translations:
stander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stand
English -er
English stander
From stand + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: standers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who stands.
pos: noun
gloss: A standel.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: the fairest standers of all, were rooted vp
Derived words: bystander
headstander
stander by
understander
under-stander
watchstander
Translations: