yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
piezoresistive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From piezo- + resistive.
Base: resistive
Affixes: piezo-
Inflected forms:
form: more piezoresistive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most piezoresistive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting piezoresistance.
pos: adj
Translations:
uncalibrated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + calibrated.
Base: calibrated
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not calibrated
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
browed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From brow + -ed.
Base: brow
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a brow of the specified kind.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
Translations:
presentism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From present + -ism.
Base: present
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: presentisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The view that neither the future nor the past exist (events and entities that are wholly past or wholly future do not exist at all).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The belief that only current phenomena are relevant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Despite the breathless presentism of the current discourse, scholarly debate on the nature of community did not originate with the introduction of new computer technologies, but arose out of earlier concerns about the transition from agrarian to urban industrial societies.
Many people lost their perspective in their euphoria and became parochial and presentist. In their presentism, they forgot that long distance ties had been flourishing for generations, using automobiles, telephones, airplanes, and even postal (snail) mail.
gloss: The ahistorical interpretation of past phenomena in terms of current beliefs and knowledge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One of the driving ideas on the left right now is presentism: the notion that figures from the past can legitimately be judged by contemporary mores and values. So the Founding Fathers are cast less as architects of the new Republic, and more as slaveholders and white oppressors.
Antonyms: eternalism
Related words: presentist
presenteeism
Translations:
sned
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English snid (attested only in the sense of saw and slaughter), from Old English snid, snide (“a cut, incision; cutting implement, saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *snidi; merging with Middle English snede (“a morsel, bite; scythe”), from Old English snǣd (“something cut off, morsel, bit; scythe handle”).
Inflected forms:
form: sneds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: sneed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: snade
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: snedd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
Senses:
gloss: A cut, a cutting; a slash, a slight wound; a lopping or pruning.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: snathe (scythe part)
pos: noun
Translations:
peever
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: peevers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a small stone or other small object, used in hopscotch.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
PEGylated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From PEGylate + -ed.
Base: PEGylate
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: pegylated
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Treated or reacted with polyethylene glycol (PEG)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
penghulu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay penghulu.
Inflected forms:
form: penghulus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A local chief or governor in parts of Malaysia and Indonesia.
pos: noun
examples: As soon as she graduated, Anwar Sadat dragged her and the classmate said to be responsible to a penghulu, who could officiate at the wedding.
Outdated provisions such as the appointment of forest rangers and penghulus to carry out duties, which are no longer relevant to modern Singapore, will also be removed.
Translations:
perinatology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around or about”) + Latin natus + -ology.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A branch of obstetrics focusing on the medical and surgical management of high-risk pregnancies.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
cong
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Mandarin 琮 (cóng).
Inflected forms:
form: congs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cong
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of carved jade tube made in China starting in the Neolithic.
pos: noun
Translations:
asylee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From asylum + -ee.
Base: asylum
Affixes: -ee
Inflected forms:
form: asylees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A non-citizen of a country who has been granted asylum in that country.
pos: noun
examples: At the same time, we must insure adequate legal authority to establish control over immigration: to enable us, when sudden influxes of foreigners occur, to decide to whom we grant the status of refugee or asylee; to improve our border control; […]
"It is quite a novel technique to teach a lesson to any would-be asylees, and also to send a message to the foreign missions."
EMM brings in LGBTQ refugees and asylees in a special federal refugee program started during the Obama administration called “Preferred Communities.”
Translations:
pilled-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pilled-up
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pilled-up
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pilled up
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Intoxicated on pills.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: The truth is, Johnny wrote that song, while pilled up and drunk, about a certain private female body part.
People are amazed I didn’t say anything to Elvis but what would I have said? ‘Hey, you’re as pilled up as me’?”
Translations:
pineland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pine + land.
Compound parts: pine
land
Inflected forms:
form: pinelands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A forested area with an abundance of pine trees.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: pinewood
Translations:
pisciculture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péysks
Proto-Italic *piskis
Latin piscisder.
English pisci-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
English pisciculture
From pisci- + culture.
Inflected forms:
form: piscicultures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rearing or cultivation of fish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
plater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
natural-sciences
pets
racing
sports
Etymology: From plate + -er.
Base: plate
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: platers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who plates metal.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine for calendering paper.
pos: noun
gloss: A device for depositing cells on a plate.
pos: noun
gloss: A horse that runs chiefly in selling plates; hence, an inferior racehorse.
pos: noun
Related words: electroplater
L-plater
P-plater
selling-plater
tin-plater
Translations:
rideshare
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ride + share.
Compound parts: ride
share
Inflected forms:
form: rideshares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rideshares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ridesharing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rideshared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rideshared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A ridesharing arrangement in which people travel together.
pos: noun
examples: The neighbors decided on a rideshare to get their kids to school, so that they wouldn't each have to drive every day.
gloss: A taxi or minicab hired through a ridesharing app.
pos: noun
examples: He took an Uber rideshare to the other side of town.
Like a sleepwalker, he got into the rideshare and sat in the back seat, his arms folded around the envelope.
gloss: To participate in ridesharing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To work or gig as a rideshare driver.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kimppakyyti
lang: French
word: covoiturage
lang: Georgian
word: საზიარო მგზავრობა
roman: saziaro mgzavroba
lang: Georgian
word: ერთობლივი მგზავრობა
roman: ertoblivi mgzavroba
playschool
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From play + school.
Compound parts: play
school
Inflected forms:
form: playschools
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a nursery school, kindergarten
pos: noun
Translations:
weird-ass
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From weird + -ass.
Base: weird
Affixes: -ass
Inflected forms:
form: more weird-ass
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most weird-ass
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very strange.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: And my older brother, he gave me the acronym Weird-Ass Kiddo because, you know, I was a weird-ass kid.
Translations:
strange-ass
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From strange + -ass.
Base: strange
Affixes: -ass
Inflected forms:
form: more strange-ass
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most strange-ass
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: very strange
pos: adj
tags: US
slang
Translations:
crazy-ass
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From crazy + -ass.
Base: crazy
Affixes: -ass
Inflected forms:
form: more crazy-ass
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crazy-ass
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very crazy.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
slang
Translations:
pledgee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pledge + -ee.
Base: pledge
Affixes: -ee
Inflected forms:
form: pledgees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: someone who receives a pledge
pos: noun
Translations:
pledger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pledge + -er.
Base: pledge
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: pledgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: someone who gives a pledge
pos: noun
Translations:
pocket-sized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Small enough to fit into a pocket.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Small-scale, downsized.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: джобен формат
roman: džoben format
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 袖珍
roman: xiùzhēn
lang: Dutch
word: in zakformaat
lang: Finnish
word: taskukokoinen
lang: Finnish
word: tasku-
lang: Polish
word: kieszonkowy
lang: Russian
word: карма́нный
roman: karmánnyj
deindividuation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From de- + individuation, first described in 1952 by Leon Festinger and colleagues.
Base: individuation
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The situation where antinormative behaviour is released in groups in which individuals are not seen or paid attention to as individuals; immersion in a group to the point at which the individual ceases to be seen as such.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Digital media allow almost unlimited opportunity for wilful deindividuation. They almost require it. The implications of those liberties, of the ubiquity of anonymity and the language of the crowd, are only beginning to be felt.
Translations:
non-disjoint
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + disjoint.
Base: disjoint
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not disjoint.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: disjoint
Translations:
secretaire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French secrétaire.
Inflected forms:
form: secretaires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of writing desk (a secretary).
pos: noun
examples: The table was covered with a confusion of papers, books, pamphlets, all heaped upon one another pell-mell; and an open secretaire against the wall, was chokeful of the same litter; manuscripts, books in yellow-paper covers, books in smart bindings, books in shabby bindings, stuffed in anyhow, one on the top of the other, sideways, longways, endways; a row of pigeon-holes gorged with papers in the background.
Translations:
microhardness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From micro- + hardness.
Base: hardness
Affixes: micro-
Inflected forms:
form: microhardnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The hardness of a very small area of the surface layer of a material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
joj
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A palindromization of job. Popularized by cs188's video "[YTP] No one needs foundation repair", first uploaded in 2011.
Inflected forms:
form: JoJ
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
humorous
nonce-word
examples: You better fuf, and then you better broob, 'cause if you don't broob, you're nothing but a nothing, and then the nothing becomes a nothing, and then your nothing is a joj, and then your nothing is sus […]
ViV [video in video], lagging or stuttering images to get figures to say nonsense words (“SuS”), became popular. […] What appears as chaos, nonsense, or distortion to someone outside the subculture turns out to be a set of references added on as layers and layers of images. Using rapid forward reverse and word-splice editing to make someone else’s project lag or getting a character to say “SuS” or “JoJ” becomes a form of legible code that has a multiplicity of possible orders.
she JOJ on my SOS til i LOL
Rules for Dating DaThings: You better get a joj
Saw this poster in the wild today and instinctively laughed out loud because like. That’s the Joj. The SoS. From my YTPs.
#the JoJ burger.... with extra Sos
Translations:
nonabelian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + abelian.
Base: abelian
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not abelian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
unmasculine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + masculine.
Base: masculine
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unmasculine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unmasculine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not masculine; not characteristic of, typical of, or appropriate for a man, unmanly.
pos: adj
examples: Characteristics labeled as unmasculine or as failure to conform to gender expectations include observable behaviors such as avoidance of rough-and-tumble play, typical boys' games, and athletic activities; no imagining of oneself as a sports figure; and no desire to grow up to be like one's father.
A fag is profoundly unmasculine, yet possesses the ability to penetrate and thus render any boy unmasculine.
Fusionism, Hammer said, is “inherently effete, limp, and, as Hillsdale College’s David Azerrad might say, unmasculine.”
Translations:
polypectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From polyp + -ectomy.
Base: polyp
Affixes: -ectomy
Inflected forms:
form: polypectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The removal of a polyp
pos: noun
Translations:
connectionless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From connection + -less.
Base: connection
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without the use of a constant connection; sending and receiving data arbitrarily as needed, usually with less reliability than if a connection were held open.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: connection-oriented
Translations:
mahr
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مَهْر (mahr).
Inflected forms:
form: mahrs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mandatory gift from the groom (or his family) to the bride (or her family) upon marriage in Islamic cultures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
entryist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From entry + -ist.
Base: entry
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: entryists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more entryist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most entryist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A participant in or proponent of entryism.
pos: noun
examples: Watson’s letter was a riposte to the accusation made on Tuesday by Corbyn’s campaign that he was “peddling conspiracy theories” after he said in a Guardian interview that Labour was at risk from “Trotskyist entryists”.
He said encouraging people to join up to back a single issue, or candidate, was “not a good approach to running a political party and its supporters, because entryists tend to be fanatics, as the Labour party has found”.
gloss: Relating to entryism.
pos: adj
examples: All this may in fact be being hyped up by the Tory right and left alike. But Mr Banks’s Leave.EU claims to have 88,000 supporters. And this is without doubt an entryist campaign by the post-Ukip right to take over the Tories.
Translations:
cryptanalytic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From crypt- + analytic.
Base: analytic
Affixes: crypt-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to cryptanalysis or cryptanalytics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
recallable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From recall + -able.
Base: recall
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being recalled (retrieved from one's memory).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The number of recallable words from the list was much smaller after 24 hours.
Her first recallable recollection was of an old deserted chateau-like house in a strange, French-like country, which she dimly imagined to be somewhere beyond the sea.
gloss: Capable of being recalled (brought back from service etc.).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: unrecallable
Translations:
apport
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂
Proto-Italic *portā
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *portāō
Latin portō
Latin apportōbor.
English apport
From Latin apportō (“to bring, to carry”).
Inflected forms:
form: apports
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: apports
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: apporting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: apported
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: apported
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The supposed paranormal transference of an object from one place to another, or the appearance of an object from an unknown source, often associated with poltergeist activity and séances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She put her hand down and felt it. "It's a flower - a chrysanthemum. Thank you, Wee One!" "An apport?" asked Mailey. "No, no, Mr. Mailey," said Bolsover. "They were in the vase on the harmonium. Speak to her, Miss Challenger. Keep the vibrations going."
gloss: An object that appears from an unknown source.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To cause an apport on an object, to make a thing appear from nowhere.
pos: verb
Translations:
three-parent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having three genetic parents; that is, having been produced by a process in which the nucleus of one egg is inserted into the cytoplasm of another egg, which contains mitochondrial DNA, and then the hybrid egg is fertilized by a sperm.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As transformative as are the medical benefits of three-parent children, the social rewards should not be overlooked.
Translations:
ambitus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Latin ambitus (“circuit, ostentation”). Doublet of ambit.
Inflected forms:
form: ambituses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ambiti
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The range of a melody, especially those of ecclesiastical chants.
pos: noun
gloss: The exterior edge or border of a thing, such as a leaf or shell.
pos: noun
gloss: A canvassing for votes.
pos: noun
tags: Roman
historical
Translations:
tekno
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of freetekno (“music genre”).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
footwall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
geography
geology
mining
natural-sciences
Etymology: From foot + wall.
Compound parts: foot
wall
Inflected forms:
form: footwalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The section of rock that extends below a diagonal fault line (the corresponding upper section being the hanging wall).
pos: noun
gloss: The under wall of an enclosed vein.
pos: noun
Translations:
lawncare
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lawn + care.
Compound parts: lawn
care
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The care and treatment of grass on a lawn.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pigweed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pig + weed.
Compound parts: pig
weed
Inflected forms:
form: pigweeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various weedy plants sometimes used as pig fodder
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He still carried the basket with the shags and pig-weed.
gloss: Any of various weedy plants sometimes used as pig fodder:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various weedy plants sometimes used as pig fodder:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various weedy plants sometimes used as pig fodder:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various weedy plants sometimes used as pig fodder:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various weedy plants sometimes used as pig fodder:
pos: noun
tags: countable
dialectal
uncommon
uncountable
Derived words: procumbent pigweed
prostrate pigweed
red-rooted pigweed
redroot pigweed
Translations:
exemplarily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From exemplary + -ly.
Base: exemplary
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more exemplarily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most exemplarily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an exemplary manner; ideally, admirably.
pos: adv
Translations:
prefilter
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + filter.
Base: filter
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: prefilters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prefiltering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prefiltered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prefiltered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pre-filter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: prefilters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pre-filter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To filter in advance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The prefiltered data was fed to a computer program for analysis.
Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends.
gloss: A filter used in advance.
pos: noun
Translations:
bargello
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
Etymology: From Italian bargello.
Inflected forms:
form: bargellos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bargelli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A police or military chief in medieval Italian comuni.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An Italian medieval police or military headquarters.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A type of needlepoint embroidery consisting of upright flat stitches laid in a pattern to create zigzag or flamelike motifs, or similar motifs created in quilts.
pos: noun
Translations:
orchestrion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From German Orchestrion, from Orchester (“orchestra”) + -ion (compare Akkordion (“accordion”)). Developed by the German composer, organist, teacher and theorist Georg Joseph Vogler (1749–1814).
Inflected forms:
form: orchestrions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mechanical multiple musical instrument designed to sound like an orchestra or band.
pos: noun
Translations:
shadowboxer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From shadow + boxer.
Compound parts: shadow
boxer
Inflected forms:
form: shadowboxers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who shadowboxes.
pos: noun
Translations:
red-faced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more red-faced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most red-faced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: redfaced
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, face.
pos: adj
examples: I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market.
A red-faced bird with a striking white head and underside, and black-and-white wings and tail, the Palmnut Vulture lives in tropical forested areas of Africa, often by lakes, rivers, and seashores.
gloss: With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: A red-faced John edged his way quietly out of the room.
gloss: With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: Coming home late and red-faced every night from the pub is not what I expected of you.
gloss: With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: The customer gave a red-faced account of the argument with the waiter.
gloss: With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: "I can't for the life of me think where I left the tickets!", she cried out, red-faced.
gloss: With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: He collapsed, red-faced from the effort, against the door jamb.
Translations:
processer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From process + -er.
Base: process
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: processers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who processes
pos: noun
Translations:
becher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish בעכער (bekher, “goblet”). Doublet of beaker and pitcher.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A kiddush cup
pos: noun
Translations:
bentos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The flora and fauna at the bottom of a body of water.
pos: noun
Related words: benthos
Translations:
benzedrine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the trade name for the first pharmaceutical (racemic) amphetamine (1932), derived from benzyl-methyl carbinamine.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The racemic mixture of amphetamine (dl-amphetamine).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […]who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Battery to holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of wheels and children brought them down[…]
Then I would be way ahead when college started at the end of September, and able to enjoy my last year instead of swotting away with no make-up and stringy hair, on a diet of coffee and benzedrine, the way most of the seniors taking honours did, until they finished their thesis.
Translations:
unfilial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
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-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁ilyós
Proto-Italic *θīlios
Proto-Italic *fīlios
Latin fīlius
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin fīliālisder.
Middle English filial
English filial
English unfilial
From un- + filial.
Inflected forms:
form: more unfilial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unfilial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not befitting or proper for a son.
pos: adj
examples: It is an account of the death of Sancho the Valiant, the unfilial and rebellious son of Alfonso the Learned; […]
Translations:
we-uns
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From we + uns, a form of ones representing an older pronunciation of it.
Inflected forms:
form: we'uns
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: we'ins
pos: pron
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: We.
pos: pron
tags: Appalachia
Midwestern-US
US
examples: “We-uns hev all been a-gittin' married round hyar lately. Whar's that purty wife o' yourn?”
‘We'uns was sittin under a tree over to the cannin factory just a little while ago, eatin our dinner, when this here stranger rode up.’
gloss: Us. (Compare us'uns.)
pos: pron
tags: Appalachia
Midwestern-US
US
examples: Then he come back to we-uns laughin'; sed the Yank offered him twenty dollars a month to go home to Maine with him, an' went on like a preacher […]
But Marshall Rutherford hain't no neighbour to we-uns. He hain't belongin' to Big Creek Gap. We hain't wantin' no more of Kennedy Poteet's stock in here, and we hain't aimin' to hev 'em.
Related words: you-uns
they-uns
Translations:
pub-crawl
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pub-crawls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pub-crawling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pub-crawled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pub-crawled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to visit, and drink in, numerous pubs or bars in succession.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
Translations:
plurilateral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pluri- + lateral.
Base: lateral
Affixes: pluri-
Inflected forms:
form: more plurilateral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plurilateral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Involving several parties.
pos: adj
Translations:
sociometric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From socio- + -metric.
Affixes: socio-
-metric
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to sociometry or to sociometrics
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Eurocentrism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined during the period of decolonization in the later 20th century, as a back-formation from Eurocentric. Superficially Euro- + -centrism
Base: Euro
Inflected forms:
form: eurocentrism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The practice of viewing the world from a European perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European culture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The rather philistine assertion of Eurocentrism and Westernness on the part of conservative educators […]
gloss: European ethnocentrism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
race-walk
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: race-walks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: race-walking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: race-walked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: race-walked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To compete in race walking.
pos: verb
Translations:
transborder
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trans- + border.
Base: border
Affixes: trans-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Beyond the border, on the other side of the border.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
macrophotography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós
Proto-Hellenic *makrós
Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der.
French macro-der.
English macro-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
French photographiebor.
English photography
English macrophotography
1889, macro- + photography.
Base: photography
Affixes: macro-
Inflected forms:
form: macro-photography
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Photography that is done up close; close-up photography.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
softish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From soft + -ish.
Base: soft
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more softish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most softish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat soft.
pos: adj
Translations:
oddish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From odd + -ish.
Base: odd
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more oddish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oddish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat odd.
pos: adj
Translations:
LaVeyan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From LaVey + -an.
Base: LaVey
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more LaVeyan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most LaVeyan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: LaVeyans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Anton Szandor LaVey (1930–1997), the American founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan, or to his school of Satanism.
pos: adj
gloss: A follower of Anton LaVey; a LaVeyanist.
pos: noun
Translations:
unwelcomed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + welcomed.
Base: welcomed
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not having been welcomed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As if Fresh Meadows needed reminding that it was very much in the modern era, a notice arrived unwelcomed in April, in the form of an outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus.
Translations:
baby-wise
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more baby-wise
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most baby-wise
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of a baby.
pos: adv
examples: Slowly his huge and inarticulate fist traveled to his eye, and stayed there baby-wise. / The young men of today do not cry. They turn Syndicalist instead; dimly conscious in the darkness of the wall that stands between them and the largesse of life that they feel to be their right, and flinging against that wall in an impotent fury of words and blows.
gloss: As one would a baby.
pos: adv
examples: She clutched it in great haste, wrapped her apron about it, and carrying it baby-wise, ran fleetly off, casting apprehensive glances over her shoulder.
He cuddled it, baby-wise, but he looked up from it often to curse with an astonishing utter abandon straight at the noses of his captors.
Translations:
revhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rev + -head (“suffix indicating a fan or enthusiast”).
Base: rev
Affixes: -head
Inflected forms:
form: revheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who takes part in, or enjoys watching motor racing.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
informal
examples: Cars are a religion in Perth, which is still a city of revheads with a bigger membership of car clubs than anywhere else in the country, and Claremont was one of the world′s oldest speedway tracks.
But your seventeen-year-old revhead son would be blown away if you commented on his rims (never call them alloy wheels).
Adelaide′s Crime Stoppers phoneline was pumping: revheads and greenies alike were dobbing in yellow Ford Econovans blowing smoke on the road.
Translations:
rhinology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rhin- + -ology.
Base: rhino
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The scientific study of the nose.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rib-tickler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: rib-ticklers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rib tickler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ribtickler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An amusing joke.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A ball bowled short of a length that bounces up higher than expected and strikes the batter in the ribs.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
right-footer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: right-footers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is right-footed.
pos: noun
examples: It was first blood to the Black Cats in the ding-dong clash when Bardsley, a right-footer playing on the left, collected the ball from just inside his own half and sped up to the edge of the area before launching an effort which appeared to confuse Petr Cech in goal.
gloss: A player who predominantly kicks with the right foot.
pos: noun
gloss: A goal kicked with the right foot.
pos: noun
Antonyms: left-footer
Translations:
lexicographically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti
Proto-Hellenic *légō
Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek λέξῐς (léxĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek λεξῐκός (lexĭkós)
English lexico-
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor.
French -graphieder.
English -graphy
English lexicography
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English lexicographic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English lexicographical
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lexicographically
From lexicographical + -ly.
Base: lexicographical
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more lexicographically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lexicographically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lexicographical way.
pos: adv
examples: That upto is, and has long been, a part of Indian English is clear, however, significantly, it has never been covered lexicographically.
gloss: From the perspective of lexicography.
pos: adv
gloss: In lexicographical order.
pos: adv
tags: sequence
Translations:
wavetable
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wave + table, from waveform.
Compound parts: wave
table
Inflected forms:
form: wavetables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A collection of many single-cycle waveforms with subtly changing harmonic contents, sometimes based on a sample of a real musical instrument, used in sound synthesis.
pos: noun
Translations:
cruisy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
Etymology: From cruise + -y.
Base: cruise
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: cruisier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cruisiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cruisey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Suitable to listen to when driving leisurely.
pos: adj
gloss: Leisurely.
pos: adj
gloss: Suitable for finding sexual partners (especially for gay men).
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Went to 12 gay bars including leather & glitter ones, to a gay movie & to the cruisy gay area of Central Park twice.
Jim, who's been coming here since 1954, misses some aspects of the old days. It is a busier, louder place now. "I could come here and read," he explains wistfully. "I could come here for a quiet drink." Now the press of people and the "cruisy" atmosphere make it impossible to read except in the afternoon and early evening.
Will Rogers State Beach is a cruisy gay beach, always lots of people and lots of fun.
gloss: Tending to cruise for sexual partners.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: Most of the women who approached me were cruisy, butch numbers.
gloss: A laid back job, person, or place.
pos: adj
tags: New-Zealand
Translations:
gay-friendly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Inflected forms:
form: gay-friendlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more gay-friendly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gay-friendliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most gay-friendly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Welcoming and safe for gay people.
pos: adj
Translations:
SQ
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: subcutaneous
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
conformally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From conformal + -ly.
Base: conformal
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more conformally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most conformally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a conformal manner
pos: adv
gloss: With regard to a conformality
pos: adv
Derived words: nonconformally
quasiconformally
superconformally
Translations:
inspiral
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From in- + spiral.
Base: spiral
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: inspirals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inspirals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inspiraling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: inspiralling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: inspiraled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: inspiraled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: inspiralled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: inspiralled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: Describing the paths of a pair of astronomical bodies (e.g. binary stars or black holes) that are spiralling in towards each other, losing energy to gravitational waves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The path of such a body.
pos: noun
gloss: To spiral inward.
pos: verb
Translations:
interband
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From inter- + band.
Base: band
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
form: interbands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Describing a region between bands (magnetic, spectral etc)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A faint band between darker ones
pos: noun
Translations:
intercloud
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From inter- + cloud.
Base: cloud
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
form: interclouds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interclouding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interclouded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interclouded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: interclouds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shut within clouds.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Between clouds of stars.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As the sun moves in its path through the galaxy, it will not always be immersed in the tenuous intercloud region of the interstellar medium.
gloss: An interconnected set of clouds, in cloud computing.
pos: noun
Translations:
magnetoelectric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From magneto- + electric.
Base: electric
Affixes: magneto-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to magnetoelectricity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
daymare
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From day + mare, after nightmare.
Compound parts: day
mare
Inflected forms:
form: daymares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daymares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: daymaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: daymared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: daymared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A vivid, unpleasant mental image, having the characteristics of a nightmare, during wakefulness.
pos: noun
examples: What walks I took alone, down muddy lanes, in the bad winter weather, carrying that parlor, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone in it, everywhere: a monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, a daymare that there was no possibility of breaking in, a weight that brooded on my wits, and blunted them!
Sometimes I can't help but feel helpless / I'm havin' daymares in daytime wide awake try to relate / This can't be happenin' like I'm in a dream while I'm walkin' / Cause what I'm seein is hauntin', human beings like ghost and zombies
“Bobbie Nell, that bird just wants to get out of your house. He's trapped in a bird nightmare.” “You're all nightmares! And I'm about to be your nightmare and your daymare.”
gloss: To have a daymare.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: There must be something better to spend my precious time daymaring.
She daymared through each one, painting dark, almost black canvases with indistinguishable figures floating in a stormy sky.
Instead he’s daymaring the burning sandy wastes of southern Iraq – the unknowable concrete-and-mud-brick towns and forgotten bazaars where the Rams could well lose themselves … in a wilderness of dust.
Translations:
stob
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English; variant of stub.
Inflected forms:
form: stobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
Northern-England
Scotland
dialectal
examples: He climbed from the skiff and tied up at a stob and labored up the thick grassless bank toward the arches where the bridge went to earth.
gloss: A small post for supporting paling.
pos: noun
gloss: A wedge in coal-mining.
pos: noun
Translations:
noninterest
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + interest.
Base: interest
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: noninterests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not of or pertaining to interest (additional amount repaid as a fraction of money or goods borrowed).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Consumer deposits are now insured up to $250,000 per account, and the F.D.I.C. offers unlimited coverage on noninterest payroll accounts used by businesses.
gloss: That which is not an interest.
pos: noun
examples: Furthermore, it appears that children are equally flexible with respect to their actions in play with objects identified as interests and equally inflexible with respect to their actions in play with objects identified as noninterests.
Translations:
northland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From north + land.
Compound parts: north
land
Inflected forms:
form: northlands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A land that lies to the north.
pos: noun
Antonyms: southland
Translations:
up-armored
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having had its armor upgraded.
pos: adj
Translations: