yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
anchorage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
nautical
sciences
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk-der.?
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́γκῡρᾰ (ắnkūră)bor.?
Latin ancorabor.
Proto-Germanic *ankurô
Proto-West Germanic *ankurō
Old English ancor
Middle English anker
English anchor
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English anchorage
From anchor + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: anchorages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fee charged for anchoring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Anchorage is five pounds a night outside the harbour.
gloss: That into which something is anchored or fastened.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge
gloss: The surgical fixation of prolapsed organs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And yet 'twas by such braggart vaunts as these
Thou broughtst thee to this woeful anchorage.
gloss: The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The retreat of a hermit, or anchorite.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Translations:
undersized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English sized
English undersized
From under- + sized.
Inflected forms:
form: more undersized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undersized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: below the usual or expected size
pos: adj
Translations:
schlub
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yiddish זשלאָב (zhlob, “goyish bumpkin, redneck”), derived from Polish żłób (“manger, trough; furrow, large groove in the soil”). Compare Russian жлоб (žlob).
Originated in Eastern Europe as part of klezmer musician cant (Klezmer-loshn). In its original sense, the word only applied to non-Jewish males. Strom (2002) lists "zhlobukhe-elzet" as a synonym, "zhlobevke" and "zlobike" (זלאָביקע) as female counterparts. The precise nature of the semantic leap from "manger, crib" to "boorish goy" remains unclear. In any case, by the year 1869, it had become common enough to be included in a Russian-Yiddish dictionary published in Zhytomyr. Jewish immigrants brought the word to the United States, where it is best known under the form schlub.
False cognate of English slob.
Inflected forms:
form: schlubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: schlob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shlub
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shlubb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who is clumsy, oafish, socially awkward, unattractive or unkempt.
pos: noun
tags: Jewish
New-York-City
derogatory
informal
slang
examples: It wasn’t sufficient for Mother to use the rolling pin on that hapless brother of mine; she’d also call him Zlob, or Cham, another Polish term for an awkward peasant, something that a son of a nice Jewish family should never be.
“Do you want me to go in for a quick snoop and poop?” “No. You cannot go. They will sense you. No, we need a mortal. A human. A common schlub. A nobody. Someone whose personality is like a eunuch. Do you know?” “Okay, I'm gonna go. I'll go. All right? I'll go.”
After the success of the film Jaws in 1975, two schlubs went around the United States pretending to be director Steven Spielberg and lead actor Richard Dreyfuss.
Translations:
metathesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
human-sciences
inorganic-chemistry
linguistics
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
phonetics
phonology
physical-sciences
prosody
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin metathesis, from Ancient Greek μετάθεσις (metáthesis), from μετά (metá, “among”) + θέσις (thésis, “placement”).
Base: μετά
Inflected forms:
form: metatheses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks/.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
gloss: The double decomposition of inorganic salts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: metathetic
metathesize
spoonerism
Derived words: antimetathesis
crossmetathesis
olefin metathesis
quantitative metathesis
self-metathesis
Translations:
lousy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lousy, lowsy, lousi, equivalent to louse + -y.
Base: louse
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: lousier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lousiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lowsy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lowsie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lousey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unwanted and often unpleasant.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: I worked here all summer and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.
gloss: Unwanted and often unpleasant.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: No offense, but his cooking is lousy.
Must have been a lousy school.
gloss: Unwanted and often unpleasant.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: I cleaned the lousy garage.
gloss: Unwanted and often unpleasant.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: I've had enough of lousy backstabbing at this place.
gloss: Unwell; under the weather.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: I caught a cold and I've been feeling lousy all week.
gloss: Infested with lice.
pos: adj
gloss: Filled or packed (with something, usually bad).
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
usually
examples: The place was lousy with students.
The benignant influence crept like gas through the Row. […] And triangulation might possibly have located it in the Palace Flophouse and Grill. Certainly the Palace was lousy with it. Mack and the boys were charged. Jones was seen to leap from his chair only to do a quick tap dance and sit down again.
[I talked to] Annabeth about the Greek gods who hung out in New York and made her life difficult. Apparently North America was lousy with ancient gods. We had a full-blown infestation.
Related words: cootie
crab louse
crabs
louse
pubic louse
licey
Derived words: lousily
lousiness
lousy evil
unlousy
Translations:
follicle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-der.
Latin follis
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
Latin -culus
Latin folliculusbor.
English follicle
Borrowed from Latin folliculus.
Inflected forms:
form: follicles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.
pos: noun
examples: He could feel the follicles in his inner ear go crazy.
gloss: A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants.
pos: noun
Related words: follicular
folliculitis
Derived words: fibrofolliculoma
follicle-challenged
follicle mite
follicle stage
follicle-stimulating hormone
follicle stimulating hormone
follicly
follicly challenged
folliculated
folliculoma
Graafian follicle
hair follicle
microfollicle
ovarian follicle
prefollicle
pseudofollicle
Translations:
barbell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
jewelry
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
Etymology: Blend of bar + dumbbell. The piercing is named after the exercise equipment, because of the visual resemblance.
Compound parts: bar
dumbbell
Inflected forms:
form: barbells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wide steel bar with premeasured weights counterpoised at either end, with the central span open for the hands of the weightlifter.
pos: noun
examples: The in-house gym included “squat racks” for weight lifting, with iron barbells branded with “Thinking Machines” in bold white typeface.
gloss: A piece of jewellery composed of a straight bar with a bead on each end, used as a piercing.
pos: noun
Related words: dumbbell
kettlebell
Derived words: barbell bar pad
barbell cushion
barbell pad
barbell rack
nanobarbell
Translations:
braked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Equipped with brakes (the vehicle-stopping devices).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On most aircraft, the mainwheels are braked, but the nosewheel or tailwheel is not.
Translations:
McCarthyism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Irish Mac Carthaighbor.
English McCarthy
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 McCarthyism
From McCarthy + -ism, named after United States Senator Joseph McCarthy. Originates from a 1950 Washington Post political cartoon by Herbert Block.
Base: McCarthy
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: McCarthyisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The mass pressure, harassment, and/or blacklisting used to pressure people to follow popular political beliefs, especially as opposed to communism.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
uncountable
usually
examples: This is McMuskism: it’s McCarthyism on steroids, political persecution + Trump + Musk + Silicon Valley surveillance tools. It’s the dawn of a new age of political witch-hunts, where burning at the stake meets data harvesting and online mobs.
Translations:
bathrobe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bath + robe.
Compound parts: bath
robe
Inflected forms:
form: bathrobes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A robe usually made of terrycloth intended to be worn when one is still damp from bathing or when there is no immediate need to dress fully.
pos: noun
Translations:
gazetteer
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from French gazettier (archaic), gazetier (“journalist, newspaperman”) + English -eer (suffix forming agent nouns denoting people associated with or engaged in a specified activities). Gazettier, gazetier are derived from gazette (“newspaper”) + -ier (suffix denoting a profession); and gazette from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta of news”) (referring to the cost of the newspaper, a gazeta being a Venetian coin of little value, whence English gazet (obsolete)), possibly a diminutive of Latin gaza (“riches, treasure; treasury”), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰam (“treasure; wealth”). The English word is analysable as gazette + -eer.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Base: gazette
Affixes: -eer
Inflected forms:
form: gazetteers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gazetteering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gazetteered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gazetteered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of gazette (“to announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette”).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [A]s an old friend I've got one favour to beg and to request to be granted. […] Why, when you've been gazetteered as Sir Robert and Lady Smugglefuss, that I shall be the first to be honoured with a visit.
But the change was at hand, and two new major-generals and six brigadier-generals were gazetteered to the anxious country.
Gazetteered as Lieutenant-Commander, he [Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh] was now twenty-nine years old, about the age when he might have expected such promotion. No sign there of favouritism or nepotism, though his unrivalled connections had hardly held him back.
gloss: To report about (someone) in a gazette or newspaper.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: [O]ur modern canibals of the gazetteering tribe, leſs delicate than they, can divert themſelves in cool blood vvith the pangs of their friends, and exert their more licentious brutality amidſt the miſeries of nations in ſtrict alliance vvith their ovvn;—if ſuch inſects can be deem'd of any nation.
Patience, it will be our turn by and by, we shall have the honour of being Gazetteered in our place, at least I expect a whole paragraph in the 'Evening Post' for my own share.
Translations:
hugeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hugenesse, equivalent to huge + -ness.
Base: huge
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: hugenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the quality of being huge; immensity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ‘You little trollop, my husband took you in, on a low rent, out of the hugeness of his heart.’
Translations:
capsaicin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Arbitrary alteration of earlier capsicine, capsicin (“material extracted from cayenne pepper”), presumably to prevent confusion, from German Capsicin, from New Latin capsicum + German -in. Name introduced by John Clough Thresh (1850–1932) in “Capsaicin, the Active Principle of Capsicum Fruits”.
Inflected forms:
form: capsaicins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chemical compound found in chilli peppers, which is responsible for their piquancy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
pulverize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pulverizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pulverizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pulverized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pulverized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: American and Oxford British spelling of pulverise.
pos: verb
Translations:
soybean
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From soy + bean.
Compound parts: soy
bean
Inflected forms:
form: soybeans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soya bean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: soyabean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: soy bean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A legume plant (Glycine max), commonly cultivated for human and animal consumption and as a nitrogen-fixing ground cover.
pos: noun
gloss: The edible seed of this plant.
pos: noun
examples: Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
During the Goguryeo kingdom (37 B.C. to A.D. 668), the Maek people in the northern Korean Peninsula ate maekjeok, a dish of grilled pork marinated in doenjang, a fermented soybean paste. Years later, maekjeok evolved into neobiani, a dish of broad, thin slices of beef tenderized and grilled over flames. A feature of royal court cuisine during the Joseon dynasty (1392 to 1910), neobiani is considered a predecessor to today’s beloved bulgogi.
It’s been nearly four years since China put tariffs on American-grown soybeans during a tit-for-tat trade war with then-President Donald Trump – and they remain in place despite the change in administrations.
Derived words: field soybean
green soybean
IOM soybean
IOM soybeans
soybean oil
soybean rust
Translations:
lang: Southern Altai
word: соя
roman: soya
lang: Arabic
word: فُول اَلصُّويَا
roman: fūl aṣ-ṣūyā
lang: Arabic
word: فول الصويا
roman: fūl eṣ-ṣōyā
lang: Burmese
word: ပဲကျပ်ပျဉ်
roman: pai:kyappyany
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 黃豆 /黄豆
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 大豆
roman: dàdòu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 黃豆 /黄豆
roman: huángdòu
lang: Esperanto
word: sojujo
lang: Finnish
word: soija
lang: Finnish
word: soijapapu
lang: French
word: soja
lang: Georgian
word: სოიო
roman: soio
lang: German
word: Sojabohne
lang: Hawaiian
word: pāpapa koiū
lang: Hebrew
word: סויה
roman: sóya
lang: Hungarian
word: szójabab
lang: Indonesian
word: kedelai
lang: Ingrian
word: sooja
lang: Italian
word: soia
lang: Japanese
word: 大豆
roman: daizu
lang: Kazakh
word: соя
roman: soä
lang: Khmer
word: សណ្ដែកសៀង
roman: sɑndaek siǝng
lang: Korean
word: 대두
roman: daedu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: соя
roman: soya
lang: Lao
word: ຖົ່ວເຫລືອງ
roman: thūa lư̄ang
lang: Macedonian
word: соја
roman: soja
lang: Malay
word: soya
lang: Malay
word: tau
lang: Malay
word: kedelai
lang: Malayalam
word: സോയ
roman: sōya
lang: Māori
word: hoi
lang: Mizo
word: bekang
lang: Mongolian
word: шар буурцаг
roman: šar buurcag
lang: Persian
word: سویا
roman: soyâ
lang: Persian
word: لوبیاروغنی
roman: lubiyâ-rowġani
lang: Polish
word: soja
lang: Portuguese
word: soja
lang: Russian
word: со́я
roman: sója
lang: Spanish
word: soja
lang: Swedish
word: soja
lang: Swedish
word: sojaböna
lang: Tagalog
word: utaw
lang: Thai
word: ถั่วเหลือง
roman: tùua-lʉ̌ʉang
lang: Turkish
word: soya
lang: Turkish
word: soya fasulyesi
lang: Vietnamese
word: đậu nành
nitrogen-fixing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a plant, microbe, etc., able to convert inorganic nitrogen into a form usable in the biosphere.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: From these results it is concluded that hydrogenase is closely related to the nitrogen-fixing system in Azotobacter.
Translations:
crisscross
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”).
By surface analysis, an apophonic reduplication of cross.
Inflected forms:
form: crisscrosses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crisscrossing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crisscrossed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crisscrossed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: criss-cross
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: crisscrosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: criss-cross
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: criss-cross
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: criss-cross
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To move back and forth over or through.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As it turned out, the itinerary was disconcertingly illogical, involving criss-crossing America in anything but a straight line.
He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices.
Throughout this period, and beyond, into the rest of the battle, aircraft of various types and loadouts are crisscrossing the skies in desperate harassment attacks, with the pilots having to play constant games of "guess the carrier" to decide where to land as escort carriers are hit, sunk, disappear in columns of shell splashes, or are forced to evade at angles to the wind that make landing on them impossible.
gloss: To mark with crossed lines.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A pattern of crossed lines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We reach the first barrier, which is like the barriers blocking off roadworks, or dug-up sewers: a wooden crisscross painted in yellow and black stripes, a red hexagon which means Stop.
gloss: A mark or cross, such as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A kind of crossword puzzle having no clues or definitions, but only a list of words that must be fitted into the grid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A definite advantage of the fact that no fill-in-the-blank sentences are used is that it's very easy for kids to enter their own words and see them instantly transformed into crisscrosses, word searches, and other fun games.
Welcome to the Ultimate Puzzle Challenge — a brand-new series of books for children who love word searches, crisscrosses, mazes, crosswords, and variety puzzles.
gloss: A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Marked with crossed lines; crisscrossed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Crossing one another.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hopping
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alternative spelling (C17) of hoppe, from Middle French houbelon
Inflected forms:
form: hoppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more hopping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hopping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).
gloss: The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That uses hopping for locomotion.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a location, crowded with people.
pos: adj
tags: US
slang
Derived words: b-hopping
bottom hopping
bunnyhopping
cafe-hopping
channel-hopping
club-hopping
Darling Downs hopping mouse
distro-hopping
dry hopping
flag-hopping
freight hopping
freighthopping
groundhopping
hopping Dick
hoppingly
hopping mad
hopping mouse
hopping vampire
job-hopping
lead hopping
lindy-hopping
lindy hopping
Mitchell's hopping mouse
quota-hopping
scaffold hopping
spy-hopping
spy hopping
swan hopping
time-hopping
train hopping
Translations:
matte
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
broadcasting
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
French matbor.
English matte
Borrowed from French mat.
Inflected forms:
form: mattes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more matte
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most matte
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mattes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: matting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: matted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: matted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
pos: noun
examples: The image is a perfect square of 8 cm (with white matte border the total dimensions are 14 cm tall by 11 cm wide).
gloss: A background, often painted or created with computers
pos: noun
examples: Matte painting is a tool that filmmakers can use to create a scene that is impossible to achieve with conventional cinematographic means.
gloss: The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface.
pos: noun
gloss: Dull; not reflective of light.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: Flat or matte paint allows a deep color expression on the walls while also hiding flaws that may be inherent on the painted surface.
a matte lipstick
gloss: To produce a dull, lustreless surface on (metal).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: closed matte
hard matte
open matte
soft matte
Translations:
capriciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English capricious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English capriciously
From capricious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more capriciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most capriciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a capricious manner; without caution or concern.
pos: adv
examples: "Where are we going?" she asked, jibbing capriciously in the descent.
In Virginia, as in most of the country, jaywalking has long been punishable by a fine but very rarely enforced. A penalty that is invoked sporadically and capriciously is not fair to those who get socked with it, as state and federal courts have declared many times.
Translations:
sophomore
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
Etymology: From earlier sophumer, from the obsolete sophom, sophum (“sophism or dialectical exercise”), from Ancient Greek σόφισμα (sóphisma). Likely influenced by Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”) + μωρός (mōrós, “fool”). Compare oxymoron (literally “sharp-dull”), a similar contradiction.
Inflected forms:
form: sophomores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The second in a series, especially, the second of an artist’s albums or the second of four years in a high school (tenth grade) or university.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: The band’s sophomore album built upon the success of their debut release, catapulting them to megastardom.
“Blonde,” which is spelled “Blond” on the album cover and “Blonde” on Apple and elsewhere, hews more closely to what was expected from a sophomore release by one of the most lauded and enigmatic young singers in pop music.
I pledged for DKA my sophomore year and went through a rigorous process of weekly meetings and projects, each designed to build fraternal bonds and to teach values such as honesty, reliability and generosity.
Spike Lee’s sophomore film, after his micro-budgeted and critically acclaimed debut, “She’s Gotta Have It,” was this big, bold ensemble musical set on the campus of a Historically Black College over a busy homecoming weekend.
gloss: Sophomoric.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
examples: She was very mature for a sophomore and had several friends who were juniors or even seniors.
gloss: A three-year-old horse.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The filly had looked promising as a sophomore, but concerns over her health had prompted the owner to pull her from the season’s early races.
Related words: moron
morosoph
oxymoron
sophy
-sophy
Derived words: frosh
presophomore
sophomoreitis
sophomore slump
sophomoric
sophomoritis
Translations:
cosmochemistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱem-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱens-der.
Proto-Hellenic *kónsmos
Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos)der.
English cosmo-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chimiabor.
Middle French chymie
French chimie
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istabor.
French -iste
French chimistebor.
English chemist
Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye
English -ry
English chemistry
English cosmochemistry
From cosmo- + chemistry.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of chemistry that deals with the creation of the elements, and their isotopic distribution, in the universe; also with the synthesis and reactions of simple molecules in interstellar space.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
isotopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English isotope
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English isotopic
From isotope + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to isotopes
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
desiccated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more desiccated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most desiccated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: dried
pos: adj
examples: The Learned have Diſtinguiſh’d fire into three Species, 1. Light, that is fire in its proper matter, 2. Flame, that is fire is moiſt Air, 3. Cole, that is fire in a burnt Stick or other Deſiccated matter[…]
Already I seemed to hear the water rippling against the desiccated bones and rattling them together, rolling my skull against Mahomed's, and his against mine, till at last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.
Translations:
effervesce
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin effervescere (“to boil up”). By surface analysis, ef- + Latin ferv- + -esce.
Inflected forms:
form: effervesces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: effervescing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: effervesced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: effervesced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To emit small bubbles of dissolved gas; to froth or fizz.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: After some remonstrances, she takes up a champagne bottle, but is frightened by the sudden explosion of the cork, and drops it upon the floor. There the untasted liquor effervesces.
gloss: To escape from solution in a liquid in the form of bubbles.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To show high spirits.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
Related words: effervescence
effervescent
Derived words: effervescible
effervescingly
effervescive
Translations:
electrophile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From electro- + -phile.
Base: electro
Inflected forms:
form: electrophiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A compound or functional group that is attracted to, and accepts electrons, especially accepting an electron pair from a nucleophile to form a bond.
pos: noun
Translations:
nucleophile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From nucleo- + -phile.
Base: nucleo
Inflected forms:
form: nucleophiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A compound or functional group that is attractive to centres of positive charge, and donates electrons, especially donating an electron pair to an electrophile to form a bond.
pos: noun
Translations:
squish
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of squash, influenced by obsolete squiss (“to squeeze”). Cognate with Scots squische, squies (“to crush, squeeze”). Compare also French esquicher from Old Occitan esquichar (“to squeeze, squish”). See also squeeze, squelch.
Inflected forms:
form: squishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: squishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Alex reached the bottom and Grant heard a squish as she landed in the mud on the bottom of the river.
gloss: A political moderate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
informal
examples: Some conservatives think that in the long run, the party will be better off without squishes like Specter […]
“Josh Mandel: Another failed career politician squish,” a new ad from a super PAC supporting Mr. Vance blared on Ohio television sets on Friday, calling Mr. Mandel, who is mounting his third Senate run, a “two-time loser” and “a moderate for the moderates.”
gloss: Marmalade.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
slang
uncountable
examples: Where they are loaves and joints melt as snow in the sunshine; bowls of cream are of no more account than acorn-cups filled with dew; and the 'squish'—as they call the mother's home-made marmalade—has to be renewed daily; […]
There was a time when the “squish” manufactured by Mr. Frank Cooper at Oxford was not known very extensively outside the world of undergraduates. With the march of events though the fame of Cooper's Oxford marmalade has become world-wide, and the natural consequence is that a new factory has had to be built to cope with the increased business.
gloss: To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: The sandwich tasted fine, even though it had got squished in his lunchbox.
Rather than squishing everything into a tiny window, I have shown only part of my app.
It hadn't rained for a few days, and the water in the ditch had been stagnant long enough for insect larvae to hatch. One landed on her nose, and she squished it before flicking it away from her finger.
gloss: To be compressed or squeezed.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: I kicked off my shoes and wiggled my toes on the soft moss. It felt amazing as it squished between my toes, […]
Synonyms: squash
Derived words: squishability
squishable
squisher
squishingly
squish mitten
squishy
unsquished
Translations:
electrophilic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From electro- + -philic.
Base: electro
Inflected forms:
form: more electrophilic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most electrophilic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to an electrophile; electron deficient
pos: adj
Antonyms: nucleophilic
Translations:
nucleophilic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to a nucleophile
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
puri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-Iranian *praH-
Sanskrit पॄ (pṝ)
Sanskrit पूर (pūra)
Prakrit 𑀧𑀽𑀭 (pūra)
Hindi पूरी (pūrī)bor.
Urdu پُورِی (pūrī)bor.
English puri
Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi पूरी (pūrī) / Urdu پُورِی (pūrī)), a kind of fried flatbread.
Inflected forms:
form: puris
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poori
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: puree
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: No. 17 PURI. Take Flour, ½ ser (1lb.)
Translations:
protestation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Old French protestacion, from Latin prōtestātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: protestations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A formal solemn objection or other declaration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: October 28, 1552, Hugh Latimer, Sermon on the Gospel for St Simon and St Jude's Day
The protestation of our faith.
“These are but words, young man,” answered Glendinning, “large protestations are often used to supply the place of effectual service.[…]”
Mechanically he retained the hand that trembled in his own—but Isabella needed no protestations—one word from his mouth had been enough, and she sat in silent "measureless content."
gloss: A declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
Related words: protest
Translations:
chapati
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi चपाती (capātī), from Sanskrit चर्पटी (carpaṭī). From a derivative of Sanskrit *चर्प (carpa, “flat”).
Inflected forms:
form: chapatis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chapatti
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chupati
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chupatti
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A flat, unleavened bread from northern India and Pakistan.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Princess Jeeta fed me dozens of the hot kebabs I loved, which I coated with mango chutney and wrapped in chapati.
Purvi breaks her chapati into small pieces and scatters them around her plate.
Translations:
paratha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani पराठा (parāṭhā) / پَراٹھا (parāṭhā). Doublet of parotta.
Inflected forms:
form: parathas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parantha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: parauntha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: parotha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Indian bread with a texture somewhat resembling puff pastry; sometimes stuffed with vegetables etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In India, shredded radishes are seasoned with chilies, ginger and toasted spices to make a filling for paratha.
Gerry ordered poppadoms and parathas and then he was interrupted by requests for vindaloos, chicken madrases and sag joshes, rice, raita and nan, from Priest, Morgan and Maria Grazia.
It was homemade parathas with keema mattar — ground lamb with peas.
Translations:
exposition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
entertainment
film
human-sciences
journalism
lifestyle
linguistics
literature
media
music
narratology
publishing
sciences
television
writing
Etymology: From Middle English exposicioun, from Old French esposicion, from Latin expositiō, from expōnere (“to put forth”). The sense meaning "exhibition" is a later semantic loan from French exposition.
Inflected forms:
form: expositions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing, in nonfiction or in fiction; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe or explain a set of things (such as, in fiction, the setting, characters and other non-plot elements).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This essay has too much exposition in it.
My reviewer said she couldn't picture the setting for my story, so I'm improving the exposition.
gloss: The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: An exhibition, especially of goods, artwork or cultural displays to the public.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The first prototype was unveiled at an exposition.
gloss: An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I turned my research into an exposition on the traditional music of Borneo.
gloss: An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The opening section of a movement in sonata form; the opening section of a fugue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The abandonment of an unwanted child.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: exposé
exposit
expositive
expository
explanation
exegesis
Derived words: counterexposition
expo
expositional
expositionary
misexposition
sexposition
Translations:
boink
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Onomatopoeic (cf. yoink and bonk).
Inflected forms:
form: boinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boinked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boinked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: boinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To have sexual intercourse (with); to bonk.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
informal
examples: Max was boinking Jane in the bathroom of the bar.
Think he's boinking her?
Yeah, but you gotta have stories. I mean, I've had my share of losers, but you… you boinked the undead.
gloss: To hit or strike.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
gloss: A real-world social gathering of computer users.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Max and Jane had a quick boink in the bathroom.
gloss: A sound of something hitting or bouncing off a surface, similar to plunk, but with more connotations of bounciness.
pos: noun
Synonyms: bang
get it on
have sex
copulate with
Derived words: boinkfest
boinky
bork
shaboink
Translations:
creativity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English creative
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English creativity
From creative + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: creativities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I suppose it's part of my creativity and may also be just a desire to, maybe an idea that there is a wonderful way to do it, and that I'm working toward the wonderful way to do it.
Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
Translations:
ramble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: An altered form (with dissimilation of mm to mb) of dialectal rammle, from Middle English *ramlen, *ramelen, frequentative of Middle English ramen (“to roam, ramble”); compare Swedish ramla (“to stumble; fall; make a noise; rumble”), Danish ramle (“to stumble; collapse; thunder; boom”); equivalent to roam + -le.
"mid-15 c., perhaps frequentative of 'romen' 'to walk, go' perhaps via 'romblen' (late 14 c.) 'to ramble.' The vowel change perhaps by influence of Middle Dutch 'rammelen,' a derivative of 'rammen' 'copulate,' 'used of the night wanderings of the amorous cat.' Meaning 'to talk or write incoherently' is from 1630s".
Base: roam
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: rambles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rambles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rambling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rambled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rambled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.
pos: noun
examples: Marianne was prevailed upon to join her sisters in their usual walk, instead of wandering away by herself. Hitherto she had carefully avoided every companion in her rambles. If her sisters intended to walk on the downs, she directly stole away towards the lanes;[…]
The place was a favourite with all, and the ramble in this quarter was quite a regular custom of the afternoon with the fair heiress of Colonel Walton in particular.
gloss: A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction.
pos: noun
gloss: A bed of shale over the seam of coal.
pos: noun
gloss: A section of woodland suitable for leisurely walking.
pos: noun
examples: Someone proposed that we play in one of the small clearings in a gay crusing ^([sic]) area in Central Park called the rambles.
gloss: To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course.
pos: verb
examples: Weak from drifting on the longest mosey ever rambled. Weeks with no meal or beverage. Blistering desert pounding me to the crosine-tipped ^([sic]) brink of insanity. Yet perhaps there is truth in sand madness.
gloss: To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
pos: verb
gloss: To lead the life of a vagabond or itinerant; to move about with no fixed place of address.
pos: verb
examples: 1994, Richard Thompson, “Beeswing”
We was drinking more in those days and tempers reached a pitch
And like a fool I let her run with the rambling itch
gloss: To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.
pos: verb
tags: often
with-on
examples: Francine has a tendency to ramble when it gets to be late in the evening.
She often rambles about bees' behavior, both in the hive and in the field.
Usually I don't mind listening to her ramble on a bit; it can be soothing.
Last night she was rambling on about horticultural methods, which was so soothing that I nodded off.
gloss: To follow a winding path or course.
pos: verb
examples: The river rambled through the mountains.
Derived words: rambler
ramblesome
rambly
Translations:
fondue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French fondue (“melted”), from fondre (“to melt”).
Inflected forms:
form: fondues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fondues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fonduing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fondueing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fondued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fondued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dish made of melted cheese, or chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a Swiss fondue
gloss: To prepare or serve as a fondue.
pos: verb
Translations:
peroration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin perōrō (“to speak at length, to conclude a speech”) (from per- (“very”) + ōrō (“to speak, to orate”) (English orate)) + -ation (“action (nominalizer)”) (from Latin -ātiō).
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: perorations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The concluding section of a discourse, either written or oral, in which the orator or writer sums up and commends his topic to his audience, particularly as used in the technical sense of a component of ancient Roman oratorical delivery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This passage is virtually the peroration of the Ethics; the few paragraphs that follow are concerned with the transition to politics.
The young man achieved perfect timing, for the last word of his peroration coincided with the muffled clap of the doors closing, after having launched the coffin onto the rails of a subterranean railway.
His peroration, to which, he [JD Vance] said, he had given much thought, would feature, for his mic drop, a pearl of wisdom from “the great prophet and statesman” Richard Milhous Nixon.
gloss: A discourse or rhetorical argument in general.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nephew, what means this passionate discourse,
This peroration with such circumstance?
Related words: oration
Derived words: perorational
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: резюме
roman: rezjume
lang: French
word: péroraison
lang: German
word: Zusammenfassung
lang: German
word: Redeschluss
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐπίλογος
roman: epílogos
lang: Occitan
word: perorason
lang: Swedish
word: sammanfattning
speciation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
physical-sciences
sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: Etymology tree
English speciate
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 -ion
English speciation
From speciate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: speciations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which new distinct species evolve.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In both groups, however, we find copious and intricate speciation so that, often, species limits are narrow and ill defined.
No one had ever seen a new species produced, nor, according to Darwin, should they expect to. Speciation was so drawn out as to be, for all intents and purposes unobservable.
gloss: The formation of different (inorganic) species (especially of ions) as the environment changes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The determination of which species are present in a fluid or tissue specimen, bacterial culture, or viral culture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: requirements specifying speciation and serotyping in addition to reporting of presence or absence
Antonyms: despeciation
Related words: specialization
allochronic
allopatric
parapatric
peripatric
sympatric
Derived words: cospeciation
hybrid speciation
microspeciation
pseudospeciation
speciational
speciation event
subspeciation
Translations: