yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
miff
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare German muffeln (“grouse, grumble”) and similar German words with similar meanings such as Muff, mupf, Muffel and Dutch moppen (“growl, grouse”). Probably related to mop (“grimace”).
Inflected forms:
form: miffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: miffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: miffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: miffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: miffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small argument; a quarrel.
pos: noun
examples: nay, she would throw it in the teeth of Allworthy himself, when a little quarrel, or miff, as it is vulgarly called, arose between them.
Well, to cut a long story short, by-long and by-late, John Wildway and I had a miff and parted; and lo and behold, the coming man came!
gloss: A state of being offended.
pos: noun
examples: She's taken a miff at something, I suppose, and means to cut my acquaintance.
gloss: To offend slightly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
usually
examples: he [our Interpreter Shabonah] will not agree to work let our Situation be what it may nor Stand a guard, and if miffed with any man he wishes to return when he pleases
1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet
[…] answered my Thetis, a little miffed perhaps -- to use the women's phrase — that I turned the conversation upon my former partner, rather than addressed it to herself.
1911, James Oliver Curwood, Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
"Don't get miffed about it, man," returned Nome with an irritating laugh.
gloss: To become slightly offended.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I amble on; yet, though I know not why, / So sad I am!—but should a friend and I / Grow cool and miff, O! I am very sad!
1905, George Barr McCutcheon, Jane Cable
She miffed and started to reply, but thought better of it.
Derived words: miffy
Translations:
currier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French corier, from Latin coriarius (“tanner, currier”).
Inflected forms:
form: curriers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A specialist in the leather processing industry, who dresses the leather by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
pos: noun
gloss: One who grooms a horse with a curry comb.
pos: noun
Translations:
gorsedd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Welsh gorsedd (“throne”), itself a compound of gor- (“super-, over-”) + sedd (“seat”).
Inflected forms:
form: gorsedds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gorseddau
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A community of bards, usually Welsh, but sometimes Breton or Cornish.
pos: noun
examples: Now a Gorsedd is a competition for Bardic honours.
Translations:
hayward
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hay + ward.
Compound parts: hay
ward
Inflected forms:
form: haywards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One whose occupation involved overseeing the sowing and harvesting of crops as well as protecting the crops from stray people or animals.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: […] it was held that this was not indictable, for till the horse got to the pound the hayward was merely acting as the servant of the owner of the land […]
The hayward at the same place had an acre of the lord's corn in autumn, always in a certain part of the field.
A horn, such as our man wears, was always worn by a hayward, who used to blow it to warn off people from straying in the crops.
Translations:
camelid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
form: camelids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a family of mammals including the camel, llama, alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña.
pos: noun
Translations:
mycosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greekder.
Ancient Greek μῠ́κης (mŭ́kēs)der.
English myc-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor.
New Latin -ōsislbor.
English -osis
English mycosis
From myc- + -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: mycoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An infection caused by a fungus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bachelorette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bachelor + -ette. Displaced maid.
Base: bachelor
Affixes: -ette
Inflected forms:
form: bachelorettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unmarried woman.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Coordinate term: spinster
gloss: A very small bachelor (single room) apartment.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Derived words: bachelorette pad
bachelorette party
Translations:
sculpin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier scorpene, from Latin scorpaena, from Ancient Greek σκόρπαινα (skórpaina, “kind of fish”), diminutive of σκορπίος (skorpíos). Compare scorpionfish.
Inflected forms:
form: sculpins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small fish of the family Cottidae, usually lacking scales. Often found on river bottoms and in tidal pools.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who makes mischief.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
Derived words: Atlantic hookear sculpin
coastrange sculpin
fourhorn sculpin
fourspine sculpin
hookeared sculpin
hook-eared sculpin
hookear sculpin
shorthorn sculpin
slimy sculpin
spoonhead sculpin
Translations:
fonda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish fonda, from Arabic فُنْدُق (funduq, “inn, hotel; manor”), from Ancient Greek πανδοκεῖον (pandokeîon), from πᾰν- (păn-, “all, every”) + the combining form of δέχεσθαι (dékhesthai, “to receive”) + -εῖον (-eîon, “-ium: forming building names”). Doublet of fonduk and fondaco.
Inflected forms:
form: fondas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inn or hotel in a Spanish-speaking country.
pos: noun
examples: Nothing was ever stolen in the Hotel Montana. In other fondas, yes. Not here.
Translations:
transdermal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
English derm
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 dermal
English transdermal
From trans- + dermal.
Inflected forms:
form: transdermals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Through the unbroken skin (as for example with measurements of blood glucose level with an optical glucometer using photometry or of oxygen saturation via pulse oximetry).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A transdermal patch or implant.
pos: noun
Translations:
humoral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English humerale, humorale, humoural, from Middle French humoral and Medieval Latin hūmorālis, from Latin hūmor. By surface analysis, humor + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: humoural
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the body fluids or humours.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Both the apocryphal belief in pre-transplant cross-match screening to discard active humoral immune response against the donor and the lack of sensible and reliable markers for detecting AMR give explanation to the surprising fact that AMR was nearly neglected in human renal transplantation during years.
Thus, the demonstration of the presence of: a thymic-lymphocytosis promoting factor in mice (Metcalf, 1958); a humoral lymphocyte stimulating factor in the serum of irradiated rats (Ito and Weinstein, 1963); a thymic lymphopoietic factor, "thymosin" (Goldstein et al., 1966); and a lymphocytosis inducing factor in the plasma of rats treated with antilymphocyte serum (Rakowitz et al., 1972) lend support to this hypothesis. Several other reports in the literature suggest the presence of humoral agents regulating leukocyte numbers.
The usual kind of excitation met with in the pancreas is purely humoral and there is no reason to assume that any form of nervous activity is involved in it.
gloss: Pertaining to humorism. (The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.)
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
examples: By predicating conception on differing humoral temperaments of men and women, medical theorists justified their own subjugation of women by cultivating a distinct female humorality responsible for behavior.
The planets are used as symbols in Culpeper's humoral philosophy, and the way he uses them had developed within hermetic philosophy.
It is now well recognized that Gelenic humoral theory underpinned early modern medical practices and the maintenance of health, an antique discourse used to describe interiority and emotion: medical practitioners understood "temperament" or psychological and physiological bodily syestems according to a subject's individual balance of four essential humors—yellow bile (or choler), black bile (or melancholy), phlegm, and blood.
Derived words: biohumoral
humoral immunity
humoralism
humoralist
humorality
immunohumoral
neurohumoral
nonhumoral
Translations:
cogitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Latinism, likely a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cogitatio, cogitationis, possibly influenced by or displacing an earlier doublet of cogitacion inherited from Middle English cogitacioun, from an Old French cogitaciun, from Vulgar Latin cōgitātiō, cōgitātiōnem; compare Middle French cogitatiun, French cogitation. All ultimately from verbal construction cōgitātus + -iō, from the perfect passive participle of Latin cōgitō (“to turn over in the mind; think, consider, ponder, meditate”), frequentative verb from con- (“together, with”) + agitō (“to put in constant motion, drive at something; devise, plot, contrive”), root from Proto-Italic *agō (“to drive, impel”) from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.
Base: cōgitātus
Affixes: -iō
Inflected forms:
form: cogitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of cogitating; contemplation, deliberation, reflection, meditation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A carefully considered thought, idea, notion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: Synonyms: see Thesaurus:consideration
Related words: cogitable
cogitate
cogitative
Translations:
playbill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From play + bill.
Compound parts: play
bill
Inflected forms:
form: playbills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A poster advertising a theatrical performance.
pos: noun
gloss: A program/programme/pamphlet for a theatrical performance.
pos: noun
Translations:
tracheostomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₂gʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰréh₂gʰ-us
Proto-Hellenic *tʰrākʰús
Ancient Greek τρᾱχεῖᾰ (trākheîă)bor.
Late Latin trāchīa
Medieval Latin trāchēader.
Middle English
English trachea
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English tracheo-
English -stomy
English tracheostomy
From tracheo- + -stomy.
Inflected forms:
form: tracheostomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tracheotomy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A surgical procedure in which an incision is made into the trachea, through the neck, and a tube inserted so as to make an artificial opening in order to assist breathing.
pos: noun
Translations:
andesite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Andes
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English andesite
From Andes + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: andesites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of fine-grained intermediate igneous rock, of volcanic origin, containing mostly plagioclase feldspar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
otolith
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From oto- + -lith, from Ancient Greek ὠτο- (ōto-), stem of οὖς (oûs, “ear”), and λίθος (líthos, “stone”).
Base: ot
Inflected forms:
form: otoliths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: otolite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small particle, composed mainly of calcium carbonate, found in the inner ear of vertebrates, being part of the balance sense.
pos: noun
Translations:
cambial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to commercial exchange.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Of or pertaining to a cambium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cambium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin cambium (“a change”), from Gaulish. Doublet of change.
Inflected forms:
form: cambiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cambia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: During winter we perceive no change in the cells of the cambium layer, which are filled with nutritive matter […].
gloss: Periosteum, a membrane that covers the outer surface of bones
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The radical or innate is daily supplied by nourishment, which some call cambium, and make those secondary humours of ros and gluten to maintain it […]
Derived words: cork cambium
pericambium
procambium
wound cambium
Translations:
in-game
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
gaming
Etymology: From in- + game.
Base: game
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: ingame
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Within the virtual world or player experience of a video game.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You can buy in-game currency with real life money.
The in-game chat feature really enhances the experience.
Shameless in-game purchases aimed at kids have been in the news recently.
Interactive in-game music is also present in another sandbox game, Minecraft, as the player can change what music they play on a jukebox. These in-game musical activities can also present as very small mini-games or components on larger quests […]
Translations:
cambric
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Cambrai, a French commune where it was manufactured.
Inflected forms:
form: cambrics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cambrick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cambricke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A finely woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?
Scotch cambric, now largely manufactured, is a kind of imitation cambric, made from fine hard-twisted cotton.
His upper tunic was of white cambric, as fine as a handkerchief, so that the bright red tunic beneath it showed through.
Translations:
camerawoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English camera
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English woman
Middle English -woman
English -woman
English camerawoman
From camera + -woman.
Inflected forms:
form: camerawomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman who operates any kind of camera.
pos: noun
examples: […] camerawoman Justine Evans and myself ^([sic]) went for just two weeks to film some aspects of their work and with luck a wolf or two.
Translations:
bytecode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Compound of byte + code.
Inflected forms:
form: bytecodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: byte code
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: P-code (various forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter as well as being suitable for further compilation into machine code).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
floodgate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English flodegate, flodgate, flodeyate, floodȝate, flodȝete, equivalent to flood + gate.
Compound parts: flood
gate
Inflected forms:
form: floodgates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.
pos: noun
examples: At the start of the Second World War floodgates would be installed at the ends of the under-Thames sections of the Bakerloo and Northern lines to save them from inundation should bombs damage the riverbed.
gloss: Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion, etc.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: “The floodgates for advertising on cable are down,” says Michael Dann, a leading consultant on cable television.
gloss: A stream that passes through a floodgate; a torrent.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Out of her gored wound the cruell ſteel / He lightly ſnatcht, and did the floodgate ſtop / VVith his faire garment: then gan ſoftly feel her feeble pulſe, to proue if any drop / Of liuing blood yet in her veynes did hop
The accuſation conſiſting of thoſe three articles, was moſt true: your doctrine was ſcādalous, it offred much offence, being generally diſtaſted; and was erroneous, being detected to be the floodgate of Traitors ſtaiers, looſing in ſome ſuppoſititious doctrines, and many blaſphemous arrogating much to man, derogating much from God.
Related words: sluice gate
water gate
watergate
Translations:
skewed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Twisted at an angle.
pos: adj
gloss: Biased, distorted
pos: adj
Derived words: nonskewed
skewedly
skewedness
unskewed
Translations:
sinfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sinful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sinfully
From sinful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sinfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sinfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sinful manner; wickedly.
pos: adv
examples: They sinfully committed adultery.
gloss: To an extent or degree that is sinful.
pos: adv
examples: a sinfully delicious dessert
Translations:
sinfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English synfulnes, synfulnesse, synnefulnysse, equivalent to sinful + -ness. Compare Old English synniġness (“sinfulness”).
Base: sinful
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: sinfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being sinful.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The result or product of being sinful.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
snugness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snug
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English snugness
From snug + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: snugnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being snug.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I met someone with whom there was instantly a perfect, almost lock and key snugness between our hearts and minds.
gloss: The result or product of being snug.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
Translations:
stiller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English stillan
English still
English -er
English stiller
From still + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stillers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who stills, or quiets.
pos: noun
Translations:
superabundant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English abundant
English superabundant
From super- + abundant.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Extremely or exceedingly abundant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: At one time were bison on the American plains not merely abundant but superabundant: they seemed inexhaustible.
Cornead. The ſpirit of foolery out of this Archibald Rupenrope he ſhall never be able to caſt, were the nectar of his eloquence a thouſand times more ſuperabundant, inceſſant ſourding.
gloss: Being or relating to a superabundant number.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: superabundantly
Translations:
superabundance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English abundance
English superabundance
From super- + abundance.
Inflected forms:
form: superabundances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extreme abundance; abundance to a vast degree that seems almost excessive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We have not merely an abundance, but a superabundance of enemies at this time; they will need to stand in line to disagree with us.
Perhaps very young girls, who do not know what to do with a superabundance of affection, run up a kind of romantic liking for each other; but it never lasts—one good-looking young man would break up all the female friendships that ever were formed.
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food; we do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey; we do not always bear in mind, that though food may be now superabundant, it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year.
My friends, do you realize the meaning of VITAL POWER? Have you ever experienced that superabundance of health which breeds an intense satisfaction with life and all living things?
Long silence not result of lack of interest. Lots of sickness, moving, superabundance of work, etc.
After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.
Translations:
superficiality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English superficial
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English superficiality
From superficial + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: superficialities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being superficial, the tendency to judge by surface appearance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Seeks companion with similar invisible handicap or circumstance which forced early awareness of mortality and is consequently very serious about life and has little time for superficiality.
Translations:
suppuration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: First use appears c. 1425. From Latin suppūrātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: suppurations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of suppurating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: by the Inflammation and Suppuration of the axillary, inguinal, and other Glands, or in beginning Gangrenes...
Related words: suppurative
suppuratory
Translations:
surrogacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English surrogate
English -cy
English surrogacy
From surrogate + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: surrogacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being a surrogate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: The practice of being a surrogate mother.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: gestació per substitució
lang: Dutch
word: draagmoederschap
lang: French
word: gestation pour autrui
lang: French
word: GPA
lang: German
word: Leihmutterschaft
lang: German
word: Tragemutterschaft
lang: German
word: Ersatzmutterschaft
lang: Hungarian
word: béranyaság
lang: Interlingua
word: maternitate subrogate
lang: Italian
word: maternità surrogata
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: surrogati
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: surrogati
lang: Polish
word: surogacja
lang: Spanish
word: gestación subrogada
lang: Spanish
word: maternidad subrogada
lang: Spanish
word: gestación por sustitución
lang: Spanish
word: vientre de alquiler
lang: Swedish
word: surrogatmödraskap
lang: Swedish
word: värdmödraskap
lang: Thai
word: การอุ้มบุญ
roman: gaan-ûm-bun
lang: Thai
word: การตั้งครรภ์แทน
lang: Finnish
word: sijaissynnytys
lang: French
word: subrogation
lang: Interlingua
word: subrogation
lang: Italian
word: surrogazione
lang: Italian
word: surroga
lang: Italian
word: surrogamento
lang: Latin
word: subrogatio
lang: Polish
word: surogacja
lang: Spanish
word: subrogación
suspenseful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From suspense + -ful.
Base: suspense
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more suspenseful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most suspenseful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inducing suspense.
pos: adj
examples: The television movie was so suspenseful that I leaped in the air and screamed when the doorbell rang.
Translations:
supercity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English city
English supercity
From super- + city.
Inflected forms:
form: supercities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extremely large city, metropolis or urban area.
pos: noun
gloss: The merged urban area of several close cities.
pos: noun
Synonyms: megalopolis
megacity
Translations:
supernaturally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English supernaturaly; equivalent to supernatural + -ly.
Base: supernatural
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more supernaturally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most supernaturally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a supernatural manner.
pos: adv
examples: You are supernaturally kind . . kindestest, bestestest . . . and, so, dearestest by the merest justice; only, to think of your hastening home, as if you were under an obligation to write to me in the face of the seven worlds, . . that is too much, and shall not be again — now see that it shall not.
Translations:
superlatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English superlative
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 superlatively
From superlative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more superlatively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most superlatively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a superlative manner; in the greatest possible way.
pos: adv
examples: We may form judgments of Italy widely different, according to circumstances. Sometimes the evil that has been said of it accords with what we see, and at others it appears superlatively unjust.
Translations:
subluxation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From French subluxation, from New Latin subluxatio, from subluxare (“to subluxate, to partially displace”) + -atio (“-ation: forming abstract nouns”), from sub- (“sub-: under, below, lesser”) + luxare (“to dislocate; to displace”) after the model of Ancient Greek παράρθρημα (parárthrēma). Equivalent to sub- + luxation.
Base: luxation
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: subluxations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A partial dislocation of a joint, in which the articulating surfaces remain in partial contact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The patient experienced subluxations of his right ulna, his lower right rear molar, and the lens of his left eye.
Lateral subluxation of the atlantoaxial joints has also been observed in rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Many diseases and trauma are associated with lens subluxation. Clinical Features. All degrees of subluxation may be seen. Classically, iridodonesis is seen on slit lamp examination with eye movement. Phakodonesis may also be observed.
Subluxation of a tooth may cause bleeding and mobility of the tooth as a result of injury to the periodontal fibers. Displacement of the tooth is not usually apparent. Approximately 15 % to 20 % of reported trauma cases exhibit [it].
Antonyms: luxation
alignment
Translations:
misadventure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English misaventure, from Old French mesaventure, equivalent to mis- + adventure.
Base: adventure
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
form: misadventures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An accidental mishap or misfortune.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.
There were, however, 34 deaths among passengers in movement accidents, due mainly to misadventure and carelessness when entering and leaving trains in motion, falling off platforms and out of carriages, and opening and closing carriage doors.
Stoke City have defended their safety record on Thursday after a coroner recorded a verdict of misadventure on a supporter who died after being struck by a rubbish bin.
Translations:
campground
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From camp + ground.
Compound parts: camp
ground
Inflected forms:
form: campgrounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An area where tents are pitched.
pos: noun
examples: At 4.7 miles, on the left, is the campground and park headquarters for Samuel P. Taylor State Park
gloss: An area where a camp meeting (a retreat) is held.
pos: noun
examples: Camp Hamilton is the Methodist campground, a few miles from Salem, where the Methodists were holding services.
Synonyms: camping ground
Translations:
industrialist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English industrial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English industrialist
From industrial + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: industrialists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise.
pos: noun
examples: Brian Donlevy is a wealthy industrialist who survives an attempted murder when his wife's boyfriend is killed in a car crash.
gloss: One who performs or enjoys industrial music.
pos: noun
examples: Like a lot of second-wave industrialists, Skinny Puppy's attraction to rhythm wasn't consciously political, but based in the pleasure of making and moving to a beat; Key was, after all, a drummer.
Related words: industrialism
capitalist
C-suite
executive
Translations:
monolingualism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mender.
Proto-Hellenic *mónwos
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
Latin linguālislbor.
English lingual
English monolingual
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 monolingualism
From monolingual + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: monolingualisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being monolingual; the ability to speak only a single language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
multilingualism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
Latin linguālislbor.
English lingual
English multilingual
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 multilingualism
From multilingual + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: multilingualisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being multilingual; the ability to speak multiple languages.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: This is, perhaps, where writing centers and composition studies are implicated most obviously into the conversation of language ideology, translingualism, and multilingualism.
Spielberg showed us, a nation historically obsessed with the idea of domination, that respect is a courageous choice and that multilingualism is our true color. It is who we are.
Translations:
bilingualism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bilingual
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 bilingualism
From bilingual + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: bilingualisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being bilingual; the ability to speak two languages.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At Kingsbridge, the bilingualism of the Irish Republic was evident in the tickets, the station notices, and the neat destination boards on the 10.40 a.m. express to Cork.
Translations:
gratin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French gratter
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
French -in
French gratinbor.
English gratin
Borrowed from French gratin.
Inflected forms:
form: gratins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The top crust of a dish, consisting of breadcrumbs or grated cheese heated under a grill; the dish itself.
pos: noun
Translations:
canalisation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English canal
English -ise
English canalise
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 canalisation
From canalise + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: canalisations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: canalization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The whole of the soil of the isthmus is admirably adapted for the labours of canalisation.
gloss: The management of something using defined channels of communication.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The ability of a genotype to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: decanalisation
recanalisation
Translations:
stickpin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stick + pin.
Compound parts: stick
pin
Inflected forms:
form: stickpins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ornamented pin used to secure a necktie's end flat against the shirt, a tie tack.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: His stickpin was gone and so was his watch-chain.
The green stone in his stickpin was not quite as large as an apple.
Translations:
suffixation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English suffix
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 suffixation
From suffix + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: suffixations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of adding a suffix to a word.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Assimilation as a result of suffixation
Translations:
subtopic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English topic
English subtopic
From sub- + topic.
Inflected forms:
form: subtopics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subject that forms part of a topic.
pos: noun
examples: The meeting dragged on interminably as topics were divided into subtopics.
Translations:
candidness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English candid
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English candidness
From candid + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being candid.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This is an important factor in establishing trust and may affect the adolescent's candidness and anxiety level during the session.
Translations:
candler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English candelere, equivalent to candle (noun) + -er.
Base: candle
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: candlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes candles; a chandler.
pos: noun
examples: A maker of candles is very properly called a candler; however, (as observed before) ch is seldom pronounced in this parish.
Translations:
can-do
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From can + do.
Compound parts: can
do
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Confident and willing to get a job done.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: It is important to approach each day with a smile on your face and a can-do attitude.
Network Rail's Kent Route Director Fiona Taylor said: "The only reason we were able to get this crucial work completed is because of the effort, commitment and can-do attitude from everyone in our supply chain, our TOC partners Southeastern, freight companies, and within Network Rail.
Translations:
canebrake
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cane + brake.
Compound parts: cane
brake
Inflected forms:
form: canebrakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: canebreak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A dense thicket of sugarcane, bamboo or similar plants.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: While roving carelessly from canebrake to canebrake, and admiring the rank growth of vegetation, and the variety of timber which marked the fertility of the soil...
Translations:
initialed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: initialled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having initials.
pos: adj
Translations:
initialing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: initialings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: initialling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of adding one's initials to a document rather than signing
pos: noun
Translations:
shellacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shellac + -ing. Shellac is used in floor polish; compare polishing, as in "the other boxer in the match polished the floor with me; I took quite a polishing".
Base: shellac
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: shellackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of coating with shellac.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A heavy defeat, drubbing, or beating; used particularly in sports and political contexts.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: The News baseball team defeated the Press-Guardian outfit, 8 to 4, in a recent game, which squares accounts for the shellacking the News received a year ago.
Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me!"
Our baseball team got off to an indifferent start at the beginning of the season, but […] "Steve" Newman gave Gonzalo another shellacking that he won't forget for some time.
Unity and democracy are still taking a shellacking here on the home front, despite our successes in the Marshall Islands and in Italy.
After many months of watching its public image take a shellacking as a result of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, Congress finally started to move on lobby reform.
[C]learly Obama hopes that just as Clinton recovered from his party's midterm shellacking in 1994 to win re-election two years later, so can he.
Bochy was speaking for the masses, who watched a supposed duel of Cy Young award winners evolve into a full-fledged shellacking.
Now, I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like I took last night.
Translations:
incrementalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incremental
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 incrementalism
From incremental + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: incrementalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any method of achieving a goal by means of a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We don’t want to scare away our members or provoke a fight with the government. So the only realistic approach is incrementalism. We will campaign, issue by issue, sector by sector, for gradual improvements. […] The problem was never that system change is too big an ask or takes too long. The problem is that incrementalism is too small an ask.
And after a summer of extreme heat and wild weather, she evidently worries that incrementalism will not be enough to address a climate crisis that is crying out for revolution.
Translations:
pilus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pile.
Inflected forms:
form: pili
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hair.
pos: noun
gloss: A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.
pos: noun
gloss: A bacterial protein that has several biochemical functions.
pos: noun
Related words: flagellum
Derived words: pilin
pseudopilus
Translations:
rondeau
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
cooking
food
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: From Middle French rondeau, from Old French rondel. Doublet of rondo.
Inflected forms:
form: rondeaux
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rondeaus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.
pos: noun
examples: Though we have the English rondels of Occleve and a set of rondeaus in the Rolliad (written by Dr. Lawrence, the friend of Burke, according to Mr. Edmund Gosse, who has given us an admirable essay upon exotic forms of verse), […].
First of all, the two rondeaux appear in the 1538 version of the previously published Adoleseenee Clementine at the end of the section of poems of the same genre.
gloss: A monophonic song with a two-part refrain.
pos: noun
examples: Still should not reference perchance be made to the rondeaus [which?] C. P. E. Bach presented in his last sonata collection?
The rondeaus show great variety. There are two very short, apparently primitive rondeaus a 3.
[…] for example, we might be tempted to think that his rondeaux also explore atypical compositional procedures.
gloss: Synonym of rondeau pan; a shallow pot or pan that can be used for braising.
pos: noun
Translations:
paulownia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin paulownia, from German Pawlowna, transliterating Russian Па́вловна (Pávlovna), the patronymic of Anna Pavlovna.
Inflected forms:
form: paulownias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia.
pos: noun
examples: “This is a nice dry piece of paulownia wood,” she said, “for drawing my eyebrows.”
Translations:
tizzy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. American, 1935. Possibly related to tizzy (“sixpence coin”, slang), from tester (“sixpence coin”, slang). Compare also dizzy.
Inflected forms:
form: tizzies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tissy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A state of nervous excitement, confusion, or distress; a dither.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: to be in a tizzy
That Todd Evergreen. The reclusive, twenty-two-year-old, overnight billionaire whose very existence has put us all in a tizzy.
The Chatbots Are Here, and the Internet Industry Is in a Tizzy [title]
gloss: A sixpence; a tester.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
slang
examples: Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.
Tadpole holds out, but between threats and cajoleries at length sells half for one shilling and sixpence — about a fifth of its fair market value; however, he is glad to realize anything, and, as he wisely remarks, "Wanderer mayn't win, and the tizzy is safe anyhow."
Synonyms: dither
Related words: in a dither
Derived words: in a tizzy
Translations:
canoeist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English canoe
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English canoeist
From canoe + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: canoeists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who travels by canoe.
pos: noun
examples: Though Hambleden's parish register records the death, in 1753, of a bargeman 'Kill'd by accident, shooting ye lock', the turbulent waters of Mill End weir on the River Thames, about a mile from the village, still attract canoeists.
Those people who have a meaningful relation to that body of water — whether it be a fisherman, a canoeist, a zoologist, or a logger — must be able to speak for the values which the river represents . . .
Translations:
canola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Canola.
Inflected forms:
form: canolas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a number of cultivars of rapeseed (Brassica napus) and closely related field mustard (Brassica rapa), which have a lower erucic acid and glucosinolate content than traditional rapeseed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The approach taken in this study was to compare the risk management costs of wheat to that of two non-cwb-marketed Canadian grains: flax and canola.
The carbohydrate component of canola meal accounts for about one third of the meal . . .
For a salad dressing use olive or canola oil with lemon or vinegar and herb seasonings
Translations: