yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
compensator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English compensate
English -or
English compensator
From compensate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: compensators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A party or thing which compensates, pays or otherwise provides a compensation
pos: noun
tags: literally
gloss: Any device used to compensate for something, notably to achieve a better balance.
pos: noun
examples: Anything that reverses the direction of movement in a length of point rodding will act as a compensator over an equal length on each side of it; […].
gloss: A building control device used to deliver the compensation relationship or curve between the air temperature outside a building and the temperature of water or air provided to spaces or zones within the building for purposes of heating or cooling.
pos: noun
examples: Compensators ensure less heat is provided to a room on a warmer day. They may be implemented mechanically, electronically or in software.
gloss: One of several small magnets placed in the binnacle to neutralize the effect of the ship's metal on the compass
pos: noun
Related words: compensable
compensative
compensatory
compensational
Derived words: muzzle compensator
Translations:
sequencer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sequence
English -er
English sequencer
From sequence + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sequencers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any device that activates or deactivates the components of a machine or system according to a preplanned sequence (as in a washing machine, or central heating system).
pos: noun
gloss: A device or system that orders and/or modifies digitally stored music and sound for playback.
pos: noun
examples: a MIDI sequencer
gloss: A device for determining the sequence of monomers in a polymer, especially amino acids in protein, or bases in DNA; A sequenator.
pos: noun
gloss: A control device to increase/decrease the capacity of plant that is enabled to act in a specific order or sequence.
pos: noun
Derived words: autosequencer
boiler sequencer
microsequencer
pump rotation sequencer
but periodically changes the sequence to ensure even maintenance
pyrosequencer
state sequencer
Translations:
falciform
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin falx
Latin -i-bor.
English -i-
Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?
Latin fōrma
Latin -fōrmisder.
English -form
English -iform
English falciform
From Latin falx (“sickle”, stem falc-) + English -iform (“-shaped”).
Inflected forms:
form: more falciform
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most falciform
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sickle-shaped.
pos: adj
examples: What announced the accomplishment of this rise in temperature?
A double falciform ejection of water vapour from under the kettlelid at both sides simultaneously.
David realized he’d been unconsciously pushing his nails into his palms, leaving little red falciform marks.
Translations:
truncate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
geometry
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin truncātus, perfect passive participle of truncō (“maim, reduce to a trunk”); see trunk as a verb.
Inflected forms:
form: truncates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: truncating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: truncated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: truncated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more truncate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most truncate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The script was truncated to leave time for commercials.
All these great plans were in vain, however, for in the cold dawn following the "Mania" years of 1845-46 the M.B.M. & M.J.R. project was truncated to an 11½-mile line from Ambergate to Rowsley.
gloss: To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
pos: verb
gloss: Truncated.
pos: adj
gloss: Having an abrupt termination.
pos: adj
Synonyms: round down
Related words: trunk
truncation
dual polyhedron
Derived words: retruncate
subtruncate
truncatedly
truncately
truncateness
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: بَتَرَ
roman: batara
lang: Arabic
word: شَذَّبَ
roman: šaḏḏaba
lang: Arabic
word: قَطَعَ
roman: qaṭaʕa
lang: Arabic
word: قَلَّمَ
roman: qallama
lang: Bulgarian
word: орязвам
roman: orjazvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: отрязвам върха на
roman: otrjazvam vǎrha na
lang: Catalan
word: truncar
lang: Czech
word: zkrátit
lang: Czech
word: seříznout
lang: Dutch
word: afhakken
lang: Dutch
word: afkappen
lang: Dutch
word: inkorten
lang: Finnish
word: lyhentää
lang: Finnish
word: typistää
lang: Finnish
word: katkaista
lang: French
word: tronquer
lang: German
word: kürzen
lang: German
word: abschneiden
lang: Greek
word: κονταίνω
roman: kontaíno
lang: Hungarian
word: lenyes
lang: Hungarian
word: csonkol
lang: Italian
word: troncare
lang: Latin
word: truncō
lang: Māori
word: mutumutu
lang: Māori
word: auporo
lang: Neapolitan
word: scurtà
lang: Piedmontese
word: strompé
lang: Portuguese
word: truncar
lang: Russian
word: усека́ть
roman: usekátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: truncar
lang: Vietnamese
word: cắt xén
felly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fely, felow, felowe, felwe, felȝe, from Old English felg, from Proto-Germanic *felgō (compare Saterland Frisian feelge, Dutch velg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥ǵʰ- (compare Polish płoza (“sliding iron”), Old Church Slavonic пльзати (plĭzati, “to creep, crawl”)).
Inflected forms:
form: fellies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: felloe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fellick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: felk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the several curved segments that constitute the rim.
pos: noun
examples: all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele […]
The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.
Translations:
ferial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English ferial, from Medieval Latin fēriālis, from Latin fēria (“weekday”) (whence the first sense), fēriae (“holidays”) (whence the second).
Inflected forms:
form: ferials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Jovial, festive, as if pertaining to a holiday.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [They] / Dance within the magic shade / That makes them drunken, merry, and strong / To laugh and sing their ferial song : / ‘Free, free . . . !’
In ferial tone he addressed J. J. O’Molloy: — Taylor had come there, you must know, from a sick bed.
gloss: A feria.
pos: noun
Translations:
fideism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From French fidéisme, from Latin fidēs + -isme. By surface analysis, Latin fide- + -ism.
Affixes: -isme
Inflected forms:
form: fideisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The doctrine that faith is the basis of all knowledge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We were warned at Cambridge, your grace, of the dangers of what is termed fideism.
Translations:
finical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: University slang, probably from fine.
Inflected forms:
form: more finical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most finical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.
pos: adj
examples: Charming, he said in a finical sweet voice, showing his white teeth and blinking his eyes pleasantly.
Jefferson grew up familiar with the instruments and immense, finical labour of map-making from scratch.
Translations:
flinders
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; see flinder.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: fragments, splinters
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The heat brought sweat and the sweat blinded. Black flinders gyrated in the fiery air like bats.
Translations:
foramen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture or opening produced by boring”), from forō (“to pierce or bore”) + -men (nominal suffix).
Base: forō
Affixes: -men
Inflected forms:
form: foramina
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foramens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.
pos: noun
examples: The skull contains a number of foramina through which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit.
There is — as I have explained — a slight want of alignment in the cervical vertebrae which has, as I perceive it, the effect of lessening the foramina through which the nerve roots emerge.
Translations:
freshet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French freschete, a diminutive of fres (“fresh”) via its feminine form fresche.
Inflected forms:
form: freshets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw.
pos: noun
examples: Log after log is hauled to the bank of the river, and in a short time their first raft is made on the shore and loaded with cordwood. When the next freshet sets it afloat, it is secured by long grapevines or cables until, the proper time being arrived, the husband and sons embark on it and float down the mighty stream.
“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …”
gloss: A small stream, especially one flowing into the sea.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: “His arrival upon any scene was never in the smallest degree uproarious, and still less was it in the least mild or serene; yet he came into a settled circle like a freshet of tumbling water into a still pool!”
Between the curbs and the snow banks a freshet of clear blue water rises. Within me a freshet that chokes the narrow gorge of my veins.
We may find a dozen big catfish lying in the belly of the net, or a couple of walleyed pike, or some other kind of fresh-water fish. A freshet brought them down, and they were making their way back up the river, and they hit the net.
Translations:
futter
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined by Richard Francis Burton from French foutre, from Latin futuo, futuere.
Inflected forms:
form: futters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: futtering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: futtered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: futtered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: (obsolete) To fuck.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Sir John Fastolf called out cheerfully over Miranda’s shoulder to his departing guests, remarking on the sweetness of the night air now that the storm of yesterday night had cleared it, and the day’s rain momentarily had ceased. And all the while he futtered Miranda’s anal canal from behind, and frigged her clitoris.
When Doge is not feeding or futtering, depend on it, he is hunting.
And they began disputing about futtering her.
Translations:
gaw
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Minced oath for God.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An expletive expressing disbelief, disdain, or horror
pos: intj
examples: "Gaw!" he whispered, "I don' like dead bodies some'ow! I'd almost rather that chap was alive."
Translations:
gematria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Aramaic [Term?], from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría, “geometry”). Doublet of geometry.
Inflected forms:
form: gematrias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gematriot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gematrioth
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cabalistic method of interpreting Hebrew words, based on numerical values of letters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Suppose a secret force of Jesuits, receives each Day a summary of Observations made at Greenwich, and transcalculates it according to a system known to the Kabbalists of the Second Century as Gematria, whereby Messages may be extracted from lines of Text sacred and otherwise, a Knowledge preserv’d by various Custodians over the centuries, and since the Last, possess’d by Jesuit and Freemason alike.
each letter in this alphabet also has its own numerical value, what was known among ancient Jewish students of the Torah as ‘gematria’.
Translations:
psittacosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin psittacus (“parrot”) + -osis. By surface analysis, psittac- + -osis.
Affixes: -osis
Inflected forms:
form: psittacoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An infection by Chlamydia bacteria, caught from infected birds, and characterised by fever, pneumonia and headaches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
witter
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: witters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wittering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wittered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wittered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To speak at length on a trivial subject.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.
When people witter on about pollution nowadays, I think of the days when going to school in broad daylight, I couldn't see my feet in the London smog. I had to feel the kerb with my front bike wheel.
Translations:
atwitter
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
English twitter
English atwitter
From a- + twitter.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: twittering
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
gloss: nervously excited
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
examples: I had lumbered into the kitchen, taste buds a-twitter with expectation, planning to make my “breakfast of champions” […].
Related words: twitter
Translations:
Jing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 京 (jīng), as in 京族 (Jīngzú).
Inflected forms:
form: Jings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Gin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic Vietnamese, in reference to those whose lands are in China.
pos: noun
Translations:
Gesellschaft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gesellschaft, from Geselle + -schaft. Compare to English gemeinschaft.
Base: Geselle
Affixes: -schaft
Inflected forms:
form: Gesellschaften
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Gesellschafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gesellschaft
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hypothetical mode of society, made up of self-serving individuals linked by impersonal ties; as opposed to Gemeinschaft.
pos: noun
examples: Seven years later, Hernández wrote a Return of Martín Fierro in which the Gaucho sells out: assimilates back into Christian society, gives up his freedom for the kind of constitutional Gesellschaft being pushed in those days by Buenos Aires.
Translations:
ghazal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic غَزَل (ḡazal)bor.
English ghazal
Borrowed from Arabic غَزَل (ḡazal, “to display love to the loved one via speech, to exchange talk of love with the loved one”).
Inflected forms:
form: ghazals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gazel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ghasal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ghasel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ghazel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
pos: noun
examples: Indeed, this is a realm where colors harmoniously recite magnificent ghazals to each other, where time stops, where the Devil never appears.
A poet could explain him to himself but he was a soldier and had no place to go for ghazals or odes.
Translations:
ghazi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic غَازٍ (ḡāzī, “raider, holy warrior”), from the active participle of غَزَا (ḡazā, “to raid”).
Inflected forms:
form: ghazis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ghazies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Muslim warrior who fights in war against non-Muslims, especially one who has won renown as a martial champion; often used as a title.
pos: noun
examples: I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.
Then suddenly, an hour before first light, wave after wave of screaming tribesmen, led by suicide-bent Muslim fanatics known as ghazis, began to hurl themselves against the British positions.
On a particularly joyous day of the festivities, below Our Sultan’s loge overlooking the Hippodrome, a division of impoverished frontier ghazis appeared in tattered clothes.
The 14th century also witnessed Ottoman campaigns against fellow Turks and Muslims[…]In accordance with their portrayal of the early Ottomans as ghazi-warriors, 15th-century Ottoman chroniclers often ignored these conflicts (along with the Ottomans' alliances with Christians), claiming that the Ottomans acquired the territories of the neighboring Turkic principalities through peaceful means (purchase and/or marriage).
Translations:
goitre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French, either from Old French goitron (“throat, neck, goitre”), itself from Vulgar Latin *gutturiō, *gutturiōnem (“throat, goitre-like protrusions”), from Latin guttur, or a back-formation from French goitreux (“goitered”).
Inflected forms:
form: goitres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goiter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Translations:
inositol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁sder.
Proto-Hellenic *wīs
Ancient Greek *ϝῑ́ς (*wī́s)
Ancient Greek ῑ̓νός (īnós)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English inosite
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Medieval Latin alcoholder.
Middle English alcofol
English alcohol
English -ol
English inositol
From its former name inosite + -ol (“an alcohol”), from Ancient Greek ἰνός (inós, genitive singular of ἴς (ís, “sinew, tendon”)) + -ite.
Base: inosite
Affixes: -ol
Inflected forms:
form: inositols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A simple carbocyclic sugar (hexahydroxycyclohexane; chemical formula: C₆H₁₂O₆) which occurs in animal and plant tissue. Once treated as part of the vitamin B complex, but is not a vitamin as it can be synthesized by the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
grig
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The word is often used in the phrase "merry as a grig". The word is of uncertain origin, though various theories have been suggested, such as a corruption of "merry as a cricket" or "merry as a Greek", as in William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Then she's a merry Greek indeed." Johnson suggested that the word originally meant "anything below the natural size" (compare Swedish krik and Scots crick).
Inflected forms:
form: grigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grigs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grigging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grigged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grigged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dwarf.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A cricket or grasshopper.
pos: noun
examples: The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig.
gloss: A small or young eel.
pos: noun
examples: [W]e assembled at one o'clock, at two sat down to dinner, consisting of capital stewed grigs, a dish Mrs Burt was famous for dressing, a large joint of roast or boiled meat, with proper vegetables and a good-sized pudding or pie […] .
gloss: Specifically, the broad-nosed eel. See glut.
pos: noun
gloss: To irritate or annoy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: lively as a grig
merry as a grig
Translations:
guiche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French guiche (“a strap; a kiss-curl”).
Inflected forms:
form: guiches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: geish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gooch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Perineum.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: “I'm getting my guiche pierced,” she'd say. “lt's that little ridge of skin running between your asshole and the bottom of your vagina.”
Al buries his face under those balls and starts tongue lapping at Henry's guiche while Henry's cock slides over Al's face, leaving a trail of dick snot along his furry cheek.
I removed the nylon bikinis and spread my legs so she could admire my guiche.
gloss: A kiss-curl.
pos: noun
examples: At this distance, some 20 meters, she is only a dim figure in a black bombazine frock that reaches to her knees, her bare legs long and straight, a short hood of bright blonde hair keeping her face in shadow, coming up in guiches to touch her cheeks.
Translations:
toothed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts
Proto-Germanic *tanþs
Proto-West Germanic *tanþ
Old English tōþ
Middle English toth
English tooth
English -ed
English toothed
From tooth + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having teeth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The sperm whale is a toothed whale.
gloss: Having projections resembling an animal's teeth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A cog is a toothed wheel.
gloss: Having teeth of the specified type.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: A sharp-toothed rat.
A fine-toothed comb.
Synonyms: dentate
dentilated
serrate
Derived words: Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse
buck-toothed
bucktoothed
fine-toothed
fine-toothed comb
gap-toothed
gate-toothed
gobber-toothed
large-toothed aspen
loose-toothed
megatoothed
multitoothed
nontoothed
red-toothed
red-toothed shrew
rough-toothed dolphin
saber-toothed
sabre-toothed
saw-toothed
scimitar-toothed
sharp-toothed
small-toothed palm civet
snaggletoothed
snaggle-toothed
spade-toothed whale
sweet-toothed
toothed jelly fungus
toothed jelly mushroom
toothedly
toothedness
toothed whale
untoothed
yellow-toothed cavy
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: зъбчат
roman: zǎbčat
lang: Bulgarian
word: назъбен
roman: nazǎben
lang: Catalan
word: dentat
lang: Finnish
word: hammastettu
lang: Finnish
word: -hammasteinen
lang: French
word: denté
lang: German
word: gezahnt
lang: Hawaiian
word: nihoniho
lang: Hawaiian
word: nihoa
lang: Romanian
word: dințat
lang: Southern Altai
word: тиштӱ
roman: tištü
lang: Spanish
word: dentado
lang: Spanish
word: dentellado
hackamore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from Spanish jáquima (“halter”).
Inflected forms:
form: hackamores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of bridle with no bit.
pos: noun
examples: Before they could agree or disagree he’d hauled the horse around by the hackamore and was pounding off up the track.
Translations:
hafiz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Persian, from Arabic حَافِظ (ḥāfiẓ), present participle of حَفِظَ (ḥafiẓa, “to guard, know by heart”).
Inflected forms:
form: hafizes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: huffaz
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hafis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Muslim who has memorized the whole Qur'an.
pos: noun
examples: He was a hafiz, one who knows the Qur’an by heart, and he sang it in a slow, simple chant.
Translations:
harl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Cognate with Middle Low German herle, Low German harle, Saterland Frisian harrel (“hemp fibre”).
Inflected forms:
form: harls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: harls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: harling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: harled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: harled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather.
pos: noun
examples: She pushed her fingers under the cream lace, into the ginger harl of spun glass.
gloss: A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, used in dressing artificial flies.
pos: noun
examples: Should it be desired, however, to run the hackle all over the body, it may be tied on along with the peacock's harls.
gloss: To surface a building using a slurry of pebbles or stone chips which is then cured using a lime render.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The east side facade is of rubble, studded with small windows and mannered details, while the harled rear (south) wall forms, as completed, a towering, roughly symmetrical grouping.
Translations:
seiner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English seine
English -er
English seiner
From seine + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: seiners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fisherman who uses a seine to catch fish.
pos: noun
gloss: A fishing vessel used for seining.
pos: noun
Derived words: superseiner
Translations:
natation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)néh₂ti
Proto-Italic *(s)nāō
Latin nō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin -tō
Latin natō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin natātiōbor.
English natation
Borrowed from Latin natātiō.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of swimming
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sandstorm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sand + storm.
Compound parts: sand
storm
Inflected forms:
form: sandstorms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sand storm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: duststorm, duster (broadly synonymous), haboob
There are few sights more appalling than a sandstorm in the desert, the "Zauba'ah" as the Arabs call it.
Translations:
fishmonger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English fisshemonger; equivalent to fish + monger.
Compound parts: fish
monger
Inflected forms:
form: fishmongers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who sells fish.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: If he made transcendental distinctions, he fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies; from pitchers and soup-ladles; from cooks and criers; the shops of potters, horse-doctors, butchers, and fishmongers.
gloss: A shop that sells fish; a fishmonger's shop, a fishmonger's.
pos: noun
tags: UK
rare
examples: And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon, […]
A nice woman at the fishmonger in Earl’s Court Road—she had to walk miles to find a fish shop—told her how to cook the fillets of plaice she bought.
Cornish peppered mackerel, smoked haddock, Scottish herring and pearl-white skate wings are all laid on a bed of crushed ice at the fishmonger.
gloss: A pimp.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
figuratively
examples: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.
Translations:
hadal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French hadal, from Hadès + -al. By surface analysis, had- + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the deepest parts of the ocean.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
assimilation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: assimilations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: --France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes.
His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.
gloss: The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.
gloss: The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.
gloss: The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.
Assimilation was one of the words they used for Indians becoming white in order to survive, in order that they might not be killed for being Indians.
I do not use those terms to describe the purpose or the effects of particular federal Indian law doctrines in promoting the assimilation of Indians and Indian tribes into non-Indian culture or the general American polity.
Antonyms: dissimilation
Related words: acculturation
liaison
mutation
rendaku
sandhi
Derived words: regressive assimilation
anticipatory assimilation
progressive assimilation
perseverative assimilation
antiassimilation
assimilational
assimilationism
assimilationist
benevolent assimilation
bioassimilation
disassimilation
language assimilation
left-to-right assimilation
malassimilation
nonassimilation
obliterative assimilation
photoassimilation
reassimilation
right-to-left assimilation
Yorkshire assimilation
Translations:
resultant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin resultāns, present participle of resultō.
Inflected forms:
form: resultants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Following as a result or consequence of something; resulting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Anything that results from something else; an outcome.
pos: noun
examples: 2022, Charles Howard Hinton, The Fourth Dimension
And our logic is simply spatiality in the general sense — that resultant of a selection of the permanent from the unpermanent, the ordered from the unordered, by the means of the group and its underlying duality.
gloss: A vector that is the vector sum of multiple vectors.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonresultant
resultantly
subresultant
unresultant
Translations:
subliminally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English subliminal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English subliminally
From subliminal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more subliminally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most subliminally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a subliminal manner.
pos: adv
examples: Could it be from messages on my TV which I'm getting subliminally?
Translations:
chipped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Inflected forms:
form: more chipped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chipped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having one or more chips (small pieces) missing.
pos: adj
examples: a chipped plate
gloss: Having had a microchip fitted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a chipped pet cat
gloss: Having had the engine management system upgraded, usually to increase power.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: chipped chopped ham
chipped ham
chipped rice
nonchipped
prechipped
unchipped
Translations:
post-production
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Latin dūcō
Latin prōdūcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin prōductiōder.
Old French productionbor.
Middle English produccioun
English production
English post-production
From post- + production.
Inflected forms:
form: post-productions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: postproduction
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The stages of film (or audio) production happening between the actual filming (or recording) and the completed product.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
vaunted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vaunt
English -ed
English vaunted
From vaunt + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more vaunted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vaunted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Highly or widely praised or boasted about.
pos: adj
examples: We know that many male City employees still go to lapdancing clubs for a fun night out. We know City organisations have struggled in their vaunted attempts to get more women on boards.
We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.
AmEx also recently relaunched its vaunted Platinum card, offering more travel and shopping benefits for average consumers.
And for the past 36 years, his initials have been stamped onto every brake disc or chassis he’s assembled – part of the company’s vaunted accountability practice.
Translations:
helve
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English hielfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiją. Probably cognate to English half, although Etymonline claims relation from halter and helm.
Inflected forms:
form: helves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: helves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: helving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: helved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: helved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
pos: noun
examples: It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain […]
Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.
gloss: A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
pos: noun
gloss: To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
hilding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Likely a contraction of earlier hilderling, itself an alteration of hinderling.
Inflected forms:
form: hildings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wretch, a contemptible person.
pos: noun
examples: ‘God, eh? Which god? You whore, you loathsome hilding.’
Translations:
horst
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From German Horst (“heap”). Doublet of hurst.
Inflected forms:
form: horsts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.
pos: noun
examples: The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts.
1963, F. Geukens, S. D. Bowers (translator), Geology of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-B, page B19,
Innumerable faults, in fact, cut through the country, many bounding secondary grabens and horsts.
Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.
Horsts and grabens are rock structural features that are identified by the nature of the offset of rock units along normal faults; topographically, horsts form mountain ranges and grabens form basins.
Antonyms: graben
Translations:
hoyden
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden).
Inflected forms:
form: more hoyden
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hoyden
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hoiden
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hoydens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hoydening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hoydened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hoydened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hoiden
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish.
pos: adj
examples: Many of the country girls I met appeared to me pretty – that is, to have fine complexions, sparkling eyes, and a kind of arch, hoyden playfulness which distinguishes the village coquette.
At these primitive tea parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting – no gambling of old ladies, nor hoyden chattering and romping of young ones […]
gloss: To behave in a hoydenish manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
hydroponic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
Etymology: Back-formation from hydroponics. By surface analysis, hydro- (“water”) + Ancient Greek πόνος (pónos, “work, labour”) + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a plant; pertaining to or grown using hydroponics, a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions in water, without soil.
pos: adj
examples: Sid was now living in a small commune in the Shetland Islands, where he and his fellow communards were dedicated to the growing of implausibly large hydroponic onions.
She had been offended because he had seen her every day for ten days, then when she’d finally obtained 50 grams of genetically enhanced hydroponic marijuana for him[…]
Translations:
hyperborean
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin hyperboreanus, cognate with Classical Latin hyperboreus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβόρεος (huperbóreos), composed of ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + βόρειος (bóreios, “northern”). By surface analysis, nearly hyper- + boreal. See also Ὑπερβόρεοι (Huperbóreoi).
Base: boreal
Affixes: hyper-
Inflected forms:
form: hyperboreans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hyperborean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more hyperborean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hyperborean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Hyperborean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
capitalized
usually
examples: The Hyperboreans venerated Apollo over the other gods.
gloss: Any person living in a northern country, or to the north.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
usually
gloss: Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth; or (usually humorous) to a specific northern country or area.
pos: adj
examples: The hyperborean or frozen sea.
Hovv, by the fineſt art, the native robe / To vveave; hovv, vvhite as hyperborean ſnovv, / To form the lucid lavvn; […]
You could have knelt down, damn it, Kinch, when your dying mother asked you, Buck Mulligan said. I’m hyperborean as much as you. But to think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and pray for her. And you refused.
Amongst the fish that the Nautilus frightened as it passed, I will cite the metre-long cyclopteroid with a black back and orange stomach, providing an example of conjugal fidelity rarely followed by its congeners, a huge Forsskal's stingray, a sort of emerald moray eel which has a excellent taste, big-eyed carracks whose heads resemble dogs', blennies viviparous like snakes, 20-centimetre frillgobies or black gudgeons, and Macrura with long tails and shining with a silvery glitter: quick fish that had ventured far from hyperborean seas.
Translations:
hypergolic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) + -ol + -ic, after the model of German Hypergol and hypergolisch. Equivalent to hypergol + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: hypergolics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Igniting spontaneously upon contact with an oxidizer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Although the LF₂-LH₂ cryogenic combination is hypergolic, the toxicity of the fuel and the products of combustion have made the use of this system impractical. In general, the commonly used hypergolic propellants are considered conventionally storable, that is, they do not need special refrigeration equipment to keep them liquid.
gloss: Involving such a hypergolic agent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The chemical reaction range of hypergolic mixtures varies from slow and barely visible to an instantaneous and highly visible explosive force.
gloss: A hypergolic propellant; a hypergol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: hypergol
hypergolically
hypergolicity
nonhypergolic
Translations:
hypogeum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin hypogaeum, from Ancient Greek ὑπόγειον (hupógeion), a noun use of the neuter singular of ὑπόγειος (hupógeios, “underground”).
Inflected forms:
form: hypogeums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hypogea
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An underground room or cavern (also used figuratively).
pos: noun
examples: Contour: the unique parameters of Karen’s body – beckoning vents of mouth and vulva, the soft hypogeum of the anus.
There may in fact be a Punic graffiti, in the Roman alphabet, on a hypogeum in San Salvatore di Cabras dated to the era of the Constantinian imperial dynasty.
Translations:
galenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English galena
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English galenic
From galena + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, or containing galena
pos: adj
Translations:
Galenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Galen
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English Galenic
From Galen + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to Galen, his followers, principles or practices, especially relating to vegetable preparations used as remedies.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He had emerged from a tradition steeped in Galenic scholarship.
Translations:
hypostatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
lifestyle
medicine
natural-sciences
religion
sciences
theology
Etymology: From mediaeval Latin hypostaticus, from Ancient Greek ὑποστατικός (hupostatikós), from ὑποστατός (hupostatós). Equivalent to hypostasis + -tic.
Base: hypostasis
Affixes: -tic
Inflected forms:
form: more hypostatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hypostatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to hypostasis, especially with reference to hypostatic union.
pos: adj
examples: 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, "A Præface Introductory"
The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles.
gloss: Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances.
pos: adj
examples: The hypostatic union, as it is called, the perfect and complete union of two whole and perfect natures in the person of Jesus Christ, underlies this apparent paradox
gloss: Pertaining to hypostasis; depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting.
pos: adj
examples: hypostatic congestion, due to setting of blood by gravitation
gloss: Of a gene, affected by hypostasis.
pos: adj
Derived words: anhypostatic
hypostatically
hypostatic union
nonhypostatic
trihypostatic
Translations:
ikey
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ike + -y, representing a colloquial abbreviation of Isaac.
Base: Ike
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: ikeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ikey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more ikey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ikey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Ikey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Jew.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
ethnic
slang
slur
examples: My son, if you go to the races to battle with Ikey and Mo,
Remember, it's seldom the pigeon can pick out the eye of the crow;
I meant to start from Barrhill, but I missed the train, and then I hung on to old Ikey-Mo, which made my alibi much better,
gloss: Having negative traits stereotypically associated with Jews; cunning, supercilious.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
ethnic
slang
slur
examples: Clara had always been ‘ikey’ – reserved and superior.
What Arthur Griffith said about the headpiece over the Freeman leader: a homerule sun rising up in the northwest from the laneway behind the bank of Ireland. He prolonged his pleased smile. Ikey touch that: homerule sun rising up in the northwest.
Translations: