yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
resetting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: resettings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is reset.
pos: noun
Translations:
costing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: costings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The estimation of the cost of a process or product.
pos: noun
Translations:
socio-political
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin sociusder.
English socio-
English political
English socio-political
From socio- + political.
Inflected forms:
form: sociopolitical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a combination of social and political factors.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the socio-political environment in France
Translations:
crowner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English crowner, crownere, equivalent to crown + -er.
Base: crown
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: crowners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, crowns.
pos: noun
examples: Oh, thou mother of delights,
 Crowner of all happy nights,
 Star of dear content and pleasure,
 Of mutual loves the endless treasure!
Translations:
pocky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pock
English -y
English pocky
From pock + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more pocky
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pockier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pocky
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pockiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic.
pos: adj
examples: Faith, if 'a be not rotten before 'a die (as we have many pocky corpses that will scarce hold the laying in) 'a will last you some eight year [...]
‘You Damn'd Confounded Pocky Whore, I am glad we are met, for now will I give you as many Stripes as I've taken Pills, Bolus's, and other Hellish Slip-slops on your Account.’
Translations:
pul
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Persian پول (pul). Doublet of obole and obolus.
Inflected forms:
form: puls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pul
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Afghan afghani.
pos: noun
Translations:
lenga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Mapudungun lenga, via Spanish.
Inflected forms:
form: lengas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deciduous tree native to the southern Andes, taxonomic name Nothofagus pumilio.
pos: noun
Translations:
cume
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
education
film
media
radio
television
Etymology: From cumulative; compare cumulate.
Inflected forms:
form: cumes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cumed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cumes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Earn cumulatively at the box office.
pos: verb
examples: Despite the exhibitor complications, Goodbye To Language has already surpassed Godard’s most recent previous project, Film Socialisme, which cumed about $33K in the U.S in its 2011 release.
gloss: Cumulative box office receipts.
pos: noun
examples: With a cume so far of more than $38,000, the film has already outgrossed Godard’s previous feature, “Film socialisme” (2010), despite having opened on far fewer screens.
Taking into account the fact Wonder Woman opened lower than those other releases, these holds and its eventual $560-570+ million global cume after close of business Friday now all but assure Gal Gadot's Amazon princess will indeed finish its run north of $700 million.
gloss: Cumulative audience.
pos: noun
examples: Compare cume to the number of shoppers that go into a supermarket. Let's imagine that the station has no listeners and the supermarket has no shoppers.
2011, Gary Dahl, Advertising For Dummies
If a particular station has a cume of 250,000, but most listeners are women and only a very few are within your target demo, then this 250,000 figure doesn't help you.
gloss: Cumulative grade point average.
pos: noun
examples: The pucks don’t bounce, the trains don’t spring, my cume is gonna fall,
And unless I pass that final quiz I’ll be screwed right to the wall.
gloss: Cumulative.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1988, Hugh Malcolm Beville, Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable
Cume ratings provide measures of net unduplicated audience for various combinations...
Cume persons represent a radio station's cumulative audience, or the estimated number of individuals reached by a radio station.
Translations:
mullein
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English moleyne, from Anglo-Norman moleine, which is either a Celtic borrowing and derived from Proto-Celtic *melinos (“yellow”) from *meli (“honey”) – an adjective found in Breton melen (“yellow”) and Welsh melyn (“yellow”) – or from mol (“soft”), from Latin mollis (“soft”), referencing the plant's fluffy, downy leaves, also apparent in synonyms such as feltwort, flannel leaf, and velvet plant.
Inflected forms:
form: mulleins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mullen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a few hundred species of European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, especially that majority that have yellow flowers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There be foure ſortes of Mulleyne, as [Pedanius] Dioſcorides writeth: wherof yͤ two firſt are white Mulleyne, and of them one is Male, and the other female: The third is blacke Mulleyne: The fourth is wilde Mulleyne. […] The white male Mulleyn (or rather Wolleyn) hath […] the whole top with his pleaſant yellow floures ſheweth like to a waxe Candell or taper cunningly wrought.
As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.
Translations:
osm
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more osm
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most osm
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: awesome; like OK, can be used to express enthusiastic approval.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
examples: This house is OSM.
"Will meet you at 11h15." "OSM!"
Translations:
tinhorn
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tin + horn, from gambling.
Base: tin
Inflected forms:
form: more tinhorn
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tinhorn
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tin-horn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: tinhorns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tin-horn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Cheap, inferior; pretentious.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: A contemptible or pretentious person, especially one who gambles for low stakes.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”
I'm to deliver this treaty, signed by Secretary General Tanduk Timah himself. Heh. 'Tanduk Timah' in Bahasa Malay means 'Tin Horn.' How apt.
Translations:
interchangeability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: interchangeabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being interchangeable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We were similar in many ways, Daniel and I. Almost interchangeable, I’d go so far as to say, and in a way the game seemed to depend on that interchangeability, on the possibility of proximity of experience.
Translations:
freelancer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Etymology: Etymology tree
English freelance
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English freelancer
From freelance + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: freelancers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who freelances.
pos: noun
gloss: One who performs duties outside of the chain of command and SOPs.
pos: noun
Derived words: permalancer
Translations:
mesodermal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mesoderm
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 mesodermal
From mesoderm + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the mesoderm
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
SUMOylation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process whereby SUMO proteins attach themselves to other proteins within cells and modify their function.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
calcar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Italian calcara (“lime-kiln”).
Inflected forms:
form: calcars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small oven or furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
pos: noun
Translations:
chump-change
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to something of little monetary value.
pos: adj
tags: US
idiomatic
not-comparable
slang
examples: We don't have much money, but we can at least pay some of these chump-change bills.
2002, Barbara Quint, "The Digital Library of the Future." Information Today, vol 19 iss 7, July/Aug 2002. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
For a chump-change price of $2,000, any library could gain both the tools to create its own 24/7 digital reference service and access to a Global Reference Network of colleagues.
2004, Leigh Thompson and Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, "Why negotiation is the most popular business school course," Ivey Business Journal, Jul/Aug 2004, p. 3.
These key principles apply nicely to nearly any negotiation, whether it is an international high-finance deal or a chump-change haggle.
Translations:
pide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Turkish pide, from Ottoman Turkish پیده (pide), پیته (pite), from Ancient Greek πίτα (píta), possibly from Aramaic פִּיתָּא (pītā, “piece of bread”). Doublet of pita and pizza.
Inflected forms:
form: pides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Traditional Turkish flatbread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The bread combined with various toppings cooked to form a common Turkish meal; Turkish pizza.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
forestation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English forest
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 forestation
From forest + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: forestations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of planting a forest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The conversion of a habitat to forest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: deforestation
disforestation
reforestation
Translations:
forevermore
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of forever + evermore.
Compound parts: forever
evermore
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At any or all times in the future; forever.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Poor Pope; and I am told he is fast growing bankrupt too; and will, in a measurable term of years (a great way within the ‘three hundred’), not have a penny to make his pot boil! His old rheumatic back will then get to rest; and himself and his stage-properties sleep well in Chaos forevermore.
A frozen sun forevermore the same.
Cause girl I love you more than words can show / My love is pure / I, I'll walk a thousand miles, sail a thousand seas / Nothing will discourage me / And I pray that you will be always there for me forevermore
Translations:
forgivable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From forgive + -able. Partially displaced non-native Middle English pardonable (“capable of being pardoned, forgivable”) from Old French pardonable (“forgivable”).
Base: forgive
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more forgivable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most forgivable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.
pos: adj
examples: It's even forgivable here when the band sometimes sounds as though they've phoned in the Stonesy swagger, because when they're on, the Hellacopters sound like the best garage rock/bar band in the world.
In retrospect, the misunderstanding about the plan was forgivable […]
gloss: Of a loan, or a portion of it: such that repayment may be deferred for a period, or canceled, by the lender, if the borrower meets certain obligations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: forgivableness
forgivably
Translations:
forgiver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English forgive
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English forgiver
From forgive + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: forgivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who forgives.
pos: noun
examples: Take second best, put me to the test. / Things off your chest you’d need to confess. / I will deliver, you know I’m a forgiver.
Translations:
forlornly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English forlorn
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English forlornly
From forlorn + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more forlornly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most forlornly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a forlorn manner.
pos: adv
examples: Her arms lay on the table in front of her, her head rested on them, with her hair straying over the littered pages of the novel. She was weeping forlornly, steadily.
Translations:
contributive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English contribute
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English contributive
From contribute + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more contributive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contributive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to contribute; making a contribution
pos: adj
examples: I'm just looking for ways to be contributive," Kilmer told the Associated Press last week. "
Translations:
conodont
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”) + -odont.
Affixes: -odont
Inflected forms:
form: conodonts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several extinct fish-like chordates having cone-like teeth.
pos: noun
examples: Remains of conodonts, which may be invertebrates or primitive vertebrates, have also become known from the tuffites and bituminous slates of Monte San Giorgio, which became famous for their fish and marine reptile remains.
The appearance of tiny teeth elements of an eel-like jawless animal called a conodont, specifically Hindeodus parvus, is the technical herald of the age of the dinosaurs according to the ICS.
The beginning and the end of the Permian are both defined by the first appearances of particular conodont species.
gloss: A microfossil tooth of such an animal.
pos: noun
Translations:
overriding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: overridings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more overriding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overriding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which something is overridden.
pos: noun
gloss: Superior, of supreme importance in the case.
pos: adj
examples: Our overriding concern is the safety of the children.
The overriding fact of our lives, the shadow that determined everything we did or did not do or longed to do, was poverty.
The overriding fear among the APPRG [All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group] was that the Treasury's micro-management of the rail industry would mean that it determines Great British Railway's future moves, rather than the DfT.
Translations:
intercalating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That intercalates
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
intercalated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: See intercalate.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Interleaved, formed in distinctly alternating layers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mudflat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mud + flat.
Compound parts: mud
flat
Inflected forms:
form: mudflats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mud flat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mud-flat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a riverbed exposed at low tide.
pos: noun
examples: The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone strongly.
Translations:
mudflats
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mudflat
pos: noun
tags: singular
form: mud-flats
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mud flats
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of bottomland: lowland plains and/or farms.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
plural
plural-normally
Translations:
dissonant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: behavior
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French dissonant.
Inflected forms:
form: more dissonant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dissonant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting dissonance; not agreeing; not harmonizing or melodizing.
pos: adj
examples: The music was filled with dissonant chords.
gloss: Exhibiting dissonance; not agreeing or harmonizing.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Alaudinov's framing of himself, and by extension of the Chechen forces under his command, as a capable defensive body is also dissonant with the widespread perception of the efficacy of Chechen forces within the wider Russian information space.
Derived words: dissonancy
dissonantly
undissonant
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: dissonant
lang: German
word: dissonant
lang: Latin
word: dissonus
lang: Manx
word: neuving
lang: Spanish
word: disonante
lang: Welsh
word: aflafar
granodiorite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grano-
English diorite
English granodiorite
From grano- + diorite.
Inflected forms:
form: granodiorites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An intrusive igneous rock similar to granite, but containing more plagioclase than potassium feldspar.
pos: noun
examples: The dominant intruding rocks into the metamorphosed rocks of the Oban massif are granodiorites (Fig. 1).
Of the high-silica, coarse-grained, quartz-rich igneous rocks, granodiorites are quantitatively the most important.
Most of the rocks in the calc-alkaline association are granitoids, that is they are granites, granodiorites and tonalites all containing >20% quartz, with feldspar, mica and amphibole in various combinations (Chapter 3, Figures 3.10 and 3.11).
Translations:
ophiolitic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ophiolite
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English ophiolitic
From ophiolite + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more ophiolitic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ophiolitic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to sections of the oceanic crust and the subjacent upper mantle that have been uplifted or emplaced to be exposed within continental crustal rocks
pos: adj
examples: The shore of Newfoundland displays many ophiolitic deposits.
Translations:
ampulla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ampulla. Doublet of ampoule.
Inflected forms:
form: ampullas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ampullae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil.
pos: noun
examples: Miraculously moist, the chrism was kept in an ampulla in Reims cathedral where the coronations of the kings of France were held.
gloss: The dilated end of a duct.
pos: noun
gloss: The spongiole of a root.
pos: noun
Related words: ampoule
Derived words: ampullaceous
ampulla of Lorenzini
ampulla of Vater
ampullar
ampullary
ampullate
ampullectomy
ampullofugal
Translations:
browbeating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: browbeatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scolding.
pos: noun
Translations:
Chernobyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ)bor.
English Chernobyl
Borrowed from Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ). Ultimately from Russian чернобыль meaning "mugwort" or "wormwood".
Inflected forms:
form: Chernobyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chornobyl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A major nuclear-energy accident.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Many secret cities were Chernobyls in slow motion.
The effects of a Chernobyl disaster in my community would probably be barely noticeable.
So those would be a lot of Chernobyls that the ecosystem would have to deal with.
It has to be handled properly with great accuracy and no room for mistakes, because if we do have like a Chernobyl catastrophe, God forbid, it could wipe out our entire people.
Translations:
Tet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Tets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ancient Egyptian symbol of the god Osiris, in form a small pillar with a number of flat sections towards the top.
pos: noun
examples: To develop the higher mind one must first lower himself to raise the serpent, or set up the Tet pillar of Osiris.
Translations:
pho
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese phở.
Inflected forms:
form: phos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phở
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and optionally beef or chicken.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: PHO is the name of an Annamese soup held in high esteem. It is made with beef, a veal bone, onions, a bayleaf, salt, and pepper, and a small teaspoon of nuoc-man, a typically Annamese condiment which is used in practically all their dishes.
2003: Frank Browning, "73106: Lemongrass on the Prairie", National Geographic, vol. 203, issue 3 http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0303/feature6/
Ten minutes away from the intersection, the heart of Little Saigon, you can easily walk to five restaurants specializing in pho (the classic Vietnamese beef broth soup), two Asian supermarkets, and several Chinese barbecue cafés.
Translations:
novum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
literature
media
narratology
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin novumbor.
English novum
Borrowed from Latin novum.
Inflected forms:
form: novums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nova
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A new feature, a novelty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: we find among the cultured devotees a tendency to idealize a foreign civilisation — a novum in Chinese history.
gloss: An innovation which is fictional, but, following the logic of cognitive estrangement (characteristic of science fiction), is afforded plausibility by the assumption that the fictional setting is scientifically consistent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In his book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979), Suvin introduced a number of ideas that remain central in sf criticism: cognitive estrangement, the novum and sf's genetic link with utopia.[…]Even more influential in sf theory than cognitive estrangement is Suvin's concept of the novum.[…]Suvin adopts the concept of the novum from the work of Ernst Bloch, for whom the term refers to those concrete innovations of lived history that awaken human collective consciousness out of a static present to awareness that history can be changed. The novum thus inspires hope for positive historical transformations.
It seems that this ‘point of difference’, the thing or things that differentiate the world portrayed in science fiction from the world we recognise around us, is the crucial separator between SF and other forms of imaginative or fantastic literature. The critic Darko Suvin has usefully coined the term ‘novum’, the Latin for ‘new’ or ‘new thing’, to refer to this ‘point of difference’ (the plural is ‘nova’). An SF text may be based on one novum, such as [...]. More usually it will be predicated on a number of interrelated nova, such as [...]. This ‘novum’ must not be supernatural but need not necessarily be a piece of technology.
gloss: A game of dice, properly called novem quinque, the two principal throws being nine and five.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again
Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.
Related words: nova
novel
Translations:
mucilaginous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin mūcilāginōsus from Late Latin mūcus.
Inflected forms:
form: more mucilaginous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mucilaginous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mucilagenous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to mucilage; of, pertaining to, or resembling mucus; slimy and viscous.
pos: adj
examples: Appa [...] forked down his throat the mucilaginous scrambled eggs.
Translations:
religioso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: religiosos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: religiosi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece intended to be played with religious devotion.
pos: noun
gloss: A religious person or zealot.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Translations:
religiousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English religious
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 religiousness
From religious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: religiousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being religious; religiosity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
sketching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sketchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something drawn briefly and basically; a sketch.
pos: noun
examples: a collection of Chinese sketchings
Translations:
preoral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English oral
English preoral
From pre- + oral.
Inflected forms:
form: pre-oral
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: preoral aperture
preoral brush
preoral cavity
preoral nerve
gloss: Prior to the oral stage, in Freudian psychoanalysis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Prior to an oral exam.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: postoral
Derived words: preorally
Translations:
cousin-german
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cosin germain, from Anglo-Norman cosin germain, cosine germaine. See also Middle English cosin, germain.
Inflected forms:
form: cousin-germans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cousins-german
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cousin german
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A first cousin.
pos: noun
examples: This interesting explanation of family connections given by Mrs. Boville occasioned an éclaircissement exceedingly gratifying to Mrs. De Brooke and Rosilia. Doctor Lovesworth, for whom they had mutually, with the whole of their family, felt so great a partiality, was found to be the cousin-german of Mrs. De Brooke.
gloss: Something closely related.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: This propensity to display its blossoms on bare branches the almond shares with several of its kindred; and, as a parallel to Solomon's image, we may refer to its cousin-german the sloe, in our own cold clime so familiar, with its snowy petals […]
"Have a care what you do, Grantly, this Indian is cousin-german to the Old Nick, and he can read your intentions like print."
Translations:
glabellar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English glabella
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -ārisbor.
English -ar
English glabellar
From glabella + -ar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, the glabella.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
glabella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Latin glaber (“smooth, hairless, bald”).
Inflected forms:
form: glabellas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glabellae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The space between the eyebrows and above the nose.
pos: noun
examples: The good Doctor had perceptibly aged since last year but was as sturdy and square-shaped as ever with his well-padded shoulders, square chin, square nostrils, leonine glabella, and rectangular brush of grizzled hair that had something topiary about it.
gloss: The axial protuberance on the cephalon of certain arthropods (especially trilobites).
pos: noun
Related words: glabellum
Derived words: glabellar
Translations:
premarital
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English marital
English premarital
From pre- + marital.
Inflected forms:
form: præmarital
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Before marriage; before getting married.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Premarital sex is now far more common than it was in the 1920s.
Translations:
riah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Backwards spelling of hair.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A person's hair.
pos: noun
tags: Polari
uncountable
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:riah.
Translations:
individuate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: individuates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: individuating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: individuated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: individuated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more individuate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most individuate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To make, or cause to appear, individual.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […]Mississippi Burning opts for an endless spectacle of fires and beatings instead, taking care not to individuate too many of the black victims for fear of alienating "our society" […
gloss: undivided
pos: adj
Translations:
gassing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
Inflected forms:
form: gassings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Poisoning by noxious gas.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
gloss: Any similar process of singeing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: boasting; insincere or empty talk
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: He bent over her shoulder and read, Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, I can't stand your gassing, oh, what a windbag, what will shut you up, shut up, shut up. And so ad infinitum. He was terribly hurt.
Derived words: antigassing
off-gassing
Translations:
levothyroxine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leh₂iwosder.
Latin laevus
English levo-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-der.
Proto-Hellenic *tʰurā
Ancient Greek θῠ́ρᾱ (thŭ́rā)
Ancient Greek -εος (-eos)
Ancient Greek θῠρεός (thŭreós)
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Ancient Greek θῠρεοειδής (thŭreoeidḗs)bor.
New Latin thyreoīdēsbor.
English thyroid
English thyr-
English ox-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English thyroxine
English levothyroxine
From levo- + thyroxine.
Inflected forms:
form: laevothyroxine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The levorotatory isomer of thyroxine (trademark Levothyroid, Levoxyl, Synthroid) that is administered in the form of its sodium salt C₁₅H₁₀I₄NNaO₄ in the treatment of hypothyroidism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
macromolecular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós
Proto-Hellenic *makrós
Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der.
French macro-der.
English macro-
Latin mōlēs
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
New Latin -cula
New Latin moleculalbor.
French moléculebor.
English molecule
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -ārisbor.
English -ar
English molecular
English macromolecular
From macro- + molecular.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a macromolecule
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ululating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ululatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of ululation.
pos: noun
examples: The grandmothers' words, their pauses to spit, their meanderings as the narrative developed, their hums and ululatings, frightened me.
Translations:
expelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: expellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is expelled.
pos: noun
Translations:
squidgy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: squidgier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: squidgiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: squidgies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Moist and pliant; soggy.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
examples: He was one of those dangerous people who are soft, squidgy and cowlike provided they have what they want. And because he had always had what he wanted, and had seemed easily pleased with it, it had never occurred to anybody that he was anything other than soft, squidgy and cowlike.
It consists of two layers of ground cashew nuts, mixed with breadcrumbs, onions, nutmeg and vegetable stock, and separated by a vibrant green herb stuffing, the main ingredient of which is also bread. Although surprisingly moist, thanks to the stock (indeed, the contrast between the crisp exterior and the squidgy middle is horribly moreish), the combination of parsley, garlic and breadcrumbs reminds me of a very fancy loaf of garlic bread – and all but overpowers the sweet flavour of the cashews.
gloss: A soft plastic lure.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Translations:
formalist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English formal
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 formalist
From formal + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: formalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more formalist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most formalist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An overly formal person, especially one who adheres to current forms; a stickler
pos: noun
examples: The Besht preached that the simple man, imbued with native faith and able to pray fervently and wholeheartedly with a sense of joy in his heart, was nearer and dearer to God than the learned but joyless formalist spending his whole life in the study of Talmud.
gloss: An advocate of formalism
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to formalism; formalistic
pos: adj
Derived words: antiformalist
neoformalist
Translations:
formalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English formal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English formalize
From formal + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: formalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: formalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: formalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: formalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: formalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To give something a definite form; to shape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To develop into a definite form.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We have more fun and exciting fundraisers planned, and we're trying to carefully budget them so they don't cut into your life savings. As they formalize, we'll widely publicize these events.
gloss: To give something a formal or official standing.
pos: verb
gloss: To act with formality.
pos: verb
gloss: To rigorously prove a mathematical result.
pos: verb
Derived words: deformalize
formalizability
formalizable
formalizer
nonformalized
reformalize
unformalized
Translations:
formatted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has been given a definite format
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: That has been physically arranged to be in a state ready for the storage of data
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: malformatted
nonformatted
preformatted
unformatted
Translations:
formulator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English formulate
English -or
English formulator
From formulate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: formulators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who formulates
pos: noun
Translations:
fortuity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fortuitous + -ity, from Latin fortuītus.
Base: fortuitous
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: fortuities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being fortuitous.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A fortuitous event; an accident.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
fortune-telling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fortunetelling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fortune telling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or practice of predicting the future (especially for money), as by using a crystal ball, reading palms, reading tea leaves in a cup, etc.; prediction of future events, especially those of a personal nature.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Fortune-telling has been in all countries a gift of the sea-people.
Translations:
apocrine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
histology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From apo- (“away from”) + Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to separate”).
Affixes: apo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an apocrine gland or to its mode of secretion, which involves the budding of portions of the secreting cells.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They observed that apocrine metaplasia often was present in breasts with other "noncancerous proliferative lesions," but they found no significant difference in the frequency of apocrine metaplasia between "cancerous and noncancerous breasts."
Lobular cysts as well as micro- and macrocysts are very often lined to a variable extent by apocrine epithelium. Pathologists call this condition apocrine metaplasia, meaning a transformation of the normal epithelial cells into sweat-gland-like cells similar to those found in the apocrine glands of the vulva, eyelid, and external auditory canal.
Apocrine glands are distributed throughout the body but are present in greatest abundance in the axilla, followed by the anogenital region.
Two appreciate what happened, note that sweat glands come in two varieties, apocrine and eccrine.
Translations:
bleating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bleatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A noise that bleats.
pos: noun
examples: And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
gloss: Inane or plaintive chatter.
pos: noun
examples: Both men seemed to enjoy these contests, always laced with the tension caused by constant government bleating about the ABC's left-wing bias.
Derived words: bleatingly
Translations:
nettlesome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From nettle + -some.
Base: nettle
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more nettlesome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nettlesome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing irritation, annoyance, or discomfort; bothersome, irksome.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: My old car is very nettlesome.
Mackenzie made himself a nettlesome burr under Crook's saddle, irritating the commanding general.
Though the pink dolphins are protected by law, the fishermen see them as nettlesome competitors for the catches that feed their families.
gloss: Thorny; difficult to deal with, especially due to being complex or tricky.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: The task of proving Fermat’s “last” theorem remains nettlesome.
Be careful what you say to him; he's a nettlesome fellow.
[A]ll the strange oaths and imprecations found in a seaman's vocabulary were called into service by our nettlesome captain and his crew, and hurled without mercy on the winds and weather.
It so chanced that on the second day after my arrival a pack-train came along, guided by a nettlesome old man and a strong, black-haired lass of sixteen or thereabouts. The old man . . . had no sooner slipped the packs from the horses than he began to rail at Hans, who stood looking on. "You damned Dutchmen all be Tories, and worse," he cried.
Almost daily, U.S. newspapers are confronted by a nettlesome problem for which they have found no final answer. The problem: Should Negroes be identified as such in news stories?
For nearly 40 years, Mr. Solarin, an unpretentious and intensely pugnacious man, has been an intellectual guru for Nigeria's disenchanted and disfranchised.
No one could act naturally with her. . . . She was sure she had never lived through days in which she, Anne Couper Fraser, forced those nearby to tiptoe around her nettlesome personality.
He's also delving into one of the most nettlesome legal issues on the Net — whether one party can turn another's trademark into a URL.
Related words: mettlesome
Translations:
napping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of taking a nap or short sleep.
pos: noun
examples: Poor or inadequate sleep hygiene may contribute to difficulty falling asleep and may be a factor in sleep onset insomnia for elderly persons. This is most frequently caused by haphazard and irregular nappings.
gloss: The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.
pos: noun
Derived words: gnome-napping
Translations:
time-travel
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: time + travel
Compound parts: time
travel
Inflected forms:
form: time-travels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: time-traveling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: time-travelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: time-traveled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: time-traveled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: time-travelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: time-travelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: time travel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: timetravel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To travel through time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To sleep.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Derived words: time-traveller
Translations:
buffalo-skin
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From buffalo + skin.
Compound parts: buffalo
skin
Inflected forms:
form: buffalo-skins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Made from buffalo leather or hide.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Leather made from buffalo hide.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The hide, whether tanned or not, of one buffalo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An article of clothing manufactured from buffalo-skin. Often constructed in the plural.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: buckskin
deerskin
doeskin
Translations:
odontogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From odonto- + -genic.
Base: odonto
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the formation and development of teeth
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: That originates in the tissues of the teeth
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: nonodontogenic
Translations:
forwarder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English forward
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English forwarder
From forward (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: forwarders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, forwards something to another destination.
pos: noun
Translations:
forward-looking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more forward-looking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most forward-looking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having an interest in the future, and planning for it.
pos: adj
examples: That's because, having left behind his senior position on the national network at the West Midlands Rail Executive in mid-March […], the energetic but mild-mannered Holmes has brought a distinctly forward-looking agenda to the Leicestershire heritage operation he now leads.
Translations:
foully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English foully, from Old English fūllīċe; by surface analysis, foul + ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more foully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most foully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a foul manner; revoltingly.
pos: adv
Translations:
foul-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: foul-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disastrous mistake.
pos: noun
Translations: