yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Koli
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Kolis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Koli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an agriculturist caste of India, mostly found in Gujarat.
pos: noun
Translations:
apartment-sit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: By analogy to babysit.
Inflected forms:
form: apartment-sits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: apartment-sitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: apartment-sat
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: apartment-sat
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To live in and take care of someone's apartment while they are away.
pos: verb
examples: I'll be able to apartment-sit during the day and dine in a distant province in the evening.
Lauren and Ben Gruning apartment-sit a friend's condominium in San Francisco every year, and this arrangement provides them with a way to fulfill the requirement to leave Mexico every six months, since they do not have resident status.
Since he had a special kind of primrose that demanded constant watering, he asked his cousin to apartment-sit for him.
Translations:
plant-sit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: By analogy with babysit.
Inflected forms:
form: plant-sits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plant-sitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plant-sat
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plant-sat
pos: verb
tags: past
form: plant-sitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
uncommon
form: plant-sitted
pos: verb
tags: past
uncommon
form: plant sit
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: plantsit
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To take care of someone's plants while they are away.
pos: verb
examples: To relieve any anxieties on your part, locate a reliable neighbor to plant-sit while you are away.
Unless you have a friendly neighbour who can plant-sit for you, you will have to devise ways of keeping your plants watered while you are away.
Some of these are people you wouldn't even trust to plant-sit for you, so why are you getting their spin on where you should take your love life?
Translations:
Mountmellick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Irish.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A floral whitework embroidery originating in the town of Mountmellick in County Laois, Ireland, in the early 19th century.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
mini-baccarat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From mini- + baccarat.
Base: baccarat
Affixes: mini-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A version of baccarat played at smaller tables for lower stakes, and having some differences in the rules.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
late-blooming
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being a late bloomer; attaining maturity or success comparatively late in life.
pos: adj
Translations:
lenser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lens + -er.
Base: lens
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: lensers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The person who shoots a film.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: It looks as though a group of amateur lensers had shot it off the cuff. Even some underwater pictures are hazy, sloppy and dull.
Stunning location photography was the work of at least four ace silent film lensers […]
Translations:
winter-bound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more winter-bound
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most winter-bound
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Hampered, curtailed, or trapped by winter weather.
pos: adj
examples: If the Skaldi are overly fond of wagering, bickering and drinking among themselves, I learned why: When the men are winter-bound in the confines of the great hall, there is naught else to be done.
The Commons teemed with airily dressed mothers and unjacketed businessmen, the emotional gloom of a winter-bound populace exposed by the sun to be as seasonally fragile as ice.
But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.
They walked for miles each day, in the churches, galleries and alleys of a winter-bound Venice largely free of tourists, happy in their own company.
Translations:
pre-fortis
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From pre- + fortis.
Base: fortis
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Immediately preceding a fortis consonant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This pre-fortis shortening is most obvious in stressed monosyllables (i.e. single-syllable words) and is termed pre-fortis clipping. […] Listen to these sets of English words. Notice how pre-fortis clipping shortens the vowels.
Translations:
T-intersection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: T-intersections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of T-junction.
pos: noun
Translations:
Chromebook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Chrome + notebook
Compound parts: Chrome
notebook
Inflected forms:
form: Chromebooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chromebook
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style netbook.
pos: noun
examples: Technically a Chromebook is just a portable computer running Google's Linux-based Chrome OS, but the majority of Chromebooks are light, inexpensive, relatively modest in computing power and storage, and on the small end of the laptop spectrum.
You can view a complete list of supported Chromebooks, Chromeboxes and Chromebases below: (followed by a list of devices from various manufacturers)
Chrome OS tablets may be the new hotness, but the vast majority of devices that have shipped with Google’s Chrome operating system over the years have been laptops… also known as Chromebooks. But a few years ago we also saw the introduction of a few other categories including Chromeboxes (mini desktop computers), Chromebits (PC-on-a-stick devices), and Chromebases (all-in-one, iMac-like desktops).
"Chromebooks, Chromebases, and Chromeboxes automatically manage updates to ensure your device always has the latest software and security features," said Google.
Translations:
J-bar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: J-bars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A J-shaped bar forming part of a ski lift; the rider holds the vertical portion while sitting or leaning on the lower horizontal portion.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-sufficiently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self-sufficient + -ly.
Affixes: self-sufficient
-ly
Inflected forms:
form: more self-sufficiently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most self-sufficiently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a self-sufficient manner.
pos: adv
examples: For if what is decided now does not evolve a railway able to compete self-sufficiently in the transport world of the late 1960s, then we may as well resign ourselves to the lingering death of B.R., protracted only to the extent that it can maintain its services on a make-do-and-mend basis.
Translations:
high-key
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Topics: art
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
Etymology: From high + key.
Compound parts: high
key
Inflected forms:
form: more high-key
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most high-key
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: highkey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: high key
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: highk
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more high-key
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most high-key
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: highkey
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: high key
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: highk
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by light tones and the absence of a shadow.
pos: adj
examples: Details are tremendously important in composing an outstanding high-key photograph.
gloss: In a conspicuous way.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
uncommon
gloss: Used as an intensifier; really.
pos: adv
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
examples: (except in meiosis)
I'm highkey pissed at you right now.
High key no longer wanna tell anyone anything that’s going on with me.
Translations:
Neo-Syriac
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From neo- + Syriac.
Base: Syriac
Affixes: neo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or being the Neo-Syriac dialects.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
red-zone
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the system of classifying areas of Christchurch, New Zealand as red zone (irreparable), green zone (reparable), or orange zone (more investigation needed) after the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.
Inflected forms:
form: red-zones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: red-zoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: red-zoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: red-zoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To categorize as too damaged to repair, and requiring the owners to vacate (a property).
pos: verb
tags: New-Zealand
examples: And in the event their land is red-zoned, at least they know they will ultimately get a new house under their AMI insurance policy.
As a result of severe and recurrent liquefaction damage, and the infeasibility of timely and effective land repair, more than 7000 residential properties in Christchurch were red-zoned (designated as currently uneconomic to repair) and purchased by central government at a cost exceeding NZ$1.6 billion.
His house in the Loop was red-zoned.
Translations:
trans-friendly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more trans-friendly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trans-friendly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: transfriendly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Welcoming of transgender people.
pos: adj
examples: The trans community is also ravaged by aids; we need aids education and services that are offered in trans-friendly space.
A true trans-friendly business should have a unisex restroom in addition to the traditional men's and women's rooms meant for those stuffy people who define themselves by their genitalia.
America isn't exactly as trans-friendly as it is gay-friendly.
There are also social scenes that are traditionally more trans-friendly.
Translations:
Deccani
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Deccani دکنی (compare Hindi दक्खिनी (dakkhinī)).
Inflected forms:
form: Deccanee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Deccany
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Dakhini
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Deccanis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Deccani
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Deccanee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Deccany
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Dakhini
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, belonging, or relating to the Deccan.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An inhabitant of the Deccan.
pos: noun
Translations:
sure-enough
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Real; actual; genuine.
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
not-comparable
Translations:
Ozymandias
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ὀσυμανδύας (Osumandúas), from Demotic Egyptian wsr-mꜣꜥ.t-rꜥ, smn-rꜥ, ns-mn-rꜥ, from Egyptian wsr-mꜣꜥt-rꜥ, the first part of the throne name of pharaoh Ramesses II. Modern usage derives from the poem Ozymandias, about a proud king whose empire and memory have long since crumbled into obscurity, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and inspired by Diodorus Siculus's description of a colossal statue in the Ramesseum.
Inflected forms:
form: Ozymandiases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person once famous and respected who has since been utterly forgotten.
pos: noun
examples: 2013, Will Self, quoted in The Guardian: "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/22/falling-short-writers-reflect-failure
An unavoidable sequel of the posterity delusion is the death of the writerly self, which depends too much on incoherence and inconsistency to remain pompous for long. And of course, the vast majority of today's mummified immortals are tomorrow's Ozymandiases.
Translations:
nap-of-the-earth
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Denoting a very low-altitude flight course used by military aircraft to avoid enemy detection and attack in a high-threat environment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
up-pulled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English uppuld, equivalent to up- + pulled.
Base: pulled
Affixes: up-
Inflected forms:
form: uppulled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pulled up.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] Mr. Lawson turned to refasten an up-pulled tent-peg, and to get a cord, and when he turned round again, the mulatto was gone.
Her handsome leg was exposed by the up-pulled hem of her torn tunic.
gloss: Uprooted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A sympathetic youngster two or three years her senior thereupon came over, and, after persuading her to stop crying, showed her how to bury the roots of the up-pulled sprouts so that they would continue in their growth.
Translations:
grade-separated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having routes that cross each other on different levels, avoiding the conflicts that occur with a flat junction at only one level.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Potential answers here include remodelling the north junction to be grade-separated, adding an extra platform and track to allow more parallel moves, or by changing services so that trains from Wigan go towards Piccadilly and trains from Bolton head for Victoria.
Translations:
summit-hop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: summit-hops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: summit-hopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: summit-hopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: summit-hopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To travel frequently between political assemblies in order to take part in protests or other activism.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
summit-hopper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From summit-hop + -er.
Base: summit-hop
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: summit-hoppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who summit-hops.
pos: noun
Translations:
sticky-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stick up + -y.
Base: stick up
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more sticky-up
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sticky-up
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sticking up or tending to stick up; sticky-uppy.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: "There was a light in the painting-room window," he said, tremulously, "and a head with black sticky-up hair all round. Then it went away."
All of the Fairy Wrens (fourteen in number) have "sticky-up" tails[.]
Translations:
mouth-pussy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mouth-pussies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the mouth, seen as a sexual receptacle
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: Shit, what ah need is a nice, warm, wet li'l mouth-pussy t'fuck. How 'bout it?"
He grinned a little. "Open up that mouth-pussy of yours, baby, ...
Translations:
Ammie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: From amateur + -ie, from the club's former name, the Salford Amateurs.
Base: amateur
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: Ammies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone associated with Salford City F.C., as a fan, player, coach etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
pusser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: pussers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A purser.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
Translations:
audience-proof
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From audience + -proof.
Base: audience
Affixes: -proof
Inflected forms:
form: more audience-proof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most audience-proof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a play, etc.: resistant to negative responses from the audience; popular with everybody.
pos: adj
examples: To fill in her time she wrote a three-act play which was produced at the Arts Theatre. It did not set the Thames on fire. "Of course," she admitted, "it was my fault for not writing an audience-proof play. […]
Hazel Kirk had been fashioned out of ingredients that had long proven audience proof — a projected marriage […]
Translations:
on-train
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Taking place on a train.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Cost analysis revealed that on-train catering lost money and Travellers Fare, the BR division that dealt with all the railway's catering, commissioned consultants to report on options.
gloss: Aboard or fitted to a train.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: These agents are members of rail staff who have been trained by RAIB to gather and safeguard evidence such as on-train monitoring and recording equipment.
Related words: on-board
onboard
Translations:
actinobacillus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: actinobacilli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any bacterium of the genus Actinobacillus.
pos: noun
Translations:
hardo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hard + -o.
Base: hard
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: hardos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who puts excessive effort into some task or role.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: You'll find that hardo sitting in the front row in every one of her classes.
Because from time to time, our kids have labeled us hardos just because we’re working hard at something or going for a long run or going hiking or spending extra time trying to master jump rope double-unders, and it drives us kind of insane.
The average Wall Streeter is known as a hardo or hardess — a try-hard, if you will — depending on gender identity, in the world of finmemes. They Juul regularly and wear Airpods^([sic]) and Patagonia. They went to a target school and idolize former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen.
What an absolute hardo move from the Disney employee. That’s the definition of a hardo move. If you see a couple getting engaged and you rush in and stop it, you’re a loser.
Translations:
beta-glucan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: beta-glucans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: β-glucan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A group of polysaccharides naturally occurring in the cell walls of cereals, bacteria, and fungi.
pos: noun
examples: Similar to grains, oats are well-known for their dietary content, beta-glucan in this case. Beta-glucan is a type of fiber, unique to oats that can help reduce levels of bad cholesterol in the body.
Translations:
FtX
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: female-to-nonbinary transgender
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
serg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: Clipping of sergal.
Inflected forms:
form: sergs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sergal.
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
Translations:
coomer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Coomer meme popularized on 4chan, blending coom, an altered pronunciation of cum, with the -oomer suffix used to name Wojak characters (originally derived from boomer).
Inflected forms:
form: coomers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who indulges in masturbation; by extension, anyone who is excessively horny.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
derogatory
humorous
vulgar
examples: Nobody looks like that and the last time some deranged anime coomer tried to claim they do, they posted a heavily photoshopped cosplayer
WHAT THE FUCK I WAS A PUBLIC COOMER IN THE YOUTUBE COMMENTS FOR THE OLD SPICE GUY TEN YEARS AGO
Lmao they saw the numbers drop and only coomers used the site. [quoting an article titled "OnlyFans Drops Planned Porn Ban, Will Continue to Allow Sexually Explicit Content"]
Translations:
e-girl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- (“electronic”) + girl.
Base: girl
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-girls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: egirl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A female member of the e-girl/e-boy subculture which emerged in the late 2010s, characterized by emo- and grunge-inspired fashion, and by heavy use of social media platforms (notably TikTok).
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Coordinate term: e-boy
Instagram is one main social media platform where e-girls post pictures or videos of themselves showing off their outfits and modeling them.
Let the e-girls put hearts on their faces and dye their hair.
The popular 2019 #softgirlchallenge, in which teens edited their videos so they appeared to spontaneously transform from grungy e-girl to glimmering soft girl particularly conveys how lightly Gen Z wears its group affiliations.
gloss: A female content creator who is physically attractive and/or dresses in alternative fashion.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
broadly
derogatory
sometimes
Translations:
pack-away
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: packaway
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being folded up or disassembled for storage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The idea is for a pack-away theatre: a fully-equipped, two-hundred seater theatre building which can be dismantled and packed away, not quite into a suit-case, but into four freight-containers of the kind used for transport by road or rail — and which in this case can be used to convey our theatre.
I am so excited at matchmaking Ana with Colin Watts that I almost celebrate by making an impulse purchase of a “pack-away TV blanket,” which folds into a cushion with a handy pocket.
You can also buy pack-away tunnels that are large enough to walk in.
gloss: Available for storing items that are not in use.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the good old Summer time you need pack-away space and plenty of it.
Its pack-away space is enormous, and every cent of its cost has been put into its construction, the bureau being absolutely plain, without ornamentation of any kind.
gloss: That must be packed away between uses.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Pack-away settings raise particular challenges in creating enabling environments.
If you're in a pack-away early years setting, where you have to put all your resources away at the end of each session, you need to think creatively about how you store and access resources.
Translations:
maxi-pad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: maxi-pads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maxipad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large-sized sanitary pad for use during heavy menstruation.
pos: noun
Translations:
Illuminatus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin illūminātus.
Inflected forms:
form: Illuminati
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Illuminatuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of an alleged global elite secret society which has as its ultimate objective the subjugation of humanity (world domination or New World Order).
pos: noun
examples: The methods of control used by "Ming the Merciless, Ruler of the Universe" in the 1980 film Flash Gordon are a metaphor for what some perceive to be the influence of the Illuminati on the real world.
Translations:
tree-and-branch
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of cable television and similar networks: consisting of a main central cable with a separate cable branching off it to each subscriber.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The headend cable modem handles the medium access control (MAC) protocol which is necessary for point-to-multipoint operation on the tree-and-branch network.
The PSTN we have been describing utilizes a star configuration. But this is not the only configuration being applied in today's telecommunications world. The cable television (CATV) companies, for instance, use a tree-and-branch technology.
Figure 1.1 Tree-and-branch cable topology.
Translations:
mozambique
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Mozambique (“former Portuguese colony”); see more there.
Inflected forms:
form: mozambiques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mozambique
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various kinds of dress material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A thin gauzy dress fabric generally constructed with a cotton warp and a mohair filling. It is distinguished from mohair by its thinner and more filmy texture. High-grade mozambiques are often woven in fancy plaids and checks and complicated openwork patterns, and when of this style are intended to be made up over a foundation fabric.
Translations:
fire-worshipper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fire-worshippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who reveres fire.
pos: noun
Translations:
stagger-through
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
entertainment
lifestyle
media
music
television
theater
Etymology: Deverbal from stagger through, modeled after readthrough and walkthrough. So called because there may be notional staggers (mistakes, pauses for discussion, etc.).
Inflected forms:
form: stagger-throughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rehearsal of an entire show.
pos: noun
examples: And so I went there with the rehearsal pianists and we just did stagger-throughs, so that we could time it, so that we could know what was going on.
There may be a “stagger-through” in between, a run-through with occasional stops for critical discussions and changes.
Translations:
cross-trail
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
media
Etymology: From cross- + trail.
Base: trail
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
form: cross-trails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cross-trailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cross-trailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cross-trailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To broadcast a trailer on one channel or station advertising content that will appear on another.
pos: verb
examples: BBC Two cross-trailed a new costume drama that was starting on BBC One that week.
Translations:
ill-named
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-named
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-named
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Poorly named; given an unsuitable name.
pos: adj
Translations:
yada
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Only used in yada yada yada
pos: intj
Translations:
self-ignite
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + ignite.
Base: ignite
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-ignites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: self-igniting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: self-ignited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: self-ignited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To catch fire due to sufficient temperature.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: However, when the concentration of carbon is 1.4%, the mixture self-ignites at 295°.
Translations:
rip-and-reader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
media
Etymology: Suggesting the tearing off and reading of printed sheets from incoming news transmissions.
Inflected forms:
form: rip-and-readers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A newsreader or station that delivers the news in a formulaic, uninspired manner.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: In between the all-news stations and the rip-and-readers are a substantial number of stations which sometimes have one or two newsmen and which try to do a respectable job with a limited budget.
Leave the rip-and-readers to the tender mercies of the Associated Press. Major market radio and television stations are another matter entirely. Their news interests and requirements are similar to those of newspapers.
News director Griff Potter says he wants “a journalist, not a rip-and-reader. Someone who understands that highlights, runs, and errors are boring television.”
Translations:
Fairlie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
form: Fairlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A design of steam locomotive with the driving wheels on one or two bogies.
pos: noun
examples: Class "R" 0-6-4 single Fairlie No. 28, built by Avonside in 1879, as working for the Timaru Harbour Board in 1940
Translations:
fire-plough
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fire-ploughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A firelighting tool consisting of two sticks rubbed together to produce heat through friction and heat.
pos: noun
Translations:
fairbank
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: gambling
games
Inflected forms:
form: fairbanks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fairbanking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fairbanked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fairbanked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: For the bank or dealer to assist (the player) by cheating in his/her favour, to encourage further play and facilitate a later swindle.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke.
I didn't check the dart board for the winner's precise total and will assume he hadn't been “fairbanked.” The guy didn't look like a professional, so I attributed his success to the lean and lady luck.
Translations:
KA-BAR
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Brand name from 1923 (Union Cutlery Co), said to be derived from the words kill a bear in a letter sent to the company by a fur trapper.
Inflected forms:
form: KA-BARs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ka-Bar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of combat knife used by the United States military and popular with some hunters, campers, bushcrafters, and knife collectors.
pos: noun
Translations:
wonder-striking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more wonder-striking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wonder-striking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inspiring wonder or awe.
pos: adj
examples: […] hath not the Lord used that other more terrible and heart-frighting course […] of Prodigies, Signes and Apparitions in the ayre, and other most degenerating, unnaturall and wonder-striking contingents amongst us here at home?
[…] by revealing to us the wonder-striking order of the infinite stars […] Night leads us to dream, or to infer, that there may be other pages still unturned in the book of Nature’s mysteries,
The sensation of having the mysterious girl at his elbow in that wonder-striking interior was magnificent.
We have seen wonder-striking robes and dresses,
Women whose nails and teeth the betel stains
And jugglers whom the rearing snake caresses.
Translations:
Euro-MP
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Euro- + MP.
Base: MP
Affixes: Euro-
Inflected forms:
form: Euro-MPs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: member of the European Parliament
pos: noun
tags: European-Union
Translations:
dullahan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Irish dulachán, from dubh (“black”) + another word (compare lucharachán (“elf, dwarf”)), possibly originally a term for a dark or sullen person (compare the surname Dullahan) and only subsequently applied to the spirit.
Inflected forms:
form: dullahans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Dullahan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dullaghan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Dullaghan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A black-clad (usually male) horserider in Irish folklore which carries its severed head like a lantern and may be repelled by gold; when it stops riding (or calls out someone's name), someone will die. (Also called the Gan Ceann, Irish for "[one] without a head".)
pos: noun
tags: Irish
examples: The dullahans always came in a mist. But Devin wasn't afraid of dullahans. If he saw one, he would club it over the head. But then Devin remembered that dullahans didn't have heads. He grasped his stick a little tighter in his hand, […]
“A dullahan,” both Phelan and Coriel whispered. Coriel looked her square in the eye, “You did remember the gold, right?” ML blushed, “No, I didn't. I was so scared I just started running.” “Then how did you escape?” “My pocket tore on a bush. […] “You're lucky you're not dead anyway. The dullahan could have stopped or spoken your name, or both.”
There is no way to bar the road against a dullahan. All locks and gates open on their own when it approaches. Dullahans do not appreciate being watched while on their errands, throwing a basin of blood on those who dare to do so […]
But the values of a fairy manifested into physical form in this city—a dullahan.” Celty Sturluson was not a human being. Celty was a type of fairy known as a dullahan that appeared to those close to death, signaling their impending demise.
Because she is a dullahan, her head is not connected to her body—it's held in place by her gear.
Translations:
Seelie
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From Scots sely, seelie (“holy, good”), from Middle English seely, from Old English sǣliġ, gesǣlig. Doublet of silly.
Inflected forms:
form: Seelie
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Seelie
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Seelie
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A benevolent or beneficially-inclined fairy.
pos: noun
examples: Okay, so that sounded like the Seelie hated the Unseelie and vice versa. But not quite. There was something more here. I puzzled over it several moments. Did it mean the Seelie couldn't actually touch the Unseelie, and vice versa? I read on.
We like the Seelie court and the humans lived, loved and laughed. As the war between the Seelie and the Unseelie escalated and the Seelie gained the upper hand we Unseelie were forced to hide in the shadows and fear for our lives.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Seelie; benevolent (as a fairy, etc).
pos: adj
examples: “Like Sleeping Beauty, you mean,” I said. Henry nodded. His handsome face was very worried, and I didn't know him long enough to read him that well. “They came and saw the garden, and it was very Seelie, my lord. More than that, none.”
“Altruism is very Seelie.” “The sidhe were all Seelie once,” Shock said. “Either we resign ourselves to that part of our history or we go mad. I do not fight my impulses toward love and beauty the way my father does. But enough of that.”
Antonyms: Unseelie
Translations:
sea-girl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sea-girls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A youthful mermaid.
pos: noun
Translations:
Japonisme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French japonisme.
Inflected forms:
form: Japonismes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: japonisme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An influence of Japanese art and culture on European art and design.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
anarcho-nationalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anarcho- + nationalism.
Base: nationalism
Affixes: anarcho-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An ideology with elements of anarchism and nationalism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Beginning in 2004, MiXicano activists and XDC members Nora Salas and Ernesto Todd Mireles began to lay the groundwork for a broadly defined anarcho-nationalism.
Translations:
yawn-sigh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: yawn-sighs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vocal sound of gradually descending pitch, between a yawn and a sigh, sometimes used in speech therapy.
pos: noun
Translations:
get-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: get-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The setting up of equipment, scenery, etc. when arriving at a theater or television studio to begin work on a production.
pos: noun
examples: […] ensuring everything is ready for the company's get-in, including the get-out of the previous production […]
Translations:
J-school
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The initial letter of journalism plus school. Compare B-school.
Inflected forms:
form: J-schools
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A school or a division within a college or university teaching topics related to the practice of journalism.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The website itself changed it name, to the CU Independent, and changed from a class within the J-school to a student activity, making it more truly independent from the university (though it’s still funded in large part by the school).
J-schools used to see themselves largely as training grounds for the cannon fodder that would head off to local radio and TV stations and newspapers.
Translations:
gate-happy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gate + happy.
Compound parts: gate
happy
Inflected forms:
form: more gate-happy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gate-happy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Excited about one's imminent release from prison.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
Translations:
hard-sectored
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a storage medium: divided up by hard sectoring.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
soft-sectored
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a storage medium: divided up by soft sectoring.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
self-noise
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + noise.
Base: noise
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The input sound level that creates the same output voltage as the receiving microphone in the absence of any sound, and which represents the lowest point of the microphone's dynamic range.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The noise radiating from a ship, etc. because of its own operation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Causes of ship-radiated noise. This is another important factor, as the noise radiated by a ship is received by all sonar systems on board (self-noise) and imposes limits to the performance achievable when it exceeds ambient noise levels.
Figure 10.5 typifies this latter condition, in which the self-noise generated at the sonar dome of a warship is seen.
Translations:
D-dimer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: So named because it contains two D fragments of the fibrin protein joined by a cross-link.
Inflected forms:
form: D-dimers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: D dimer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis, used in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
heli-skier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From heli-ski + -er.
Base: heli-ski
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: heli-skiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who takes part in the sport of heli-skiing.
pos: noun
examples: This new heli-skier was exemplified by a woman named Carolyn Damon, who visited cmh year after year with her husband, Ned, and learned to ski from day one in the big-mountain powder of the heli-ski elite.
Translations:
e-visa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + visa.
Base: visa
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-visas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A visa stored in electronic or digital form.
pos: noun
examples: Today, you can check in and clear your immigration process with an e-visa rather than needing a paper visa […]
Citizens of more than 100 countries can apply for an e-visa, which costs $50 for a single visit, […]
Translations:
latte-sipping
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having effete inner-city leftist views, such as those that might be found amongst people who regularly drink caffè latte.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see latte, sipping.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: latte liberal
Latte Town
Translations:
trapped-out
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having had all individuals of a certain animal, bird, etc., removed from the environment by trapping.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mock-turtle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: mock turtle soup
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This is a rich handsome dish, and an elegant variety of mock-turtle.
O, this is he that disembodied matter,
And prov’d that incorporeal corporations
Put nothing in no platter,
And for mock-turtle only supp’d sensations.
Soup, sir? yes, sir; very nice mock-turtle sir—real mock-turtle, sir.
Translations:
four-wall
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the rental of a cinema or theater for a fixed fee rather than a portion of the box office revenue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] since the typical four-wall arrangement allows the theater to keep all the money made on concessions.
When the theatre is a four-wall rental (i.e., the only thing the theatre provides in the rental agreement is the four walls), most lighting designers first carefully check the tech specs to see exactly what, if anything, may be useful or available for the show.
He did, however, successfully secure a four-wall distribution deal—a process by which a studio rents a movie theater for a period of time and receives all of the box office revenue—with Laemmle Theaters.
Translations:
four-waller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
Inflected forms:
form: four-wallers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A company that rents a cinema or theater under a four-wall arrangement.
pos: noun
examples: With their audience's desires carefully measured and films made to match those desires, four-wallers then saturated local television markets with advertisements for their movies […]
gloss: A studio consisting of buildings but little in the way of equipment.
pos: noun
examples: The sets and corridors were all built with very low ceilings. They were four-wallers, so that meant lighting through grills or hiding lights or having in-shot lamps. I think the look of the film is due to the nature of the sets […]
Now it is more common for studios to operate as 'four wallers', that is just the buildings with very limited supporting facilities and for all the personnel to be engaged by the production company.
Translations:
four-walling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The rental of cinema or theater under a four-wall arrangement.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
tack-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from tack up.
Inflected forms:
form: tack-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A poster.
pos: noun
examples: Tack-ups serve for windows of miscellaneous shops, proprietors of these places being rewarded for their indulgence […]
They monogram napkins for department and specialty stores, print millions of cards and gift wrappings, design a wide variety of invitations, dance programs, decals and tack-ups.
Translations:
hyperscale
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From hyper- + scale.
Base: scale
Affixes: hyper-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to scale appropriately as increased demand is added to the system.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
harman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: harmans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A policeman.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: I Frisky Moll, with my rum coll, / Wou'd Grub in a bowzing ken; / But ere for the scran he had tipt the cole, / The Harman he came in.
I pray you now send me some dub, / A bottle or two to the needy. / I beg you won't bring it yourself, / The harman is at the Old-Bailey; / I'd rather you'd send it behalf, / For, if they twig you they'll nail you.
gloss: An indole alkaloid, 1-methyl-9H-β-carboline (C12H10N2) found in several foods, plants and beverages which is carcinogen. It is a specific, reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A.
pos: noun
examples: Harman is a common compound in several foods, plants and beverages. Numerous studies have demonstrated its mutagenic, co-mutagenic and carcinogenic effects; however, the exact mechanism has not been fully identified.
Synonyms: harman-beck
nuthook
PC Plod
Related words: harman-beck
harmans
Derived words: norharman
Translations:
yoke-pin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: yoke-pins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of four vertical wooden bars, half on each side of the animal's head, on a yoke.
pos: noun
Translations:
non-tilting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + tilting.
Base: tilting
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: nontilting
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That does not tilt, or is not designed to tilt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Built by Bombardier, the 44 Class 221 Super Voyagers have tilting mechanisms and were delivered in a mixture of four-car and five-car versions. The remainder were the non-tilting four-car Class 220s.
Translations:
barin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian ба́рин (bárin).
Inflected forms:
form: barins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of boyar.
pos: noun
examples: Do not take him away, for he is a Barin, and yet he seeks to understand the mujik, and that also is a new thing.
As a matter of "education (or re-education)" of his farmers, a landlord (barin) was demonstrating them a new plough he has purchased in Germany. The farmers (mouzhiki) watched silently and attentively. Then one of them said: - Barin, is this plough from Germany? - Yes. - That Germany which buys grain in Russia? - Yes. - Where are they going to buy grain, once we'll have started ploughing their way?
There is Russian saying - Muzhik was angry at barin but barin did not even know about that
Translations: