yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
delusional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English delusion
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 delusional
From delusion + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more delusional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most delusional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: delusionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Suffering from delusions; having false or faulty beliefs.
pos: adj
examples: You're delusional if you think that plan will work.
Morgan could not remember the last time he had heard his first name used, and he had not even been aware that Captain Jackson knew it. Regardless, he could not reply; he was sure he must be delusional. He had lost too much blood […]
gloss: Being, in the form of, or relating to, a delusion.
pos: adj
examples: Delusional jealousy […] A delusional belief that one's partner is being unfaithful. This can occur as part of a wider psychotic illness, secondary to organic brain damage (e.g. following the 'punch drunk syndrome' in boxers), […]
The latest act in the Madness of King Donald drama playing globally on every channel underlined the increasingly delusional world the anti-hero inhabits, his fantasies fed and indulged by a cast of sycophants, lackeys and straight grifters, all in it for what they can get.
gloss: A person suffering from a delusion.
pos: noun
examples: But of course, that excludes the narcissistic delusionals, the deliberate frauds, and the pathological cases of multiple personality. They are all out there in New Age Land, and it's a jungle!
Related words: delusionary
Derived words: antidelusional
delulu
delusional companion syndrome
delusional disorder
delusionality
delusionally
delusional misidentification syndrome
delusional parasitosis
nondelusional
predelusional
undelusional
Translations:
nomadic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νομαδικός (nomadikós), equivalent to nomad (“a member of a society or class of herdsmen”) + -ic (forming adjectives).
Base: nomad
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more nomadic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nomadic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nomadick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to nomads.
pos: adj
examples: For centuries, the nomadic tribes of Central Asia used colorful textiles called suzanis as seating, prayer mats, bedding and dividers in their yurts – the traditional tents that were their homes.
gloss: Of or relating to nomads.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
Neither vehicle has a set home base. Young explains: "They are 'nomadic' nationally employed assets that, rather than having a regular home depot, are generally deployed and maintained following a programme of works across the full network.
Derived words: nomadically
nomadic furniture
nomadicity
nonnomadic
seminomadic
unnomadic
Translations:
nectar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin nectar, from Ancient Greek νέκταρ (néktar, “nourishment of the gods”), from Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- (“perish, disappear”) + *-tr̥h₂ (“overcoming”), from *terh₂- (“to overcome, pass through, cross over”).
Inflected forms:
form: nectars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nectars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nectaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nectared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nectared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The drink of the gods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good, / Good both for erthly med'cine and for hevenly food.
gloss: Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To feed on nectar.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Nectaring is one of butterflies' favourite activities.
On the lane below, more orangetips nectared on spring beauties and violets.
Related words: nectarine
nectarous
nectary
ambrosia
pollen
Derived words: amber nectar
Dashe's nectar bat
nectariferous
nectarivore
nectarivorous
nectarize
nectarless
nectarlike
nectarophagous
nectar scarab
Thomas's nectar bat
Translations:
neoconservative
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Hellenic *néwos
Ancient Greek νέος (néos)
Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der.
English neo-
English conservative
English neoconservative
From neo- + conservative.
Inflected forms:
form: neoconservatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A supporter of neoconservatism.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The neoliberals stand today in somewhat the position neoconservatives occupied a decade ago. Their ambition is to attain the influence in liberal politics that the neoconservatives have attained in conservative politics.
gloss: Of or relating to neoconservatism.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: There have been suggestions by a number of American neoconservative hawks to denuke Iran with “swift, massive, devastating force that decapitates the regime.
And the liberal blogosphere has long labeled Clinton part of the neoconservative wing, a conservative intellectual movement that supports an interventionist foreign policy.
Translations:
self-replicating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English replicating
English self-replicating
From self- + replicating.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to generate a copy of itself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bioassay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English assay
English bioassay
From bio- + assay.
Inflected forms:
form: bioassays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bioassays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bioassaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bioassayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bioassayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The analysis of the biological activity of a substance, with reference to a standard preparation, using a culture of living cells, or a living creature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To carry out such an analysis.
pos: verb
Translations:
beneficiation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: beneficiations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The reduction in size of particles of ore (or similar physical processing) before further processing to recover the metal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The beryl is cobbed out by hand, since no method for successful beneficiation has been developed and applied.
Beneficiation of contaminated material makes up a high portion of refractory recycling costs, underscoring the importance of keeping the material clean on tearout.
Translations:
bemused
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bemused
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bemused
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: deeply thoughtful; preoccupied
pos: adj
gloss: perplexed and bewildered
pos: adj
examples: That left Bradly as bemused as ever, for it posed another incomprehensibility: Why had Podson walked here?
Related words: bemusement
muse
musings
Derived words: bemusedly
unbemused
Translations:
beatbox
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From beat + box.
Compound parts: beat
box
Inflected forms:
form: beatboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beatboxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beatboxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beatboxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beatboxed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of electronic percussion device.
pos: noun
examples: Self-styled 'black gentleman vampire' who followed his cousin in to hip-hop by rapping in front of a beatbox for his first shows on Long Island, New York.
But by 1980 Fenley had collaborated with Mark Freedman on the high-energy, repetitive sound score for Energizer by manipulating a beatbox, the omnipresent instrument of late disco music.
Hip-hop took the language and made it graffiti—it was music video on a wall with a beatbox blowing its subwoofers next to it.
gloss: To use one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats and rhythms for music.
pos: verb
examples: Hell, why do so many of us still breakdance? Why do so many of us still beatbox? The two most successful rappers to come out of Chicago, Common Sense and The Brat, had nothing to do with the city-wide hip-hop scene.
Before you knew it, everyone, everywhere, was trying to copy Fresh's technique, and every rapper on the planet seemed intent on proving they could beatbox (with varying, occasionally embarrassing degrees of success).
Turull, group elder, and Wright, the youngest, play off each other extraordinarily well, be it on cajon or when the latter jumps up to beatbox against Marina’s lyrical sidesteps.
Translations:
beasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English beast
English -ing
English beasting
From beast + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: beastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The imposition of arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
uncountable
usually
Translations:
plug-in
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plug indeverb.
English plug-in
Deverbal from plug in.
Inflected forms:
form: plugin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: plug-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plugin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Designed to be plugged into an electrical power outlet or circuit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Able to be extended with further components in a modular fashion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Anything that plugs into something.
pos: noun
gloss: A module or device that interacts with another to add a specific feature or function.
pos: noun
gloss: An electric vehicle that can be recharged from an external power source.
pos: noun
gloss: An air freshener that can be charged by connecting it to the mains power supply.
pos: noun
examples: They take your best bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and boil it up with Satsuma peel and bits of stick, resulting in a hot sour wine and every room of the house smelling like a festive Airwick Plug-in has exploded, with the added bonus that all your best pans are now ruined. Cheers!
But unlike other Glade products with the aroma being released simply by spraying it or by opening the container, this new product the "Glade Plug-In" required that the product actually be plugged into an electrical socket in order for the aroma and fragrance to get released into the air, with the slogan for its product being "Plug it in, plug it in".
Plus, I expect a Febreze plug-in would smell like heaven to me right now.
I quickly picked up the dirty laundry that was scattered all around, opened the window, sprayed the room down with Febreze, changed the plug-in, and called it good.
Synonyms: add-in
add-on
snap-in
Antonyms: hard-wired
Related words: plug-in hybrid
drop-in
Translations:
uta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: cutaneous leishmaniasis
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
non-word
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English word
English non-word
From non- + word.
Inflected forms:
form: non-words
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nonword
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any sequence of sounds or letters which is not considered to be a word, whether through an accidental gap (for example, phextapher-styphren) or through a systematic gap (for example, fssstpklyitnbkdv).
pos: noun
examples: This linguistics textbook, like many others, precedes nonwords with an asterisk; for example, *narbletome.
[…] trashola prose features regular dollops of sub-literate laziness (including non-words like "arousement" and "assertation").
gloss: Any term that is not among the words of a language as those have often traditionally been defined by nonlinguists (for example, having syllables, and having come from centuries-old predecessor words): thus, an abbreviation, acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, number written in digits (Arabic numerals 0 to 9), or logographic symbol.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: In their glossary, they were using a convention where the words were in blue font and the abbreviations and other nonwords were in purple font.
All this was revealing and encouraged our work to proceed with a less lofty aim than initially, but with a more practical one, namely, to inform authors, reviewers, and especially desk or copyeditors about the recommendations in different areas of biology and to imbue these persons with the need for some rules and guidelines on the use of "nonwords" in science. Clearly, authors and editors are free to use symbols and abbreviations of their choice as long as they are defined and conform to basic rules of scientific nomenclature in their fields.
Related words: nonce word
nonsense word
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: nonord
lang: Polish
word: niesłowo
backcomb
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From back + comb.
Compound parts: back
comb
Inflected forms:
form: backcombs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backcombing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backcombed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backcombed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: back-comb
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: backcombs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back-comb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To hold the hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Her dark-blonde hair, worn long at Oxford, had been cut and backcombed, Diana-style, and quivered when she shook her head.
gloss: The hairstyle produced by backcombing.
pos: noun
examples: You and your fit friends anyway / I'd take them all out any day / They all got backcombs anyway
gloss: A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: There was a part of a bottle of liquor on the table—the furniture of the hall was disarranged—a pair of slippers, two small combs, and a backcomb were lying near an easy chair.
A backcomb comprising a pair of oppositely disposed members of sheet material each provided with teeth along one margin, a pivot pin securing the members at one end in overlapping relation.
Her father had produced a pink crêpe de Chine blouse and a backcomb massed with brilliants—both of which she refused to wear.
Translations:
backcloth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From back + cloth.
Compound parts: back
cloth
Inflected forms:
form: backcloths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.
pos: noun
examples: Every day the coast looked the same, as though we had not moved; but we passed various places - trading places - with names like Gran’ Bassam, Little Popo, names that seemed to belong to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister backcloth.
Translations:
backchat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English back
English chatterder.
English chat
English backchat
From back + chat.
Inflected forms:
form: backchats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back chat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: back-chat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: backchats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backchatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backchatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backchatted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: back chat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: back-chat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: Old Pete would have had some smart gay backchat to deal with an awkward moment like this.
gloss: To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.
pos: verb
examples: Peter was sent to detention for backchatting the teacher.
Translations:
ideological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ideology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English ideological
From ideology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more ideological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ideological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to one or more ideologies.
pos: adj
examples: There are economists from all over the ideological spectrum.
ideological fervor
Given these entrenched ideological assumptions about the colonial order, it is no wonder that the state and those groups with an interest in the status quo viewed with suspicion and hostility any challenges to the fixed and "natural" boundaries between different sorts of people.
She also noted that the administration, in a letter in April, “specifically conditioned funding on agreeing to its ten terms, only one of which related to antisemitism, while six related to ideological and pedagogical concerns, including who may lead and teach at Harvard, who may be admitted, and what may be taught.”
gloss: Irrational; supported by misinformation and social reinforcement, as opposed to credible evidence.
pos: adj
gloss: Characterized by strict, uncompromising adherence to a particular political ideology, rather than what’s necessarily considered popular or practical.
pos: adj
examples: The most ruthless leaders in history were often ideological ones with utopian visions.
The regime, ideological in governance, continued its agenda despite experts’ criticism.
ideological trade policy
Related words: ideologically
ideology
transideological
Derived words: anti-ideological
interideological
nonideological
politico-ideological
postideological
socio-ideological
unideological
Translations:
colourisation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English colour
English -ise
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 -isation
English colourisation
From colour + -isation.
Inflected forms:
form: colourisations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colorisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: colorization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: colourization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: UK standard spelling of colorization.
pos: noun
Translations:
colorization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English color
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
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 -ization
English colorization
From color + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: colorizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colorisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: colourisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: colourization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
British
Canada
English
Oxford
Senses:
gloss: An electronic process that adds color to black and white movies.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
chemiluminescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English chemi-
Latin lumen
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁sḱeti
Proto-Italic *-ēskō
Latin -ēscō
Latin -escensder.
English -escence
English luminescence
English chemiluminescence
From chemi- + luminescence.
Inflected forms:
form: chemiluminescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chemoluminescence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chemiluminesence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: The emission of light as the result of a chemical reaction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
impetuosity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From English impetuous + -ity, from Middle French impétuosité, from Old French.
Base: impetuous
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: impetuosities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of making rash or arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive or forceful manner.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: She had however another motive, beside her obedience, to accompany the old gentleman in the chase; for by her presence she hoped in some measure to restrain his impetuosity, and to prevent him from so frequently exposing his neck to the utmost hazard.
gloss: The condition or quality of being impetuous, impatient; fury; violence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Again his lordship began his long and deliberate perusal, while Henrietta watched the slow motion of his eyes with a degree of impetuosity she could scarcely repress.
Synonyms: impetuousness
Related words: impetuous
impetuously
impetuousness
Translations:
bioluminescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
Latin lumen
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁sḱeti
Proto-Italic *-ēskō
Latin -ēscō
Latin -escensder.
English -escence
English luminescence
English bioluminescence
From bio- + luminescence.
Inflected forms:
form: bioluminescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The emission of light by a living organism (such as a firefly).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
impetuousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impetuous
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 impetuousness
From impetuous + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being impetuous; making arbitrary decisions.
pos: noun
tags: no-plural
uncountable
gloss: The result of being impetuous; arbitrary decisions.
pos: noun
tags: no-plural
Synonyms: impetuosity
Translations:
beefaroni
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of beef + macaroni.
Compound parts: beef
macaroni
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a baked dish of macaroni, ground beef, cheese and tomato sauce
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Translations:
pff
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Inflected forms:
form: pf
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: pfff
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: pfft
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: pft
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An expression of annoyance or disappointment.
pos: intj
gloss: A dismissive response to a ridiculous comment.
pos: intj
examples: My doctor advised me to drink less. Pff, if only it were so easy.
gloss: The sound made whilst blowing a raspberry.
pos: intj
gloss: The sound of stifled laughter.
pos: intj
Translations:
permaculture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Italic *peri-
Latin per-
Proto-Indo-European *men-der.
Proto-Italic *monēō
Latin maneō
Latin permaneōlbor.
Middle French permanentbor.
English permanent
Middle French agriculturebor.
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros
Proto-Italic *agros
Latin ager
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūra
Latin agricultūrabor.
Middle English agriculture
English agriculture
blend
English permaculture
Blend of permanent + agriculture, coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in 1978. For a long time Bill Mollison claimed to have copyrighted the word; this was never the case, as copyright law is not applicable to single words.
Compound parts: permanent
agriculture
Inflected forms:
form: permacultures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any system of sustainable agriculture that renews natural resources and enriches local ecosystems.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: in a world where there are competing ends for the use of natural resources, and particularly energy forms, the aim of permaculture is to create productive systems which are ecologically sound and ecologically viable, provide for their own […]
gloss: The design, installation and maintenance of indefinitely sustainable human communities set in balanced ecologies, both urban and rural.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: permacultural
permaculturalist
permaculturist
Translations:
permanence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Middle English permanence, permanens, from Middle French permanence, from Medieval Latin permanentia, from Latin permaneō (“to remain; last”).
Inflected forms:
form: permanences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being permanent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry with it any permanence of devotion.
Transport Scotland acknowledges that the permanence of the new fares regime could be the clincher in persuading people to "travel more often and make long-term choices with certainty, helping people to leave the car at home".
gloss: The reciprocal of magnetic inductance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: perdurance
remanence
continuance
permanence
permanency
permansion
remanency
Antonyms: transience
impermanence
Related words: impermanence
permanent
Derived words: object permanence
semipermanence
Translations:
teary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tery; equivalent to tear + -y.
Base: tear
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: tearier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: teariest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.
pos: adj
examples: No wonder Ryan was teary; he missed his parents.
gloss: Of eyes, filled with tears.
pos: adj
examples: Wade looked into his girlfriend's teary eyes.
Derived words: tearily
teariness
teary-eyed
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: uslzený
lang: Czech
word: slzavý
lang: Finnish
word: kyyneleinen
lang: French
word: larmoyant
lang: German
word: larmoyant
lang: Italian
word: lacrimoso
lang: Māori
word: matawai
lang: Māori
word: matawaia
lang: Māori
word: toriwai
lang: Māori
word: tōwahiwahi
lang: Māori
word: tōwāwahi
lang: Polish
word: łzawy
lang: Russian
word: слёзный
roman: sljóznyj
lang: Turkish
word: sulu gözlü
survivorship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
law
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English survivor
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English survivorship
From survivor + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: survivorships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being a survivor.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We therefore seek a method for response-function normalization method which involves manipulating empirical curves that result from unconstrainted empirical fits of the corrected survivorship data.
gloss: The number or percentage of young that survive to adulthood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A right whereby a person becomes entitled to property by reason of his having survived another person who had an interest in it. It is one of the elements of a joint tenancy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: presumption of survivorship
survivorship bias
Translations:
wryneck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From wry + neck.
Compound parts: wry
neck
Inflected forms:
form: wrynecks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.
pos: noun
gloss: A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Synonyms: mackerel bird
Translations:
wigeon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Early 16th century. Probably from Middle French vigeon, from Old French vigeon, vingeon (“wigeon”), from Old French vignier (“to whine or shout”) + -on (“noun suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: wigeons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: widgeon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of three freshwater dabbling ducks.
pos: noun
gloss: A fool.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Derived words: American wigeon Mareca americana
Chiloe wigeon Mareca sibilatrix
Eurasian wigeon Mareca penelope
southern wigeon
Translations:
woodcock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wodecocke, wode-koc, wodekok, from Old English wudecocc, wuducoc, equivalent to wood + cock.
Base: wood
Inflected forms:
form: woodcock
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: woodcocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.
pos: noun
examples: "[A]h, that was the woodcock and the goatsucker - yes, yes! it sounds strange to him, that hasn't heard him[.]"
The woodcook is not only a culinary delight but it is reputed to increase seminal fluid.
gloss: A simpleton.
pos: noun
examples: If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you / Run your neck into the noose, and cry, "A woodcock!"
"Now will that silly woodcock make such a report of what I have said to his chosen friend," observed Sir Robert to his companion when my Lord Cobham was out of hearing[…]
Related words: roding
the patrolling flight pattern of the woodcock
Derived words: Amami woodcock
American woodcock
Bukidnon woodcock
Eurasian woodcock
Javan woodcock
Moluccan woodcock
New Guinea woodcock
Scotch woodcock
Sulawesi woodcock
Translations:
extender
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climbing
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
sciences
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English extend
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 extender
From extend + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: extenders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who extends.
pos: noun
examples: The public has learned to accept the services of physician extenders as a substitute for a qualified medical doctor, but the medical profession itself will, I daresay, continue to erect substantial barriers to any policy or effort that directly affects income.
[Marc Jacobs] is a colonialist, an extender of brands, and in very good shape.
gloss: Any of various substances designed to extend any of several properties of a material.
pos: noun
examples: “Flour” routinely contained crushed stone or gypsum as a cheap extender.
gloss: Any of various components designed to extend the length of a device.
pos: noun
gloss: Any substance added to food to bulk it out, with a higher protein content than a filler.
pos: noun
examples: Soy protein is used as a meat extender.
gloss: A runner, or quick-draw.
pos: noun
gloss: A phrase that extends an expression to include further members of a set, e.g. "and stuff", "or something".
pos: noun
Derived words: DOS extender
physician extender
range extender
telextender
Translations:
payday
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pay + day.
Compound parts: pay
day
Inflected forms:
form: paydays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pay day
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The day of the week or month, or the specific day, on which an employee's wages or salary is paid.
pos: noun
Translations:
pavlova
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the surname Pavlova, from Russian Па́влова (Pávlova), feminine form of Па́влов (Pávlov), named after Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1881–1931). Australia/New Zealand from circa 1930. Both nations lay claim to origination of the dish and the name. According to research undertaken by the Oxford English Dictionary, however, the earliest known attestation for the term is from New Zealand in 1927.
Inflected forms:
form: pavlovas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pavlova
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A meringue dessert usually topped with fruit and cream.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
countable
uncountable
examples: The pavlova — rich in whipped cream and ice-cream — is a wonderful dessert that should appeal to anyone with a sweet tooth.
For a successful pavlova you′ll need a spotlessly clean, dry stainless steel or glass bowl.
Pavlova, named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, is still just about the most popular party dessert in Australia.
Perhaps you lied in the emergency room about eating an entire pavlova and acted like you didn’t know what was wrong with you? If so, make amends by only ever eating a couple of slices of pavlova in one sitting from now on.
Steal the pavlova if you must, but only an April Fool would deem the lamington a Kiwi import.
Translations:
plotz
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yiddish פּלאַצן (platsn, “to split, crack, burst, explode”).
Inflected forms:
form: plotzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plotzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plotzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plotzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To flop down wearily.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To faint.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fall down dead.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
harmonize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From French harmoniser. By surface analysis, harmony + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: harmonizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: harmonizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: harmonized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: harmonized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: harmonise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To be in harmonious agreement.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This explanation of the clan totem harmonizes with the supposed effect of killing one of the totem species.
Late-night disruptions from the previous club repeatedly plagued the neighborhood. Mindful of this experience, we have been anxious to facilitate a new use for the building which would harmonize with the residential character of the area.
gloss: To play or sing in harmony.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To provide parts to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bring things into harmony, or to make things compatible; to reconcile; juggle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide the harmony for a melody.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: harmonization
Derived words: harmonizability
harmonisability
disharmonize
disharmonise
harmonizable
harmonisable
harmonization
harmonisation
harmonizer
harmoniser
harmonizingly
harmonisingly
reharmonize
reharmonise
unharmonized
unharmonised
Translations:
timothy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Timothy Hanson, who carried the seed from New England to Maryland about 1720.
Inflected forms:
form: timothies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Timothy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Timothy-grass (Phleum pratense), native to Europe, but introduced widely and naturalized in US.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Mountain timothy (Phleum alpinum), native to North America.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Grass of other species of genus Phleum.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: catstail
timothy-grass
Timothy-grass
timothy grass
Timothy grass
Derived words: alpine timothy
mountain timothy
timothy-grass
timothy hay
Translations:
geodynamics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dunamai
Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor.
French dynamiqueder.
English dynamic
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English dynamics
English geodynamics
From geo- + dynamics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the branch of geophysics that studies the deformation processes of planetary mantle and crust, and the resulting earthquakes and volcanism
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
geomagnetism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
English magnetism
English geomagnetism
From geo- + magnetism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The magnetism of the Earth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The science that studies the magnetism of the Earth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: geomagnetic
paleomagnetism
Translations:
geomorphology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
English morphology
English geomorphology
From geo- + morphology.
Inflected forms:
form: geomorphologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of landforms, their classification, origin, development, and history.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The point is that as fairly static pre-war Davisian geomorphology and Köppenian climate classification gave way to postwar, dynamic, process geomorphology and climate change studies, as geography went through its revolution, the field was radically transformed, geography became–and continues to be–central to and vital for the larger project of understanding global environmental change in all its complexity. Physical things are processural and relational.
Translations:
seer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English seere, equivalent to see + -er (“agent suffix”).
Base: see
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: seers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: see-er
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: seeër
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
pos: noun
examples: "But I must not forget to tell you that the lad was born on a Sunday, and had found a card with the four of clubs; therefore he was a seer, that is to say, he could see the supernatural people, but they could not see him."
gloss: One who sees something; an eyewitness.
pos: noun
examples: As a seer of beautiful visions, or, shall we say, of visions of the beautiful, he is never weary of celebrating the poet and his vocation.
Derived words: seercraft
seeress
seerhood
seerlike
seership
sightseer
Translations:
wordplay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From word + play.
Compound parts: word
play
Inflected forms:
form: wordplays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A humorous play on words; such plays on words collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Even this modest wordplay was an outlier: Sagers counted only three backronyms across the ’70s and ’80s.
gloss: A witty verbal exchange; such exchanges collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The part of a cryptic clue that indicates but does not define the solution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: delete the T from another part in the wordplay
However, some clues include words that do not form part of the wordplay or the definition.
Synonyms: joke
Related words: wordplayer
pun
repartee
word game
Translations:
heartbreak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From heart + break. Compare heartache § Etymology.
Compound parts: heart
break
Inflected forms:
form: heartbreaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
Translations:
buttoned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more buttoned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most buttoned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a button or buttons.
pos: adj
examples: a buttoned sofa
gloss: Having the buttons fastened.
pos: adj
Derived words: buttoned-down
buttoned-up
buttoned up
multibuttoned
unbuttoned
Translations:
wiz
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of wizard.
Inflected forms:
form: wizzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wizzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wizzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wizzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wizzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who is exceptionally clever, gifted or skilled in a particular area.
pos: noun
examples: a maths wiz
gloss: A wizard; an administrator of a multi-user dungeon.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
informal
examples: One notorious trick in less reputable corners of the MUD universe is to talk somebody into going into a dark corner of a MUD for some tinysex — dirty talking via computer screen, within character for the MUD, along with explicit posing — a dark corner where some invisible wizzes are hiding.
The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.
gloss: To be promoted to wizard (administrator) status in a multi-user dungeon, by completing the game quest.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
informal
intransitive
examples: I lost interest and stopped playing soon after I wizzed.
Translations:
suplex
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: Perhaps related to the suplay of classical wrestling, if not further inspired by super; also see -ex. Another explanation could be from sub + plecto, (meaning essentially I turn, twist, combine, or "braid" from under) which could ultimately reduce into English as suplex due to it being a novel innovation.
Inflected forms:
form: suplexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: suplexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suplexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suplexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suplexed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wrestling move in which the wrestler picks up their opponent off the ground (or mat) and then, using a large portion of their own body weight, drives the opponent down on the mat by throwing them over their center of gravity, usually arching their back.
pos: noun
gloss: To subject to this maneuver.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
magneto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of magneto-electric (machine).
Inflected forms:
form: magnetos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small magnetic dynamo, especially one that provides power to the spark plugs of a small internal combustion engine (now mostly used in aircraft).
pos: noun
examples: Black tracks on the magneto, a hairline crack in the flywheel casing, pitted points or a spitless exhaust — all are clues to potential conkouts
Translations:
yuzu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 柚子 (yuzu).
Inflected forms:
form: yuzus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A citrus fruit originating in East Asia, Citrus ichangensis x Citrus reticulata var. austera.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She scoops a grassy, barely sweet green-tea sorbet onto white chocolate ganache, and garnishes it with coin-size meringues that break easily, then strings syrupy, candied yuzu zest across it all.
Translations: