Standard Lemma guide
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noun
A recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds representing an indivisible morphological form; especially as representing a morpheme.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
A variety of a species, distinguishable from other individuals of the species by morphology or behaviour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Morphine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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noun
A hermaphrodite, an intersex person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, colloquial
Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
To shapeshift.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fantasy, literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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verb
To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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verb
change shape as via computer animation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: contort, deform, distort, wring
verb
cause to change shape in a computer animation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: change, alter, modify
History
Back-formation from morpheme, from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). Compare German Morph, from Morphem. Attested since the 1940s.
Back-formation from morphism. Attested since the 1950s. See also morphology.
Clipping of metamorphose.
Clipping of morphine.
Clipping of morphodite.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
