Morph

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  • intransitive verb. To transform (an image) by computer.
  • intransitive verb. To be transformed.
  • noun. An allomorph.
  • noun. One of various distinct forms of a species (such as color variant) or of an organism during different parts of its life cycle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An abbreviation of morphology, morphological, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb. To transform smoothly in imperceptible steps from one image to another, on a computer screen.
  • noun. A sequence of phonemes, often a word fragment, which constitutes the minimum unit of meaning or syntax within a given word. A morph may be one of several variants of a morpheme, depending for its individal form on the context in which it occurs. Thus the morphs -s and -es are variants of the morpheme by which the plural form of an English noun is expressed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence sounds.
  • noun. An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
  • noun. Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour.
  • noun. A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.
  • verb. To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
  • verb. To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cause to change shape in a computer animation
  • verb. change shape as via computer animation
  • Word Usage
    "Q: We have to be careful here, because the identity of the gypsy morph is a key mystery in the novel, but can you describe generally what this creature is and what it represents?"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    alter  change  contort  deform  distort  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    dwarf  orf  wharf  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    verb-form
    morphed  morphing  morphs