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1000 | word:
centavo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
centavo (plural centavos)
forms:
form:
centavos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish or Portuguese.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
senses_topics:
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1001 | word:
AL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AL (plural ALs)
forms:
form:
ALs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of assembly language.
Initialism of artificial life.
Initialism of auxiliary language.
Initialism of annual leave.
senses_topics:
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1002 | word:
AL
word_type:
name
expansion:
AL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Alabama, a state of the United States of America.
Abbreviation of Alagoas, a state of Brazil.
Initialism of American League.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
1003 | word:
morpheme
word_type:
noun
expansion:
morpheme (plural morphemes)
forms:
form:
morphemes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French morphème, equivalent to morph + -eme. Ultimately from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “shape, form”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning. It may be a letter, a syllable, or otherwise.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences |
1004 | word:
product
word_type:
noun
expansion:
product (countable and uncountable, plural products)
forms:
form:
products
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English product, from Latin prōductus, perfect participle of prōdūcō, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.
senses_examples:
text:
They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production.
type:
example
text:
Skill is the product of hours of practice. His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue.
type:
example
text:
This is a product of lime and nitric acid.
type:
example
text:
The product of 2 and 3 is 6. The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24.
type:
example
text:
Product innovation is needed to meet changes in society and its requirements for particular types of banking product.
ref:
2002, Oonagh McDonald with Kevin Keasey, The future of retail banking in Europe, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
This sort of relationship can improve quality of transportation and can help in negotiations between transportation providers and transportation product users.
ref:
2002, Veljko Milutinović with Frédéric Patricelli, E-business and e-challenges, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
You can't create a stellar software product unless you know what it is supposed to do. You must work with the stakeholders to create the product scope.
ref:
2006, Teresa Luckey with Joseph Phillips, Software project management for dummies, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
type:
example
text:
These institutions are the products of enthusiasm; they are the instruments of wisdom.
ref:
1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
type:
quotation
text:
The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.
ref:
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
type:
quotation
text:
That store offers a variety of products. We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month.
type:
example
text:
He puts his fingers in Miller’s hair, which is greasy with product.
ref:
2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
Wash excess product out of your hair.
type:
example
text:
I got some product here – you buying?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Anything that is produced; a result.
The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
Anything that is produced; a result.
A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
Anything that is produced; a result.
A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
Anything that is produced; a result.
A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
Anything that is produced; a result.
Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.
Anything that is produced; a result.
Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
Anything that is produced; a result.
A commodity offered for sale.
Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc. Often specifically a preparation used to hold one's hair in a desired arrangement.
Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
arithmetic
mathematics
sciences
cosmetics
lifestyle
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1005 | word:
product
word_type:
verb
expansion:
product (third-person singular simple present products, present participle producting, simple past and past participle producted)
forms:
form:
products
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
producting
tags:
participle
present
form:
producted
tags:
participle
past
form:
producted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English product, from Latin prōductus, perfect participle of prōdūcō, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.
senses_examples:
text:
The probate of a Testament is the producting and insinuating of it before the Ecclesiastical Judge […]
ref:
1651, The Touchstone of Common Assurances, page 498
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce.
senses_topics:
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1006 | word:
crude
word_type:
adj
expansion:
crude (comparative cruder, superlative crudest)
forms:
form:
cruder
tags:
comparative
form:
crudest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
crude
etymology_text:
From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”). More at raw.
senses_examples:
text:
crude oil
type:
example
text:
a crude shelter
type:
example
text:
a crude estimate
type:
example
text:
a crude guess
type:
example
text:
a crude truth
type:
example
text:
a crude remark
type:
example
text:
You shouldn't use such crude language when talking to the bank manager.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a natural, untreated state.
Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
Lacking concealing elements.
Lacking tact or taste.
Immature or unripe.
Uncooked, raw.
Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
1007 | word:
crude
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crude (countable and uncountable, plural crudes)
forms:
form:
crudes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
crude
etymology_text:
From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”). More at raw.
senses_examples:
text:
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
ref:
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any substance in its natural state.
Crude oil.
senses_topics:
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1008 | word:
The Netherlands
word_type:
name
expansion:
The Netherlands
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
See Netherlands.
senses_topics:
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1009 | word:
lexicography
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lexicography (countable and uncountable, plural lexicographies)
forms:
form:
lexicographies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From lexico- (prefix meaning ‘speech; words’) + -graphy (suffix meaning ‘something written about a specified subject’).
senses_examples:
text:
[T]here are ſeveral Species of Writing, in which a proper Degree of Hebetude is abſolutely neceſſary, as well as in other profeſſions; such as Lexicography, Index-making, and the like; [...]
ref:
1735 March 5, “Craftsman, Feb. 22 [Julian calendar]. Nº 451.”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume V, London: […] Edward Cave, […], published February 1735, →OCLC, page 85, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Let me warn you, therefore, against that fallacious lexicography which forms new words, that undergoing the examination of political slander or intemperate zeal, are considered as having a known acception.—What is the word?—A word that should be discarded, when it is sought to affix to it another meaning than that which it bears in the cases where it is used.
ref:
1795 December 22, [John Philpot] Curran (defence counsel), “612. Trial of James Weldon for High Treason, […]”, in Thomas Jones Howell, editor, Cobbett’s Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors […], volume XXVI, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; [et al.], published 1819, →OCLC, column 267
type:
quotation
text:
[...] I have not only availed myſelf of all the Aſſiſtance which more ancient Sources of Spaniſh Lexicography could afford, but alſo had particular Recourſe to the Dictionary published at Madrid in 1797 and 1798, [...]
ref:
1802, Henry Neuman, “Preface”, in A New Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages; […] In Two Parts, 1st part (The Spanish before the English), London: […] Vernor and Hood, […], →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
There exist different forms of this character, but I think we should not presume to make an etymology of a Chinese character without being authorized by the Shwǒ wǎn, the oldest and most genuine source of Chinese lexicography.
ref:
1831, Ying Hing Soo, “Book Second”, in Charles Fried. Neumann [i.e., Karl Friedrich Neumann], transl., History of the Pirates who Infested the China Sea, from 1807 to 1810. […], London: […] Oriental Translation Fund, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
Without doubt, the most important single development in learner lexicography from the mid-1970s onwards has been the steadily increasing involvement of the computer at all stages of the dictionary-making process, from data gathering and analysis at one end, to compilation, production, and revision at the other.
ref:
1999, A[nthony] P[aul] Cowie, “The Role of the Computer in Learner Lexicography”, in English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners: A History, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, section 4.1 (Introduction), page 118
type:
quotation
text:
A dictionary, as an art and craft of lexicography, has always been closely associated with the notion of pedagogy.
ref:
2013, Amy Chi, “Researching Pedagogical Lexicography”, in Howard Jackson, editor, The Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography (Bloomsbury Companions), London, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
But changes of this nature belong to lexicography, as they do not affect the grammatical forms of words.
ref:
1828, Moses Stuart, “Changes of Consonants”, in A Grammar of the Hebrew Language, 3rd edition, Andover, Mass.: Flagg & Gould, →OCLC, part II (Changes and Peculiarities of Consonants and Verbs), § 105, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
What the history of language in general teaches, that in course of time, there is less change in form than signification, in grammar than lexicography, is true of the Greek.
ref:
1840, Geo. Benedict Winer [i.e., Georg Benedikt Winer], “§ 4. Grammatical Character of the N.T. Diction.”, in J. H Agnew, O. G. Ebbeke, transl., A Grammar of the Idioms of the Greek Language of the New Testament, Philadelphia, Pa.: Herman Hooker, […], →OCLC, part I, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
If Lexicography in general is that science whose task it is to set forth the nature of every single word of a language through all the periods of its existence, it is the task of Latin lexicography in particular to set forth the nature of every single word of the Latin language, as it makes itself known in all the periods of the existence of that language; or more succinctly expressed, it is the object of Latin lexicography to give the history of every single word of the Latin language.
ref:
1845 February, Wilhelm Freund, “Article IV. Principles of Latin Lexicography.”, in T[heodore] D[wight] Woolsey, transl., edited by B[ela] B[ates] Edwards and E[dwards] A[masa] Park, Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, volume II, number V, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam; Andover, Mass.: Allen, Morrill and Wardwell, →OCLC, section I (Of the Idea and Elements of Latin Lexicography), § 1, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he philologist may well refuse to accept a body of triliteral roots, developed on a highly artificial and uniform plan, as the ultimate fact in Semitic lexicography.
ref:
1911 December 13, C. J. Ball, “A Study in Biblical Philology”, in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, volume XXXIII, number CCXLIX, London: Society of Biblical Archaeology, →OCLC, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Academic lexicography, or 'metalexicography', as pursued in university departments of English or Linguistics, is concerned not primarily with the compiling of dictionaries – though academics may be involved in this, as consultants, for example – but with researching and teaching about the whole business of making dictionaries: their history, their typology, their structures, their users, and so on [...].
ref:
2002, Howard Jackson, “Criticising Dictionaries”, in Lexicography: An Introduction, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
There can be no doubt, that in a general sense a boat is a vessel, for it is "a vehicle in which men or goods are carried on the water," which is one of the definitions of a vessel given in our lexicographies; [...]
ref:
1828 October, Joseph Story, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, William P. Mason (reporter), “United States vs. an Open Boat and Lading”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the First Circuit, volume V, Boston, Mass.: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, published 1831, →OCLC, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
"Air put in motion" is the brief description of the wind in lexicographies; but what a contrast in quality according to its direction; [...]
ref:
1855 March, “A Bag of Wind”, in Putnam’s Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, and Art, volume V, number XXVII, New York, N.Y.: Dix & Edwards, […]; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., →OCLC, page 251, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The earliest examples of dictionaries or lexicographies in nearly any culture serve more to regularize and standardize the lexicon than to list or inventory it, and as such would tend to take as their object textual rather than spoken language.
ref:
1998, Christopher Leigh Connery, “Textual Authority and Textual Practice”, in The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China, Lanham, Md., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.
The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
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1010 | word:
jitter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jitter (countable and uncountable, plural jitters)
forms:
form:
jitters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly alteration of chitter (“to tremble, shiver”), from Middle English chittern (“to twitter, chatter”). Ultimately onomatopoeic; compare didder and teeter as well as German zittern.
senses_examples:
text:
That creepy movie gave me the jitters.
type:
example
text:
But Bolton deserve real credit, seeking to take advantage of their jitters at every opportunity in typically determined fashion.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.
ref:
2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Interviewer: How do you feel coming back here? What is constantly evoked in you when you see your center again back in Little Rock?
Clinton: Well first of all if I don't come back about once a month I start to get the jitters.
ref:
2022 May 5, Bill Clinton, 0:00 from the start, in Bill Clinton talks Arkansas politics & Ukraine Full interview, THV11, archived from the original on 2022-05-05
type:
quotation
text:
Now you have mirror-clear TV without picture flopover, jitter, tear!
ref:
1956, LIFE, volume 41, number 11, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nervous action; a tic.
A state of nervousness.
An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
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1011 | word:
jitter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jitter (third-person singular simple present jitters, present participle jittering, simple past and past participle jittered)
forms:
form:
jitters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jittering
tags:
participle
present
form:
jittered
tags:
participle
past
form:
jittered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly alteration of chitter (“to tremble, shiver”), from Middle English chittern (“to twitter, chatter”). Ultimately onomatopoeic; compare didder and teeter as well as German zittern.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be nervous.
To position data points randomly to avoid visual overlap.
senses_topics:
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1012 | word:
jitter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jitter (plural jitters)
forms:
form:
jitters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From jit + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1013 | word:
June
word_type:
name
expansion:
June (plural Junes)
forms:
form:
Junes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
June (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English June, june, re-Latinised variants of earlier Middle English Juyn, juyng, from Old French juing, juin, from Latin iūnius, the month of the goddess Iuno (“Juno”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu (“vital force, youthful vigor”).
senses_examples:
text:
This glad June day.
type:
example
text:
Her parents were old, really old. That's why they'd given her such an old-fashioned name. June, because she was born in June. If she'd been born in November would they have called her November? June was a name for women in sitcoms and soap operas, the name of women who knit with synthetic wool and follow recipes that use cornflakes, not the name of a thirty-year-old with a ring in her nose ('Oh, June'.)
ref:
2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World, Doubleday, page 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July. Abbreviation: Jun or Jun.
A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English], for a girl born in June, used since the end of the 19th century.
senses_topics:
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1014 | word:
June
word_type:
name
expansion:
June
forms:
wikipedia:
June (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Short for junior.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:June.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name, or more often nickname, for a boy who is junior to someone else, especially someone with the same name, such as his father.
senses_topics:
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1015 | word:
anti-Semitism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
anti-Semitism (countable and uncountable, plural anti-Semitisms)
forms:
form:
anti-Semitisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Antisemitenliga
Leibniz Institute for the German Language
anti-Semitism
etymology_text:
From German Antisemitismus. It is typically said that German political agitator Wilhelm Marr invented the term to replace Judenhaß (literally “Jew-hatred”) to make hatred of the Jews seem rational and sanctioned by scientific knowledge; Marr founded the Antisemitenliga ("Anti-Semites' League") in 1879, used the terms Semitismus and Antisemiten in his 1879 and 1880 pamphlets Der Sieg des Judenthums über das Germanenthum and Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum, and used Antisemitismus at least as early as his 1885 pamphlet Lessing contra Sem. The related term antisemitisch (“anti-semitic”) was first used in 1860, by Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider. See Wikipedia's article on the etymology and usage of the term.
The term is superficially/synchronically equivalent to anti- + Semitism (see Semite), for which reason it is rarely extended to cover prejudice against any Semitic people, or against adherents of any of the religions that originated among the Semitic peoples (the Abrahamic religions). See the usage notes.
senses_examples:
text:
Anti-Semitism means spreading enmity towards the Jews. When the accursed tsarist monarchy was living its last days it tried to incite ignorant workers and peasants against the Jews. The tsarist police, in alliance with the landowners and the capitalists, organised pogroms against the Jews. The landowners and capitalists tried to divert the hatred of the workers and peasants who were tortured by want against the Jews. In other countries, too, we often see the capitalists fomenting hatred against the Jews in order to blind the workers, to divert their attention from the real enemy of the working people, capital.
ref:
1919, Lenin, V. I., “Anti-Jewish Pogroms”, in George Hanna, transl., Lenin’s Collected Works, 4th edition, Progress Publisher, published 1972, pages 252 - 253
type:
quotation
text:
It isn’t surprising that American Jews fear far-right anti-Semitism more than anti-Semitism from any other source: the Anti-Defamation League has found that it is the source of the vast majority of ideologically motivated extremist violence in the U.S.
ref:
2020, Joel Swanson, “Are anti-Semitism fears stopping Jewish Dems from supporting Bernie Sanders?”, in The Forward
type:
quotation
text:
But Israel's policy of anti-semitism against Palestinians was not to the liking of India.
ref:
1986, Akhileshwar Singh, Political leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, page 228
type:
quotation
text:
Debate on Middle East issues is limited by what can only be seen as anti-Arab racism (itself a form of racist anti-semitism, since Arabs are semitic peoples), based on a severe lack of information.
ref:
1991 April 6, Steve Rose, “A Human Drama”, in Gay Community News, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
At this university, a faculty member has even gone so far as to declare Zionism a form of anti-Semitism against Palestinians.
ref:
2002, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism, numbers 1-39, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
Bluntly put: if you want to end today's "anti-Semitism" against Jews, end Zionism's "anti-Semitism" against Palestinians.
ref:
2003, Jeffrey St Clair, The Politics of Anti-Semitism, page 41
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Prejudice, discrimination, hostility or political or religious opposition directed against ethnic or religious Jews or against Judaism; antijudaism; judeophobia.
Prejudice, discrimination or hostility directed against any Semitic people (ancient or modern), such as Samaritans, Palestinians, Arabs or Assyrians.
senses_topics:
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1016 | word:
Pythonesque
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Pythonesque (comparative more Pythonesque, superlative most Pythonesque)
forms:
form:
more Pythonesque
tags:
comparative
form:
most Pythonesque
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the name of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, referring to their signature type of humour.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Farcically surreal or absurd.
senses_topics:
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1017 | word:
Pythonesque
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Pythonesque (comparative more Pythonesque, superlative most Pythonesque)
forms:
form:
more Pythonesque
tags:
comparative
form:
most Pythonesque
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The module works by wrapping the C-extended Tkinter module into Pythonesque classes.
ref:
2001, Andy Duncan, Sean Hull, Oracle and Open Source: Tools and Applications
type:
quotation
text:
If you want to cut out a third line, you can rewrite the above with a lambda function, which turns four lines into one (how very Pythonesque).
ref:
2003, Richard Hightower, Python Programming with the Java Class Libraries
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Typical of, or suited to, the Python programming language.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1018 | word:
abortion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abortion (countable and uncountable, plural abortions)
forms:
form:
abortions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abortion
etymology_text:
From Latin abortiōnem (“miscarriage, abortion”), from aborior (“to miscarry”). Equivalent to abort + -ion. Displaced native Old English ǣwyrp (literally “throwing out, rejection”).
senses_examples:
text:
Swines-bread, so used, doth not onely speed / A tardy labour; but (without great heed) / If over it a Child-great Woman stride, / Instant abortion often doth betide.
ref:
1605 [1578], Josuah, transl. Sylvester, “The Third Day of the First Week”, in Devine Weekes and Workes, translation of La Premiere Sepmaine by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, lines 693–696
type:
quotation
text:
At any time after impregnation, abortion may take place: it is one of the most common complaints of pregnancy, whence it is a matter of no small consequence that every practitioner should well understand it.
ref:
1809, William Nicholson, The British Encyclopaedia, volume IV
type:
quotation
text:
Mary decided to have an abortion because she was too young to raise a baby.
type:
example
text:
It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.
ref:
1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
The story of Ms. He and her mother began in the early 1960s, shortly before the Cultural Revolution shook China. Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried. “They were told by the factory, ‘Have an abortion or be fired’,” she said. They chose to keep her and were fired.
ref:
2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-16, Sinosphere
type:
quotation
text:
Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania will resign from Congress after claims that the anti-abortion Republican had urged a woman he was having an extramarital affair with to have an abortion.
ref:
2017 October 5, Ben Jacobs, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
‘It seems too hairy for an abortion, and too small for a mature birth.’
ref:
1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 657
type:
quotation
text:
The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion such as one sees in a glass jar in the museum of some county town.
ref:
1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
type:
quotation
text:
Insomuch that I do honestly believe, there can be no place in the world, where such intolerable abortions, begotten of the sculptor’s chisel, are to be found in such profusion, as in Rome.
ref:
1846, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in Pictures from Italy
type:
quotation
text:
His voice was the most pitiable abortion of a voice I had ever heard.
ref:
1889, Edward Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, New York, page 459, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Dickey on his own manages to turn a simple bo diddley 1-2-3-4 into an absolute abortion of a song.
ref:
2000, Jules, “please dont buy beacon cd”, in alt.fan.allman-brothers (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
an absolute abortion of a book
ref:
2003, David Kerekes, Headpress 24: Powered by Love, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
The returning good sense of our country threatens abortion to their hopes, & they believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.
ref:
1800 September 23, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush))
type:
quotation
text:
The transfer or loss of the project manager before the project is completed will result in lost continuity and delay or the abortion of the project and/or the report.
ref:
2013, Fakhry A. Assaad, James W. LaMoreaux, Travis Hughes, Field Methods for Geologists and Hydrogeologists, page 314
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the abrupt abortion of the trip after eleven days.
ref:
2015, Gabriele Brandstetter, Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.
A spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage.
The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.
An induced abortion.
An aborted foetus; an abortus.
A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.
Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc.
Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
|
1019 | word:
BM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
BM (countable and uncountable, plural BMs)
forms:
form:
BMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Frequent involuntary urination. Frequent desire for B.M. but no result.
ref:
1911, Journal of the National Medical Association
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Jansen stated that he had a medium-sized, soft, formed, brown BM after breakfast today.
ref:
2017, Sheila A. Sorrentino, Leighann N. Remmert, Mosby’s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 9th edition, St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier, page 424
type:
quotation
text:
They used to play Burzumesque BM, but moved on to a Doomy sound.
ref:
2000, NivendE, “black doom hybrids”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Fans know IdrA for his BM — Bad Manners.
ref:
2014, Doug Hendrie, AmalgaNations: How Globalisation Is Good
type:
quotation
text:
Bahasa Melayu is the national language and the official language of the Federation, said Dr Noor Hisham. Therefore, one of the entry requirements […] is a pass in BM subject at SPM level or equivalent.
ref:
2017 July 3, “‘Medical grads with O Level need only take SPM BM’”, in The Star, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-07-05
type:
quotation
text:
[…] on “National Language Day”, Bahasa Malaysia will be used […] Thursday will be made the day to use BM while Monday or Tuesday for English.
ref:
2018 July 14, Ibrahim Isa, quoting Maszlee Malik, “Education Ministry proposes weekly BM and English days”, in The New Straits Times, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-01-03
type:
quotation
text:
The assumption that Malay children are already proficient in Bahasa Melayu (BM) upon entering Year One is incorrect […] But while their command of English is strong, their BM is weak.
ref:
2018 December 3, Natasha Joibi, quoting Kadir Jasin, “Kadir Jasin: Language proficiency important, Malay children's command of BM weak”, in The Star, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-12-06
type:
quotation
text:
Life support for BM formats
Robert M. Lowery acknowledges that beautiful music formats are in the decline […]
ref:
1983, Television/Radio Age, volume 30, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
Practically every dentist or doctor's office carries a BM station.
ref:
1988, Donald F. Harvey, Strategic management and business policy, page 300
type:
quotation
text:
We broke the story ... the melee was caught on video, and appears to show a group of people attacking Fetty [Wap]'s BM and her friends.
ref:
2019 January 28, “Fetty Wap's Baby Mama Arrested After Fight for Telling Cop ... 'Suck My F***ing D***!!!'”, in TMZ
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of bowel movement.
Initialism of black metal.
Initialism of bad manners. Behaviour which shows disrespect to an opponent.
Initialism of ballistic missile.
Initialism of Bahasa Melayu or initialism of Bahasa Malaysia.
Initialism of beautiful music.
Abbreviation of British Museum.
Abbreviation of Bachelor of Medicine.
Abbreviation of Bachelor of Music.
Initialism of baby mama.
Initialism of black male.
Abbreviation of boy moment.
senses_topics:
video-games
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
broadcasting
media
|
1020 | word:
BM
word_type:
verb
expansion:
BM (third-person singular simple present BMs, present participle BMing, simple past and past participle BMed)
forms:
form:
BMs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
BMing
tags:
participle
present
form:
BMed
tags:
participle
past
form:
BMed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have a bowel movement.
To use bad manners.
senses_topics:
video-games |
1021 | word:
jour
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jour (plural jours)
forms:
form:
jours
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of journeyman, e.g. jour printer.
senses_topics:
|
1022 | word:
HTML
word_type:
name
expansion:
HTML
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Hypertext Markup Language.
senses_topics:
|
1023 | word:
February
word_type:
name
expansion:
February (plural Februaries or Februarys)
forms:
form:
Februaries
tags:
plural
form:
Februarys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
February
etymology_text:
From Middle English Februarie, februari, februare, from Latin Februārius (“the month of the Februa”), from Februa (“the Purgings, the Purifications”), a Roman holiday two days after its ides (i.e., Feb. 15), + -arius (“-ary: forming adjectives”). Februa from februum (“purging”), from an earlier Sabine [Term?] word, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, haze”) and thus cognate with thio- (“sulfurous”) and Ancient Greek θεῖον (theîon, “sulfur”) or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰris, an extension of the root *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”) and thus cognate with fever and febris. A relatinization abandoning Middle English feoverel, from Old French feverier, which itself displaced Old English solmōnaþ (“mud month”).
senses_examples:
text:
...The second he [sc. King Numa] dedicated to the god Februus, who is believed to control rites of purification: the community had to be purified in that month, when he determined that the Good Gods be paid the offerings due them... Numa soon added one day to January, paying honor to the mystery of the odd number that nature revealed even before Pythagoras: as a result, both the year as a whole and the individual months (save February) had an odd number of days. (If all twelve months had either an odd or even number of days, their total would be an even number...)
ref:
2011, Robert A. Kaster trans. Macrobius, Saturnalia, Book I, Chapter xiii, Sections 3–5
text:
February was set aside for the intercalation because it was the last month of the year... They departed from the Greeks in one respect, however: whereas the latter intercalated when the final month was over, the Romans intercalated after the twenty-third day of February, at the conclusion of the Terminalia. They then added on the last five days of February after the intercalary period, acting on the religious scruple of ancient custom, I think, so that March would follow on February no matter what.
ref:
2011, Robert A. Kaster trans. Macrobius, Saturnalia, Book I, Chapter xiii, Sections 14–15
text:
Julius Caesar, then, added ten days to the old practice, so that the 365 days in which the sun circles the zodiac would make a year; and to account for the one-quarter day, he ordained that the priests who attended to the months and days would insert one day every fourth year, in the same month and place where the ancients used to intercalate a month, that is, before the last five days of February, and he decreed that it be called the 'twice sixth'... he added no days to February, so that the religious observances offered to the gods of the dead would not be changed...
ref:
2011, Robert A. Kaster trans. Macrobius, Saturnalia, Book I, Chapter xiv, Sections 6–7
text:
Susan was born on February 29.
text:
“Cheryl, the man in this photo is a Mr. Dennis Lowe. He worked for a computer software company and he was married. He was impersonating a police officer, a real one by the name of Alexander Colton. He was doing this because he's obsessed with a woman named February—” Nowakowski stopped talking because Cheryl Sheckle's body jerked violently and she let out a muted cry. […] “It isn't a nickname, Cheryl. It's a real person, her name is February Owens and he's been obsessed with her since they went to high school together.”
ref:
2011, Kristen Ashley, For You
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The short month following January and preceding March in the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, used in all three calendars for intercalation or addition of leap days.
A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].
senses_topics:
|
1024 | word:
elephant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
elephant (countable and uncountable, plural elephants)
forms:
form:
elephants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Old French
etymology_text:
From Middle English elefant, elefaunt, from Old French elefant, elefan, olifant, re-latinized in Middle French as elephant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās) (gen. ἐλέφαντος (eléphantos)). Believed to be derived from an Afroasiatic form such as Proto-Berber *eḷu (“elephant”) (compare Tamahaq êlu, Tamasheq alu) or Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant; ivory”). More at ivory. Replaced Middle English olifant (from the aforementioned Old French form, from Vulgar Latin *olifantus), which replaced Old English elpend (“elephant”).
senses_examples:
text:
Let's play hide and seek. I'll count. One elephant, two elephant, three elephant...
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
Any member of the subfamily Elephantinae not also of the genera Mammuthus and Primelephas.
Anything huge and ponderous.
Synonym of elephant paper
used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second
Ivory.
A xiangqi piece that is moved two points diagonally, may not jump over intervening pieces and may not cross the river.
senses_topics:
media
printing
publishing
board-games
games
xiangqi |
1025 | word:
langue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
langue (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French langue. Doublet of lingua and tongue.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
1026 | word:
nonsense
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nonsense (usually uncountable, plural nonsenses)
forms:
form:
nonsenses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
nonsense
etymology_text:
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
senses_examples:
text:
After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.
type:
example
text:
While at the hospital, David kept screaming and yelling nonsense, stating Vladimir Putin bailed him out of jail and is a god.
ref:
2022 April 13, “Man Gets Arrested Twice in One Day”, in Code Blue Cam
type:
quotation
text:
and central banks lend vast sums against marshmallow backed securities, or other nonsenses creative bankers dreamed up.
ref:
2008 October 9, “Nick Leeson has some lessons for this collapse”, in Telegraph.co.uk
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
An untrue statement.
That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
Something foolish.
A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
biology
natural-sciences |
1027 | word:
nonsense
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nonsense (third-person singular simple present nonsenses, present participle nonsensing, simple past and past participle nonsensed)
forms:
form:
nonsenses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nonsensing
tags:
participle
present
form:
nonsensed
tags:
participle
past
form:
nonsensed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
senses_examples:
text:
At the Haymarket all this is nonsensed by an endeavor to steer between Mr. Stanley Weyman's rights as author of the story and the prescriptive right of the leading actor to fight popularly and heroically against heavy odds.
ref:
a. 1909, Bernard Shaw, “The Red Robe”, in James Huneker, editor, Dramatic Opinions and Essays by G. Bernard Shaw, volume 2, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
"They haven't nonsensed these workouts. They've taken them and used them very well. I didn't know how they'd respond, but they've responded."
ref:
1997 June 3, “Rockies respond to whip”, in Denver Post
type:
quotation
text:
Very commanding: very much 'end of this nonsensing'. Mister Fared spread his hands and shook his thin head imperceptibly, as if to say he understood.
ref:
2000, Leon Garfield, Jason Cockcroft, Jack Holborn, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
He further nonsensed press suggestions that the Petroleum Unit was set up to assist in the administration of sporting activities.
ref:
2006 March 17, “Sierra Leone: Petroleum Unit Calls for Auditing”, in AllAfrica.com
type:
quotation
text:
When he meant "go and get one" he said to go and get one, with no nonsensing around about "liking" to get one.
ref:
1963, C. F. Griffin, The Impermanence of Heroes, page 170
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make nonsense of;
To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
To joke around, to waste time
senses_topics:
|
1028 | word:
nonsense
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nonsense (comparative more nonsense, superlative most nonsense)
forms:
form:
more nonsense
tags:
comparative
form:
most nonsense
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nonsensical.
Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
1029 | word:
nonsense
word_type:
intj
expansion:
nonsense
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
senses_examples:
text:
The operators present this as a passenger benefit by claiming it provides early notice. Nonsense! This just means that passengers can't find any information about the train they thought they were catching. It simply disappears.
ref:
2023 January 11, Philip Haigh, “Comment: The worst chaos for 40 years”, in RAIL, number 974, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
senses_topics:
|
1030 | word:
BBC
word_type:
name
expansion:
BBC
forms:
wikipedia:
BBC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
This programme was made by the BBC.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of British Broadcasting Corporation.
Initialism of Blades Business Crew: a football hooligan firm linked to Sheffield United F.C.
Initialism of Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation, a defunct Philippine television network active from 1973 to 1986.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media |
1031 | word:
BBC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
BBC (countable and uncountable, plural BBCs)
forms:
form:
BBCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
BBC (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
She on my TV screen; I’m talking DVD / British bitches love my cock; I’m talking BBC
ref:
2014, ScHoolboy Q (lyrics and music), “Californication”, in Oxymoron
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: MSN
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of British-born Chinese.
Abbreviation of bromobenzyl cyanide.
Initialism of big black cock.
Initialism of Karim Benzema, Garthe Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo, the forward of Real Madrid between 2013 and 2018.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
lifestyle
sexuality
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports |
1032 | word:
maquiladora
word_type:
noun
expansion:
maquiladora (plural maquiladoras)
forms:
form:
maquiladoras
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish maquiladora, from maquilar (“assemble”).
senses_examples:
text:
If such maquiladora projects are to be the model for Haiti's economic future, they will simply create future generations of sweatshop labor at subsistence wages.
ref:
2013, Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, Simon & Schuster, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
The girls were invariably captured while running errands in the centre of town, or on their way to or from work in the hundreds of maquiladoras: sweatshop assembly plants that constitute the economy of Juárez, manufacturing (for rock-bottom wages) the goods that America and Europe deem essential to keep their supermarket shelves and car-concession outlets stocked.
ref:
2014 May 4, Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An assembly plant in Mexico owned by a company from the United States or another foreign country, using cheap local labour and imported components, and which then exports its products to the company's country of origin; also (by extension) similar factories in other countries.
senses_topics:
|
1033 | word:
everybody
word_type:
pron
expansion:
everybody (indefinite pronoun)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From every + body.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
All people.
senses_topics:
|
1034 | word:
ab
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ab (plural abs)
forms:
form:
abs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ab
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of abdominal muscles.
senses_examples:
text:
The bikinied models in most of the ESPN2 shows have abs. Many of the malnourished bikinied models in the commercials have visible rib cages. How did the two get conflated into a shared vision of beauty?
ref:
2006, H. Peter Steeves, The Things Themselves, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
When possible, do your ab workout on a day when you're not training a major muscle group […] .
ref:
2010, Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", Reps! 17:106
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
abdominal muscle.
senses_topics:
|
1035 | word:
ab
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ab (plural abs)
forms:
form:
abs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ab
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of abscess.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
senses_topics:
|
1036 | word:
ab
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ab (third-person singular simple present abs, present participle abbing, simple past and past participle abbed)
forms:
form:
abs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
abbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ab
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
text:
I had a climbing rope in my pack, set up an abseil with it, and abbed down to him.
ref:
1998, Climbing, numbers 178-180, page 22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To abseil.
Abbreviation of abort.
senses_topics:
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
1037 | word:
ab
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ab
forms:
wikipedia:
ab
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of abortion.
senses_topics:
|
1038 | word:
ab
word_type:
prep
expansion:
ab
forms:
wikipedia:
ab
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of about.
senses_topics:
|
1039 | word:
ab
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ab
forms:
wikipedia:
ab
etymology_text:
Abbreviations.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of about.
senses_topics:
|
1040 | word:
ab
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ab (plural abs)
forms:
form:
abs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ab
etymology_text:
From the spelling books and the fact that it was the first of the letter combinations.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.
senses_topics:
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1041 | word:
metric
word_type:
adj
expansion:
metric (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
Of or relating to distance.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences |
1042 | word:
metric
word_type:
noun
expansion:
metric (plural metrics)
forms:
form:
metrics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter.
senses_examples:
text:
What metric should be used for performance evaluation?
type:
example
text:
What are the most important metrics to track for your business?
type:
example
text:
It's the most important single metric that quantifies the predictive performance.
type:
example
text:
How to measure marketing? Use these key metrics for measuring marketing effectiveness.
type:
example
text:
There is a lack of standard metrics.
type:
example
text:
As for the large number of official statements that Spain is safe, I think they are merely a metric of the complacency that has characterised the European crisis from the start.
ref:
2011 April 10, Financial Times
type:
quotation
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
The insight underlying such wordlists is that frequency, combined with metrics such as range and dispersion, profiles for teachers and students the relative usefulness of words.
ref:
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
Ibanez had seen things with worse implications for herself, personally. That was the only metric of horror on which this sight knew remote equal. It was a wall, in a basic sense. It stretched from one side of the tunnel to the other, floor to ceiling, barring further passage. It was pink. It bubbled inside, and it sounded like a hundred simultaneous cases of indigestion which echoed off the rock around it.
ref:
2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-22
type:
quotation
text:
As we shall see, these metrics are constructed from a Green function.
ref:
2000, Lutz Habermann, Riemannian Metrics of Constant Mass and Moduli Spaces of Conformal Structures
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
A function which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the distance between two points. Formally, a real-valued function d on M×M, where M is a set, is called a metric if (1) d(x,y)=0 if and only if x=y, (2) d(x,y)=d(y,x) for all pairs (x,y), and (3) d obeys the triangle inequality.
A metric tensor.
Abbreviation of metric system.
senses_topics:
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
|
1043 | word:
metric
word_type:
verb
expansion:
metric (third-person singular simple present metrics, present participle metricking, simple past and past participle metricked)
forms:
form:
metrics
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
metricking
tags:
participle
present
form:
metricked
tags:
participle
past
form:
metricked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter.
senses_examples:
text:
We need to metric the status of software documentation.
type:
example
text:
We need to metric the verification of requirements.
type:
example
text:
We need to metric the system failures.
type:
example
text:
The project manager is metricking the closure of the action items.
type:
example
text:
Customer satisfaction was metricked by the marketing department.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
senses_topics:
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
1044 | word:
growth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
growth (countable and uncountable, plural growths)
forms:
form:
growths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
growth
etymology_text:
From grow + -th. Compare Old Frisian grēd ("meadow, pasture"; > North Frisian greyde (“growth, pasture”)), Middle High German gruote, gruot (“greens, fresh growth, shoot”), Old Norse gróðr ("growth, crop"; > Faroese grøði, Danish grøde (“fruits”), Swedish gröda (“crop, harvest”)). More at grow.
senses_examples:
text:
Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
type:
example
text:
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
ref:
2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
Liz Truss has promised Britons she has “got your back” and set out a plan for “growth, growth and growth” in a conference speech disrupted by protesters asking who voted for her plan.
ref:
2022 October 5, Rowena Mason, quoting Liz Truss, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Struggle, disappointment, and criticism all contribute to a person's growth.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
Ellipsis of economic growth.
An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
Something that grows or has grown.
An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences |
1045 | word:
AD
word_type:
adv
expansion:
AD
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
They had a vibrant culture from the 3rd century BC to the 2nd century AD.
type:
example
text:
Today is 24 August AD 2024.
type:
example
text:
Founded Aᴼ.Dᴵ. 1728 by Benj. Franklin
ref:
1916 September 23, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 189, number 13, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
There is a striving towards naturalism in agricultural scenes painted on bricks in tombs of the third century AD recently excavated at Chia-yü-kuan in Kansu Province which is reminiscent of later European illuminated manuscripts such as the English fifteenth-century Luttrell Psalter in the British Library.
ref:
1979, Paul Hulton, Lawrence Smith, “Naturalism in Sung China”, in Flowers in Art from East and West, Jarrold and Sons, →OCLC, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
But keep on the lookout for the 1st-century-a.d. stele on the right wall, with symbols of the deceased’s civic scribely duties (a scroll and codex), and the fresco remnants around to the left.
ref:
2010, John Moretti, “Perugia, Assisi & Northern Umbria”, in Florence, Tuscany & Umbria (Frommer’s), 7th edition, Wiley Publishing, Inc., section 2 (Assisi: An Artistic Pilgrimage), page 393
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Anno Domini (borrowed from Latin); in the year of our Lord.
senses_topics:
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1046 | word:
AD
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AD (countable and uncountable, plural ADs)
forms:
form:
ADs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
A few moments later, the A.D. reappears. "They need you," she says. "And could you stop by Wardrobe?" Shannen rolls her eyes. "O.K.!" she snaps.
ref:
1993 November, Lynn Hirschberg, “Brat on a Hot Tin Roof”, in Vanity Fair
type:
quotation
text:
2015 — Larochelle, Stéphane (December 2015). "STOMPing at the bits". Nature Methods 12 (12): 1114. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3679. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
Many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), involve pathological protein deposits.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of assistant director.
Initialism of air defence or air defense.
Initialism of antidepressant.
Initialism of auxiliary destroyer (a naval tender, a destroyer tender that tends to destroyers).
Initialism of Alzheimer's disease.
Initialism of airworthiness directive.
Abbreviation of audio description.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
film
media
television
government
military
politics
war
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
broadcasting
media
television |
1047 | word:
AD
word_type:
adj
expansion:
AD (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of antidumping.
senses_topics:
business |
1048 | word:
AD
word_type:
name
expansion:
AD
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Abu Dhabi.
Initialism of Andhra Pradesh.
senses_topics:
|
1049 | word:
Haus
word_type:
name
expansion:
Haus (plural Hauses)
forms:
form:
Hauses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the German and Jewish surname, from the noun Haus (“house”). Compare Hausmann, House.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname
senses_topics:
|
1050 | word:
nullify
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nullify (third-person singular simple present nullifies, present participle nullifying, simple past and past participle nullified)
forms:
form:
nullifies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nullifying
tags:
participle
present
form:
nullified
tags:
participle
past
form:
nullified
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From null + -ify.
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonyms: cancel, void
text:
The contract has been nullified.
type:
example
text:
It nullifies the night / from overkill
ref:
1983, Men At Work (lyrics and music), “Overkill”, in Cargo
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make legally invalid.
To prevent from happening.
To make of no use or value; to cancel out.
senses_topics:
law
|
1051 | word:
safety valve
word_type:
noun
expansion:
safety valve (plural safety valves)
forms:
form:
safety valves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From safety + valve.
senses_examples:
text:
Spun glass mattresses are used for lagging the boiler, which has three Ross pop safety valves on the front ring.
ref:
1941 April, “British Locomotive Developments”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
[A]nd to show that there was no shortage of steam, Royal Scot, directly we stopped, blew off vigorously from its safety-valves steam that well might have been used in the cylinders in the interest of timekeeping.
ref:
1959 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
Hernández additionally requested that he be given a two-level safety-valve reduction pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 5C1.2, which mitigates the harsh effect of mandatory minimum sentences on certain first-time offenders who played only supporting roles in drug-trafficking schemes and who provided testimony about their involvement in the criminal activity.
ref:
2020 June 30, David Jeremiah Barron, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, “United States v. Hernández-Hernández”, in Federal Reporter […] (No. 19-1123), volume 964, St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-02, page 100
type:
quotation
roman:
An attributive use.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A valve set to open at a pressure below that at which a container holding a gas, vapour, etc. (such as a boiler or pressure cooker), would burst, thus reducing the pressure; a relief valve.
A valve set to close a container holding a gas or vapour to prevent excessive loss of pressure.
Any mechanism offering relief from physical or emotional pressure or tension.
Any mechanism offering relief from physical or emotional pressure or tension.
A United States law, codified at 18 United States Code §3553(f), authorizing a judge to disregard mandatory minimum sentences for some criminals with few or no prior offenses.
senses_topics:
law |
1052 | word:
safety valve
word_type:
verb
expansion:
safety valve (third-person singular simple present safety valves, present participle safety valving, simple past and past participle safety valved)
forms:
form:
safety valves
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
safety valving
tags:
participle
present
form:
safety valved
tags:
participle
past
form:
safety valved
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See safety-valve.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of safety-valve
senses_topics:
|
1053 | word:
laconic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
laconic (comparative more laconic, superlative most laconic)
forms:
form:
more laconic
tags:
comparative
form:
most laconic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Wikiquote
Wikidata
From Latin Lacōnicus (“Spartan”), from Ancient Greek Λακωνικός (Lakōnikós, “Laconian”). Laconia was the region inhabited and ruled by the Spartans, who were known for their brevity in speech.
senses_examples:
text:
I grow laconick even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long.
ref:
August 17, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
type:
quotation
text:
His sense was strong and his style laconic.
ref:
1738, Zachary Grey, An Attempt towards the Character of the Royal Martyr King Charles I
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
senses_topics:
|
1054 | word:
November
word_type:
name
expansion:
November (plural Novembers)
forms:
form:
Novembers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Anglo-Saxons
November
etymology_text:
From Middle English Novembre, from Old French novembre, from Latin november (“ninth month”), from Latin novem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix. November was the ninth month in the Roman calendar.
Displaced native Old English blōtmōnaþ (literally “sacrifice month”), so called because the Anglo-Saxons, when they were pagans, would sacrifice in this month before the winter set in.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following October and preceding December. Abbreviation: Nov or Nov.
A female given name.
senses_topics:
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1055 | word:
ik
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
ik
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of IK.
senses_topics:
|
1056 | word:
operating system
word_type:
noun
expansion:
operating system (plural operating systems)
forms:
form:
operating systems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
This operating system enjoys little market share but the software is open source and free, and it performs as just as well as the leading competitor's.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Software for controlling the allocation and use of various hardware resources (memory, CPU time, disk space, input and output devices) to tasks and remote terminals.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
1057 | word:
trillion
word_type:
num
expansion:
trillion (plural trillions)
forms:
form:
trillions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
trillion
etymology_text:
From French trillion, from tri- (“three”) + -illion.
senses_examples:
text:
Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.
ref:
2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 10¹².
A million million million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.
senses_topics:
|
1058 | word:
trillion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trillion (plural trillions)
forms:
form:
trillions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Harvey Pollack
trillion
etymology_text:
Coined by Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.
senses_topics:
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
1059 | word:
Edward
word_type:
name
expansion:
Edward
forms:
wikipedia:
Edward
Edward#People surnamed Edward
etymology_text:
From Middle English Edward, from Old English Ēadweard, from Proto-West Germanic *Audawardu, from Proto-Germanic *Audawarduz, corresponding to ed (“wealth, riches”) + ward (“ward, guard”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Christian humility of King Edward the Confessour brought such credit to this name, that since that time it hath been most usual in all estates.
ref:
1605, William Camden, Remains Concerning Britain, John Russell Smith, published 1870, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
Heaven is my witness! that in the warmest transport of my wishes for the prosperity of my child, I never once wished to crown his head with more glory and honour than what George or Edward would have spread around it.
ref:
1765, Laurence Sterne, chapter 8, in Tristram Shandy, Book IV
type:
quotation
text:
There's a world of difference between the name Edward, which sounds rather regal and stuffy (Edwardian) and the name Eddie, which sounds like a guy on the bus.
ref:
1994, Caroline Knapp, The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Counterpoint Press, published 2004, page 169
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Old English.
A surname. See also Edwards.
senses_topics:
|
1060 | word:
Edward
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Edward (plural Edwards)
forms:
form:
Edwards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Edward
Edward#People surnamed Edward
etymology_text:
From Middle English Edward, from Old English Ēadweard, from Proto-West Germanic *Audawardu, from Proto-Germanic *Audawarduz, corresponding to ed (“wealth, riches”) + ward (“ward, guard”).
senses_examples:
text:
It is indeed the same golden Edward, with three holes in it, with which I presented my Mary on her birthday, in her eighteenth year, to buy a new suit for the holidays.
ref:
1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gold coin produced in the reign of King Edward.
senses_topics:
|
1061 | word:
chairman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
chairman (plural chairmen)
forms:
form:
chairmen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
chairman
etymology_text:
From chair + -man.
senses_examples:
text:
When I got ready to leave, why, Chairman Mao came down to the plane. Chairman Mao gave me some Chinese rugs and told me that I was the only prisoner of war that had ever come through there from North China.
ref:
2003, William L. Taylor, Wake Island : the Alamo of the Pacific, History Channel, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
Unsurprisingly, the Group was highly critical of the BTC's organisation and finances, and this prompted Marples to bring forward the Transport Act 1962, which created BR as a standalone entity with its own Board, headed by a full-time chairman. Beeching accepted this latter position, and initially became the BTC chairman in June 1961.
ref:
2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Mr Western entered; but not before a small wrangling bout had passed between him and his chairmen; for the fellows, who had taken up their burden at the Hercules Pillars, had conceived no hopes of having any future good customer in the squire […]
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 618
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. Winkle, catching sight of a lady's face at the window of the sedan, turned hastily round, plied the knocker with all his might and main, and called frantically upon the chairman to take the chair away again.
ref:
1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person presiding over a meeting.
The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
senses_topics:
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1062 | word:
chairman
word_type:
verb
expansion:
chairman (third-person singular simple present chairmans, present participle chairmaning or chairmanning, simple past and past participle chairmaned or chairmanned)
forms:
form:
chairmans
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
chairmaning
tags:
participle
present
form:
chairmanning
tags:
participle
present
form:
chairmaned
tags:
participle
past
form:
chairmaned
tags:
past
form:
chairmanned
tags:
participle
past
form:
chairmanned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
chairman
etymology_text:
From chair + -man.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To serve as chairman.
senses_topics:
|
1063 | word:
decade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decade (plural decades)
forms:
form:
decades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English decade, from Old French decade, from Late Latin decādem (“(set of) ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás), from δέκα (déka, “ten”). In reference to a span of ten years, originally a clipping of the phrase decade of years. By surface analysis, deca- + -ade. Doublet of decad.
senses_examples:
text:
The 1960s was a turbulent decade.
type:
example
text:
I haven’t seen my cousin in over a decade!
type:
example
text:
Thru May: 1920s — The Decade That Roared. New exhibition portraying historical events and everyday life during the Roaring Twenties.
ref:
1979 December, “Museums”, in Texas Monthly, volume 7, number 12, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades.
ref:
2013 March, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-05-16, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
Some of these employees have been with the company for decades, which made the company's claims that it offers good training, positive management and excellent job security and benefit packages all the more compelling.
ref:
2020 January 2, Paul Stephen, “A great place to work”, in Rail, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
We would pick a decade / We wished we could live in instead of this / I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists
ref:
2024, “I Hate It Here”, in The Tortured Poets Department, performed by Taylor Swift
type:
quotation
text:
The year was divided up into twelve months renamed after the seasons [...]; each month comprised three ‘decades’ of ten days – with the décadi replacing Sundays as a day of rest; and each day was reconsecrated to a natural product or farming tool or technique.
ref:
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 481
type:
quotation
text:
a decade of soldiers
type:
example
text:
There are decades between 1.8 and 18, between 25 and 250 and between 0.03 and 0.003.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group, set, or series of ten
A period of ten years , particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9.
A group, set, or series of ten
A period of ten days, (history) particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars.
A group, set, or series of ten
A work in ten parts or books, particularly such divisions of Livy's History of Rome.
A group, set, or series of ten
A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer.
A group, set, or series of ten
Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.
A group, set, or series of ten
A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
A group, set, or series of ten , particularly
A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
1064 | word:
RAM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
RAM (plural RAMs)
forms:
form:
RAMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: PRAM
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of random-access memory.
Acronym of random-access machine.
Acronym of relative atomic mass. (sometimes styled r.a.m.)
Acronym of responsibility assignment matrix.
Acronym of reliability availability maintainability.
Acronym of radar-absorbent material, a material which absorbs radar.
senses_topics:
business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
sciences
government
military
politics
war |
1065 | word:
RAM
word_type:
name
expansion:
RAM
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Royal Academy of Music.
Initialism of Rise Above Movement.
senses_topics:
|
1066 | word:
Eurovision
word_type:
name
expansion:
Eurovision
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Trademark from Euro- + vision.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A European broadcasting system, created by the European Broadcasting Union, that produces the Eurovision Song Contest and related programmes.
The Eurovision Song Contest.
senses_topics:
|
1067 | word:
April
word_type:
name
expansion:
April (plural Aprils)
forms:
form:
Aprils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:April
etymology_text:
From Middle English apprile, Aprill, re-Latinised from Middle English aueril, from Old French avrill, from Latin Aprīlis (“of the month of the goddess Venus”), perhaps based on Etruscan 𐌀𐌐𐌓𐌖 (apru), from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē, “Venus”). Displaced native Old English ēastermōnaþ (literally “Easter month”).
senses_examples:
text:
Oh, to be in England / Now that April’s there
ref:
1845, Robert Browning, Home-Thoughts From Abroad
type:
quotation
text:
The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.
ref:
2019 March 18, Steven Pifer, Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution, The Center for International Security and Cooperation
type:
quotation
text:
I'm April Hooper. That sounds silly, the April part, but my mother was English and she always said there was nothing prettier than an English April.
ref:
1947, Hilda Laurence, Death of a Doll, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, following March and preceding May. Abbreviation: Apr or Apr.
A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English]; used since the early 20th century.
A surname.
senses_topics:
|
1068 | word:
month
word_type:
noun
expansion:
month (plural months or (rare) month)
forms:
form:
months
tags:
plural
form:
month
tags:
plural
rare
wikipedia:
month
etymology_text:
From Middle English month, moneth, from Old English mōnaþ (“month”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”), referring to the moon's phases as the measure of time, equivalent to moon + -th.
Cognate with Scots moneth (“month”); North Frisian muunt (“month”); Saterland Frisian Mound (“month”), Dutch maand (“month”); German Low German Maand, Monat (“month”); German Monat (“month”); Danish and Norwegian Bokmål måned (“month”); Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish månad (“month”); Icelandic mánuði (“month”); Latin mēnsis (“month”); Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn); Armenian ամիս (amis); Old Irish mí; Old Church Slavonic мѣсѧць (měsęcĭ). See also moon.
senses_examples:
text:
July is my favourite month.
type:
example
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
We went on holiday for two months.
type:
example
text:
Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
ref:
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
type:
quotation
text:
With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.
ref:
2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
senses_topics:
|
1069 | word:
een
word_type:
noun
expansion:
een
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget. John Dodds said they were the een of a deer with the Devil ahint them; and indeed, they would so appal an onlooker that a sudden unreasoning terror came into his heart, while his feet would impel him to flight.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of eye
senses_topics:
|
1070 | word:
een
word_type:
adv
expansion:
een (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a contraction of even.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
even.
senses_topics:
|
1071 | word:
een
word_type:
noun
expansion:
een (plural eens)
forms:
form:
eens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From even (“evening”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
evening.
senses_topics:
|
1072 | word:
raven
word_type:
noun
expansion:
raven (countable and uncountable, plural ravens)
forms:
form:
ravens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English raven, reven, from Old English hræfn, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz (“raven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to croak, crow”).
senses_examples:
text:
raven:
text:
A lone man walks the shores of Nantucket; his noble form is slightly bent, and with the raven of his hair is blended the faintest tinge of gray, though he is evidently a man to whom the meridian of life is yet far in the distance […]
ref:
1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
A jet-black colour.
senses_topics:
|
1073 | word:
raven
word_type:
adj
expansion:
raven (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English raven, reven, from Old English hræfn, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz (“raven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to croak, crow”).
senses_examples:
text:
raven curls
type:
example
text:
raven darkness
type:
example
text:
She was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of the color of the raven; jet-black.
senses_topics:
|
1074 | word:
raven
word_type:
noun
expansion:
raven (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ravene, ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapīna (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rapine; rapacity.
Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
senses_topics:
|
1075 | word:
raven
word_type:
verb
expansion:
raven (third-person singular simple present ravens, present participle ravening, simple past and past participle ravened)
forms:
form:
ravens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ravening
tags:
participle
present
form:
ravened
tags:
participle
past
form:
ravened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ravene, ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapīna (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).
senses_examples:
text:
I refer to the danger of keeping a dog of this nature and disposition in a bedroom, where it can spring out ravening on anyone who enters.
ref:
1938, P.G. Woodhouse, The Code of the Woosters
type:
quotation
text:
The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent.
text:
[…] because hogs are commonly rauening for their meat, more then other cattel, it is meet therefore to haue them ringed, or else they wil doe much hurt in digging and turning vp corne fieldes […]
ref:
1587, Leonard Mascall, “The nature and qualities of hogges, and also the gouernement thereof”, in The First Booke of Cattell, London
type:
quotation
text:
They passed along towards the great hall-door, where the winds howled and ravened for their prey […]
ref:
1852, Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Old Nurse’s Story”, in The Old Nurse’s Story and Other Tales
type:
quotation
text:
The Greek were-wolf is closely related to the vampire. The lycanthropist falls into a cataleptic trance, during which his soul leaves his body, enters that of a wolf and ravens for blood.
ref:
1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, chapter 8, in The Book of Were-Wolves, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 114
type:
quotation
text:
On one side the great temple where you can gather the good harvest—on the other a dirty little scandal that you’ve nosed out to fling to paper scavengers who feed it to their readin’ millions ravening for pornographic dirt.
ref:
1931, James B. Fagan, The Improper Duchess, London: Victor Gollancz, published 1932, act 3, page 237
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To obtain or seize by violence.
To devour with great eagerness.
To prey on with rapacity.
To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).
senses_topics:
|
1076 | word:
avatar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
avatar (plural avatars)
forms:
form:
avatars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Avatar (Hinduism)
Chip Morningstar
LucasArts
Neal Stephenson
Randy Farmer
Shadowrun
Snow Crash
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
pen and paper
etymology_text:
Attested 1784, borrowed from Hindustani अवतार / اوتار (avtār), from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”), a compound of अव (ava, “off, away, down”) and the vṛddhi-stem of the root √तॄ (√tṝ, “to cross”).
In computing use, saw some use in 1980s videos games – 1985 online role-playing game Habitat by Lucasfilm Games (today LucasArts), by Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer, later versions of the Ultima series (following religious use in 1985 Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar), and 1989 pen and paper role-playing game Shadowrun. Popularized by the 1992 novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
senses_examples:
text:
A virtual intelligence is an advanced form of user interface software. VIs use a variety of methods to simulate natural conversation, including an audio interface and an avatar personality to interact with.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Computers: Virtual Intelligence (VI) Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
Devices now track and record our every move and, whether we like it or not, each one of us will bequeath to posterity a virtual avatar, a digital being whose calls, messages, transactions, loves and losses will live on in a vast, unregulated cyberspace. The afterlife has arrived, at least for our cyberbeings.
ref:
2013 November 27, Roger Cohen, “The past in our future”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: icon
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.
The embodiment of an idea or concept; an instantiation, especially a personification or incarnation.
A complex and dynamic digital representation of a person or being in the form of a digital model, used online as a simulation or emulation of a person, or as a person's online alter ego, in a virtual world, virtual chat room, or metaverse.
A simple and static or nearly static digital representation of a person or being in the form of a small digital object, used online as a simulacrum or token of a person or that person's online alter ego, in any digital environment but especially in non-virtual, non-metaversal ones.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games |
1077 | word:
het
word_type:
noun
expansion:
het (countable and uncountable, plural hets)
forms:
form:
hets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of heterosexual.
senses_examples:
text:
See how you like that you townie het from southeastern MA
Saying "fairy" and "Mark Wahlberg" like it's southie any day
ref:
2020, “metal”, in food house, performed by food house
type:
quotation
text:
Mary Ellen Curtin presented a paper at the 2002 Popular Culture Association conference in which she studied fanfiction archives to discover that black characters appeared far less in both het and slash fiction than white or even Latino/a characters.
ref:
2005, Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online, Peter Lang, published 2005, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
The vast majority of fan fiction is het or slash, and these types are usually defined against each other as approaches to romance and porn, marginalizing gen as something outside of the dominant concerns of fan fiction.
ref:
2006, Catherine Driscoll, “One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, McFarland & Company, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
Other studies explore why some women write het, or fictions with heterosexual pairings of certain couples, within canons such as Star Trek Voyager that generally inspire slash fiction (Somogyi, 2002).
ref:
2010, Rebecca Ward Black, “Just Don't Call Them Cartoons: The New Literacy Spaces of Anime, Manga, and Fanfiction”, in Julie Coiro, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, Donald J. Leu, editors, Handbook of Research on New Literacies, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, page 595
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A heterosexual person.
Fan fiction based on celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship.
senses_topics:
lifestyle |
1078 | word:
het
word_type:
adj
expansion:
het (comparative more het, superlative most het)
forms:
form:
more het
tags:
comparative
form:
most het
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of heterosexual.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Heterosexual.
senses_topics:
|
1079 | word:
het
word_type:
verb
expansion:
het
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Strong conjugation of heat
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of heat
senses_topics:
|
1080 | word:
het
word_type:
adj
expansion:
het (comparative more het, superlative most het)
forms:
form:
more het
tags:
comparative
form:
most het
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Strong conjugation of heat
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Heated.
senses_topics:
|
1081 | word:
het
word_type:
noun
expansion:
het (plural hets)
forms:
form:
hets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of heterozygous.
senses_examples:
text:
For sale: Albino hognose female $20k. Hets $12.5k for pair.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
heterozygote
senses_topics:
|
1082 | word:
het
word_type:
adj
expansion:
het (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of heterozygous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
heterozygous
senses_topics:
|
1083 | word:
het
word_type:
noun
expansion:
het (plural hets)
forms:
form:
hets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of heth (“Semitic letter”)
senses_topics:
|
1084 | word:
abort
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abort (plural aborts)
forms:
form:
aborts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“come into being”). Doublet of abortus.
senses_examples:
text:
We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches.
type:
example
text:
We've had three aborts over the last two days.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
The function used to abort a process.
An event in which a process is aborted.
The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
1085 | word:
abort
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abort (third-person singular simple present aborts, present participle aborting, simple past and past participle aborted)
forms:
form:
aborts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
aborting
tags:
participle
present
form:
aborted
tags:
participle
past
form:
aborted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).
senses_examples:
text:
Women have aborted, men have committed suicide, and both men and women have been thrown into convulsions during the fearful agony of renal colic.
ref:
1785, Henry Morris, Surgical Diseases of the Kidney, page 458
type:
quotation
text:
In the study group ll patients aborted spontaneously between the 17th and 20th gestational week and 8 patients aborted after the 21st week.
ref:
1983, M. D. Bennett, Chromosomes Today: Volume 8 Proceedings of the Eighth International Chromosome Conference, page 346
type:
quotation
text:
First he aborts the take-off and now we have a runway incursion!
ref:
2022, Michael & Stefan Strasser, Chicken Wings (comic)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
To terminate a process prior to completion.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
government
military
politics
war
aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1086 | word:
core inflation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
core inflation (usually uncountable, plural core inflations)
forms:
form:
core inflations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
So-called core inflation is still rising. Signs of everyday decay – suddenly reduced postal services, the dependably dire state of public transport, local councils hitting the financial skids – are everywhere.
ref:
2023 June 25, John Harris, “Britain is used to crises now. But this widespread hopelessness is new – and frightening”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Inflation excluding the increase or decrease of prices in some transitory sectors (usually food and energy).
Inflation excluding energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
economics
sciences |
1087 | word:
march
word_type:
noun
expansion:
march (plural marches)
forms:
form:
marches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English marchen, from Middle French marcher (“to march, walk”), from Old French marchier (“to stride, to march, to trample”), from Frankish *markōn (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“area, region, edge, rim, border”), akin to Persian مرز (marz), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“edge, boundary”). Akin to Old English mearc, ġemearc (“mark, boundary”). Compare mark, from Old English mearcian.
senses_examples:
text:
the march of time
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
A political rally or parade
Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
Steady forward movement or progression.
The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
senses_topics:
|
1088 | word:
march
word_type:
verb
expansion:
march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)
forms:
form:
marches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
marching
tags:
participle
present
form:
marched
tags:
participle
past
form:
marched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English marchen, from Middle French marcher (“to march, walk”), from Old French marchier (“to stride, to march, to trample”), from Frankish *markōn (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“area, region, edge, rim, border”), akin to Persian مرز (marz), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“edge, boundary”). Akin to Old English mearc, ġemearc (“mark, boundary”). Compare mark, from Old English mearcian.
senses_examples:
text:
The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinafore frill and marched her to the house.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
To cause someone to walk somewhere.
To go to war; to make military advances.
To make steady progress.
senses_topics:
|
1089 | word:
march
word_type:
noun
expansion:
march (plural marches)
forms:
form:
marches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English marche (“tract of land along a country's border”), from Old French marche (“boundary, frontier”), from Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“edge, boundary”).
senses_examples:
text:
Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona[…].
ref:
1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section IV
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
senses_topics:
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1090 | word:
march
word_type:
verb
expansion:
march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)
forms:
form:
marches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
marching
tags:
participle
present
form:
marched
tags:
participle
past
form:
marched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English marche (“tract of land along a country's border”), from Old French marche (“boundary, frontier”), from Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“edge, boundary”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To have common borders or frontiers
senses_topics:
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1091 | word:
march
word_type:
noun
expansion:
march (plural marches)
forms:
form:
marches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English merche, from Old English merċe, mereċe, from Proto-West Germanic *marik, from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”). Cognate Middle Low German merk, Old High German merc, Old Norse merki (“celery”). Compare also obsolete or regional more (“carrot or parsnip”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“edible herb, tuber”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Smallage.
senses_topics:
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1092 | word:
meticulous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
meticulous (comparative more meticulous, superlative most meticulous)
forms:
form:
more meticulous
tags:
comparative
form:
most meticulous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”). Sense of “characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details” is a semantic loan from French méticuleux.
senses_examples:
text:
meticulous search
type:
example
text:
meticulous investigation
type:
example
text:
meticulous knowledge
type:
example
text:
meticulous report
type:
example
text:
The meticulous care with which the operation in Sicily was planned has paid dividends. Our casualties in men, in ships and materiel have been low—in fact, far below our estimate.
ref:
1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 28 July 1943
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
senses_topics:
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1093 | word:
USSR
word_type:
name
expansion:
USSR or the USSR
forms:
form:
USSR
tags:
canonical
form:
the USSR
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
USSR
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Initialism of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
senses_topics:
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1094 | word:
perfunctory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
perfunctory (comparative more perfunctory, superlative most perfunctory)
forms:
form:
more perfunctory
tags:
comparative
form:
most perfunctory
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin perfunctōrius (“careless, negligent”), from the past participial stem of perfungor, perfunct- (“perform, carry through”), from per- + fungor.
senses_examples:
text:
I caught the gist of what he was saying--which in effect was that he had found and captured this Galu, that she was his and that he defied anyone to question his right of possession. It appeared to me, as I afterward learned was the fact, that I was witnessing the most primitive of marriage ceremonies. The assembled members of the tribe looked on and listened in a sort of dull and perfunctory apathy, for the speaker was by far the mightiest of the clan.
ref:
1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter VIII, in The Land That Time Forgot
type:
quotation
text:
The second section of the episode charged from Winterfell to Highgarden and Oldtown in a way that felt perfunctory. I found myself asking, “We’re just getting to Winterfell?”
ref:
2017 July 30, Ali Barthwell, “Ice and fire finally meet in a front-loaded episode of Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
Even as former administration officials and Democratic leaders called on the president to tell his supporters to “go home,” Mr. Trump for hours did little to discourage them from storming the building. Instead, he issued two perfunctory tweets in which he asked them merely to remain “peaceful.”
ref:
2021 January 6, Luke Broadwater, Emily Cochrane, Matt Stevens, “Congress Rejects Republican Challenge to Pennsylvania Electors, After Day of Chaos”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
He did a perfunctory job cleaning his dad's car, finishing quickly but leaving a few spots still dirty.
type:
example
text:
Alternatively it may mean that a perfunctory search is enough to ensure that a purchase is acceptable, so less search is carried out.
ref:
1992, Peter Bowbrick, The Economics of Quality, Grades, and Brands, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Done only or merely to conform to a minimal standard or to fulfill a protocol or presumptive duty.
Performed in a careless or indifferent manner as a thing of rote.
senses_topics:
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1095 | word:
noun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
noun (plural nouns)
forms:
form:
nouns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.
senses_examples:
text:
Q. What is a Noun? A. The Name of a Thing. Q. How many Sorts of Nouns are there? [...] A. A Noun Substantive, and a Noun Adjective.
ref:
1753, Thomas Martin, An Explanation of the Accidence and Grammar To the End of the Syntax in which The Grounds of each Rule in the Syntax are laid down in the plainest Manner. Compiled By way of Question and Answer, For the Use of Schools., London, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
A Noun is a word which serves to name and distinguish some thing; [...]. There are two sorts of nouns; one is called a noun substantive, and the other a noun adjective.
ref:
1786, Signor Veneroni, The Complete Italian Master; Containing The best and easiest Rules for attaining that Language, London, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The first part of a compound word is either a noun (substantive, adjective, or numeral), an adverb, or a preposition, and in a very few cases a verb.
ref:
1852, Leonhard Schmitz, Elementary Latin grammar, Edinburgh, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
Finally, there are many who limit the parts of speech to the noun, the verb, and the particle; referring to the first, the substantive, the adjective, and the pronoun (including the article), to the second the participle, to the third the remainder.
ref:
1856, R. G. Latham, Logic in its application to language, London, page 224
type:
quotation
text:
Greek has the following parts of speech: substantives, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and particles. In this Grammar noun is used to include both the substantive and the adjective.
ref:
1956, Herbert Weir Smyth, Gordon M. Messing, “189. Parts of Speech”, in Greek Grammar, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]
ref:
1894, B. L. Gildersleeve, G. Lodge, Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar, Dover, published 2008, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
The parts of which the sentence may consist are either inflected words: the noun (substantive and adjective) and the verb, the participle which shares the nature of both, and the pronoun; or uninflected words: prepositions, adverbs, and conjunctions.
ref:
1993, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, A Vedic Grammar For Students, 1st Indian edition, Delhi, page 283
type:
quotation
text:
Nouns are the data; verbs are the data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of the complexity of systems.
ref:
1992, Brad A. Myers, David C. Smith, Bruce Horn, chapter 19, in Languages for Developing User Interfaces
type:
quotation
text:
You choose either (1) the verb (change font) first and then select the noun (the paragraph) to which the verb should apply or (2) the noun first and then apply the verb.
ref:
2000, Jeff Raskin, The Humane Interface, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, in essence, the mouse provides a capability for picking among a set of nouns (for instance, the file to which to apply some action) and verbs (such as "edit" or "insert")
ref:
2005, Barbara J. Grosz, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 149, number 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1096 | word:
noun
word_type:
verb
expansion:
noun (third-person singular simple present nouns, present participle nouning, simple past and past participle nouned)
forms:
form:
nouns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nouning
tags:
participle
present
form:
nouned
tags:
participle
past
form:
nouned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.
senses_examples:
text:
What is not clear is how the nouning of verbs supports Simon's assumed correspondence between mechanical designing and intentional human responses. Is it the very nouning of verbs which indicates that the above correspondence exists?
ref:
1974, The Modern Schoolman, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
For example, that females are different from but equal to males is oxymoronic by virtue of the nouned status of female and male as kinds of persons.
ref:
1992, Lewis Acrelius Froman, Language and Power: Books III, IV, and V
type:
quotation
text:
However, too much nouning makes you sound bureaucratic, immature, and verbally challenged. Top executives convert far fewer nouns into verbs than do workers at lower levels.
ref:
2000, Andrew J. DuBrin, The complete idiot's guide to leadership
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To convert a word to a noun.
senses_topics:
|
1097 | word:
absent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absent (comparative absenter, superlative absentest)
forms:
form:
absenter
tags:
comparative
form:
absentest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English absent, from Middle French absent, from Old French ausent, and their source, Latin absens, present participle of absum (“to be away from”), from ab (“away”) + sum (“to be”).
senses_examples:
text:
Due to his business dealings with Xi, Hunter, and Volodymyr, Ramzi is always absent from class.
type:
example
text:
Expecting absent friends.
ref:
1623, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, II-iii
type:
quotation
text:
The part was rudimental or absent.
type:
example
text:
What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man.
ref:
1746-1747, Chesterfield, Letters to his Son
type:
quotation
text:
For days Ailie had an absent eye and a sad face, and it so fell out that in all that time young Heriotside, who had scarce missed a day, was laid up with a broken arm and never came near her.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing.
Not existing; lacking.
Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.
senses_topics:
|
1098 | word:
absent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absent (plural absents)
forms:
form:
absents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English absent, from Middle French absent, from Old French ausent, and their source, Latin absens, present participle of absum (“to be away from”), from ab (“away”) + sum (“to be”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Applause he met with exceeds all belief of the Absent.
ref:
1772, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 30 May
text:
That very sense of longing, of yearning for the absent, which 'nostalgia' conveys to us now.
ref:
1947, Cecil Day Lewis, Poetic Image
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there.
An absentee; a person who is not there.
senses_topics:
|
1099 | word:
absent
word_type:
prep
expansion:
absent
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English absent, from Middle French absent, from Old French ausent, and their source, Latin absens, present participle of absum (“to be away from”), from ab (“away”) + sum (“to be”).
senses_examples:
text:
Absent taxes modern governments cannot function.
type:
example
text:
If the accused refuse upon demand to pay money or deliver property (absent any excuse or excusing circumstance) which came into his hands as a bailee, such refusal might well constitute some evidence of conversion, with the requisite fraudulent intent required by the statute.
ref:
1919, “State vs. Britt, Supreme Court of Missouri, Division 2”, in The Southwestern Reporter, page 427
type:
quotation
text:
the Princess Caroline case […] established that – absent a measurable ‘public interest’ in publication – she was safe from being photographed while out shopping.
ref:
2011, David Elstein, London Review of Books, volume 33, number 15
type:
quotation
text:
About 25 percent of Russia’s large farms continue to be unprofitable, and that number would be considerably higher absent government subsidies and assistance programs.
ref:
2013, Stephen K. Wegren, “Agriculture”, in Stephen K. Wegren, editor, Return to Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, 5th edition, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., page 223
type:
quotation
text:
And the distraction-management software Freedom offers a mode that won’t unlock affected apps absent a telephone-support call.
ref:
2019 September 5, Ian Bogost, “I tried to limit my screen time (It didn't go well)”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
California cannot promulgate regulations that are inconsistent with US federal laws absent an explicit waiver from the federal government.
ref:
2020, Anu Bradford, “8. Is the Brussels Effect Beneficial?”, in The Brussels Effect. How the European Union Rules the World, Oxford University Press, page 258
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the absence of; without; except.
senses_topics:
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