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10000 | word:
particle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
particle (plural particles)
forms:
form:
particles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Grammatical particle
Particle (ecology)
particle
etymology_text:
From Middle French particule, and its source, Latin particula (“small part, particle”), diminutive of pars (“part, piece”).
senses_examples:
text:
What, he asked himself, does quantum theory have to say about the familiar properties of particles such as position?
ref:
2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane, published 2011, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
ref:
2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
In English there is no grammatical device to differentiate predicational judgments from nonpredicational descriptions. This distinction does cast a shadow on the grammatical sphere to some extent, but recognition of it must generally be made in semantic terms. It is maintained here that in Japanese, on the other hand, the distinction is grammatically realized through the use of the two particles wa and ga.
ref:
1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT, retrieved 2014-02-24, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Traditional grammar typically recognises a number of further categories: for example, in his Reference Book of Terms in Traditional Grammar for Language Students, Simpson (1982) posits two additional word-level categories which he refers to as Particle, and Conjunction. Particles include the italicised words {...}
(a) He put his hat on
(b) If you pull too hard, the handle will come off
(c) He was leaning too far over the side, and fell out
(d) He went up to see the manager
ref:
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
ref:
1844, E. A. Andrews: First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar. (6th edition, Boston), p.91 (at books.google)
text:
The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]
ref:
1894 (2008), B. L. Gildersleeve & G. Lodge: Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar (reprint of the 3rd edition by Dover, 2008), p.9. (at books.google)
text:
"That doesn't make a particle of difference", replied Charlotte. "Not a particle."
ref:
1952, E.B. White, Charlotte's Web, page 89
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).
A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
A little bit.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Christianity
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10001 | word:
abietine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abietine (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of abietin
senses_topics:
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10002 | word:
upgather
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upgather (third-person singular simple present upgathers, present participle upgathering, simple past and past participle upgathered)
forms:
form:
upgathers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upgathering
tags:
participle
present
form:
upgathered
tags:
participle
past
form:
upgathered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + gather.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gather up; to contract; to draw together.
senses_topics:
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10003 | word:
upflung
word_type:
adj
expansion:
upflung (comparative more upflung, superlative most upflung)
forms:
form:
more upflung
tags:
comparative
form:
most upflung
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Flung or thrown up.
senses_topics:
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10004 | word:
upflow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upflow (third-person singular simple present upflows, present participle upflowing, simple past and past participle upflowed)
forms:
form:
upflows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upflowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
upflowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
upflowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + flow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To flow or stream upwards.
senses_topics:
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10005 | word:
upflow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upflow (plural upflows)
forms:
form:
upflows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + flow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flowing upward.
senses_topics:
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10006 | word:
upgaze
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upgaze (plural upgazes)
forms:
form:
upgazes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + gaze.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of looking upward.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
10007 | word:
upgaze
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upgaze (third-person singular simple present upgazes, present participle upgazing, simple past and past participle upgazed)
forms:
form:
upgazes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upgazing
tags:
participle
present
form:
upgazed
tags:
participle
past
form:
upgazed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + gaze.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gaze upward.
senses_topics:
|
10008 | word:
upgive
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upgive (third-person singular simple present upgives, present participle upgiving, simple past upgave, past participle upgiven)
forms:
form:
upgives
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upgiving
tags:
participle
present
form:
upgave
tags:
past
form:
upgiven
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + give. Cognate with German aufgeben (“to abandon, give up, quit”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] we hereby resign, surrender, upgive, overgive and deliver, ALL and WHOLE — (here the lands were described) — together with all right, title and interest whatever […]
ref:
1811, Robert Bell, A System of the Forms of Deeds Used in Scotland, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
Then, too, are Jersey's sons all resolute, / Repairing to the camp in numbers great, / Their sufferings to avenge upon the foe, / Which all must cease should Jersey be upgiven.
ref:
1849, Robert Wharton Landis, Liberty's Triumph: A Poem, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
There fell a sudden rain then, from the gods: / Which glisters, in the sun, like golden hairs; / And earth upgave sweet savour of her sod, / Mingled with iron stink of sweat and blood.
ref:
1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The Dawn in Britain, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give up or yield up.
senses_topics:
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10009 | word:
jehu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jehu (plural jehus)
forms:
form:
jehus
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Jehu, son of Nimshi. 2 Kings 9:20.
senses_examples:
text:
Among those who seemed disposed to join in this opinion was the Jehu of the Warwickshire coach, who expressed his conviction to our hero, that "he wos a young gent as had much himproved hisself since he tooled him up to the Warsity with his guvnor."
ref:
1850s, Cuthbert M. Bede, The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A coachman; a driver; especially, one who drives furiously.
senses_topics:
|
10010 | word:
magician
word_type:
noun
expansion:
magician (plural magicians, feminine magicianess)
forms:
form:
magicians
tags:
plural
form:
magicianess
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
magician
etymology_text:
From Middle English magicien, from Middle French magicien.
senses_examples:
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
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts.
A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.
An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.
A person who astounds; an enigma.
senses_topics:
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10011 | word:
start
word_type:
noun
expansion:
start (plural starts)
forms:
form:
starts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stert, from the verb sterten (“to start, startle”). See below.
senses_examples:
text:
The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
type:
example
text:
He woke with a start.
type:
example
text:
The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me […]
ref:
1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla
type:
quotation
text:
Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.
type:
example
text:
Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
type:
example
text:
Wilshere, who made his first start for England in the midweek friendly win over Denmark, raced into the penalty area and chose to cross rather than shoot - one of the very few poor selections he made in the match.
ref:
2011 February 12, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 2 - 0 Wolverhampton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
You generally see nursery starts at garden centres in mid to late spring. Small annual plants are generally sold in four-packs or larger packs, with each cell holding a single young plant.
ref:
2009, Liz Primeau, Steven A. Frowine, Gardening Basics For Canadians For Dummies
type:
quotation
text:
to get, or have, the start
text:
“It's a rum start, old John Madingley's coming down to Tunnleton,” said Grafton, one evening in the smoking-room; […]
ref:
1887, Hawley Smart, A False Start, volume 2, page 69
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The beginning of an activity.
A sudden involuntary movement.
The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
A happening or proceeding.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
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10012 | word:
start
word_type:
verb
expansion:
start (third-person singular simple present starts, present participle starting, simple past and past participle started)
forms:
form:
starts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
starting
tags:
participle
present
form:
started
tags:
participle
past
form:
started
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“to be stiff”). Cognate with Old Frisian stirta (“to fall down, tumble”), Middle Dutch sterten (“to rush, fall, collapse”) (Dutch storten), Old High German sturzen (“to hurl, plunge, turn upside down”) (German stürzen), Old High German sterzan (“to be stiff, protrude”). More at stare.
senses_examples:
text:
to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business
type:
example
text:
I was some years ago engaged in conversation with a fashionable French Abbe, upon a subject which the people of that kingdom love to start in discourse.
ref:
April 2, 1716, Joseph Addison, Freeholder No. 30
text:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
ref:
2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
to start the engine
type:
example
text:
Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.
ref:
1674, William Temple, letter to The Countess of Essex
type:
quotation
text:
The rain started at 9:00.
type:
example
text:
The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.
type:
example
text:
The blue line starts one foot away from the wall.
type:
example
text:
[...] The tempest's mocking elf
Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf
He strikes on, only when the timbers start.
ref:
1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXXI
type:
quotation
text:
The hounds started a fox.
type:
example
text:
Physical poison would make them start from arsenicked bread; shall not the moral poison which is in it, make them start more promptly still from slave produce?
ref:
1836, Elizur Wright, Quarterly Anti-slavery Magazine, volume 2, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel
type:
example
text:
The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part he kept him on.
ref:
2010, Brian Glanville, The Story of the World Cup: The Essential Companion to South Africa 2010, London: Faber and Faber, page 361
type:
quotation
text:
“Look at Portu,” Michel insisted, “he scores goals and I never start him. He says: ‘You’re sinking me, but OK, I’ll just go out and score again.’”
ref:
2024 May 6, Sid Lowe, “Portu’s brilliant burst seals Girona’s top-four fairytale in the perfect way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
to start a water cask
type:
example
text:
Have you started yet?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To begin, commence, initiate.
To set in motion.
To begin, commence, initiate.
To begin.
To begin, commence, initiate.
To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
To begin, commence, initiate.
To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
To begin, commence, initiate.
To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
To begin an activity.
To have its origin (at), begin.
To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
To jerk suddenly in surprise.
To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
To awaken suddenly.
To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
To flinch or draw back.
To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
To break away, to come loose.
To put into play.
To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
To start one's periods (menstruation).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
nautical
transport
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10013 | word:
start
word_type:
noun
expansion:
start (plural starts)
forms:
form:
starts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“to be stiff”). Cognate with Old Frisian stirta (“to fall down, tumble”), Middle Dutch sterten (“to rush, fall, collapse”) (Dutch storten), Old High German sturzen (“to hurl, plunge, turn upside down”) (German stürzen), Old High German sterzan (“to be stiff, protrude”). More at stare.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of starting.
senses_topics:
|
10014 | word:
start
word_type:
noun
expansion:
start (plural starts)
forms:
form:
starts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Middle English stert, start (“tail, handle, projection”), from Old English steort, from Proto-West Germanic *stert, from Proto-Germanic *stertaz (“tail”). Cognate with Scots start, stairt (“side-post, shaft, upright post”), Dutch staart (“tail”), German Sterz (“tail, handle”), Swedish stjärt (“tail, arse”).
senses_examples:
text:
The fall of water is 6 feet, and the radius of the curve is 8 feet, from the centre of the water-wheel to the extreme point of the start.
ref:
1845, Captain R.E. Crawley, Description of a Water-Course, Wharf, and Water-Wheel, erected at Waltham Abbey, Essex […]
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
A handle, especially that of a plough.
The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
senses_topics:
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10015 | word:
start
word_type:
adv
expansion:
start (comparative more start, superlative most start)
forms:
form:
more start
tags:
comparative
form:
most start
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant of stark.
senses_examples:
text:
Col.—The age has no sense—the people are start mad—as mad as a March mare. We should have fine times, indeed if our laws did'nt compel the poor people to protect the property of the rich.
ref:
1828 August 22, “Militia System”, in The New England Farmer, volume VII, Boston, M.A.: John B. Russell, published 1829, page 40, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Completely, utterly.
senses_topics:
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10016 | word:
mask
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mask (plural masks)
forms:
form:
masks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha, a borrowing of Proto-West Germanic *maskā from which English mesh is regularly inherited.
Replaced Old English grīma (“mask”), whence grime, and displaced non-native Middle English viser (“visor, mask”) borrowed from Old French viser, visier.
Compare also Hebrew מַסֵּכָה (masseiḥa).
senses_examples:
text:
a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask
text:
Just a few days ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the CDC—issued new mask guidelines.
Under these new guidelines, most Americans in most of the country can now be mask free.
And based on the projections, more of the country will reach that point across the next couple of weeks.
ref:
2022 March 1, Joe Biden, “Remarks of President Joe Biden – State of the Union Address As Prepared for Delivery”, in whitehouse.gov, archived from the original on 2022-03-02
type:
quotation
text:
Grouchy and wary and tender, he’s a sozzled hedonist seemingly out for himself—though his party-animal facade is just a mask for his bottomless generosity.
ref:
2021 October 26, Stephanie Zacharek, “The 19 Most Underrated Movies on Netflix”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
the mask that has the arm of the Indian queen
ref:
1880, George Washington Cable, The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
type:
quotation
text:
Jones, now taking the mask by the hand, fell to entreating her in the most earnest manner, to acquaint him where he might find Sophia; and when he could obtain no direct answer, he began to upbraid her gently […]
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
Appearance, likeness.
A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
A person wearing a mask.
A dramatic performance in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
A screen for a battery.
The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
senses_topics:
architecture
fortification
fortifications
government
military
politics
war
fortification
fortifications
government
military
politics
war
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
broadcasting
film
media
publishing
television
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
10017 | word:
mask
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mask (third-person singular simple present masks, present participle masking, simple past and past participle masked)
forms:
form:
masks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
masking
tags:
participle
present
form:
masked
tags:
participle
past
form:
masked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha, a borrowing of Proto-West Germanic *maskā from which English mesh is regularly inherited.
Replaced Old English grīma (“mask”), whence grime, and displaced non-native Middle English viser (“visor, mask”) borrowed from Old French viser, visier.
Compare also Hebrew מַסֵּכָה (masseiḥa).
senses_examples:
text:
The opponent must not be able to recognize when we inhale and when we exhale. We achieve this by breathing with the diaphragm and we do not raise the shoulders while breathing. In particular we must mask when we are out of breath.
ref:
1998, Rudolf Jakhel, Modern Sports Karate: Basics of Techniques and Tactics, Meyer & Meyer Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Many autistic people have language and cognitive skills; [and] they mask their autism, cover up social discomfort, and work hard to be someone they are not, so people often see them as “fitting in” just fine.
ref:
2020, Lisa Morgan, Mary Donahue, Living with PTSD on the Autism Spectrum: Insightful Analysis with Practical Applications, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 118
type:
quotation
text:
to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out
type:
example
text:
noble Gentilmen / who daunced & masked wt thes fayer ladyes & gentillwomen
ref:
1641, George Cavendish, Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe
type:
quotation
text:
Dr. Shelita Dattani, director of professional affairs at the Canadian Pharmacists Association, says […]. “The efforts that we’re taking to reduce the spread of COVID are working … people are masking and distancing and staying away from each other and using hand hygiene, so I think all of these efforts combined are contributing to lower rates.”
ref:
2020 December 30, Jaren Kerr, “Flu almost non-existent this year as coronavirus cases rise across Canada”, in The Globe and Mail
type:
quotation
text:
Masking is exhausting and some autistics require copious amounts of time afterwards to recover from hiding who they are and pretending to be someone they aren't. Even when autistics mask they don't always pass fully as an NT person.
ref:
2018, Sally Cat, PDA by PDAers: From Anxiety to Avoidance and Masking to Meltdowns, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
So, masking seems to be a very poor explanation for the difference in gender diagnosis of autism. In particular, masking requires theory of mind. How can autistic people successfully mask if they struggle with this ability?
ref:
2021, Yenn Purkis, Wenn B. Lawson, The Autistic Trans Guide to Life, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
That is, the lower nibble (the 4 bits 1010 = A) has been masked to zero. This is because ANDing anything with a zero produces a zero, while ANDing any bit with a 1 leaves the bit unchanged[…]
ref:
1993, Richard E. Haskell, Introduction to computer engineering, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
Some hardware interrupts can be masked, or disabled; that is, the CPU is told to ignore them.
ref:
1998, Rick Grehan, Robert Moote, Ingo Cyliax, Real-Time Programming: A Guide to 32-bit Embedded Development, page 199
type:
quotation
text:
Masking can leave a person with less energy to handle other aspects of their day, from performing basic housework to processing thoughts and feelings.
ref:
2020, Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, unnumbered page
text:
Some group members describe masking during therapy in order to seem more likeable to the therapist, or because they felt it necessary in order to be seen as engaging with the support.
ref:
2021, Felicity Sedgewick, Laura Hull, Helen Ellis, Autism and Masking: How and Why People Do It, and the Impact It Can Have, page 220
text:
Kayleigh, who was finally diagnosed at 18, felt that she masked a lot growing up because she "always felt different and was bullied if [she] showed it both at home and in school".
ref:
2022, Hannah Louise Belcher, Taking Off the Mask: Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging, page 80
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
To disguise as something else.
To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.
To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
To cover or keep in check.
To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
To wear a mask.
To disguise oneself, to be disguised in any way.
To conceal or disguise one's autism.
to cover or shield a part of a design or picture in order to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting
To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.
To learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
10018 | word:
mask
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mask (plural masks)
forms:
form:
masks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English maske, from Old English max, masċ (“net”), from Proto-West Germanic *maskā (“mesh, netting, mask”). Doublet of mesh and mask above.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
mesh
The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
senses_topics:
|
10019 | word:
mask
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mask (plural masks)
forms:
form:
masks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *mask, masch, from Old English māx, māsc (“mash”). Doublet of mash.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mash.
senses_topics:
|
10020 | word:
mask
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mask (third-person singular simple present masks, present participle masking, simple past and past participle masked)
forms:
form:
masks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
masking
tags:
participle
present
form:
masked
tags:
participle
past
form:
masked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English *mask, masch, from Old English māx, māsc (“mash”). Doublet of mash.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To mash.
(brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
To be infused or steeped.
To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
senses_topics:
|
10021 | word:
mask
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mask (third-person singular simple present masks, present participle masking, simple past and past participle masked)
forms:
form:
masks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
masking
tags:
participle
present
form:
masked
tags:
participle
past
form:
masked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English masken, short for *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder; be confused, wander”). More at masker.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To bewilder; confuse.
senses_topics:
|
10022 | word:
Britain
word_type:
name
expansion:
Britain (countable and uncountable, plural Britains)
forms:
form:
Britains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English Britayne, Breteyn, from Anglo-Norman Bretaigne, Bretaine, from Latin Brittannia, variant of Latin Britannia, from Britannī; reinforced by native Old English Breten, from the same Latin source. Ultimately from Proto-Brythonic *Prɨdėn (“Britain”) from *Pritanī (also compare *Prɨdɨn (“Picts”) from *Pritenī), attested to in Ancient Greek as Πρεττανική (Prettanikḗ), compare Welsh Prydain. Doublet of Britannia and Brittany. More at Britto.
senses_examples:
text:
The name of 'Britain' […] ought to answer every purpose, or if that be thought too condensed, it may be pluralized into ‘The Britains’.
ref:
1874 July 14, The Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The United Kingdom.
The island of Great Britain, consisting of England, Scotland and Wales, especially during antiquity.
England, Scotland and Wales in combination.
Brittany.
The British Isles.
The British state and its dominions and holdings; the British Empire.
The British Empire.
senses_topics:
|
10023 | word:
Britain
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Britain (plural Britains)
forms:
form:
Britains
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brythonic languages
etymology_text:
From Latin Britannus (adjective and noun, plural Britannī), apparently from Brythonic (compare Old Welsh Priten).
senses_examples:
text:
The Britains’ struggles with the Scots and Picts [...] led to the Britains asking the Romans for help in constructing a great wall.
ref:
2002, L. C. Lambdin, R. T. Lambdin, Companion to Old and Middle English Literature, page 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ancient Briton.
senses_topics:
|
10024 | word:
Britain
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Britain (comparative more Britain, superlative most Britain)
forms:
form:
more Britain
tags:
comparative
form:
most Britain
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Brythonic languages
etymology_text:
From Latin Britannus (adjective and noun, plural Britannī), apparently from Brythonic (compare Old Welsh Priten).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Briton; British.
senses_topics:
|
10025 | word:
Faeroese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Faeroese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Faroese
senses_topics:
|
10026 | word:
Faeroese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Faeroese (countable and uncountable, plural Faeroese)
forms:
form:
Faeroese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Faroese
senses_topics:
|
10027 | word:
home
word_type:
noun
expansion:
home (plural homes)
forms:
form:
homes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
home (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
cognates
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.
Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.
ref:
1808, John Dryden, edited by Walter Scott, The Works of John Dryden
type:
quotation
text:
Home! home! sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.
ref:
1822, John Howard Payne, Home! Sweet Home!
type:
quotation
text:
If we now say that "woman's place is in the home," it is not because men put her there, but because the home became the capitol of women's mysteries.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 132
type:
quotation
text:
Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref:
2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated.
ref:
2004, Jean Harrison, Home
type:
quotation
text:
Does she still live at home? - No, she moved out and got an apartment when she was 18, but she still lives in the city.
type:
example
text:
He enter’d in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home;[…]
ref:
1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan, canto III
type:
quotation
text:
It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home
type:
example
text:
a home for outcasts
type:
example
text:
a home for the blind
type:
example
text:
a veterans' home
type:
example
text:
Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home.
text:
[…] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […]
ref:
1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5
text:
The rights of modern transsexual women and men to live in the sex that is "home".
ref:
2007 January 10, Leslie Feinberg, “1976 WWP pamphlet found answers in Marxism”, in Workers World
type:
quotation
text:
Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home.
ref:
1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
type:
quotation
text:
I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home.
ref:
1980, Peter Allen, song, I Still Call Australia Home
text:
the home of the pine
type:
example
text:
[…] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […]
ref:
1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ẛucceẛs of Her Majeẛty's Arms, 1706, as republished in 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets
text:
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.
ref:
1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H.
type:
quotation
text:
Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.
ref:
2013 September 7, “Nodding acquaintance”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852
type:
quotation
text:
The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dwelling.
One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
A dwelling.
The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
A dwelling.
The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
A dwelling.
A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
A dwelling.
A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
A dwelling.
The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
A dwelling.
Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
A focus point.
The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
A focus point.
Home plate.
A focus point.
The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
A focus point.
The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
A focus point.
The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
Clipping of home directory.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lacrosse
lifestyle
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10028 | word:
home
word_type:
verb
expansion:
home (third-person singular simple present homes, present participle homing, simple past and past participle homed)
forms:
form:
homes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
homing
tags:
participle
present
form:
homed
tags:
participle
past
form:
homed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
home (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
cognates
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.
Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).
senses_examples:
text:
The dog homed.
type:
example
text:
The missile was able to home in on the target.
type:
example
text:
Much like a heat-seeking missile, a new kind of particle homes in on the blood vessels that nourish aggressive cancers, before unleashing a cell-destroying drug.
ref:
2008 July, Ewen Callaway, New Scientist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To return to its owner.
To seek or aim for something.
senses_topics:
|
10029 | word:
home
word_type:
adj
expansion:
home (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
home (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
cognates
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.
Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).
senses_examples:
text:
home manufactures
home comforts
type:
example
text:
a home truth
type:
example
text:
I hardly knew what I answered him, but, by degrees I tranquillised, as I found he forbore distressing me any further, by such Home strokes […].
ref:
1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
the home end, home advantage, home supporters
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.
That strikes home; direct, pointed.
Personal, intimate.
Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
10030 | word:
home
word_type:
adv
expansion:
home (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
home (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
cognates
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.
Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).
senses_examples:
text:
go home
type:
example
text:
come home
type:
example
text:
carry someone home
type:
example
text:
He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."
ref:
1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
type:
quotation
text:
She drove the nail home
type:
example
text:
ram a cartridge home
type:
example
text:
Eventually she managed to slide the lid of the pencil-box right home and the newt was hers. Then, on second thoughts, she opened the lid just the tiniest fraction so that the creature could breathe.
ref:
1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda
type:
quotation
text:
Click here to go home.
type:
example
text:
1975-1976, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I'm certainly not the type to sit home waiting up for hubbie every night.
text:
Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home.
type:
example
text:
I'm home!
type:
example
text:
1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral,
I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
text:
2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February,
Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.
text:
sails sheeted home
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To one's home.
To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
To one's home.
To one's place of birth.
To one's home.
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
To one's home.
To the home page.
At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
into the goal
into the right, proper or stowed position
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
nautical
transport |
10031 | word:
magnesia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
magnesia (countable and uncountable, plural magnesias)
forms:
form:
magnesias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English magnesia, from Late Latin magnesia, from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía), after Μαγνησία (Magnēsía), a name of several cities (in Thessaly, Lydia, and Asia Minor). Doublet of Magnesia, magnesium, and manganese, and related to magnet.
senses_examples:
text:
The apocrenates of iron and manganese are slightly soluble; those of lime, magnesia and alumina are insoluble.
ref:
1875, Journal of the Bath and West of England Society and Southern Counties Association for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, volumes 7-8, page 133
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
magnesium oxide
senses_topics:
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10032 | word:
coffee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coffee (countable and uncountable, plural coffees)
forms:
form:
coffee [from 1598]
tags:
canonical
form:
coffees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
coffee
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor.
Ottoman Turkish قهوهbor.
Italian caffèbor.
Dutch koffiebor.
English coffee
Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words.
senses_examples:
text:
The great use of coffee in France is supposed to have abated the prevalency of the gravel, for where coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.
ref:
1848, J. S. Skinner & Son, editor, The Plough, The Loom and the Anvil, volume I, Philadelphia: J. S. Skinner & Son, page 137
type:
quotation
text:
[…]a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain[…]shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”:[…]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
ref:
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
As I sip a coffee at Brasserie Balzar, two well-known intellectuals, one publisher and a Sorbonne professor were discussing Sarkozy's future: "He won't finish his mandate" says one.
ref:
2008 April 12, Agnes Poirier, The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
coffee:
text:
He did not stay for coffee.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
A serving of this beverage.
The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called ‘beans’ due to their shape.
The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds.
A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.
A pale brown color, like that of milk coffee.
The end of a meal, when coffee is served.
senses_topics:
|
10033 | word:
coffee
word_type:
adj
expansion:
coffee (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
coffee
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor.
Ottoman Turkish قهوهbor.
Italian caffèbor.
Dutch koffiebor.
English coffee
Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
Of a table: a small, low table suitable for people in lounge seating to put coffee cups on.
senses_topics:
|
10034 | word:
coffee
word_type:
verb
expansion:
coffee (third-person singular simple present coffees, present participle coffeeing or coffee-ing, simple past and past participle coffeed or coffee'd or coffee-ed)
forms:
form:
coffees
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coffeeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
coffee-ing
tags:
participle
present
form:
coffeed
tags:
participle
past
form:
coffeed
tags:
past
form:
coffee'd
tags:
participle
past
form:
coffee'd
tags:
past
form:
coffee-ed
tags:
participle
past
form:
coffee-ed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
coffee
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor.
Ottoman Turkish قهوهbor.
Italian caffèbor.
Dutch koffiebor.
English coffee
Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words.
senses_examples:
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I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.
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1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker
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In the afternoon with Hilda and suite in three Einspänner to just beyond Pontresina; we got out and crossed the bridge over the Bernina to Sans Souci Café, where we coffee’d.
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1900, Clement Kinloch-Cooke, editor, A Memoir of Her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck: Based on Her Private Diaries and Letters, page 224
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We had coffee’d with the scoundrel[…]
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1912, Pearson’s Magazine, page 225
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Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . .
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1935 June 29, Ellen Snebley, “Teapot Tattle”, in Santa Ana Journal, volume 1, number 52, Santa Ana, Calif., page eight
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When Sala sits for Lambeth, then what can’t the House discuss? / He has coffee’d with the Moslem, he has tea’d it with the Russ; / He can analyze the natives from Granada to New York; / He has tasted pumpkin squashes! he can speak the tongue of Cork.
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1942, Ralph Straus, editor, Sala: The Portrait of an Eminent Victorian, page 228
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I coffee-ed with your girl friend this morning, her daughter having long since gone to town to make some final arrangements about a Catholic Daughters' frolic for tonight.
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1956 January 24, Journal of François Mignon, page 7794
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He coffeed and sandwiched along the highway.
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1965, Thea Astley, The Slow Natives, page 196
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A while back while coffee-ing with friends, the men were discussing new water tanks, the different makes, costs, etc.
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1969, Western Fisheries, page 51
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It embarrassed Glover that when his wife coffee’d with a neighbor in the kitchen she had to leave the oven going with the door open to keep the place livable.
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1972, Audience, page 80
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We sat and coffee’d with people in the living room.
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1973, Experiences in Rural Mental Health: Developing Citizen Participation, page 25
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“Can I at least make you some coffee?” “I’m not in the habit of coffee-ing with strange women.”
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1976, William Goldman, Magic, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, page 10
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Jack Herington “coffee-d” with delegates on Wednesday morning.
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1976, Telephone Engineer & Management, page 56
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She took care of a modest house, “coffee’d” with her neighbors while the husband slept late in the mornings.
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1980, Robert H. Morneau, Robert R. Rockwell, Sex, Motivation, and the Criminal Offender, page 136
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While watching television or coffee-ing with a neighbor tape all your wonderful stuff onto 8½-by-11-inch sheets of paper.
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1982, Daisy Hepburn, “The Farmer”, in Lead, Follow Or Get Out of the Way!, Ventura, Calif.: Regal Books, page 98
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We coffee’d in a park, we found a stream and pond for lunch and for Mike Roberts to shoot Stanley’s siphoning water and sort of bumped and lazed along on roads with Brete Hart and Mark Twain names.
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1983, Horseless Carriage Gazette, page 14
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“At least my parents stick around!” I said back as I paced. I instantly regretted my comeback but that’s the thing about unkind words: You can try to undo the damage, but (a) it’s hard when you’re all coffee-ed up, and (b) you can’t take it back, ever.
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2002, Rachel Cohn, Gingerbread, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, pages 64–65
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They had been at the HyVee deli that night, coffee’ed up and continuing a late night discussion of angels on the heads of pins, or whatever Episcopalians discuss, three wise men who had walked out of the HyVee to enjoy the warm September air,[…].
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2005, Larry Baker, Athens, America, First Coast Books, page 252
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The country club where we coffee’d was hushed, even desolate on a rainy morning—the dark woods you would expect, the sweet selection of teas.
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2008, Rebecca Schoenkopf, Commie Girl in the OC, London, New York: Verso, pages 11–12
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Stopped at a 7/eleven, coffee-ed up, washed down four dex, hit the Interstate.
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2010, Jeff Collignon, The Glass Eye of Hell, page 160
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It was exactly 11 a.m. We had been coffeeing for one hour, and our coffee cups were empty.
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2010, Patrick Day, Too Late in the Afternoon: One Man's Triumph Over Depression
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Very little was spoken as they coffee-ed up and she cut the peppers.
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2010, N.S. David, TLC (Tranquility Logistics Corporation), AuthorHouse, page 31
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Woke to Ravel’s Pavane For Dead Princess, / Coffee-ed with Simone’s I Get Along Without You Very Well – of course I do.
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2011, Terrence Douglas, “Dead Princess”, in Does a Footstep Linger?, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., page 55
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I, myself, have been awake since three, dressed since four, coffee-ed up since five.
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2013, Kat Meads, 2:12 a.m., Nacogdoches, Tex.: Stephen F. Austin State University Press, page 65
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Hi! Didn’t think you would be coffee-ing again. Out and about so soon after your op?
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2013, Bett Taylor, “The Operation”, in Coffee Breaks, Short Stories and Poems, Xlibris, page 113
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Well, one morning after I had coffee-ed up and went to fork hay into the corrals, I spied a rider.
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2013, Johnny D. Boggs, Hard Winter: A Western Story, Skyhorse Publishing
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From my base camp, I went to Mommy & Me groups, applied to exclusive music classes, wrangled with nannies, coffee’d with other mothers, and “auditioned” at preschools, for my firstborn son and then his little brother.
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2015, Wednesday Martin, “Introduction”, in Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster, page 8
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Madelyn was awake around 6:30 but she was only six months old and had not yet developed pre-Christmas excitement; Michael got her changed and bottled up (and himself coffee-ed up) well before anybody else stirred.
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2016, Doug Jordan, The Maxim Chronicles: A Year with a Champion Poodle, AFS Publishing, page 181
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‘Especially when it’s something you can’t change, looking to where someone else is and trying to compare is only going to make you feel that sense of crushing disappointment, or feeling like you’re so far away from what you would have ideally wanted,’ says Cassie Mendoza-Jones, the kinesiologist we coffee’d with in Chapter 7.
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2019, Melanie Dimmitt, Special: Antidotes to the Obsessions That Come with a Child’s Disability, Ventura Press
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“[…]The two of you should get together for coffee one of these days. I’ll introduce you after the service.” “Sure, Gran,” Sophie said easily, well used to these monthly matchmaking efforts. Ealing was in fact rather far, and frankly she had no intention of coffee-ing with Mark Bloom either way, but she’d long learned it was best just to nod along with her grandmother’s non-stop attempts to marry her off.
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2020, Rebecca Crowley, Off the Record (The London Phoenix Series), Tule Publishing
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I am glad you didn’t yell at me when I dinged your car, I am glad you taught me to cook for large groups, I am glad that we coffee’d until all hours.
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2021, Diane E. Peeling, “I Am”, in Connected Life Awareness, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights, page 6
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Three Ladies, Three Lattes: Still coffee-ing after all these years
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2021 January 28, The Jerusalem Post
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The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifully sandwiched and coffeed.
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1897 January 7, “City’s Veteran Firemen. New Year Reception. The Rooms of the Association Filled with Guests. Reminiscences, Reunion, and Refreshments,”, in The Pittsfield Sun, volume 97, number 26, Pittsfield, Mass., page 7
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Here at Camp Wheeler we “coffeed” and “sandwiched” the drafted men when they came from Camp Gordon several weeks ago, and the men from Camp Pike more recently.
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1917 November 11, Dumas Malone, “The Ring and the Red Triangle: How the Men Who Wear the New Insignia Go With the Army”, in The Macon Daily Telegraph, Macon, Ga., first section, article section “The Ever-Ready Hut”, page four
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There we were met by enterprising citizens and coffeed and sandwiched by pretty girls.
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1929, Howard W[allace] Peak, A Ranger of Commerce or 52 Years on the Road, page 87
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Five soldiers had been sandwiched and coffeed at the Elks canteen, were a little short of money, needed haircuts.
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1942 August 31, “Who Clipped the Soldiers’—Hair?”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, volume CXII, number 206, Harrisburg, Pa., second section, page 9
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I write this on the kitchen table at the home of the kind Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ebert, who sandwiched and coffee’d me.
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1959 October 7, Charles House, “Charlie Pauses at 75-Mile Mark To Recount Latest Adventures”, in Appleton Post-Crescent, volume LI, number 88, Appleton-Neenah-Menasha, Wis., section “Coffee Break”, page A16
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Mrs. Robert (Helen) Adickes, of Flintridge, mate of the chairman of the Pilots For Goldwater committee, was in there pitching as usual seeing that everyone was fed and coffeed or, in the case of the young colts and fillies, sandwiched and popped.
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1964 October 13, Gene Cowles, Valley Times, volume 27, number 246, San Fernando Valley, Calif., page 15
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Ray Hughes and Shirley and Martin Johnson, new owners of “John and Mable’s, “coffeed” me and listened to my story.
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1973, Pamphlets on Forestry in California, page 225
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Hostesses like Laurie McCormack, who’s used to keeping politicians, press and businessmen coffeed and sandwiched on special visits to the train, sat back and let Jay Montague and other merchants reverse roles.
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1975 October 14, Kathleen Merryman, “Freedom Train fires up parties”, in The Billings Gazette, 90th year, number 165, Billings, Mont., page 11-A
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“In the daytimes, he fixes things for people,” I said, “and in return they keep him sandwiched and coffeed.”
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1976 August 28, Joan Flanagan, “cassidy’s mob”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 43,275, page 14
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They fed him and coffee’d him and kept him talking until his throat was sore and it had been long dark for hours.
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1997, Terry C. Johnston, Wolf Mountain Moon: The Fort Peck Expedition, the Fight at Ash Creek, and the Battle of the Butte—January 8, 1877, Bantam Books, page 397
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That afternoon at the House Rock Valley Store, the time John Schoppmann coffeed me and Bob,[…]
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2005, Michael F. Anderson, editor, A Gathering of Grand Canyon Historians: Ideas, Arguments, and First-Person Accounts: Proceedings of the Inaugural Grand Canyon History Symposium, January 2002, Grand Canyon Association, page 55
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You all fed me and coffee’d me and warmed me up.
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2014, Steve Ulfelder, chapter 58, in Wolverine Bros. Freight & Storage: A Conway Sax Mystery, Minotaur Books, page 305
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senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To drink coffee.
To give coffee to.
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10035 | word:
pipe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pipe (plural pipes)
forms:
form:
pipes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Castielfabib
Stapleford Tawney
etymology_text:
From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Doublet of fife.
The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguese pipa.
The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English pīpian (“to pipe”).
senses_examples:
text:
Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side,
The summer's gone and all the roses falling,
It's you, it's you must go and I must bide.
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1913, “Danny Boy: Song Adapted from an Old Irish Air”, Fred[eric] E[dward] Weatherly (lyrics), New York, N.Y., London: Boosey & Co […], →OCLC, page 1
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Most theater organs use many sets (ranks) of reed and flue pipes of various shapes, pipe scales, and so forth to generate a variety of timbres.
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1980, Harvey E[lliott] White, Donald H. White, “Wind Instruments”, in Physics and Music: The Science of Musical Sound, Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders College Pub./Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 245; republished Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2014, part 3 (Musical Instruments), section 18.7 (The Theater Organ), page 245
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A standard Flight Refuelling Ltd Mk 8 probe nozzle was attached to the probe structural tube and fuel pipe. The pipe was double-walled, and passed through into the fuselage aft of the flight deck; […] A non-return valve was fitted within the fuel pipe aft of the probe nozzle, thus preventing any leakage of fuel if the aircraft lost the probe nozzle inadvertently.
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2006, Richard M. Tanner, “Lockheed Tristar: Single-point Tanker”, in History of Air-to-air Refuelling, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Aviation, Pen & Sword Books, part 2 (Technology), page 286, column 1
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A burst pipe flooded my bathroom.
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Corrosion control can be accomplished in distribution systems by adding compounds that form a protective film on the pipe surface, thereby providing a barrier between the water and the pipe.
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2000, Richard L. Valentine et al., “Chlorine and Monochloramine Decay in Batch and Loop Experiments”, in The Role of the Pipe–Water Interface in DBP Formation and Disinfectant Loss, Iowa City, Ia.: University of Iowa, page 115
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Amongst the vessels of the human body, the pipe which conveys the saliva from the place where it is made, to the place where it is wanted, deserves to be reckoned amongst the most intelligible pieces of mechanism with which we are acquainted.
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1802, William Paley, “Of the Vessels of Animal Bodies”, in Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Morgan, […], →OCLC, pages 125–126
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He grabs my legs and throws them over his shoulders, putting his big pipe inside me […]
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2006, Monique A. Williams, Neurotica: An Honest Examination into Urban Sexual Relations, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Enterprises, page 7
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He punctuated his demand with a deep thrust up CJ's hole. His giant pipe drove almost all the way in, pulsing against his fingers beside it.
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2010, Eric Summers, editor, Teammates, Sarasota, Fla.: StarBooks, page 90
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He laughed as he knelt down between Duncan's splayed thighs and tore open a packaged condom, then rolled it down over his big fuck-pipe.
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2011, Mickey Erlach, Gym Buddies & Buff Boys, Sarasota, Fla.: StarBooks, page 64
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Meronym: pipestave
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Mr Barretto informed us he had shipped two hundred and forty pipes of Madeira [which] not only impeded the ship's progress by making her too deep in the water, but greatly increased her motion.
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1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 329
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My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day! But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts.
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1846, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”, in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, volume I, New York: W. J. Widdleton, published 1849, page 347, →OCLC
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Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31½ gallons, a rundlet 18½ gallons.
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1882, James E[dwin] Thorold Rogers, “Weights and Measures”, in A History of Agriculture and Prices in England from the Year after the Oxford Parliament (1259) to the Commencement of the Continental War (1793) […], volumes IV (1401–1582), Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 205
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While the pipe of a conventional volcano may extend down 50 miles or so, the volcanic pipes that pick up diamonds along the way had to go much deeper, perhaps as deep as 300 miles.
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1995 March, Jon Bowermaster, “Diamond Rush in the Arctic”, in Fred Abatemarco, editor, Popular Science, volume 246, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Times Mirror Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83, columns 2–3
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Some researchers think that the warming was caused as kimberlite pipes (volcanic vents originating deep in the Earth’s mantle) reached the surface near Lac de Gras in northern Canada and released huge amounts of carbon.
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2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 54
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On Thursday Mr. William Bland, formerly a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, […] was brought to trial on a charge of libelling the Governor [Lachlan Macquarie], by the composition and publishing of various letters and verses contained in a manuscript book dropped on the Parramatta Road—and thence brought to light. […] [H]owever lenient the sentence passed upon this young man, yet, it is much to be hoped, that from his example pipe-making will in future be reposed solely in the hands of Mr. Wm. Cluer [an earthenware pipe maker] of the Brickfield Hill.
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1818 September 26, “Sydney. [Criminal Court.]”, in Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, volume XVI, number 775, Sydney, N.S.W.: By authority [government printer], →OCLC, page 3, columns 2–3
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quotation
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A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.
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example
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While parseing an xml document( sax parser ), trying to replace ' | ' with ' & ' , it finds the pipe, but won't replace with amper.
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2001 July 13, JimmyMac, “java and xml”, in comp.lang.java.help (Usenet)
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quotation
text:
“Let's try to get on the pipe to Admiral Collier again.”
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1980, Charles D. Taylor, Show of Force
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
The key or sound of the voice.
Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
A water pipe.
Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
A man's penis.
Meanings relating to a container.
A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
Meanings relating to a container.
The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
One of the goalposts of the goal.
Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
Meanings relating to computing.
A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
Meanings relating to computing.
A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
Meanings relating to computing.
The character |.
Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
A telephone.
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lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
geography
geology
natural-sciences
ball-games
games
hobbies
lacrosse
lifestyle
sports
business
mining
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
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10036 | word:
pipe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pipe (third-person singular simple present pipes, present participle piping, simple past and past participle piped)
forms:
form:
pipes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
piping
tags:
participle
present
form:
piped
tags:
participle
past
form:
piped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Castielfabib
Stapleford Tawney
etymology_text:
From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Doublet of fife.
The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguese pipa.
The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English pīpian (“to pipe”).
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he pide Piper with a ſhrill pipe went piping through the ſtreets, and forthwith the rats came all running out of the houſes in great numbers after him; all which hee led into the riuer of Weaſer and therein drowned them.
ref:
1605, R[ichard] V[erstegan], “Of the Antient Manner of Living of Ovr Saxon Ancestors. […]”, in A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In Antiquities. Concerning the Most Noble and Renovvmed English Nation. […], printed at Antwerp: By Robert Bruney; […] [a]nd to be sold […], by Iohn Norton and Iohn Bill, →OCLC; republished London: Printed by Iohn Bill, […], 1628, →OCLC, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
[W]ith the mariners
A fellow-mariner,—and so had fared
Through twenty seasons; but he had been rear'd
Among the mountains, and he in his heart
Was half a Shepherd on the stormy seas.
Oft in the piping shrouds had Leonard heard
The tones of waterfalls, and inland sounds
Of caves and trees: […]
ref:
1827, William Wordsworth, “The Brothers”, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. In Five Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 125
type:
quotation
text:
Soft baroque music pipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary.
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2009, Susan Van Allen, “Churches Dedicated to Female Saints—Rome”, in 100 Places in Italy Every Woman should Go, Palo Alto, Calif.: Travelers’ Tales, Solas House, section I (The Divine: Goddesses, Saints, and the Blessed Virgin Mary), page 20
type:
quotation
text:
to pipe flowers on to a cupcake
type:
example
text:
This means a quantity of runouts can be made in advance, allowing more time to flat ice and pipe the cake.
ref:
1998, Nicholas Lodge, Janice Murfitt, The International School of Sugarcraft: Book One: Beginners, London: Merehurst Press, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
How you got everybody lit, pipin' up?
Oh, she bad with no swag, I can pipe her up
Made my last one my last one, I'm wifin' her
ref:
2017 September 7, “Heatin Up”, in Lil Baby (lyrics), My Turn, 1:57
type:
quotation
text:
Now this bitch calling me Pacino, she thinks she fifer
The only thing on my mind is tryna pipe her
ref:
2022 October 20, “Bitch”, Sliknik (lyrics), 2:21
type:
quotation
text:
So I went and laid down on the grass. While laying there I piped a reeler whom I knew. He had a nark (a policeman's spy) with him. So I went and looked about for my two pals, and told them to look out for F. and his nark.
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1879 October, J[ohn] W[illiam] Horsley, “Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves’ Language”, in Macmillan’s Magazine, volume XL, number 240, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 505, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
"Hey, Greek," Roger was saying, his droning voice coming unpleasantly into the other's musings, "did you pipe that? Did you ever see anything like her?"
ref:
1914, Jackson Gregory, Under Handicap
type:
quotation
text:
[…] who ostensibly was handed an all-day sucker by a warm-hearted bandit in the act of robbing a candy store of $40, there was no moral outcry. "Find the girl," was the immediate response of competing editors to their reporters at police headquarters. The men of the press, who knew a piped story when they saw one, quickly found another little girl, presented her with a lollipop, and photographed her skipping rope in front of the candy store.
ref:
1981, Elie Abel, What's News: The Media in American Society, page 259
type:
quotation
text:
If there was a lull in criminal activity, reporters were not above "piping" a story.
ref:
2004, Arthur Gelb, City Room, page 154
type:
quotation
text:
Reporters today supposedly do not use "piped" stories because they are unethical.
ref:
2008, Homer L. Hall, Logan H. Aimone, High School Journalism, page 91
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
To shout loudly and at high pitch.
To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
To install or configure with pipes.
To dab moisture away from.
To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
To create or decorate with piping (icing).
To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
To have sex with a woman.
To see.
To invent or embellish (a story).
senses_topics:
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
cooking
food
lifestyle
nautical
transport
journalism
media |
10037 | word:
quiet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quiet (comparative quieter or more quiet, superlative quietest or most quiet)
forms:
form:
quieter
tags:
comparative
form:
more quiet
tags:
comparative
form:
quietest
tags:
superlative
form:
most quiet
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quiete, from Old French quiet (adjective) and quiete (noun), from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiēscere (“to keep quiet, rest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“rest”). Doublet of coy, quit, and quietus.
senses_examples:
text:
I can't hear the music; it is too quiet.
type:
example
text:
the sea was quiet
type:
example
text:
a quiet night at home
type:
example
text:
all quiet on the Western front
type:
example
text:
The traffic was quiet for a Monday morning.
type:
example
text:
Business was quiet for the season.
type:
example
text:
He's a very quiet man usually, but is very chatty after a few beers.
type:
example
text:
a quiet dress
type:
example
text:
quiet colours
type:
example
text:
a quiet movement
type:
example
text:
a quiet install
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
Having little motion or activity; calm.
Not busy, of low quantity.
Not talking much or not talking loudly; reserved.
Not showy; undemonstrative.
Requiring little or no interaction.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
10038 | word:
quiet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quiet (third-person singular simple present quiets, present participle quieting, simple past and past participle quieted)
forms:
form:
quiets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
quieting
tags:
participle
present
form:
quieted
tags:
participle
past
form:
quieted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quiete, from Old French quiet (adjective) and quiete (noun), from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiēscere (“to keep quiet, rest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“rest”). Doublet of coy, quit, and quietus.
senses_examples:
text:
Can you quiet your child? He’s making lots of noise.
type:
example
text:
The umpire quieted the crowd so the game could continue in peace.
type:
example
text:
When you quiet, we can start talking.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause (someone or something) to become quiet.
To become quiet or calm.
senses_topics:
|
10039 | word:
quiet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quiet (plural quiets)
forms:
form:
quiets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quiete, from Old French quiet (adjective) and quiete (noun), from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiēscere (“to keep quiet, rest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“rest”). Doublet of coy, quit, and quietus.
senses_examples:
text:
There was a strange quiet in the normally very lively plaza.
type:
example
text:
We need a bit of quiet before we can start the show.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The absence of sound; quietness.
The absence of movement; stillness, tranquility.
The absence of disturbance or trouble; peace, security.
senses_topics:
|
10040 | word:
quiet
word_type:
intj
expansion:
quiet
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quiete, from Old French quiet (adjective) and quiete (noun), from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiēscere (“to keep quiet, rest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“rest”). Doublet of coy, quit, and quietus.
senses_examples:
text:
Quiet! The children are sleeping.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Be quiet.
senses_topics:
|
10041 | word:
laundryman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laundryman (plural laundrymen)
forms:
form:
laundrymen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From laundry + -man.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A man who is in the business of laundering.
senses_topics:
|
10042 | word:
South Dakota
word_type:
name
expansion:
South Dakota
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after the Dakota Territory, which is named after the Dakota people.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. Capital: Pierre. Largest city: Sioux Falls.
senses_topics:
|
10043 | word:
laundress
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laundress (plural laundresses)
forms:
form:
laundresses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From launderer + -ess.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of washerwoman
senses_topics:
|
10044 | word:
laundress
word_type:
verb
expansion:
laundress (third-person singular simple present laundresses, present participle laundressing, simple past and past participle laundressed)
forms:
form:
laundresses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
laundressing
tags:
participle
present
form:
laundressed
tags:
participle
past
form:
laundressed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From launderer + -ess.
senses_examples:
text:
And oh, my dears, real washing is very different work from the dolls’ laundressing—standing round a wash-hand basin placed on a nursery chair, and wasting ever so much beautiful honey-soap in nice clean hot water […]
ref:
1875, Mary Louisa Molesworth, “Too Bad”, in Tell Me a Story, 5th edition, London: Macmillan, published 1882, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
2007, Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows My Name), New York: Norton, Book Three, p. 260,
Mama got herself free before she had me, and she was laundressing for the British since my early days.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act as a laundress.
senses_topics:
|
10045 | word:
laundering
word_type:
verb
expansion:
laundering
forms:
wikipedia:
laundering
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of launder
senses_topics:
|
10046 | word:
laundering
word_type:
noun
expansion:
laundering (countable and uncountable, plural launderings)
forms:
form:
launderings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
laundering
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.
senses_topics:
|
10047 | word:
locally
word_type:
adv
expansion:
locally (comparative more locally, superlative most locally)
forms:
form:
more locally
tags:
comparative
form:
most locally
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From local + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
These things are locally separated.
type:
example
text:
We live locally.
type:
example
text:
In this shop we only sell products farmed locally.
type:
example
text:
To be applied locally
type:
example
text:
locally Euclidean
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With respect to place; in place.
In or from the local area.
In a restricted part of the body.
Within a sufficiently small sphere (or circle or interval) around a given point (sometimes, around any point).
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences |
10048 | word:
generation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
generation (countable and uncountable, plural generations)
forms:
form:
generations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English generacioun, from Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin generātiō, from generāre, present active infinitive of generō (“to beget, generate”). Compare generate.
senses_examples:
text:
This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
text:
Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
text:
All generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker
text:
Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s.
ref:
2008, Edgar Thorpe, Objective English
type:
quotation
text:
The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
ref:
2009, Paul Deital, Harvey Deital, Abbey Deital, iPhone for Programmers
type:
quotation
text:
the generation of a line or curve
type:
example
text:
Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
type:
example
text:
People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.
type:
example
text:
With one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component mode, quality loss through additional generations is not such a problem. In this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while re-recording onto a third generation master […]
ref:
2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book
type:
quotation
text:
Each generation away from the original or master produces increased degradation in the image quality.
ref:
2002, Keith Jack, Vladimir Tsatsoulin, Dictionary of Video and Television Technology, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.
ref:
1989 November 20, Dean Hickerson, “Life: glider gun origin”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
The glider is fast--it moves 2 cells every 3 generations. There is also a spinning thing (sixty degrees every 21 generations)
ref:
1999 June 15, hexatron, “A new hexagonal CA with a new glider”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
In B37/S23, it goes symmetrical after 10 ticks, and produces a familiar pair of B-heptominoes after 23 ticks (the next generation after this can be found in the rotor of a standard B3/S23 p46 oscillator):
ref:
2008 June 25, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
Race, family; breed.
A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
Descendants, progeny; offspring.
The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.
A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
senses_topics:
geometry
mathematics
sciences
broadcasting
media
television
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10049 | word:
crema
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crema (countable and uncountable, plural cremas)
forms:
form:
cremas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian crema. Doublet of cream, second-etymology crema, and crème.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The light-colored, orangish head of foam on a cup of espresso.
senses_topics:
|
10050 | word:
crema
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crema (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish crema. Doublet of cream, first-etymology crema, and crème.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Mexican foodstuff, the Mexican version of crème fraîche or sour cream. Its fat content is usually higher than that of sour cream, and it is thinner and less sour.
senses_topics:
|
10051 | word:
acolothist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acolothist (plural acolothists)
forms:
form:
acolothists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of acolythist
senses_topics:
|
10052 | word:
acolythist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acolythist (plural acolythists)
forms:
form:
acolythists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An acolyte.
senses_topics:
|
10053 | word:
acolyth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acolyth (plural acolyths)
forms:
form:
acolyths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of acolyte.
senses_topics:
|
10054 | word:
acolyctine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acolyctine (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Aconitum lycoctonum + -ine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
10055 | word:
biology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
biology (countable and uncountable, plural biologies)
forms:
form:
biologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Dudley Loftus
Oxford English Dictionary
Thomas Beddoes
biology
international scientific vocabulary
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *loǵ-o-s
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logíā)bor.
Latin -logia
New Latin biologialbor.
English biology
Borrowed from New Latin biologia (1766), itself from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “bio-, life”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”). By surface analysis, bio- + -logy.
In English, first attested in the modern meaning in the work of English physician Thomas Beddoes in 1799. The term is also recorded in the sense of a biographical history in the work of Dudley Loftus in 1686, but this is considered by the Oxford English Dictionary to be an isolated use. The modern Greek βιολογία (viología) is borrowed from the English term and French biologie via international scientific vocabulary. Piecewise doublet of zoology.
senses_examples:
text:
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
ref:
2012 January 24, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2013-10-03, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
The object of these prizes is to stimulate and encourage original investigation by the aid of the microscope in the biology of North America, and, while the competition is open to all, it is especially commended to advanced students in biology in such of our universities and colleges as furnish opportunity for suitable work.
ref:
1893, “Prizes for original work with the microscope”, in Proceedings of the American Microscopical Society, volume 14, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
the biology of the whale
type:
example
text:
That a Town has a biology of its own has been, since Freeman and Green, a familiar idea to us. But it was not in England, with its old established central governments, that the idea was likely to arise; and we know what the local history of our old antiquaries was like.
ref:
1912, J. H. Rose, C[harles] H[arold] Herford, E[dward] C[arter] K[earsey] Gonner, M[ichael] E[rnest] Sadler, Germany in the Nineteenth Century: Five Lectures, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., page 67
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of all life or living matter.
The living organisms of a particular region.
The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
A biographical history.
senses_topics:
|
10056 | word:
localize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
localize (third-person singular simple present localizes, present participle localizing, simple past and past participle localized)
forms:
form:
localizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
localizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
localized
tags:
participle
past
form:
localized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From local + -ize. Compare French localiser.
senses_examples:
text:
The intent of the aphorism "think globally, act locally" was to spur action by localizing the challenge.
type:
example
text:
Out of her early struggles well inspired
To localize heroic acts
ref:
1837, William Wordsworth, Memorials of a Tour in Italy, Musings near Aquapendente
type:
quotation
text:
We need to localize our software for the Japanese market.
type:
example
text:
the ethical dilemma faced when to localize is to self-censor
type:
example
text:
After exploratory surgery, the extent of the problem was localized to the left lower quadrant.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.
To adapt (a product or service) for use in a particular country or region, typically by translating text into the language of that country and modifying currencies, date formats, etc.
To adapt translated text to fit a local culture; to domesticate.
To determine where something takes place or is to be found.
To produce (from a ring and an ideal in that ring) the ring of fractions, where the set of allowed denominators is the compliment of the given ideal.
senses_topics:
business
computing
engineering
marketing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
business
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
marketing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
translation-studies
algebra
mathematics
sciences |
10057 | word:
Laura
word_type:
name
expansion:
Laura
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin saint's name Laura, from the feminine form of laurus (“laurel tree”). A post-classical name made famous by Petrarch's sonnets to Laura in the fourteenth century.
senses_examples:
text:
Laura was saying something. A mellifluous name, he thought. I wish she were far away, so I could call her.
ref:
1960 Peter S. Beagle: A Fine And Private Place. Random House Publishing, 1982:The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle. →ISBN page 258
text:
'Mine's Laura'./ 'A beautiful name.'/ Laura has never liked her name. It's too old-fashioned and has, to her mind, a slightly whiny sound, like the twang of a country and western guitar. In fact she was given the name because Michelle liked the song 'Tell Laura I Love Her'.
ref:
2019 February 7, Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 11, Hachette UK
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female given name from Latin.
senses_topics:
|
10058 | word:
locate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
locate (third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located)
forms:
form:
locates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
locating
tags:
participle
present
form:
located
tags:
participle
past
form:
located
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin locātus, past participle of loco (“to place”), from locus (“place”).
senses_examples:
text:
The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
ref:
1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek
type:
quotation
text:
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
ref:
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.
ref:
2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
The council must locate the new hospital
type:
example
text:
to locate a mining claim
type:
example
text:
to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant
type:
example
text:
1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy
That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
To find out where something is located.
To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.
senses_topics:
|
10059 | word:
hanaper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hanaper (plural hanapers)
forms:
form:
hanapers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin hanaperium (“a large vase”), extended from hanapus (“bowl, cup”). Doublet of hamper.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper
senses_topics:
|
10060 | word:
hanch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hanch (plural hanches)
forms:
form:
hanches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of hance
senses_topics:
|
10061 | word:
hanch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hanch (plural hanches)
forms:
form:
hanches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of haunch.
senses_topics:
|
10062 | word:
hanch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hanch (third-person singular simple present hanches, present participle hanching, simple past and past participle hanched)
forms:
form:
hanches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hanching
tags:
participle
present
form:
hanched
tags:
participle
past
form:
hanched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To snap at something with the jaws.
senses_topics:
|
10063 | word:
hance
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hance (third-person singular simple present hances, present participle hancing, simple past and past participle hanced)
forms:
form:
hances
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hancing
tags:
participle
present
form:
hanced
tags:
participle
past
form:
hanced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See enhance.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To raise, to elevate.
senses_topics:
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10064 | word:
hance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hance (plural hances)
forms:
form:
hances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Anglo-Norman, from Old French haulce.
senses_examples:
text:
He wears a minimal white cotton brief, and is pleased by the hance of its pouch, a catenary dip as he faces the mirror, the profile navicular and ostent.
ref:
1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A curve or arc, especially in architecture or in the design of a ship.
The arc of smaller radius at the springing of an elliptical or many-centred arch.
senses_topics:
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10065 | word:
localization
word_type:
noun
expansion:
localization (countable and uncountable, plural localizations)
forms:
form:
localizations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From localize + -ation; compare French localisation.
senses_examples:
text:
James has been responsible for the government works programme. He is the last expatriate senior official left in the administration, apart from the Attorney General, Jeremy Mathews. It has been a remarkably swift and comprehensive process of localization, and the competence of government in Hong Kong has not suffered an iota. His departure is a significant day for Hong Kong.
ref:
2022, Chris Patten, The Hong Kong Diaries, Penguin UK
type:
quotation
text:
3) Geometric interpretation of the localization.
Let V be an irreducible algebraic variety. Then P = J(V) is a prime ideal of #x5C;mathbb#x7B;C#x7D;#x5B;X#x5F;1,...,X#x5F;n#x5D; and so #x5C;mathbb#x7B;C#x7D;#x5B;V#x5D;#x3D;#x5C;mathbb#x7B;C#x7D;#x5B;X#x5F;1,...,X#x5F;n#x5D;#x2F;J(V) is an integral domain.
The localization #x5C;mathbb#x7B;C#x7D;#x5B;X#x5F;1,...,X#x5F;n#x5D;#x5F;P is a subring of #x5C;mathbb#x7B;C#x7D;(X#x5F;1,...,X#x5F;n) consisting of rational functions #x5C;#x7B;f#x2F;g#x3A;f,g#x5C;in#x5C;mathbb#x7B;C#x7D;#x5B;X#x5F;1,...,X#x5F;n#x5D;,g#x5C;notinP#x5C;#x7D; which are defined on a nonempty subset of V. If V = {x} is a point, then P is maximal and #x5C;mathbb#x7B;C#x7D;#x5B;X#x5F;1,...,X#x5F;n#x5D;#x5F;P#x3D;#x5C;#x7B;f#x2F;g#x3A;f,g#x5C;in#x5C;mathbb#x7B;C#x7D;#x5B;X#x5F;1,...,X#x5F;n#x5D;,g(x)#x5C;ne 0#x5C;#x7D; consists of rational functions which are defined at x.
ref:
2007, Ivan Fesenko, “Rings and modules”, in G13ALS Algebra 2, 2007/2008 @ maths.nottingham.ac.uk, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of localizing.
The act of localizing.
The switch of positions in power from the colonizing population to the local population.
The act, process, or result of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.
The act, process, or result of adapting translated text to fit a local culture; domestication.
The state of being localized.
A systematic method of adding multiplicative inverses to a ring.
A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the complement of the set of allowed denominators is an ideal.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
business
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
marketing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
translation-studies
algebra
mathematics
sciences
algebra
mathematics
sciences |
10066 | word:
Hawaii
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hawaii
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hawaiian Hawaiʻi, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki (“traditional homeland”).
senses_examples:
text:
I've learned a lot by watching my Democratic colleague from Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye. He’s a man of uncommon decency. I’ve never seen him demand political loyalty because of party or friendship, and I’ve never known him to go back on his word.
ref:
2007, Joe Biden, “Jill”, in Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An insular state in the United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Honolulu.
An archipelago in the Pacific Ocean between North America and Oceania.
An island in Hawaii archipelago, Pacific Ocean, of Hawaii County, State of Hawaii, United States. The largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
A former kingdom in the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean
senses_topics:
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10067 | word:
sunset
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sunset (countable and uncountable, plural sunsets)
forms:
form:
sunsets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sunset
etymology_text:
From Middle English son-sett, Sonne set, equivalent to sun + set. In Gower's Confessio Amantis, before 1393.
senses_examples:
text:
at sunset
type:
example
text:
’Twas sunset: when the sun will part
There comes a sullenness of heart
To him who still would look upon
The glory of the summer sun.
ref:
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
type:
quotation
text:
'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.
ref:
1799, Thomas Campbell, Pleasure of Hope
type:
quotation
text:
one's sunset years
type:
example
text:
The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
The changes in color of the sky before and after sunset.
The final period of the life of a person or thing.
A set termination date.
The region where the sun sets; the west.
senses_topics:
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10068 | word:
sunset
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sunset (third-person singular simple present sunsets, present participle sunsetting, simple past and past participle sunsetted)
forms:
form:
sunsets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sunsetting
tags:
participle
present
form:
sunsetted
tags:
participle
past
form:
sunsetted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sunset
etymology_text:
From Middle English son-sett, Sonne set, equivalent to sun + set. In Gower's Confessio Amantis, before 1393.
senses_examples:
text:
We’ll be sunsetting version 1.9 of the software shortly after releasing version 2.0 next quarter.
type:
example
text:
Last December, Yahoo announced plans to “sunset” more well-known services, including the pioneering social bookmarking service del.icio.us.
ref:
2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To phase out.
senses_topics:
business
government
politics |
10069 | word:
hanap
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hanap (plural hanaps)
forms:
form:
hanaps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French hanap, from Frankish *hnapp, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“cup, bowl”). Doublet of nap.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rich goblet, especially one used on state occasions.
senses_topics:
|
10070 | word:
cycle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cycle (plural cycles)
forms:
form:
cycles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cycle
etymology_text:
From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).
Doublet of cyclus and wheel (see there for more).
senses_examples:
text:
the cycle of the seasons, or of the year
type:
example
text:
electoral cycle menstrual cycle news cycle
type:
example
text:
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
ref:
2013 August 10, “Legal highs: A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
type:
quotation
text:
Ice is one of a slate of young, idealistic candidates for Move Forward who have joined mainstream politics in the hope that this election allows Thailand to break the cycle of military coups […]
ref:
2023 May 8, Jonathan Head, “Thailand election: The young radicals shaking up politics”, in BBC News (World)
type:
quotation
text:
The interval cycle C4 consists of the pitch classes 0, 4 and 8; when starting on E, it is realised as the pitches E, G# and C.
type:
example
text:
The "Ring of the Nibelung" is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.
type:
example
text:
Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
type:
example
text:
the spin cycle
type:
example
text:
Jones hit for the cycle in the game.
type:
example
text:
There appears to be no absolute cycle in the universe; all is change and progression. No planet ever revolves twice precisely in the same orbit.
ref:
1858, [anonymous], “Appendix”, in Edmund Burke, The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated; Being a Reprint of Edmund Burke’s Celebrated Essay, Entitled “A Vindication of Natural Society:” […], London: Holyoake and Company, […], →OCLC, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
a cycle or set of leaves
ref:
1857, Asa Gray, First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology
type:
quotation
text:
Officers have made the mistake of applying many Taser cycles, expecting the suspect to relent.
ref:
2014, R.T. Wyant, Thomas Burns, Risk Management of Less Lethal Options, CRC Press, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
The deterioration of his physique may be a result of his being off cycle.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
A complete rotation of anything.
A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
A chain whose boundary is zero.
An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
An age; a long period of time.
An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
One entire round in a circle or a spire.
A discharge of a taser.
One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
algebraic-topology
mathematics
sciences
topology
biology
botany
natural-sciences
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
10071 | word:
cycle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled)
forms:
form:
cycles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cycling
tags:
participle
present
form:
cycled
tags:
participle
past
form:
cycled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cycle
etymology_text:
From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).
Doublet of cyclus and wheel (see there for more).
senses_examples:
text:
Well, during our short staycation at Humberston Fitties, just south of Cleethorpes, we cycled through the very unspoilt Lincolnshire Wolds, which are by no means flat and boring as conventional wisdom about the county suggests.
ref:
2021 July 28, Christian Wolmar, “Forgotten by the railways, but ripe for the exploring”, in RAIL, number 936, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
type:
example
text:
They have their cycling game going tonight.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
To turn power off and back on
To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports |
10072 | word:
translavation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
translavation (plural translavations)
forms:
form:
translavations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From trans- + lavation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A laving or lading from one vessel to another.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
10073 | word:
bribe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bribe (plural bribes)
forms:
form:
bribes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French briber (“go begging”), or Old Irish Brib ("small sum of money).
senses_examples:
text:
c. 1613-1625, Henry Hobart, Yardly v. Ellill
Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe.
text:
The bribes I took did not influence me to become evil. I was evil from the beginning and the bribes were merely a bonus
ref:
2024 June 17, @InternetHippo, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-06-29
type:
quotation
text:
Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.
ref:
1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination
type:
quotation
text:
Remy, this was a bribe! Our whole marriage has been nothing but a series of bribes!
ref:
1974, George Fox, Mario Puzo, Earthquake
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to breaking the law.
That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
senses_topics:
|
10074 | word:
bribe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bribe (third-person singular simple present bribes, present participle bribing, simple past and past participle bribed)
forms:
form:
bribes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bribing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bribed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bribed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French briber (“go begging”), or Old Irish Brib ("small sum of money).
senses_examples:
text:
She was accused of trying to bribe the jury into making false statements.
type:
example
text:
October 23, 1848, Frederick William Robertson, an address delivered at the Opening of The Working Men's Institute
Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.
text:
to bribe somebody's compliance
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something against his/her original will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble.
To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.
senses_topics:
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10075 | word:
translatress
word_type:
noun
expansion:
translatress (plural translatresses)
forms:
form:
translatresses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From translator + -ess.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] I shall forbear to speak of the incomparable worth and pregnant parts of some Gentlewomen lately deceased, as Mrs. Philips the ingenious Translatress of Pompey, &c. since what is extant of hers, or her Contemporaries will more at large express their matchless merit;
ref:
1673, Hannah Woolley, The Gentlewomans Companion, London: Dorman Newman, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A woman who translates.
senses_topics:
|
10076 | word:
shitfaced
word_type:
adj
expansion:
shitfaced (comparative more shitfaced, superlative most shitfaced)
forms:
form:
more shitfaced
tags:
comparative
form:
most shitfaced
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From shit + faced.
senses_examples:
text:
When they brought in that keg, I knew I was going to get shitfaced.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very drunk.
Under the influence of mind-altering drugs.
senses_topics:
|
10077 | word:
Palestine
word_type:
name
expansion:
Palestine
forms:
wikipedia:
Medinet Habu
Padiiset's Statue
Palestine
etymology_text:
From Middle English Palestyne, from Old English Palestina, from Latin Palaestīna (“Roman province of Palestine”), from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē, “Philistia and the surrounding region”), from Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת (p'léshet, “Philistia, land of the Philistines”). The term P-l-s-t or P-r-s-t, found in five Ancient Egyptian inscriptions (beginning with one at Medinet Habu from circa 1170 BCE and ending with Padiiset's Statue inscription from circa 900-850 BCE) as the name of a people near Egypt, is traditionally taken to be cognate. Seven Assyrian inscriptions contain the word "Palas(h)tu" or "Pilistu", which is usually also taken to be cognate.
senses_examples:
text:
Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.
ref:
2019 July 17, Talia Levin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ
type:
quotation
text:
Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.
ref:
2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.
A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.
The West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The region in Western Asia in the Middle East between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
A British colonial entity administering approximately the lands mentioned in definition 1.
The British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, of which this region was a part (the remainder being Transjordan, which covered approximately the lands of the modern Kingdom (originally Emirate) of Jordan).
Any of four Ancient Roman and Byzantine provinces in the eastern Mediterranean: Syria Palaestina, Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda and Palaestina Salutaris.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in St. Francis County, Arkansas.
A number of places in the United States:
A community of Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Crawford County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Woodford County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Brookville Township, Franklin County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Harrison Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Shawswick Township, Lawrence County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Story County, Iowa.
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Cooper County, Missouri.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Darke County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Anderson County, Texas, United States.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.
A community in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
A village in Over Wallop parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU2640).
senses_topics:
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
|
10078 | word:
translocation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
translocation (countable and uncountable, plural translocations)
forms:
form:
translocations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From trans- + location.
senses_examples:
text:
By taking users to places where they would or could not really go, the technology offered empathy or awe via translocation.
ref:
2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.
A transfer of a molecule through a membrane.
senses_topics:
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10079 | word:
Low Saxon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Low Saxon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Holonym: Low German (broad sense)
text:
There is general agreement that, to the east, Low Saxon should be divided from East Low German (Ostniederdeutsch) approximately though quite coincidentally, along the modern border between the Federal Republic and the GDR, although there is no general agreement as to precisely where the dialect boundary should lie, or as to which isogloss should be crucial to its delineation. … The Low Saxon dialects are sometimes referred to collectively as West Low German (Westniederdeutsch) …
ref:
1990, Stephen Barbour, Patrick Stevenson, Variation in German: A critical approach to German sociolinguistics, Cambridge University Press, p. 86f.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of Low German (strict sense: a certain West Germanic language)
A group of related dialects of Low German, spoken in northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, formerly also in Denmark.
senses_topics:
|
10080 | word:
Ursula
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ursula
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Ursula, name of a fourth century saint.
senses_examples:
text:
Whisper her ear, and tell her, I and Ursula / Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse / Is all of her;
ref:
Scene I
text:
"Is her name Ursula?" And I called to mind the little girl who had tried to give some bread to the hungry John Halifax, and whose cry of pain we heard as the door shut upon her. Poor little lady! how sorry I was.
ref:
1857 Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman, Chapter III
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female given name from Latin.
senses_topics:
|
10081 | word:
transliterate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
transliterate (third-person singular simple present transliterates, present participle transliterating, simple past and past participle transliterated)
forms:
form:
transliterates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
transliterating
tags:
participle
present
form:
transliterated
tags:
participle
past
form:
transliterated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin transliterātum, past participle of transliterō, from trans (“across”) + literō , from littera (“letter”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system.
senses_topics:
|
10082 | word:
Amsterdam
word_type:
name
expansion:
Amsterdam
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.
senses_examples:
text:
The Dutch seat of government is not the metropolis of Amsterdam but The Hague.
type:
example
text:
While Amsterdam is the largest city in the province of Noord-Holland, Haarlem is the province capital.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands.
senses_topics:
|
10083 | word:
solidarity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
solidarity (countable and uncountable, plural solidarities)
forms:
form:
solidarities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Solidarity (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
English solidary + -ity, from French solidarité (“solidarity”), from solidaire (“characterized by solidarity”), from Latin solidum (“whole sum”), neuter of solidus (“solid”).
senses_examples:
text:
A long time union member himself, Phil showed solidarity with the picketing grocery store workers by shopping at a competing, unionized store.
type:
example
text:
As a matter of fact the Enlightment culture was based on a philosophy inspired to an ethical laicism whose aim was to create a better society based on principles such as solidarity, equality of rights and duties, and full freedom.
ref:
2012, Francesca Valensise, From Building Fabric to City Form: Reconstruction in Calabria at end of Eighteenth Century, Gangemi Editore spa, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
And this year, some of the granite facades have a new addition - the blue and yellow of the flag of Ukraine. It's hardly surprising to see the Scots, a nation more attuned to independence than some, showing solidarity with a country brutally invaded by Russia.
ref:
2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
Only the solidarity provided by her siblings allowed Margaret to cope with her mother's harrowing death.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bond of unity or agreement between individuals, united around a common goal or against a common enemy, such as the unifying principle that defines the labor movement; mutual support within a group.
Willingness to give psychological and/or material support when another person is in a difficult position or needs affection.
senses_topics:
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10084 | word:
drag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drag (countable and uncountable, plural drags)
forms:
form:
drags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Charleston, West Virginia
drag
etymology_text:
From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), confluence of Old English dragan (“to drag, draw, draw oneself, go, protract”) and Old Norse draga (“to draw, attract”); both from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, drag”).
Verb sense influenced due to association with the noun drag (“that which is hauled or dragged”), related to Low German dragge (“a drag-anchor, grapnel”). Cognate with Danish drægge (“to dredge”), Danish drage (“to draw, attract”), Swedish dragga (“to drag, drag anchor, sweep”), Swedish draga (“to draw, go”), Icelandic draga (“to drag, pull”). Doublet of draw.
senses_examples:
text:
When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.
type:
example
text:
A high thrust-to-weight ratio helps a rocket to overcome the effects of gravity drag.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: cope
text:
He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour.
ref:
1920 June 24, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 151, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
He got high after just one drag of the joint.
type:
example
text:
Give me a drag on that roach!
type:
example
text:
Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag.
type:
example
text:
December 24, 1865, James David Forbes, letter to Dr. Symonds
My lectures […] were only a pleasure to me, and no drag.
text:
Yes, I wish that for just one time / You could stand inside my shoes / You'd know what a drag it is / To see you
ref:
1965, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Positively 4th Street”
type:
quotation
text:
Alcee Arobin and Mrs. Highcamp called for her one bright afternoon in Arobin's drag.
ref:
1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening
type:
quotation
text:
the main drag
type:
example
text:
a back drag
type:
example
text:
to run a drag
type:
example
text:
a stone drag
type:
example
text:
A northbound drag of furnace coal on the former South Yorkshire Joint Line crosses the East Coast main line near Black Carr behind Class "O4/1" 2-8-0 No. 63693.
ref:
1959 October, “South of Doncaster”, in Trains Illustrated, page 470, photo caption
type:
quotation
text:
Had a drag in his walk.
ref:
c. 1800, William Hazlitt, My First Acquaintance with Poets
type:
quotation
text:
“Our music is not like some other types where the energy is back and forth – music considered drag is like giving up oneself, to be pulled and controlled,” she says.
ref:
2010 March 8, Scott Wright, quoting Heather Marlatt, “Scene and heard: Drag”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Whatever the appellation, these artists are doing some amazing stuff. Haunted house and drag are probably the most apposite terms because the music sounds like ghostly apparitions of old dance tunes, only at half-speed.
ref:
2010 September 29, Paul Lester, “New band of the day - No 877: oOoOO”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
They call this music drag because it's like dance music dragged down by the ponderous weight of existence (there's a Balam Acab track called Heavy Living Things); they call it witch house because it haunts you long after you stop listening.
ref:
2010 December 2, Paul Lester, “New band of the day – No 922: Balam Acab”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
In your own words, what is drag or witch house music?
ref:
2011 January 24, David Wicik, “Exorcising the Ghost: oOoOO breaks down the buzz about “drag””, in Newcity
type:
quotation
text:
Okay, I'll take point, Kate, you take drag.
ref:
1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
1869, A Merchant. Editor: Frank Henderson, Six Years in the Prisons of England
The copper knew I did that job, and had me up on suspicion some time after, and gave me a drag (three months) over it. The next bit I did was a 'sixer' (six months), and I escaped from prison in about three weeks after I got it.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
A puff on a cigarette or joint.
Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
A street.
The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
A pulled load.
A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
Witch house music.
The last position in a line of hikers.
A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
A device for guiding wood to the saw.
A mailcoach.
A prison sentence of three months.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
entertainment
lifestyle
music
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
nautical
transport
entertainment
lifestyle
music
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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10085 | word:
drag
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drag (third-person singular simple present drags, present participle dragging, simple past and past participle dragged or (dialectal) drug)
forms:
form:
drags
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dragging
tags:
participle
present
form:
dragged
tags:
participle
past
form:
dragged
tags:
past
form:
drug
tags:
dialectal
participle
past
form:
drug
tags:
dialectal
past
wikipedia:
drag
etymology_text:
From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), confluence of Old English dragan (“to drag, draw, draw oneself, go, protract”) and Old Norse draga (“to draw, attract”); both from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, drag”).
Verb sense influenced due to association with the noun drag (“that which is hauled or dragged”), related to Low German dragge (“a drag-anchor, grapnel”). Cognate with Danish drægge (“to dredge”), Danish drage (“to draw, attract”), Swedish dragga (“to drag, drag anchor, sweep”), Swedish draga (“to draw, go”), Icelandic draga (“to drag, pull”). Doublet of draw.
senses_examples:
text:
Let's drag this load of wood over to the shed.
type:
example
text:
The misbehaving child was dragged out of the classroom.
type:
example
text:
I knew where I didn't want to land so with some aggressive steering I was able to crab into the wind and land successfully on an open plowed farm field some 50 yards west of the hardball road I had seen, next to what seemed at the time to be a T intersection that led off to the east. Although I landed softly, there was a stiff 15-knot wind so I was getting drug a little bit. On my back I dug my heels in and reached up to pop both canopy releases, but on better thought decided against it, as the parachute would probably blow across the road.
ref:
2007 May, Carlos Lorch, quoting Dale Zelko, “Blast from the Past: Interview with Lt Colonel Dale Zelko, USAF”, in Nighthawks, volume 5, number 1, archived from the original on 2016-03-04, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Time seems to drag when you're waiting for a bus.
type:
example
text:
a. 1732, John Gay, epistle to a Lady
Long, open panegyric drags at best.
text:
The Irishman is the director’s longest drama, but it never drags.
ref:
2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
Dragging yourself out of a warm bed in the early hours of a wintry morning to go for a hike in the woods: It’s not an easy thing for some to do, but the visual treasures that await could be well worth the effort. If the weather conditions and the local flora are just right, you might come across fleeting, delicate frozen formations sprouting from certain plant stems, literally a garden of ice.
ref:
2013 September-October, James R. Carter, “Flowers and Ribbons of Ice”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
You aren't going to be able to carry any more stuff. You're dragging around all that junk.
ref:
1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System
type:
quotation
text:
A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.
ref:
1883, William Clark Russell, Sailor’s Language:A collection of Sea-terms and Their Definitions
type:
quotation
text:
Drag the file into the window to open it.
type:
example
text:
The car was so low to the ground that its muffler was dragging on a speed bump.
type:
example
text:
Arsenal were struggling for any sort of rhythm and Aaron Lennon dragged an effort inches wide as Tottenham pressed for a second.
ref:
2012, David Ornstein, BBC Sport, "Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham" http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355, November 17
text:
You just drag him 'cause he's got more money than you.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
To hit or kick off target.
To fish with a dragnet.
To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
To inhale from a cigarette, cigar, etc.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music
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10086 | word:
drag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
drag (usually uncountable, plural drags)
forms:
form:
drags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Conchita Wurst
Eurovision Song Contest 2014
drag
etymology_text:
Possibly from English drag (“to pull along a surface”) because of the sensation of long skirts trailing on the floor, or from Yiddish טראָגן (trogn, “to wear”)
senses_examples:
text:
I know what "in drag" means; it is the slang for going about in women's clothes.
ref:
1870 May 30, “The Men in Women's Clothes”, in The Times, →ISSN, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
With the aid of informers they discovered where the great drag dances were being held and turned their attention thither. [...] They couldn't, of course, be advertised, but no publicity was needed. The network always managed to reach any one who might want to go and had half-a-crown to spare for a ticket. About three-quarters of the men who attended these dances were in drag.
ref:
1968, Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, London: Cape, →OCLC, page 82
type:
quotation
text:
He performed in drag.
type:
example
text:
A heterosexual person cannot really break into their [homosexuals'] inner circles. They have parties or "drags" to which only homosexuals are admitted, and at these some generally appear in female dress.
ref:
1927, Aaron J. Rosanoff, “Sexual Psychopaths”, in Manual of Psychiatry, 6th edition, New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc., →OCLC, page 203
type:
quotation
text:
This freedom of speech of hers was a kind of masquerade of sexuality, like the rubber breasts homosexuals put on for drags, [...]
ref:
1942, Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps, New York: Harcourt Brace and World, →OCLC, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
That Mich drag Loretta sent me about 10 pictures of her so I wouldn't think her a "decrepit old lady." But too bad—she looked like someone's biddy aunt.
text:
To sublet in comfy fag hsehold for Jun, July, Aug. […] Drags & Dykes welcome.
ref:
1978 April 8, Robert Haule, “Lge Room in San Francisco (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
As the album soared to the top of the charts, straight discos picked up on it. […] The Village People performed at 2001, the same disco that provides setting for much of Saturday Night Fever. Dressed in butch gay drag, the men in the group couldn't keep the women away.
ref:
1978 April 1, Eric Rogers, “The Macho Madness of the Village People”, in Gay Community News, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
corporate drag
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
A men's party attended in women's clothing.
A drag king or drag queen.
Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
senses_topics:
|
10087 | word:
drag
word_type:
verb
expansion:
drag (third-person singular simple present drags, present participle dragging, simple past and past participle dragged)
forms:
form:
drags
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dragging
tags:
participle
present
form:
dragged
tags:
participle
past
form:
dragged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
drag
etymology_text:
Possibly from English drag (“to pull along a surface”) because of the sensation of long skirts trailing on the floor, or from Yiddish טראָגן (trogn, “to wear”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
senses_topics:
|
10088 | word:
transliteration
word_type:
noun
expansion:
transliteration (countable and uncountable, plural transliterations)
forms:
form:
transliterations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
transliteration
etymology_text:
From trans- + literation.
senses_examples:
text:
This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages.
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 251
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or product of transliterating, of representing letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script.
The act or product of rendering speech in sign language, or vice versa.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
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10089 | word:
rupee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rupee (plural rupees)
forms:
form:
rupees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Pakistani rupee
Seychellois rupee
etymology_text:
From Hindustani रुपीया / رُوپِییَہ (rūpīya), variant of रुपया / رُوپَیَہ (rūpaya, “rupee”), from Sanskrit रूप्यक (rūpyaka, “silver coin”), from रूप्य (rūpya, “wrought gold or silver; stamped coin; beautiful, well-shaped; impressed, stamped”).
Coined by the Sultan of the Suri Empire Sher Shah Suri (reigned 1540–1545).
senses_examples:
text:
In fact, the visible appearance of the iron is a symbol; it is not what it ultimately is. To take an analogy we are given a ten-rupee note. He knows it truly who at sight recognizes the piece of paper as a symbol of unity that represents ten separate silver coins.
ref:
1937, Rabindranath Tagore, “Lecture II: Supreme Man”, in Man: Lectures Delivered at the Andhra University under the Terms of the Sir Alladi Krishnaswamy Endowment (Andhra University Series; no. 16), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: Kitabistan, published 1946, →OCLC, pages 37–38
type:
quotation
text:
In the fifth and sixth [standard] I obtained scholarships of rupees four and ten respectively, an achievement for which I have to thank good luck more than my merit.
ref:
1948, Mohandas K[aramchand] Gandhi, “At the High School”, in Mahadev Desai, transl., Gandhi’s Autobiography, or, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, →OCLC; reprinted as An Autobiography; or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2007, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
There are no precise estimates available about the capital requirements of agricultural and rural development in India. But the amount required is in hundreds of thousands of crores of rupees.
ref:
1999, Katar Singh, “Financing Rural Development”, in Rural Development: Principles, Policies and Management, 2nd edition, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, published 2005, page 290
type:
quotation
text:
The Seychelles rupee was allowed to depreciate in 2006 after being overvalued for years and fell by 10% in the first 9 months of 2007. Despite these actions, the Seychelles economy has struggled to maintain its gains and in 2008 suffered from food and oil price shocks, a foreign exchange shortage, high inflation, large financing gaps, and the global recession.
ref:
2013, “Strategic and Development Profiles”, in Seychelles Business Law Handbook, volumes 1 (Strategic Information and Basic Laws), Washington, D.C.: International Business Publications, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
The only Evidence that was produced by the [East India] Company, was, a letter from Samuel Annesley, at Surrat, dated the 16th January 1694; wherein he gives this Account: Rupees. 655,000. Sent home as Cargo in the Ships Defence and Resolution.
ref:
1695 March 17, “East India Stock and Debts [marginal note]”, in Journals of the House of Commons. From November the 7th 1693, in the Fifth Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, to November the 3rd 1697, in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, London: Re-printed by Order of the House of Commons, published 1803, →OCLC, page 519, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The roupie, as the French write it, roupee, or rupee, as it is ſpelt in our authors, is a ſilver coin, ſomething broader than one of our ſhillings, and much thicker; in point of fineneſs, it is better than the Engliſh ſtandard; for its weight is 7 dwt. 11 gr. which, reduced to our ſtandard, would be 7 dwt. 13 mt. ²⁄₂²⁄₆¹⁄₆³⁄₄.
ref:
1759, George Sale et al., “Sect. IX. An Historical Account of the French Commerce at Mocha, Bassora, Surat, on the Coast of Malabar and Coromandel; […]”, in The Modern Part of An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time. Compiled from Original Writers, volume XI, London: Printed for S[amuel] Richardson [et al.], →OCLC, footnote H, page 181
type:
quotation
text:
How much do you pay for a wife? Nine rupees and a half. / Why don't you give ten? It is not our custom. / Do you ever pay a smaller sum for a wife than nine rupees and a half? Sometimes, we conclude the bargain for eight rupees.
ref:
1841 April 17, John Wilson, “Art. III.—Account of the Wáralís and Kátodís,—Two of the Forest Tribes of the Northern Konkan”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, volume VII, London: John W[illiam] Parker, West Strand, →OCLC, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The common name for the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka, often abbreviated ₨.
A silver coin circulating in India between the 16th and 20th centuries, weighing one tola (formerly 170–180 troy grains; from 1833, 180 troy grains).
The primary currency of Hyrule.
senses_topics:
video-games |
10090 | word:
swound
word_type:
noun
expansion:
swound (plural swounds)
forms:
form:
swounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It flung the blood into my head, and I fell down in a swound.
ref:
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of swoon.
senses_topics:
|
10091 | word:
swound
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swound (third-person singular simple present swounds, present participle swounding, simple past and past participle swounded)
forms:
form:
swounds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
swounding
tags:
participle
present
form:
swounded
tags:
participle
past
form:
swounded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of swoon.
senses_topics:
|
10092 | word:
masturbation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
masturbation (usually uncountable, plural masturbations)
forms:
form:
masturbations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
masturbation
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French masturbation, New Latin masturbātiō, masturbātiōnem. Equivalent to masturbate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.
ref:
Betty Dodson, (famous quote)
type:
quotation
text:
Masturbation is fun and natural. Not to mention it's a great way to earn five bucks without touchin' the guy.
ref:
2005, Jon Kimmel, Clum Babies (Drawn Together), season 2, episode 5, spoken by Foxxy Love (Cree Summer), via Comedy Central
type:
quotation
text:
So call me antisocial, call it masturbation
Either way, it's a solo operation
I'm just far more comfortable alone
ref:
2013, Days N' Daze (lyrics and music), “Misanthropic Drunken Loner”, in Rogue Taxidermy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sexual stimulation of the genitals or other erotic regions, often to orgasm, usually in the context of oneself.
A vain activity.
senses_topics:
|
10093 | word:
acorn cup
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acorn cup (plural acorn cups)
forms:
form:
acorn cups
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acorn + cup.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.
senses_topics:
|
10094 | word:
acorned
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acorned (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acorn + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Furnished or loaded with acorns
Fed or filled with acorns.
senses_topics:
|
10095 | word:
acorn-shell
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acorn-shell (plural acorn-shells)
forms:
form:
acorn-shells
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus.
senses_topics:
|
10096 | word:
acosmism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acosmism (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Acosmism
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κόσμος (kósmos, “world”) + ism.
senses_examples:
text:
"[Spinoza's] system would have to be designated not an 'atheism' but instead the reverse, an 'acosmism', since according to this philosophy there is actually no world at all in the sense of something positively being."
ref:
1830, GWF Hegel, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline Part 1: Logic, page 224
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.
The determination of the world as mere phenomena to which true reality does not pertain.
senses_topics:
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10097 | word:
acosmist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acosmist (plural acosmists)
forms:
form:
acosmists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See acosmism
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A follower of acosmism
senses_topics:
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10098 | word:
handleable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
handleable (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From handle + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being handled
senses_topics:
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10099 | word:
Hispano
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Hispano (plural Hispanos)
forms:
form:
Hispanos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish hispano, from Latin Hispānus, from Hispānia.
senses_examples:
text:
There are many famous Hispanos in the music world.
type:
example
text:
Hispanos are quickly becoming the largest minority in the United States.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Hispanic; a person of Spanish descent.
A person from Spain.
senses_topics:
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