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10100 | word:
Hispano
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Hispano (comparative more Hispano, superlative most Hispano)
forms:
form:
more Hispano
tags:
comparative
form:
most Hispano
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish hispano, from Latin Hispānus, from Hispānia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
of Spanish descent
senses_topics:
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10101 | word:
handless
word_type:
adj
expansion:
handless (comparative more handless, superlative most handless)
forms:
form:
more handless
tags:
comparative
form:
most handless
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English handles, from Old English *handlēas, from Proto-Germanic *handulausaz (“handless”), equivalent to hand + -less. Cognate with West Frisian hânleas (“handless”), German handlos (“handless”), Icelandic handlauss (“handless”).
senses_examples:
text:
This, however, was a thing that, left to himself, would have simply rendered Bill Lampiere a most handless workman at everything he attempted.
ref:
1891, Dugald Ferguson, Vicissitudes of Bush Life in Australia and New Zealand, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without any hands.
Not handy; awkward.
senses_topics:
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10102 | word:
handless
word_type:
adj
expansion:
handless (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From handleless, by haplology, under the influence of etymology 1 above.
senses_examples:
text:
She gave him a few coppers from the handless jug.
ref:
1812, John Galt, Voyages and travels in the years 1809, 1810, and 1811, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
One battered, spoutless, handless, japanned-in jug, that did not contain water, for it leaked.
ref:
1836, The Metropolitan, Volume 15, page 148
type:
quotation
text:
Chinese soup is sipped in a handless cup (Chinese soup bowl) with its own soupspoon.
ref:
2003, Manners... More than Etiquette, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
The leftover dough from the loaves would be rolled out with a handless, wooden, rolling pin.
ref:
2006, Elsieferne V. Stout, Dundy County Babe, page 44
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without a handle.
senses_topics:
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10103 | word:
black ice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
black ice (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: black frost
text:
He said the bus struck a patch of black ice, or freshly formed ice as yet invisible on the road surface, just after he had passed a trailer truck.
ref:
1965 December 25, “Oregon Bus Crash Kills 12, Hurts 27”, in New York Times, page 30
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A smooth, barely visible, and dangerously slippery film of ice, usually over a dark surface, such as rock or pavement.
senses_topics:
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10104 | word:
handmade
word_type:
adj
expansion:
handmade (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + made.
senses_examples:
text:
handmade shoes
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made by hand; manufactured manually.
senses_topics:
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10105 | word:
handmade
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handmade (plural handmades)
forms:
form:
handmades
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + made.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An art or craft object made by hand.
senses_topics:
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10106 | word:
Hispanic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Hispanic (comparative more Hispanic, superlative most Hispanic)
forms:
form:
more Hispanic
tags:
comparative
form:
most Hispanic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin hispānicus, from Hispānia (“Iberia”) + -icus.
senses_examples:
text:
Houses in New Mexico, California and Florida exhibit a strong Hispanic architectural influence.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Spain.
Of or pertaining to the Iberian peninsula, its people, its culture or its languages.
Of or relating to a Spanish-speaking people or culture, as in Latin America.
mestizo.
senses_topics:
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10107 | word:
Hispanic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Hispanic (plural Hispanics)
forms:
form:
Hispanics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin hispānicus, from Hispānia (“Iberia”) + -icus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or descendant of a Spanish-speaking country.
A person of Spanish ancestry.
mestizo
senses_topics:
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10108 | word:
naam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
naam (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English nam, naam, from Old English nām (“seizure of property”), probably from Old Norse nám (“occupation; acquisition, learning, study”, literally “taking”), from Proto-Germanic *nēmō (“taking”), from Proto-Germanic *nemaną (“to take”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to take”). Cognate with Old English nǣm (“taking, acceptance”), Old High German nāma ("seizure, confiscation"; > German Nahme).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The taking of property for the purpose of compensation.
Goods taken in such a manner.
senses_topics:
law
law |
10109 | word:
han
word_type:
verb
expansion:
han
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English han, contraction of haven.
senses_examples:
text:
They han the fleece, and eke the flesh;
ref:
1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
type:
quotation
text:
Since that ye han had my virginitie,
ref:
1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe
type:
quotation
text:
And his alluring Baits suspected han.
ref:
1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence
type:
quotation
text:
Ee lads 'an ya fowt? Nay, we'n not fowt yet.
ref:
1976, “Howfen Wakes” (track 1), in Howfen Wakes, performed by The Houghton Weavers
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural simple present of have
senses_topics:
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10110 | word:
han
word_type:
noun
expansion:
han (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:han (cultural)
etymology_text:
From Korean 한(恨) (han), from Middle Chinese 恨 (MC honH).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Sorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.
senses_topics:
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10111 | word:
haquebut
word_type:
noun
expansion:
haquebut (plural haquebuts)
forms:
form:
haquebuts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of hagbut.
senses_topics:
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10112 | word:
hapuku
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hapuku (plural hapukus or hapuku)
forms:
form:
hapukus
tags:
plural
form:
hapuku
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Maori hāpuku.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large and valuable food fish, Polyprion oxygeneios, in the family Serranidae of New Zealand.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
10113 | word:
hari-kari
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hari-kari (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Corrupted from Japanese 腹切り (harakiri), literally "belly-cutting".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of hara-kiri
senses_topics:
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10114 | word:
unwish
word_type:
verb
expansion:
unwish (third-person singular simple present unwishes, present participle unwishing, simple past and past participle unwished)
forms:
form:
unwishes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
unwishing
tags:
participle
present
form:
unwished
tags:
participle
past
form:
unwished
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + wish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wish not to be; to destroy by wishing.
To undo a wish
senses_topics:
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10115 | word:
nomothetical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nomothetical (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
nomothetic
senses_topics:
|
10116 | word:
nonability
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nonability (plural nonabilities)
forms:
form:
nonabilities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From non- + ability.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Want of ability.
An exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit.
senses_topics:
law |
10117 | word:
nonacceptance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nonacceptance (countable and uncountable, plural nonacceptances)
forms:
form:
nonacceptances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From non- + acceptance.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A neglect or refusal to accept.
senses_topics:
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10118 | word:
unwisely
word_type:
adv
expansion:
unwisely (comparative more unwisely, superlative most unwisely)
forms:
form:
more unwisely
tags:
comparative
form:
most unwisely
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English vnwysely, vnwisely, vnwyseliche, from Old English unwīslīċe (“unwisely, foolish”), equivalent to un- + wisely.
senses_examples:
text:
The scope of the new upgrade isn't just restricted to the station and junction. It has involved more than simply putting back what was unwisely taken away.
ref:
2024 May 1, Tom Ingall, “Hope springs eternal for better services”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an unwise manner; foolishly.
senses_topics:
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10119 | word:
nomothetic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nomothetic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ancient Greek νομοθετικός (nomothetikós).
senses_examples:
text:
A focus on averaged risk effects, estimated across people, may occlude idiographic within-person processes which could aid in the precise detection of individual-level correlates of suicide. The present study focuses on new statistical models applied to intensive longitudinal data to quantify heterogeneity in within-person processes.
Nomothetic approaches, such as multi-level models, are the most conventional method for identifying group-level suicide risk factors. These methods assume that effects apply equally across all individuals.
ref:
2024 June 5, Kevin S. Kuehn, Marilyn L. Piccirillo, Adam M. Kuczynski, Kevin M. King, Colin A. Depp, Katherine T. Foster, “Person-specific dynamics between negative emotions and suicidal thoughts”, in Comprehensive Psychiatry, volume 133, →DOI
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the underlying laws of a subject.
senses_topics:
|
10120 | word:
unwisdom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
unwisdom (countable and uncountable, plural unwisdoms)
forms:
form:
unwisdoms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English unwisdom, from Old English unwīsdōm, corresponding to un- + wisdom.
senses_examples:
text:
A very common engine fault, leaking joints, provides an example of the unwisdom of undertaking design modification without full service experience. [...] After only a short period of service, however, so many railways requested a reversion to the original type that the modification had to be abandoned.
ref:
1963 February, “Diesel locomotive faults and their remedies”, in Modern Railways, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e spoke of the unwisdom of volunteering one's services as a guinea pig.
ref:
1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
Reporting from Vietnam in 1945, he may have been the first person to assert the extreme unwisdom of trying to restore French colonialism with British troops.
ref:
2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 151
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action
senses_topics:
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10121 | word:
unwise
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unwise (comparative unwiser, superlative unwisest)
forms:
form:
unwiser
tags:
comparative
form:
unwisest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English unwis, from Old English unwīs (“unwise, foolish, ignorant, uninformed, insane”), equivalent to un- + wise. Cognate with Dutch onwijs (“unwise”), German unweise (“unwise”), Danish uvis (“unwise”), Swedish ovis (“unwise”), Icelandic óvís (“unwise”).
senses_examples:
text:
unwise man
type:
example
text:
unwise kings
type:
example
text:
unwise measures
type:
example
text:
If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.
ref:
1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not wise; lacking wisdom
senses_topics:
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10122 | word:
than
word_type:
conj
expansion:
than
forms:
wikipedia:
than
etymology_text:
From Middle English than, thanne, from Old English þanne, a variant of þonne (“then, since, because”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that, at that time, then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”). Cognate with Dutch dan (“than”), German denn (“than”), German dann (“then”). Doublet of then.
senses_examples:
text:
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
ref:
2013 July 20, “Old Soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
Answer me if you can, any other way, than because the Scriptures, which are infallible, Say so.
ref:
1665, Edward Stillingfleet, William Laud, Thomas Carwell, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion
type:
quotation
text:
she's taller than I am; she found his advice more witty than helpful; we have less work today than we had yesterday; We had no choice than to return home
type:
example
text:
If thou say yes, then puttest thou on Christ (that is, the wisdome of God, the Father) unkunning, unpower, or euil will: for than he could not make his rule so good as an other did his.
ref:
1854, Reformation series
text:
You shall also take the fine earth or mould which is found in the hollow of old Willow trees, rising from the root almost to the middle of the Tree, at least so far as the tree is hollow, for than this, there is no earth or mould finer or richer.
ref:
1668, William Lawson, A Way to Get Wealth
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
Because; for.
senses_topics:
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10123 | word:
than
word_type:
prep
expansion:
than
forms:
wikipedia:
than
etymology_text:
From Middle English than, thanne, from Old English þanne, a variant of þonne (“then, since, because”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that, at that time, then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”). Cognate with Dutch dan (“than”), German denn (“than”), German dann (“then”). Doublet of then.
senses_examples:
text:
Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.
type:
example
text:
No player is more skillful than Greg.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.
senses_topics:
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10124 | word:
than
word_type:
adv
expansion:
than (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
than
etymology_text:
From Middle English than, thanne, from Old English þanne, a variant of þonne (“then, since, because”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that, at that time, then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”). Cognate with Dutch dan (“than”), German denn (“than”), German dann (“then”). Doublet of then.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At that time; then.
senses_topics:
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10125 | word:
hart
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hart (plural harts)
forms:
form:
harts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).
cognates
Compare Welsh carw (“deer”), Latin cervus (“deer”), cervīx (“nape of the neck”), Lithuanian kárvė (“cow”), Russian коро́ва (koróva, “cow”), Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”), κορυφή (koruphḗ, “summit, crown of the head”), κορύπτω (korúptō, “to butt with horns”), Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬏 (srū), 𐬯𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁 (sruuā, “horn; claw, talon”), Sanskrit शरभ (śarabhá, “mythical antelope”). More at horn.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: hind (the female)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
senses_topics:
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10126 | word:
hart
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hart (plural harts)
forms:
form:
harts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See heart.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of heart.
senses_topics:
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10127 | word:
handkerchief
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handkerchief (plural handkerchiefs or handkerchieves)
forms:
form:
handkerchiefs
tags:
plural
form:
handkerchieves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
handkerchief
etymology_text:
From hand + kerchief.
senses_examples:
text:
Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.
ref:
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.
A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief or neckcloth.
senses_topics:
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10128 | word:
pinnacle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pinnacle (plural pinnacles)
forms:
form:
pinnacles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French pinacle, pinnacle, from Late Latin pinnaculum (“a peak, pinnacle”), from Latin pinna (“a pinnacle”); see pin. Doublet of panache.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: sea stack
text:
Kings, who remain in many respects the representatives of a vanished world, solitary pinnacles that topple over the rising waste of waters under which the past lies buried.
ref:
1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The highest point.
A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
architecture |
10129 | word:
pinnacle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pinnacle (third-person singular simple present pinnacles, present participle pinnacling, simple past and past participle pinnacled)
forms:
form:
pinnacles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pinnacling
tags:
participle
present
form:
pinnacled
tags:
participle
past
form:
pinnacled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French pinacle, pinnacle, from Late Latin pinnaculum (“a peak, pinnacle”), from Latin pinna (“a pinnacle”); see pin. Doublet of panache.
senses_examples:
text:
The pediment of the Southern Transept is pinnacled, not inelegantly, with a flourished cross
ref:
1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place on a pinnacle.
To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
senses_topics:
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10130 | word:
latino
word_type:
noun
expansion:
latino (plural latinos)
forms:
form:
latinos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Latino
senses_topics:
|
10131 | word:
acaudate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acaudate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“without”) + caudate (“having a tail”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tailless.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
10132 | word:
acatalepsy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acatalepsy (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + καταλαμβάνειν (katalambánein, “to seize”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
senses_topics:
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10133 | word:
hara-kiri
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hara-kiri (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
hara-kiri
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 腹切り (harakiri), ultimately from 腹 (hara, “belly”) + 切る (kiru, “to cut”).
senses_examples:
text:
On the downfall of his power in 1867 he was urged by one of his Council to save the honour of his family by a voluntary suicide. He flatly refused to do so and left the room, whereupon his faithful adviser retired to another part of the castle and solemnly performed the hara-kiri.
ref:
1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 231
type:
quotation
text:
...the report that was issued at the time officially blamed a disgruntled crewman who had been accused of theft and may have decided to do the ultimate hara-kiri, but quite how you prove that I don't know...
ref:
2020 January 12, Drachinifel, 47:56 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 076, archived from the original on 2022-09-26
type:
quotation
text:
Regarded logically, therefore, Japan’s decision to go to war made no sense. It was hara-kiri.
ref:
1982–1983, Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties, revised and printed as […] to the Nineties, HarperCollins (2001), page 393
text:
They are haunted by the spectre of the 1984 election, when Mr Walter Mondale committed hara-kiri by acknowledging the need to raise taxes if America were to get its economy straight.
ref:
1987, The Economist, volume 304, numbers 7505-7513, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
But with GSM players lobbying hard for more spectrum, taking MVNOs on board now would be hara-kiri.
ref:
2008 April 5, Anurag Prasad, “Virgin Territory”, in Outlook Business, volume 3, number 7, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ceremonial suicide by disembowelment, as by slicing open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practised in Japan by the samurai when disgraced or sentenced to death.
Suicide or any suicidal action.
An act against one's own interests.
senses_topics:
|
10134 | word:
acataleptic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acataleptic (comparative more acataleptic, superlative most acataleptic)
forms:
form:
more acataleptic
tags:
comparative
form:
most acataleptic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acatalēpticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκατάληπτος (akatálēptos, “incomprehensible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + καταλαμβάνω (katalambánō, “I seize”), from κατά (katá, “against”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible; inconceivable.
senses_topics:
|
10135 | word:
acataleptic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acataleptic (plural acataleptics)
forms:
form:
acataleptics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acatalēpticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκατάληπτος (akatálēptos, “incomprehensible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + καταλαμβάνω (katalambánō, “I seize”), from κατά (katá, “against”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An adherent of acatalepsy
senses_topics:
|
10136 | word:
noogie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
noogie (plural noogies)
forms:
form:
noogies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, possibly from Yiddish נודזשען (nudzhen, “to badger”), or possibly from Hebrew נוגות (nugot, “afflict”) (see Eicha/Lamentations 1:3) or possibly via an alteration of nudge, matching the alteration of wedge to wedgie.
senses_examples:
text:
give someone a noogie
type:
example
text:
get a noogie
type:
example
text:
Marti Page: Mom, is Grandpa Walter going to give me noogies? Susan Page: Of course he's going to give you noogies. He loves giving you noogies. That's how he tells you he loves you. Little Neal Page: Why doesn't he give me noogies? Susan Page: Because you get Indian burns. Little Neal Page: But I prefer noogies.
ref:
1987, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 00:06:15
text:
1991, shooting script of Columbia Pictures My Girl Script, see also My Girl (film).
Phil then proceeds to give Harry a noogie
HARRY: HEY! WATCH THE HAIR!! THIS SHIRT GIVES!!! ALL RIGHT!!!!"
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act of putting a person in a headlock and rubbing one's knuckles on the other person's head, often a playful gesture of affection when done lightly.
senses_topics:
|
10137 | word:
noogie
word_type:
verb
expansion:
noogie (third-person singular simple present noogies, present participle noogying, simple past and past participle noogied)
forms:
form:
noogies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
noogying
tags:
participle
present
form:
noogied
tags:
participle
past
form:
noogied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, possibly from Yiddish נודזשען (nudzhen, “to badger”), or possibly from Hebrew נוגות (nugot, “afflict”) (see Eicha/Lamentations 1:3) or possibly via an alteration of nudge, matching the alteration of wedge to wedgie.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform a noogie on.
senses_topics:
|
10138 | word:
handling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handling (countable and uncountable, plural handlings)
forms:
form:
handlings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
handling
etymology_text:
From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (“handling”), equivalent to handle + -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), German Handlung (“act, action”), Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”).
senses_examples:
text:
1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
[…] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.
text:
In mortal terror of people forcing an entrance at such an hour, and in such a manner as to leave no doubt of their purpose, I would have turned to fly when first I heard the noise, only that I feared by any quick motion to catch their attention, as I also ran the danger of doing by opening the door, which was all but closed, and to whose handlings I was unaccustomed.
ref:
1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman
type:
quotation
text:
A miniature[…]remarkable for its brilliancy of colour and charming freedom of handling.
ref:
1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Critical Reviews
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
The mechanism for handling or manipulating something.
The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
senses_topics:
art
arts
|
10139 | word:
handling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
handling
forms:
wikipedia:
handling
etymology_text:
From handle.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of handle
senses_topics:
|
10140 | word:
acauline
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acauline (comparative more acauline, superlative most acauline)
forms:
form:
more acauline
tags:
comparative
form:
most acauline
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + cauline.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
acaulescent
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
10141 | word:
acaulescent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acaulescent (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + caulescent.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
10142 | word:
stepfather
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stepfather (plural stepfathers)
forms:
form:
stepfathers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stepfader, from Old English stēopfæder, from Proto-Germanic *steupafadēr (“stepfather”), equivalent to step- + father.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäiffoar (“stepfather”), Dutch stiefvader (“stepfather”), German Low German Steevvader (“stepfather”), German Stiefvater (“stepfather”), Swedish styvfar (“stepfather”), Icelandic stjúpfaðir (“stepfather”).
senses_examples:
text:
My stepfather loved me as much as he loved his own three sons. I knew how much he wanted to help me and how lacking in financial resources he was. Nothing could erase the image I gained of my real father that day: a carefree, well-to-do man who didn't really give a damn about the hopes and dreams of his firstborn son.
ref:
1980, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, page 47
type:
quotation
text:
In suboptimal cases the gynaecologist takes sperm from anonymous donors. In this case the husband can only be stepfather of the child.
ref:
2015, Werner A. Mueller, Monika Hassel, Maura Grealy, Development and Reproduction in Humans and Animal Model Species, Springer, page 188, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Telegony or Inheritance from the Stepfather
The earliest reference to telegony ( which has no connection with the son of Odysseus ) is supposed to be in 1665 but the classical case is that described in the Philosophical Transactions of[…]
ref:
1953, Cyril Dean Darlington, The Facts of Life, page 433
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.
A husband of one's parent distinct from one's biological father or person with a similar relationship.
senses_topics:
|
10143 | word:
acatalectic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acatalectic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin acatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκατάληκτος (akatálēktos, “leaving off”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Designating a line of verse having the required number of syllables in the last foot
senses_topics:
communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
phonology
poetry
prosody
publishing
sciences
writing |
10144 | word:
acatalectic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acatalectic (plural acatalectics)
forms:
form:
acatalectics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin acatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκατάληκτος (akatálēktos, “leaving off”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables
senses_topics:
communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
phonology
poetry
prosody
publishing
sciences
writing |
10145 | word:
ich
word_type:
pron
expansion:
ich
forms:
wikipedia:
Chancery Standard
etymology_text:
From Middle English ich, from Old English iċ, iċċ (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (“I”). See also ch-, I.
senses_examples:
text:
"Behold," she sayd, "and se How bright I am of ble! Ich am not cast away, That can my husband say, [...]"
ref:
1529, John Skelton, Elynour Rummyng
type:
quotation
text:
My maysters, ich am an old man, and halfe blinde, […]
ref:
1561, John Awdelay, The fraternitye of vacabondes
type:
quotation
text:
With cap and knee, ich will serve thee, what should ich more declare.
ref:
1568, Thomas Howell, Arbor of Amitie
type:
quotation
text:
Kissyng and lying ich see is all one:
ref:
1578, George Whetstone, The right, excellent and famous Historye of Promos and Cassandra
type:
quotation
roman:
And chave no mony, chul tell true therfore.
text:
Dost thinke 'chill labor to be poore, No no, ich haue a-doe..Ich will a plundering too.
ref:
1645, Thomas Davies, The Somersetshire Man's Complaint
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
I.
senses_topics:
|
10146 | word:
ich
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ich (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of ichthyophthiriasis.
senses_examples:
text:
Ich is one of the most common diseases of freshwater fish.
ref:
1996, Edward J. Noga, Fish Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment, Iowa State University Press (2000), page 95
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ichthyophthiriasis, a parasitic infection of freshwater fish caused by ciliates of genus Ichthyophthirius.
senses_topics:
biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology |
10147 | word:
acates
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acates pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cates: provisions; food.
senses_topics:
|
10148 | word:
Hangeul
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Hangeul (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of hangul.
senses_topics:
|
10149 | word:
ileac
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ileac (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to the ileum.
Pertaining to the ilium.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
10150 | word:
acater
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acater (plural acaters)
forms:
form:
acaters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English achatour, from Old French acater (“purchase”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A caterer.
senses_topics:
|
10151 | word:
Hunmin Jeongeum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Hunmin Jeongeum (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Korean 훈민정음(訓民正音) (Hunminjeong'eum), literally "correct sounds to educate the people".
senses_examples:
text:
This setting was the same in the Revised Nogeoldae, corrected during the King Seongjong (成宗), and was also the same in Translated Nogeoldae and Nogeoldae Eonhae, which Korean Hangeul (Hunmin Jeongeum) pronunciations and interpretations are added based on Revised Nogeoldae.
ref:
2003, Gregory K.. Iverson, Ahn Sang-Cheol, Explorations in Korean Language and Linguistics, page 41
type:
quotation
text:
Hunmin-jeongeum (the original name for Hangul) kept coming to mind.
ref:
2009, Buddhism and Culture - Issues 1-3, page 61
type:
quotation
text:
Research on Hunmin Jeongeum as the archetype of the current Korean script is practically nonexistent, to the extent that Japanese research on the subject is highly acclaimed.
ref:
2013, The Korea Foundation, Korea Focus - February 2013
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The phonetic script in which Korean is written, now usually called hangul.
senses_topics:
|
10152 | word:
Hunmin Jeongeum
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hunmin Jeongeum
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Korean 훈민정음(訓民正音) (Hunminjeong'eum), literally "correct sounds to educate the people".
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A book published in Korea in the 15th century, outlining the phonetic script in which Korean is now usually written.
senses_topics:
|
10153 | word:
artificial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
artificial (comparative more artificial, superlative most artificial)
forms:
form:
more artificial
tags:
comparative
form:
most artificial
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
artificial
etymology_text:
From Middle English artificial (“man-made”) via Old French (modern French artificiel), from Latin artificiālis from artificium (“skill”), from artifex, from ars (“skill”), and -fex, from facere (“to make”). Displaced native Old English cræftlīċ.
senses_examples:
text:
The flowers were artificial, and he thought them rather tacky.
type:
example
text:
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
ref:
2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
Her manner was somewhat artificial.
type:
example
text:
This results in an artificial conflation of the individual crises experienced by Western European states and leads to imprecise judgements on the impact of Marshall. This confusing conflation is not simply the product of retrospection.
ref:
1990 February 19, Peter Burnham, The Political Economy of Postwar Reconstruction, Springer, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
[If] the economic literature of the eighteenth century is examined in terms other than the narrow categories of free trade and protection, the artificial division between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries would break down .
ref:
2002 May 9, Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson, Michael Sonenscher, Manufacture in Town and Country Before the Factory, Cambridge University Press, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
In Alberta, for example, policy documents reinforce an artificial distinction between leadership-related activity and management.
ref:
2016 November 10, Gabriele Lakomski, Scott Eacott, Colin W. Evers, Questioning Leadership: New directions for educational organisations, Taylor & Francis, page 156
type:
quotation
text:
The method of suppression is generally either an artificial conflation of public and private, in which the public is represented as private, or an artificial separation of public from private, which distracts attention from the public[…]
ref:
2017 July 12, A. Javier Trevino, The Sociology of Law: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge
type:
quotation
text:
An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.
ref:
1999, Edwin B. Kantar, Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
North makes an artificial call of 3♧, the cheapest suit at the 3 level, to show a very poor hand. What North holds in clubs doesn't matter at all.
ref:
2008, David Galt, Teach Yourself Visually Bridge, page 219
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Man-made; made by humans; of artifice.
Insincere; fake, forced, or feigned.
Not natural or normal: imposed arbitrarily or without regard to the specifics or normal circumstances of a person, a situation, etc.
Conveying some meaning other than the actual contents of one's hand.
senses_topics:
bridge
games |
10154 | word:
itinerary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
itinerary (plural itineraries)
forms:
form:
itineraries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin itinerarius (“pertaining to a journey”), neuter itinerārium (“an account of a journey, a road-book”), from iter (“a way, journey”); see itinerate, itinerant.
senses_examples:
text:
The length of the Wengernalp Railway from Lauterbrunnen over the Kleine Scheidegg to Grindelwald or vice versa, Riggenbach rack-and-pinion operated throughout, should be a "must" in the itinerary of every Oberland tourist; [...].
ref:
1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A written schedule of activities for a vacation or road trip.
A route or proposed route of a journey.
An account or record of a journey.
A guidebook for travellers.
senses_topics:
|
10155 | word:
itinerary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
itinerary (comparative more itinerary, superlative most itinerary)
forms:
form:
more itinerary
tags:
comparative
form:
most itinerary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin itinerarius (“pertaining to a journey”), neuter itinerārium (“an account of a journey, a road-book”), from iter (“a way, journey”); see itinerate, itinerant.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
itinerant; travelling from place to place; done on a journey
senses_topics:
|
10156 | word:
il-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
il-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin il-, assimilated form of in- before l-.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
not; a form of the prefix in-, used before l
senses_topics:
|
10157 | word:
non-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
non-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English non- (“not, lack of, failure to”), from Middle English non (“no, not any; not, not at all”, literally “none”) and Old English nān- (prefix), both from Old English nān (“no, not any”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, zero”), see none. Merged with and reinforced by Middle English non- (“not”), from Old French non- and Medieval Latin nōn (“not”), from Old Latin noinu, noinom, from ne oinom (“not one”).
senses_examples:
text:
nonaboriginal is a person who is not aboriginal, nonabrasive is a substance that is not abrasive, nonabstract is not abstract
type:
example
text:
nonaccountability is absence of accountability, nonacceleration is lack of acceleration, nonaction is the absence of action; failure to act
type:
example
text:
nonabiding is the practice of avoiding mental constructs during daily life, nonacceptance is a neglect or refusal to accept, nonaccumulative is tending to avoid accumulation
type:
example
text:
nonaccent is a spoken accent that is neutral and undistinctive; nonacrocentric is having the centromere near the middle, and thus having roughly equal-sized arms; nonaccent is an unaccented beat or syllable, as in music or poetry
type:
example
text:
nonpayment (“lack of payment, failure to pay”)
text:
nonaggressive (“not aggressive”)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
Not, the negation of the root word (a quality).
Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
Absence, the absence of the root (a quantity).
Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
Avoiding an action.
Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
Neutral in quality.
Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
senses_topics:
|
10158 | word:
non-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
non-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin nona (“nine”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
prevocalic form of nona-
senses_topics:
|
10159 | word:
penultimate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
penultimate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin paenultimus, from paene (“almost”) + ultimus (“last”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]
ref:
1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
But it should frequently happen that offspring should resemble its penultimate rather than its latest phase, and should thus be more like a grand-parent than a parent.
ref:
1878, Samuel Butler, chapter 10, in Life and Habit
type:
quotation
text:
“Your clothes don't weigh more'n seven pounds. And seven from—hum—say one hundred an' twenty-three—one hundred an' sixteen is your stripped weight.”
But at the penultimate word, Mary cried out with sharp reproof:
“Why, Billy Roberts, people don't talk about such things.”
ref:
1913, Jack London, chapter 3, in The Valley of the Moon
type:
quotation
text:
This Book is the Proud Purple Penultimate!!
ref:
1907 Gelett Burgess Are You a Bromide? (New York: B. W. Heubsch) cover blurb
text:
This treatment, where two therapists massage the body using warm oils infused with plant extracts, is truly the penultimate experience.
ref:
2002 January, Claire Holt, "California Driving", Los Angeles →ISSN volume 47 no 1 p. 84
text:
Ultimately, I reach the most penultimate existential questions: “What is the meaning of this? Is there any?”
ref:
2022 February 10, Ethan Marshall, “Is written media dead?”, in The Glasgow Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
Of or pertaining to a penult.
Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
pre-eminent, ultimate, best; par excellence, top-quality
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
|
10160 | word:
penultimate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
penultimate (plural penultimates)
forms:
form:
penultimates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin paenultimus, from paene (“almost”) + ultimus (“last”).
senses_examples:
text:
At Woodstock, the penultimate of August.
ref:
1529 August 30, Bishop Stephen Gardiner, letter (1933), 33
text:
Antepenultimate is that before the Penultimate, or the last but two.
ref:
1728, E. Chambers, Cyclopædia
type:
quotation
text:
Penultimate, the. — Beginning with the lowest card but one of the suit you lead originally, if it contains more than four cards.
ref:
1876, Arthur Campbell-Walker, The Correct Card, Glossary page xiii
type:
quotation
text:
Our Lutheran concern for the ultimates (the Gospel) has allowed us to neglect some of the penultimates (bodily healing), failing to stress the total implications of that ultimate Gospel.
ref:
1962, Minutes of the Adjourned Meeting of 22nd Biennial Convention of the United Lutheran Church in America, XXII.iv
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A penult, a next to last
The penultimate day of a month.
A penult, a next to last
The penultimate syllable of a word or metrical line.
A penult, a next to last
The penultimate element of a collection of curves.
A penult, a next to last
The penultimate (next to lowest) card in a suit.
A penult, a next to last, particularly
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
literature
media
publishing
sciences
mathematics
sciences
card-games
games
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10161 | word:
pear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pear (plural pears)
forms:
form:
pears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pear
pear (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English pere, from Old English pere, from Proto-West Germanic *peru, from Vulgar Latin *pira, originally the plural of Latin pirum but reconstrued as a feminine singular, ultimately a loanword from an unknown Mediterranean substrate source. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Peere (“pear”), Dutch peer (“pear”), Danish pære (“pear”), French poire (“pear”), German Birne (“pear”), Icelandic pera (“pear”), Swedish päron (“pear”).
senses_examples:
text:
pear:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).
Choke pear (a torture device).
avocado, alligator pear
A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.
senses_topics:
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10162 | word:
Leuven
word_type:
name
expansion:
Leuven
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Louvain
senses_topics:
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10163 | word:
arrogant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
arrogant (comparative more arrogant, superlative most arrogant)
forms:
form:
more arrogant
tags:
comparative
form:
most arrogant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English arrogaunt, from Old French arrogant, from Latin arrogāns, present active participle of arrogō.
senses_examples:
text:
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
ref:
1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Wanting to be Loved
type:
quotation
text:
Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you’ll call me.
ref:
1987, Sam Donaldson, Hold On, Mr President!
type:
quotation
text:
Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known.
ref:
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.
senses_topics:
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10164 | word:
ile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ile
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of ail.
senses_topics:
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10165 | word:
ile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ile (plural iles)
forms:
form:
iles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
A couple of arches , one above the other , rising from the columns , run along the rows ; and from the same basis springs an arch that forms the roof of each ile
ref:
1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain, 1775 and 1776
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of aisle.
senses_topics:
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10166 | word:
ile
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ile (plural iles)
forms:
form:
iles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of isle.
senses_topics:
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10167 | word:
peen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peen (plural peens)
forms:
form:
peens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ball-peen hammer
etymology_text:
Probably from a North Germanic source, compare dialectal Norwegian penn (“peen”), Danish pind (“peg”), German Pinne (“the peen of a hammer”), Old Swedish pæna (“to pound iron with a hammer”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.
senses_topics:
|
10168 | word:
peen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
peen (third-person singular simple present peens, present participle peening, simple past and past participle peened)
forms:
form:
peens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
peening
tags:
participle
present
form:
peened
tags:
participle
past
form:
peened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from a North Germanic source, compare dialectal Norwegian penn (“peen”), Danish pind (“peg”), German Pinne (“the peen of a hammer”), Old Swedish pæna (“to pound iron with a hammer”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.
senses_topics:
|
10169 | word:
peen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
peen (plural peens)
forms:
form:
peens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of penis, with the spelling changed to maintain the original pronunciation.
senses_examples:
text:
With all due respect (and that may be very little), the real truth is that being a dad is sometimes an imposition of pain far worse than any up-the-peen catheter could ever deliver.
ref:
2009, Danny Evans, Rage Against the Meshugenah: Why it Takes Balls to Go Nuts, New American Library, published 2009
type:
quotation
text:
Where to touch a man that will drive him wild every time (Hint: It's probably his peen.)
ref:
2010, Andrea Lavinthal, Jessica Rozler, Your So-Called Life: A Guide to Boys, Body Issues, and Other Big-Girl Drama You Thought You Would Have Figured Out By Now, Harper, published 2010, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
It's so quiet you could hear a peen go soft.
ref:
2012, Fanny Merkin, Andrew Shaffer, Fifty Shames of Earl Grey: A Parody, Da Capo Press, published 2012, page 49
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Penis.
senses_topics:
|
10170 | word:
hun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hun (plural huns)
forms:
form:
huns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of honey with pronunciation spelling.
senses_examples:
text:
Answer: you are a hun – but a high-end hun, one who knows her wine, her music, her interiors and her labels, and whose reluctance to do Dry January, or go vegan makes her such great company, this month and every month.
ref:
2023 January 25, Laura Craik, “They’re glamorous, ageless and British – the rise of the high-end hun”, in The Telegraph
type:
quotation
text:
It’s no wonder she’s become a central figure in “hun culture” – an online subculture that idolises a certain strata of famous working-class British women, while also taking the mick out of her leopard print kettle and weakness for a premixed gin-in-a-tin cocktail.
ref:
2024 March 29, Louis Staples, “Natalie Cassidy: ‘I’m very proud to be a hun’”, in i
type:
quotation
text:
This corporate love-bombing can serve a hun well, bagging them new downlines and potentially more money (MLMs are renowned for extremely low pay).
ref:
2019 July 10, Jessica Lindsay, “Hunzoning is the trend that sees you going from friend to MLM recruit”, in Metro
type:
quotation
text:
Instead of blaming MLM "huns," we should direct our anger at the companies that are knowingly putting so many people in debt and alienating them from their communities.
ref:
2024 April 18, Aimee Pearcy, “Why Reddit and TikTok are hating on MLM 'huns'”, in Business Insider
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of hon (“affectionate abbreviation of honey”)
A woman perceived as basic, brash, working class and fond of alcohol.
A woman involved in a multi-level marketing scheme, especially one who pushes it on social media.
senses_topics:
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10171 | word:
hun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hun (plural huns)
forms:
form:
huns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Short for Hungarian partridge.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A grey partridge.
senses_topics:
|
10172 | word:
hun
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hun (plural huns)
forms:
form:
huns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of hoon (“Indian gold coin”)
senses_topics:
|
10173 | word:
synthesizer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
synthesizer (plural synthesizers)
forms:
form:
synthesizers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From synthesize + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An electronic musical instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and generally is played via a keyboard.
An electronic instrument consisting of a module, or a set of modules, that creates its sounds with electronics and does not have any keyboard.
An electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation with accurate timing from a reference oscillator.
An electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns to test an electronic circuit.
A software program that allows a computer to be used as a musical instrument – virtual instrument
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
10174 | word:
Flanders
word_type:
name
expansion:
Flanders (countable and uncountable, plural Flanderses)
forms:
form:
Flanderses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Flanders
etymology_text:
From Middle English Flaunders, Flaundress, flawndirs, from Old French Flandres, from Middle Dutch vlâendren pl, from Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *flaumdrą (“waterlogged land”), from *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”) (compare Old High German weraltfloum (“transitoriness of life”), Old Norse flaumr (“eddy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *plow-m- (“flow”) (compare Ancient Greek πλῠ́μα (plúma, “dishwater, washing water”)). More at flow. "Waterlogged" refers to the mudflats and salt marshes common to coastal Flanders.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The County of Flanders, a historical county of Europe, of varying extent.
An administrative region in the north of Belgium, consisting of the Dutch-speaking area of Belgium.
Two provinces in Belgian Flanders, West Flanders and East Flanders.
Ellipsis of French Flanders, a former province of France, now constituting the French department Nord.
The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.
A surname.
senses_topics:
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10175 | word:
kidney
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kidney (plural kidneys)
forms:
form:
kidneys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kidney
etymology_text:
From Middle English kednei, kidenei, from earlier kidnēre, kidenēre (“kidney”), of obscure origin and formation. Probably a compound consisting of Middle English *kid, *quid (“belly, womb”), from Old English cwiþ, cwiþa (“belly, womb, stomach”) + Middle English nēre (“kidney”), from Old English *nēora (“kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *neurō, from Proto-Germanic *neurô (“kidney”), from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰr- (“kidney”). If so, then related to Scots nere, neir (“kidney”), Saterland Frisian Njuure (“kidney”), Dutch nier (“kidney”), German Niere (“kidney”), Danish nyre (“kidney”), Norwegian nyre (“kidney”), Swedish njure (“kidney”), Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós).
Alternate etymology traces the first element to Old English cēod, codd (“sack, scrotum”), from Proto-Germanic *keudō (“sack”) as the terms for testicle and kidney were often interchangeable in Germanic (compare Old High German nioro (“kidney", also "testicle”), Old Swedish vig-niauri (“testicle”)). More at codpiece.
senses_examples:
text:
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
ref:
2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)
type:
quotation
text:
30th June, 1788, Robert Burns, letter to Mr Robert Ainslie
Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence.
text:
I shall not want Honour in Heaven
For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney
And have talk with Coriolanus
And other heroes of that kidney.
ref:
1920, T.S. Eliot, A Cooking Egg
type:
quotation
text:
I once more desire my readers to consider that as I cannot keep an ingenious man to go daily to Will's under twopence each day merely for his charges, to White's under sixpence, nor to the Grecian without allowing him some plain Spanish, to be as able as others at the learned table; and that a good observer cannot speak with even Kidney at St. James's without clean linen; […]
ref:
1709, Richard Steele, The Tatler, volume 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.
This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.
Constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. (usually used of people)
A waiter.
senses_topics:
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10176 | word:
postulate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
postulate (plural postulates)
forms:
form:
postulates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
postulate
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin postulāt- (“asked”), from the verb postulāre (“to ask”), from Latin postulō (“request”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.
A fundamental element; a basic principle.
An axiom.
A requirement; a prerequisite.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
|
10177 | word:
postulate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
postulate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
postulate
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin postulāt- (“asked”), from the verb postulāre (“to ask”), from Latin postulō (“request”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Postulated.
senses_topics:
|
10178 | word:
postulate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
postulate (third-person singular simple present postulates, present participle postulating, simple past and past participle postulated)
forms:
form:
postulates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
postulating
tags:
participle
present
form:
postulated
tags:
participle
past
form:
postulated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
postulate
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin postulāt- (“asked”), from the verb postulāre (“to ask”), from Latin postulō (“request”).
senses_examples:
text:
1883, Benedictus de Spinoza, translated by R. H. M. Elwes, Ethics, Part 3, Prop. XXII,
But this pleasure or pain is postulated to come to us accompanied by the idea of an external cause; […]
text:
[T]he attempt to arrive at a physical explanation of existence led the Ionian thinkers to postulate various primal elements or simply the infinite τὸ ἀπειρον.
ref:
1911, Infinite, Encyclopædia Britannica
type:
quotation
text:
[A]lthough Douglas was postulated to it [the Abbacy of Arbroath], and signed letters and papers under this designation his nomination […] was never completed.
ref:
1874, John Small, editor, The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, volume 1, page xvi
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
To request, demand or claim for oneself.
senses_topics:
Christianity
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10179 | word:
Brussels
word_type:
name
expansion:
Brussels
forms:
wikipedia:
Brussels
etymology_text:
From Dutch Brussel and French Bruxelles, from Proto-Germanic, composed of the words *brōk (“marsh”) + *sali (“building, room”). The metonymic meaning of Brussels as the European Union stems from the fact that the EU headquarters are based in Brussels.
senses_examples:
text:
Buying bread from a man in Brussels / He was 6'4", and full of muscle
ref:
1981, Men At Work (lyrics and music), “Down Under”, in Business as Usual
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Belgium.
The administrative apparatus of the European Union.
senses_topics:
|
10180 | word:
Brussels
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Brussels (plural Brussels)
forms:
form:
Brussels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brussels
etymology_text:
From Dutch Brussel and French Bruxelles, from Proto-Germanic, composed of the words *brōk (“marsh”) + *sali (“building, room”). The metonymic meaning of Brussels as the European Union stems from the fact that the EU headquarters are based in Brussels.
senses_examples:
text:
If the same design be produced in a Brussels and in a Tapestry it will be found that the Brussels shows sharp, clean-cut outlines, where the Tapestry gives ragged, uneven effects, […]
ref:
1911, Dry Goods Economist, volume 65, number 3, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
We cooked a big Christmas dinner with turkey, stuffing, Brussels, and parsnips.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Brussels carpet.
A Brussels sprout.
senses_topics:
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10181 | word:
-ably
word_type:
suffix
expansion:
-ably
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From -able + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
suitably
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to form adverbs corresponding to adjectives that end in -able.
senses_topics:
|
10182 | word:
ifere
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ifere (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of yfere
senses_topics:
|
10183 | word:
igasurine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
igasurine (usually uncountable, plural igasurines)
forms:
form:
igasurines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Malay igasura (“the nux vomica”) + -ine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An alkaloid found in nux vomica, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10184 | word:
igasuric
word_type:
adj
expansion:
igasuric (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See igasurine, + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to, or obtained from, nux vomica or Saint Ignatius's bean; as, igasuric acid
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10185 | word:
happy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
happy (comparative happier or more happy, superlative happiest or most happy)
forms:
form:
happier
tags:
comparative
form:
more happy
tags:
comparative
form:
happiest
tags:
superlative
form:
most happy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.
senses_examples:
text:
Music makes me feel happy.
type:
example
text:
I may truely heere ſay vnto you, your ſelues alſo being witneſſe, and ſay it to the immortell praiſe of Gods name, to the honour of our Soueraigne, and to the ioy and comfort of all his people, that in this happineſſe, this reknowned Kingdome, among all, and aboue all Nations of the earth is bleſſed this day. Happie O King are thy people, and happie are thy Subiects or Seruants.
ref:
1609, Richard Crakanthorpe, “2. Chron[icles] Chap. 9.”, in A Sermon at the Solemnizing of the Happie Inauguration of our Most Gracious and Religious Soueraigne King Iames. Wherein is Manifestly Proued, that the Soueraignty of Kings is Immediatly from God, and Second to No Authority on Earth whatsoeuer. Preached at Paules Crosse, the 24. of March last. 1608, London: Printed by W[illiam] Iaggard for Tho[mas] Adams, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the blew Bell, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
[…] For the most happy universe is not one that consists of the greatest possible number of the most happy beings only; but one that consists of that, and the greatest possible number of beings next inferior to the first rank, and so downward, till we come to those that approach the nearest to insensible matter.
ref:
1731, Thomas Bayes, Divine Benevolence: or, An Attempt to Prove that the Principal End of the Divine Providence and Government is the Happiness of His Creatures: Being an Answer to a Pamphlet, Entitled, Divine Rectitude; or, An Inquiry Concerning the Moral Perfections of the Deity. With a Refutation of the Notions therein Advanced Concerning Beauty and Order, the Reason of Punishment, and the Necessity of a State of Trial antecedent to Perfect Happiness, London: Printed for John Noon, at the White-Hart in Cheapside, near Mercers-Chapel, OCLC 642498368; quoted in Andrew I. Dale, Most Honourable Remembrance: The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes (Studies and Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences), New York, N.Y.: Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-0-387-00499-0, page 138
text:
[S]ince the happy are sufficient to themselves they have no need of friends; and hence it is said, "When Fortune's goods abound, what boots a friend?" Thus then it appears that the happy do not require friends.
ref:
1807, anonymous [formerly incorrectly attributed to Andronicus of Rhodes], “That the Happy Man has Need of Worthy Friends”, in William Bridgman, transl., The Paraphrase of an Anonymous Greek Writer, (hitherto Published Under the Name of Andronicus Rhodius) on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. Translated from the Greek, by William Bridgman, F.L.S., London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, 103, Goswell Street; and sold by T[homas] Payne, Pall-Mall; J. White Fleet-Street; Cuthell and Martin, Middle-Row, Holborn; and J. and A. Arch, Cornhill, →OCLC, book IX, page 415
type:
quotation
text:
While they are in this state striving perhaps to render their fellow beings more happy, of whatever sect or denomination they may be, they meet with one or more persons who undertake to convert their mere cold belief in religious doctrines—which is at best little better than mere morality—into real effective religion, a religion that will move the tongue.
ref:
1829, Charles Knowlton, “On the Passions”, in Elements of Modern Materialism: Inculcating the Idea of a Future State, in which All Will be More Happy, under whatever Circumstances They May be Placed than if They Experienced No Misery in this Life, Adams, Mass.: Printed for the author, by A. Oakey, →OCLC, page 324
type:
quotation
text:
A happy birthday to you, / A happy birthday to you, / A happy birthday, dear Roy, / A happy birthday to you.
Note: This is the first occurrence in print of the lyrics of the song “Happy Birthday to You”.
ref:
1901, Edith Goodyear Alger, “Roy's Birthday”, in A Primer of Work and Play, Boston, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, →OCLC, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
In different ways, therefore, for many pupils, whether they benefit greatly from the system, or just 'get by', or are 'bored stiff' by the lessons, or for the most part are completely rebellious, schooldays do often appear to be 'the happiest days'.
ref:
1990, Peter Woods, “Laughing at School”, in The Happiest Days?: How Pupils Cope With Schools, Basingstoke, Hants: The Falmer Press, Taylor & Francis, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
Because I'm happy / Clap along if you know what happiness is to you / Because I'm happy / Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do
ref:
2013 November 21, Pharrell Williams (lyrics and music), “Happy”, in Girl, performed by Pharrell Williams
type:
quotation
text:
People who believe that a better life awaits us after this one would appear to have secured a happier ending, even before they come close to the end. There is little to be afraid of if you're armed with the promise of a wonderful future. Death is only a portal to greater joy.
ref:
2014, Erica Brown, “Pondering the Afterlife”, in Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I think I may presume that what I have hitherto Diſcourſed will induce you to think, that Chymists have been much more happy in finding Experiments than the Cauſes of them; or in aſſigning the Principles by which they may beſt be explain'd.
ref:
1661, Robert Boyle, “The Conclusion”, in The Sceptical Chymist: Or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly Call'd Hypostatical; as They are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is Præmis'd Part of another Discourse Relating to the Same Subject, London: Printed by J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, and are to be sold at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard, →OCLC, page 429
type:
quotation
text:
The UK’s earliest reactors – a type called Magnox – were set up to harvest plutonium for bombs; the electricity was a happy byproduct.
ref:
December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?
type:
example
text:
Yes, I am happy with the decision.
type:
example
text:
A Christian may be happier in low circumstances, than in high ones. He may be happier without rich friends, than with them. He may be happier in loneliness, than in a crowd of flatterers. He may be happier under reproach, than when riding on the spring-tide of popularity. He may be happier with hard work, than in a life of ease. He may be happier with coarse and scanty food, than with tables of luxury. He may be happier in sickness and persecution, than in health and quietness.
ref:
1844, “Patience and Perseverance”, in J[oseph] Barker, editor, The Christian, volume I, number XIV, London: Chapman, 121, Newgate Street; Mardon, 7, Farringdon Street; Newcastle-on-Tyne: J[oseph] Barker, 3, Hood Street, →OCLC, page 314
type:
quotation
text:
A strong acid is also a substance whose conjugate base (obviously a weak base) is quite happy with the excess electrons it got from that bond.
ref:
2007, I[ver] David Reingold, “Substitution Reactions”, in Organic Chemistry, or, “The Happy Carbon”: An Introduction Emphasizing Biological Connections, Delhi: Indo American Books, page 308
type:
quotation
text:
This wave of "financial innovation" led to rapid growth in subprime lending, which was enhanced on the demand side by the housing boom and general asset price bubble. While the party lasted everyone was happy. Mortgage lenders were happy to lend and keep subprime loans off their books via securitization. Issuers of ABSs were happy to get their commissions. Borrowers were happy to get loans without scrutiny. Investors were happy to acquire assets that were "risk-free" and offered a return of hundreds of basis points over that offered by US Treasuries.
ref:
2016, Imad A. Moosa, “The Post-crisis Regulatory Landscape: An Overview”, in Contemporary Issues in the Post-crisis Regulatory Landscape, Singapore: World Scientific, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
a happy coincidence
type:
example
text:
The common privilege of your ſex affords you the happy opportunity of alleviating your ſorrows by communicating your ſentiments and feelings to some faithful friend; but to women, even this relief is rigidly denied, and, bound by the harſh reſtraints which the delicacy and reſerve of female natures have impoſed, I muſt bear the ſecret of my ſorrows with painful ſilence.
ref:
1792, James Thomson, “Letter XXXI. From the Hon. Miss Wilton to Mr. Benfield.”, in The Denial; or, The Happy Retreat. A Novel. … In Two Volumes, 2nd corr. edition, volume I, London: Printed for J. Sewell, No. 32, Cornhill, →OCLC, page 185
type:
quotation
text:
You would, even by this most favourable result, be at best only replaced in the situation, and restored to the happy opportunity which you at present possess: […]
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1804, [James Stephen], The Opportunity; or, Reasons for an Immediate Alliance with St. Domingo, London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, Dean Street, Fetter Lane; for J[ohn] Hatchard, Piccadilly, →OCLC, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
When happy events coincide, that is a happy coincidence. But the coincidence of baneful events is a happy coincidence too.
ref:
1990, Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner, Cool Memories, London, New York, N.Y.: Verso Books, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
slaphappy, trigger-happy
type:
example
text:
We live in a sue-happy society. If Santa slides off your roof and busts his tailbone, he could sue you, and probably will.
ref:
2002, Dan Benson, “Stupid Mistake #9: Following Fads vs. Staying the Course”, in 12 Stupid Mistakes People Make with Their Money, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
“Baby, I was a loser / Several years on the dole / An Englishman with a very high voice / Doing rock ’n’ roll,” sings falsetto-happy frontman Justin Hawkins at the start of “Every Inch Of You,” Hot Cakes’ opener.
ref:
2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes [music review]”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2012-08-24
type:
quotation
text:
[I] could not without much grief obſerve how frequently both gentlemen and ladies are at a loſs for queſtions, anſwers, replies, and rejoinders. However, my concern was much abated, when I found that theſe defects were not occaſioned by any want of materials, but becauſe thoſe materials were not in every hand. For inſtance, one lady can give an anſwer better than aſk a queſtion: one gentleman is happy at a reply; another excels in a rejoinder: one can revive a languiſhing converſation by a ſudden ſurpriſing ſentence; another is more dextrous in ſeconding; a third can fill the gap with laughing, or commending what has been ſaid. Thus freſh hints may be ſtarted, and the ball of the diſcourſe kept up.
ref:
1761, Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, according to the Most Polite Mode and Method now Used at Court, and in the Best Companies of England. In Three Dialogues. By Simon Wagstaff, Esq.; an Introduction.”, in The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, volume VII, Edinburgh: Printed for A. Donaldson, at Pope's Head, →OCLC, pages 245–246
type:
quotation
text:
Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
Elect or saved after death, blessed.
Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
Favoring or inclined to use.
Dexterous, ready, skilful.
Implying 'May you have a happy ~' or similar; used in phrases to wish someone happiness or good fortune at the time of a festival, celebration, or other event or activity.
senses_topics:
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10186 | word:
happy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
happy (plural happies)
forms:
form:
happies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.
senses_examples:
text:
The strike split the Chicano community. Many workers at Farah crossed picket lines and continued to keep the plant operating. They were known as the "happies" because they wore buttons which featured a smiling face and the slogan, "I'm happy at Farah. …"
ref:
1994, Lauri Coyle, Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, “‘Why Did I Put Up With It All These Years’: The Farah Strike”, in Maxine Schwartz Seller, editor, Immigrant Women (SUNY Series in Ethnicity and Race in American Life), 2nd rev. edition, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, page 290
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A happy event, thing, person, etc.
senses_topics:
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10187 | word:
happy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
happy (third-person singular simple present happies, present participle happying, simple past and past participle happied)
forms:
form:
happies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
happying
tags:
participle
present
form:
happied
tags:
participle
past
form:
happied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.
senses_examples:
text:
Whenever I started drinking again after abstaining for any period of time, it usually was an effort to relieve stress and to "happy up."
ref:
2001, John L. Bullion, “Jokes”, in In the Boat with LBJ, Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, page 294
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e smiled […] then asked my name. He checked it against his clipboard then sadly shook his head as if he'd been rejected himself. Told him I was looking for employment and he happied up again, able to help by directing me to apply at the front office, that the doors were on the Gower Street side.
ref:
2016 July 18, Wayne Kaatz, chapter 11, in Stuck on Earth, Bloomington, Ind.: Archway Publishing
type:
quotation
text:
People really didn't want their Party Motivators in their photos, anonymous dancers, happying up the place. It spooked them.
ref:
2007, Mireille Juchau, “Sanctuary”, in Burning In, Artarmon, N.S.W.: Giramondo Publishing for the Writing & Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney, page 201
type:
quotation
text:
[…] [William] Glasser would probably say that happy people are "happying" themselves by choosing behaviors that help them to feel happy (working at their relationships, engaging in productive work activities, participating in desired recreational activities, etc.).
ref:
2015 October 26, Nickolas Martin, Ego Therapy: A Method for Healing Your Whole Self, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
senses_topics:
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10188 | word:
St Ignatius' bean
word_type:
noun
expansion:
St Ignatius' bean (plural St Ignatius' beans)
forms:
form:
St Ignatius' beans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A seed of a tree of species Strychnos ignatii, with similar properties to nux vomica.
senses_topics:
|
10189 | word:
polyglottous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
polyglottous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See polyglot
senses_examples:
text:
The polyglottous tribes of America — Max Müller
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Speaking many languages; polyglot.
senses_topics:
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10190 | word:
polygonous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
polygonous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From polygon + -ous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
polygonal
senses_topics:
|
10191 | word:
polygonaceous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
polygonaceous (comparative more polygonaceous, superlative most polygonaceous)
forms:
form:
more polygonaceous
tags:
comparative
form:
most polygonaceous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Polygonaceae + -ous
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to a family of apetalous plants, Polygonaceae, of which the knotweeds of the genus Polygonum are the type, and which includes also the docks of the genus Rumex, the buckwheat, rhubarb, sea grape of the genus Coccoloba, and several other genera.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
10192 | word:
polygony
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polygony (plural polygonies)
forms:
form:
polygonies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin polygonium, from Ancient Greek πολύγονον (polúgonon).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any plant of the genus Polygonum, especially knotgrass.
senses_topics:
|
10193 | word:
polygoneutic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
polygoneutic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From poly- + Ancient Greek γονεύω (goneúō, “to produce offspring”) + -tic, from γονεύς (goneús, “parent”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having two or more broods in a season.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
10194 | word:
panier
word_type:
noun
expansion:
panier (plural paniers)
forms:
form:
paniers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of pannier.
senses_topics:
|
10195 | word:
polygonometry
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polygonometry (usually uncountable, plural polygonometries)
forms:
form:
polygonometries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From polygon + -metry.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The mensuration of polygons
senses_topics:
|
10196 | word:
mare
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mare (plural mares)
forms:
form:
mares
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Danish language
Dutch language
German language
Icelandic language
Middle English language
North Frisian language
Old English language
Proto-Germanic language
Proto-West Germanic language
Scots language
Swedish language
West Frisian language
etymology_text:
From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”).
Cognates
See also Scots mere, meir, mear (“mare”), North Frisian mar (“mare, horse”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), Danish mær (“mare”), Swedish märr (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), German Mähre (“decrepit old horse”)), Old English mearh.
senses_examples:
text:
The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?
ref:
2007, Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An adult female horse.
A foolish woman.
senses_topics:
|
10197 | word:
mare
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mare (plural mares)
forms:
form:
mares
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Albanian language
Czech language
Danish language
Greek language
Old English language
Old Irish language
Old Norse language
Polish language
Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-West Germanic language
Swedish language
etymology_text:
From Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Doublet of mara.
Cognates
Akin to Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara ( > Danish mare, Swedish mara (“incubus, nightmare”); also Old Irish Morrígan (“phantom queen”), Albanian merë (“horror”), Polish zmora (“nightmare”), Czech mura (“nightmare, moth”), Greek Μόρα (Móra).
senses_examples:
text:
I'm having a complete mare today.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
senses_topics:
|
10198 | word:
mare
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mare (plural maria)
forms:
form:
maria
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Latin language
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of mar and mere.
senses_examples:
text:
Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon
On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology |
10199 | word:
mare
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mare (plural mares)
forms:
form:
mares
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See mayor.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of mayor.
Obsolete form of mair.
senses_topics:
|
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