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10200 | word:
polygonum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polygonum (plural polygonums or polygona)
forms:
form:
polygonums
tags:
plural
form:
polygona
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From translingual Polygonum, from the neuter of Ancient Greek πολύγωνος (polúgōnos, “polygonal”), from πολυ- (polu-, “many, much”) + γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), so called in allusion to the numerous joints. Doublet of polygon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of many plants, of the family Polygonaceae, embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
10201 | word:
lies
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lies
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of lie
senses_topics:
|
10202 | word:
lies
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lies
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of lie
senses_topics:
|
10203 | word:
lies
word_type:
adj
expansion:
lies
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
That kebab was lies!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Great, wonderful
senses_topics:
|
10204 | word:
wier
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wier (plural wiers)
forms:
form:
wiers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The wier of this fishery is very large, and consists of a dam, ten or twelve feet high […]
ref:
1819, James Dugdale, The New British Traveller: Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of weir.
senses_topics:
|
10205 | word:
kuzu
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kuzu (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 葛(くず) (kuzu).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of kudzu
senses_topics:
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10206 | word:
hand-tight
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hand-tight (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
As tight as can be made by the strength of one's hand wielding a standard tool: that is, without special equipment or leverage.
senses_topics:
|
10207 | word:
handwheel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handwheel (plural handwheels)
forms:
form:
handwheels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + wheel.
senses_examples:
text:
When the large handwheel seen in the illustration of a 68000 class cab is moved from "stop" to "run", the traction circuit contactors are closed and the locomotive moves off with the diesel engine running at idling speed.
ref:
1964 May, “Automation in the cab—latest SNCF developments”, in Modern Railways, page 336
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any wheel worked by hand, whether used to allow leverage, as of a valve or a handbrake, or to allow fine adjustment, as of a set screw.
senses_topics:
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10208 | word:
handspike
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handspike (plural handspikes)
forms:
form:
handspikes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + spike.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
senses_topics:
|
10209 | word:
igloo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
igloo (plural igloos)
forms:
form:
igloos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:igloo
etymology_text:
From Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo, “house, building (of any kind)”), from Proto-Inuit *ǝɣlu, from Proto-Eskimo *ǝŋlu.
senses_examples:
text:
General James Walsh signalled Strategic Air Command that the B-47 tore apart the igloo and knocked about 3 mark sixes.
ref:
2011, Robert Hutchinson, Weapons of Mass Destruction
type:
quotation
text:
Since most major airlines have interline agreements, if your cargo is in an igloo or container, it can be moved as is […]
ref:
1978, Made in Mexico
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow.
A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the sea ice.
A reinforced bunker for the storage of nuclear weapons.
A kind of airfreight cargo container.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
government
military
politics
war
|
10210 | word:
handspring
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handspring (plural handsprings)
forms:
form:
handsprings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + spring.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
senses_topics:
|
10211 | word:
handsomely
word_type:
adv
expansion:
handsomely (comparative more handsomely, superlative most handsomely)
forms:
form:
more handsomely
tags:
comparative
form:
most handsomely
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From handsome + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
a handsomely brooding man
type:
example
text:
dress handsomely
type:
example
text:
I was handsomely rewarded for my part in tracking down the thief.
type:
example
text:
Koeman gets paid handsomely (and more or less the same amount) if he does the job, if he gets fired or if his contract gets renewed.
ref:
2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The through Moorgate service has been most handsomely speeded up, and suburban trains in both directions now run non-stop between Kings Cross (Underground) and Elstree.
ref:
1960 February, “The dieselised St. Pancras suburban service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a handsome or attractive manner.
Generously (especially with regards money).
Impressively, thoroughly; vigorously.
Carefully; in shipshape style; without undue haste.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
10212 | word:
Ardhamagadhi
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ardhamagadhi
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Sanskrit अर्धमागधी (ardhamāgadhī).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ardhamagadhi Prakrit
senses_topics:
|
10213 | word:
appassionato
word_type:
adv
expansion:
appassionato (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian appassionato.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
(to be played) passionately
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
10214 | word:
change of venue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
change of venue (plural changes of venue)
forms:
form:
changes of venue
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The defense moved for a change of venue, as the media coverage had made selecting an impartial jury from the small town impossible.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The relocation of a trial to a locale other than that in which the case was first brought before a court.
senses_topics:
law |
10215 | word:
pomme
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pomme (plural pommes or pommeis)
forms:
form:
pommes
tags:
plural
form:
pommeis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French pomme, ultimately from Latin poma. Doublet of pome.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling or representing an apple.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
10216 | word:
handsel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handsel (plural handsels)
forms:
form:
handsels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English handsell, hanselle, from Old English handselen and/or Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”). Cognate with Scots hansel, Danish handsel.
senses_examples:
text:
Our present tears here, not our present laughter, / Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter.
ref:
1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides
type:
quotation
text:
"I see the first handsel that God gives them on their voyage to the Land of Promise; thirst and bitterness."
(From Contemplations, Book Five, Contemplation 1, The Waters of Marah (Found in volume 1 of The Works of Joseph
Hall, edited by Peter Hall, published by Talboys, Oxford, 1837, page 88))
ref:
1612, Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old Testament
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lucky omen.
A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck.
Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series.
senses_topics:
|
10217 | word:
handsel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
handsel (third-person singular simple present handsels, present participle handselling or handseling, simple past and past participle handselled or handseled)
forms:
form:
handsels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
handselling
tags:
participle
present
form:
handseling
tags:
participle
present
form:
handselled
tags:
participle
past
form:
handselled
tags:
past
form:
handseled
tags:
participle
past
form:
handseled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English handsell, hanselle, from Old English handselen and/or Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”). Cognate with Scots hansel, Danish handsel.
senses_examples:
text:
She would leave a gold guinea to hansel the baby.
ref:
2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
And it is better undecently to faile in hanseling the nuptiall bed, full of agitation and fits, by waiting for some or other fitter occasion, and more private opportunitie, lest sudden and alarmed, than to fall into a perpetuall miserie, by apprehending an astonishment and desperation of the first refusall.
ref:
, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.86
text:
Indeed there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer.
ref:
1647, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Worse Times
type:
quotation
text:
[…]the success of the one did not handsel usurpation[…]of the other's.
ref:
1994, Michael Brodsky, ***, Four Walls Eight Windows, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give a handsel to.
To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in.
To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
senses_topics:
|
10218 | word:
beefcake
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beefcake (countable and uncountable, plural beefcakes)
forms:
form:
beefcakes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From beef + cake, by analogy with cheesecake (“an image of a sexy young woman”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: cheesecake
text:
The audience goes bugshit. The security beefcakes separate them and the host gets between them, talking in a voice that is soothing on top, inciteful beneath.
ref:
2014, Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes: A Novel, Simon and Schuster
type:
quotation
text:
Beefcake with Burgundy Mushroom Cream
ref:
1998, Jessie Tirsch, McGuire's Irish Pub Cookbook, Pelican, page 145
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Imagery of one or more muscular, well-built men.
Such a male, especially as seen as physically desirable.
A cake containing beef.
senses_topics:
|
10219 | word:
asinine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
asinine (comparative more asinine, superlative most asinine)
forms:
form:
more asinine
tags:
comparative
form:
most asinine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin asinīnus (“of a donkey or ass”).
senses_examples:
text:
They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “2/2/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
Don Quixote had put himself but a little way ayont the village of Don Diego, when he encountered two apparent priests, or students, and two husbandmen, who came mounted on four asinine beasts.
ref:
1881, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The Ingenious Knight: Don Quixote de la Mancha, page 84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very foolish; failing to exercise intelligence or judgement or rationality.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys.
senses_topics:
|
10220 | word:
ballroom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ballroom (plural ballrooms)
forms:
form:
ballrooms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ballroom
etymology_text:
From ball + room.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large room used for dancing and banquets.
A type of elegant dance.
senses_topics:
|
10221 | word:
ballroom
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ballroom (third-person singular simple present ballrooms, present participle ballrooming, simple past and past participle ballroomed)
forms:
form:
ballrooms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ballrooming
tags:
participle
present
form:
ballroomed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ballroomed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
ballroom
etymology_text:
From ball + room.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take part in ballroom dancing.
senses_topics:
|
10222 | word:
precedence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
precedence (countable and uncountable, plural precedences)
forms:
form:
precedences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French précédence (“the state of preceding, anteriority”).
Morphologically precede + -ence.
senses_examples:
text:
Family takes precedence over work, in an emergency.
type:
example
text:
[…] where there is then no good / For which to strive, no strife can grow up there / From faction; for none sure will claim in hell / Precedence, none, whose portion is so small / Of present pain, that with ambitious mind / Will covet more.
ref:
1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, lines 30–35
type:
quotation
text:
I wrote to […] Mr. Payne, who was wholly unconscious that we were engaged on the same work, and freely offered him precedence and possession of the field till no longer wanted.
ref:
1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 1, page x
type:
quotation
text:
In the city of Zenith, in the barbarous twentieth century, a family's motor indicated its social rank as precisely as the grades of the peerage determined the rank of an English family—indeed, more precisely, considering the opinion of old county families upon newly created brewery barons and woolen-mill viscounts. The details of precedence were never officially determined.
ref:
1922, Sinclair Lewis, “Chapter VI - III”, in Babbitt, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., pages 74–75
type:
quotation
text:
he saw to my twelve packages on one hand while on the other he dealt with the Emir of the Sea, the harbour master, who in a green gown and yellow turban, was demanding precedence of some sort.
ref:
1936, Freya Stark, chapter II, in The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut, New York: Dutton, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
The orderlies, only too well aware of the niceties of the colour-conscious system that prevailed, debated, then sent one of their number to ask the matron what should be done. The matron said that Cho must give precedence. He was laid on the concrete floor.
ref:
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 163
type:
quotation
text:
[…] A fool alone will / contest the precedence of ancestors / and gods; the wise wisely / sing them grandiloquent lullabies / knowing they are children / those omnipotent deities.
ref:
1971, Chinua Achebe, “These Gods are Children”, in Collected Poems, New York: Random House, published 2004, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
ref:
1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Report to the President
type:
quotation
text:
The provincial eisteddfodau, with their reliance on upper-class patronage, tended to give precedence to English, but the smaller ones were conducted entirely in Welsh.
ref:
2014, Janet Davies, chapter 5, in The Welsh Language: A History, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pages 61–2
type:
quotation
text:
The memorandum of understanding between the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, the Office of Rail and Road and the police states: "In the absence of a clear indication that serious criminality has caused the accident, RAIB will normally have precedence in respect of the investigation and will assume lead responsibility for the investigation."
ref:
2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Verses of probably no literary value, but illustrating a kind of rhythm, a melodic innovation that you will not find in Chaucer, though there is ample precedence in Provence
ref:
1934, Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, London: Faber & Faber, published 1991, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the intention certainly is that all parts of the amendment should cover comparable bodies in Scotland: There is perfectly good precedence for this in Part I of the Bill […]
ref:
1991 December 3, Hansard
type:
quotation
text:
If such cases did exist, they seem not to have been committed to paper. Psychiatrists, in such circumstances, may have followed the precedence of their spiritual forebears—religious confessors—in respecting the privacy of their patients.
ref:
2004, Paul Jackson, chapter 3, in One of the Boys: Homosexuality in the Military during World War II, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, page 127
type:
quotation
text:
The ruling in favour of UBC also sets precedence on the matter of bicameral governance for universities and colleges.
ref:
2010 June 15, Keith Van, “UBC faculty union loses, students win”, in Maclean's
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of preceding in importance or priority.
Precedent.
senses_topics:
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10223 | word:
centennial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
centennial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin centennis (“100-year”) + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
a centennial ode
type:
example
text:
a centennial jubilee a centennial celebration
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before.
Happening once in a hundred years.
Lasting or aged a hundred years.
senses_topics:
|
10224 | word:
centennial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
centennial (plural centennials)
forms:
form:
centennials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
centennial
etymology_text:
From Late Latin centennis (“100-year”) + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The hundredth anniversary of an event or happening.
senses_topics:
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10225 | word:
wadmal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wadmal (countable and uncountable, plural wadmals)
forms:
form:
wadmals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wadmal, wadmol, from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). Cognate to Danish vadmel, Icelandic vaðmál. Compare wad (“a small mass”) and woodmeil.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Thick coarse heavily napped wool mostly used in winter clothing for the poor.
senses_topics:
|
10226 | word:
AGB
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AGB
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of asymptotic giant branch.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences |
10227 | word:
allemand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
allemand
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of allemande.
senses_topics:
|
10228 | word:
daystar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
daystar (plural daystars)
forms:
form:
daystars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English daysterre, from Old English dæġsteorra, equivalent to day + star. Cognate with Scots daystern (“morningstar; daystar”).
senses_examples:
text:
Here dawn'd the daystar of Hesperia's fame, / Here herald glory first emblazed her name;
ref:
1809, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad, book VI, l. 245
type:
quotation
text:
And we have more sure the prophetic word; to which ye do well that ye take heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the daystar arise in your hearts;
ref:
1865, Common English Version of the Bible, 2 Peter 1:19
type:
quotation
text:
I only go outdoors at night, away from the daystar's burning glare.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The morning star; the planet Venus.
The Sun.
senses_topics:
|
10229 | word:
aggression
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aggression (countable and uncountable, plural aggressions)
forms:
form:
aggressions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French aggression, from Latin aggressio, from aggressus, past participle of aggredior (“to approach, address, attack”).
senses_examples:
text:
Control, dispossession, violence, and tyranny are not “defensive”: they are part of an organized, ongoing aggression.
ref:
2019 April 28, Hagai El-Ad, “What kind of democracy deports human rights workers?”, in Yoni Molad, transl., +972 Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
The decision to impose a steel and aluminum tariff is an act of aggression which makes trade war between the two pillars of the West a grim possibility.
ref:
2018, Michael Cottakis – LSE, “Colliding worlds: Donald Trump and the European Union”, in LSE's blog
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
The practice or habit of launching attacks.
Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.
senses_topics:
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10230 | word:
astral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
astral (comparative more astral, superlative most astral)
forms:
form:
more astral
tags:
comparative
form:
most astral
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin astralis, from Latin astrum (“star”), from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”).
senses_examples:
text:
astral rays
type:
example
text:
astral sphere
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: spectral
text:
In the case of an inanimate body, […] when the physical object was broken the astral counterpart would also be divided; but it would not be possible to break an astral counterpart, and in that way to affect the physical object. In other words the act of fraction must begin on the physical plane. One could of course move a purely astral object by means of an astral hand if one wished, but not the astral counterpart of a physical object. In order to perform this latter feat it would be necessary to materialize a hand and move the physical object, when the astral counterpart would of course accompany it.
ref:
1911, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Theosophical Talks at Adyar, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
[I could] see her astral form sitting on the edge of her bed. She was waiting for me.
ref:
2005 03, Harry Highstreet, The OOBE File, Harry, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
[He could] see her astral projection; she looked like a celestial being, holding her hand out to him. With relief rushing through his body, he called out to her, "I've got you angel, and I'm coming!" Hammering the gas the car took off[…]
ref:
2011 October 11, Kristi O'Toole, Under the Moon, PublishAmerica
type:
quotation
text:
[Other actions], such as the moving of solid articles, either by an astral hand projected to draw them towards her, or by using an Elemental; others by reading in the Astral Light, and so on. But the proof of the reality of her mission from those whom she spoke of as Masters lay not in these[…]
ref:
2021 January 1, Annie Besant, Annie Besant, An Autobiography: Annie Besant, An Autobiography by Annie Besant: The Autobiography of Annie Besant, Prabhat Prakashan
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to or resembling the stars; starry.
Relating to an aster.
Composed of ethereal material or non-physical (sometimes supersensible), and capable of sometimes separating from the physical body (as an astral body) to travel to other places or to other realms of existence (in or via the astral plane).
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
fantasy
parapsychology
pseudoscience |
10231 | word:
astral
word_type:
noun
expansion:
astral (plural astrals)
forms:
form:
astrals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin astralis, from Latin astrum (“star”), from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”).
senses_examples:
text:
Now both of you sit there and wait for any guides to come to you, any astrals or people from that life to make themselves known to you.
ref:
2009, David Wells, David Wells's Psychic Secrets, page 112
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A supernatural being from the astral plane.
senses_topics:
parapsychology
pseudoscience |
10232 | word:
penalty
word_type:
noun
expansion:
penalty (plural penalties)
forms:
form:
penalties
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
penalty
etymology_text:
From Middle French pénalité.
senses_examples:
text:
The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
type:
example
text:
A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A legal sentence.
A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
In sports
A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
In sports
A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
senses_topics:
business
finance
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
|
10233 | word:
alert
word_type:
adj
expansion:
alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)
forms:
form:
more alert
tags:
comparative
form:
most alert
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l’erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Attentive; awake; on guard.
brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
senses_topics:
|
10234 | word:
alert
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alert (plural alerts)
forms:
form:
alerts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l’erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).
senses_examples:
text:
an airborne alert; ground alert
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An alarm.
A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
A state of readiness for potential combat.
Synonym of bell (“bell character”).
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10235 | word:
alert
word_type:
verb
expansion:
alert (third-person singular simple present alerts, present participle alerting, simple past and past participle alerted)
forms:
form:
alerts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
alerting
tags:
participle
present
form:
alerted
tags:
participle
past
form:
alerted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adj). Compare French alerter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give warning to.
senses_topics:
|
10236 | word:
wee
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wee (comparative weer, superlative weest)
forms:
form:
weer
tags:
comparative
form:
weest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
wee
etymology_text:
From Middle English wey, weygh, wegh, weȝe, wæȝe (“little bit”), from Old English wǣġ, wǣġe (“weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”) and *wēgǭ (“weight”), related to Middle English weġan (“to move, weigh”) (15c).
senses_examples:
text:
The beat of its wee heart held against her own, sent her intense maternity surging like the spring sap in a young tree.
ref:
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 275
type:
quotation
text:
I had not seen a wee boy do it like that before. He was weer than me and his swimming was just like splashing about.
ref:
2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
You looked a little cold, so I lit a wee fire.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Small, little.
senses_topics:
|
10237 | word:
wee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wee
forms:
wikipedia:
wee
etymology_text:
From Middle English wey, weygh, wegh, weȝe, wæȝe (“little bit”), from Old English wǣġ, wǣġe (“weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”) and *wēgǭ (“weight”), related to Middle English weġan (“to move, weigh”) (15c).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short time or short distance.
senses_topics:
|
10238 | word:
wee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wee (countable and uncountable, plural wees)
forms:
form:
wees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
wee
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic for the sound of urination. The noun derives from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
I need to have a wee.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Urine.
An act of urination.
senses_topics:
|
10239 | word:
wee
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wee (third-person singular simple present wees, present participle weeing, simple past and past participle weed)
forms:
form:
wees
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
weeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
weed
tags:
participle
past
form:
weed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
wee
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic for the sound of urination. The noun derives from the verb.
senses_examples:
text:
I need to wee! I can't hold it any longer!
type:
example
text:
When I was young, I was up every night until the wee hours. Now I'm up every hour at night to wee.
ref:
2011 March 15, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To urinate.
senses_topics:
|
10240 | word:
wee
word_type:
pron
expansion:
wee (personal pronoun)
forms:
wikipedia:
wee
etymology_text:
* see we
senses_examples:
text:
Yet lest wee should be Capernaitans, as wee are told there that the flesh profiteth nothing, so wee are told heer, if we be not as deaf as adders, that this union of the flesh proceeds from the union of a fit help and solace.
ref:
1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
obsolete emphatic of we
senses_topics:
|
10241 | word:
Corsican
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Corsican (comparative more Corsican, superlative most Corsican)
forms:
form:
more Corsican
tags:
comparative
form:
most Corsican
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Corsican
etymology_text:
From Corsica + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
of, from, or pertaining to Corsica, the Corsican people or the Corsican language
senses_topics:
|
10242 | word:
Corsican
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Corsican (plural Corsicans)
forms:
form:
Corsicans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Corsican
etymology_text:
From Corsica + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a person from Corsica or of Corsican descent
senses_topics:
|
10243 | word:
Corsican
word_type:
name
expansion:
Corsican
forms:
wikipedia:
Corsican
etymology_text:
From Corsica + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the language of the Corsican people
senses_topics:
|
10244 | word:
churn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
churn (third-person singular simple present churns, present participle churning, simple past and past participle churned)
forms:
form:
churns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
churning
tags:
participle
present
form:
churned
tags:
participle
past
form:
churned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Noun from Middle English chyrne, cherne, kyrne ( > Scots kirn), from Old English ċyrn, ċyrin, ċirin (“churn”), from Proto-Germanic *kirnijǭ (“churn”); verb from Middle English chyrnen from Old English ċernan, from Proto-Germanic *kirnijaną (“to churn, stir”), of unknown origin. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerne, Dutch karn, Walloon serene, German Karn, Kirne, Norwegian Bokmål kjerne, Danish kærne, Swedish kärna, Icelandic kirna.
senses_examples:
text:
Now the cream is churned to make butter.
type:
example
text:
no-churn ice cream
type:
example
text:
Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.
ref:
1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
type:
quotation
text:
The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge.
ref:
2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
I was so nervous that my stomach was churning.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
To stop using a company's product or service.
To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
business
finance
lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
business
finance |
10245 | word:
churn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
churn (countable and uncountable, plural churns)
forms:
form:
churns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Noun from Middle English chyrne, cherne, kyrne ( > Scots kirn), from Old English ċyrn, ċyrin, ċirin (“churn”), from Proto-Germanic *kirnijǭ (“churn”); verb from Middle English chyrnen from Old English ċernan, from Proto-Germanic *kirnijaną (“to churn, stir”), of unknown origin. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerne, Dutch karn, Walloon serene, German Karn, Kirne, Norwegian Bokmål kjerne, Danish kærne, Swedish kärna, Icelandic kirna.
senses_examples:
text:
a butter churn
type:
example
text:
As the ends of the up and down platforms are not opposite each other, it is not possible to provide the ordinary type of barrow crossing, and the full churns were too heavy to be man-handled up and down the stairs of the footbridge.
ref:
1951 October, “The Why and the Wherefore: Milk Platform at Beccles”, in Railway Magazine, page 717
type:
quotation
text:
In the old days, milk trains consisted entirely of vans loaded with ten-gallon churns. When filled, these churns weigh 130 lb. each and their manipulation is an art. [...] Like the tank wagons, the churns are dairy property, but farmers often have other ideas, and find their own uses for them—it has not been unknown for dairy inspectors to find missing churns tucked away in an unsuspected corner of a farmhouse, filled to the brim with banknotes!
ref:
1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the milk”, in Trains Illustrated, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
I wished my brain would shut up and knew that soon I'd have to start tidying, but first I needed to rest, so I tried to quell the pointless churn behind my eyes and kept on trying (in a minute) until Vicky came back home.
ref:
2007, Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
Getting the right manager has just been made more difficult by not having Champions League to offer. There will also be a huge churn of players after the lavish, unrewarding outlay this season.
ref:
2023 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea Champions League exit: Where do 'disjointed, broken' Blues go from here?”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).
Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
The last grain cut at harvest; kern.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
|
10246 | word:
aa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aa (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
aa
etymology_text:
From Hawaiian ʻaʻā.
senses_examples:
text:
We...saw ‘pahoihoi’ or solid lava forming, and also ‘aa’ or clinkers.
ref:
1859, R. C. Haskell, American journal of science and arts, series XXVIII
type:
quotation
text:
Cooling and solidification frequently takes a different course [...] in lava flows, producing the clinker-like ‘aa’ lava.
ref:
1944, Charles A. Cotton, Volcanoes as landscape forms
type:
quotation
text:
Both pahoehoe and aa lava flows are common on the upper slopes of Mauna Loa with a preponderance of aa flows found at the lower elevations.
ref:
1981, Hilo Lava Flood Control: Environmental Impact Statement, page 194
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A form of lava flow associated with Hawaiian-type volcanoes, consisting of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a jagged and loose, clinkery surface. Compare pahoehoe.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology |
10247 | word:
aa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aa
forms:
wikipedia:
aa
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of acetic acid.
Initialism of acting age.
Initialism of alveolar-arterial.
Initialism of aminoacetone.
Initialism of amino acid.
Initialism of approximate absolute.
Initialism of arachidonic acid.
Initialism of armature accelerator.
Initialism of ascending aorta.
Initialism of atomic absorption.
Initialism of author's alteration.
Initialism of average audience.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
10248 | word:
aa
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aa (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
aa
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of arctic-alpine.
Initialism of always afloat.
senses_topics:
|
10249 | word:
aa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aa pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
aa
etymology_text:
Compare pp.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of adjectives.
Abbreviation of arteries.
senses_topics:
|
10250 | word:
aa
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aa
forms:
wikipedia:
aa
etymology_text:
Contraction.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of ana (“of each, equal parts”).
senses_topics:
|
10251 | word:
YMMV
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
YMMV
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of your mileage may vary.
senses_topics:
|
10252 | word:
Devanagari alphabet
word_type:
name
expansion:
Devanagari alphabet
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the Devanagari writing system
senses_topics:
|
10253 | word:
hypocoristic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hypocoristic (comparative more hypocoristic, superlative most hypocoristic)
forms:
form:
more hypocoristic
tags:
comparative
form:
most hypocoristic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ὑποκοριστικός (hupokoristikós), from ὑποκορίζομαι (hupokorízomai, “I speak in the language of children”), from ὑπό (hupó, “below”) + κορίζομαι (korízomai, “I act like a girl”), from κόρη (kórē, “girl”).
senses_examples:
text:
English surnames which end in -oe usually began as nicknames, since -oe is a Middle English hypocoristic suffix.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to a nickname, usually indicating intimacy with the person.
Relating to baby talk.
senses_topics:
|
10254 | word:
hypocoristic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hypocoristic (plural hypocoristics)
forms:
form:
hypocoristics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ὑποκοριστικός (hupokoristikós), from ὑποκορίζομαι (hupokorízomai, “I speak in the language of children”), from ὑπό (hupó, “below”) + κορίζομαι (korízomai, “I act like a girl”), from κόρη (kórē, “girl”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nickname, especially one indicating intimacy and formed through a shortening of the original name.
senses_topics:
|
10255 | word:
stepmother
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stepmother (plural stepmothers)
forms:
form:
stepmothers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English stepmoder, from Old English stēopmōdor, from Proto-Germanic *steupamōdēr (“stepmother”), corresponding to step- + mother. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäifmuur (“stepmother”), Dutch stiefmoeder (“stepmother”), German Low German Steevmoder (“stepmother”), German Stiefmutter (“stepmother”), Danish stedmor (“stepmother”), Swedish styvmor (“stepmother”), Icelandic stjúpmóðir (“stepmother”). Compare also West Frisian styfmem (“stepmother”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: stepfather
text:
The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idelness.
ref:
1974, Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books, published 2003, page 115
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother.
A viola, especially Viola tricolor, heartsease.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
10256 | word:
urination
word_type:
noun
expansion:
urination (countable and uncountable, plural urinations)
forms:
form:
urinations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From urinate + -ion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of passing urine, that is, of eliminating liquid waste from the body.
senses_topics:
|
10257 | word:
damosel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
damosel (plural damosels)
forms:
form:
damosels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of damsel.
senses_topics:
|
10258 | word:
damourite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
damourite (countable and uncountable, plural damourites)
forms:
form:
damourites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
After the French chemist Damour + -ite.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
senses_topics:
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10259 | word:
damosella
word_type:
noun
expansion:
damosella (plural damosellas)
forms:
form:
damosellas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant of damoiselle or damosel, 15th and 16th century variants of damsel, from early Middle English dameisele.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Damsel.
senses_topics:
|
10260 | word:
damoiselle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
damoiselle (plural damoiselles)
forms:
form:
damoiselles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of damsel.
senses_topics:
|
10261 | word:
Alençon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Alençon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Alençon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town and commune, the capital of the Orne department, Normandy, France.
senses_topics:
|
10262 | word:
Alençon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Alençon (countable and uncountable, plural Alençons)
forms:
form:
Alençons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French Alençon.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alençon lace.
senses_topics:
|
10263 | word:
accentuation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accentuation (countable and uncountable, plural accentuations)
forms:
form:
accentuations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin accentuatio. Compare French accentuation. Equivalent to accentuate + -ion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.
senses_topics:
ecclesiastical
entertainment
lifestyle
music
religion |
10264 | word:
cwm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cwm (plural cwms)
forms:
form:
cwms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unadapted borrowing from Welsh cwm (“valley”). Doublet of combe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre.
senses_topics:
|
10265 | word:
best regards
word_type:
noun
expansion:
best regards pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I look forward to finally meeting you in person. Best regards, Peter.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used as a polite closing of a letter
senses_topics:
|
10266 | word:
directory
word_type:
noun
expansion:
directory (plural directories)
forms:
form:
directories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English directorie, dyrectorye, from Medieval Latin dīrectōrium. Doublet of directorium.
senses_examples:
text:
look up an address in the directory
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.
A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.
A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other directories may be stored. The files and subdirectories in a directory are usually related.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10267 | word:
directory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
directory (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English directorye, from Latin dīrectōrius.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing directions; instructing; directorial.
senses_topics:
|
10268 | word:
Genoa
word_type:
name
expansion:
Genoa
forms:
wikipedia:
en:Genoa
en:Republic of Genoa
etymology_text:
From Latin Genua (influenced by Italian Genova), as the city was known by the ancient Ligurians. Probably from the Ancient Ligurian word for “knee”, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénw-eh₂ (“knee”), a thematic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu; in this sense “angle”, from its geographical position, thus akin to Geneva.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A province of Liguria, Italy.
The capital city of Liguria, Italy, and also of the province of Genoa.
A town in the Shire of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Miller County, Arkansas.
A number of places in the United States:
A small statutory town in Lincoln County, Colorado.
A number of places in the United States:
A city in DeKalb County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Nance County, Nebraska.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Cayuga County, New York.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Ottawa County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
The former name of Perry Heights, an unincorporated community in Stark County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of the city of Houston, Texas.
A number of places in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Vernon County, Wisconsin. Former name of village: Bad Axe.
A number of places in the United States:
Four townships, in Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska and Ohio, listed under Genoa Township.
a maritime republic in northwestern Italy that existed from the 11th century until its disestablishment in 1797 when Napoleon formed the Ligurian Republic, a client state; Genoa briefly regained independence in 1814 before becoming quickly annexed by the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1815.
senses_topics:
|
10269 | word:
Genoa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Genoa (countable and uncountable, plural Genoas)
forms:
form:
Genoas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:Genoa
en:Republic of Genoa
etymology_text:
From Latin Genua (influenced by Italian Genova), as the city was known by the ancient Ligurians. Probably from the Ancient Ligurian word for “knee”, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénw-eh₂ (“knee”), a thematic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu; in this sense “angle”, from its geographical position, thus akin to Geneva.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Genoa cake.
senses_topics:
|
10270 | word:
wallah
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wallah (plural wallahs)
forms:
form:
wallahs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Either from Hindi -वाला (-vālā, “pertaining to”) or from Hindi वाला (vālā, “person in charge”).
senses_examples:
text:
Kindly take one of my cigarettes, sir. Do you not admire my new silver case, sir? From the boxwallah, two rupees eight annas.
ref:
1931, George Orwell, A Hanging
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example kitchen wallah.
Short for competition wallah.
A guy or bloke.
senses_topics:
|
10271 | word:
wallah
word_type:
adv
expansion:
wallah (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic وَٱللّٰه (wal-lāh, literally “by God”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
by God (Allah); may God be my witness. Used in making a solemn oath
senses_topics:
Islam
lifestyle
religion |
10272 | word:
wallah
word_type:
intj
expansion:
wallah
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A corruption of voilà.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Voilà.
senses_topics:
|
10273 | word:
information
word_type:
noun
expansion:
information (usually uncountable, plural informations)
forms:
form:
informations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English informacion, enformacion, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”).
senses_examples:
text:
I need some more information about this issue.
type:
example
text:
For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
type:
example
text:
On May 21, 1792, the Attorney General filed an information against Paine charging him with seditious libel.
ref:
1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 131
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.
The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
[…] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
Divine inspiration.
A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.
Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).
senses_topics:
law
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Christianity
computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
information-technology
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10274 | word:
sarnie
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sarnie (plural sarnies)
forms:
form:
sarnies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From sarn- (“perhaps from a dialectal pronunciation of the first syllable of sandwich”) + -ie.
senses_examples:
text:
Hello my flower, shall I fix up a cheese sarnie for you?
type:
example
text:
With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention
While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen.
ref:
1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull
type:
quotation
text:
In fact no one was playing bingo, 10p or otherwise. Nor had the patrons been enticed by the complimentary shrink-wrapped sarnies and packets of cheese-and-onion on offer in the roped-off ‘Over 18s VIP area’, with its £500-jackpot fruit machines.
ref:
2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Just like Marple, there's a plaque at the London terminus [Paddington] commemorating a fictional character - a polite, friendly little bear from darkest Peru who has a penchant for marmalade sarnies.
ref:
2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sandwich.
The Sandwich tern.
senses_topics:
biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology |
10275 | word:
upgrowth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upgrowth (plural upgrowths)
forms:
form:
upgrowths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + growth.
senses_examples:
text:
The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.
ref:
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 188
type:
quotation
text:
J. R. Green
the new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
senses_topics:
|
10276 | word:
upgrow
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upgrow (third-person singular simple present upgrows, present participle upgrowing, simple past upgrew, past participle upgrown)
forms:
form:
upgrows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upgrowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
upgrew
tags:
past
form:
upgrown
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + grow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To grow up
senses_topics:
|
10277 | word:
upgush
word_type:
noun
expansion:
upgush (plural upgushes)
forms:
form:
upgushes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + gush.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] consuls, emperors, and popes, the great men of every age, have found no better way of immortalizing their memories than by the shifting, indestructible, ever new, yet unchanging, upgush and downfall of water.
ref:
1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gushing upward.
senses_topics:
|
10278 | word:
upgush
word_type:
verb
expansion:
upgush (third-person singular simple present upgushes, present participle upgushing, simple past and past participle upgushed)
forms:
form:
upgushes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
upgushing
tags:
participle
present
form:
upgushed
tags:
participle
past
form:
upgushed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + gush.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gush upward.
senses_topics:
|
10279 | word:
perseverate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
perseverate (third-person singular simple present perseverates, present participle perseverating, simple past and past participle perseverated)
forms:
form:
perseverates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
perseverating
tags:
participle
present
form:
perseverated
tags:
participle
past
form:
perseverated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from perseveration. Doublet of persevere.
senses_examples:
text:
After perseverating for several more months, Woodrow Wilson accepted the offer.
ref:
2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To persist in doing something; to continue to repeat an action after the original stimulus has ended.
To cause the perseveration of (a given reflex or response).
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
10280 | word:
Vietnamese
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Vietnamese (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Vietnamese
etymology_text:
From Vietnam + -ese.
senses_examples:
text:
As I rubbed my face, a middle-aged man gripped my neck, the way Vietnamese fathers or uncles often do when trying to pour their strength into you.
ref:
2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 228
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to Vietnam.
senses_topics:
|
10281 | word:
Vietnamese
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Vietnamese (countable and uncountable, plural Vietnamese)
forms:
form:
Vietnamese
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Vietnamese
etymology_text:
From Vietnam + -ese.
senses_examples:
text:
They were buried in a gravesite near Kai Tak, alongside other Vietnamese who hadn’t made it safely to shore.
ref:
2023, Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls, 4th Estate, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person or people from Vietnam or of Vietnamese descent.
Vietnamese cuisine; traditional Vietnamese food.
senses_topics:
|
10282 | word:
Vietnamese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Vietnamese
forms:
wikipedia:
Vietnamese
etymology_text:
From Vietnam + -ese.
senses_examples:
text:
The Vietnamese I own is the one you gave me, the one whose diction and syntax reach only the second-grade level.
ref:
2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Austroasiatic language spoken predominantly in Vietnam.
senses_topics:
|
10283 | word:
brat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brat (plural brats)
forms:
form:
brats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Early Modern English (ca. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”). Or, possibly originally a dialectal word, from northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged garment," from Old English bratt (“cloak”), which is from a Celtic source (Old Irish brat (“cloak, cloth”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Get that little brat away from me!
type:
example
text:
He would never speak a word, - only eat and cry, and she hadn't the heart to strike it or illtreat the youngster either; but somebody taught her a charm to make him speak, and then she found out what kind of a brat he really was.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 297
type:
quotation
text:
an army brat
type:
example
text:
Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Commander of the Fourth Army, was an army “brat,” which means his father was an army officer. But he went into the army from Princeton, not from West Point.
ref:
1941 June 5, Gerry Dick, “They Practiced Art of War, Then They Studied It”, in Hope Star, Hope, Arkansas, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
To be a brat, in XCX’s view, is to be aggressive and cheeky and wholly unexpected, like the lime-green color of her album’s cover.
ref:
2024 July 23, Shirley Li, “The Brat-ification of Kamala Harris”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
"So... you want to have kids someday?" "Uh... well, yes. I always figured I'd have a couple brats of my own someday..." "That's still doable, you know." "I know, but the process is a lot more complicated and less intimate, and --"
ref:
2012 March 2, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Mar 2, 2012
type:
quotation
text:
For the crabby awd dealers in ling, cod, and brats / And the vurgins that tempt us wi' nice maiden skyet...
ref:
1843, Thomas Wilson, The Movement
type:
quotation
text:
The chief's daughter wears a brat and léine girdled with a criss.
ref:
1961, Audrey I. Barfoot, Everyday costume in Britain: from the earliest times to 1900, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
The prevailing style of dress in the early medieval period comprised a léine (tunic) worn under a brat (cloak).
ref:
2005, Seán Duffy, Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia, page 156
type:
quotation
text:
Women wore loose, flowing, ankle-length robes modelled on 11th-century European fashion (derived from what O'Neill called the léine) and, perhaps, a brat over these.
ref:
2006, Celtic Culture: A-Celti, page 1272
type:
quotation
text:
[She] had still on the rough worsted apron of nappy homespun wool, called a "brat".
ref:
1882, John Strathesk, “pp. 135”, in Blinkbonny
type:
quotation
text:
They are your Will-Worship-men, your Prelates Brats: Take the whole Litter of’um, and you’ll finde never a barrel better Herring.
ref:
1680, Roger L'Estrange, Citt and Bumpkin
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A human child.
A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
A human child.
A child (at any age) of an active member of the military or the diplomatic service.
A human child.
A sub (submissive partner in sexual roleplay) who is disobedient and unruly.
A human child.
A proudly hedonistic young woman.
A human child.
A turbot or flatfish.
A rough cloak or ragged garment.
A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
The young of an animal.
senses_topics:
BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
|
10284 | word:
brat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
brat (third-person singular simple present brats, present participle bratting, simple past and past participle bratted)
forms:
form:
brats
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bratting
tags:
participle
present
form:
bratted
tags:
participle
past
form:
bratted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Early Modern English (ca. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”). Or, possibly originally a dialectal word, from northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged garment," from Old English bratt (“cloak”), which is from a Celtic source (Old Irish brat (“cloak, cloth”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Ruthie was Ed's own submissive, a short, pretty, feisty ash-blonde New York City native who combined her submission to Ed with a good deal of mischievous bratting and a lot of sharp, intelligent conversation […]
ref:
2021, Ardie Stallard, Switch: A Tale of Spanking, BDSM & Romance
type:
quotation
text:
Rather, Ana moves between playful bratting and a type of “conquer me” wantedness that good Dominants would respond to with increased control and correction.
ref:
2020, Jessica M. Kratzer, Communication in Kink, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act in a bratty manner (as the submissive).
senses_topics:
BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality |
10285 | word:
brat
word_type:
adj
expansion:
brat (comparative more brat, superlative most brat)
forms:
form:
more brat
tags:
comparative
form:
most brat
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Early Modern English (ca. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”). Or, possibly originally a dialectal word, from northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged garment," from Old English bratt (“cloak”), which is from a Celtic source (Old Irish brat (“cloak, cloth”)).
senses_examples:
text:
None of that may sound like an appropriate description of Kamala Harris, but on Sunday, XCX posted on X that the vice president “IS brat.”
ref:
2024 July 23, Shirley Li, “The Brat-ification of Kamala Harris”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
text:
Charli XCX affectionately referred to Harris as "brat," a term of endearment in contemporary slang, highlighting the Vice President's widespread appeal beyond traditional political circles.
ref:
2024 July 23, Johnny Palmadessa, “Captivating Gen-Z: The Unstoppable Rise of Kamala Harris”, in Meidas Touch Network
type:
quotation
text:
Her resilience is a key part of her "brat" identity—someone who isn't afraid to be vulnerable but always bounces back with renewed strength.
ref:
2024, Alephy Brow ·, Kamala is Brat
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fierce and authentic.
senses_topics:
|
10286 | word:
brat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brat (plural brats)
forms:
form:
brats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortened from bratwurst, from German Bratwurst.
senses_examples:
text:
There are many people loitering, eating ice cream, talking, eating brats.
ref:
2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 267
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bratwurst.
senses_topics:
|
10287 | word:
brat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
brat (plural brats)
forms:
form:
brats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
10288 | word:
bulletin board system
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bulletin board system (plural bulletin board systems)
forms:
form:
bulletin board systems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
As companies increase their use of microcomputer-based bulletin board systems, microcomputer managers are finding themselves saddled with the responsibility of being system operators for the boards.
ref:
1986 April 21, Melissa Calvo, “Managers Say Bulletin Boards Part of Job”, in InfoWorld, volume 8, number 16, →ISSN, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Hackers and hacker clubs primarily communicate by means of bulletin board systems. It is estimated that there are about 1,300 underground bulletin boards in the U.S.
ref:
2001, Sanjiv Purba, Architectures for E-Business Systems, CRC Press, page 702
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of computer system, now largely obsolete, used to exchange messages and data over a telecommunications network.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10289 | word:
astray
word_type:
adv
expansion:
astray
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English astraien or by apheresis straien, from Old French estraier (“to stray”), from late Medieval Latin extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagārī (“to wander, stray”).
senses_examples:
text:
Go, set the storm-winds free, / And sink their ships or scatter them astray, / And strew their corpses forth, to weltering waves a prey.
ref:
1907, Virgil, “1.X”, in Edward Fairfax Taylor, transl., The Æneid of Virgil, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.
senses_topics:
|
10290 | word:
avid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
avid (comparative more avid or (less commonly) avider, superlative most avid or (less commonly) avidest)
forms:
form:
more avid
tags:
comparative
form:
avider
tags:
comparative
uncommon
form:
most avid
tags:
superlative
form:
avidest
tags:
superlative
uncommon
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French avide, from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).
senses_examples:
text:
an avid fan of 1960s sci-fi movies
type:
example
text:
an avid learner of history
type:
example
text:
I'm an avid reader.
type:
example
text:
A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn't explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root.
ref:
1999, Larry Zuckerman, The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
type:
quotation
text:
We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.
ref:
1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something
senses_topics:
|
10291 | word:
aeroplane
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aeroplane (plural aeroplanes)
forms:
form:
aeroplanes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French aéroplane, from Ancient Greek ἀερόπλανος (aeróplanos, “wandering in air”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + πλάνος (plános, “wandering”). First used by Joseph Pline in an 1855 patent.https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Aircraft_Design/NeHoahlhCGMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Joseph+Pline+glider&pg=PA3&printsec=frontcover;https://books.google.at/books?id=fSQUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA768&dq=Joseph+Pline+brevet+1855&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgk5Cz_a_wAhXZhf0HHdjNAJwQ6AEwAnoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Pline%20brevet%201855&f=false
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of airplane. A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
Synonym of airfoil. An aerodynamic surface.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called planes.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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10292 | word:
aeroplane
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aeroplane (third-person singular simple present aeroplanes, present participle aeroplaning, simple past and past participle aeroplaned)
forms:
form:
aeroplanes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
aeroplaning
tags:
participle
present
form:
aeroplaned
tags:
participle
past
form:
aeroplaned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French aéroplane, from Ancient Greek ἀερόπλανος (aeróplanos, “wandering in air”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + πλάνος (plános, “wandering”). First used by Joseph Pline in an 1855 patent.https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Aircraft_Design/NeHoahlhCGMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Joseph+Pline+glider&pg=PA3&printsec=frontcover;https://books.google.at/books?id=fSQUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA768&dq=Joseph+Pline+brevet+1855&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgk5Cz_a_wAhXZhf0HHdjNAJwQ6AEwAnoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Pline%20brevet%201855&f=false
senses_examples:
text:
The rod was discarded, and then, hand over hand, the prize of them all was aeroplaned to the top of the cliff.
ref:
1919, The American Angler, volume 4, page 221
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fly in an aeroplane.
To transport by aeroplane.
senses_topics:
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10293 | word:
uphand
word_type:
adj
expansion:
uphand (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + hand.
senses_examples:
text:
the uphand sledge
text:
Girzie, when in her barleyhoods, was apt to enforce her commands with uphand emphases, and Andrew came in for a due share of this practical elocution, and always proved himself as quiet and submissive a disciple as ever fell under a "continual dropping," since the days of the man of Uz.
ref:
1835, John Donald Carrick, The Laird of Logan; Or, Wit of the West
type:
quotation
text:
There was not anything like it either for extraordinary rapidity of pace with the uphand bowling, or accuracy of length and general steadiness.
ref:
1846, Cricket. Sketches of the players, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
I called, as soon as the struggle was over, for Poor Tom, but for a long time nothing could be seen of him or his raven; at last a call from John Lee, who, like myself, was unhurt, told me he was found, and close outside the hovel where the women and children who had been carried off by the moor men had been shut up, and who we happily rescued, Poor Tom lay locked close in the arms of a moor man, through whose heart he had driven the Spanish knife, and who had ripped him open by one uphand cut, from the bottom of his belly to the top of his chest.
ref:
1888, The history of Arthur Penreath, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
They sparred heavily for nearly ten minutes, neither gaining the advantage until Kathleen, with one furious uphand stroke, snapped Reed's blade in two near the hilt.
ref:
2002, Catherine Hart, Fire and Ice, page 359
type:
quotation
text:
Downhand welding is preferable to uphand welding as it insures better fusion and greater speed.
ref:
1932, Railway Engineering and Maintenance - Volume 27, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
In uphand welding, the previously deposited metal is used as a step to hold up the molten metal, making possible a heavier deposit. Slag flows away from the molten pool and is less likely to be trapped in the metal during uphand welding.
ref:
1967, W. J. Patton, The science and practice of welding, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
When welding thick pipe, the weld may be formed from the bottom up by uphand welding.
ref:
2008, Andrew Clennel Palmer, Roger A. King, Subsea Pipeline Engineering, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
A man to roll rubber off from that, I think, would find rather an uphand business — pushing his hands against the rubber.
ref:
1855, United States Circuit Court (Rhode Island), Horace H. Day vs. Isaac Hartshorn, et al
type:
quotation
text:
What is desirable is to imitate the calf in sucking; the hand is to be not only sharply closed against the teat, but vigorous uphand pressure against the udder is to be made at the same time.
ref:
1917, Thomas Forsyth Hunt, Charles William Burkett, Farm Animals: Covering the General Field of Animal Industry, page 407
type:
quotation
text:
My land is uphand black loam, which I value at fifty dollars per acre, and three crops is the most I have grown consecutively on the same ground.
ref:
1905, Quarterly Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, volume 19
type:
quotation
text:
Intercropping with cowpea exerted an uphand influence on the soil available N (223 and 236 kg/ha) considerable, build up in the soil available N was noticed with the sorghum + cowpea intercropping system in a ratio of 3:1 which is probably due to the beneficial effect of continuous legume intercropping.
ref:
2004, Arvind Kumar, Environment and Health, page 138
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Designed to be lifted by the hand, or by both hands
With an upward movement of the hand.
Starting from the bottom and working upwards
Characterized by pushing upwards with a hand or hands.
Enriched; fertile.
senses_topics:
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10294 | word:
uphand
word_type:
adv
expansion:
uphand (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + hand.
senses_examples:
text:
One hundred per cent penetration can be obtained by welding in a slight vertical weld uphand on metal up to eight gages.
ref:
1945, Industry and Welding - Volume 18, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
It is made uphand, pushing the arc with the torch steeply inclined 15° to 20° to the pipe.
ref:
2013, Yong Zhou, Pipeline and Energy Plant Piping: Design and Technology, page 194
type:
quotation
text:
As by a leaf to fling On the glass of wind Or up transparent leaf-sides over and over Uphand to swing Into the airy sockets of light And the broad plates tread like a bird Kissing light.
ref:
1951, Wake: The Creative Magazine - Issues 10-12, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
...noise shifted uphand by the noise shaper) are responsible for the observed filter ripples and a notable roll-off of the ...
ref:
1992, High Fidelity News and Record Review
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From bottom to top.
Moved by hand in an upward direction.
senses_topics:
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10295 | word:
uphand
word_type:
verb
expansion:
uphand (third-person singular simple present uphands, present participle uphanding, simple past and past participle uphanded)
forms:
form:
uphands
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
uphanding
tags:
participle
present
form:
uphanded
tags:
participle
past
form:
uphanded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + hand.
senses_examples:
text:
But she say sho could uphand anything brought befo' her so I asked her to work on me.
ref:
1981, Jack Solomon, Olivia Solomon, Ghosts and Goosebumps
type:
quotation
text:
Before he had hit, she sprang upright, feinted so that Gull's quick blow whooshed harmlessly past her cheek, and uphanded his chin, stunning him and sending him reeling against Kayser, who had stepped back.
ref:
2010, Brad Strickland, Flight of the Outcast: The Academy, Year 1, page 96
type:
quotation
text:
Aweel, Jock, I'se no say but we've had mony an up an mony a doon i' life, but there's ae comfort whilk uphands me aboon ilka ither thocht, an its e'en this: Ye married yer Elsie, Jock, frae doonright sheer love an naething mair nor less, an Elsie gae her hail heart an its life's bluid to ye whan she gae'd awa her hond.
ref:
1843, Journey to the Phalanx, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
He's nae Moderate, man; and gin I'm no sair mistaen, he's a wild man himsel, and wull uphand the Veto.
ref:
1859, John Wilson, The Recreations of Christopher North
type:
quotation
text:
Some o' Bible words are no' for every-day use, an' ye might have respected the Holy Scripters mair than to use 'em for uphanding o' yer ain mad clavers.
ref:
1870, The Christian world magazine (and family visitor). - Volume 6, page 347
type:
quotation
text:
This conduct may probably be uphanded as injurious to my own views ; if it be so, it is at least the natural offspring of my judgment.
ref:
1890, Hugh Blair Grigsby, Robert Alonzo Brock, The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788
type:
quotation
text:
Sire, the will to dare, their weapons weak, In spirit the State uphanded to success.
ref:
1902, Randolph Keim De Benneville, La Fayette, the man of two worlds
type:
quotation
text:
What signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither? I'se uphand it's been Robertson that learned ye that doctrine.
ref:
1910, Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe, The World's Greatest Books, page 272
type:
quotation
text:
But the whole thirty-three uphanded and cried, “Mercy, Kamerad '"
ref:
1918, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook - Volume 120, page 425
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lift with an upward movement of the hands.
To strike from below with the hand or fist.
To uphold, promote, or sustain.
To raise the hands.
senses_topics:
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10296 | word:
uphand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
uphand (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From up- + hand.
senses_examples:
text:
Such monsters as these have all been, Our fathers and mothers have known : If that they should get the uphand, Us Protestants they would all smother
ref:
1848, The standard Orange song book, page 175
type:
quotation
text:
Or else to death he had been dight, While th' house of York had the uphand.
ref:
1884, Charles A. Federer, The Ballad of Flodden Field: A Poem of the XVIth Century, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
Politics seem to have had an uphand over business...
ref:
1932, Bradstreet's Journal - Volume 60, Issues 2802-2824, page 1506
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The upper hand.
senses_topics:
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10297 | word:
slingshot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slingshot (plural slingshots)
forms:
form:
slingshots
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From sling + shot.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.
A stationary, often triangular object that launches any ball that hits its longest side back at a high force, now usually located above the flipper and between it and the inlane, with one each for both lower flippers.
A sling bikini.
An implement of a broad fabric worn around and connecting both bicipites brachii to support benching the most heavy weights.
senses_topics:
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10298 | word:
slingshot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slingshot (third-person singular simple present slingshots, present participle slingshotting, simple past and past participle slingshotted)
forms:
form:
slingshots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slingshotting
tags:
participle
present
form:
slingshotted
tags:
participle
past
form:
slingshotted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From sling + shot.
senses_examples:
text:
The shuttle will slingshot around Jupiter on its way to Saturn.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move or cause to move in a manner resembling a projectile shot from a slingshot.
To use the gravity of a moving planet to add momentum to a spacecraft.
senses_topics:
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10299 | word:
persevere
word_type:
verb
expansion:
persevere (third-person singular simple present perseveres, present participle persevering, simple past and past participle persevered)
forms:
form:
perseveres
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
persevering
tags:
participle
present
form:
persevered
tags:
participle
past
form:
persevered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English perseveren, from Old French perseverer, from Latin persevērāre (“to continue steadfastly, persist, persevere”), from perseverus (“very strict or earnest”), from per (“through, by the means of”) + severus (“strict, earnest”). Doublet of perseverate.
senses_examples:
text:
He is a trifle discouraged, but he perseveres.
ref:
c. 1918, P. G. Wodehouse, The Agonies of Writing a Musical Comedy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking, task, journey, or goal, even if hindered by distraction, difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement.
To stay constant; to continue in a certain state; to remain.
senses_topics:
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