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10300 | word:
unprecedented
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unprecedented (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + precedent + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.
ref:
2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
ref:
2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Never before seen, done, or experienced; without precedent.
senses_topics:
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10301 | word:
obsessive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
obsessive (comparative more obsessive, superlative most obsessive)
forms:
form:
more obsessive
tags:
comparative
form:
most obsessive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From obsess + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
The idea is too tempting, it's obsessive.
type:
example
text:
Hardcore fans' obsessive behavior may take over their lives.
type:
example
text:
A workaholic's obsessive zeal may lead to success or burnout.
type:
example
text:
Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
ref:
2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Prone to cause obsession.
Having one thought or pursuing one activity to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others.
Excessive, as results from obsession.
senses_topics:
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10302 | word:
obsessive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
obsessive (plural obsessives)
forms:
form:
obsessives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From obsess + -ive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is obsessed, who has an obsession.
senses_topics:
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10303 | word:
unreal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unreal (comparative more unreal, superlative most unreal)
forms:
form:
more unreal
tags:
comparative
form:
most unreal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + real.
senses_examples:
text:
The video includes unreal footage of an eight-metre wave.
type:
example
text:
I just had an unreal hamburger.
type:
example
text:
He stops his cab at every traffic light, unrolls his window and calls out to the other drivers: "I've got a movie star in the car! Follow me down to see her come out. She is unreal, man! I am in seventh heaven! I have a dream!"
ref:
1990, Eurydice, F/32, page 205
type:
quotation
text:
"She just set me up" "Now that's unreal, man. I mean, we're talking about a fairly considerable sum here, aren't we, Dexter?" "Listen to me. She set me up, with a dude she was cheatin' on me with
ref:
1995, Sam Reaves, Get What's Coming, page 60
type:
quotation
text:
“Yeah, she does have a certain mental toughness that is unreal,” agreed Berto. “I really don't think of her as a girl, I mean, it's like she's a tough buddy or tough sister to me.”
ref:
2012, Thomas Maul, Manila Demon, page 102
type:
quotation
text:
He walks around and tries to pluck a flower on the ground. david exclaims, “Holy shit, this is unreal! i can feel the flower, the heat from the sun, and i can even hear the wind! The smells are so vibrant! How could i possibly be smelling flowers?
ref:
2011, John Adrian Tomlin, The Imaginarium Machine, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality.
very impressive; amazing; unbelievable; incredible; larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.
senses_topics:
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10304 | word:
wolverine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wolverine (plural wolverines)
forms:
form:
wolverines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
1619; alteration of earlier wolvering (1574), diminutive of wolver (“ravenous or savage animal; person who behaves like a wolf”) (1593), ultimately from wolf.
senses_examples:
text:
“Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. “ I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and I'm hungry as a wolverine. … I know she'd have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”
ref:
1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter IV, in The Understanding Heart
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae family, Gulo gulo.
senses_topics:
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10305 | word:
ephebe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ephebe (plural ephebes)
forms:
form:
ephebes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Via Latin ephēbus, from Ancient Greek ἔφηβος (éphēbos, “adolescent”), from ἐπί (epí, “early”) + ἥβη (hḗbē, “manhood”), late 19th c.
senses_examples:
text:
Indeed Tom was much still the ephebe, sharing boys with his friend though talking of the gravity of marriage.
ref:
1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training.
A young man; a youth.
senses_topics:
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10306 | word:
enlistment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
enlistment (countable and uncountable, plural enlistments)
forms:
form:
enlistments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From enlist + -ment.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of enlisting.
The act of enlisting.
Voluntary service based on an individual's desire to serve a cause.
senses_topics:
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10307 | word:
dockyard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dockyard (plural dockyards)
forms:
form:
dockyards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dock + yard.
senses_examples:
text:
Until recently activities in the Haven [Milford Haven] were confined virtually to the naval dockyard, now closed, and to coastal shipping and shipments to and from Ireland, both on a small scale.
ref:
1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A place where ships are repaired or outfitted.
senses_topics:
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10308 | word:
intuitive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
intuitive (comparative more intuitive, superlative most intuitive)
forms:
form:
more intuitive
tags:
comparative
form:
most intuitive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.
senses_examples:
text:
Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
ref:
2012 January 24, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-01-08, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
These impressions [of potential papal candidates], collected from interviews with a variety of church officials and experts, may influence the very intuitive, often unpredictable process the cardinals will use to decide who should lead the world’s largest church.
ref:
2013 February 16, Laurie Goodstein, “Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope”, in NYTimes.com
type:
quotation
text:
The intuitive response turned out to be correct.
type:
example
text:
Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
type:
example
text:
I'm real intuitive, everyone is, we're just conditioned not to trust it.
ref:
2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 21
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
Having a marked degree of intuition.
senses_topics:
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10309 | word:
intuitive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
intuitive (plural intuitives)
forms:
form:
intuitives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
senses_topics:
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10310 | word:
pellet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pellet (plural pellets)
forms:
form:
pellets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.
senses_examples:
text:
a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
A roundel sable (black circular spot).
One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
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10311 | word:
pellet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pellet (third-person singular simple present pellets, present participle pelleting, simple past and past participle pelleted)
forms:
form:
pellets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pelleting
tags:
participle
present
form:
pelleted
tags:
participle
past
form:
pelleted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form into pellets.
To strike with pellets.
senses_topics:
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10312 | word:
feces
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feces pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin faecēs, nominative plural of faex (“residue, dregs”), further origin unknown; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines; excrement.
senses_topics:
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10313 | word:
additive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
additive (comparative more additive, superlative most additive)
forms:
form:
more additive
tags:
comparative
form:
most additive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
additive
etymology_text:
From Late Latin additivus, from the participial stem of Latin addere (“to add”).
senses_examples:
text:
Matrix multiplication is additive, in that M#x5C;vecv#x2B;M#x5C;vecw#x3D;M(#x5C;vecv#x2B;#x5C;vecw).
type:
example
text:
It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
That is distributive over addition.
Whose operator is identified as addition.
Pertaining to chemical addition.
Of or pertaining to genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
10314 | word:
additive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
additive (plural additives)
forms:
form:
additives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
additive
etymology_text:
From Late Latin additivus, from the participial stem of Latin addere (“to add”).
senses_examples:
text:
Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
10315 | word:
exonym
word_type:
noun
expansion:
exonym (plural exonyms)
forms:
form:
exonyms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From exo- (“outside”) + -onym (“name”).
senses_examples:
text:
“Mandarin” is what linguists call an exonym, an external name for a place, people, or language. And exonyms often tell of a history of how cultures met, fought, and interacted.
ref:
2019 January 4, Sarah Zhang, “Why Mandarin Doesn’t Come From Chinese”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An external name for a place, people or language used by outgroup members (such as foreigners) instead of ingroup members (such as native-language speakers).
senses_topics:
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10316 | word:
faux amis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
faux amis
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of faux ami
senses_topics:
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10317 | word:
A.K.A.
word_type:
prep
expansion:
A.K.A.
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of AKA
senses_topics:
|
10318 | word:
tournament
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tournament (plural tournaments)
forms:
form:
tournaments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:tournament
en:tournament (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.
senses_examples:
text:
England secured their place at Euro 2012 with a scrambled draw in Montenegro - but Wayne Rooney was sent off and will miss the start of the tournament.
ref:
2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.
A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
senses_topics:
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences |
10319 | word:
cardinal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cardinal (comparative more cardinal, superlative most cardinal)
forms:
form:
more cardinal
tags:
comparative
form:
most cardinal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
cardinal
etymology_text:
From Middle French cardinal, from Latin cardinālis (“pertaining to a hinge, hence applied to that on which something turns or depends, important, principal, chief”), from cardō (“hinge”) + -ālis, adjectival suffix.
senses_examples:
text:
a cardinal rule
type:
example
text:
Impudence is now a cardinal virtue.
ref:
a. 1631, Michael Drayton, To my noble friend Mr. William Brown, of the evil time
type:
quotation
text:
a cardinal mark
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).
Being one of the signs Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, associated with initiation, creation, and force.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences |
10320 | word:
cardinal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cardinal (countable and uncountable, plural cardinals)
forms:
form:
cardinals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cardinal
etymology_text:
From Middle French cardinal, from Latin cardinālis (“pertaining to a hinge, hence applied to that on which something turns or depends, important, principal, chief”), from cardō (“hinge”) + -ālis, adjectival suffix.
senses_examples:
text:
His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal, to unlock the secrets of the heart,[…]and cure him by the spell of his music.
ref:
1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 16, in Friday's Business
type:
quotation
text:
cardinal:
text:
Dark navy-blue, cardinal, golden-brown, old blue, olive, slate-gray, and telegraph-blue are the favorite solid colors seen in heavy beaver cloths […]
ref:
1889, Demorests' Monthly Magazine, volume 25, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
The cardinal red and silver grey colors were worn with great enthusiasm. In the spring-time, when the entire student body bought their new straw hats, the bands were of cardinal and grey ribbon.
ref:
1914, ἄν ἀνἁβιλε, “Under the Cardinal Red and Silver Grey”, in Corks and Curls, volume 27, University of Virginia, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
This cardinal number is the smallest of the infinite cardinal numbers; it is the one to which Cantor has appropriated the Hebrew aleph with the suffix 0, to distinguish it from larger infinite cardinals. Thus the name of the smallest of infinite cardinals is ₀א.
ref:
1920, Bertrand Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
The commonest numerals in Latin, as in English, are the "cardinals" […] and the "ordinals" […].
ref:
2005, Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed. revised, p.97
text:
The sweet-briar rose with perfume good, / And the violet grows in the Milton wood, / The cardinal red—a queen is she, / But the sweetest flower is Mary Lee.
ref:
1844–1857, Marion D. Sullivan (lyrics and music), “Mary Lee: A Romance of the Milton Wood” (sheet music), Boston: Oliver Ditson, page 2, verse 3
type:
quotation
text:
[…]; and whilst she was looking over several pieces of each, she took an opportunity of concealing under her cardinal a piece of cotton, and several handkerchiefs, with which she went off undiscovered;[…].
ref:
1763 August 9, The London Chronicle For the Year 1763, volume 14, page 130, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
She has valuables of mine; besides, my cardinal and veil are in her room.
ref:
1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, I.3
type:
quotation
text:
Where's your cardinal! Make haste.
ref:
c. 1760, Robert Lloyd, Chit-Chat, an imitation of Theocritus
type:
quotation
text:
I have made no objection to their wearing the cardinal, though it be a habit of popish etymology, and was, I am afraid, first invented to hide the sluttishness of French dishabille.
ref:
1823, Lionel Thomas Berguer, World, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
He goes up, and finds the remains of the supper, Tankards full of egg-flip and cardinal, and a party playing at vingt-un.
ref:
1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford
type:
quotation
text:
A Recipe to make Cardinal, which I attribute to the German governess, raises a problem.
ref:
1951, Herbert Warner Allen, A Contemplation of Wine, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
It was de Rosenberg's practice to separate young bloods from their inheritance, and to facilitate this he served them a vicious drink called 'cardinal', a mulled wine of which the ascertainable ingredients were a pineapple and several mixed vintages.
ref:
1974, Dennis Walton Dodds, Napoleon's Love Child: A Biography of Count Leon, page 59
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope.
Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)
Short for cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., 0, 1, 2, 3). (See Cardinal_number.)
Short for cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.
Short for cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.
Short for cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.
A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
Mulled red wine.
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
mathematics
sciences
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
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10321 | word:
strokes
word_type:
noun
expansion:
strokes
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of stroke
senses_topics:
|
10322 | word:
strokes
word_type:
verb
expansion:
strokes
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of stroke
senses_topics:
|
10323 | word:
silicon dioxide
word_type:
noun
expansion:
silicon dioxide (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hard glassy mineral, SiO₂, occurring as quartz, sand, opal etc. Informally known as silica.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10324 | word:
eclectic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
eclectic (comparative more eclectic, superlative most eclectic)
forms:
form:
more eclectic
tags:
comparative
form:
most eclectic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French éclectique, from Ancient Greek ἐκλεκτικός (eklektikós, “selective”), from ἐκλέγω (eklégō, “I pick, choose”), from ἐκ (ek, “out, from”) + λέγω (légō, “I choose, count”).
Cognate to elect.
senses_examples:
text:
Chunder Sen and the Progressive Brahmists broke entirely with Hinduism...and he selected from the scriptures of all creeds what seemed best in them for instruction and for worship. […] It is an eclectic religion: it seeks to select what is good from all religions, and it has become the latest evidence that no eclectic religion can ever influence large numbers of men.
ref:
1893, John Robson, Hinduism and its Relations to Christianity, pages 211, 214
type:
quotation
text:
Though rooted in jazz, Byron's music is stylistically eclectic.
ref:
2017 August 2, Seth Rogovoy, Don Byron and Friends to Explore Early Soul Music at Helsinki Hudson
type:
quotation
text:
All members of the Hominoidea, apes and man, show an eclectic taste in food but select, from a wide range of possibilities, only a few to provide the bulk of their diet.
ref:
1983, Peter J. Wilson, Man, the Promising Primate: The Conditions of Human Evolution, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
Colvin said Obama has an eclectic taste in music, listening to everything from Indonesian flute music to OutKast to Motown.
ref:
2006, W. Frederick Zimmerman, Should Barack Obama Be President?, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
The Austrians concentrated their entire armored formation into the 1st Division; the 2nd Division consisted solely of the wooden ship of the line Kaiser, looking incredibly out of place in a battle of ironclads, along with five frigates; and the 3rd Division had an eclectic collection of smaller gunboats and armed merchantmen.
ref:
2018 September 26, Drachinifel, 2:30 from the start, in The Battle of Lissa - Special, archived from the original on 2023-08-09
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.
senses_topics:
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10325 | word:
eclectic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eclectic (plural eclectics)
forms:
form:
eclectics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French éclectique, from Ancient Greek ἐκλεκτικός (eklektikós, “selective”), from ἐκλέγω (eklégō, “I pick, choose”), from ἐκ (ek, “out, from”) + λέγω (légō, “I choose, count”).
Cognate to elect.
senses_examples:
text:
Neo-Pagans are eclectics, often borrowing from a variety of cultural traditions as they try to shape their religious organizations and practices to meet group and individual needs.
ref:
1986 December 14, Mary Morrisey, “Roll Over, Jehovah — And Tell St. Nick the News”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 22, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.
senses_topics:
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10326 | word:
cornet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cornet (plural cornets)
forms:
form:
cornets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cornet
etymology_text:
From Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
A kind of organ stop.
senses_topics:
|
10327 | word:
cornet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cornet (plural cornets)
forms:
form:
cornets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cornet
etymology_text:
From Middle French cornette, diminutive of corne, from Latin cornua (“horns”).
senses_examples:
text:
No general would have sent a mere cornet in command of five hundred horse: Fairfax despatched a colonel to take charge as soon as he heard what had happened.
ref:
1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
This cornet [translating Cornet] was a brave young cavalier and not more than two years older than me.
ref:
1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, III.14, Dedalus 2016, p. 253
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
senses_topics:
|
10328 | word:
derive
word_type:
verb
expansion:
derive (third-person singular simple present derives, present participle deriving, simple past and past participle derived)
forms:
form:
derives
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
deriving
tags:
participle
present
form:
derived
tags:
participle
past
form:
derived
tags:
past
wikipedia:
derive
etymology_text:
From Middle English deriven, from Old French deriver, from Latin dērīvō (“to lead, turn, or draw off (a liquid), draw off, derive”), from dē (“away”) + rīvus (“a stream”); see rival. Unrelated to arrive.
senses_examples:
text:
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
ref:
2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
her excellent organisation skills derive from her time as a secretary in the army
type:
example
text:
Britannia's firebox would appear to have derived from those of the Bulleid Pacifics, which it closely resembles.
ref:
1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273
type:
quotation
text:
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
ref:
2012 January 24, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
For fear it [water] choke up the pits […] they [the workman] deriue it by other drains.
ref:
Book 33
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
To originate or stem (from).
To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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10329 | word:
nocturnal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nocturnal (comparative more nocturnal, superlative most nocturnal)
forms:
form:
more nocturnal
tags:
comparative
form:
most nocturnal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French nocturnal, from Latin nocturnus (“nocturnal, nightly”), from Latin nox (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”). Cognates include Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti), Old English niht (English night) and Proto-Slavic *noťь.
senses_examples:
text:
nocturnal birds
type:
example
text:
a suspicious nocturnal outing
type:
example
text:
Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
ref:
2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 2016-03-05, pages 47–48
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Primarily active during the night.
Taking place at night, nightly.
senses_topics:
|
10330 | word:
nocturnal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nocturnal (plural nocturnals)
forms:
form:
nocturnals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French nocturnal, from Latin nocturnus (“nocturnal, nightly”), from Latin nox (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”). Cognates include Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti), Old English niht (English night) and Proto-Slavic *noťь.
senses_examples:
text:
A rather different instrument was the nocturnal: it enabled you to tell the time at night, provided you knew the date, from the position of the stars in the constellation of the Great Bear, which rotate around the Pole Star.
ref:
2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 188
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person or creature that is active at night.
A device for telling the time at night, rather like a sundial but read according to the stars.
senses_topics:
|
10331 | word:
putter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
putter (third-person singular simple present putters, present participle puttering, simple past and past participle puttered)
forms:
form:
putters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
puttering
tags:
participle
present
form:
puttered
tags:
participle
past
form:
puttered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Eric Axley
etymology_text:
Alteration of potter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
senses_topics:
|
10332 | word:
putter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
putter (plural putters)
forms:
form:
putters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From put + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: puttee
text:
He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.
ref:
1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
[…] for example, Gleitman (1990:30), in support of her claim for universal alignments of syntax and semantics, argues for the universal naturalness of three arguments for 'put' verbs (a putter, a puttee, and a location).
ref:
2012, Anetta Kopecka, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Events of Putting and Taking: A Crosslinguistic Perspective, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who puts or places.
A shot-putter.
One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
10333 | word:
putter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
putter (plural putters)
forms:
form:
putters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From putt + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
A person who is taking a putt or putting.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
10334 | word:
putter
word_type:
verb
expansion:
putter (third-person singular simple present putters, present participle puttering, simple past and past participle puttered)
forms:
form:
putters
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
puttering
tags:
participle
present
form:
puttered
tags:
participle
past
form:
puttered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
text:
By the time the engine had puttered and died Atkins and some of the others were out of the trenches and walking towards this new wonder machine.
ref:
2010, Pat Kelleher, “‘Some Corner of a Foreign Field …’”, in Black Hand Gang (No Man’s World), Osney Mead, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Abaddon Books
type:
quotation
text:
Timmy's dad drove an old blue truck that puttered and sputtered to get to the top of the mountain, that led to the valley, where … the WILDCAT waited.
ref:
2010 June 14, Dan Newton, The Wildcat, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse
type:
quotation
text:
As I reluctantly left Tangkoko for the last time, bumping along the trail on a motorbike, Raoul, the alpha male who had smacked my leg, wandered out from among the trees. He was alone, and after I puttered by, I glanced back to see him swagger into the middle of the path to watch me go.
ref:
2017 March, Jennifer S. Holland, “For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 2017-05-03
type:
quotation
text:
My boyfriend, the cello owner, makes little noises while he putters around, which distracts me from reading my 20,000-word long-form articles about Iraq. So I noise-cancel him too.
ref:
2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.
senses_topics:
|
10335 | word:
sequence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sequence (countable and uncountable, plural sequences)
forms:
form:
sequences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sequence
etymology_text:
From Middle English sequence, borrowed from Old French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequens (“following”), from sequi (“to follow”); see sequent.
senses_examples:
text:
Complete the listed tasks in sequence.
type:
example
text:
he found no words to convey the impressions he had received; then he gave way to the anger always the sequence of the antagonism of opinion between them.
ref:
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, pages 12–13
type:
quotation
text:
What follows is a bunch of nonstop goofery involving chase sequences, dream sequences, fast-changing costumes and an improbable beard, a little musical help from Flight Of The Conchords, and ultimately a very physical confrontation with a surprisingly spry Victoria.
ref:
2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series
The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
card-games
games |
10336 | word:
sequence
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sequence (third-person singular simple present sequences, present participle sequencing, simple past and past participle sequenced)
forms:
form:
sequences
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sequencing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sequenced
tags:
participle
past
form:
sequenced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
sequence
etymology_text:
From Middle English sequence, borrowed from Old French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequens (“following”), from sequi (“to follow”); see sequent.
senses_examples:
text:
Children start to make meanings and connections as soon as they encounter the book. This starts with the initial analyses and inferences they make when they see the book cover and continues as they sequence through the interior illustrations.
ref:
2021 April 21, Benita Strnad, Ginger Magnusson Hewitt, “Reading a Book Through Its Cover: The Importance of Preserving Visual and Tactile Information in Children’s and Young Adult Literature in the Academic Library”, in Collection Management, volume 46, numbers 3–4, →DOI, page 335
type:
quotation
text:
If indeed smokers sequence through more biologic therapies, these findings may bring about significant practice changes focused on smoking cessation earlier in the CD course.
ref:
2023 July 21, Madeline Alizadeh, Osman Ali, Raymond K. Cross, “Assessing Progression of Biologic Therapies Based on Smoking Status in Patients With Crohn’s Disease”, in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, volume 20, →DOI, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To arrange (something) in an order.
To determine the order of monomers in (a biological polymer), e.g. of amino acids in (a protein), or of bases in (a nucleic acid).
To produce (music) with a sequencer.
To proceed through a sequence or series of things.
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
|
10337 | word:
classic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
classic (comparative more classic, superlative most classic)
forms:
form:
more classic
tags:
comparative
form:
most classic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French classique, from Latin classicus (“relating to the classes of Roman citizenry, especially the highest”), from classis. By surface analysis, class + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref:
1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
type:
quotation
text:
Give, as thy last memorial to the age, / One classic drama, and reform the stage.
ref:
1809, Lord Byron, English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers
type:
quotation
text:
He has a classic case of narcissism.
type:
example
text:
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a 1960 classic book by Harper Lee.
type:
example
text:
watching classic movies as a hobby
type:
example
text:
1819, Felicia Hemans, The Widow of Crescentius
Though throned midst Latium's classic plains.
text:
Users who dislike the new visual layout can return to classic mode.
type:
example
text:
Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
ref:
2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, pages 47–48
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
Exemplary of a particular style; defining a class/category; typical.
Exhibiting timeless quality and excellence.
Characteristic of or from the past; old; retro; vintage.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
Traditional; original.
senses_topics:
|
10338 | word:
classic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
classic (plural classics)
forms:
form:
classics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French classique, from Latin classicus (“relating to the classes of Roman citizenry, especially the highest”), from classis. By surface analysis, class + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
JAMES CARTER: The man's destroying a classic!
ref:
2001, Jeff Nathanson, Rush Hour 2, New Line Cinema
type:
quotation
text:
The goal of the top horses was to win a Classic (or preferably three, thus claiming the Triple Crown) or the Ascot Gold Cup, […]
ref:
2012, Dr Joyce Kay, Professor Wray Vamplew, Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing, page 316
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A perfect and/or early example of a particular style.
An artistic work of lasting worth, such as a film or song; a work of enduring excellence.
The author of such a work.
A major, long-standing sporting event.
A major, long-standing sporting event.
Any of the British Classic Races, five long-standing Group 1 horse races run during the traditional flat racing season.
One learned in the literature of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; a student of classical literature.
senses_topics:
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
|
10339 | word:
fighter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fighter (plural fighters)
forms:
form:
fighters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fightere, fyghtor, feghtere, feghtare, fiȝtare, fiȝtere, from Old English feohtere. Equivalent to fight + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Little weapons / Over the phone / They like to threaten / The life that I know / They say "Get over here and get into the ring" / But I'm not really much of a fighter
ref:
2011, Lenka, Ben H. Allen (lyrics and music), “Roll with the Punches”, in Two, performed by Lenka
type:
quotation
text:
Task Force 42 consisted of almost two dozen main line spinships, including the carriers Olympus Shadow and Neptune Station. Each of these can launch more than a hundred fighters or ALRs.
ref:
1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, New York: Doubleday, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
I toss around [37,654 tonne] dreadnoughts like they were fighters; dimly aware of the former crews being crushed to liquescence.
ref:
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary)
type:
quotation
text:
Still, it's excellent software, especially for one-on-one fighting titles such as the King Of Fighters series, classic Street Fighter II variants, and newer one-on-one fighters such as Garou.
ref:
2004, Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks, page 59
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who fights; a combatant.
A warrior; a fighting soldier.
A pugnacious, competitive person.
A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.
A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
A starfighter
A participant in boxing or any martial art.
A firefighter.
A game with a focus on physical combat.
senses_topics:
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
video-games |
10340 | word:
diurnal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
diurnal (comparative more diurnal, superlative most diurnal)
forms:
form:
more diurnal
tags:
comparative
form:
most diurnal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin diurnālis, from diēs (“day”). Doublet of journal.
senses_examples:
text:
Most birds are diurnal.
type:
example
text:
However, in general, lizards are more diurnal than rattlers, which may be one of the reasons why young rattlers are more diurnal than adults.
ref:
1972, Laurence Monroe Klauber, Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind, Volume 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
Said of a flower open, or releasing its perfume during daylight hours, but not at night.
Having a daily cycle that is completed every 24 hours, usually referring to tasks, processes, tides, or sunrise to sunset; circadian.
Done once every day; daily, quotidian.
Published daily.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
10341 | word:
diurnal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
diurnal (plural diurnals)
forms:
form:
diurnals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin diurnālis, from diēs (“day”). Doublet of journal.
senses_examples:
text:
He was by birth, some authors write, / A Russian, some a Muscovite, / And 'mong the Cossacks had been bred, / Of whom we in diurnals read.
ref:
1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A flower that opens only in the day.
A book containing canonical offices performed during the day, hence not matins.
A diary or journal.
A daily news publication.
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
|
10342 | word:
zeroth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
zeroth (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
zeroth
etymology_text:
From zero + -th.
senses_examples:
text:
The zeroth order polynomial approximation is constant.
type:
example
text:
A and C are in equilibrium following the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the initial position in a sequence whose elements are numbered starting at zero; the ordinal number corresponding to zero.
Corresponding to a position preceding the first.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
|
10343 | word:
stealth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stealth (countable and uncountable, plural stealths)
forms:
form:
stealths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
stealth
etymology_text:
From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, equivalent to steal + -th. Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”).
senses_examples:
text:
[The King] thinks it fit[...] that restitution according to this order be made to the petitioners for stealths committed upon them last winter (273).
ref:
1877, George Hill, An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century, M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, page 352
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
An act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery.
senses_topics:
|
10344 | word:
stealth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stealth (third-person singular simple present stealths, present participle stealthing, simple past and past participle stealthed)
forms:
form:
stealths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
stealthing
tags:
participle
present
form:
stealthed
tags:
participle
past
form:
stealthed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
stealth
etymology_text:
From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, equivalent to steal + -th. Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”).
senses_examples:
text:
For her, there's a clear link between this behavior and that of avowed stealthers: : both stem from a place of sexism and misogyny, and to the extent that they differ, it's only by degree. Tellingly, Davis's work treats deception as merely one of several ways that men engage in the behavior she terms "condom use resistance." […] To the best of my knowledge, I've never been stealthed.
ref:
2018 November 6, Lux Alptraum, Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal, Seal Press
type:
quotation
text:
[He] tried to stealth her but Nikki checked him quick. “Unh-unh. You better strap up.” “Word?” “Word nigga.” “A'ight, a'ight.” Justus slid a condom on and entered Nikki real slow.
ref:
2019 January 29, Shaun Sinclair, Blood Ties, Dafina
type:
quotation
text:
[…] condom. I'd seen him put it on and take it off afterward, so it wasn't like he'd tried to stealth me. Plus, my periods had always been irregular, so I could go six weeks before it appeared. When had I last gotten it, though? I couldn't[…]
ref:
2019 November 5, Iris Morland, Oopsie Daisy: A Steamy Romantic Comedy: Professor Student Accidental Pregnancy Romance, Blue Violet Press LLC
type:
quotation
text:
In Australia, one in three women and one in five men [...] in 2018 said they had been stealthed. The occurrence of stealthing is not exclusive to heterosexual intercourse, and while the majority of[…]
ref:
2021 December 24, Brianna Chesser, Nadia David, April Zahra, Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law, Routledge
type:
quotation
text:
For example a sex worker complained about a client who 'stealthed' her by removing a condom and prosecuted him for rape. The court found him guilty (R v Campos).
ref:
2021 November 9, Rosie Campbell, Teela Sanders, Sex Work and Hate Crime: Innovating Policy, Practice and Theory, Springer Nature
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To conceal or infiltrate through the use of stealth.
To subject (someone) to stealthing (sexual intercourse without a condom through deception, for example removing the condom mid-act).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
|
10345 | word:
stealth
word_type:
adj
expansion:
stealth
forms:
wikipedia:
stealth
etymology_text:
From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, equivalent to steal + -th. Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”).
senses_examples:
text:
go stealth; be stealth; live stealth
type:
example
text:
Lynn is a noted computer scienƟst and distnguished professor emerita of engineering who transitoned from male to female (MTF) in the 1960s and then lived “stealth,” or closeted about her transgender status, before coming out in 2000[…]
ref:
2009 September 30, Joanne Herman, Transgender Explained for Those Who Are Not, AuthorHouse, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
They remained radical in their gender identities and not easily categorized; Darling, for example, lived “stealth” as a woman, and Curtis and Woodlawn alternated between female and male identities in different phases of their lives,[…]
ref:
2010 July 9, Jon Davies, Trash: A Queer Film Classic, ReadHowYouWant.com, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality Kristen Schilt. assigned: “Some of the boys, especially if they are really ... Trey, who was stealth, was accepted at work as one of the only black men in a male-dominated field.
ref:
2011 January 15, Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, University of Chicago Press, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
Some respondents felt very comfortable being transgender FtM, […] One participant who was stealth about their gender identity and still presented as female to some friends and family,[…]
ref:
2015 January 9, Tiffany Jones, Andrea del Pozo de Bolger, Tinashe Dune, Amy Lykins, Gail Hawkes, Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia: A National Study, Springer, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
Jazz great and band leader Billy Tipton is one well-known example of a transgender person who lived “stealth” (secretly) most of his life. Born Dorothy Lucille tipton, Dorothy became “Billy” as an adolescent and, following a brief[…]
ref:
2017 March 29, David Elias Weekley, Retreating Forward: A Spiritual Practice with Transgender Persons, Wipf and Stock Publishers, page 13
type:
quotation
text:
Because Derek was stealth, they did not know about his trans history. The spring of their sophomore year, the guys decided they all wanted to get an apartment off campus the next year. When Derek brought this up with me,[…]
ref:
2017 May 2, Elijah C. Nealy, Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with Families in Transition, W. W. Norton & Company
type:
quotation
text:
Trans people either lived in the wrong gender, lived 'stealth', or faced ridicule. Times are achanging; every shop assistant who serves us, every taxi driver who gives us a lift, every old person we help, every human we experience,[…]
ref:
2017 June 1, Juno Dawson, The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both, Two Roads
type:
quotation
text:
He could claim that he didn't know, that I had withheld my story from him throughout the relationship, the way I've heard some women have, women who lived stealth, who told their husbands that they'd had hysterectomies and lived in fear[…]
ref:
2017 June 13, Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me, Simon and Schuster, page 216
type:
quotation
text:
[…] having a trans partner who was “stealth” and the paradoxical challenges that a trans partner being recognized in accordance with his gender identity[…]
ref:
2017, Carla A. Pfeffer, Queering Families: The Postmodern Partnerships of Cisgender Women and Transgender Men, Oxford University Press, page 155
type:
quotation
text:
Since I lived stealth, I wasn't able to continuously have my appointments but only every once in a while. The main reasons were the facial swelling, and the beard hairs had to be a certain length. The health insurance didn't want to pay[…]
ref:
2018 October 17, Cecilia Hardacker, Kelly Ducheny, Magda Houlberg, Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Health and Aging, Springer, page 231
type:
quotation
text:
Likewise, another youth (Dan, 20 years old, transmasculine) described encountering issues at his place of employment that were explicit instances of racism or homophobia, and not of transphobia, because he was stealth at work (due to[…]
ref:
2020 June 29, Ryan J. Watson, Jaimie F. Veale, Today's Transgender Youth: Health, Well-being, and Opportunities for Resilience, Routledge, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
CAMERON: For the first year of my transition, I was stealth outside of the Internet, meaning I was not open about being transgender. I always felt people would be weirded out by me, because I saw so many people bash on trans people online. When people read my story,[…]
ref:
2020 September 22, Born This Way Foundation Reporters, Lady Gaga, Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community, Feiwel & Friends
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged.
Having properties that diminish radar signatures.
Hiding one's transgender status (in general or in specific areas of one's life, e.g. at work) after transition.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
technology
transport
vehicles
war
|
10346 | word:
aircraft
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aircraft (plural aircraft)
forms:
form:
aircraft
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From air + -craft.
senses_examples:
text:
light aircraft
type:
example
text:
aircraft manufacturer
type:
example
text:
aircraft licence
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift
senses_topics:
|
10347 | word:
silica
word_type:
noun
expansion:
silica (countable and uncountable, plural silicas)
forms:
form:
silicas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin silica, from Latin silex (“hard stone, flint”), on model of alumina, soda.
senses_examples:
text:
Its Blair County property was sited at the foot of ganister-covered Dunnings Mountain to compete with the Mount Union plants making silica bricks for the steel industry.
ref:
1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, 2
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Silicon dioxide.
Any of the silica group of the silicate minerals.
senses_topics:
|
10348 | word:
excrement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
excrement (countable and uncountable, plural excrements)
forms:
form:
excrements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excernō (“I excrete”).
senses_examples:
text:
A French Gentleman was ever wont to blow his nose in his hand […]. He asked me on a time, what privilege this filthie excrement had, that wee should have a daintie linnen cloth or handkercher to receive the same.
ref:
, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.97
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Human and non-human animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
Any waste matter excreted from the human or non-human animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.
senses_topics:
|
10349 | word:
excrement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
excrement (plural excrements)
forms:
form:
excrements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excrēscō (“I grow out”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something which grows out of the body; hair, nails etc.
senses_topics:
|
10350 | word:
size
word_type:
noun
expansion:
size (countable and uncountable, plural sizes)
forms:
form:
sizes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Attested since the 14th century, originally meant a “law or regulation that determines the amount to be paid”, from Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”), from the verb asseoir (“to sit down”), from Latin assidēre, composed of ad- (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit; settle down”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. Displaced native Old English miċelnes (literally “bigness”).
senses_examples:
text:
The size of the building seemed to have increased since I was last there.
type:
example
text:
Ashley: Look at the size of that ship!
Kaidan: The Ascension. Flagship of the Citadel fleet.
Joker: Well, size isn't everything.
Ashley: Why so touchy, Joker?
Joker: I'm just saying you need firepower, too.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1
type:
quotation
text:
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
ref:
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
I don't think we have the red one in your size.
type:
example
text:
the middle or lower size of people
ref:
1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman
type:
quotation
text:
Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Size”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC..
text:
I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I heard his lordship say at size, that no one is above the law.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 560
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
A number of edges in a graph.
Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
Short for chili size (“hamburger served with chili con carne”).
An assize.
A regulation, piece of ordinance.
A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.
A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.
senses_topics:
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
|
10351 | word:
size
word_type:
verb
expansion:
size (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)
forms:
form:
sizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sized
tags:
participle
past
form:
sized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Attested since the 14th century, originally meant a “law or regulation that determines the amount to be paid”, from Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”), from the verb asseoir (“to sit down”), from Latin assidēre, composed of ad- (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit; settle down”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. Displaced native Old English miċelnes (literally “bigness”).
senses_examples:
text:
after 1633 (first published), John Donne, Farewell to Love
Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
To classify or arrange by size.
To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
To classify or arrange by size.
To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
To take a greater size; to increase in size.
To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
To swell; to increase the bulk of.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
business
mining
|
10352 | word:
size
word_type:
noun
expansion:
size (countable and uncountable, plural sizes)
forms:
form:
sizes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English syse, of unclear origin; related to Old Italian sisa (“a glue used by painters”), perhaps ultimately related to size / syse (“amount”), or perhaps shortened from assisa, from assiso (“to make to sit, to seat, to place”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
Wallpaper paste.
The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
senses_topics:
|
10353 | word:
size
word_type:
verb
expansion:
size (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)
forms:
form:
sizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sized
tags:
participle
past
form:
sized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English syse, of unclear origin; related to Old Italian sisa (“a glue used by painters”), perhaps ultimately related to size / syse (“amount”), or perhaps shortened from assisa, from assiso (“to make to sit, to seat, to place”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
senses_topics:
|
10354 | word:
size
word_type:
noun
expansion:
size (plural sizes)
forms:
form:
sizes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of sice (“number six in dice games”)
senses_topics:
|
10355 | word:
precedent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
precedent (plural precedents)
forms:
form:
precedents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
precedent
etymology_text:
From Middle French, from Old French, from Latin praecēdēns, present participle of praecēdere (“to precede”); See precede.
senses_examples:
text:
A third argument may be derived from the precedent.
ref:
, New York 2001, p.74
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
An established habit or custom.
The aforementioned (thing).
The previous version.
A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
senses_topics:
law
|
10356 | word:
precedent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
precedent (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
precedent
etymology_text:
From Middle French, from Old French, from Latin praecēdēns, present participle of praecēdere (“to precede”); See precede.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Happening or taking place earlier in time; previous or preceding.
Coming before in a particular order or arrangement; preceding, foregoing.
senses_topics:
|
10357 | word:
precedent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
precedent (third-person singular simple present precedents, present participle precedenting, simple past and past participle precedented)
forms:
form:
precedents
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
precedenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
precedented
tags:
participle
past
form:
precedented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
precedent
etymology_text:
From Middle French, from Old French, from Latin praecēdēns, present participle of praecēdere (“to precede”); See precede.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide precedents for.
To be a precedent for.
senses_topics:
law
law |
10358 | word:
fulcrum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fulcrum (plural fulcrums or fulcra)
forms:
form:
fulcrums
tags:
plural
form:
fulcra
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Lever
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin fulcrum (“bedpost, foot of a couch”), from fulciō (“prop up, support”).
senses_examples:
text:
It is possible to flick food across the table using your fork as a lever and your finger as a fulcrum.
type:
example
text:
MILDRED: Archimedes said give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I will move the world.
CHARLOTTE: Yeah she said that twaddle eight or nine times.
ref:
2010, John Allison, Bad Machinery
type:
quotation
text:
A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
ref:
2012 March 24, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3
type:
quotation
text:
By this point the fulcrum of concern is the stuprum of men upon men, described as more prevalent than that upon women.
ref:
2006, Rebecca Langlands, Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome, page 119
type:
quotation
text:
Chelsea's Mason Mount is a top-class talent while West Ham midfielder Declan Rice has moved his game on to another level this season and will be the fulcrum of England's midfield this summer.
ref:
2021 March 31, Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Poland: What shape are Gareth Southgate's side in?”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The support about which a lever pivots.
A crux or pivot; a central point.
senses_topics:
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
10359 | word:
potassium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
potassium (usually uncountable, plural potassiums)
forms:
form:
potassiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
potassium
etymology_text:
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1807, from potassa + -ium, from Dutch potasch (“potash”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature; an element (symbol K) with an atomic number of 19 and atomic weight of 39.0983. The symbol is derived from the Latin kalium.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
|
10360 | word:
granary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
granary (plural granaries or (obsolete) granarys)
forms:
form:
granaries
tags:
plural
form:
granarys
tags:
obsolete
plural
wikipedia:
granary
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin grānārium (16th century). Equivalent to grain + -ary. Doublet of garner.
senses_examples:
text:
For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
ref:
1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, page 237
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
A fertile, grain-growing region.
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
lifestyle
|
10361 | word:
video game
word_type:
noun
expansion:
video game (plural video games)
forms:
form:
video games
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From video + game.
senses_examples:
text:
Swinging in the backyard / Pull up in your fast car whistling my name / Open up a beer / And you say get over here and play a video game / […] / I say you the bestest / Lean in for a big kiss, put his favorite perfume on / Go play your video game
ref:
2011 October 7, Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker (lyrics and music), “Video Games”, in Born to Die, performed by Lana Del Rey
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of game, existing as and controlled by software, usually run by a video game console or a computer, played on a monitor or television screen, and controlled by a joypad, joystick, keyboard, mouse, touchscreen or paddle.
senses_topics:
|
10362 | word:
video game
word_type:
verb
expansion:
video game (third-person singular simple present video games, present participle video gaming, simple past and past participle video gamed)
forms:
form:
video games
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
video gaming
tags:
participle
present
form:
video gamed
tags:
participle
past
form:
video gamed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From video + game.
senses_examples:
text:
Soloway coins the “Nintendo Generation” expression, putting the attention on the never-seen-before trait of young people: they are video gaming.
ref:
2015, Emanuele Rapetti, Lorenzo Cantoni, “Learners of Digital Era (LoDE): What’s True, and What’s Just Hype About the So-Called Digital Natives”, in Mohamed Ally, Badrul H[uda] Khan, editors, International Handbook of E-learning, volumes 2 (Implementation and Case Studies), New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
And Mouse hacked and video gamed.
ref:
2018, Nathan Lee Birr, One Life to Lose (The Douglas Files; 7), Beacon Books, LLC, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
He’d logged on once, only for her to demand to know why he was video gaming during a supposed vacation.
ref:
2018, Vivienne Savage, Xander (Nova Force; 1), Payne & Taylor
type:
quotation
text:
They may not be engaged because they have fully bought into the existing structures, or because they are video gaming in their dorm rooms, or because they are working multiple jobs to pay for college (or to feed a family).
ref:
2019, Rahuldeep Gill, “The Call of Death and the Depth of Our Callings: The Quality of Vocational Discernment”, in David S. Cunningham, editor, Hearing Vocation Differently: Meaning, Purpose, and Identity in the Multi-Faith Academy, Oxford University Press, part one (Reframing Vocation: Creating Spaces for New Ways of Hearing), page 86
type:
quotation
text:
This is one of the most common scenarios we see in our center — when a teen or young adult wants to finish high school, or more often college, and they are video gaming 12 hours a day.
ref:
2021, David N. Greenfield, “Ten Things You Can Do to Reduce Your Internet Use”, in Overcoming Internet Addiction (For Dummies), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., part 5 (The Part of Tens), page 296
type:
quotation
text:
It means you show up. Whether it’s a diaper change, advising your son about girls, patting his back after a tough sports game, or egging him on to stop slacking off while he’s video gaming.
ref:
2021, Kendall Smith, “Step One: Being There”, in Rookie Father: A Playbook for Men Experiencing Fatherhood for the First Time, Familius LLC
type:
quotation
text:
Relatedly, families that video gamed together reported better family satisfaction and closer relationships within the family (Wang et al., 2018).
ref:
2022, Marco Rüth, Kai Kaspar, “Educational and Social Exergaming: A Perspective on Physical, Social, and Educational Benefits and Pitfalls of Exergaming at Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Afterwards”, in Pedro L. Almeida, Michael Brach, Ricardo De La Vega, Mauricio Garzon, Julia Maria D’andréa Greve, Margarita Limon, Luis Mochizuki, editors, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Psychological and Behavioral Consequences of Confinement on Physical Activity, Sedentarism, and Rehabilitation, Frontiers Media, page 508, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
His feet were clad in brightly colored sneakers that made her think of the boyish side of him that often emerged when he was video gaming.
ref:
2023, Caridad Piñeiro, chapter 10, in Biscayne Bay Breach (South Beach Security; 3), Harlequin Intrigue
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To play video games.
senses_topics:
|
10363 | word:
sodium
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sodium (usually uncountable, plural sodiums)
forms:
form:
sodiums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sodium
etymology_text:
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from soda + -ium.
senses_examples:
text:
From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.
ref:
1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.990. It is a soft, waxy, silvery, reactive alkali metal that is never found unbound in nature.
Employing sodium.
senses_topics:
|
10364 | word:
kernel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kernel (plural kernels)
forms:
form:
kernels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
kernel
etymology_text:
From Middle English kernel, kirnel, kürnel, from Old English cyrnel, from Proto-West Germanic *kurnil, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kurną (“seed, grain, corn”), equivalent to corn + -le. Cognate with Yiddish קערנדל (kerndl), Middle Dutch kernel, cornel, Middle High German kornel. Related also to Old Norse kjarni (“kernel”).
senses_examples:
text:
the kernel of an argument
type:
example
text:
The Linux kernel is open-source.
type:
example
text:
The Dirichlet kernel convolved with a function yields its Fourier series approximation.
type:
example
text:
Meronyms: root, zero
text:
If a function is continuous then its kernel is a closed set.
type:
example
text:
Using the blunt end of one of the vibraphone mallets, he pried open her folds. With the balled end of the other, he rhythmically rolled over her kernel.
ref:
2014, Karyn Gerrard, Irene Preston, Lotchie Burton, et al: Summer Heat: 10 Spicy Romances That Sizzle
type:
quotation
text:
1. In every atom is an essential kernel which remains unaltered in all ordinary chemical changes and which possesses an excess of positive charges corresponding in number to the ordinal number of the group in the periodic table to which the element belongs.
ref:
1916, Gilbert N. Lewis, “The Atom and The Molecule”, in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 38(4) p 768
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
The core engine of any complex software system.
The simplified input to an algorithm that has undergone kernelization.
A function used to define an integral transform.
A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value.
For a given function (especially a linear transformation between vector spaces or homomorphism between groups), the set of elements in the domain which are mapped to zero; (formally) given f : X → Y, the set {x ∈ X : f(x) = 0}.
For a category with zero morphisms: the equalizer of a given morphism and the zero morphism which is parallel to that given morphism.
The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
The human clitoris.
The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
botany
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
calculus
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
group-theory
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
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engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
mathematics
sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10365 | word:
kernel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kernel (third-person singular simple present kernels, present participle (US) kerneling or (UK) kernelling, simple past and past participle (US) kerneled or (UK) kernelled)
forms:
form:
kernels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kerneling
tags:
US
participle
present
form:
kernelling
tags:
UK
participle
present
form:
kerneled
tags:
US
participle
past
form:
kerneled
tags:
US
past
form:
kernelled
tags:
UK
participle
past
form:
kernelled
tags:
UK
past
wikipedia:
kernel
etymology_text:
From Middle English kernel, kirnel, kürnel, from Old English cyrnel, from Proto-West Germanic *kurnil, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kurną (“seed, grain, corn”), equivalent to corn + -le. Cognate with Yiddish קערנדל (kerndl), Middle Dutch kernel, cornel, Middle High German kornel. Related also to Old Norse kjarni (“kernel”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To enclose within a kernel
To crenellate
senses_topics:
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10366 | word:
silicon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
silicon (usually uncountable, plural silicons)
forms:
form:
silicons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
silicon
etymology_text:
Coined by Scottish chemist Thomas Thomson as a modification of the earlier name silicium, from the stem of Latin silex (“flint, silica”) + -on from carbon.
senses_examples:
text:
The isolated disordered regions and the amorphous layer have widely different anneal behavior. In the case of germanium and silicon, the isolated disordered regions anneal at moderate temperatures of approximately 200° and 300° C, respectively. The amorphous layers also anneal in a characteristic fashion, but at appreciably higher temperatures, i.e., at approximately 600° C in silicon and 400° C in germanium.
ref:
1970, James W[alter] Mayer, Lennart Eriksson, John A[rthur] Davies, “General Features of Ion Implantation”, in Ion Implantation in Semiconductors: Silicon and Germanium, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, →OCLC, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.
A single atom of this element.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10367 | word:
silicon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
silicon (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
silicon
etymology_text:
From the silicon chips used in computers.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Computing.
A computer processor.
Abbreviation of silicon chip.
senses_topics:
|
10368 | word:
quickly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
quickly (comparative quicklier or more quickly, superlative quickliest or most quickly)
forms:
form:
quicklier
tags:
comparative
form:
more quickly
tags:
comparative
form:
quickliest
tags:
superlative
form:
most quickly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English quykly, quikliche, quicliche, cwikliche, cwickliche, from Old English cwiculīċe, equivalent to quick + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
If we go this way, we'll get there quickly.
type:
example
text:
Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.
ref:
2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rapidly; with speed; fast.
Very soon.
senses_topics:
|
10369 | word:
context
word_type:
noun
expansion:
context (countable and uncountable, plural contexts)
forms:
form:
contexts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
context
etymology_text:
From Latin contextus.
senses_examples:
text:
In what context did your attack on him happen? - We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.
type:
example
text:
The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.
ref:
2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Without any context, I can't tell you if the "dish" refers to the food, or the thing you eat it on.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
biology
mycology
natural-sciences
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
10370 | word:
context
word_type:
verb
expansion:
context (third-person singular simple present contexts, present participle contexting, simple past and past participle contexted)
forms:
form:
contexts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
contexting
tags:
participle
present
form:
contexted
tags:
participle
past
form:
contexted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
context
etymology_text:
From Latin contextus.
senses_examples:
text:
The whole worlds frame, which is contexted onely by commerce and contracts.
ref:
1638, Richard Younge, The Drunkard's Character: Or, a True Drunkard with Such Sinnes as Raigne in Him
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
senses_topics:
|
10371 | word:
context
word_type:
adj
expansion:
context (comparative more context, superlative most context)
forms:
form:
more context
tags:
comparative
form:
most context
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
context
etymology_text:
From Latin contextus.
senses_examples:
text:
1541?, Robert Copland (translator?), Guydon's Questionary Chirurgical, translation of 1533, Guy de Chauliac, La questionaire des cirugiens at barbiers
The skynne is composed & context and woven with thredes and vaynes.
text:
And though he could describe how such a string may be context, yet our Explication will have this advantage in point of probability above his, ...
ref:
1662, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
the coats, without, are context and callous, firm and strong.
ref:
1711-12, William Derham, Physico-theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation (3rd edition, corrected, 1714, page 110)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Knit or woven together; close; firm.
senses_topics:
|
10372 | word:
methane
word_type:
noun
expansion:
methane (countable and uncountable, plural methanes)
forms:
form:
methanes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From methyl + -ane.
senses_examples:
text:
Cattle emit a large amount of methane.
type:
example
text:
Methane, an invisible, odorless gas that makes up more than 95% of natural gas fuel, can be as much as 80 times more potent as a global warmer per given unit than CO₂, which is more plentiful in the atmosphere. While there are less emissions than CO₂, methane lasts around 12 years, while CO₂ lingers for centuries.
ref:
2020 April 7, John Fialka, “As CO₂ Emissions Drop During Pandemic, Methane May Rise”, in Scientific American
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The simplest aliphatic hydrocarbon, CH₄, being a constituent of natural gas, and one of the most abundant greenhouse gases.
Any of very many derivatives of methane.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
10373 | word:
numb
word_type:
adj
expansion:
numb (comparative number, superlative numbest)
forms:
form:
number
tags:
comparative
form:
numbest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the past participle of nim (“to take”). Compare German benommen (“dazed, numb”). The final ⟨b⟩ is a later addition; it was never pronounced, and did not appear in the original word.
senses_examples:
text:
fingers numb with cold
type:
example
text:
legs numb from kneeling
type:
example
text:
numb with shock; numb with boredom
text:
[…] when we know that hundreds are rendered homeless every day, and countless thousands are killed and wounded, men and boys mowed down like a field of grain, and with as little compunction, we grow a little bit numb to human misery.
ref:
1915, Nellie McClung, chapter 2, in In Times Like These, Toronto: McLeod & Allen
type:
quotation
text:
[…] seeing the dog—somehow that made me feel again. I’d been too dazed, too numb, to feel the full viciousness of it.
ref:
1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, published 1992, Part One, p. 77
type:
quotation
text:
[…] he submitted […] as a traitor, his mind numb with vodka, submits to a firing squad.
ref:
2016, Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time, Random House Canada, Part Three
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation.
Emotionally unable to feel or respond in a normal way.
Dumb or stupid.
Causing numbness.
senses_topics:
|
10374 | word:
numb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
numb (third-person singular simple present numbs, present participle numbing, simple past and past participle numbed)
forms:
form:
numbs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
numbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
numbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
numbed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the past participle of nim (“to take”). Compare German benommen (“dazed, numb”). The final ⟨b⟩ is a later addition; it was never pronounced, and did not appear in the original word.
senses_examples:
text:
The dentist gave me novocaine to numb my tooth before drilling, thank goodness.
type:
example
text:
When I first heard the news, I was numbed by the shock.
type:
example
text:
But her main concern is the hard seating that numbs the nether regions.
ref:
2020 April 22, “Letters: Open Access: Not easy for laptops”, in Rail, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
He turned to alcohol to numb his pain.
type:
example
text:
[I was] thankful for the pain, which helped to numb my terror.
ref:
1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Grey Woman”, in The Grey Woman and Other Tales, London: Smith, Elder & Co.
type:
quotation
text:
[…] hunger, fatigue, and despairing hopelessness had numbed his brain […]
ref:
1912, Saki, “The Hounds of Fate”, in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
The noise, the rush of air past our ears, was positively terrific. It actually seemed to numb the senses and make it almost impossible to take in impressions at all.
ref:
1927, Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle’s Garden, Part Four, Chapter 6
type:
quotation
text:
[The sofa] exhaled a breath of trapped ancient farts, barf-smell, and antiseptic, the parfum de asylum that gradually numbed my nose to all other scents on the ward.
ref:
2004, Cory Doctorow, chapter 13, in Eastern Standard Tribe
type:
quotation
text:
[…] after fumbling with numbing fingers for ten or fifteen minutes, he waved his hand with a gesture of despair […]
ref:
1918, Lewis R. Freeman, “Wonders of the Teleferica”, in Many Fronts, London: John Murray, page 270
type:
quotation
text:
[…] once more his feet began to numb. Again he got down and stamped the circulation going, but as soon as he began to ride again they numbed.
ref:
1919, Arthur Murray Chisholm, chapter 18, in The Land of Strong Men, New York: H.K. Fly
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally).
To cause (a feeling) to be less intense.
To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute.
To become numb (especially physically).
senses_topics:
|
10375 | word:
nitrogen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nitrogen (countable and uncountable, plural nitrogens)
forms:
form:
nitrogens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jean-Antoine Chaptal
nitrogen
etymology_text:
From French nitrogène (coined by Jean-Antoine Chaptal), corresponding to nitro- + -gen. See niter.
senses_examples:
text:
All life depends on nitrogen; it is the building block from which nature assembles amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids; the genetic information that orders and perpetuates life is written in nitrogen ink.
ref:
2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.
ref:
1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
The two nitrogens are located next to one another on the ring.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol N) with an atomic number of 7 and atomic weight of 14.0067. It is a colorless and odorless gas.
Molecular nitrogen (N₂), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature.
A specific nitrogen atom within a chemical formula, or a specific isotope of nitrogen
senses_topics:
|
10376 | word:
Andrew
word_type:
name
expansion:
Andrew (countable and uncountable, plural Andrews)
forms:
form:
Andrews
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Andrew
Andrew the Apostle
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας (Andréas), cognate with ἀνδρεῖος (andreîos, “manly”), both from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”). Doublet of André, Andreas, Andrei, and Andrey.
senses_examples:
text:
I like him - I like a man who can be extreme. Depend upon it, Miss Mercer - but what is his first name?" "Andrew." "A good name, though common - there is a possibility of a sound reputation in Andrew Morton, especially if he narrows himself down to a point […]
ref:
1890, John Davidson, Perfervid: The Career of Ninian Jamieson, Ward and Downey, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
"Well, I'd say he ought to have a Scottish name like Andrew or Bruce or Sandy...or...Duncan...or Angus or..." He ticked them off on his fingers as they came to mind.
ref:
1966, Ester Wier, The Barrel, D. McCay Co., page 57
type:
quotation
text:
Lloyd was a piss-ant name. Andrew was better because Andrew was one of the twelve apostles, and anybody with a twelve-apostle name was a good guy. If you were reading a book - which Parker rarely did - and you ran across a guy named Luke, Matthew, Thomas, Peter, Paul, James, like that, you knew right off he was supposed to be a good guy. - - - He would have preferred to be called Andrew, which was his true and honorable middle name.
ref:
1985, Ed McBain, Eight Black Horses, Simon&Schuster, published 2003
type:
quotation
text:
"Irina? Call me 'Andy,' please."
"I think that I would rather call you 'Andrew'."
This was flattering, somehow. For everyone I knew called me "Andy"―a name comfortable as an old sneaker. There was dignity in "Andrew," and a kind of depth, complexity. Perhaps I began to fall in love with Irina Kacinzk for seeing more in me than I saw in myself at the time.
ref:
2015, Joyce Carol Oates, Jack of Spades, Head of Zeus, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
A common British catch phrase is, "You shouldn't have joined Andrew if you couldn't take a joke."
ref:
1984, Robert Hendrickson, Salty Words, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
“Me muvver always said I should a joined the Andrew.” (Royal Navy.)
ref:
2011, Johannes H. L. Bosman, The Plough & the Sword, page 257
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Ancient Greek.
The first Apostle in the New Testament.
A Scottish and English surname originating as a patronymic.
A placename
A village in Alberta, Canada.
A placename
A city in Iowa, United States.
A placename
An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.
The Royal Navy.
senses_topics:
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war |
10377 | word:
collect
word_type:
verb
expansion:
collect (third-person singular simple present collects, present participle collecting, simple past and past participle collected)
forms:
form:
collects
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
collecting
tags:
participle
present
form:
collected
tags:
participle
past
form:
collected
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare (“to collect money”), from Latin collecta (“a collection of money, in Late Latin a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer”), feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere (“to gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer”), from com- (“together”) + legere (“to gather”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
senses_examples:
text:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
ref:
2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
type:
quotation
text:
Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
type:
example
text:
The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
type:
example
text:
A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
type:
example
text:
John Henry collects stamps.
type:
example
text:
I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
type:
example
text:
My friend from school has started to collects mangas and novels recently
type:
example
text:
Over the course of 60 years, W E Hayward collected thousands of railway-related objects, including clothing, buttons, cutlery, timetables, tickets, name, number and builder's plates, books and booklets, cuttings and extracts from publications, letters, photographs and postcards.
ref:
2020 June 17, Stefanie Foster, “A window into the railways of the past”, in Rail, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
Can you collect me from the airport?
type:
example
text:
[…] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
ref:
1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter XVII, section 20
type:
quotation
text:
From the latter passages we may collect, that the expression "he that cometh" was, with the Jews, a kind of title distinguishing the Messiah
ref:
c 1725, John Walker, William Burton (of Bloomsbury), Essays and correspondence, chiefly on Scriptural subjects
type:
quotation
text:
'I collect,' said Miss Crawford, 'that Sotherton is an old place, and a place of some grandeur. In any particular style of building?'
ref:
1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
type:
quotation
text:
the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
ref:
1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, pages 292–3
type:
quotation
text:
He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
type:
example
text:
The rain collected in puddles.
type:
example
text:
The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gather together; amass.
To get; particularly, get from someone.
To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
To pick up or fetch
To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
To collect payments.
To come together in a group or mass.
To infer; to conclude.
To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
senses_topics:
|
10378 | word:
collect
word_type:
adj
expansion:
collect (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare (“to collect money”), from Latin collecta (“a collection of money, in Late Latin a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer”), feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere (“to gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer”), from com- (“together”) + legere (“to gather”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
senses_examples:
text:
It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
senses_topics:
|
10379 | word:
collect
word_type:
adv
expansion:
collect (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare (“to collect money”), from Latin collecta (“a collection of money, in Late Latin a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer”), feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere (“to gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer”), from com- (“together”) + legere (“to gather”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
senses_examples:
text:
I had to call collect.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With payment due from the recipient.
senses_topics:
|
10380 | word:
collect
word_type:
noun
expansion:
collect (plural collects)
forms:
form:
collects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
collect
etymology_text:
From Middle English collecte, from Ecclesiastical Latin collēcta (“assembly; collect”), originally designating the gathering at the beginning of a liturgical celebration.
senses_examples:
text:
He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
10381 | word:
mammary gland
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mammary gland (plural mammary glands)
forms:
form:
mammary glands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A gland that secretes milk for suckling an infant or offspring.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
10382 | word:
osmosis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
osmosis (countable and uncountable, plural osmoses)
forms:
form:
osmoses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From "endosmose" and "exosmose", both coined by French physician Henri Dutrochet in 1826; from (respectively) Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon, “within”) and Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō, “outer, external”), plus Ancient Greek ὠσμός (ōsmós, “push, impulsion”), from ὠθέω (ōthéō).
senses_examples:
text:
I was reading about chickens, and I guess I learned about hawks through osmosis.
type:
example
text:
At age fourteen, by a process of osmosis, of dirty jokes, whispered secrets and filthy ballads, Tristram learned of sex.
ref:
1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust (Perennial paperback), published 2001, pages 36–37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration through a partially permeable membrane.
Passive absorption or impartation of information, habits, etc.; the act of teaching or picking up knowledge incidentally, without actually seeking that particular knowledge.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
10383 | word:
oddball
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oddball (plural oddballs)
forms:
form:
oddballs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
oddball
etymology_text:
Compound of odd + ball. First used in late 1930s, describing an extra ball played as a bonus in pin-ball type games. Well-attested since the 1940s, with the adjective appearing earlier than the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
Miss Quinn thought that Oswald spoke Russian well in view of his lack of formal training; she found the evening uninteresting. Donovan, with whom she had a date later, testified that she told him that Oswald was “kind of an oddball.”
ref:
1964, Earl Warren et al., Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, page 685
type:
quotation
text:
"She's different, mister. A real oddball, if you know what I mean. But your little girl would love her. All kids love the Doll Lady."
ref:
1989, Maris Soule, Storybook Hero, page 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An eccentric or unusual person.
A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.
senses_topics:
medicine
neuroscience
sciences |
10384 | word:
oddball
word_type:
adj
expansion:
oddball (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
oddball
etymology_text:
Compound of odd + ball. First used in late 1930s, describing an extra ball played as a bonus in pin-ball type games. Well-attested since the 1940s, with the adjective appearing earlier than the noun.
senses_examples:
text:
An oddball word processor, for example, might never be supported by such helpful tools as spelling checkers, indexing programs, footnote utilities,...
ref:
1984, Steven K. Roberts, The Complete Guide to Microsystem Management
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exotic, not mainstream.
senses_topics:
|
10385 | word:
group
word_type:
noun
expansion:
group (plural groups)
forms:
form:
groups
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Évariste Galois
etymology_text:
From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Frankish *krupp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). In the sense of group theory coined (in French, as groupe) by Évariste Galois.
Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.
senses_examples:
text:
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
ref:
2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group
type:
example
text:
A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.
type:
example
text:
Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.
ref:
1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192
type:
quotation
text:
In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z).
ref:
1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277,
In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).
text:
Did you see the new jazz group?
type:
example
text:
Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
type:
example
text:
It is the third of eight matches that Spain will play in Group I, but the coach Vicente del Bosque has described it as being more akin to the first leg of a cup semi-final.
ref:
2012 October 15, Sid Lowe, “Spain aim to take 'very big step' towards 2014 World Cup against France”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
An effective divisor on a curve.
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
A functional group.
A subset of a culture or of a society.
An air force formation.
A collection of formations or rock strata.
A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
A commercial organization.
senses_topics:
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
astronomy
natural-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
government
military
politics
war
geography
geology
natural-sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business |
10386 | word:
group
word_type:
verb
expansion:
group (third-person singular simple present groups, present participle grouping, simple past and past participle grouped)
forms:
form:
groups
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
grouping
tags:
participle
present
form:
grouped
tags:
participle
past
form:
grouped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Évariste Galois
etymology_text:
From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Frankish *krupp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). In the sense of group theory coined (in French, as groupe) by Évariste Galois.
Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.
senses_examples:
text:
group the dogs by hair colour
type:
example
text:
For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal.
ref:
2021 October 1, Calder Katyal, “Schools Need to Undo the Damage of Pods”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put together to form a group.
To come together to form a group.
senses_topics:
|
10387 | word:
manure
word_type:
verb
expansion:
manure (third-person singular simple present manures, present participle manuring, simple past and past participle manured)
forms:
form:
manures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
manuring
tags:
participle
present
form:
manured
tags:
participle
past
form:
manured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver), from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”).
senses_examples:
text:
Manure thyself then; to thyself be approved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
ref:
1633, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. Rowland Woodward
type:
quotation
text:
The farmer manured his fallow field.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
senses_topics:
|
10388 | word:
manure
word_type:
noun
expansion:
manure (countable and uncountable, plural manures)
forms:
form:
manures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver), from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”).
senses_examples:
text:
1985, Biff Tannen (portrayed by Thomas F. Wilson), Back to the Future.
I hate manure!
type:
quotation
text:
1988, Dave Mustaine, "Hook in Mouth", Megadeth, So Far, So Good... So What!.
M, they will cover your grave with manure
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.
ref:
2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), page G7
type:
quotation
text:
Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.
ref:
a. 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, "Lecture VI" in Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1840 reprint)
text:
“You know the police think I killed Marge, don't you?”
“What a load of manure! I couldn't believe it when I read the paper.”
ref:
2005, Ginny Aiken, Design on a Crime, page 217
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.
Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.
senses_topics:
|
10389 | word:
quadrillion
word_type:
num
expansion:
quadrillion (plural quadrillions)
forms:
form:
quadrillions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
long and short scales
etymology_text:
From French quadrillion, from quadri- (“four”) + -illion.
senses_examples:
text:
“I’m not sure I understand why we have to send a quadrillion-credit mission to another galaxy.”
He looked fleetingly amused. “Quintillion... and we don’t have a choice, Harper. Any of us, really, but humanity especially.”
ref:
2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 1, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →OCLC, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
Integrating data from all continents and major biomes, we conservatively estimate 20 × 10¹⁵ (20 quadrillion) ants on Earth, with a total biomass of 12 megatons of dry carbon.
ref:
2022 September 19, P. Schultheiss et al., “The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, page 1, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,000⁴): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 10¹⁵.
A million trillion (logic: 1,000,000⁴): 1 followed by twenty-four zeros, 10²⁴.
senses_topics:
|
10390 | word:
quadrillion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quadrillion (plural quadrillions)
forms:
form:
quadrillions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
long and short scales
etymology_text:
From French quadrillion, from quadri- (“four”) + -illion.
senses_examples:
text:
They'd never understand — not in a quadrillion years.
ref:
1999, Beverly Lewis, A Perfect Match, Bethany House Publishers, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Me, I never refuse a meal, and believe me I seen some heavy weather. I musta flown a quadrillion miles and I never did have a problem.
ref:
2000, J. D. Maples, Trojan Steers, Lomaland Books Inc, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The sky is so absolutely clear with a quadrillion stars.
ref:
2004, Arthur Kopecky, New Buffalo: journals from a Taos commune, UNM Press, page 143
type:
quotation
text:
She's named after this famous singer from a quadrillion years ago.
ref:
2006, Evelyn Caro, The Flickering Attic Window, Trafford Publishing, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any very large number, exceeding normal description.
senses_topics:
|
10391 | word:
programmable read-only memory
word_type:
noun
expansion:
programmable read-only memory (usually uncountable, plural programmable read-only memories)
forms:
form:
programmable read-only memories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of read-only memory which can be written to once (write once, read many memory/WORM), and thereafter becomes fixed in value.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
10392 | word:
oxygen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oxygen (countable and uncountable, plural oxygens)
forms:
form:
oxygens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Lavoisier
oxygen
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?
Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
French oxygènebor.
English oxygen
Borrowed from French oxygène (originally in the form principe oxygène, a variant of principe oxigine ‘acidifying principle’, suggested by Lavoisier), from Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”) + γένος (génos, “birth”), referring to oxygen's supposed role in the formation of acids. Equivalent to oxy- + -gen.
senses_examples:
text:
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light.
ref:
2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
Look first at any structure to see if there is a carbon with two oxygens attached. Hemiacetals, hemiketals, acetals, and ketals are all alike in that regard.
ref:
2013, Spencer L. Seager, Michael R. Slabaugh, Chemistry for Today: General, Organic, and Biochemistry, page 479
type:
quotation
text:
Silence is the oxygen of shame.
type:
example
text:
They hoped to starve the terrorists of the oxygen of publicity.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 15.9994. It is a colorless and odorless gas.
Molecular oxygen (O₂), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature, also called dioxygen.
A mixture of oxygen and other gases, administered to a patient to help them breathe.
An atom of this element.
A condition or environment in which something can thrive.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
10393 | word:
edit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
edit (plural edits)
forms:
form:
edits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
edit
etymology_text:
Back-formation from editor, influenced by French éditer (“edit, publish”) and Latin editus.
senses_examples:
text:
An early edit of the film included a romantic subplot.
type:
example
text:
a basketball edit, a Thor edit
type:
example
text:
bro thinks he's in an edit (Internet meme)
type:
example
text:
Valorant edits have become massive on TikTok as creators put their editing skills to the test in making the best edits they can, but Tarik argued that videos like these can be "over-edited" and that he can't tell what's happening.
ref:
2023 July 21, Carver Fisher, “Tarik slams "over-edited" Valorant TikTok video trend”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2023-11-08
type:
quotation
text:
The Outnet will release a high-summer edit of 17 exclusive, limited-edition items including a Eugenia Kim fedora ($175.)
ref:
2015 June 17, Alison S. Cohn, “Shopping Events and Sales This Week in New York”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The Loose Women star, 33, took to Instagram yesterday (May 8) to announce her latest clothing edit.
ref:
2023 May 9, Melisha Kaur, “Stacey Solomon's latest In The Style range has got us dreaming of summer”, in Daily Mirror
type:
quotation
text:
Thankfully, fellow new mum Ashley James has released the ultimate summer edit with clothing brand Tu that’s not only affordable, but was chosen with postpartum bodies in mind […]
ref:
2023 July 7, Faith Richardson, “Ashley James’ new Tu edit has style buys from £6 to support postpartum bodies”, in OK!
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A change to the text of a document.
A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
An edited piece of media, especially video footage.
A compilation of memorable moments (in a show, sport, etc.), often featuring stylized camera effects and intense music.
An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
A range of products related by theme or purpose.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
fashion
lifestyle |
10394 | word:
edit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
edit (third-person singular simple present edits, present participle editing, simple past and past participle edited)
forms:
form:
edits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
editing
tags:
participle
present
form:
edited
tags:
participle
past
form:
edited
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
edit
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
edit
etymology_text:
Back-formation from editor, influenced by French éditer (“edit, publish”) and Latin editus.
senses_examples:
text:
Your speech is too long. You need to edit it.
type:
example
text:
We shot an hour-long interview then edited it down to 45 minutes.
type:
example
text:
He edits the Chronicle.
type:
example
text:
"How?" responded Patsy; "why, it's easy enough, Uncle. We'll buy a press, hire a printer, and Beth and Louise will help me edit the paper. I'm sure I can exhibit literary talents of a high order, once they are encouraged to sprout. Louise writes lovely poetry and 'stories of human interest,' and Beth—"
ref:
1912, L. Frank Baum, chapter 3, in Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation
type:
quotation
text:
Wikipedia is an interactive encyclopedia which allows anybody to edit and improve articles.
type:
example
text:
Today, the technology to edit genomes is limited in the number of changes that can be made at once, which is probably one reason why the Harvard team focused on only 14 genes.
ref:
2015 April 26, Beth Shapiro, “Could we 'de-extinctify' the woolly mammoth”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
When the director approached Ms. Adair about his idea for “Boyhood,” shooting footage each of those 12 years, she immediately agreed to take part. The decision was made to edit the film progressively, cutting the scenes from each year after they were completed.
ref:
2014 December 17, Mekado Murphy, “Below the Line: Editing ‘Boyhood’”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
A good rule of thumb is to edit a scene before you think, "Gosh, somebody should edit this scene."
ref:
2015, Matt Fotis, Siobhan O'Hara, The Comedy Improv Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to University Improvisational Comedy in Theatre and Performance, New York, NY: Focal Press, page 145
type:
quotation
text:
The junior can offer to do the voxes, gaining experience and sparing the senior journalist the trouble. Always remember to think how the clips will edit together.
ref:
2018, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To change a text, or a document.
To alter a photograph or recording of sound or video.
To be the editor of a publication.
To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
To assemble a film by cutting and splicing raw footage.
To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
|
10395 | word:
dynamic memory
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dynamic memory (usually uncountable, plural dynamic memories)
forms:
form:
dynamic memories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Computer memory that requires a periodic refresh to maintain its contents. This memory is usually cheaper and faster than ROM.
senses_topics:
|
10396 | word:
rifling
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rifling (plural riflings)
forms:
form:
riflings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
The act or process of letting playing cards cascade down one at a time towards the table (or one's hand), controlling the speed and flow with one's thumb, which sits on the top edges of the cards.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
military
politics
war
card-games
games |
10397 | word:
rifling
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rifling
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of rifle
senses_topics:
|
10398 | word:
rifled
word_type:
adj
expansion:
rifled (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a spiral on the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
senses_topics:
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry |
10399 | word:
rifled
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rifled
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of rifle
senses_topics:
|
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