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10400 | word:
smack-dab
word_type:
adv
expansion:
smack-dab (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I tossed the water balloon and it landed smack-dab on the top of his head.
type:
example
text:
Things build and build, and it becomes clearer and clearer that a battle is about to take place. In “Stormborn,” a bang above deck is all the warning we get, and suddenly the Yara Greyjoy fleet is smack dab in the middle of Euron’s Iron Fleet, and the party begins.
ref:
2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exactly in a place, especially the middle; directly; precisely; dead-center.
senses_topics:
|
10401 | word:
isolationism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
isolationism (countable and uncountable, plural isolationisms)
forms:
form:
isolationisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From isolation + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
Many hope the period of American isolationism and country-first populism under President Trump will give way to an era of renewed U.S. global leadership and embrace of multilateralism to tackle common challenges.
ref:
2020 November 7, Shibani Mahtani, Miriam Berger, “World now looks at how Biden will reshape U.S. policies after turbulent Trump era”, in The Washington Post
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A national (or group) policy of non-interaction with other nations (or groups).
senses_topics:
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10402 | word:
permeable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
permeable (comparative more permeable, superlative most permeable)
forms:
form:
more permeable
tags:
comparative
form:
most permeable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English permeable, permiable, from Latin permeābilis.
senses_examples:
text:
permeable strata
type:
example
text:
Rainwater sinks through permeable rock to form an underground reservoir.
type:
example
text:
permeable borders
type:
example
text:
permeable boundaries
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Able to be permeated; absorbing or allowing the passage of fluids.
Allowing the passage of persons, information, or other things, especially when such passage occurs despite hopes or expectations otherwise.
senses_topics:
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10403 | word:
sartorial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
sartorial (comparative more sartorial, superlative most sartorial)
forms:
form:
more sartorial
tags:
comparative
form:
most sartorial
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin sartorius (“pertaining to a tailor”), from Late Latin sartor (“tailor”), from Latin sarcire (“to patch, mend”).
senses_examples:
text:
His sartorial rebellions were slight: he wore jeans, for example, when giving tutorials.
ref:
2001 December 21, Jay Parini, “By Their Clothes Ye Shall Know Them”, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, B24
type:
quotation
text:
Suits are full of joy. They are the sartorial equivalent of a baby’s smile.
ref:
2007, Carter Bays & Craig Thomas, How I Met Your Mother, CBS, Episode 2ALH14
text:
The occasion, back then, was his decision to wear a hoodie with a suit jacket while on the air, which proved such an unexpected sartorial choice for an anchorman that it went viral, creating its own mini-news cycle.
ref:
2023 February 20, Vanessa Friedman, “Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The UPI report noted that demonstrators sported "neon hairdos and tight leather clothes" as they blocked streets and disrupted traffic in a "Stop the City" demonstration. Sartorial descriptions were the order of the day in the UPI dispatch, as it went on to describe a protesting teenager with "pink hair and 11 earrings" and "youths with rainbow hairdos."
ref:
1984 April 14, Sue Hyde, “Queer Reports Dept.”, in Gay Community News, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
He was just a college instructor at the time, long before he had written his book and long before his sartorial conversion. The pockets of his sports coat bulged from having had fists thrust into them too long.
ref:
1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
In his smart suit Jacob was by far the most sartorial of our party.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the tailoring of clothing.
Of or relating to the quality of dress.
Of or relating to the sartorius muscle.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
10404 | word:
paper plane
word_type:
noun
expansion:
paper plane (plural paper planes)
forms:
form:
paper planes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
clipping of paper airplane.
clipping of paper aeroplane.
senses_topics:
|
10405 | word:
capitol
word_type:
noun
expansion:
capitol (plural capitols)
forms:
form:
capitols
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Texas
Texas State Capitol
etymology_text:
From Middle English Capitolie, via Anglo-Norman capitolie, Old French capitoile, from Latin Capitōlium (“Capitoline Hill, its temples; any similar citadel”), from the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (“forming nouns”) or -ōlus (“-ole: forming diminutives”) + -ium (“forming location names”). Compare Latin capito and capitulum. As a French magistrate, via French capitoul, from Capitole, the town hall of Toulouse.
senses_examples:
text:
The state capitol is located smack-dab in the middle of the state's capital.
type:
example
text:
The centre of attraction was the City Hall. Two thousand flags and more ...; 2,000 electric lights... combined to make the civic capitol gorgeous... .
ref:
1901 January 1, "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry", The New York Times, page 1
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any building or complex of buildings in which a legislature meets.
Any citadel or complex of buildings similar to the Roman Capitol, particularly Italian and Roman citadels including temples to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.
Alternative form of capitoul (“the former chief magistrates of Toulouse, France”).
senses_topics:
|
10406 | word:
clines
word_type:
noun
expansion:
clines
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of cline
senses_topics:
|
10407 | word:
boob
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boob (plural boobs)
forms:
form:
boobs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Clipping (morphology)
etymology_text:
Clipped form of booby (“fool”). Appeared near the beginning of the twentieth century; more information at booby § Etymology 1.
senses_examples:
text:
Not having an ear for music it annoys me to hear the boobs squeal.
ref:
1914, George Vere Hobart, Boobs, as Seen by John Henry, →OCLC, page 75
type:
quotation
text:
[BURNS AND ENSEMBLE]: Look at all those idiots. Oh, look at all those boobs. An office full of morons. A factory full of fools. Is it any wonder that I'm singing, singing the blues!?
ref:
1990, “Look At All Those Idiots” (track 9), in The Simpsons Sing The Blues (1990), performed by The Simpsons
type:
quotation
text:
He said he felt like such a boob in school and nobody talked to him.
ref:
2008 April 30, “Cher: I was crazy about Tom Cruise”, in Marie Claire
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An idiot; a fool.
A mistake.
senses_topics:
|
10408 | word:
boob
word_type:
verb
expansion:
boob (third-person singular simple present boobs, present participle boobing, simple past and past participle boobed)
forms:
form:
boobs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
boobing
tags:
participle
present
form:
boobed
tags:
participle
past
form:
boobed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Clipping (morphology)
etymology_text:
Clipped form of booby (“fool”). Appeared near the beginning of the twentieth century; more information at booby § Etymology 1.
senses_examples:
text:
After three hits his cleverness ran out. He boobed.
ref:
1969, Colin Watson, The Flaxborough Chronicle, →OCLC, page 250
type:
quotation
text:
...the younger generation will not altogether be grateful for the book in which they are contained — especially when he boobs in calling the Weavers a rock ensemble.
ref:
1969, “Alchemy”, in The Canadian Forum, volume 49, page 211
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
To make a mistake.
senses_topics:
|
10409 | word:
boob
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boob (plural boobs)
forms:
form:
boobs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Clipping (morphology)
etymology_text:
Clipped form of booby (“breast”). Appeared from the 20th century; more information at booby § Etymology 2.
senses_examples:
text:
Tough luck. Too quick in covering to let them see her boobs.
ref:
1935, James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan; A Trilogy, →OCLC, Judgement Day
type:
quotation
text:
Her boob had fallen out of her nightgown and now lay limp against the stained sheet.
ref:
1974, Ernest Brawley, The Rap, page 256
type:
quotation
text:
Mommy Has a Boo Boo in Her Boob was written to help families who have been affected by breast cancer.
ref:
2013, Kim Haskan, Mommy Has a Boo Boo in Her Boob, book cover
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human.
senses_topics:
|
10410 | word:
boob
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boob (plural boobs)
forms:
form:
boobs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Apparently shortened from booby-hatch.
senses_examples:
text:
Then he got or was brought back to Mongumber he was tired to a tree and was belted by the white officer in charge put into the boob that they have ther I think of cause we cant say for a certain was was brought out of the boob dead or nearly.
ref:
1927, William Cooper, letter, in Heiss & Minter (eds.), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 26
text:
I begin to feel homesick for the easy drifting of boob. I guess the fact is I'm afraid of life, haven't got the guts to be a real criminal.
ref:
1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A prison; jail.
senses_topics:
|
10411 | word:
centrifugal force
word_type:
noun
expansion:
centrifugal force (countable and uncountable, plural centrifugal forces)
forms:
form:
centrifugal forces
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
centrifugal force
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Although the Citadel is equipped with mass-effect-generating element-zero cores, most of the gravity on the station is generated by the centrifugal force of rotation.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel Station: Statistics Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
The abolition of feudal serfdom in 1861 and the demand for wage labor created by industrialization drew large numbers of peasants to the growing cities in search of paid work. It was this centrifugal force of capitalism in Russia that centralized an urban industrial class in the 1880s and 1890s.
ref:
2004 July 15, Leslie Feinberg, “Roots of Russian 'homosexual subculture'”, in Workers World
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In everyday understanding, the effect that tends to move an object away from the center of a circle it is rotating about (a consequence of inertia).
In a rotating reference frame, the apparent force that seems to push all bodies away from the centre of rotation of the frame and is a consequence of the body's mass and the frame's angular speed. It works in conjunction with the Coriolis force to give correct motion.
In circular motion, the 'reactive' centrifugal force is a real force applied by the accelerating body that is equal and opposite to the centripetal force that is acting on the accelerating body.
In polar coordinates, the apparent radial force that acts away from the center and is a consequence of the body's angular speed around the origin.
Centripetal force.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
10412 | word:
twenty-seven
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty-seven
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number immediately following twenty-six and preceding twenty-eight.
senses_topics:
|
10413 | word:
bicarbonate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bicarbonate (plural bicarbonates)
forms:
form:
bicarbonates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bicarbonate
etymology_text:
From bi- + carbonate.
senses_examples:
text:
The next question that occurs relates to the composition of this crystallized carbonate of potash, which I am induced to call bi-carbonate of potash, for the purpose of marking more decidedly the distinction between this salt and that which is commonly called a subcarbonate, and in order to refer at once to the double dose of carbonic acid contained in it.
ref:
1814, William Hyde Wollaston, “A synoptic scale of chemical equivalents”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 104, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the univalent anion HCO₃⁻; any salt of carbonic acid in which only one of the hydrogen atoms has been replaced.
sodium bicarbonate used as a mild antacid; bicarbonate of soda
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
|
10414 | word:
paper airplane
word_type:
noun
expansion:
paper airplane (plural paper airplanes)
forms:
form:
paper airplanes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper.
An aircraft under development (so named because it remains only on paper to date; a tongue-in-cheek sense with acknowledgment of the original sense).
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10415 | word:
twenty-four
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty-four
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number immediately following twenty-three and preceding twenty-five.
senses_topics:
|
10416 | word:
twenty-eight
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty-eight
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The lunar quality of Osiris's body is emphasized by his age of twenty-eight, the number of the phases of the moon.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 217
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number immediately following twenty-seven and preceding twenty-nine.
senses_topics:
|
10417 | word:
firearm
word_type:
noun
expansion:
firearm (plural firearms)
forms:
form:
firearms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From fire (“projectile discharge”) + arm (“weapon”).
senses_examples:
text:
David was arrested for illegal possession of firearms.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead.
senses_topics:
|
10418 | word:
twenty-six
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty-six
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number immediately following twenty-five and preceding twenty-seven.
senses_topics:
|
10419 | word:
twenty-three
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty-three
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number after twenty-two and before twenty-four.
senses_topics:
|
10420 | word:
twenty-nine
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty-nine
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number immediately following twenty-eight and preceding thirty.
senses_topics:
|
10421 | word:
refresh
word_type:
verb
expansion:
refresh (third-person singular simple present refreshes, present participle refreshing, simple past and past participle refreshed)
forms:
form:
refreshes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
refreshing
tags:
participle
present
form:
refreshed
tags:
participle
past
form:
refreshed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
refresh
etymology_text:
From Middle English refreshen, refreschen, refrisschen, from Old French refrescher (“to refresh”) (modern French rafraîchir), equivalent to re- + fresh.
senses_examples:
text:
Sleep refreshes the body and the mind.
type:
example
text:
She refreshed the page. She was still the high bidder. Good.
ref:
2007, Beth Harbison, Shoe Addicts Anonymous
type:
quotation
text:
You can save your code, refresh your browser, and see a change instantly. This simple trick turns a lowly web browser into a development environment […]
ref:
2007, Philip C Plumlee, Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)
type:
quotation
text:
We got within two miles of there, and stopped in the woods out of sight, where we refreshed with some brandy, and gave the two boys very large portions.
ref:
1972, Vermont History, volume 40, page 268
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To renew or revitalize.
To become fresh again; to be revitalized.
To reload (a document, especially a webpage) and show any new changes.
To cause (a web browser or similar software) to refresh its display.
To perform the periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
To take refreshment; to eat or drink.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
10422 | word:
refresh
word_type:
noun
expansion:
refresh (plural refreshes)
forms:
form:
refreshes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English refreshen, refreschen, refrisschen, from Old French refrescher (“to refresh”) (modern French rafraîchir), equivalent to re- + fresh.
senses_examples:
text:
Experiences such as the Al Qaeda threat have provided a taste of how the landscape may have changed very fundamentally. Do these changes spell the end of the Cycle as a useful concept, or does it just need a refresh?
ref:
2013, Mark Phythian, Understanding the Intelligence Cycle, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version of the data.
The process of modernizing something.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
10423 | word:
original
word_type:
adj
expansion:
original (comparative more original, superlative most original)
forms:
form:
more original
tags:
comparative
form:
most original
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English original, from Old French original, from Late Latin orīginālis (“primitive, original”), from Latin orīgō (“beginning, source, origin”); see origin.
senses_examples:
text:
the original state of mankind; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process
type:
example
text:
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
ref:
1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick, →OCLC, →OL
type:
quotation
text:
The original manuscript contained spelling errors which were fixed in later versions.
type:
example
text:
This recording is by the original broadway cast.
type:
example
text:
Tonight we will hear an original work by one of our best composers.
type:
example
text:
The paper contains a number of original ideas about color perception.
type:
example
text:
Parker was one of the original bebop players.
type:
example
text:
This kind of barbecue is original to North Carolina.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
First in a series of copies or versions.
Newly created.
Fresh, different.
Pioneering.
Having a specified place or time as its origin.
Seasoned with salt but no other flavoring; ready salted
senses_topics:
|
10424 | word:
original
word_type:
noun
expansion:
original (plural originals)
forms:
form:
originals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English original, from Old French original, from Late Latin orīginālis (“primitive, original”), from Latin orīgō (“beginning, source, origin”); see origin.
senses_examples:
text:
This manuscript is the original.
type:
example
text:
I have a great mind to be in Print; but above all, I would fain be an Original, and that is a true Comical Thought: When all the Learned Men in the World are but Tranſlators, is it not a Pleaſant Jeſt, that you ſhould ſtrive to be an Original! You ſhould have obſerved your Time, and have come into the World with the Ancient Greeks for that purpoſe; for the Latines themſelves are but Copies.
ref:
1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Ahmad (1969) studied the personality differences among middle school girls identified as originals and unoriginals on the Minnesota's test of creative thinking.
ref:
1975, The Educational Trends, volumes 10-14, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
The originals or the creatives were more dominant than the unoriginals or the low creatives.
ref:
2010, A. Kusuma, Creativity and Cognitive Styles in Children, page 73
type:
quotation
text:
Fashion Fair will give every section first hand knowledge of the latest originals and 1962-63's exciting trends.
ref:
1962, “It's Fashion fair time again”, in Ebony, volume 17, number 11, page 126
type:
quotation
text:
One such show was built around the Du Pont spring collection of Paris originals.
ref:
1963, National Retail Merchants Association. Sales Promotion Division, The NRMA Sales Promotion Encyclopedia, Vol. II., page 175
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent.
An eccentric person.
A newly designed garment released by a fashion designer as part of a collection.
A ridgeling.
senses_topics:
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10425 | word:
udder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
udder (plural udders)
forms:
form:
udders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English udder, uddyr (also as uther, iddyr), from Old English ūder (“udder; breast”), from Proto-Germanic *ūdarą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jadder (“udder”), Dutch uier (“udder”), German Euter (“udder”), Swedish juver (“udder”), Icelandic júgur (“udder”), Vedic Sanskrit ऊधर् (ū́dhar), Ancient Greek οὖθαρ (oûthar), Latin ūber.
senses_examples:
text:
Meronym: teat
text:
squeeze the udder to get milk
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer.
A woman's breast.
senses_topics:
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10426 | word:
go Dutch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
go Dutch (third-person singular simple present goes Dutch, present participle going Dutch, simple past went Dutch, past participle gone Dutch)
forms:
form:
goes Dutch
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
going Dutch
tags:
participle
present
form:
went Dutch
tags:
past
form:
gone Dutch
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A derivative of Dutch treat, from Dutch (“poor imitation; ersatz”), a derogatory term originally referring generically to German-speaking peoples as a whole; first attested 1914.
senses_examples:
text:
GOING DUTCH Some girls are quite willing to pay part of the expenses on special dates. When something is planned which is beyond the boy's means. . . .
ref:
1958, Evelyn Ruth (Millis) Duvall, The Art of Dating, Associated Press, p. 138
text:
Ashley Olsen may be a teenage zillionaire, but when she's out on the town with pals, she goes dutch.
ref:
2005, Rex Reed, reviewing De-Lovely in Mews Items: Amazing But True Cat Stories, by Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun, p. 193
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pay for one's own food and bills, or split the cost, when eating at a restaurant or going out for entertainment.
senses_topics:
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10427 | word:
MD5
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MD5 (plural MD5s)
forms:
form:
MD5s
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Message Digest 5, a cryptographic hash function.
senses_topics:
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10428 | word:
twenty-five
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty-five
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number immediately following twenty-four and preceding twenty-six.
senses_topics:
|
10429 | word:
twenty-five
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty-five (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A solitaire card game with the goal of making a five-by-five square of cards so that every row and column is valid.
Synonym of spoilfive
senses_topics:
|
10430 | word:
WTC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
WTC (countable and uncountable, plural WTCs)
forms:
form:
WTCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of world trade center (any of many around the world)
Initialism of willingness to communicate.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
10431 | word:
WTC
word_type:
name
expansion:
WTC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of World Trade Center (located in New York City)
senses_topics:
|
10432 | word:
twenty-two
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty-two
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The number after twenty-one and before twenty-three. Represented in Arabic digits as 22.
senses_topics:
|
10433 | word:
twenty-two
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty-two (plural twenty-twos)
forms:
form:
twenty-twos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He wore a crazed expression / As he waded in the car / For some ammo and his sawn-off twenty-two.
ref:
1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A .22 calibre pistol or rifle.
senses_topics:
|
10434 | word:
APL
word_type:
noun
expansion:
APL (countable and uncountable, plural APLs)
forms:
form:
APLs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
(computer language): From the book A Programming Language (1962).
senses_examples:
text:
The disease that stood at the pivotal crossroads of oncology was yet another rare variant of leukemia called acute promyelocytic leukemia—APL.
ref:
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 407
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of acute promyelocytic leukemia.
Initialism of assistant patrol leader.
senses_topics:
hematology
medicine
oncology
sciences
|
10435 | word:
APL
word_type:
name
expansion:
APL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
(computer language): From the book A Programming Language (1962).
senses_examples:
text:
The language APL presents a number of novel problems for a compiler writer: weak variable typing, run time changes in variable shape, and a host of primitive operations, among others.
ref:
1988, Timothy Budd, An APL Compiler, Springer, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Applied Physics Laboratory (a Johns Hopkins University laboratory)
Initialism of Applied Physics Laboratory (at the University of Washington)
An early programming language using mathematically derived symbols for many of its operations.
Initialism of Adaptive Public License.
Initialism of AROS Public License.
senses_topics:
NASA
aerospace
astronomy
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
10436 | word:
spelunking
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spelunking (usually uncountable, plural spelunkings)
forms:
form:
spelunkings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From spelunk + -ing. Back-formation from spelunker. Attested since 1946.
senses_examples:
text:
In the great myths, the adventures are external, even when they involve such metaphorical spelunkings as the voyage into the underworld.
ref:
2001, Nancy Hathaway, The Friendly Guide to Mythology, page 277
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The practice or hobby of exploring underground caverns.
senses_topics:
|
10437 | word:
spelunking
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spelunking
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From spelunk + -ing. Back-formation from spelunker. Attested since 1946.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of spelunk
senses_topics:
|
10438 | word:
TOC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TOC (plural TOCs)
forms:
form:
TOCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
TOC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: ToC
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of table of contents.
Initialism of train operating company.
Initialism of translocon on outer chloroplast membrane.
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport
biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences |
10439 | word:
TOC
word_type:
name
expansion:
TOC
forms:
wikipedia:
TOC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of theory of constraints.
senses_topics:
management |
10440 | word:
ABM
word_type:
name
expansion:
ABM
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of ABM Treaty. (Initialism of anti-ballistic missile.)
senses_topics:
|
10441 | word:
ABM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ABM (countable and uncountable, plural ABMs)
forms:
form:
ABMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of anti-ballistic missile.
Initialism of automated bank machine.
Initialism of automatic bread machine.
Initialism of activity-based management.
senses_topics:
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
banking
business
cooking
food
lifestyle
management |
10442 | word:
occupation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
occupation (countable and uncountable, plural occupations)
forms:
form:
occupations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English occupacioun, borrowed from Middle French occupation, from Latin occupātio, from occupō (“occupy, seize”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to seize, grab”).
senses_examples:
text:
Last year it was announced that electrification of L.M.R. main lines was to be speeded up and that it would be essential for the engineers to have the longest possible occupation of the lines involved; this would mean some retrenchment of passenger train services.
ref:
1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London–Birmingham services – Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
The early years of Norman occupation saw a frenzy of castle building.
ref:
1999, Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell, “1066[:] The Normans Begin to Erect Castles”, in dictionary of english down through the ages[:] words & phrases born out of historical events great & small, 2005 edition, London: Kyle Cathie Limited, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".
ref:
2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
The act, process or state of possessing a place.
The control of a nation or region by a hostile military or paramilitary force.
senses_topics:
geopolitics
government
military
politics
war |
10443 | word:
garden
word_type:
noun
expansion:
garden (plural gardens)
forms:
form:
gardens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
garden
etymology_text:
From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu.
senses_examples:
text:
You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.
type:
example
text:
a garden party
type:
example
text:
a garden path
type:
example
text:
a garden spade
type:
example
text:
a vegetable garden
type:
example
text:
a flower garden
type:
example
text:
This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.
type:
example
text:
We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden.
type:
example
text:
Our garden is overgrown with weeds.
type:
example
text:
Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.
ref:
1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
Blow on my garden [speaking of her genitalia], so the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden [her pubic area] and eat His pleasant fruits.
ref:
1995, Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at etext.org on 9 May 2006
text:
N.B. From a commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16, which was written in Hebrew c. 950 BC; book footnotes are shown here within brackets. Many scholars disagree with this Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of the word's usage in 1995 rather than the intended meaning of Biblical Hebrew גַּן (gan) in 950 BC.
text:
c. 2004, Hair Care Down There, Inc, The History of Hair Removal viewed at haircaredownthere.com on 9 May 2006 -
Primping and pruning the secret garden might seem like a totally 21st century concept, but the fact is women have gotten into below-the-belt grooming since before the Bronze Age.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
The grounds at the front or back of a house.
The twentieth Lenormand card.
A cluster; a bunch.
Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
senses_topics:
cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
|
10444 | word:
garden
word_type:
verb
expansion:
garden (third-person singular simple present gardens, present participle gardening, simple past and past participle gardened)
forms:
form:
gardens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gardening
tags:
participle
present
form:
gardened
tags:
participle
past
form:
gardened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
garden
etymology_text:
From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu.
senses_examples:
text:
I love to garden—this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
10445 | word:
garden
word_type:
adj
expansion:
garden (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
garden
etymology_text:
From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Common, ordinary, domesticated.
senses_topics:
|
10446 | word:
famished
word_type:
verb
expansion:
famished
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inflected forms.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of famish
senses_topics:
|
10447 | word:
famished
word_type:
adj
expansion:
famished (comparative more famished, superlative most famished)
forms:
form:
more famished
tags:
comparative
form:
most famished
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inflected forms.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extremely hungry.
senses_topics:
|
10448 | word:
senatus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
senatus
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin senatus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A governing body in certain universities.
senses_topics:
|
10449 | word:
view
word_type:
noun
expansion:
view (plural views)
forms:
form:
views
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
view (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veue f (French vue f), feminine past participle of veoir (“to see”) (French voir). Cognate with Italian vedere, as well as Portuguese and Spanish ver. Doublet of veduta and vista.
senses_examples:
text:
He changed seats to get a complete view of the stage.
type:
example
text:
, Book II, Chapter XXI
Objects near our view are apt to be thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote.
text:
But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
ref:
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
type:
quotation
text:
If there are any rabbits in this park, they keep carefully out of our view.
type:
example
text:
My flat has a view of a junkyard.
type:
example
text:
the view from a window
type:
example
text:
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
ref:
1799, Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope
type:
quotation
text:
[Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.
ref:
c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece
type:
quotation
text:
a fine view of Lake George
type:
example
text:
I need more information to get a better view of the situation.
type:
example
text:
Your view on evolution is based on religious doctrines, not on scientific findings.
type:
example
text:
There hasn’t been much polling data on consumer views of gene-edited foods, because they are still so new.
ref:
2019 May 30, Karen Weintraub, “Crispr gene-editing will change the way Americans eat – here's what's coming”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
From my view that is a stupid proposition.
type:
example
text:
He smuggled a knife into prison with a view to using it as a weapon.
type:
example
text:
With this view, they made a Guy Faux, or dummy figure of a boy, dressed in coat and cap; such as might in a poor light be mistaken for a living figure.
ref:
1903, Henry Kelsall Aspinall, Birkenhead and Its Surroundings, page 116
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Visual perception.
The act of seeing or looking at something.
Visual perception.
The range of vision.
Visual perception.
Something to look at, such as scenery.
Visual perception.
An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user.
Visual perception.
Appearance; show; aspect.
A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
A mental image.
An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
A point of view.
An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
An intention or prospect.
A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
A wake.
senses_topics:
computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
|
10450 | word:
view
word_type:
verb
expansion:
view (third-person singular simple present views, present participle viewing, simple past and past participle viewed)
forms:
form:
views
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
viewing
tags:
participle
present
form:
viewed
tags:
participle
past
form:
viewed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
view (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veue f (French vue f), feminine past participle of veoir (“to see”) (French voir). Cognate with Italian vedere, as well as Portuguese and Spanish ver. Doublet of veduta and vista.
senses_examples:
text:
The video was viewed by millions of people.
type:
example
text:
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
ref:
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
I view it as a serious breach of trust.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To look at.
To regard in a stated way.
senses_topics:
|
10451 | word:
image
word_type:
noun
expansion:
image (plural images)
forms:
form:
images
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Displaced native Old English biliþe (“an image, a representation, resemblance, likeness; pattern, example”). Doublet of imago.
senses_examples:
text:
The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.
type:
example
text:
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref:
2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-02-19, page 106
type:
quotation
text:
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
type:
example
text:
The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.
type:
example
text:
The image of this step function is the set of integers.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
A mental picture of something not real or not present.
A statue or idol.
A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
What a function maps to.
The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
Show; appearance; cast.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
broadcasting
media
radio
|
10452 | word:
image
word_type:
verb
expansion:
image (third-person singular simple present images, present participle imaging, simple past and past participle imaged)
forms:
form:
images
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
imaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
imaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
imaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Displaced native Old English biliþe (“an image, a representation, resemblance, likeness; pattern, example”). Doublet of imago.
senses_examples:
text:
1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume IV, Observations on the Fifteenth Book, Note 14 on verse 252, p. 215,
This Representation of the Terrors which must have attended the Conflict of two such mighty Powers as Jupiter and Neptune, whereby the Elements had been mix’d in Confusion, and the whole Frame of Nature endangered, is imaged in these few Lines with a Nobleness suitable to the Occasion.
text:
For example, in one use of content analysis, U.S. researchers Victoria Holden, William Holden, and Gary Davis (1997) examined the growing controversy over the racial imaging of indigenous peoples symbolized in sports team nicknames […]
ref:
2000, Mary Ann Schwartz, BarBara Marliene Scott, Madine M. L. Vanderplaat, Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
See’st thou yon river, whose translucent wave,
Forth issuing from the darkness, windeth through
The argent streets o’ th’ City, imaging
The soft inversion of her tremulous Domes,
ref:
1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Timbuctoo”, in The Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, volume I, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, published 1906, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref:
2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
To reflect, mirror.
To create an image of.
To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10453 | word:
bowels
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bowels pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
down in the bowels of the Earth
type:
example
text:
The station was half deserted, half rowdy, several fellows were drunk, shouting and crowing. Down there in the bowels of London, after midnight, everything seemed horrible and unnatural.
ref:
1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 6, in Aaron’s Rod, London: Martin Secker, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
Some say the plague was brought by Hattie;
There was talk of a hangin’, too.
But the talk got shackled by the howls and the cackles
From the bowels of the Black bayou.
ref:
1973, “Swamp Witch”, in Jim Stafford (lyrics), Jim Stafford, performed by Jim Stafford
type:
quotation
text:
the project’s bowels
type:
example
text:
‘If I gave in to you, Reynell,’ said Bligh quietly, so quietly they could not tell whether he felt any pity for the boy or not, ‘the same plea could be put forth by sixteen others in less than half an hour,’ and he dropped his chin on his breast again as if there the discussion ended.
‘I told you he had no bowels,’ said Ledward.
ref:
1930, Mary Gaunt, chapter 15, in Joan of the Pilchard
type:
quotation
text:
1751, Thomas Skinner, “A Sermon preach’d at the Ma’nor of Peace, in the County of Hampshire, on May the 9th, 1751” in Alfred Baylies Page, Reverend Grindall Rawson and his Ministry, 1907, p. 9,
Had you been their natural Parents, and they the Children of your own Bowels, Methinks, you could not have Contributed much more Bountifully to their Assistance […]
text:
What do they whisper thee,
Child of my bowels, Anselm?
ref:
1845, Robert Browning, “The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church”, in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, lines 63–64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The deepest or innermost part.
The concept or quality that defines something at its very core.
The intestines.
Compassion, sympathy.
The body as the source of offspring.
senses_topics:
|
10454 | word:
bowels
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bowels
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of bowel
senses_topics:
|
10455 | word:
physics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
physics (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
physics
etymology_text:
1580s; from physic (see also -ics), from Middle English phisik, from Old French fisike (“natural science, art of healing”), from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φυσικός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis, “origin; nature, property”), from Ancient Greek φύω (phúō, “produce; bear; grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).
senses_examples:
text:
Newtonian physics was extended by Einstein to explain the effects of travelling near the speed of light; quantum physics extends it to account for the behaviour of atoms.
type:
example
text:
An analysis of media reports can correspondingly cast some light not only on how much physics is being reported, but on what branches of physics attract most popular attention.
ref:
1994, A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu, editors, Front Page Physics: A Century of Physics in the News, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
ref:
2012 March 24, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146
type:
quotation
text:
The physics of car crashes would not let Tom Cruise walk away like that.
type:
example
text:
An analysis of media reports can correspondingly cast some light not only on how much physics is being reported, but on what branches of physics attract most popular attention.
ref:
1994, A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu, editors, Front Page Physics: A Century of Physics in the News, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
The physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those examined or studied scientifically.
senses_topics:
|
10456 | word:
physics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
physics
forms:
wikipedia:
physics
etymology_text:
1580s; from physic (see also -ics), from Middle English phisik, from Old French fisike (“natural science, art of healing”), from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φυσικός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis, “origin; nature, property”), from Ancient Greek φύω (phúō, “produce; bear; grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of physic
senses_topics:
|
10457 | word:
physics
word_type:
verb
expansion:
physics
forms:
wikipedia:
physics
etymology_text:
1580s; from physic (see also -ics), from Middle English phisik, from Old French fisike (“natural science, art of healing”), from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φυσικός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis, “origin; nature, property”), from Ancient Greek φύω (phúō, “produce; bear; grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of physic
senses_topics:
|
10458 | word:
cousin-in-law
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cousin-in-law (plural cousins-in-law)
forms:
form:
cousins-in-law
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From cousin + -in-law.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Husband or wife of one's cousin.
Cousin of one's husband or wife.
senses_topics:
|
10459 | word:
execute
word_type:
verb
expansion:
execute (third-person singular simple present executes, present participle executing, simple past and past participle executed)
forms:
form:
executes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
executing
tags:
participle
present
form:
executed
tags:
participle
past
form:
executed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French executer (French exécuter), from Latin exsecutus, past participle of exsequor, from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: murder
text:
There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes.
type:
example
text:
According to international treaties, it is illegal to execute prisoners of war.
type:
example
text:
Your orders have been executed, sir!
type:
example
text:
I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.
type:
example
text:
to execute a difficult piece of music brilliantly
type:
example
text:
to execute a turn in ballet
type:
example
text:
to execute a contract
type:
example
text:
to execute a program
type:
example
text:
The program executed, but data problems were discovered.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
To carry out; to put into effect.
To perform.
To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
To start, launch, or run.
To run, usually successfully.
senses_topics:
law
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10460 | word:
MP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MP (countable and uncountable, plural MPs)
forms:
form:
MPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
MP
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
One unidentified man spoke of how he was approached to "go to the Gents" with an MP at an event for young political activists while another man described how an MP invited his entire office staff to a gay bar.
ref:
2014 April 11, Charlotte Meredith, “The Palace of Sexminster”, in Huffington Post: United Kingdom
type:
quotation
text:
The new Canon has a 12MP ccd sensor.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Member of Parliament
Military Police; military policeman
mana points or magic points
Megapixel
Machine Pistol
Initialism of morning prayer.
senses_topics:
government
politics
government
military
politics
war
fantasy
video-games
|
10461 | word:
MP
word_type:
name
expansion:
MP
forms:
wikipedia:
MP
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Mandatory Palestine.
Initialism of Madhya Pradesh.
senses_topics:
|
10462 | word:
MP
word_type:
adj
expansion:
MP (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
MP
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of multiplayer.
senses_topics:
video-games |
10463 | word:
twenty-one
word_type:
num
expansion:
twenty-one
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cardinal number occurring after twenty and before twenty-two, represented in Roman numerals as XXI and in Arabic numerals as 21.
senses_topics:
|
10464 | word:
twenty-one
word_type:
noun
expansion:
twenty-one (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
They were to spend many an evening together sitting round the old kitchen table playing twentyone ….
ref:
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 398
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Blackjack.
A basketball-based game in which players attempt to score exactly twenty-one points.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
10465 | word:
passage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
passage (plural passages)
forms:
form:
passages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
senses_examples:
text:
passage of scripture
type:
example
text:
She struggled to play the difficult passages.
type:
example
text:
He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
type:
example
text:
But there are those who do not feel that the sordid passages of life should be kept off the stage. It is a matter of opinion.
ref:
1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961: Hearings
type:
quotation
text:
The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
type:
example
text:
The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring.
ref:
2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, page 209
type:
quotation
text:
the Northwest Passage
type:
example
text:
With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]
ref:
1986, Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time, New American Library, page 463
type:
quotation
text:
This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.
ref:
1987, Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking, Jaico Publishing House, page 53
type:
quotation
text:
At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.
ref:
2009, Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor, Medallion Press, page 249
type:
quotation
text:
He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.
ref:
1886, Pacific medical journal, volume 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
Part of a path or journey.
An incident or episode.
The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
The advance of time.
The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
A passageway or corridor.
A strait or other narrow waterway.
An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
The vagina.
The act of passing; movement across or through.
The right to pass from one place to another.
A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
Serial passage.
A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
senses_topics:
art
arts
nautical
transport
caving
hobbies
lifestyle
bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
dice
games |
10466 | word:
passage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)
forms:
form:
passages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
passaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
passaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
passaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
senses_examples:
text:
He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
type:
example
text:
After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
type:
example
text:
They passaged to America in 1902.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
10467 | word:
passage
word_type:
adj
expansion:
passage (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
senses_examples:
text:
Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
senses_topics:
falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle |
10468 | word:
passage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
passage (plural passages)
forms:
form:
passages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
senses_topics:
dressage
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports |
10469 | word:
passage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)
forms:
form:
passages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
passaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
passaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
passaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.
senses_examples:
text:
After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash […]
ref:
1915, Cunninghame Graham, Hope, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To execute a passage movement.
senses_topics:
dressage
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports |
10470 | word:
airplane
word_type:
noun
expansion:
airplane (plural airplanes)
forms:
form:
airplanes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From air + plane, alteration of aeroplane.
senses_examples:
text:
So, he'd take a spoon and he'd start playing airplane, circling the spoon around in the air until it was ready to land in the runway of my mouth.
ref:
1988, Matthew Linn, Sheila Fabricant, Dennis Linn, Healing the Eight Stages of Life, Paulist Press, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
Willis wondered what this fellow wanted to do, spoon feed him? Play airplane?
ref:
1997 03, Maria Flook, Open Water, Ecco Press
type:
quotation
text:
For instance, Jan has taken to playing airplane with the spoon to get Charley to attend to the spoon and want to take it into his mouth.
ref:
2013 May 13, Theo L. Dorpat, Michael L. Miller, Clinical Interaction and the Analysis of Meaning: A New Psychoanalytic Theory, Routledge
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
A game to encourage small children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends a spoonful of food is an aircraft flying into the child's mouth.
senses_topics:
|
10471 | word:
airplane
word_type:
verb
expansion:
airplane (third-person singular simple present airplanes, present participle airplaning, simple past and past participle airplaned)
forms:
form:
airplanes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
airplaning
tags:
participle
present
form:
airplaned
tags:
participle
past
form:
airplaned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From air + plane, alteration of aeroplane.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fly in an aeroplane.
To transport by aeroplane.
senses_topics:
|
10472 | word:
Kasetsart
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kasetsart
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A public research university in Bangkok, Thailand.
senses_topics:
|
10473 | word:
SYSOP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SYSOP (plural SYSOPs)
forms:
form:
SYSOPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of sysop.
senses_topics:
|
10474 | word:
ROTFL
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
ROTFL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of ROFL (Initialism of rolling on the floor, laughing)
senses_topics:
|
10475 | word:
game
word_type:
noun
expansion:
game (countable and uncountable, plural games)
forms:
form:
games
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).
Cognate with Old Frisian game, gome (“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.
senses_examples:
text:
Being a child is all fun and games.
type:
example
text:
Joshua: Shall we play a game?
David: ... Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?
David: Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
Joshua: Fine.
ref:
1983, Lawrence Lasker et al., WarGames
type:
quotation
text:
Games in the classroom can make learning fun.
type:
example
text:
Sally won the game.
type:
example
text:
They can turn the game around in the second half.
type:
example
text:
In short whist, five points are game.
type:
example
text:
See also: for the win
text:
Some of the games in the closet we have on the computer as well.
type:
example
text:
Study can help your game of chess.
type:
example
text:
Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.
type:
example
text:
There’s a sense here, as well as in games such as Limbo, that we’re making ourselves experience our children’s reality, trapped in the chaos that the adults have created.
ref:
2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e put spurs to his horse, and just in the twilight reached the gate, where, at that time, there happened to be two ladies of the game [translating mugeres moças], who being on their journey to Seville, with the carriers, had chanced to take up their night's lodging in this place.
ref:
1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.2
type:
quotation
text:
When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
type:
example
text:
He's in the securities game somehow.
type:
example
text:
In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.
type:
example
text:
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too.
ref:
2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?
type:
example
text:
Your murderous game is nearly up.
ref:
1845, Blackwood Magazine
type:
quotation
text:
It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.
ref:
1902, George Saintsbury, Dryden, page 182
type:
quotation
text:
The forest has plenty of game.
type:
example
text:
I had known the President several years before he became famous, and we had had some correspondence on subjects of natural history. His interest in such themes is always very fresh and keen, and the main motive of his visit to the Park at this time was to see and study in its semi-domesticated condition the great game which he had so often hunted during his ranch days; and he was kind enough to think it would be an additional pleasure to see it with a nature-lover like myself.
ref:
1907, John Burroughs, Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, pages 5–6
type:
quotation
text:
He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.
type:
example
text:
She's strange, so strange, but I didn't complain / She said yes to me when I ran my game
ref:
1998, “She's Strange”, performed by Nate Dogg
type:
quotation
text:
What is game? Who got game? / Where's the game in life, behind the game behind the game / I got game, she's got game / We got game, they got game, he got game
ref:
1998, “He Got Game”, performed by Public Enemy
type:
quotation
text:
In the contemporary arts of the academic contact zone, I say African American students got game!
ref:
2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, Gettin' Our Groove on: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
My dad had game at that kind of thing, and I spent long periods as a child watching him.
ref:
2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, page 24
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A playful or competitive activity.
A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
A playful or competitive activity.
An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
A playful or competitive activity.
A school subject during which sports are practised.
A playful or competitive activity.
A particular instance of playing a game.
A playful or competitive activity.
That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
A playful or competitive activity.
The number of points necessary to win a game.
A playful or competitive activity.
In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
A playful or competitive activity.
The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
A playful or competitive activity.
One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
A playful or competitive activity.
Ellipsis of video game.
Lovemaking, flirtation.
Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
Wild animals hunted for food.
The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
Diversion, entertainment.
senses_topics:
card-games
games
government
military
politics
war
|
10476 | word:
game
word_type:
adj
expansion:
game (comparative gamer, superlative gamest)
forms:
form:
gamer
tags:
comparative
form:
gamest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).
Cognate with Old Frisian game, gome (“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.
senses_examples:
text:
Some of Grimsby’s other (extraordinarily up-to-date) targets include Donald Trump and Daniel Radcliffe, whose fates here are too breath-catchingly cruel to spoil, and also the admirably game Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet of…well, you’ll see.
ref:
2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Willing and able to participate.
That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
senses_topics:
|
10477 | word:
game
word_type:
verb
expansion:
game (third-person singular simple present games, present participle gaming, simple past and past participle gamed)
forms:
form:
games
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gaming
tags:
participle
present
form:
gamed
tags:
participle
past
form:
gamed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).
Cognate with Old Frisian game, gome (“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.
senses_examples:
text:
an impressive protest against gaming, swearing, and all immoral practices which might forfeit divine aid in the great struggle for National Independence
ref:
1898, “George Washington: Statesman, Christian Gentleman”, in Suggestive programs for special day exercises
type:
quotation
text:
The first few days after getting here are weird. It’s a version of cold turkey because you’ve been gaming around the clock and suddenly, nothing. […]
ref:
2017 June 16, Joanna Walters, “Inside the rehab saving young men from their internet addiction”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
type:
example
text:
A large batch of online trolls have gamed a web contest that promises a Taylor Swift performance at any school in the US. The target? Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
ref:
2012 August 31, Amanda Holpuch, “Trolls game Taylor Swift competition in favor of school for the hearing impaired”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
“Amazon risks betraying the trust millions of customers place in the Amazon’s Choice badge by allowing its endorsement to be all too easily gamed,” said Which?’s Natalie Hitchins.
ref:
2020 February 6, Alex Hern, quoting Natalie Hitchins, “Amazon Choice label is being 'gamed to promote poor products'”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
It is an example of what real entrepreneurship can do on the railway, but sadly there are not many other examples. Most of the private sector businesses in rail are simply 'gaming' the system, trying to outdo or outthink the regulator and the Government in order to generate profit.
ref:
2023 January 25, Christian Wolmar, “An informative cab ride on the state of the railway”, in RAIL, number 975, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number.
ref:
2005 October 6, “Picking up the pieces”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.
ref:
2010, Mystery, The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction, Villard Books, page 100
type:
quotation
text:
How did Amanda know she wasn’t getting gamed? Well, she didn’t. “I would wonder, ‘Is he saying stuff to other girls that he says to me?’ We did everything we could to cut it off […] yet we somehow couldn’t.”
ref:
2010 July 9, Sheila McClear, “Would you date a pickup artist?”, in New York Post
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gamble.
To play card games, board games, or video games.
To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality |
10478 | word:
game
word_type:
adj
expansion:
game (comparative more game, superlative most game)
forms:
form:
more game
tags:
comparative
form:
most game
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
He was done for, all right. I took out my six-shooter and aimed right between his eyes. He kicked once, sort of leaped—or tried to, and then lay still. I stood there a minute, to see if he had to have another. He was so game that, some way, I didn’t want to give him more than he needed.
ref:
1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 29
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Injured, lame.
senses_topics:
|
10479 | word:
hand bill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hand bill (plural hand bills)
forms:
form:
hand bills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of handbill
senses_topics:
|
10480 | word:
PHP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PHP (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism.
senses_topics:
medicine
pathology
sciences |
10481 | word:
PHP
word_type:
name
expansion:
PHP
forms:
wikipedia:
Rasmus Lerdorf
etymology_text:
Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.
senses_topics:
computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10482 | word:
IMHO
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
IMHO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
IMHO she just devalues the rest of us who want to be judged by what we do and what we are, not how we look and who we discuss Uganda with.
ref:
1995 April 27, Helen Gerald, “Re: Liz Hurley”, in rec.arts.tv.uk (Usenet), message-ID <1bd766f1e95e31fd>
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of in my humble opinion.
Initialism of in my honest opinion.
senses_topics:
|
10483 | word:
WWF
word_type:
name
expansion:
WWF
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of World Wide Fund for Nature, formerly World Wildlife Fund
Initialism of World Wrestling Federation (became WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment, in May 2002)
senses_topics:
|
10484 | word:
handbreadth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handbreadth (plural handbreadths)
forms:
form:
handbreadths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alteration (due to breadth) of Middle English handbrede, hondbrede (“handbreadth”); equivalent to hand + breadth. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Houndebratte (“handbreadth”), West Frisian hânbreedte (“handbreadth”), Dutch handbreedte (“handbreadth”), German Handbreite (“handbreadth”) and Handbreit, Swedish handsbredd (“handbreadth”), Norwegian håndsbredd (“handbreadth”), Icelandic handbreidd (“handbreadth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm.
senses_topics:
|
10485 | word:
ASP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ASP (plural ASPs)
forms:
form:
ASPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of application service provider.
Initialism of average selling price (or, more rarely, ‘average sale(s) price’.)
Initialism of ammunition supply point.
Initialism of accessibility / assistance / accompaniment service provider.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
finance
government
military
politics
war
|
10486 | word:
ASP
word_type:
name
expansion:
ASP
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of Armament Systems and Procedures, a US manufacturer of batons, restraints, and other products targeted at police and security.
A customised pistol produced by this company until 1987.
Acronym of Armament Systems and Procedures, a US manufacturer of batons, restraints, and other products targeted at police and security.
A telescopic baton manufactured by this company.
Initialism of Active Server Pages.
senses_topics:
|
10487 | word:
handbarrow
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handbarrow (plural handbarrows)
forms:
form:
handbarrows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English handbarow, handbarwe, equivalent to hand + barrow.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A frame, supported by poles, used for carrying things; similar to a litter or stretcher
senses_topics:
|
10488 | word:
essential
word_type:
adj
expansion:
essential (comparative more essential, superlative most essential)
forms:
form:
more essential
tags:
comparative
form:
most essential
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin essentiālis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).
senses_examples:
text:
Thus, research-based resources with the potential to assist teachers prepare secondary students for tertiary education are essential.
ref:
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]
ref:
2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
type:
example
text:
essential blepharospasm
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Necessary.
Very important; of high importance.
Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Really existing; existent.
Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
Idiopathic.
Having the nature of essence; not physical.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
geometry
mathematics
sciences
medicine
sciences
|
10489 | word:
essential
word_type:
noun
expansion:
essential (plural essentials)
forms:
form:
essentials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin essentiālis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A necessary ingredient.
A fundamental ingredient.
senses_topics:
|
10490 | word:
verlan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
verlan (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French verlan, itself a verlan of à l’envers (“upside down or back to front”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of backslang used in French, in which the order of the syllables or sounds of words is changed.
senses_topics:
|
10491 | word:
IMO
word_type:
prep_phrase
expansion:
IMO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of in my opinion.
senses_topics:
|
10492 | word:
IMO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
IMO (countable and uncountable, plural IMOs)
forms:
form:
IMOs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of information management officer.
senses_topics:
business |
10493 | word:
IMO
word_type:
name
expansion:
IMO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of International Maritime Organization.
Initialism of International Mathematical Olympiad.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
|
10494 | word:
handbill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handbill (plural handbills)
forms:
form:
handbills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
handbill
etymology_text:
From hand + bill (“cutting instrument”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pruning hook.
A chopping instrument; billhook.
senses_topics:
|
10495 | word:
handbill
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handbill (plural handbills)
forms:
form:
handbills
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + bill (“sheet of paper”).
senses_examples:
text:
Messengers for Mankind.—By Wilfrid L. Randell. [...] Among the many illustrations is a reproduction of the historic handbill of the Great Western Railway announcing the introduction of the railway electric telegraph more than 100 years ago.
ref:
1941 March, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 144
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A loose printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.
senses_topics:
|
10496 | word:
handcart
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handcart (plural handcarts)
forms:
form:
handcarts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + cart.
senses_examples:
text:
Vendors were selling sunglasses, bagged snacks, and sundry other items from handcarts in the square.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.)
senses_topics:
|
10497 | word:
handcart
word_type:
verb
expansion:
handcart (third-person singular simple present handcarts, present participle handcarting, simple past and past participle handcarted)
forms:
form:
handcarts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
handcarting
tags:
participle
present
form:
handcarted
tags:
participle
past
form:
handcarted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hand + cart.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To transport in this kind of cart.
senses_topics:
|
10498 | word:
hallelujatic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hallelujatic
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs
senses_topics:
|
10499 | word:
GB
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
GB
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
MB equals 10⁶ bytes and GB equals 10⁹ bytes
ref:
1989, IBM 3390 Direct Access Storage Reference Summary, IBM, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of gigabyte.
Abbreviation of gibibyte.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
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