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10500 | word:
GB
word_type:
noun
expansion:
GB (plural GBs)
forms:
form:
GBs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Goofballs usually produce a quiet drowsiness, but also at times a tense aggressiveness that can be frighteningly unpredictable. Irene's behavior when she is high on GBs, which is most of the time, has created such havoc in the neighborhood restaurants that they no longer let her in.
ref:
1965 February 26, James Mills, “The World of Needle Park”, in Time, volume 58, number 8, page 82
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of gallbladder.
Initialism of goofball (“barbiturate”).
Initialism of grain boundary.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10501 | word:
GB
word_type:
name
expansion:
GB
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Great Britain.
Initialism of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Abbreviation of Green Bay in Wisconsin, USA.
Initialism of Game Boy.
Initialism of German agent B (US designation for the nerve gas sarin).
Initialism of Guantanamo Bay.
Initialism of Government and Binding.
senses_topics:
chemistry
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
10502 | word:
GB
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
GB
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of God bless.
senses_topics:
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10503 | word:
eng
word_type:
adj
expansion:
eng
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably from Dutch eng (“narrow”), also compare Old English enge (“narrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *angī, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *anguz.
No mention of the word is found in any surviving Middle English text, save for the Middle English compound word ang-nail. Related to Dutch eng (“narrow”), German eng (“narrow”), Low German enj (“confined, narrow”), Luxembourgish enk (“narrow”).
senses_examples:
text:
The hole was too eng for him to get through.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Narrow.
senses_topics:
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10504 | word:
eng
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eng (plural engs)
forms:
form:
engs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably created in analogy with other names for nasal consonants em (m) and en (n).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink. .
senses_topics:
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10505 | word:
halleluiah
word_type:
intj
expansion:
halleluiah
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of hallelujah
senses_topics:
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10506 | word:
halleluiah
word_type:
noun
expansion:
halleluiah (plural halleluiahs)
forms:
form:
halleluiahs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of hallelujah
senses_topics:
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10507 | word:
labour
word_type:
noun
expansion:
labour (countable and uncountable, plural labours)
forms:
form:
labours
tags:
plural
form:
spelling
tags:
Australian
Canada
form:
spelling
tags:
Canada
New-Zealand
wikipedia:
labour
etymology_text:
From Middle English labor, labour, labur, from Old French labor (modern labeur) and its etymon, Latin labor.
senses_examples:
text:
the establishment of a new settlement are entitled to five sitios of grazing land, and five labors (equal to 23,025 acres)
ref:
1841, William Kennedy, Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
The act of a mother giving birth.
The time period during which a mother gives birth.
The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.
A group of moles.
senses_topics:
medicine
obstetrics
sciences
nautical
transport
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
10508 | word:
labour
word_type:
verb
expansion:
labour (third-person singular simple present labours, present participle labouring, simple past and past participle laboured)
forms:
form:
labours
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
labouring
tags:
participle
present
form:
laboured
tags:
participle
past
form:
laboured
tags:
past
form:
spelling
tags:
Australian
Canada
form:
spelling
tags:
Canada
New-Zealand
wikipedia:
labour
etymology_text:
From Middle English labouren, from Old French laborer, from Latin laborare (“(intransitive) to labor, strive, exert oneself, suffer, be in distress, (transitive) to work out, elaborate”), from labor (“labor, toil, work, exertion”); perhaps remotely akin to robur (“strength”). Displaced native English swink (“toil, labor”).
senses_examples:
text:
Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.
ref:
1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
"Crab" 2-6-0 No 42802 labours up to Beattock Summit with a northbound freight from Carlisle in August 1960.
ref:
1961 May, “Beattock Interlude”, in Trains Illustrated, page 287, photo caption
type:
quotation
text:
I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.
type:
example
text:
It is needless to labor a point which is so well known. Everyone understands and appreciates the joy of finding that the long darkness is giving way, that the Sun is growing in strength, and that the days are winning a victory over the nights.
ref:
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
the stone that labours up the hill
ref:
1726, George Granville, Love
type:
quotation
text:
the ship laboured so much, and took in so much water in her upper works, that we could neither eat, nor sleep dry
ref:
1808, William Gilpin, Memoirs of Josias Rogers, Esq
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To toil, to work.
To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
10509 | word:
rifle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rifle (plural rifles)
forms:
form:
rifles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
rifle
etymology_text:
Originally short for “rifled gun”, referring to the spiral grooves inside the barrel. From Middle English riflen (“to rob, plunder, search through”), from Old French rifler (“to lightly scratch, scrape off, plunder”), from Old High German riffilōn (compare German riffeln (“to score, make grooves in, ripple”), archaic Dutch rijfelen (“to scrape”), Old English rifelan, riflian (“to wrinkle”)), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (compare Old Norse rífa (“to tear, break”)). More at rive.
senses_examples:
text:
In the June days of 1848 Baudelaire reports seeing revolutionaries (he might have been one of them) going through the streets of Paris with rifles, shooting all the clocks.
ref:
1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →OCLC, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
A rifleman.
An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
senses_topics:
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
government
military
politics
war
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
|
10510 | word:
rifle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rifle (third-person singular simple present rifles, present participle rifling, simple past and past participle rifled)
forms:
form:
rifles
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
rifling
tags:
participle
present
form:
rifled
tags:
participle
past
form:
rifled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
rifle
etymology_text:
Originally short for “rifled gun”, referring to the spiral grooves inside the barrel. From Middle English riflen (“to rob, plunder, search through”), from Old French rifler (“to lightly scratch, scrape off, plunder”), from Old High German riffilōn (compare German riffeln (“to score, make grooves in, ripple”), archaic Dutch rijfelen (“to scrape”), Old English rifelan, riflian (“to wrinkle”)), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (compare Old Norse rífa (“to tear, break”)). More at rive.
senses_examples:
text:
She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.
type:
example
text:
Thither repair at accustomed times their harlots […] not with empty hands, for they be as skilful in picking, rifling, and filching as the upright men.
ref:
1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors
type:
quotation
text:
thine enemies […]shall ransack and rifle all the things of Edom; and shall search out all thy hidden commodities, and carry them away at once
ref:
1633, Joseph Hall, A paraphrase upon the hard texts of Scripture
type:
quotation
text:
Davies's cross was headed away from danger by Robert Huth, only for Baird to take the ball in his stride and rifle his right-footed effort towards the corner from the edge of the box.
ref:
2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
2011 Fighting for Gold: The Story of Canada's Sledge Hockey Paralympic Gold by Lorna Schultz Schultz Nicholson
But a Norwegian player rifled off a point shot that sailed into the back of the net.
text:
The ball rifled off the bat.
ref:
2014, Alexander Rebelle, Lights of Summer: The Run for Glory
type:
quotation
text:
If you like not that course but intend to be rid of her , rifle her at a tavern , where you may swallow down some fifty wiseacres ' sons and heirs to old tenements and common gardens , like so many raw yolks with muscadine to bedward Kate.
ref:
1605, John Webster, Northward Ho
type:
quotation
text:
We'll strike up a drum, set up a tent, call people together, put crowns apiece, let's rifle for her
ref:
1596, George Chapman, The Blind Beggar of Alexandria
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle)
To commit robbery or theft.
To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
To dispose of in a raffle.
To engage in a raffle.
senses_topics:
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10511 | word:
hardware
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hardware (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hardware; equivalent to hard + -ware; attested since the mid-15th century.
senses_examples:
text:
He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the hardware store.
type:
example
text:
military hardware
type:
example
text:
BOWEN: The monster trucks of Mars rovers, joke scientists, equipped with an array of sophisticated hardware to look for signs of water and answer scientists questions.
ref:
2003 June 6, “Mission to Mars”, in CBS_Rather
type:
quotation
text:
It is one thing to see an intercooler as a simple entry in a textbook, but to witness the actual hardware as it crawled down the road was awe-inspiring.
ref:
2009 May, Lee S. Langston, “plowing new ground.”, in Mechanical Engineering, volume 131, number 5, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
Smaller, turbocharged engines are one way to increase engine efficiency by 8 to 10 percent, but the extra hardware is expensive.
ref:
2011 January, “Swedish Sportster”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 188, number 1, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.
ref:
1952, R.L. Michaelson, “Binary Arithmetic”, in The Incorporated Statistician, volume 3, number 1 (Feb. 1952), pages 35–40
type:
quotation
text:
The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fixtures, equipment, tools and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.
Equipment.
The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.
Electronic equipment.
Metal implements.
A firearm.
Medals or trophies.
Short for hardware store.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
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10512 | word:
AKA
word_type:
prep
expansion:
AKA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
That man by the bar is Frank, AKA "the lady killer".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of also known as.
senses_topics:
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10513 | word:
bullet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bullet (countable and uncountable, plural bullets)
forms:
form:
bullets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
bullet
etymology_text:
From Middle English bullet (“an official tag or badge of registration or identification”), from Old French bullete, diminutive of boule (“ball”). Later influenced by Middle French boulette and French boulet.
senses_examples:
text:
John's not going to any of his top schools; he got a bullet from the last of them yesterday.
type:
example
text:
The miser, a-seeking lost gelt,
The doughboy, awaiting the battle,
May possibly know how I felt
While the long years dragged by as the dealer
As slow as the slowest of dubs,
Stuck out the last helping of tickets
'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!
ref:
1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor, volumes 2-3, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.
ref:
2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
bullet train; bullet chess
type:
example
text:
Nakamura is a different animal at 15-minute rapid and five-minute blitz and even more so at one-minute bullet, and in this match he adopted a psychological approach which paid off brilliantly.
ref:
2020 August 21, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Carlsen fights back from brink to overcome Nakamura in 38-game epic”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Carlsen also has been engaging in online marathons of "bullet chess," exactly the kind of attention-disrupting, energy-draining stunt contenders are supposed to avoid. In a bullet game, each player has only one minute for all the moves. The pace is so rapid the games are hard to watch, much less play.
ref:
2021 November 24, Tyler Cowen, “Chess Is an Esport Now. Get Used to It.”, in The Washington Post
type:
quotation
text:
Even today, when they're home, the siblings indulge in a friendly game or two. "We love playing bullet games. It's a format where we make really quick moves," he says, pausing to add, "Think of it like a super over in cricket."
ref:
2022 July 27, Srinivasa Ramanujam, “'Feels like a festival': Praggnanandhaa on Chess Olympiad and meeting Rajinikanth”, in The Hindu
type:
quotation
text:
Would you not suppose these persons had been whispered, by the Master of the Ceremonies, the promise of some momentous destiny? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe?
ref:
1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque
type:
quotation
text:
A ship before Greenwich […] shot off her ordinance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone.
ref:
1592, John Stow, The Annales of England
type:
quotation
text:
I'm eighteen with a bullet
Got my finger on the trigger, I'm gonna pull it
[…]
I'm high on the chart
I'm tip for the top
ref:
1975, Pete Wingfield (lyrics and music), “Eighteen with a Bullet”
type:
quotation
text:
Her third release hit number one in record time — “number one with a bullet” as they said in the industry — and after that, there seemed to be no stopping her.
ref:
2013, Hallee Bridgeman, A Melody for James
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.
A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
One year of prison time.
An ace (the playing card).
Anything that is projected extremely fast.
Very fast (speedy).
Short for bullet chess.
A plumb or sinker.
The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
A small ball.
A cannonball.
The fetlock of a horse.
A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
senses_topics:
media
publishing
typography
banking
business
finance
board-games
chess
games
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
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10514 | word:
bullet
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bullet (third-person singular simple present bullets, present participle bulleting, simple past and past participle bulleted)
forms:
form:
bullets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bulleting
tags:
participle
present
form:
bulleted
tags:
participle
past
form:
bulleted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
bullet
etymology_text:
From Middle English bullet (“an official tag or badge of registration or identification”), from Old French bullete, diminutive of boule (“ball”). Later influenced by Middle French boulette and French boulet.
senses_examples:
text:
For instance, in the article on Tim Berners-Lee, we have bulleted "World Wide Web"
ref:
2000, Merriam-Webster's collegiate encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster, Inc, page x
type:
quotation
text:
The author has bulleted this section to make it easier to read and included important notes and warnings.
ref:
2004, Richard P. Pohanish, HazMat data: for first response, transportation, storage, and security, page x
type:
quotation
text:
I had mind-mapped everything from my business to my baby girl's needs and had bulleted my talking points, brownie points, and breaking points for just about every life area
ref:
2008, Deanna Davis, The law of attraction in action, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Their debut started slow, but bulleted to number six in its fourth week.
type:
example
text:
He bulleted a header for his first score of the season.
type:
example
text:
They got bro-bro stuck on the wing, cah I picked up and bullet him
ref:
2021 July 18, “‘Woop’ Freestyle” (0:25 from the start), Trizz (lyrics)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
To speed, like a bullet.
To make a shot, especially with great speed.
To inflict bullet shots upon.
senses_topics:
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10515 | word:
bullet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bullet (plural bullets)
forms:
form:
bullets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table From bull + -let.
senses_examples:
text:
—Chicago boasts of a citizen of fine discrimination and delicacy, who, riding in the suburbs with his best girl, passed a stable in the door of which stood a couple of calves. "See," said the young lady, "those two cute little cowlets." "Those are not cowlets, Araminta; they are bullets."
ref:
1886, Hamilton Literary Magazine, Clippings, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
“I am not sure a compilation of odds and ends should be called a ‘book.’ Perhaps ‘booklet’ would be the better designation. My daughter, when quite young, once spoke of a heifer calf she saw grazing on the rim of the road as a ‘cowlet.’ In reality, the wayside animal was a ‘bullet.’ Though this book, or booklet, isn’t even calf-bound, the analogy should have been close enough to make me wary of jumping to a conclusion. However, it is too late now.
ref:
1937, Quarterly Bulletin: The Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
YES — imagine, if you can, that all human beings are cows and or bulls for just one day (I just can’t stand the thoughts of being a cow for more than one day). SO — lets take the cow and bull side of the question first. REMEMBER — you are a cow or bull. Mrs. Cow has been home all day busy getting the cotton seed meal and hulls ready for dinner, tending to the little cowlets and bullets and baking a bale of hay.
ref:
1959, C. B. Kitchens, X-syrps from the Trickem News Chronic, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
> Correct. No other animals drink cow's milk but cows! / Cows drink milk? Maybe their little cowlets and bullets (future steerlets) do; but I have yet to see a cow drink milk. Other animals love cow milk. My dog, the barn cats up the road.
ref:
2013 November 20, Gorio, “Re: Milk, redefined. What do you think about this????”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), message-ID <Gorio.cd28428.923639@foodbanter.com>
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young or little bull; a male calf.
senses_topics:
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10516 | word:
famine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
famine (countable and uncountable, plural famines)
forms:
form:
famines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
famine
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French famine, itself from the root of Latin fames. Cognate with Spanish hambruna (“famine”).
senses_examples:
text:
It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.
ref:
1831 July 15, “Of the Blood”, in Western Journal of Health, volume 4, number 1, L. B. Lincoln, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Dr. Bhatia pointed out that famine had occurred in all ages and in all societies where means of communication and transport were not developed.
ref:
1971, Central Institute of Research & Training in Public Cooperation
type:
quotation
text:
1986, United States Congress, House Select Committee on Hunger, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Famine and Recovery in Africa
The root causes of the current famine are known: poverty, low health standards....
text:
His own flesh, however, which he lost by famine, shall be restored to him by Him who can recover even what has evaporated.
ref:
1871 (orig. 426), Augustine, The City of God, transl. Marcus Dods
text:
the Lancashire Cotton Famine
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extreme shortage of food in a region.
A period of extreme shortage of food in a region.
Starvation or malnutrition.
Severe shortage or lack of something.
senses_topics:
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10517 | word:
handbook
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handbook (plural handbooks)
forms:
form:
handbooks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
handbook
etymology_text:
1814, from hand + book, or perhaps a reintroduction of Middle English hond book, hondebooke, from Old English handbōc (“handbook”), or a calque of German Handbuch (“handbook”). Compare Dutch handboek, Danish håndbog, Swedish handbok.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: sportsbook
text:
The extent of the business done in this line is not understood by those who have not looked into it. In New York there are 50 pool rooms and 500 handbooks; in East St. Louis, 20 handbooks; in Chicago, 5 pool rooms and 200 handbooks; […]
ref:
1916, U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on interstate commerce, Prevention of Transmission of Race-gambling Bets, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Persons subject to his rule can be found operating, in addition to the wire service, wire service relays, handbooks, gambling houses, prostitution establishments, coin-operated device companies, bars, restaurants, night clubs, motels, […]
ref:
1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A topically organized book of reference on a certain field of knowledge, regardless of size, but archetypally one to be kept readily at hand.
A place where illicit bets can be placed.
senses_topics:
gambling
games |
10518 | word:
abomasus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abomasus (plural abomasi)
forms:
form:
abomasi
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of abomasum
senses_topics:
|
10519 | word:
nazi
word_type:
adj
expansion:
nazi (comparative more nazi, superlative most nazi)
forms:
form:
more nazi
tags:
comparative
form:
most nazi
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See Nazi.
senses_examples:
text:
Auschwitz was a nazi concentration camp.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Nazi
senses_topics:
|
10520 | word:
nazi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nazi (plural nazis)
forms:
form:
nazis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See Nazi.
senses_examples:
text:
The most prominent and well-known nazi was Adolf Hitler.
type:
example
text:
I tried to get into the club, but the door nazi threw me out.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Nazi
senses_topics:
|
10521 | word:
PS
word_type:
name
expansion:
PS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names:
Proto-Slavic.
Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names:
Proto-Semitic.
Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names:
Proto-Salish, Proto-Salishan.
Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names:
Proto-Sahaptian.
Initialism of PlayStation.
Initialism of Photoshop.
PostScript, a page description language.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
video-games
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10522 | word:
PS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PS (countable and uncountable, plural PSes or PSs)
forms:
form:
PSes
tags:
plural
form:
PSs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
senses_examples:
text:
USPS ― United States Postal Service
type:
example
text:
Alternative forms: P.S., p.s., ps.
text:
PS I love you.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of postal service.
Initialism of public school.
Initialism of public service(s).
Initialism of PlayStation.
Initialism of paddle steamer.
Initialism of power supply.
Initialism of police sergeant, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
polystyrene
Initialism of parallel slalom.
Initialism of post scriptum, postscriptum, postscript. (initialism written at the end of a text as a footnote)
senses_topics:
education
government
video-games
nautical
transport
government
law-enforcement
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
10523 | word:
PS
word_type:
adj
expansion:
PS (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of packet-switched.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
10524 | word:
PS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PS (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German PS (“Pferdestärke”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
metric horsepower
senses_topics:
|
10525 | word:
Watson
word_type:
name
expansion:
Watson
forms:
wikipedia:
Watson
etymology_text:
From Wat + -son.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A northern English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
Any character who acts as a catalyst for the detective protagonist's mental processes in a mystery story; a consciousness that is privy to facts in the case without being in on the conclusions drawn from them until the proper time. After William L. DeAndrea, discussing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
A town in the Rural Municipality of Lakeside No. 338, Saskatchewan, Canada.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Alabama.
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Desha County, Arkansas.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Effingham County, Illinois.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clark County, Indiana.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Livingston Parish, Louisiana.
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Chippewa County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Atchison County, Missouri.
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Lewis County, New York.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Seneca County, Ohio.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McCurtain County, Oklahoma.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia.
A number of places in the United States:
An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
senses_topics:
|
10526 | word:
impassible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
impassible (comparative more impassible, superlative most impassible)
forms:
form:
more impassible
tags:
comparative
form:
most impassible
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French impassible.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unable to feel emotion; impassive.
Incapable of suffering detriment or injury.
Unable to suffer, or feel pain.
Misspelling of impassable.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology
|
10527 | word:
dampishness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dampishness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dampish + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being moderately damp or moist.
senses_topics:
|
10528 | word:
dampne
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dampne (third-person singular simple present dampnes, present participle dampning, simple past and past participle dampned)
forms:
form:
dampnes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dampning
tags:
participle
present
form:
dampned
tags:
participle
past
form:
dampned
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
But lete them be ware least they dampne not their owne wretched sowles.
ref:
1547, Anne Askew, The lattre examinacyon of Anne Askewe in 1996, Elaine V. Beilin, The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, page 86
text:
But when he wayeth the fault, and recompence, / He dampneth this hys dede and fyndeth playne / Atwene them two no whytt equiualence: […]
ref:
a. 1542, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Certayne Psalmes in 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets: from Chaucer to Cowper, volume 2, page 395
text:
For hereby shall be a great occasion to satisfie the Princess Dowager and the Lady Mary, which doe thinke that they sholde dampne thair sowles if thay sholde abandon and relinquish thair astats.
ref:
a. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, Certayne Psalmes in 1836, Richard Challoner, Modern British Martyrology, Keating, Brown & Co., page 58
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of damn.
senses_topics:
|
10529 | word:
damp off
word_type:
verb
expansion:
damp off (third-person singular simple present damps off, present participle damping off, simple past and past participle damped off)
forms:
form:
damps off
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
damping off
tags:
participle
present
form:
damped off
tags:
participle
past
form:
damped off
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Sweet alyssum seedlings are particularly prone to damping off, so do not overmoisten the soil.
ref:
1991, Complete Guide to Gardening and Landscaping, page 213
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of plants: to decay and perish through excessive moisture.
senses_topics:
|
10530 | word:
dampy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dampy (comparative more dampy, superlative most dampy)
forms:
form:
more dampy
tags:
comparative
form:
most dampy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From damp + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
Dispel dampy thoughts.
type:
example
text:
For, in the easy Vale if she be set below, no
What is she but obscure ? and her more dampy shade
And covert, but a den for beasts of ravin made
ref:
1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, reprint edition, published 1876, song 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Somewhat damp.
Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful.
senses_topics:
|
10531 | word:
dampishly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
dampishly (comparative more dampishly, superlative most dampishly)
forms:
form:
more dampishly
tags:
comparative
form:
most dampishly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dampish + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a moderately damp or moist manner.
senses_topics:
|
10532 | word:
paper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
paper (countable and uncountable, plural papers)
forms:
form:
papers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
paper
etymology_text:
From Middle English paper, from Anglo-Norman paper, from Old Catalan paper, borrowed from Latin papȳrus (and given the Catalan suffix -er), from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros).
senses_examples:
text:
“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
ref:
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
type:
quotation
text:
However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper!
ref:
2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.
ref:
2014 January 24, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Why might not a Government annuity, the Principal of which was originally invested in Paper since the Cash suspension in 1797, be constituted the guarantee of Paper Money, emendating from that investiture and suspension, and the Parliament authority transferred to its security, as it has been to its creation, in preference to all others, while Paper continues our general Medium.
ref:
1812, William Major, Theory of Money and Exchanges, page XV
type:
quotation
text:
[…] three millions and a half specie in its vaults, and nearly six millions invested in paper, loans, discounts, pledges […]
ref:
1859, The Bankers' Magazine, and Statistical Register, page 244
type:
quotation
text:
a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
type:
example
text:
cantharides paper
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
Wallpaper.
Wrapping paper.
An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
A scholastic essay.
A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
Money.
Any financial assets other than specie.
A university course.
A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
The people admitted by free passes.
senses_topics:
games
rock-paper-scissors
business
finance
|
10533 | word:
paper
word_type:
adj
expansion:
paper (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
paper
etymology_text:
From Middle English paper, from Anglo-Norman paper, from Old Catalan paper, borrowed from Latin papȳrus (and given the Catalan suffix -er), from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros).
senses_examples:
text:
paper bag; paper plane
type:
example
text:
paper tiger; paper gangster
type:
example
text:
2016: Manila Standard, "Speed limiter law: A paper tiger"; Maricel Cruz
Speed limiter law: A paper tiger
text:
2016: The Australian, "China says Australia ‘is no paper tiger, only a paper cat at best’"; Rowan Callick
It concluded that Australia was “not even a paper tiger, it’s only a paper cat at best”
text:
paper rocket; paper engine
type:
example
text:
We have to be able to demonstrate that it is not just a paper engine but a real engine
ref:
2015, Flight Global, “Airbus Helicopters to begin Arrano tests for H160 shortly”, in Dominic Perr
type:
quotation
text:
2015: CBS News, "ULA unveils new rocket to replace Russian boosters"; William Harwood
In a background teleconference hosted by SpaceX late last week, an unnamed official dismissed ULA's new booster as a "paper rocket," saying he doubted it would be significantly cheaper than ULA's current stable of launchers.
text:
2010: BBC News, "Pratt & Whitney eyes global plane engine deals"; Jorn Madslien
Ours is not a paper engine... these are real engines that are in production today
text:
"The Ares 1 is a paper rocket that's far off in the future," Musk said. "Falcon 9 is a real rocket, most of which is at Cape Canaveral right now."
ref:
2010, Spaceflight Now, “Musk refutes report slamming safety standards”, in Stephen Clark
type:
quotation
text:
a paper baron; a paper lord
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made of paper.
Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.
senses_topics:
|
10534 | word:
paper
word_type:
verb
expansion:
paper (third-person singular simple present papers, present participle papering, simple past and past participle papered)
forms:
form:
papers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
papering
tags:
participle
present
form:
papered
tags:
participle
past
form:
papered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
paper
etymology_text:
From Middle English paper, from Anglo-Norman paper, from Old Catalan paper, borrowed from Latin papȳrus (and given the Catalan suffix -er), from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros).
senses_examples:
text:
to paper the hallway walls
text:
After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.
type:
example
text:
Later, seat-filling or “papering” services cropped up, with organizations like Audience Extras, Play-by-Play, […]
ref:
2020, Kelly Kessler, Broadway in the Box, page 198
type:
quotation
text:
As powerhouse lawyers shuttled to Cuba to meet clients and papered the federal courts with habeas corpus petitions, Guantanamo's isolation and lack of publicity, once the military's most powerful psychological weapon, was eliminated.
ref:
2006, Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the warning received only six weeks later for poor attendance as proof that the employer was unjustly papering his personnel file in an effort to create a reason for discharge.
ref:
2007, Thomas M. Hanna, The Employer's Legal Advisor: Handling Problem Employees Effectively ...
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply paper to.
To document; to memorialize.
To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
To sandpaper.
To enfold in paper.
To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.
senses_topics:
|
10535 | word:
successism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
successism (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From success + -ism, probably after the Japanese 成功主義.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ideology of striving for competition; achievement-orientation.
The worship or idealization of success.
senses_topics:
|
10536 | word:
parliament
word_type:
noun
expansion:
parliament (countable and uncountable, plural parliaments)
forms:
form:
parliaments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Palace of Westminster
Parliament of the United Kingdom
etymology_text:
From Middle English parlement, from Anglo-Norman parliament, parlement, parliment and Old French parlement (“discussion, meeting, negotiation; assembly, council”), from parler (“to speak”) + -ment (“-ment”, suffix forming nouns from verbs, usually indicating an action or state resulting from them) (from Latin -mentum). Compare Medieval Latin parlamentum, parliamentum (“discussion, meeting; council or court summoned by the monarch”), Italian parlamento and Sicilian parramentu.
senses_examples:
text:
By the 13th Century, a parliament was when kings met up with English barons to raise cash for fighting wars - mostly against Scotland.
ref:
2014, “A brief history of the UK Parliament”, in BBC News
type:
quotation
text:
The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP.
ref:
2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-04-19
type:
quotation
text:
Following the general election, Jane Doe took her oath of office as a member of the nation's fifth parliament.
type:
example
text:
The acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraigne Charles, by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. […]
ref:
1633, John Hay, editor, The Acts Made in the First Parliament of our Most High and Dread Soveraigne Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.: Holden by Himselfe, Present in Person, with His Three Estates, at Edinburgh, upon the Twentie Eight Day of Iune, Anno Domini 1633, Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Young, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, →OCLC, title page
type:
quotation
text:
[T]he army under Lambert again thrust the Rump Parliament out of doors, and commenced a new military government, by means of a committee of officers, called the Council of Safety.
ref:
1834, Walter Scott, Tales of a Grandfather (Waverley Tales; 49), Parker's edition, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Samuel H[ale] Parker, →OCLC, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
"The people at home call it a rook's parliament when a whole crowd of rooks settle on some bare, wide common, and sit there as if they were consulting, not feeding, only stalking about with drooping wings, and solemn black cloaks."
ref:
1866, [Charlotte Mary Yonge], chapter III, in The Heir of Redclyffe […] In Two Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 443 & 445 Broadway, →OCLC, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
Man is not the random collection of atoms with no opportunity for redemption. A mere school of fish, a gaggle of geese, a pride of lions, and a congress of baboons—am I to believe these lower primates are my ancestors? And if I should ask a parliament of owls, what might they say?
ref:
2015 January 5, Desmond Mattocks, “Seeking Meaning”, in The Last Word of America: The World in Context of America, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, page 97
type:
quotation
text:
He'd seen a parliament of rooks a hundred strong fall on and kill one of their number amongst the nodding barley rows, and had been shown a yew that had the face of Jesus in its bark.
ref:
2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
The children had long ago found out that the kites and shuttlecocks were failures; and popular rumour spoke in deprecating terms of the parliament and gingerbread in general, comparing it to petrified sponge, or slices of pumice stone.
ref:
1846, Albert Smith, The Snob's Progress
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A formal council summoned (especially by a monarch) to discuss important issues.
In many countries, the legislative branch of government, a deliberative assembly or set of assemblies whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day, make, amend, and repeal laws, authorize the executive branch of government to spend money, and in some cases exercise judicial powers; a legislature.
A particular assembly of the members of such a legislature, as convened for a specific purpose or period of time (commonly designated with an ordinal number – for example, first parliament or 12th parliament – or a descriptive adjective – for example, Long Parliament, Short Parliament and Rump Parliament).
A gathering of birds, especially rooks or owls.
Parliament cake, a type of gingerbread.
senses_topics:
|
10537 | word:
dampish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dampish (comparative more dampish, superlative most dampish)
forms:
form:
more dampish
tags:
comparative
form:
most dampish
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From damp + -ish.
senses_examples:
text:
c. 1600, author unknown, once attributed to William Shakespeare, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, London: J.M. Dent, 1897, Act I, Scene 3 https://archive.org/details/merrydevilofedmo00fabe
We'll first hang Enfield in such rings of mist / As never rose from any dampish fen: / I'll make the brinèd sea to rise at Ware, / And drown the marshes unto Stratford Bridge;
text:
Miles of long, dark-brown, dampish-looking galleries stretch away to the right and left, and though devoid of the picturesque festoons of fungi which decorate the London Dock vaults, exhibit a sufficient degree of mouldiness to give them an air of respectable antiquity.
ref:
1879, Henry Vizetelly, chapter X, in Facts about Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines, London: Ward, Lock & Co, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
I was four but I turned four hundred maybe,
Encountering the ancient dampish feel
Of a clay floor. Maybe four thousand even.
ref:
1991, Seamus Heaney, “Squarings xl”, in Seeing Things, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
Her hand was warm, lying there in his, dampish, fingers interlaced with his.
ref:
2006, William Trevor, “An Afternoon”, in Cheating at Canasta, New York: Viking, published 2007, page 99
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characterised by noxious vapours; misty, smoky.
Moderately damp or moist.
senses_topics:
|
10538 | word:
Gambel's quail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Gambel's quail (plural Gambel's quails)
forms:
form:
Gambel's quails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
After William Gambel, American naturalist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A quail of North America (of the US-American southwest and the Mexican northwest), Callipepla gambelii.
senses_topics:
|
10539 | word:
dampness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dampness (usually uncountable, plural dampnesses)
forms:
form:
dampnesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From damp + -ness.
senses_examples:
text:
With 3,600 h.p. underfoot, acceleration was reasonably brisk, but the flickering wheel-slip indicator light showed the prudence of not putting full power through the traction motors while there were traces of early-morning dampness on the rails.
ref:
1960 August, R. K. Evans, “Railway Modernisation in Spain”, in Trains Illustrated, page 494
type:
quotation
text:
They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease.
ref:
1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
The dampness in the writing paper caused the ink to spread and smudge.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Moderate humidity; moisture; moistness; the state or quality of being damp.
The degree to which something is damp or moist.
senses_topics:
|
10540 | word:
odiousness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
odiousness (countable and uncountable, plural odiousnesses)
forms:
form:
odiousnesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From odious + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The condition of being odious
An odious thing
senses_topics:
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10541 | word:
memory
word_type:
noun
expansion:
memory (countable and uncountable, plural memories)
forms:
form:
memories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Anglo-Norman memorie, Old French memoire etc., from Latin memoria (“the faculty of remembering, remembrance, memory, a historical account”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (to remember), related to Ancient Greek μνήμη (mnḗmē, “memory”) μέρμερος (mérmeros, “anxious”), μέριμνα (mérimna, “care, thought”), Old English mimor (“mindful, remembering”). More at mimmer. Doublet of memoir and memoria. Displaced native Old English ġemynd.
senses_examples:
text:
Memory is a facility common to all animals.
type:
example
text:
I have no memory of that event.
type:
example
text:
My wedding is one of my happiest memories.
type:
example
text:
This data passes from the CPU to the memory.
type:
example
text:
My first microcomputer had 12K of memory. When I expanded to a full 64K, I thought I had all the memory I'd ever need. Hah. I know better now.
ref:
1987 July 27, Jerry Pournelle, “Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full”, in InfoWorld, volume 9, number 30, InfoWorld Media Group Inc, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
in recent memory
type:
example
text:
in living memory
type:
example
text:
memory metal
type:
example
text:
memory plastic
type:
example
text:
After he saw her a few more times, Mr. Cherkasky asked Ms. Cochrane out on a date in May 2008 to Central Park. He brought along some games to break the ice, and Ms. Cochrane brought cupcakes. They found a quiet place to sit and played Memory and Yahtzee, both of which were new to Ms. Cochrane.
ref:
2010 July 30, Paula Schwartz, “Lyndsea Cochrane and Ethan Cherkasky”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
One example of that would be a memory game that I originally worked on with a friend of mine at Ovrflo Media some time ago. If you aren't familiar with the game of memory, it's a matching game where you are presented with several cards in the facedown position.
ref:
2010, Jason Fincanon, “Advergaming and Applications”, in Flash Advertising: Flash Platform Development of Microsites, Advergames and Branded Applications, Burlington, MA: Focal Press, page 183
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.
A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
Which returns to its original shape when heated
A memorial.
Synonym of pelmanism (“memory card game”).
A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
10542 | word:
extreme
word_type:
adj
expansion:
extreme (comparative extremer or more extreme, superlative extremest or most extreme)
forms:
form:
extremer
tags:
comparative
form:
more extreme
tags:
comparative
form:
extremest
tags:
superlative
form:
most extreme
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French extreme, from Latin extrēmus, the superlative of exter.
senses_examples:
text:
At the extreme edges, the coating is very thin.
type:
example
text:
He has an extreme aversion to needles, and avoids visiting the doctor.
type:
example
text:
His extreme love of model trains showed in the rails that criscrossed his entire home.
type:
example
text:
An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
ref:
2013 March 24, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
I think the new laws are extreme, but many believe them necessary for national security.
type:
example
text:
Television has begun to reflect the growing popularity of extreme sports such as bungee jumping and skateboarding.
type:
example
text:
the extreme hour of life
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.
In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
Excessive, or far beyond the norm.
Drastic, or of great severity.
Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.
Ultimate, final or last.
senses_topics:
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10543 | word:
extreme
word_type:
noun
expansion:
extreme (plural extremes)
forms:
form:
extremes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French extreme, from Latin extrēmus, the superlative of exter.
senses_examples:
text:
extremes of temperature
type:
example
text:
Most public discussion about heat extremes refers to risks faced by the general community. Yet even greater extremes of heat exposure do and will occur in many occupational settings, posing special risks to health, behavior, and work capacity.
ref:
2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
Some people go to extremes for attention on social media.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition.
Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.
One of the last moments of life.
A drastic expedient.
Hardships, straits.
Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
10544 | word:
extreme
word_type:
adv
expansion:
extreme (comparative more extreme, superlative most extreme)
forms:
form:
more extreme
tags:
comparative
form:
most extreme
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French extreme, from Latin extrēmus, the superlative of exter.
senses_examples:
text:
In the empty and extreme cold theatre.
ref:
1796, Charles Burney, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Metastasio, section 2.5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extremely.
senses_topics:
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10545 | word:
fast
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fast (comparative faster, superlative fastest)
forms:
form:
faster
tags:
comparative
form:
fastest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
fast
etymology_text:
From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.
The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”). Also compare close meaning change from Latin rapiō (“to snatch”) to Latin rapidus (“rapid, quick”), from Irish sciob (“to snatch”) to Irish sciobtha (“quick”).
senses_examples:
text:
That rope is dangerously loose. Make it fast!
type:
example
text:
I still hear you sayin', "Dear one, hold me fast"
ref:
1933, Will Hudson, Irving Mills, Eddy DeLange, Moonglow
type:
quotation
text:
I am going to buy a fast car.
type:
example
text:
Plutonium-240 has a much higher fission cross-section for fast neutrons than for thermal neutrons.
type:
example
text:
Sydney is a fast city, and the pace is becoming increasingly more frantic.
ref:
1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
a fast racket, or tennis court
type:
example
text:
a fast track
type:
example
text:
a fast billiard table
type:
example
text:
a fast dance floor
type:
example
text:
All the washing has come out pink. That red tee-shirt was not fast.
type:
example
text:
a fast woman
type:
example
text:
[…] we remember once hearing a fast man suggest that they were evidently "nobs who had overdrawn the badger by driving fast cattle, and going it high" — the exact signification of which words we did not understand […]
ref:
1852, John Swaby, Physiology of the Opera, page 74
type:
quotation
text:
Had Senator Wilson won the unenviable reputation of being a fast man—a lover of wine, or had he shown himself to the public in a state of inebriety, unable to stand erect in Fanueil Hall for instance, leaning upon the desk to “maintain the center of gravity,” and uttering words that fell sprawling in “muddy obscurity” from lips redolent of rum, rendering it necessary for a prompter and an interpreter to sculpture his speech into symmetry for the public ear and the public press, he would have been pelted from his high office with the indignant ballots of his constituents.
ref:
1867, George W. Bungay, “Temperance and its Champions”, in The Herald of Health and Journal of Physical Culture, volume I, page 277
type:
quotation
text:
You're alone with her at last / And you're waiting 'til you think the time is right / Cause you've heard she's pretty fast / And you're hoping that she'll give you some tonight.
ref:
1979, Doug Fieger, Good Girls Don't
type:
quotation
text:
There must be something wrong with the hall clock. It is always fast.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).)
Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
Having a kinetic energy between 1 million and 20 million electron volts; often used to describe the energy state of free neutrons at the moment of their release by a nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction (i.e., before the neutrons have been slowed down by anything).
Of a place, characterised by business, hustle and bustle, etc.
Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
Tenacious; retentive.
Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
More sensitive to light than average.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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10546 | word:
fast
word_type:
adv
expansion:
fast (comparative faster, superlative fastest)
forms:
form:
faster
tags:
comparative
form:
fastest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
fast
etymology_text:
From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.
The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”). Also compare close meaning change from Latin rapiō (“to snatch”) to Latin rapidus (“rapid, quick”), from Irish sciob (“to snatch”) to Irish sciobtha (“quick”).
senses_examples:
text:
Hold this rope as fast as you can.
type:
example
text:
He is fast asleep.
type:
example
text:
The horsemen came fast on our heels.
type:
example
text:
Fast by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped. / That ain't my style, said Casey. Strike one, the umpire said.
type:
example
text:
Do it as fast as you can.
type:
example
text:
Faster than a speeding bit, the internet upended media and entertainment companies. Piracy soared, and sales of albums and films slid. Newspapers lost advertising and readers to websites. Stores selling books, CDs and DVDs went bust. Doomsayers predicted that consumers and advertisers would abandon pay-television en masse in favour of online alternatives.
ref:
2013 August 17, “Pennies streaming from heaven”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849
type:
quotation
text:
I think my watch is running fast.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound .
Deeply or soundly .
Immediately following in place or time; close, very near .
Quickly, with great speed; within a short time .
Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
senses_topics:
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10547 | word:
fast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fast (plural fasts)
forms:
form:
fasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fast
etymology_text:
From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.
The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”). Also compare close meaning change from Latin rapiō (“to snatch”) to Latin rapidus (“rapid, quick”), from Irish sciob (“to snatch”) to Irish sciobtha (“quick”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport |
10548 | word:
fast
word_type:
intj
expansion:
fast
forms:
wikipedia:
fast
etymology_text:
From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.
The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”). Also compare close meaning change from Latin rapiō (“to snatch”) to Latin rapidus (“rapid, quick”), from Irish sciob (“to snatch”) to Irish sciobtha (“quick”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target
senses_topics:
archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war |
10549 | word:
fast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fast (third-person singular simple present fasts, present participle fasting, simple past and past participle fasted)
forms:
form:
fasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
fasted
tags:
participle
past
form:
fasted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
fast
etymology_text:
From Middle English fasten, from Old English fæstan (verb), Old English fæsten (noun) from
From Proto-Germanic *fastāną (“fast”), from the same root as Proto-Germanic *fastijaną (“fasten”), derived from *fastuz, and thereby related to Etymology 1.
The religious sense is presumably introduced in the Gothic church, from Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (fastan, “hold fast (viz. to the rule of abstinence)”). This semantic development is unique to Gothic, the term glosses Greek νηστεύω (nēsteúō), Latin ieiuno which do not have similar connotations of "holding fast".
The feminine noun Old High German fasta likely existed in the 8th century (shift to neuter Old High German fasten from the 9th century, whence modern German Fasten).
The Old English noun originally had the sense "fortress, enclosure" and takes the religious sense only in late Old English, perhaps influenced by Old Norse fasta.
The use for reduced nutrition intake for medical reasons or for weight reduction develops by the mid-1970s, back-formed from the use of the verbal noun fasting in this sense (1960s).
senses_examples:
text:
1677 George Fox, The Hypocrites Fast and Feast Not God's Holy Day, p. 8 (paraphrasing Matthew 6:16-18).
And is it not the Command of Christ, that in their Fast they should not appear unto men to fast?
text:
It is at the core of the Vision Quest, the solitary period of fasting and closeness to the earth to discover one's life path and purpose.
ref:
2007, John Zerzan, Silence, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
The ideal would be to fast in a situation where you are not tempted by food
ref:
1977, Suza Norton, “To get the most benefit from fasting use a body-building diet”, in Yoga Journal, Jul-Aug 1977, p. 40
type:
quotation
text:
After the equilibration period, the rats designated for deprivation studies were made to fast for 24, 48, 72, or 96 hr according to experimental design.
ref:
1983, Experimental Lung Research, volumes 5-6, Informa healthcare, page 134
type:
quotation
text:
At 11 weeks of age, all mice were fasted overnight and underwent gallbladder ultrasonography to determine ejection fraction.
ref:
Walker et al. (2007)
text:
Kittens, when fasted overnight, were not hypoglycemic (<60 mg/dl).
ref:
Semick et al. (2018)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To practice religious abstinence, especially from food.
To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet.
(academic) To cause a person or animal to abstain, especially from eating.
senses_topics:
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10550 | word:
fast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fast (plural fasts)
forms:
form:
fasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fast
etymology_text:
From Middle English fasten, from Old English fæstan (verb), Old English fæsten (noun) from
From Proto-Germanic *fastāną (“fast”), from the same root as Proto-Germanic *fastijaną (“fasten”), derived from *fastuz, and thereby related to Etymology 1.
The religious sense is presumably introduced in the Gothic church, from Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (fastan, “hold fast (viz. to the rule of abstinence)”). This semantic development is unique to Gothic, the term glosses Greek νηστεύω (nēsteúō), Latin ieiuno which do not have similar connotations of "holding fast".
The feminine noun Old High German fasta likely existed in the 8th century (shift to neuter Old High German fasten from the 9th century, whence modern German Fasten).
The Old English noun originally had the sense "fortress, enclosure" and takes the religious sense only in late Old English, perhaps influenced by Old Norse fasta.
The use for reduced nutrition intake for medical reasons or for weight reduction develops by the mid-1970s, back-formed from the use of the verbal noun fasting in this sense (1960s).
senses_examples:
text:
1677 George Fox, The Hypocrites Fast and Feast Not God's Holy Day, p. 8 (paraphrasing Matthew 6:16-18).
And is it not the Command of Christ, that in their Fast they should not appear unto men to fast?
text:
anciently a change of diet was not reckoned a fast; but it consisted in a perfect abstinence from all sustenance for the whole day till evening.
ref:
1878, Joseph Bingham, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, volume 2, page 1182
type:
quotation
text:
1662 Peter Gunning, The Holy Fast of Lent Defended Against All Its Prophaners: Or, a Discourse, Shewing that Lent-Fast was First Taught the World by the Apostles (1677 [1662]), p. 13 (translation of the Paschal Epistle of Theophilus of Alexandria).
And so may we enter the Fasts at hand, beginning Lent the 30th. day of the Month Mechir
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or practice of fasting, religious abstinence from food
One of the fasting periods in the liturgical year
senses_topics:
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10551 | word:
link
word_type:
noun
expansion:
link (plural links)
forms:
form:
links
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
link
etymology_text:
From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.
senses_examples:
text:
The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
type:
example
text:
And so by double lynkes enchaynde themselues in louers life
ref:
1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres
type:
quotation
text:
The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
type:
example
text:
The weakest link.
type:
example
text:
The link on the page points to the sports scores.
type:
example
text:
A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
type:
example
text:
They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link," and lined with heath or straw.
ref:
2008, Richard John King, A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex
type:
quotation
text:
But know that God is the strongest link.
ref:
2010, James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry, AuthorHouse, page 32
type:
quotation
text:
The fuse is the weakest link in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable link in the system.
ref:
2010, William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design, RockPort, page 262
type:
quotation
text:
[…] This is so that nobody can change the way every link must talk about the formula that I taught to make a real Chain of Universal Love and not a Chain of Love of a group or sect.
ref:
2010, Stephen Fairweather, The Missing Book of Genesis, AuthorHouse, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
'Dame Foljambe,' said the old man, 'the march of thy tale is like the course of the Wye, seventeen miles of links and windings down a fair valley five miles long. […]'
ref:
1822, Allan Cunningham, “The King of the Peak”, in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, volume 1, page 222
type:
quotation
text:
Too much talk on a music-based station can cause listeners who tune in for the music to go elsewhere. […] 'Some people will say “your link has to be 45 seconds long” but I don't do that,' explains the programme controller of Trent FM, Dick Stone.
ref:
2002, Carole Fleming, The Radio Handbook, page 53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
One element of a chain or other connected series.
Abbreviation of hyperlink.
The connection between buses or systems.
A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
an individual person or element in a system
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
A sausage that is not a patty.
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
An introductory cue.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
mathematics
sciences
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
broadcasting
media |
10552 | word:
link
word_type:
verb
expansion:
link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)
forms:
form:
links
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
linking
tags:
participle
present
form:
linked
tags:
participle
past
form:
linked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
link
etymology_text:
From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.
senses_examples:
text:
All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication.
ref:
1813, :Template:w#, A Tour Through Italy
type:
quotation
text:
My homepage links to my wife's.
type:
example
text:
Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.
type:
example
text:
Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
type:
example
text:
I might link my ting from Barkin'
ref:
2017, Ramz, “Barking”
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To connect two or more things.
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
To post a hyperlink to.
To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
To meet with someone.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software-compilation
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10553 | word:
link
word_type:
noun
expansion:
link (plural links)
forms:
form:
links
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
link
etymology_text:
Plausibly a modification of Medieval Latin linchinus (“candle”), an alteration of Latin lynchinus, itself from Ancient Greek λύχνος (lúkhnos, “lamp”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A torch, used to light dark streets.
senses_topics:
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10554 | word:
link
word_type:
verb
expansion:
link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)
forms:
form:
links
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
linking
tags:
participle
present
form:
linked
tags:
participle
past
form:
linked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
link
etymology_text:
Unknown.
senses_examples:
text:
On a sudden he was aware of a man linking along at his side. He cried a fine night, and the man replied.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
senses_topics:
|
10555 | word:
waterfowl
word_type:
noun
expansion:
waterfowl (plural waterfowl or waterfowls)
forms:
form:
waterfowl
tags:
plural
form:
waterfowls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English waterfoul, water-foul, equivalent to water + fowl. Compare Old English dopfugel (“waterfowl, moorhen”, literally “dipping-fowl”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the birds, such as ducks, geese and swans, that spend most of their non-flying time on water; especially those of the family Anatidae.
senses_topics:
|
10556 | word:
dampen
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dampen (third-person singular simple present dampens, present participle dampening, simple past and past participle dampened)
forms:
form:
dampens
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dampening
tags:
participle
present
form:
dampened
tags:
participle
past
form:
dampened
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From damp + -en.
senses_examples:
text:
We won't let the bad news dampen our spirits.
type:
example
text:
He was dreadfully familiar with everything, and talked about some places we were longing to see in a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm.
ref:
1883 "Pomona's Daughter", Frank R. Stockton, in The Century, vol. XXVI, number 1, May, page 25
text:
Pregnant women are 20 times as likely as other healthy young women to contract listeriosis, probably because in pregnancy the immune system is dampened to prevent rejection of the fetus.
ref:
2007 October 16, Jane E. Brody, “Despite Strides, Listeria Needs Vigilance”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The firm said changes in consumer behaviour had also dampened demand for the powder.
ref:
2020 May 20, “J&J to sell baby powder in UK despite stopping US sales”, in BBC, London: BBC, retrieved 2020-05-22
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
To become damp or moist.
To lessen; to dull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things).
To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
To become damped or deadened.
senses_topics:
|
10557 | word:
lullaby
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lullaby (plural lullabies)
forms:
form:
lullabies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
1560
etymology_text:
From Middle English lullen (“to lull”) + bye. First recorded circa 1560. Compare Old English bī, bī (“lullaby!”, interjection).
senses_examples:
text:
sing a lullaby
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cradlesong, a soothing song to calm children or lull them to sleep.
senses_topics:
|
10558 | word:
lullaby
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lullaby (third-person singular simple present lullabies, present participle lullabying, simple past and past participle lullabied)
forms:
form:
lullabies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lullabying
tags:
participle
present
form:
lullabied
tags:
participle
past
form:
lullabied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
1560
etymology_text:
From Middle English lullen (“to lull”) + bye. First recorded circa 1560. Compare Old English bī, bī (“lullaby!”, interjection).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sing a lullaby to.
senses_topics:
|
10559 | word:
EOD
word_type:
adv
expansion:
EOD (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of every other day.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
10560 | word:
EOD
word_type:
noun
expansion:
EOD
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of explosive ordnance disposal.
Initialism of event of default.
Initialism of end of data.
Initialism of end of discussion.
Initialism of end of day.
Initialism of end of daylight.
senses_topics:
government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
business
finance
law
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10561 | word:
EOD
word_type:
name
expansion:
EOD (plural EODs)
forms:
form:
EODs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Earth Overshoot Day.
senses_topics:
|
10562 | word:
queer
word_type:
adj
expansion:
queer (comparative queerer, superlative queerest)
forms:
form:
queerer
tags:
comparative
form:
queerest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
queer
etymology_text:
Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots.
Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s, see usage notes for more.
senses_examples:
text:
One thing has struck me as a bit queer. During my two terms of office the whole Democratic press, and the morbidly honest and 'reformatory' portion of the Republican press, thought it horrible to keep U.S. troops stationed in the Southern States, and when they were called upon to protect the lives of negroes–as much citizens under the Constitution as if their skins were white–the country was scarcely large enough to hold the sound of indignation belched forth by them for some years. Now, however, there is no hesitation about exhausting the whole power of the government to suppress a strike on the slightest intimation that danger threatens.
ref:
1877, Ulysses S. Grant, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: November 1, 1876-September 30, 1878, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
It looked queer to me to see boxes labeled "His Excellency, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America." The packages so labeled contained Bass ale or Cognac brandy, which cost "His Excellency" less than we Yankees had to pay for it. Think of the President drinking imported liquors while his soldiers were living on pop-corn and water!
ref:
1885, David Dixon Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
“’Tis a queer book - here, leave me git on my spectacles - ” The old man fumbled among his rags, producing a pair of dirty and amazingly antique glasses (...)
ref:
1920, H. P. Lovecraft, w:The Picture in the House
type:
quotation
text:
1927, J. B. S. Haldane, “Possible Worlds” in Possible Worlds and Other Papers, London: Chatto & Windus,
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
text:
A queer look came over John Arable's face. He seemed almost ready to cry himself.
ref:
1952, E. B. White, Charlotte's Web, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Though it may seem very queer,
we've got no jobs to give you here,
so we are sending you to Vietnam.
ref:
1965, “Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation”, Tom Paxton (lyrics), Tom Paxton (music)
type:
quotation
text:
"Well, I'm—I'm jiggered," said Peter, and his voice also sounded queer.
ref:
1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
type:
quotation
text:
VLADIMIR: Hope deferred maketh the something sick, who said that? / ESTRAGON: Why don't you help me? / VLADIMIR: Sometimes I feel it coming all the same. Then I go all queer.
ref:
1954, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
the queer community
type:
example
text:
If gender is no longer to be understood as consolidated through normative sexuality, then is there a crisis of gender that is specific to queer contexts?
ref:
1999, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Routledge, published 2002, preface to 1999 edition
type:
quotation
text:
Historically, this has meant that queer sexuality—defined here not literally or only as same-gender desire but as "the sex of others," meaning any sexuality outside the bounds of the reproductive, white, and genitally oriented—is often positioned against and even as toxic to "nature".
ref:
2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of the "Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Weird, odd, or different; whimsical.
Slightly unwell (mainly in "to feel queer").
Drunk.
Homosexual.
Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.
senses_topics:
|
10563 | word:
queer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
queer (plural queers)
forms:
form:
queers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
queer
etymology_text:
Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots.
Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s, see usage notes for more.
senses_examples:
text:
Now that the first flush of this catastrophe and grief is passed, I write to tell you that it is a judgement on the whole lot of you. Montgomerys, The Snob Queers like [the Earl of] Rosebery & certainly Christian hypocrite [William Ewart] Gladstone [...]
ref:
1894 November 1, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, “[Letter from Queensbury to Alfred Montgomery, 1 Nov 1894, in the aftermath of the trial of Oscar Wilde]”, in Michael S. Foldy, editor, The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, published 1997, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
[...] fourteen young men were invited [...] with the premise that they would have the opportunity of meeting some of the prominent 'queers,' [...] and the further attraction that some 'chickens' as the new recruits in the vice are called, would be available.
ref:
1914 November, Eugene Fisher, “Transmittal to the Sacramento Bee [a.k.a Shakespeare Transmittal]”, in Sharon R. Ullman, editor, Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, published 1998, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
It is the queers themselves whose answers to "What to do about it [homosexuality]" are most important. They, rather than the normals, cops, parents, or doctors are the persons most vitally concerned.
ref:
1940 January-June, Allen Bernstein, “What to do about it: Queers”, in Millions of Queers (Our Homo America), [Unpublished MS of the United States National Library of Medicine], →OCLC, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
Any blow against the queer is really a blow struck against a part of ourselves which we cannot accept or understand. I think in every case it would be correct to say that someone with a strong hostility toward homosexuals has a latent homosexual drive equal to the hostility.
ref:
1959 May, David McReynolds, “McReynolds Reply to [Seymour] Krim”, in Mattachine Review, volume V, number 5, Los Angeles: Mattachine Society, →ISSN, page 11, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
If you asked the man in the modern street for his opinion of homosexuality, he would probably reply, 'I've nothing against queers myself but I wouldn't like one of them to marry my father.'
ref:
1968, Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, London: Cape, →OCLC, page 207
type:
quotation
text:
Queers are under siege.
Queers are being attacked on all front and I'm afraid it's ok with us.
In 1969, Queers were attacked. It wasn't ok. Queers fought back, took the streets. SHOUTED.
ref:
1990 June, Queers Read This, Published Anonymously by Queers [Distributed at New York Pride, 1990], →OCLC, page 2, column 3
type:
quotation
text:
He also voiced his dislike for gays, stating: 'I don't believe in queers. I don't like queers. I don't hate them as a person, but what they do is wrong and an abomination against God.'
ref:
2013 February 5, “Football coach suspended for Michelle Obama insult”, in USA Today, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Gentrification often starts with the artists, revolutionaries, freaks, transfolks, and queers (what I would call my people) moving into poor neighborhoods inhabited by people of color.
ref:
2014, Inga Muscio, Autobiography of a Blue-eyed Devil
type:
quotation
text:
You're shoving the queer.
ref:
1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, page 133
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
A person of any genderqueer identity.
Counterfeit money.
senses_topics:
|
10564 | word:
queer
word_type:
verb
expansion:
queer (third-person singular simple present queers, present participle queering, simple past and past participle queered)
forms:
form:
queers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
queering
tags:
participle
present
form:
queered
tags:
participle
past
form:
queered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
queer
etymology_text:
Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots.
Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s, see usage notes for more.
senses_examples:
text:
I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it.
ref:
1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, page 78
text:
"But lor-a-mussy, Jacob, how could a woman get away from here with all her boxes in the middle of the night?"
"That's what queered me," and Spink slowly shook his head, "and queered a good many; for of course it got newsed about […]"
ref:
1887, G. W. Appelton, chapter II, in A Terrible Legacy: A Tale of the South Downs, London: Ward and Downey, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
"Where do you come from?" Stanley queered.
ref:
1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud; A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter V, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
text:
"Food is what queered the party. We ordered a big supper to be sent up to the room about two o'clock. Alec didn't give the waiter a tip, so I guess the little bastard snitched."
ref:
1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Book Two, Chapter IV, pages 270-271
type:
quotation
text:
Well, then I got buried—shell dropped, and the dug-out caved in—and that queered me. They sent me home.
ref:
1926, D. H. Lawrence, “Glad Ghosts”, in The Complete Short Stories, volume 3, Penguin, published 1977, page 678
type:
quotation
text:
If I go, for instance, to the history of the church in Latin America, and decide to queer the history of the Jesuitic Missions, I may find that, in many ways, the missions were more sexual than Christian.
ref:
2003, Marcella Althaus-Reid, The Queer God, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
Jonathan Goldberg further explores the implications of queering history in his essay in the same volume.
ref:
2006, Carla Freccero, Queer/Early/Modern, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
We might say that there has been a ‘queering’ of urban studies insofar as the metropolitan lives, subcultures and social movements of gays and lesbians are now seen as valid objects of study.
ref:
2013, Mark Davidson, Deborah Martin, chapter 8, in Urban Politics: Critical Approaches, SAGE
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
To puzzle.
To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
LGBT
lifestyle
sexuality |
10565 | word:
queer
word_type:
adv
expansion:
queer (not generally comparable, comparative more queer, superlative most queer)
forms:
form:
more queer
tags:
comparative
form:
most queer
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
queer
etymology_text:
Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots.
Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s, see usage notes for more.
senses_examples:
text:
Twas a queer bachram in the pub that night!
type:
example
text:
Ah, but she was the queer old skeowsha anyhow, Anna Livia, trinkettoes!”
ref:
1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
type:
quotation
text:
Page 6: Tony: Yeah, he's a queer smily fecker, ain't he?
Page 14: Tony: I'll tell yeh one thing Conway he's trainin' queer hard for it!
ref:
1988, Billy Roche, A Handful of Stars, act I, pages 6, 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Queerly.
Very, extremely.
senses_topics:
|
10566 | word:
breast
word_type:
noun
expansion:
breast (plural breasts)
forms:
form:
breasts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
breast
etymology_text:
From Middle English brest, from Old English brēost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”). Compare West Frisian boarst, Danish bryst, Swedish bröst; cf. also Dutch borst, German Brust.
senses_examples:
text:
Tanya’s breasts grew remarkably during pregnancy.
type:
example
text:
The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
ref:
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
type:
quotation
text:
By the time he reached the War Memorial damp had soaked through the breasts of his shirt.
ref:
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
She kindled hope in the breast of all who heard her.
type:
example
text:
The robin has a red breast.
type:
example
text:
Would you like breast or wing?
type:
example
text:
chimney breast
type:
example
text:
plough breast
type:
example
text:
If you burn wood on its own, the flue gases are cooler than from a coal fire. This can result in tars condensing out within the parging and brickwork of the flue, sometimes causing brown or yellow staining on upstairs chimney breasts.
ref:
2015 April 7, Jeff Howell, “The secret of longer lasting tiles [print version: How to avoid cracking up, 4 April 2015, p. P7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property), archived from the original on 2015-04-22
type:
quotation
text:
[…] In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, […]
ref:
1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
The chest, or front of the human thorax.
A section of clothing covering the breast area.
The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one’s heart or innermost thoughts.
The ventral portion of an animal’s thorax.
A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
The front or forward part of anything.
The upper surface of a landform or body of water.
The face of a coal working.
The front of a furnace.
The power of singing; a musical voice.
The breaststroke.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
business
mining
business
mining
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming |
10567 | word:
breast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
breast (third-person singular simple present breasts, present participle breasting, simple past and past participle breasted)
forms:
form:
breasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
breasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
breasted
tags:
participle
past
form:
breasted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
breast
etymology_text:
From Middle English brest, from Old English brēost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”). Compare West Frisian boarst, Danish bryst, Swedish bröst; cf. also Dutch borst, German Brust.
senses_examples:
text:
[…]when the court, very much to the credit of their candour and firmness, breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer.
ref:
1817, William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
He breasted the hill and saw the town before him.
type:
example
text:
With the sea below us grey and storm swept, and the coast line vague in the driving rain, we forged our way up the bank to breast the summit at 37 m.p.h.
ref:
1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
But this was excelled by the remarkable feat of Iron Duke, on the second run, in accelerating from a dead start at Miller's Dale up 1 in 90 to no less than 53 m.p.h. before breasting the summit at Peak Forest.
ref:
1960 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 178
type:
quotation
text:
Breast the birds; wash and dry well. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place the birds in a roasting pan.
ref:
2005, Texas Judicial Cookbook: Hello There!
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
To reach the top (of a hill).
To debreast.
senses_topics:
cooking
food
lifestyle |
10568 | word:
damper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
damper (plural dampers)
forms:
form:
dampers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Damper
etymology_text:
From damp (verb) + -er.
The name of the type of bread is first attested in 1825, and originally likely refers to damping the appetite.
senses_examples:
text:
Nor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
ref:
1887, William Black, Sabina Zembra
type:
quotation
text:
In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.
ref:
1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 726
type:
quotation
text:
However, complaints quickly surfaced about the ride quality of the SIG BT41 bogies, which was only cured by the fitting of additional dampers to the bogies and couplers.
ref:
2022 September 21, Ben Jones, “IC225s: the Electras go gliding on”, in RAIL, number 966, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
1827, Peter Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, →ISBN,
The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.
text:
The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.
ref:
1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
You hypocritically claim that you are trying to ‘protect’ us; but your modern policy of ‘protection’ (so-called) is killing us off just as surely as the pioneer policy of giving us poisoned damper and shooting us down like dingoes!
ref:
1938, William Ferguson, John Patten, “Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!”, in Anita Heiss, Peter Minter, editors, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that damps or checks:
A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
Something that damps or checks:
A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
Something that damps or checks:
Something that kills the mood.
Something that damps or checks:
A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
Something that damps or checks:
A shock absorber.
Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
senses_topics:
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
10569 | word:
damper
word_type:
adj
expansion:
damper
forms:
wikipedia:
Damper
etymology_text:
From damp (adjective) + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
comparative form of damp: more damp
senses_topics:
|
10570 | word:
window
word_type:
noun
expansion:
window (countable and uncountable, plural windows)
forms:
form:
windows
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
window
window (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English windowe, from Old Norse vindauga (“window”, literally “wind-eye; wind-hole”), equivalent to wind + eye. Cognate with Scots windae and windock, Faroese vindeyga, Norwegian vindu, Danish vindue, archaic Swedish vindöga, Elfdalian windog and older German Windauge. Displaced native Old English ēagþȳrel (literally “eye hole”) (the rare direct descendant is eyethurl (“window, pupil, etc.”)). The “windows” among early Germanic peoples were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through .
senses_examples:
text:
A window is an opening in a wall to admit light and air.
ref:
1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
launch window
type:
example
text:
window of opportunity
type:
example
text:
You have a two-hour window of clear weather to finish working on the lawn.
type:
example
text:
But rescuers have a dwindling window of opportunity, with forecasters predicting the return of heavy monsoon rains in the coming days, effectively sealing off the cave until October.
ref:
2018 July 8, Euan McKirdy, Hilary Whiteman, “Thai cave rescue: Divers enter cave to free boys”, in edition.cnn.com, CNN, retrieved 2018-07-08
type:
quotation
text:
Now she'll be thinking about fleeing. (The verdict delay) provides a window for potential flight....if she has not fled already.
ref:
2017 August 25, Euan McKirdy et al., “Arrest warrant to be issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra”, in edition.cnn.com, CNN, retrieved 2017-08-25
type:
quotation
text:
An extensive period of trial running will then take place in the first quarter of 2020. The full opening of the Elizabeth Line is still planned to be within a six-month window between October 2020 and March 2021.
ref:
2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
“The Russian military command is likely aware of the closing window before more western aid arrives and is trying to secure offensive gains before the window closes,” it said in a briefing on Monday.
ref:
2024 April 23, Luke Harding, Dan Sabbagh, quoting Institute for the Study of War, “Russian forces make significant gains in eastern Ukraine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
His journal provides a rare window into his otherwise obscure life.
type:
example
text:
Then we read Spear's confrontational commentary on the "Richard Pryor Incident" from the Black perspective...and suddenly we began to feel that GCN's window on the Gay World was something we couldn't live without since no other Gay Media voice seemed so speaking.
ref:
1977 December 17, Circle of Loving Companions, “Critical Friends”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 24, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
In this case, a band-pass filter using a range or window of frequencies is appropriate to isolate the frequency or the group of frequencies that characterize a specific cycle.
ref:
2015, Patrick R. Nicolas, Scala for Machine Learning, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
till he has windows on his bread and butter
ref:
1709, William King, Art of Cookery
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.
The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
A period of time when something is available or possible; a limited opportunity.
Something that allows one to see through or into something
A restricted range.
A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.
A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
The time between first infection and detectability.
Synonym of chaff (“strips of material intended to confuse radar”)
A function multiplied with a signal to reduce spectral leakage when performing a Fourier transform.
senses_topics:
architecture
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
medicine
sciences
government
military
politics
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing |
10571 | word:
window
word_type:
verb
expansion:
window (third-person singular simple present windows, present participle windowing, simple past and past participle windowed)
forms:
form:
windows
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
windowing
tags:
participle
present
form:
windowed
tags:
participle
past
form:
windowed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
window (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English windowe, from Old Norse vindauga (“window”, literally “wind-eye; wind-hole”), equivalent to wind + eye. Cognate with Scots windae and windock, Faroese vindeyga, Norwegian vindu, Danish vindue, archaic Swedish vindöga, Elfdalian windog and older German Windauge. Displaced native Old English ēagþȳrel (literally “eye hole”) (the rare direct descendant is eyethurl (“window, pupil, etc.”)). The “windows” among early Germanic peoples were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through .
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To furnish with windows.
To place at or in a window.
To apply a window function to (a signal).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing |
10572 | word:
Bentley
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bentley
forms:
wikipedia:
Bentley
Bentley (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Old English Beonetlēah. Originally a Sussex habitational name, the word leah or leag meaning field in Old English. Hence, equivalent to bent (“bent-grass”) + -leigh/lea (“meadow, field”); compare Bentham.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An English habitational surname from Old English.
A place name, including:
A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
A place name, including:
A town in Alberta, Canada.
A place name, including:
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Rowley parish, East Riding of Yorkshire (OS grid ref TA0135).
A place name, including:
A number of places in England:
A hamlet north-west of Brentwood, Brentwood borough, Essex (OS grid ref TQ5696).
A place name, including:
A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7844).
A place name, including:
A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1136).
A place name, including:
A number of places in England:
An outer suburb of Doncaster, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE5605).
A place name, including:
A number of places in England:
A hamlet and civil parish (served by Bentley and Merevale Parish Council) in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP2895).
A place name, including:
A number of places in England:
A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO9899).
A place name, including:
A number of places in England:
A village in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire.
A place name, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Hancock County, Illinois.
A place name, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
A place name, including:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bay County, Michigan.
A place name, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Gladwin County, Michigan.
A place name, including:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hettinger County, North Dakota.
senses_topics:
|
10573 | word:
Bentley
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bentley (plural Bentleys)
forms:
form:
Bentleys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bentley
Bentley (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Named after the founder of Bentley Motors, WO Bentley.
senses_examples:
text:
The car she reclined in was a 1960s Bentley.
ref:
2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 148
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A motor car manufactured by this company.
senses_topics:
|
10574 | word:
Nipponize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Nipponize (third-person singular simple present Nipponizes, present participle Nipponizing, simple past and past participle Nipponized)
forms:
form:
Nipponizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Nipponizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Nipponized
tags:
participle
past
form:
Nipponized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Nippon + -ize.
senses_examples:
text:
Christianity should be Japan’s greatest ally in Nipponizing its new territory.
ref:
1913 January, “A Great Crime Against Justice”, in Doremus Scudder, editor, The Friend, volume LXXI, number 1, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii: Hawaiian Board Book Rooms, page 4, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
The movie “Nipponizes” King Lear within the protocols of the formalistic patterns of traditional “Noh” drama.
ref:
2012, “Introduction to the Focus Edition”, in William Shakespeare, edited by Kenneth S[prague] Rothwell, The Tragedy of King Lear (New Kittredge Shakespeare), Newburyport, Mass.: Focus Publishing/R[on] Pullins Company, page xxii
type:
quotation
text:
He invited me for a meal. The table was set with plates and chopsticks, little dishes of soy sauce and wasabi paste; bigger platters of sushi, sashimi, tempura, and dumplings; bowls of miso soup. “I have been thoroughly Nipponized,” Floyd said.
ref:
2017, Paul Theroux, “Best Man”, in Mother Land, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Eamon Dolan Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 361
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make or become Japanese, as to customs, culture, or style.
To convert to katakana or to enable to work with the Japanese script.
To translate into Japanese.
senses_topics:
|
10575 | word:
Highlander
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Highlander (plural Highlanders)
forms:
form:
Highlanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Highlander
etymology_text:
From Highlands + -er, equivalent to a specific application of highlander.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the Highlands.
senses_topics:
|
10576 | word:
Highlander
word_type:
name
expansion:
Highlander (plural Highlanders)
forms:
form:
Highlanders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Highlander
etymology_text:
Americanized spelling of German Heilander.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from German.
senses_topics:
|
10577 | word:
avocation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
avocation (countable and uncountable, plural avocations)
forms:
form:
avocations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
avocation
etymology_text:
From Latin āvocātiō (“a distraction”), from āvocō (“I call off, distract”).
senses_examples:
text:
But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
ref:
1934, Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
type:
quotation
text:
Gardening is a wholesome avocation that encourages appreciation for nature and concern for the preservation and enhancement of our environment.
ref:
18 April, 1986, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5462
text:
November 1, 1711, William King, Letter to Jonathan Swift
I have several things on the anvil, and near finished, that perhaps might be useful, if published: but the continual avocation by business, the impositions on me by impertinent visits, and the uneasiness of writing, which grows more intolerable to me every day, I doubt, will prevent my going any farther.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A calling away; a diversion.
A hobby or recreational or leisure pursuit.
That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
The calling of a case from an inferior to a superior court.
senses_topics:
|
10578 | word:
quorate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quorate (plural quorates)
forms:
form:
quorates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A quorum
senses_topics:
|
10579 | word:
quorate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
quorate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
With only five people able to make it to the meeting, we were barely quorate.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a quorum
senses_topics:
|
10580 | word:
pitch in
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pitch in (third-person singular simple present pitches in, present participle pitching in, simple past and past participle pitched in)
forms:
form:
pitches in
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pitching in
tags:
participle
present
form:
pitched in
tags:
participle
past
form:
pitched in
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
If we all pitch in, we can raise enough money for the renovation of the church.
type:
example
text:
He spent 20 minutes one afternoon describing the club he'd formed with other teenagers in his Brooklyn neighborhood. They'd each pitched in a buck a month to rent the basement of a mallet factory, which they used as a clubhouse.
ref:
2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To help out; lend assistance; contribute; to do one's part to help.
To begin briskly.
senses_topics:
|
10581 | word:
search
word_type:
noun
expansion:
search (countable and uncountable, plural searches)
forms:
form:
searches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
search
etymology_text:
From Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Late Latin circō, circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), from Latin circa, circus. Not related to German suchen, which is cognate with English seek.
senses_examples:
text:
With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.
type:
example
text:
At least eight people died, and officials expressed deep concerns that the toll would rise as more searches of homes were carried out.
ref:
2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-31
type:
quotation
text:
Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.
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
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An attempt to find something.
The act of searching in general.
senses_topics:
|
10582 | word:
search
word_type:
verb
expansion:
search (third-person singular simple present searches, present participle searching, simple past and past participle searched)
forms:
form:
searches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
searching
tags:
participle
present
form:
searched
tags:
participle
past
form:
searched
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
search
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
search
etymology_text:
From Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Late Latin circō, circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), from Latin circa, circus. Not related to German suchen, which is cognate with English seek.
senses_examples:
text:
I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.
type:
example
text:
The police are searching for evidence in his flat.
type:
example
text:
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref:
2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To look in (a place) for something.
To look thoroughly.
To look for, seek.
To probe or examine (a wound).
To examine; to try; to put to the test.
senses_topics:
|
10583 | word:
impudence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
impudence (countable and uncountable, plural impudences)
forms:
form:
impudences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French impudence, from Latin impudentia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being impudent, not showing due respect.
Impudent language, conduct or behavior.
senses_topics:
|
10584 | word:
southpaw
word_type:
noun
expansion:
southpaw (plural southpaws)
forms:
form:
southpaws
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
southpaw
etymology_text:
From south + paw.
senses_examples:
text:
Since home plate is generally in the southwest corner to avoid glare in the batter's eyes, a southpaw's pitching hand is to the south.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is left-handed, especially in sports.
One who is left-handed, especially in sports.
A left-handed pitcher.
A boxer who leads with the right hand and guards with the left
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
10585 | word:
anglicize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
anglicize (third-person singular simple present anglicizes, present participle anglicizing, simple past and past participle anglicized)
forms:
form:
anglicizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
anglicizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
anglicized
tags:
participle
past
form:
anglicized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US and Oxford British English standard spelling of anglicise.
senses_topics:
|
10586 | word:
Platonic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Platonic (comparative more Platonic, superlative most Platonic)
forms:
form:
more Platonic
tags:
comparative
form:
most Platonic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Platōnicus. By surface analysis, Plato + -n- (intervocalic) + -ic (“relating to”).
senses_examples:
text:
The homosexual dismisses heterosexual love as a distasteful bondage to normalcy and bourgeois domestication, but the Platonic lover of the soul is dismissing all sexuality as bondage to the physical world.
ref:
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.
Alternative letter-case form of platonic (non-sexual).
senses_topics:
|
10587 | word:
Platonic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Platonic (plural Platonics)
forms:
form:
Platonics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Platōnicus. By surface analysis, Plato + -n- (intervocalic) + -ic (“relating to”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Platonist; a follower of Plato's ideas.
A Platonic solid.
senses_topics:
|
10588 | word:
discreet
word_type:
adj
expansion:
discreet (comparative more discreet or discreeter, superlative most discreet or discreetest)
forms:
form:
more discreet
tags:
comparative
form:
discreeter
tags:
comparative
form:
most discreet
tags:
superlative
form:
discreetest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English discrete, from Old French discret, from Latin discrētus, from past participle of discernere. Doublet of discrete.
senses_examples:
text:
With a discreet gesture, she reminded him to mind his manners.
type:
example
text:
John just doesn't understand that laughing at Mary all day is not very discreet.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Respectful of privacy or secrecy; exercising caution in order to avoid causing embarrassment; quiet; diplomatic.
Not drawing attention, anger or challenge; inconspicuous.
senses_topics:
|
10589 | word:
put by
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put by (third-person singular simple present puts by, present participle putting by, simple past and past participle put by)
forms:
form:
puts by
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting by
tags:
participle
present
form:
put by
tags:
participle
past
form:
put by
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From put + by.
senses_examples:
text:
Our family has been putting food by for generations.
type:
example
text:
I have put by a few hundred pounds for a rainy day.
type:
example
text:
When the lesson was finished, she put by her books and papers.
type:
example
text:
When I came first to Caulds I sought to prevail upon him to accept the eldership, but he aye put me by, and when I heard his tale I saw that he had done wisely.
ref:
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
type:
quotation
text:
I managed to put that transaction by accounts payable.
type:
example
text:
The Bow Spring put by to avoid colliding with the Manzanillo II.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To store, or place in reserve; to save (money, etc.) for later use.
To remove (something) from the present context and into its proper place; (figurative) to reject or disregard.
To perform an action without attracting the attention of.
Of a ship: to be run aground intentionally to avoid a collision
senses_topics:
|
10590 | word:
screwball
word_type:
noun
expansion:
screwball (plural screwballs)
forms:
form:
screwballs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From screw + ball.
senses_examples:
text:
The screwball is not thrown much because it tends to damage pitcher's arms.
type:
example
text:
I will not listen to this screwball any longer.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.
One who behaves in a crazy manner.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
10591 | word:
screwball
word_type:
adj
expansion:
screwball (comparative more screwball, superlative most screwball)
forms:
form:
more screwball
tags:
comparative
form:
most screwball
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From screw + ball.
senses_examples:
text:
Also a big hand for Silver Linings Playbook, an exuberant modern screwball comedy we had, in an unseemly fit of cynicism, deemed "too entertaining" for Academy voters.
ref:
2013 January 11, Tom Shone, The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.
senses_topics:
|
10592 | word:
photography
word_type:
noun
expansion:
photography (usually uncountable, plural photographies)
forms:
form:
photographies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
photography
etymology_text:
From French photographie. By surface analysis, photo- + -graphy, together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines", "drawing". From φωτός (phōtós, “of light”, genitive), and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”).
senses_examples:
text:
go on a photography course
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.
senses_topics:
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10593 | word:
Gaelic
word_type:
name
expansion:
Gaelic
forms:
wikipedia:
Gaelic
etymology_text:
From Gael + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
She taught herself some Gaelic as a child. It’s hard to pronounce, and with no other Gaelic speakers around that she could practice on, she’s forgotten nearly all of what she learned.
ref:
2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 342
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Goidelic; any Goidelic language.
Irish Gaelic.
Goidelic; any Goidelic language.
Manx Gaelic.
Goidelic; any Goidelic language.
Scottish Gaelic.
Goidelic; any Goidelic language.
senses_topics:
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10594 | word:
Gaelic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Gaelic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Gaelic
etymology_text:
From Gael + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the Gaels, the Goidel peoples of Scotland and Ireland, and the Manx, or their languages.
senses_topics:
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10595 | word:
Gaelic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Gaelic (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Gaelic
etymology_text:
From Gael + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
Undoubtedly, the main reasons why many gifted young Irish sportsmen such as Niall Quinn, Kevin Moran and Frank Stapleton opted to play soccer instead of Gaelic is that soccer afforded them the opportunity to display and test their abilities in an international arena and earn a good living.
ref:
1995, John Sugden, Alan Bairner, Sport, Sectarianism and Society, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Short for Gaelic football.
senses_topics:
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10596 | word:
hangbird
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hangbird (plural hangbirds)
forms:
form:
hangbirds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hang + bird.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula), whose nest is suspended from the limb of a tree.
senses_topics:
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10597 | word:
hang-by
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hang-by (plural hang-bys or hang-bies)
forms:
form:
hang-bys
tags:
plural
form:
hang-bies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hang + by.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A dependent; a hanger-on.
senses_topics:
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10598 | word:
covey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
covey (plural covies or coveys)
forms:
form:
covies
tags:
plural
form:
coveys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English covei, covey (“brood of partridges, covey; volley of shot; kind of gun”) [and other forms], from Old French covée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”) (modern French couvée), a noun use of the feminine past participle of cover (“to brood (an egg)”) (modern French couver), from Latin cubāre, the present active infinitive of cubō (“to lie down, recline; to incubate; to be broody”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“to lie down”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* French couvée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”), couver (“to brood (an egg)”)
* Italian covata (“brood, clutch, covey, hatch”), covare (“to brood or incubate (an egg)”)
senses_examples:
text:
Like when you quail huntin' and it's getting dark and you can hear the boss bird whistlin' tryin' to get the covey together again, and he's coming toward you slow and whistlin' soft, cause he knows you somewhere around with your gun.
ref:
1952 April 14, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (A Signet Book; Y3814), New York, N.Y.: New American Library, published 1952, →OCLC, page 52
type:
quotation
text:
No sooner had I spoken than a covey of perhaps twenty birds flushed wild ahead of us and disappeared into the pine woods. […] Just the slamming of a car door, too much talking, or a fast-moving dog will cause a covey to flush well out of gun range.
ref:
1977 November, Pete McLain, “Your Great Outdoors—Northeast: Hunting Northern Bobwhite Quail”, in Field & Stream, volume LXXXII, number 7, New York, N.Y.: CBS Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 89, columns 2–3
type:
quotation
text:
A covey of grey soldiers clanked down the platform at the double with their equipment and embarked, but in absolute silence, which seemed to them very singular.
ref:
1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, London: Faber and Faber; republished in The Avignon Quintet, London: Faber and Faber, 2004, page 736
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).
A group of other birds, such as quail (superfamily Phasianoidea).
A group or party of people; also, a group or set of things.
senses_topics:
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10599 | word:
covey
word_type:
verb
expansion:
covey (third-person singular simple present coveys, present participle coveying, simple past and past participle coveyed)
forms:
form:
coveys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coveying
tags:
participle
present
form:
coveyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
coveyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is derived from Middle English covei, covey (“brood of partridges, covey; volley of shot; kind of gun”) [and other forms], from Old French covée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”) (modern French couvée), a noun use of the feminine past participle of cover (“to brood (an egg)”) (modern French couver), from Latin cubāre, the present active infinitive of cubō (“to lie down, recline; to incubate; to be broody”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“to lie down”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* French couvée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”), couver (“to brood (an egg)”)
* Italian covata (“brood, clutch, covey, hatch”), covare (“to brood or incubate (an egg)”)
senses_examples:
text:
Our fortunes and our ſelves, are things ſo cloſely linked, that vve knovv not vvhich is the cauſe of the love that vve finde, vvhen theſe tvvo ſhall part, vve may then diſcover to vvhich of them affection vvill make vvinge; vvhen they are covied together vve knovv not vvhich is in purſuit; vvhen they riſe and breake, vve ſhall then ſee vvhich is aimed at.
ref:
1649, Edw[ard] Burton, “Of the Triall of Faith and Friendship”, in The Fathers Legacy: Or Burtons Collections. […], London: […] John Clowes, for Mathew Walbancke […], →OCLC, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
The lapwing's covied tribes forsake / The fens, to seek the glassy lake.
An adjective use.
ref:
1832 January, Charles May, “Sonnets. Day-break on the Scotch Coast.”, in The Pocket Magazine, volume I, London: James Robins & Co. […], →OCLC, sonnet no. I, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
There are immense quantities of wild ducks on the rivers, but they are shy, and it is difficult to approach near enough to shoot them. There is a duck called the raft duck, because it is so numerous, coveying together in "whole rafts."
ref:
1869, J[ohn] S[ullivan] Adams, quoting The New York World, “Florida”, in Florida: Its Climate, Soil, and Productions, […], Jacksonville, Fla.: […] Edw[ar]d M. Cheney, […], →OCLC, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
No sooner had I spoken than a covey of perhaps twenty birds flushed wild ahead of us and disappeared into the pine woods. They were not coveyed up, but were scattered out over 100 yards, feeding.
ref:
1977 November, Pete McLain, “Your Great Outdoors—Northeast: Hunting Northern Bobwhite Quail”, in Field & Stream, volume LXXXII, number 7, New York, N.Y.: CBS Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 89, columns 2–3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To gather into a group.
senses_topics:
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