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10600 | word:
covey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
covey (plural coveys)
forms:
form:
coveys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From cove + -y (diminutive suffix). Cove is derived from Romani kodo (“this one; him”) or kova (“that person”).
senses_examples:
text:
I don't know what would become of these here young chaps, if it wasn't for such careful old coveys as we are— […]
ref:
1821 September (first performance), William T[homas] Moncrieff, “Tom and Jerry; or, Life in London”, in Selection from the Dramatic Works of William T. Moncrieff. […], volume III, London: Hailes Lacy, […], published 1851, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
'Pooh!' said he, 'you are as easily wounded as an unfledged dove—don't mind what an old covey like me says—I understand it all.'
ref:
1846, Justin Jones, The Prince and the Queen; or, Scenes in High Life: A Romance of the Court of St. James, Boston, Mass.: U.S. Pub. Co., →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
There vas an old covey as lived in Wapping, at the time I'm telling you of, who vas connected vith us by ties of common interest.
The spelling attempts to reproduce Cockney pronunciation.
ref:
1850, Waldo Howard, “The Burglar’s Story”, in The Mistake of a Life-time: or, The Robber of the Rhine Valley. […], Boston, Mass.: F. Gleason, […], →OCLC, page 140, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male person, a man; a chap, a chappie.
senses_topics:
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10601 | word:
put to
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put to (third-person singular simple present puts to, present participle putting to, simple past and past participle put to)
forms:
form:
puts to
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting to
tags:
participle
present
form:
put to
tags:
participle
past
form:
put to
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I'll put it to the committee and see what they say.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To ask or pose a question, or make a proposal or suggestion.
senses_topics:
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10602 | word:
put out feelers
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put out feelers (third-person singular simple present puts out feelers, present participle putting out feelers, simple past and past participle put out feelers)
forms:
form:
puts out feelers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting out feelers
tags:
participle
present
form:
put out feelers
tags:
participle
past
form:
put out feelers
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An allusion to animals which use their feelers to gain awareness of their surroundings.
senses_examples:
text:
I will put out feelers and see what I can find out about that.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To explore or watch for; to ask around; to investigate.
senses_topics:
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10603 | word:
las
word_type:
noun
expansion:
las
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of la
senses_topics:
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10604 | word:
oh boy
word_type:
intj
expansion:
oh boy
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Oh, boy! I can't wait to tell my friends about this!
type:
example
text:
Oh, boy. This is going to be a lot of work.
type:
example
text:
Oh, boy. Now what do I do?
type:
example
text:
I read the news today—oh, boy / About a lucky man who made the grade
ref:
1967, Lennon–McCartney (lyrics and music), “A Day in the Life”, in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of delight or joy.
An expression of dismay, resignation, frustration, or annoyance (sarcastic).
senses_topics:
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10605 | word:
NES
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NES (countable and uncountable, plural NESes)
forms:
form:
NESes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of night eating syndrome.
Initialism of native English speaker.
Initialism of Nintendo Entertainment System.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
video-games |
10606 | word:
NES
word_type:
name
expansion:
NES
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of News Election Service.
Initialism of National Election Studies.
Initialism of Nortel Energy Saver.
Initialism of National Employment Service of Canada).
Abbreviation of Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
senses_topics:
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10607 | word:
put one over
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put one over (third-person singular simple present puts one over, present participle putting one over, simple past and past participle put one over)
forms:
form:
puts one over
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting one over
tags:
participle
present
form:
put one over
tags:
participle
past
form:
put one over
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
"[Y]ou surely aren't thinking you can put one over on me in this business? Tell me, you don't take me for that sort of ivory-skulled boob?"
ref:
1913, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 9, in The Little Nugget
type:
quotation
text:
He is the bad-boy-made-good, and in Brazil, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, everyone loves someone who can put one over on authority.
ref:
2007 May 16, Andrew Downie, “Brazil Braces for a (Bogus) Soccer Milestone”, in Time, retrieved 2015-06-28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To succeed in a deception.
To fool, trick, or deceive.
senses_topics:
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10608 | word:
infundibulated
word_type:
adj
expansion:
infundibulated (comparative more infundibulated, superlative most infundibulated)
forms:
form:
more infundibulated
tags:
comparative
form:
most infundibulated
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From infundibulum (“a funnel-shaped cavity or organ”), from Latin infundibulum (“funnel”), from īnfundō (“pour in or upon”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
funnel-shaped
senses_topics:
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10609 | word:
wishy-washy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
wishy-washy (comparative wishy-washier or more wishy-washy, superlative wishy-washiest or most wishy-washy)
forms:
form:
wishy-washier
tags:
comparative
form:
more wishy-washy
tags:
comparative
form:
wishy-washiest
tags:
superlative
form:
most wishy-washy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Reduplication of washy.
senses_examples:
text:
Not wanting to be pressed for details, public relations gave a wishy-washy answer.
type:
example
text:
I’m not about to vote Conservative myself (I’m a wishy-washy centrist who liked Tony Blair’s early work and has since mostly voted Labour, with an occasional swing to the Liberal Democrats and Greens)[…]
ref:
2023 July 17, Rhymer Rigby, “Sick of this Conservative government? That shouldn’t stop you having Tory friends”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The wishy-washy orange juice served by the cafeteria not only failed to be sweet; it was barely orange.
type:
example
text:
Usually the quality of the liquor is judged by the "bite" of it. The hotter the better. A drink of first class, aged whisky would be ridiculed in most parts of Maine as a wishy-washy beverage fit only for mollycoddles. The Down East "soak" wants something that stings and burns all the way, and usually he gets it[…]
ref:
1915, “Maine booze turns an iron tub blue”, in The Mixer and Server
type:
quotation
text:
And you will appreciate drinking the hot cup, or rather billy, of tea—which is more than one can call the wishy-washy concoction served up in some 'tea-houses'.
ref:
2006, Gipsy Petulengro, Romany Hints for Outdoor Living and Tips for Ramblers, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Wavering; lacking in commitment, certainty, or support; namby-pamby.
Thin or watery.
senses_topics:
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10610 | word:
put up with
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put up with (third-person singular simple present puts up with, present participle putting up with, simple past and past participle put up with)
forms:
form:
puts up with
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting up with
tags:
participle
present
form:
put up with
tags:
participle
past
form:
put up with
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From put up + with.
senses_examples:
text:
I put up with a lot of nonsense, but this is too much.
type:
example
text:
Will you be able to put up with me for another 56 more years?
ref:
2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), spoken by Celine (Julie Delpy)
type:
quotation
text:
Thousands of teens in foster care would love to put up with you.
ref:
2012, adoptuskids.org
type:
quotation
text:
We put up with a family friend, who was an extremely gracious and hospitable host.
ref:
2022, Chowdhury I. Zaman, In the Corridors of Elysium, page 180
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying.
To be taken in; to be sheltered (put up).
senses_topics:
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10611 | word:
kerf
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kerf (plural kerfs)
forms:
form:
kerfs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kerf, kirf, kyrf, from Old English cyrf (“an act of cutting, a cutting off; a cutting instrument”), from Proto-West Germanic *kurbi, from Proto-Germanic *kurbiz (“a cut; notch; clipping”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Käärf, West Frisian kerf, Swedish korv. Related also to Dutch kerf, German Low German Karve, Karv, German Kerbe.
senses_examples:
text:
They pass through a cleft that has been made across a low range of hills, like a kerf in the top of a log, and enter into a lovely territory of subtly swelling emerald green fields strewn randomly with small white capsules that he takes to be sheep.
ref:
1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
type:
quotation
text:
1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade kerf.
text:
1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade kerf.
text:
Sebastian, still not alone, is seated on the white-and-cinder-grey trunk of a felled tree. […] A Camberwell Beauty skims past and settles on the kerf, fanning its velvety wings.
ref:
1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 115
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice.
The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision.
The portion or quantity (e.g. of wood, hay, turf, wool, etc.) removed or cut off in a given stroke.
The distance between diverging saw teeth.
The flattened, cut-off end of a branch or tree; a stump or sawn-off cross-section.
senses_topics:
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10612 | word:
kerf
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kerf (third-person singular simple present kerfs, present participle kerfing, simple past and past participle kerfed)
forms:
form:
kerfs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kerfing
tags:
participle
present
form:
kerfed
tags:
participle
past
form:
kerfed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kerf, kirf, kyrf, from Old English cyrf (“an act of cutting, a cutting off; a cutting instrument”), from Proto-West Germanic *kurbi, from Proto-Germanic *kurbiz (“a cut; notch; clipping”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Käärf, West Frisian kerf, Swedish korv. Related also to Dutch kerf, German Low German Karve, Karv, German Kerbe.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.
senses_topics:
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10613 | word:
Hispanicize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Hispanicize (third-person singular simple present Hispanicizes, present participle Hispanicizing, simple past and past participle Hispanicized)
forms:
form:
Hispanicizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Hispanicizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Hispanicized
tags:
participle
past
form:
Hispanicized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hispanic + -ize.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make Spanish, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, or style.
To translate into Spanish.
senses_topics:
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10614 | word:
tired
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tired
forms:
wikipedia:
tired
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of tire
senses_topics:
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10615 | word:
tired
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tired (comparative more tired or tireder, superlative most tired or tiredest)
forms:
form:
more tired
tags:
comparative
form:
tireder
tags:
comparative
form:
most tired
tags:
superlative
form:
tiredest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
tired
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The famous words of Emma Lazarus on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty read: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Until 1921 this was an accurate picture of our society. Under present law it would be appropriate to add: “as long as they come from Northern Europe, are not too tired or too poor or slightly ill, never stole a loaf of bread, never joined any questionable organization, and can document their activities for the past two years.”
ref:
1964, John F. Kennedy, “Where We Stand”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
I'm tired of this
type:
example
text:
a tired song
type:
example
text:
a tired-looking hotel room
type:
example
text:
They even went so far as to question whether indigenous peoples are 'peoples' in a tired attempt to deny the status of indigenous peoples in order to deny their right to self-determination.
ref:
2011, Dalee Sambo Dorough, “Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: An Arctive Perspective”, in Stephen Allen, Alexandra Xanthaki, editors, Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Bloomsbury Publishing, page 527
type:
quotation
text:
A tired attempt at a smile worked its way across Akechi's lips, lopsided and faint.
ref:
2023, “Chapter 10: Your Priestess is in Another Castle”, in The Crow Cries at Midnight. Dorked, Persona fandom
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In need of some rest or sleep.
Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
Overused, cliché.
Old and worn.
Played out, ineffectual; incompetent
senses_topics:
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10616 | word:
tired
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tired (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
tired
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
With the replacement of the horse by the automobile these detrimental effects would disappear. The cost of road maintenance in parks and elsewhere would be reduced to a minimum, with the action of the elements as the only cause of “wear,” while the “tear,” which proceeds entirely from the impact of horses’ feet and the cutting of metal-tired carriage wheels would be entirely done away with.
ref:
1899 October, The Automobile Magazine, volume I, number 1, New York, N.Y.: The United States Industrial Publishing Company, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
From Lathrop hall, Madison’s steel tired locomobiles will take the picnickers out to the suburb of South Madison.
ref:
1921 May 17, “Commerce Clubs to Have Picnic at Monona Park”, in The Capital Times, volume 7, number 142, Madison, Wis., page 4, column 4
type:
quotation
text:
I remember clearly the drive down Pennsylvania Avenue to the depot, the iron-tired wheels of our carriage rattling and bumping over the cobblestones.
ref:
1925, Jesse R[oot] Grant, In the Days of My Father General Grant, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
“Never travel into a crossing until the flashing lights go out completely,” SEPTA Assistant General Manager of System Safety Jim Fox said Wednesday. “There may be a second train coming from the opposite direction that will re-activate the gates. Trains can’t swerve to avoid something in their way or stop on a dime like a rubber-tired vehicle.”
ref:
2019 April 25, Morgan Rousseau, “SEPTA to travelers: ‘Respect the train’”, in Metro, page 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of tyred.
senses_topics:
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10617 | word:
put forth
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put forth (third-person singular simple present puts forth, present participle putting forth, simple past and past participle put forth)
forms:
form:
puts forth
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting forth
tags:
participle
present
form:
put forth
tags:
participle
past
form:
put forth
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
to put forth an effort
type:
example
text:
He could not move as quickly as most men, but he put forth his utmost speed.
ref:
1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 8, in Ruth
type:
quotation
text:
But his actor’s need to be liked was stronger than his resentment, and he was putting forth all his charm in an effort to win over this so-unexpected antagonist.
ref:
1950, Josephine Tey, chapter 4, in To Love and Be Wise, New York: Pocket Book, published 1977, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
Put forth, put forth that warme balme-breathing thigh,
Which when next time you in these sheets wil smother
There it must meet another,
Which never was, but must be, oft, more nigh;
ref:
1613, John Donne, “Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, published 1633, page 135
type:
quotation
text:
In its present form, the social order depends for its continued existence on the acceptance, without too many embarrassing questions, of the propaganda put forth by those in authority and the propaganda hallowed by the local traditions.
ref:
1958, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, New York: Harper & Bros., c. 1962, Chapter 11
type:
quotation
text:
[…] they begot no children vntill they were put forth of Paradise […]
ref:
1610, John Healey, transl., St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, London: George Eld, Book 14, Chapter 21, p. 524
type:
quotation
text:
And, as before, it shone without dismay;
Albeit putting forth a fainter light.
ref:
1807, William Wordsworth, Untitled poem in Poems, in Two Volumes, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, Volume 1, p. 66, Upon a leaf the Glow-worm did I lay, To bear it with me through the stormy night
text:
Thou perceivest the Flowers put forth their precious Odours,
And none can tell how from so small a center comes such sweet,
ref:
c. 1811, William Blake, edited by E.R.D. Maclagan and A.G.B. Russell, Milton: A Poem in Two Books, London: A. H. Bullen, published 1907, Book Two, p. 34
type:
quotation
text:
Soon the beech trees had put forth their delicate, transparent leaves.
ref:
1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, New York: Macmillan
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving).
To extend forward (a body part or something held).
To advance, offer, propose (often verbally).
To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place.
To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.).
To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate.
(of a ship) To leave (a port or haven).
senses_topics:
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10618 | word:
hangdog
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hangdog (plural hangdogs)
forms:
form:
hangdogs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hang + dog.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A base, degraded person.
senses_topics:
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10619 | word:
hangdog
word_type:
adj
expansion:
hangdog (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hang + dog.
senses_examples:
text:
The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look.
ref:
1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond
type:
quotation
text:
Asper Argo, the Well-Beloved, Commdor of the Korellian Republic greeted his wife’s entry by a hangdog lowering of his scanty eyebrows. To her at least, his self-adopted epithet did not apply. Even he knew that.
ref:
1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 16, page 180
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Low; sneaking; ashamed.
senses_topics:
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10620 | word:
hangdog
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hangdog (third-person singular simple present hangdogs, present participle hangdogging, simple past and past participle hangdogged)
forms:
form:
hangdogs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hangdogging
tags:
participle
present
form:
hangdogged
tags:
participle
past
form:
hangdogged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hang + dog.
senses_examples:
text:
With a twenty-one to three victory, Pinewood high-stepped it off the field while our Falcons hangdogged their way to the locker room.
ref:
2012, Wendy Delsol, Flock, page 230
type:
quotation
text:
Just a few stragglers left hangdogging around, latchkey types with no place to be, cutting up in the dim and bleachered gym perimeter.
ref:
2017, David Eric Tomlinson, The Midnight Man, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move or loiter in a sneaking or ashamed manner.
senses_topics:
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10621 | word:
put to rest
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put to rest (third-person singular simple present puts to rest, present participle putting to rest, simple past and past participle put to rest)
forms:
form:
puts to rest
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting to rest
tags:
participle
present
form:
put to rest
tags:
participle
past
form:
put to rest
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From put + to + rest.
senses_examples:
text:
Let's try to put this question to rest once and for all.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To settle or finish, especially a question or discussion.
senses_topics:
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10622 | word:
omphaloskepsis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
omphaloskepsis (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós, “navel”) + σκέψις (sképsis, “perception, reflection”).
senses_examples:
text:
Act we must; for we cannot sit rapt in educational omphaloscepsis while youngsters grow up and become the fathers and mothers of the next generation.
ref:
1948, John Frederick Wolfenden, The Public Schools To-day: A Study in Boarding School Education, University of London Press, page 108
type:
quotation
text:
1952, William Harold Ingrams, Hong Kong, H. M. Stationery Off., page 22,
… like the Muslims who saw Mecca as the world's navel, the British saw London as the world's capital. Omphaloscepsis has always been one of the world's troubles.
text:
Calamy alone is not debunked; and Calamy has defended omphaloskepsis and has set himself the ideal of free personal contemplation and recollection.
ref:
1975, Donald Watt, Aldous Huxley, the Critical Heritage, page 308
type:
quotation
text:
This approach has been referred to as an omphaloskeptic method of design, so called after the term omphaloskepsis used to describe the technique of meditation through contemplation of the navel (from the Greek "omphalos" for navel and "skepsis" for examination).
ref:
1998, Louis C. Burmeister, Elements of Thermal-Fluid System Design, Prentice Hall, pages 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Contemplation of or meditation upon one's navel; navel-gazing.
Ratiocination to the point of self-absorption.
senses_topics:
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10623 | word:
untrustworthy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
untrustworthy (comparative more untrustworthy or (uncommon) untrustworthier, superlative most untrustworthy or (uncommon) untrustworthiest)
forms:
form:
more untrustworthy
tags:
comparative
form:
untrustworthier
tags:
comparative
uncommon
form:
most untrustworthy
tags:
superlative
form:
untrustworthiest
tags:
superlative
uncommon
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From un- + trustworthy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not deserving of trust; unreliable.
senses_topics:
|
10624 | word:
appendment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
appendment (countable and uncountable, plural appendments)
forms:
form:
appendments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From append + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
Provision of integrity service requires the calculation of Integrity Checksum Value (ICV) and its appendment to the data.
ref:
1997, Vijav Varadharajan, Josef Pieprzyk, Yi Mu, Information Security and Privacy
type:
quotation
text:
Many commenters strongly encouraged the Secretary to adopt “appendment” rather than “amendment and correction” procedures. They argued that the term “correction” implies a deletion of information and that the proposed rule would have allowed covered entities to remove portions of the record at their discretion. Commenters indicated that appendment rather than correction procedures will ensure the integrity of the medical record and allow subsequent health care providers access to the original information as well as the appended information.
ref:
2001, The New HIPAA Privacy Rule: Guiding Your Clients Through the Implementation Process
type:
quotation
text:
The songs of the first section of the Rig Veda that offer approbations to Indra and Varuna are believed to have been composed by Parukshepa the son of a devadasi, whose name attains a special significance, since it suggests a steep departure from the then ensuing practice of appendment of only a patriarchal surname.
ref:
2017, Sarada Thallam, Rajam Krishnan and Indian Feminist Hermeneutics, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or practice of appending.
senses_topics:
|
10625 | word:
hanger-on
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hanger-on (plural hangers-on)
forms:
form:
hangers-on
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Agent noun of hang on.
senses_examples:
text:
Her love was sought, I do aver, / By twenty beaux and more; / The king himself has follow'd her / When she has walk'd before. / But now her wealth and finery fled, / Her hangers-on cut short all […]
ref:
c. 1760-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaze
type:
quotation
text:
Not that he was what is commonly called a Screw; that is to say he was not a mere screw; but he was acute and malicious; saw everybody's worth and position at a glance; could not bear to expend his choice wines and costly viands on hangers-on and toadeaters, though at the same time no man encouraged and required hangers-on and toadeaters more.
ref:
1895, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil: Or; The Two Nations, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
The Rhymney (51 route miles), once an impecunious hanger-on of the Taff Vale, had enjoyed its own route through Caerphilly into Cardiff since 1871, [...].
ref:
1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 158
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service.
An onsetter.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
10626 | word:
put in
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put in (third-person singular simple present puts in, present participle putting in, simple past and past participle put in)
forms:
form:
puts in
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting in
tags:
participle
present
form:
put in
tags:
participle
past
form:
put in
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From put + in.
senses_examples:
text:
Just put in the key for the ignition and turn it.
type:
example
text:
I'm going to the bank to put in for a transfer.
type:
example
text:
I put in an extra hour at work today.
type:
example
text:
Despite his success, the comedian liked to put in appearances at some of the smaller venues.
type:
example
text:
We put in at Brixham, a most excellent fishing Town, but very dirty and disagreeable.
ref:
1773, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
“They were bound for Quebec—hadn’t any notion of coming to P. E. I. They had a long rough voyage and water got scarce, so the captain of the New Moon put in here to get some.
ref:
1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon
type:
quotation
text:
The defendant has put in a plea of not guilty.
type:
example
text:
We've put in carrots in the east field.
type:
example
text:
Put in my name as your emergency contact.
type:
example
text:
I'm putting in a new water heater in the spring.
type:
example
text:
She put six shots in him.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place inside.
To apply, request, or submit.
To contribute.
To call at (a place or port), especially as a deviation from an intended journey.
To declare or make official
To plant a crop.
To make (a telephone call).
To fill in on a form or questionnaire; to use as an answer on a form or questionnaire.
To install or deliver.
To injure the body of (someone).
To distribute type that is ready for composing.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
media
printing
publishing |
10627 | word:
grandiloquent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
grandiloquent (comparative more grandiloquent, superlative most grandiloquent)
forms:
form:
more grandiloquent
tags:
comparative
form:
most grandiloquent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French grandiloquent, from Latin grandiloquus, from grandis (“great, full”) + loquēns, present participle of loquor (“I speak”). Compare eloquent.
senses_examples:
text:
The American people believe that they have a free country, and we are treated to grandiloquent speeches about our flag and our reputation for freedom and enlightenment.
ref:
1898, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, published 1911, page 324
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive number of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid.
senses_topics:
|
10628 | word:
university
word_type:
noun
expansion:
university (countable and uncountable, plural universities)
forms:
form:
universities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "A number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”).
senses_examples:
text:
She's studying mathematics at university.
type:
example
text:
The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.
type:
example
text:
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref:
1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
type:
quotation
text:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
The most compelling stories of whether university is worth it are examples where a university education lifts the economic standing of a poor or disadvantaged student to a higher socioeconomic position.
ref:
2021, Harvey P. Weingarten, “Is Going to University Worth It?”, in Nothing Less than Great: Reforming Canada’s Universities, Toronto, Ont., Buffalo, N.Y., London: University of Toronto Press, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
[I]t appears a pity to banish the women and children. But to this can be opposed that holy act of your Majesty which expelled the Moriscos, and the children of the Moriscos, for the reason given in the royal edict. Whenever any detestable crime is committed by any university, it is well to punish all.
ref:
1841, George Borrow, The Zincali - Or, An Account of the Gypsies of Spain
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
The entirety of a group; all members of a class.
senses_topics:
|
10629 | word:
autocrat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
autocrat (plural autocrats)
forms:
form:
autocrats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French autocrate, itself from Ancient Greek αὐτοκρατής (autokratḗs, “sovereign”), from αὐτο- (auto-, “self”) (combinatory form of αὐτός (autós)) + κρατία (kratía, “rule”) (from κράτος (krátos, “strength, power”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Indeed, we take this trip at a time when the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy. As Russia wages its premeditated, illegal war against Ukraine, killing thousands of innocents — even children — it is essential that America and our allies make clear that we never give in to autocrats.
ref:
2022 August 2, Nancy Pelosi, “Nancy Pelosi: Why I’m leading a congressional delegation to Taiwan”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2022-08-02, Opinion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An absolute ruler with infinite power.
A title borne by some such monarchs, as in Byzantium and tsarist Russia.
Until the 20th century, a favorable description of a ruler who was connected with the concept of lack of conflicts of interest and an indication of grandeur and power.
senses_topics:
|
10630 | word:
put away
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put away (third-person singular simple present puts away, present participle putting away, simple past and past participle put away)
forms:
form:
puts away
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting away
tags:
participle
present
form:
put away
tags:
participle
past
form:
put away
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Please put away the tools when you are finished.
type:
example
text:
I put the clothes away so as to neaten the room.
type:
example
text:
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
ref:
1879, Richard Jefferies, chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher
type:
quotation
text:
putting a little away for a rainy day
type:
example
text:
Preparing for the worst, they put away food for the winter.
type:
example
text:
You wouldn't think such a small person could put away so much food.
type:
example
text:
After he was convicted, they put him away for 10 years.
type:
example
text:
It's Decoration Day.
And I knew the Hill Boys would put us away,
but my Daddy wasn't afraid.
He said "We'll fight till the last Lawson's last living day"
ref:
2003, Jason Isbell, Decoration Day
type:
quotation
text:
He put away his opponent in the first round.
type:
example
text:
They put the game away by scoring three touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up.
To store, add to one's stores for later use.
To consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities.
To send (someone) to prison or mental asylum.
To kill someone.
To knock out an opponent.
To discard, divest oneself of.
To fend off, deflect; to dismiss.
To divorce.
To take a large lead in a game, especially enough to guarantee victory or make the game no longer competitive.
To strike out a batter.
To catch a fly ball or tag out a baserunner.
To hit the ball in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it; see passing shot
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis |
10631 | word:
squelch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
squelch (third-person singular simple present squelches, present participle squelching, simple past and past participle squelched)
forms:
form:
squelches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
squelching
tags:
participle
present
form:
squelched
tags:
participle
past
form:
squelched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
squelch
etymology_text:
Unknown. Perhaps a blend of squash + quell + quench. Compare also English squolsh, English squoosh.
senses_examples:
text:
Even the king's announcement could not squelch the rumors.
type:
example
text:
The party’s dominant right wing squelched not only Sherman’s hopes for an early convention, but may have also put the MLA out of contention for the leadership.
ref:
1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6
type:
quotation
text:
We believe that Facebook is using privacy as a pretext to squelch research that it considers inconvenient.
ref:
2021 August 10, Laura Edelson, Damon McCoy, “We Research Misinformation on Facebook. It Just Disabled Our Accounts.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
The mud squelched underfoot; it had been raining all night.
type:
example
text:
The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
To walk or step through a substance such as mud.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
electrical-engineering
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
radio-technology
|
10632 | word:
squelch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
squelch (countable and uncountable, plural squelches)
forms:
form:
squelches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
squelch
etymology_text:
Unknown. Perhaps a blend of squash + quell + quench. Compare also English squolsh, English squoosh.
senses_examples:
text:
Through a process of experimentation the 'acid squelch' sound came forth, which was recorded and passed on to DJ Ron Hardy to play at his Warehouse club.
ref:
1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, page 91
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A squelching sound.
The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
A heavy blow or fall.
A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
electrical-engineering
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
radio-technology
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
10633 | word:
put off
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put off (third-person singular simple present puts off, present participle putting off, simple past and past participle put off)
forms:
form:
puts off
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting off
tags:
participle
present
form:
put off
tags:
participle
past
form:
put off
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Don't put off your homework to the last minute.
type:
example
text:
Don't put your homework off to the last minute.
type:
example
text:
Don't put it off to the last minute.
type:
example
text:
Don't put it off.
type:
example
text:
The storm put off the game by a week.
type:
example
text:
The storm put the game off by a week.
type:
example
text:
I'm too busy to see Mr Smith today. I'll have to put him off.
type:
example
text:
Please be quiet. I'm trying to concentrate and you're putting me off.
type:
example
text:
Almost drowning put him off swimming.
type:
example
text:
This type of firewood puts off a strong smell.
type:
example
text:
to put off a mask
type:
example
text:
The power of turning into an animal has this serious disadvantage that it lays you open to the chance of being wounded or even slain in your animal skin before you have the chance to put it off and scramble back into your human integument.
ref:
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 207
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To postpone, especially through procrastination.
To delay (a task, event, etc.).
To distract; to disturb the concentration of.
To cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing).
To emit; to give off (an odor, smoke, etc.).
To take off (something worn).
senses_topics:
|
10634 | word:
put off
word_type:
adj
expansion:
put off (comparative more put off, superlative most put off)
forms:
form:
more put off
tags:
comparative
form:
most put off
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The guest was quite put off by an odor.
type:
example
text:
All but the most dedicated were put off by the huge task.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
offended, repulsed
daunted or fazed
senses_topics:
|
10635 | word:
vivisector
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vivisector (plural vivisectors)
forms:
form:
vivisectors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From vivisect + -or.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A practitioner of vivisection.
senses_topics:
|
10636 | word:
vivisectional
word_type:
adj
expansion:
vivisectional
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From vivisection + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to vivisection.
senses_topics:
|
10637 | word:
vivisect
word_type:
verb
expansion:
vivisect (third-person singular simple present vivisects, present participle vivisecting, simple past and past participle vivisected)
forms:
form:
vivisects
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
vivisecting
tags:
participle
present
form:
vivisected
tags:
participle
past
form:
vivisected
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.
senses_topics:
|
10638 | word:
vivisectionist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vivisectionist (plural vivisectionists)
forms:
form:
vivisectionists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From vivisection + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.
senses_topics:
|
10639 | word:
uh huh
word_type:
intj
expansion:
uh huh
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of uh-huh
senses_topics:
|
10640 | word:
ordinal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ordinal (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin ōrdinālis, adjective formed from noun ōrdō (“order”), + adjective suffix -ālis.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Indicating position in a sequence.
Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of order.
Intercardinal.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
nautical
transport |
10641 | word:
ordinal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ordinal (plural ordinals)
forms:
form:
ordinals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ordinal
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin ōrdinālis, adjective formed from noun ōrdō (“order”), + adjective suffix -ālis.
senses_examples:
text:
The most common numerals in Latin, as in English, are the "cardinals"[…]and the "ordinals"[…]
ref:
2005, F. M. Wheelock, Wheelock’s Latin, 6th revised edition, page 97
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ordinal number such as first, second and third.
A book used in the ordination of Anglican ministers, or in certain Roman Catholic services
senses_topics:
|
10642 | word:
unh-uh
word_type:
intj
expansion:
unh-uh!
forms:
form:
unh-uh !
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Unh-uh. No way!
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
no; disagreement; negative reply
senses_topics:
|
10643 | word:
trustworthy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
trustworthy (comparative trustworthier or more trustworthy, superlative trustworthiest or most trustworthy)
forms:
form:
trustworthier
tags:
comparative
form:
more trustworthy
tags:
comparative
form:
trustworthiest
tags:
superlative
form:
most trustworthy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From trust + -worthy.
senses_examples:
text:
The storage of cryptographic secrets is one of the paramount requirements in building trustworthy systems.
ref:
2014, Thomas Feller, Trustworthy Reconfigurable Systems
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Deserving of trust, reliable.
senses_topics:
|
10644 | word:
feeler
word_type:
noun
expansion:
feeler (plural feelers)
forms:
form:
feelers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English feler, feeler, felar, equivalent to feel + -er. Animal organ definition from 1660s. Transferred sense of "proposal put forth to observe the reaction it gets" is from 1830.
senses_examples:
text:
Are you more of a feeler or more of a thinker?
type:
example
text:
I sent out some feelers but they didn't seem interested.
type:
example
text:
This survey is designed to get a feeler about how the citizens feel about the proposed new highway.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone or something that feels.
An antenna or appendage used for feeling, especially on an insect.
Something ventured to test another's feelings, opinion, or position.
Someone who assumes or imagines that something said or done (positive or negative) was for the person despite having no concrete confirmation but gut feeling
Someone who assumes or imagines that one's affection is reciprocated, indulges in one's own wishful thinking, or flatters oneself
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
|
10645 | word:
file
word_type:
noun
expansion:
file (plural files)
forms:
form:
files
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of filum.
senses_examples:
text:
We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files
We'd like to help you learn to help yourself
ref:
1968 April 5, Paul Simon, “Mrs. Robinson”, in Bookends, performed by Simon & Garfunkel
type:
quotation
text:
Let me resume the file of my narration.
ref:
1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers
type:
quotation
text:
I'm going to delete these unwanted files to free up some disk space.
type:
example
text:
Many homes now have double-file kitchens.
type:
example
text:
The Nonfiction Vertical File: […]I spent my university years working in the library at the Maritime School of Social Work. One of my responsibilities was to keep the library's vertical file up to date. The vertical file was a cabinet full of current newspaper and magazine clippings on topics of interest to the students and faculty of the school.
ref:
2010, Beth Critchley Charlton, Englaging the DisEngaged, page 71
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A collection of papers collated and archived together.
A roll or list.
A course of thought; a thread of narration.
An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
The primary item on the menu bar, containing commands such as open, save, print, etc.
A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
Clipping of file cabinet.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
10646 | word:
file
word_type:
verb
expansion:
file (third-person singular simple present files, present participle filing, simple past and past participle filed)
forms:
form:
files
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
filing
tags:
participle
present
form:
filed
tags:
participle
past
form:
filed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of filum.
senses_examples:
text:
The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).
ref:
2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
She filed for divorce the next day.
type:
example
text:
The company filed for bankruptcy when the office opened on Monday.
type:
example
text:
They filed for a refund under their warranty.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To commit (official papers) to some office.
To submit (a story) to a newspaper or similar publication.
To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
To submit a formal request to some office.
To set in order; to arrange, or lay away.
senses_topics:
law
|
10647 | word:
file
word_type:
noun
expansion:
file (plural files)
forms:
form:
files
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French file, from filer (“to spin out, arrange one behind another”), from Latin fīlāre, from filum (“thread”).
senses_examples:
text:
The troops marched in Indian file.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
A small detachment of soldiers.
One of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
board-games
chess
games |
10648 | word:
file
word_type:
verb
expansion:
file (third-person singular simple present files, present participle filing, simple past and past participle filed)
forms:
form:
files
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
filing
tags:
participle
present
form:
filed
tags:
participle
past
form:
filed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French file, from filer (“to spin out, arrange one behind another”), from Latin fīlāre, from filum (“thread”).
senses_examples:
text:
The applicants kept filing into the room until it was full.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move in a file.
senses_topics:
|
10649 | word:
file
word_type:
noun
expansion:
file (plural files)
forms:
form:
files
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English file, fyle, from Old English fēl, fēol (“file”), from earlier fīil, from Proto-Germanic *finhlō, *finhilō (“file, rasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“to adorn, form”). Cognate with West Frisian file (“file”), Dutch vijl (“file”), German Feile (“file”).
senses_examples:
text:
The greatest character among them was that of a Pickpocket, or, in truer language, a File.
ref:
1743, Henry Fielding, The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
A cunning or resourceful person.
senses_topics:
|
10650 | word:
file
word_type:
verb
expansion:
file (third-person singular simple present files, present participle filing, simple past and past participle filed)
forms:
form:
files
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
filing
tags:
participle
present
form:
filed
tags:
participle
past
form:
filed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English file, fyle, from Old English fēl, fēol (“file”), from earlier fīil, from Proto-Germanic *finhlō, *finhilō (“file, rasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“to adorn, form”). Cognate with West Frisian file (“file”), Dutch vijl (“file”), German Feile (“file”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'd better file the bottoms of the table legs. Otherwise they will scratch the flooring.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
senses_topics:
|
10651 | word:
file
word_type:
verb
expansion:
file (third-person singular simple present files, present participle filing, simple past and past participle filed)
forms:
form:
files
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
filing
tags:
participle
present
form:
filed
tags:
participle
past
form:
filed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English filen (“to defile”), from Old English fȳlan (“to defile, make foul”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūlijan (“to make foul”). More at defile.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To defile.
To corrupt.
senses_topics:
|
10652 | word:
uh-oh
word_type:
intj
expansion:
uh-oh
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Uh-oh! I made a mistake.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation of error, concern, or awareness of a problem.
senses_topics:
|
10653 | word:
kick wheel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kick wheel (plural kick wheels)
forms:
form:
kick wheels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A wheel or disc used to throw pots, turned by kicking or pushing a heavy stone or concrete base with the foot.
senses_topics:
ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10654 | word:
can it
word_type:
verb
expansion:
can it (third-person singular simple present cans it, present participle canning it, simple past and past participle canned it)
forms:
form:
cans it
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
canning it
tags:
participle
present
form:
canned it
tags:
participle
past
form:
canned it
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Can it, you two! I'm trying to work.
type:
example
text:
I told him to can it, 'cause he was getting to be annoying.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To shut up, to be quiet; to quit doing something; to put an end to something.
senses_topics:
|
10655 | word:
defenestrate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
defenestrate (third-person singular simple present defenestrates, present participle defenestrating, simple past and past participle defenestrated)
forms:
form:
defenestrates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
defenestrating
tags:
participle
present
form:
defenestrated
tags:
participle
past
form:
defenestrated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from defenestration, from Latin de- (“out”) + fenestra (“window”).
senses_examples:
text:
I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!
ref:
1998 September 25, Lane Smith, quoted in "TFK Q&A: Lane Smith and Jon Scieszka", in Time for Kids
text:
The cultural historians of science 'feel the need to defenestrate science, or at least take it off its pedestal' (Pumfrey. Rossi & Slawinski 1991. p. 3).
ref:
1998, Barry J. Fraser, Kenneth George Tobin, International Handbook of Science Education, volume 2
type:
quotation
text:
Ever since he helped to defenestrate Richard Nixon in 1974, Mr Woodward has been a sort of super-reporter ...
ref:
2001, The Economist, volume 381, numbers 8498-8501, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
According to the guidebooks, they do it so strenuously that women would very much like to defenestrate the custom.
ref:
2004, Mary Carey, Kim Berquist, Writing from a Small Country: Anthology of the Creative Writing Club, Luxembourg
type:
quotation
text:
This posting was written on a Windows 95 PC,
Defenestrate it immediately. Install Linux. :-)
ref:
1998 December 17, Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.com.uk>, "Re: Coding speccy games in the good 'ole days", message-ID <48B60EA729%news@youmustbejoking.demon.com.uk>, comp.sys.sinclair, Usenet http://google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/msg/8b00481a8be589d2
text:
◦ Enable one-click uninstalls of unwanted OS and application features with a Defenestrate icon.
ref:
2001 July 21, "Packet Rat" (pseudonym), "Judge Rat calls for a Microsoft defenestration", on GCN: Government Computer News
text:
2007 May 16, Richard Stallman, speech, Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works,
Now of course people who want freedom shouldn't use Windows at all, you've got to defenestrate your computer, which means either you throw Windows out of the computer, or you throw the computer out the window.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To eject or throw (someone or something) from or through a window.
To throw out; to remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power or authority.
To remove a Windows operating system from a computer.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10656 | word:
put up
word_type:
adj
expansion:
put up (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of put-up
senses_topics:
|
10657 | word:
put up
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put up (third-person singular simple present puts up, present participle putting up, simple past and past participle put up)
forms:
form:
puts up
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting up
tags:
participle
present
form:
put up
tags:
participle
past
form:
put up
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.
Three volunteers put up their hands in response to the speaker's request.
type:
example
text:
Many people put up messages on their refrigerators.
type:
example
text:
I think someone put him up to it.
type:
example
text:
Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.
type:
example
text:
We can put you up for the night.
type:
example
text:
For a week or ten days we put up in London at a smart, rather exclusive second- or third-class haunt of the decade's nobility and gentry—the Artillery Mansions.
ref:
1946, William Allen White, Autobiography, page 411
type:
quotation
text:
That last fighter put up quite a fight.
type:
example
text:
They didn't put up much resistance.
type:
example
text:
Dionysius of Syracuse, in his exile, was made to stand without dore […]; he wisely put it up, and laid the fault where it was, on his own pride and scorn, which in his prosperity he had formerly showed others.
ref:
1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
type:
quotation
text:
Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.
type:
example
text:
This is why I can guarantee to start drilling and to put up the cash to back my word.
ref:
2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films
type:
quotation
text:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
ref:
1970, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Big Yellow Taxi”, in Ladies of the Canyon, performed by Joni Mitchell
type:
quotation
text:
The picture was put up for auction.
type:
example
text:
I put my first child up for adoption.
type:
example
text:
The house on Arbol Drive was put up for sale that autumn; this portion of the street soon vanished, and the land became part of the Hollywood Bowl complex.
ref:
2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 3, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (non-fiction), Rowman & Littlefield, page 39
type:
quotation
text:
Meanwhile, D9513 has been acquired by a member of the Wensleydale Railway, after it was put up for sale by its owners who had the locomotive at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway.
ref:
2023 November 1, “'Western' on the move as diesel-hydraulics change hands”, in RAIL, number 995, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples.
ref:
1983, Audrey Borenstein, Chimes of Change and Hours: Views of Older Women in Twentieth-century America (non-fiction), Associated University Presses, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
In addition to putting up nearly 3,300 receiving yards and 32 touchdown receptions in three college seasons, he was also the main punt returner for the Sooners.
ref:
2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in the New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The last player to have more than 140 points in one season was Mario Lemieux, who put up 160 in 1995-96.
ref:
2011 August 9, John Kreiser, “The Great One's 23 unbreakable records”, in NHL.com
type:
quotation
text:
I put him up with Biggie, Tupac and them.
text:
I'll put him up.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To place in a high location.
To hang; to mount.
To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.
To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
To store away.
To house; to shelter; to take in.
To house; to shelter; to take in.
To stop at a hotel or a tavern for entertainment.
To present, especially in "put up a fight".
To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
To provide funds in advance.
To build a structure.
To make available; to offer.
To cause (wild game) to break cover.
To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard..
To set (matter) in capital letters; to switch text from lowercase to capital letters.
To compliment or respect (someone); to number (someone) among some greats.
To kill (someone).
Synonym of frame up (“falsely pin a crime on”)
senses_topics:
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
media
printing
publishing
|
10658 | word:
Austrian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Austrian (comparative more Austrian, superlative most Austrian)
forms:
form:
more Austrian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Austrian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Austria + -n..
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Austria or its people.
Of or relating to a school of economic thought based on the concept of methodological individualism: that social phenomena result from the motivations and actions of individuals.
senses_topics:
|
10659 | word:
Austrian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Austrian (plural Austrians)
forms:
form:
Austrians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Austria + -n..
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from Austria or of Austrian descent.
An economist supporting the ideals of the Austrian School of Economics.
senses_topics:
|
10660 | word:
oh no
word_type:
intj
expansion:
oh no
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: oh well
text:
Oh, no! The rug is on fire!
type:
example
text:
Oh, no! Did I leave my keys in the car?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation or expression of alarm, concern, or resentment about a problem or error.
senses_topics:
|
10661 | word:
minutiae
word_type:
noun
expansion:
minutiae
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of minutia
senses_topics:
|
10662 | word:
know-it-all
word_type:
noun
expansion:
know-it-all (plural know-it-alls)
forms:
form:
know-it-alls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From know + it + all.
senses_examples:
text:
We had it all figured out, but this know-it-all marched in with "the correct way of solving it", leaving our experiment in shambles.
type:
example
text:
The same holds true for supporting details—they help you to learn more about a topic. Be a know it all by sharing these details and supporting details with friends.
ref:
2004, Princeton Review, Know It All! Grades 9-12 Reading, The Princeton Review, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
She's a mean, bossy know-it-all.
ref:
2005, Pansie Hart Flood, Tiger Turcotte Takes on the Know-it-all, Carolrhoda Books
type:
quotation
text:
Have you ever gone shopping with a Know-It-All girlfriend and she insists, without your consent or consulting you first, to choose your outfits for you?
ref:
2012, Joe Ike, How do I relate with a “know-it-all”?, xBusinessServices Corp., page 60
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who claims to be knowledgeable or an expert in something, obnoxiously dismissing the opinions, advice, suggestions, etc. of others.
senses_topics:
|
10663 | word:
talk through one's hat
word_type:
verb
expansion:
talk through one's hat (third-person singular simple present talks through one's hat, present participle talking through one's hat, simple past and past participle talked through one's hat)
forms:
form:
talks through one's hat
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
talking through one's hat
tags:
participle
present
form:
talked through one's hat
tags:
participle
past
form:
talked through one's hat
tags:
past
wikipedia:
United States
etymology_text:
Attested from the late 19th century in the United States in the sense of “bluff”; the sense “speak without authority or knowledge” developed later. Although some people speculate a connection to a former requirement that British Members of Parliament wear hats, the connection is implausible.
senses_examples:
text:
"Mr. Pride said to me a moment ago that they spoke better English in Boston than any other place in the world."
"Did he, though, Lady Lawless? That's good. Well, I guess he was only talking through his hat."
ref:
c. 1900, Gilbert Parker, At The Sign Of The Eagle
type:
quotation
text:
No, sir, she yust standing pat, / And vonce more she tal her father, / “Yu ban talking tru yure hat!”
ref:
1905, “The Norsk Nightingale”, in Popular Mechanics, page 478
type:
quotation
text:
He's conceited and opinionative and argues all the time, even when he knows perfectly well that he's talking through his hat.
ref:
1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in Right Ho, Jeeves
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To speak lacking expertise, authority, or knowledge; to invent or fabricate facts.
To assert something as true or valid; to bluff.
senses_topics:
|
10664 | word:
fervent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fervent (comparative more fervent, superlative most fervent)
forms:
form:
more fervent
tags:
comparative
form:
most fervent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English fervent, from Old French fervent, from Latin fervens, ferventem, present participle of fervere (“to boil, ferment, glow, rage”).
senses_examples:
text:
As I returned my fervent hopes were dashed by so many fears.
ref:
1819, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, chapter 3, in Mathilda
type:
quotation
text:
Never again would those fresh lips touch his lips with their fervent kiss!
ref:
1876, Wilkie Collins, “Mr. Captain and the Nymph,”, in Little Novels
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, and/or belief.
Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, and/or passion.
Glowing, burning, very hot.
senses_topics:
|
10665 | word:
oops
word_type:
intj
expansion:
oops
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A presumably 'natural' exclamation, attested in writing since 1921. Related to or a variation of whoops (itself attested since 1933). A shortening of whoops-a-daisy, whoopsie-daisy, or oops-a-daisy, which in turn is a mispronunciation of ups-a-daisy or upsy-daisy.
senses_examples:
text:
Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.
type:
example
text:
Oops, I did it again / I played with your heart, got lost in the game
ref:
2000, Max Martin, Rami Yacoub (lyrics and music), “Oops!… I Did It Again”, in Oops!… I Did It Again, performed by Britney Spears
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acknowledging a mistake.
senses_topics:
|
10666 | word:
oops
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oops (plural oopses or oops)
forms:
form:
oopses
tags:
plural
form:
oops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A presumably 'natural' exclamation, attested in writing since 1921. Related to or a variation of whoops (itself attested since 1933). A shortening of whoops-a-daisy, whoopsie-daisy, or oops-a-daisy, which in turn is a mispronunciation of ups-a-daisy or upsy-daisy.
senses_examples:
text:
It's an oops, but one that's your fault, not your puppy's.
ref:
2011, Housetraining, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
Every plan and every activity has an “oops.” Oops, we forgot to..., oops, who was supposed to do that? We all have experienced “oopses”.
ref:
2013, Bruce Tucker, Leadership at the Crossroads
type:
quotation
text:
Isn't she the same woman who works at Wings that you and Billy almost got arrested for helping her with her last little oops?
ref:
2014, Al Rennie, Clearwater Oops!
type:
quotation
text:
My parents had moved to this house, which sat on the border of Corktown and Mexicantown, from their tiny apartment in Ann Arbor—once they found out that their little oops was actually two little oops.
ref:
2015, Dawn Klehr, If You Wrong Us
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A minor mistake or unforseen difficulty.
senses_topics:
|
10667 | word:
oops
word_type:
verb
expansion:
oops (third-person singular simple present oopses, present participle oopsing, simple past and past participle oopsed)
forms:
form:
oopses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
oopsing
tags:
participle
present
form:
oopsed
tags:
participle
past
form:
oopsed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A presumably 'natural' exclamation, attested in writing since 1921. Related to or a variation of whoops (itself attested since 1933). A shortening of whoops-a-daisy, whoopsie-daisy, or oops-a-daisy, which in turn is a mispronunciation of ups-a-daisy or upsy-daisy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a mistake; to blunder.
senses_topics:
|
10668 | word:
vivisection
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vivisection (countable and uncountable, plural vivisections)
forms:
form:
vivisections
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin vīvus (“alive”) + sectiō (“cutting”): compare French vivisection. See vivid and section.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action of cutting, surgery or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.
senses_topics:
|
10669 | word:
lift a finger
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lift a finger (third-person singular simple present lifts a finger, present participle lifting a finger, simple past and past participle lifted a finger)
forms:
form:
lifts a finger
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lifting a finger
tags:
participle
present
form:
lifted a finger
tags:
participle
past
form:
lifted a finger
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare Matthew 23:4.
senses_examples:
text:
She lets me do all the work and never lifts a finger to help.
type:
example
text:
They weep when they see the country being so much exploited and yet nobody lifts a finger.
ref:
1973, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): June 12 - July 27, page 904
type:
quotation
text:
You've known about it all along, you haven't lifted a finger, so don't come crying to me. I don't have time for it.
ref:
2004, Gerald Shapiro, Little men: novellas and stories, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
Lifting a finger to greet is dangerous because it may make us feel guilty about not lifting a finger to help.
ref:
2005, Larry T. McGehee, B. J. Hutto, Southern Seen: Meditations on Past and Present, page 80
type:
quotation
text:
Distressed jeans bear all the signs of exertion, while the consumer never has to lift a finger. What could be more luxurious than that?
ref:
2022, Carolyn Purnell, Blue Jeans, Bloomsbury, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
So if your next note involves lifting a finger, you need to plan to lift the finger promptly to above its spot on the string so that it's ready to play again at any time.
ref:
2010, Katharine Rapoport, Violin For Dummies
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make minimal effort; to help as little as possible.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lift, finger.
senses_topics:
|
10670 | word:
kick out
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kick out (third-person singular simple present kicks out, present participle kicking out, simple past and past participle kicked out)
forms:
form:
kicks out
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kicking out
tags:
participle
present
form:
kicked out
tags:
participle
past
form:
kicked out
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
They will kick out a disruptive patron.
text:
I got kicked out for eating inside.
text:
I've used her password before to get info for Abe Caldwell. But this time I barely finished downloading when the server kicked me out and wouldn't let me log in again.
ref:
2011, Cate Noble, Deadly Games
type:
quotation
text:
Charybdis Point House Rules[…]
5. We hold the right to kick your ass out at any time.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Rules and Regulations
type:
quotation
text:
I was driving and the motor just kicked out.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To eject, dismiss, expel, or forcefully remove (someone or something).
To stop, stall, or disconnect suddenly.
To perform a kickout.
To improvise music.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
|
10671 | word:
quest
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quest (plural quests)
forms:
form:
quests
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quest
etymology_text:
From Middle English quest, queste; partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste (“acquisition, search, hunt”), and partly from their source, Latin quaesta (“tribute, tax, inquiry, search”), noun use of quaesita, the feminine past participle of quaerere (“to ask, seek”).
senses_examples:
text:
Everything I have done pales in comparison to what I am about to achieve. I am on a quest... a quest for the most revered icon in Klingon history. An icon that predates the Klingon Empire, an icon more sacred than the Torch of G'boj -- More revered than Sabak's armor, and more coveted than the Emperor's crown!
ref:
1995, “The Sword of Kahless”, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 4, episode 8, spoken by Kor, →OCLC
type:
quotation
text:
In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
ref:
2013 January 24, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 2017-02-09, page 64
type:
quotation
text:
to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
A task that a player may complete in order to gain a reward or advance the story.
The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
Request; desire; solicitation.
A group of people making search or inquiry.
Inquest; jury of inquest.
senses_topics:
video-games
|
10672 | word:
quest
word_type:
verb
expansion:
quest (third-person singular simple present quests, present participle questing, simple past and past participle quested)
forms:
form:
quests
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
questing
tags:
participle
present
form:
quested
tags:
participle
past
form:
quested
tags:
past
wikipedia:
quest
etymology_text:
From Middle English quest, queste; partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste (“acquisition, search, hunt”), and partly from their source, Latin quaesta (“tribute, tax, inquiry, search”), noun use of quaesita, the feminine past participle of quaerere (“to ask, seek”).
senses_examples:
text:
Next day we quested in search of our caravan, and after some pains recovered it.
ref:
1634, Thomas Herbert, Description of the Persian Monarchy now beinge the Orientall Indyes, Iles and other ports of the Greater Asia and Africk
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
To search for something; to seek.
To locate and attach to a host animal.
senses_topics:
biology
entomology
natural-sciences |
10673 | word:
quest
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quest (plural quests)
forms:
form:
quests
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
quest
etymology_text:
Blend of quiz + test, to avoid using the word test.
senses_examples:
text:
I had a calculus quest (not a quiz or a test, but somewhere in between...) it was on limits, and l'hopital's rule...
ref:
1998 March 20, bill kao, “3rd per”, in alt.music.ash (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
However took a quest, quiz/test combination that this math progrm uses, and got ten out of ten on it!
ref:
2004 September 24, Kathy, “Weekly Diary Third Semester #4”, in alt.coffee.clutch (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Quests, bigger than quizzes and smaller than tests, consist of around 10 questions worth 2 points each, designed to take about 30–40 minutes.
ref:
2015, Kathleen Gibson-Dee, “Learning Through Questing, Not Testing”, in College Teaching, volume 63, number 3, Taylor & Francis, →ISSN, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
Most outcomes were assessed with 10 min, single-page, five-question quizzes/tests (“quests”) given at the beginning of class, followed immediately with a brief discussion of the correct answers; mastery could be demonstrated by the student with four of five complete, correct answers (with no partial credit). […] Students were given a finite number of “quest” retakes. Three class periods during the semester were used as quest makeup periods, during which students would be able to take new versions of EO and GO quests.
ref:
2017, Joshua Ring, “ConfChem conference on select 2016 BCCE presentations”, in Journal of Chemical Education, volume 94, number 12, ACS Publications, →ISSN, pages 2005–2006
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short test.
senses_topics:
education |
10674 | word:
hence
word_type:
adv
expansion:
hence (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A later Middle English spelling, retaining the voiceless -s, of hennes (henne + adverbial genitive ending -s), from Old English heonan (“away", "hence”), from a Proto-West Germanic *hin-, from Proto-Germanic *hiz, and Proto-Germanic *-anē.
Cognate with Old Saxon hinan, Old High German hinnan (German hinnen), Dutch heen, Swedish hän. Related to Old English her (“here”).
senses_examples:
text:
I'm going hence, because you have insulted me.
type:
example
text:
Get thee hence, Satan!
type:
example
text:
Ye men of Galilee! / Why stand ye looking up to heaven, where Him ye ne’er may see, / Neither ascending hence, nor returning hither again?
ref:
1849, Arthur Hugh Clough, Easter Day (Naples, 1849)
type:
quotation
text:
After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence.
type:
example
text:
A year hence it will be forgotten.
type:
example
text:
I shall go to Japan and hence will not be here in time for the party.
type:
example
text:
The purse is handmade and hence very expensive.
type:
example
text:
Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
ref:
1910, Sun Tzu, Lionel Giles (translator), The Art of War, Section VI: Weak Points and Strong, 8
text:
Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
ref:
1910, [1513], Niccolò Machiavelli, chapter VI, in Ninian Hill Thomson, transl., The Prince
type:
quotation
text:
That hence arises the peculiar Unhappiness of that Business, which other Callings are no way liable to;
ref:
1731 May 27, Benjamin Franklin, “Apology for Printers”, in The Pennsylvania Gazette
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From here, from this place, away.
From the living or from this world.
In the future from now.
As a result; therefore, for this reason.
senses_topics:
|
10675 | word:
hence
word_type:
intj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A later Middle English spelling, retaining the voiceless -s, of hennes (henne + adverbial genitive ending -s), from Old English heonan (“away", "hence”), from a Proto-West Germanic *hin-, from Proto-Germanic *hiz, and Proto-Germanic *-anē.
Cognate with Old Saxon hinan, Old High German hinnan (German hinnen), Dutch heen, Swedish hän. Related to Old English her (“here”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Go away! Begone!
senses_topics:
|
10676 | word:
hence
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hence (third-person singular simple present hences, present participle hencing, simple past and past participle henced)
forms:
form:
hences
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hencing
tags:
participle
present
form:
henced
tags:
participle
past
form:
henced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A later Middle English spelling, retaining the voiceless -s, of hennes (henne + adverbial genitive ending -s), from Old English heonan (“away", "hence”), from a Proto-West Germanic *hin-, from Proto-Germanic *hiz, and Proto-Germanic *-anē.
Cognate with Old Saxon hinan, Old High German hinnan (German hinnen), Dutch heen, Swedish hän. Related to Old English her (“here”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To utter "hence!" to; to send away.
To depart; to go away.
senses_topics:
|
10677 | word:
damp
word_type:
adj
expansion:
damp (comparative damper, superlative dampest)
forms:
form:
damper
tags:
comparative
form:
dampest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
damp (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English dampen (“to stifle; suffocate”). Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and German Dampf (“vapor, steam, fog”), Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Middle English dampen (“to extinguish, choke, suffocate”). Ultimately all descend from Proto-Germanic *dampaz.
senses_examples:
text:
25 January 2017, Leena Camadoo writing in The Guardian, Dominican banana producers at sharp end of climate change
Once the farms have been drained and the dead plants have been cut down and cleared, farmers then have to be alert for signs of black sigatoka, a devastating fungus which flourishes in damp conditions and can destroy banana farms.
text:
The lawn was still damp so we decided not to sit down.
type:
example
text:
The paint is still damp, so please don't touch it.
type:
example
text:
27 July 2016, Jane O’Faherty in The Irish Independent, Monarchs and prison officers win big on second race day
Though Travis's 'Why does it always Rain on Me' boomed around the stands, there were few damp spirits in Galway on day two of the races.
text:
The Roadhouse was twenty-seve miles down the road from Niniltna, nine feet and three inches outside the Niniltna Native Association's tribal jurisdiction, and therefore not subject to the dry law currently in effect. Or was it damp? Kate thought it might have changed, yet again, at the last election, from dry to damp, or maybe it was from wet to damp.
ref:
2002, Dana Stabenow, A Fine and Bitter Snow, page 32
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
Despondent; dispirited, downcast.
Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale.
senses_topics:
|
10678 | word:
damp
word_type:
noun
expansion:
damp (countable and uncountable, plural damps)
forms:
form:
damps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
damp (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English dampen (“to stifle; suffocate”). Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and German Dampf (“vapor, steam, fog”), Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Middle English dampen (“to extinguish, choke, suffocate”). Ultimately all descend from Proto-Germanic *dampaz.
senses_examples:
text:
What means this chilling damp that clings around me! / Why do I tremble thus!
ref:
1764, Elizabeth Griffith, Amana, London: W. Johnston, act V, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Unceasing, soaking rain was falling; the very lamps seemed obscured by the damp upon the glass, and their light reached but to a little distance from the posts.
ref:
1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 10, in Mary Barton
type:
quotation
text:
We sometimes kept our Wellingtons on the whole day, leaving trails of mud and damp through the rooms.
ref:
2005, Kazuo Ishiguro, chapter 10, in Never Let Me Go, London: Faber, published 2010, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
Her chilling finger on my head,
With coldest touch congealed my soul—
Cold as the finger of the dead,
Or damps which round a tombstone roll
ref:
1810, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Elizabeth Shelley, “Warrior”, in Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, London: John Lane, published 1898, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
1728, George Carleton (attributed to Daniel Defoe), The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p. 72,
But though the War was proclaim’d, and Preparations accordingly made for it, the Expectations from all receiv’d a sudden Damp, by the as sudden Death of King William.
text:
1866, James David Forbes, letter to A. Wills dated 2 January, 1866, in Life and Letters of James David Forbes, London: Macmaillan, 1873, p. 429,
[…] I was concerned to hear from your brother that Mrs. Wills’ health had prevented her accompanying you to Sixt as usual. It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion […]
text:
There are sulphurous Vapours which infect the Vegetables, and render the Grass unwholsom to the Cattle that feed upon it: Miners are often hurt by these Steams. Observations made in some of the Mines in Derbyshire, describe four sorts of those Damps.
ref:
1733, John Arbuthnot, chapter 1, in An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies, London: Jacob Tonson, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Moisture; humidity; dampness.
Fog; fogginess; vapor.
Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity.
A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
senses_topics:
business
mining |
10679 | word:
damp
word_type:
verb
expansion:
damp (third-person singular simple present damps, present participle damping, simple past and past participle damped)
forms:
form:
damps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
damping
tags:
participle
present
form:
damped
tags:
participle
past
form:
damped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
damp (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English dampen (“to stifle; suffocate”). Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and German Dampf (“vapor, steam, fog”), Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Middle English dampen (“to extinguish, choke, suffocate”). Ultimately all descend from Proto-Germanic *dampaz.
senses_examples:
text:
to damp cloth
type:
example
text:
How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!
ref:
1887, Sir John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
type:
quotation
text:
I do not mean to wake the gloomy form Of superstition dress'd in wisdom's garb, To damp your tender hopes
ref:
1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination
type:
quotation
text:
Hydraulic shock absorbers are used to damp out vertical and lateral oscillations.
ref:
1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dampen; to make moderately wet
To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull.
To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
senses_topics:
|
10680 | word:
uh
word_type:
intj
expansion:
uh
forms:
wikipedia:
Speech disfluency
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeia of the natural expression of thought. Compare with er.
senses_examples:
text:
Uh, who was that?
type:
example
text:
Uh, let me see...
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.
Space filler or pause during conversation.
senses_topics:
|
10681 | word:
uh
word_type:
noun
expansion:
uh (plural uhs)
forms:
form:
uhs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeia of the natural expression of thought. Compare with er.
senses_examples:
text:
Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s.
ref:
2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An occurrence of the interjection "uh".
senses_topics:
|
10682 | word:
help
word_type:
noun
expansion:
help (usually uncountable, plural helps)
forms:
form:
helps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:help
etymology_text:
From Middle English help, from Old English help (“help, aid, assistance, relief”), from Proto-Germanic *helpō (“help”), *hilpiz, *hulpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälpe (“help”), West Frisian help (“help”), Dutch hulp (“help”), Low German Hülp (“help”), German Hilfe (“help, aid, assistance”), Danish hjælp (“help”), Swedish hjälp (“help”), Norwegian hjelp (“help”).
senses_examples:
text:
I need some help with my homework.
type:
example
text:
He was a great help to me when I was moving house.
type:
example
text:
I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.
type:
example
text:
I've printed out a list of math helps.
type:
example
text:
In 1979 the Church published a Latter-day Saint edition of the King James Version of the Bible in English. Included in this edition were numerous helps to make a study of the scriptures more meaningful and rewarding.
ref:
c. 2002, “Scripture Study Helps”, in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
type:
quotation
text:
The help is coming round this morning to clean.
type:
example
text:
Most of the hired help is seasonal, for the harvest.
type:
example
text:
His suicide attempts were a cry for help.
type:
example
text:
He really needs help in handling customer complaints.
type:
example
text:
“He’s a real road-rager.” / “Yup, he really needs help, maybe anger management.”
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Action given to provide assistance; aid.
Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
Documentation provided with computer software that could be accessed using the computer.
A study aid.
One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
10683 | word:
help
word_type:
verb
expansion:
help (third-person singular simple present helps, present participle helping, simple past helped or (archaic) holp, past participle helped or (archaic) holpen)
forms:
form:
helps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
helping
tags:
participle
present
form:
helped
tags:
past
form:
holp
tags:
archaic
past
form:
helped
tags:
participle
past
form:
holpen
tags:
archaic
participle
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
help
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
en:help
etymology_text:
From Middle English helpen, from Old English helpan (“to help, aid, assist, benefit, relieve, cure”), from Proto-West Germanic *helpan, Proto-Germanic *helpaną (“to help”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”).
Cognate with West Frisian helpe (“to help”), Dutch helpen (“to help”), Low German helpen, hölpen (“to help”), German helfen (“to help”), Danish hjælpe (“to help”), Norwegian hjelpe (“to help”), Lithuanian šelpti (“to help, support”).
senses_examples:
text:
He helped his grandfather cook breakfast.
type:
example
text:
Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
ref:
2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
It is polite to help your guests to food before serving yourself.
type:
example
text:
Help yourself to whatever's in the fridge.
type:
example
text:
The white paint on the walls helps make the room look brighter.
type:
example
text:
If you want to get a job, it helps to have some prior experience.
type:
example
text:
She was struggling with the groceries, so I offered to help.
type:
example
text:
Please, help!
type:
example
text:
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref:
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3
type:
quotation
text:
We couldn’t help noticing that you were late.
type:
example
text:
We couldn’t help but notice that you were late.
type:
example
text:
She’s trying not to smile, but she can’t help herself.
type:
example
text:
Can I help it if I'm so beautiful?
type:
example
text:
Can I help it that I fell in love with you?
type:
example
text:
Are they going to beat us? Not if I can help it!
type:
example
text:
She never does more than she can help.
type:
example
text:
Can you help me buy some groceries?
Underlying meaning is “Can you go do the groceries for me?”
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To provide assistance to (someone or something).
To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
To contribute in some way to.
To provide assistance.
To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
To do something on the behalf of someone.
senses_topics:
|
10684 | word:
help
word_type:
intj
expansion:
help!
forms:
form:
help!
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
en:help
etymology_text:
From Middle English helpen, from Old English helpan (“to help, aid, assist, benefit, relieve, cure”), from Proto-West Germanic *helpan, Proto-Germanic *helpaną (“to help”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”).
Cognate with West Frisian helpe (“to help”), Dutch helpen (“to help”), Low German helpen, hölpen (“to help”), German helfen (“to help”), Danish hjælpe (“to help”), Norwegian hjelpe (“to help”), Lithuanian šelpti (“to help, support”).
senses_examples:
text:
— Take that, you scoundrel.
— Help! Robin, help!
(Robin Hood (1973))
type:
example
text:
helpppp that's too funny, did she rlly say that?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance
A way to signal uncontrollable laughter; implying the risk of dying of laughter and needing assistance.
senses_topics:
|
10685 | word:
put on
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put on (third-person singular simple present puts on, present participle putting on, simple past and past participle put on)
forms:
form:
puts on
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting on
tags:
participle
present
form:
put on
tags:
participle
past
form:
put on
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Why don't you put on your jacket. It's cold.
type:
example
text:
I put a coat on my daughter.
type:
example
text:
I put tinsel on the Christmas tree.
type:
example
text:
You must be putting me on.
type:
example
text:
She's putting on that she's sicker than she really is.
type:
example
text:
Why are you putting that silly voice on?
type:
example
text:
He's just putting on that limp -- his leg's actually fine.
type:
example
text:
I'll put your favorite record on.
type:
example
text:
Can you put on The Sound of Music? I'd like to see it again.
type:
example
text:
I'll put blues on the stereo.
type:
example
text:
We usually put The Beatles on on my boombox.
type:
example
text:
I'll put on some coffee for everybody.
type:
example
text:
The actors put on a show last Saturday.
type:
example
text:
The actors will put "Macbeth" on only one more time.
type:
example
text:
The theatre company is putting on "Into the Woods" this season.
type:
example
text:
Peterbough United have been playing at Lincoln, in something of a local derby. EMR has put on a six-car Class 158 as an additional train, to take 'Posh' fans home (Posh is the team's nickname, by the way).
ref:
2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
I put five pounds on that racehorse.
type:
example
text:
The gang boss put some goons on the other gang.
type:
example
text:
The witch put a hex on me.
type:
example
text:
Carl has been put on the front desk for tonight's shift.
type:
example
text:
I hope they put me on TV.
text:
They put her on a billboard.
text:
I put SpongeBob on when the kid gets fussy.
text:
He put the pen on the table.
type:
example
text:
Put it on the list.
type:
example
text:
The doctor put me on a diet.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
To decorate or dress (something) onto another person or a surface.
To fool, kid, deceive.
To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense.
To play (a recording).
To play (a recording) on (a sound system).
To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop.
To perform for an audience.
To organize a performance for an audience.
To provide.
To hurry up; to move swiftly forward.
To bet (money or other items) on (something).
To assign or apply (something) to a target.
To give (someone) a role in popular media.
To set (movie, show, song, etc.) to play on a screen.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on.
senses_topics:
|
10686 | word:
Wikipedian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Wikipedian (plural Wikipedians)
forms:
form:
Wikipedians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Wikipedia + -ian (compare encyclopedist).
senses_examples:
text:
That is because Wikipedians, as they call themselves, can not only contribute whatever they want but can also edit entries posted by other writers as they see fit.
ref:
2001 September 20, Peter Meyers, “Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Britannica, somewhat representative of old media in general, instinctively regards Wikipedia as a threat, whereas Wikipedians are not the least bit tempted to reciprocate.
ref:
2006 April 22, The Economist
type:
quotation
text:
This change takes care of casual or heat-of-the-moment vandalism, but it does little to address a new category of Wikipedian somewhere between committed community member and momentarily vandalizing teenager, one that creates tougher problems.
ref:
2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It, page 139
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who contributes to Wikipedia, especially a regular contributor versed in the ways of the website.
senses_topics:
|
10687 | word:
Wikipedian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Wikipedian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Wikipedia + -ian (compare encyclopedist).
senses_examples:
text:
Many scholars of Wikipedian theology theorize that if consensus is ever reached, Wikipedia will spontaneously disappear.
ref:
2006 April 19, “The Wikipedia FAQK”, in Wired News
type:
quotation
text:
In these Googlial Wikipedian times, a vast collection of wordbooks may seem slow, unnecessary or both.
ref:
2007 September 6, GALE ZOË GARNETT, “The language of the love of language”, in Globe and Mail
type:
quotation
text:
If people stopped believing in the Wikipedian ideal, and used its tools for vandalism, "it's unlikely the whole enterprise would survive a week"
ref:
2008 March 21, Pat Kane, “Here Comes Everybody, by Clay Shirky. We-Think, by Charles Leadbeater”, in Independent
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to Wikipedia.
senses_topics:
|
10688 | word:
hyperlink
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hyperlink (plural hyperlinks)
forms:
form:
hyperlinks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hyper- + link, or a blend of hypertext + link.
senses_examples:
text:
Click the hyperlink to go to the next page.
type:
example
text:
Copy the hyperlink and paste it into an email.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Some text or a graphic in an electronic document that can be activated to display another document or trigger an action.
The URL or other address that defines a hyperlink's target or function.
senses_topics:
|
10689 | word:
hyperlink
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hyperlink (third-person singular simple present hyperlinks, present participle hyperlinking, simple past and past participle hyperlinked)
forms:
form:
hyperlinks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hyperlinking
tags:
participle
present
form:
hyperlinked
tags:
participle
past
form:
hyperlinked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hyper- + link, or a blend of hypertext + link.
senses_examples:
text:
Their Web page hyperlinks to your Web site.
ref:
2001, Barbara Notarius, Gail Sforza Brewer, Open Your Own Bead & Breakfast, 4th edition, John Wiley and Sons, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
One valuable thing a blogger often does is hyperlink to magazine and newspaper stories or other interesting blogs, she says.
ref:
2004 April 15, Gregory M. Lamb, “Blogs: Here to Stay - With Changes”, in Christian Science Monitor
type:
quotation
text:
Indeed, what consumers will see on a Web site is likely to vary depending on the point or Web page at which they access the Web site, how many pages they “hyperlink” through when reviewing the site, and how much of the page containing the disclosure is displayed by consumers' Web browsers without requiring additional scrolling.
ref:
1999, John Graubert, Jill Coleman, “Consumer Protection and Antitrust Enforcement at the Speed of Light: The FTC Meets the Internet”, in Canada–United States Law Journal, volume 25, page 275
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To point to another document by a hyperlink.
To add a hyperlink to a document.
To use a hyperlink to jump to a document.
senses_topics:
|
10690 | word:
hanger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hanger (plural hangers)
forms:
form:
hangers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hanger, haunger, hangere, equivalent to hang + -er. Compare West Frisian hinger (“hanger”), Dutch hanger (“hanger”), German Hänger and Henker.
senses_examples:
text:
With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern. That's because a jumper damned near always makes it the first time, and a drowner is usually almost as successful, about the same rate as hangers.
ref:
2017, Ronald V. Clarke, Suicide: Closing the Exits
type:
quotation
text:
I made an offer to go for my books and chest of clothes, but he swore I should not move out of his sight; and if I did he would cut my throat, at the same time taking his hanger.
ref:
1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 4, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I
type:
quotation
text:
He was a stout old gentleman, with a weather-beaten countenance; he wore a laced doublet, broad belt and hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with roses in them.
ref:
1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle
type:
quotation
text:
When he called ‘Watch!’ they cut him on the head with a hanger or short cutlass and fired a pistol so close to his face he was thought to be powder-burned for life.
ref:
2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 440
type:
quotation
text:
About the tenth of July in the same Summer a pair of sparrow-hawks bred in an old crow's nest on a low beech in the same hanger; and as their brood, which was numerous, began to grow up, became so daring and ravenous, that they were a terror to all the dames in the village that had chickens or ducklings under their care.
ref:
1789, Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne, Page 187
type:
quotation
text:
'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
ref:
1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
type:
quotation
text:
Climbers use anchors or bolts that are already placed in the rock. They clip onto them with metal hangers. Climbers don't need to place the anchors themselves, so they can focus on making the difficult climbing moves.
ref:
2012, Christine Dugan, Defying Gravity! Rock Climbing, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
In marine areas (sea cliffs), even stainless steel bolts and hangers corrode rapidly.
ref:
2021, John Long, Bob Gaines, Rock Climbing: The Art of Safe Ascent, page 118
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc.
A person who attempts suicide by hanging.
That by which a thing is suspended.
A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
That by which a thing is suspended.
A bridle iron.
That by which a thing is suspended.
A clothes hanger.
A short and broad backsword, worn so to hang at the side, especially popular in the 18th century.
A steep, wooded slope.
A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed, hence easy to hit.
Synonym of spectacular mark
A device secured by a bolt and used to attach a carabiner.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
10691 | word:
hanger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hanger (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of hunger + anger.
senses_examples:
text:
The physiology of hanger. The carbohydrates, proteins and fats in everything you eat are digested into simple sugars (such as glucose), amino acids and free fatty acids. These nutrients pass into your bloodstream from where they are distributed to your organs and tissues and used for energy […]
ref:
2015, Amanda Salis, “The science behind being "Hangry"”, in CNN "The conversation"
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.
senses_topics:
|
10692 | word:
put down
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put down (third-person singular simple present puts down, present participle putting down, simple past and past participle put down)
forms:
form:
puts down
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting down
tags:
participle
present
form:
put down
tags:
participle
past
form:
put down
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Why don't you put down your briefcase and stay awhile?
type:
example
text:
As she did so Fanny put down her book , stood up and stretched her arms, and at once Jessamy noticed a difference.
ref:
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
They frequently put down their little sister for walking slowly.
type:
example
text:
People try to put us down / Just because we get around.
ref:
1965, The Who, My Generation
type:
quotation
text:
We put down a $1,000 deposit.
type:
example
text:
The government quickly put down the insurrection.
type:
example
text:
22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
text:
When the Nexus first arrived in Andromeda and an uprising arose among the desperate crew, it was William Spender who convinced clan leader Nakmor Morda to put down the mutineers. By all accounts, it did not go well.
ref:
2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nexus: William Spender Codex entry
type:
quotation
text:
Rex was in so much pain, they had to put him down.
type:
example
text:
A couple walking in Kirkleatham Woods, Redcar, heard whimpering and found the terrier-type animal in a mound of earth at about midday. It was rushed to a vet but its injuries were so serious it had to be put down.
ref:
2016, Dog found buried alive in Redcar with nail in head, BBC
type:
quotation
text:
The only thing left to do before putting the plan into action was checking the barracks for stragglers, and putting them down. She placed the first three bombs, then crept to the final door and opened it.
ref:
2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-22
type:
quotation
text:
I hope you don't mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world
ref:
1970, Elton John, Bernie Taupin (lyrics and music), “Your Song”, in Elton John, performed by Elton John
type:
quotation
text:
Put down the first thing you think of on this piece of paper.
type:
example
text:
Ray eventually called at 7pm and took the school’s side. He sounded imperious and distant and made me even angrier.
I told him he sounded just like my father, and put the phone down on him.
ref:
1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary
type:
quotation
text:
Don't put the phone down. I want a quick word with him, too.
type:
example
text:
I've put myself down for the new Spanish conversation course.
type:
example
text:
BP are putting petrol and diesel down in what could be the start of a price war.
type:
example
text:
I had just put Mary down when you rang. So now she's crying again.
type:
example
text:
She put her long life down to daily meditation.
type:
example
text:
The pilot managed to put down in a nearby farm field.
type:
example
text:
The taxi put him down outside the hotel.
type:
example
text:
I was unable to put down The Stand: it was that exciting.
type:
example
text:
I put down two bottles of red wine.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down.
To insult, belittle, or demean.
To pay.
To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
To euthanize (an animal).
To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
To write (something).
To terminate a call on (a telephone); to hang up.
To add a name to a list.
To make prices, or taxes, lower.
To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
To give something as a reason for something else.
To land.
To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
To drink.
To set type in lowercase; to switch type from capital to lowercase letters.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
media
printing
publishing |
10693 | word:
put down
word_type:
noun
expansion:
put down (plural put downs)
forms:
form:
put downs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of put-down
senses_topics:
|
10694 | word:
nuance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nuance (countable and uncountable, plural nuances)
forms:
form:
nuances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
nuance
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French nuance (“nuance, shade, hue”).
senses_examples:
text:
hidden nuances
type:
example
text:
Understanding the basics is easy, but appreciating the nuances takes years.
text:
1901: Alpheus Spring Packard, Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution
...the richer our collections become, the more numerous are the proofs that all is more or less shaded (nuance), that the remarkable differences become obliterated...
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A minor distinction.
Subtlety or fine detail.
senses_topics:
|
10695 | word:
nuance
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nuance (third-person singular simple present nuances, present participle nuancing, simple past and past participle nuanced)
forms:
form:
nuances
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nuancing
tags:
participle
present
form:
nuanced
tags:
participle
past
form:
nuanced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
nuance
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French nuance (“nuance, shade, hue”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply a nuance to; to change or redefine in a subtle way.
senses_topics:
|
10696 | word:
kick the bucket
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kick the bucket (third-person singular simple present kicks the bucket, present participle kicking the bucket, simple past and past participle kicked the bucket)
forms:
form:
kicks the bucket
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kicking the bucket
tags:
participle
present
form:
kicked the bucket
tags:
participle
past
form:
kicked the bucket
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
There are many theories as to where this idiom comes from, but the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) suggests the following:
* A person standing on a pail or bucket with their head in a slip noose would kick the bucket so as to commit suicide. The OED, however, says that this is mainly speculative;
* An archaic use of bucket was a beam from which a pig is hung by its feet prior to being slaughtered, and to kick the bucket originally signified the pig's death throes. The OED finds this a more plausible theory.
Another theory is given by Roman Catholic Bishop Abbot Horne.
senses_examples:
text:
The old horse finally kicked the bucket.
type:
example
text:
My posthumous book Allegorizings, which will go to press in London and New York the minute I kick the bucket, is loosely governed by my growing conviction that almost nothing in life is only what it seems. It contains nothing revelatory at all.
ref:
2015 April 22, Sam Jordison, quoting Jan Morris, “Jan Morris talks about Venice”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
I think my sewing machine has kicked the bucket.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To die.
To break down such that it cannot be repaired.
senses_topics:
|
10697 | word:
ouch
word_type:
intj
expansion:
ouch
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Some sources say the interjection is attested since 1838 (and specifically in American English) and derives ultimately from German autsch, perhaps specifically via Pennsylvania German outch (“cry of pain”), as early attestations of the interjection are from Pennsylvania. However, others say the interjection is a "mere" or "natural" exclamation attested since the mid 1600s, and the 1933 OED cites one instance of a verb "ouch" in 1654, "Sancho Pancas Runs Ouching round the mountaine like a ranck-Asse".
senses_examples:
text:
Ouch! You stepped on my toe! That hurt!
type:
example
text:
Ouch! Her sunburn looks awful.
type:
example
text:
Ouch. How could you say that?
type:
example
text:
Ouch, I really wanted to do that.
type:
example
text:
Ouch, one hundred thousand dollars for a car! I could never afford that!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of one's own physical pain.
An expression in sympathy at another's pain.
A reply to an insult seen as savage (frequently one that is tongue-in-cheek or joking).
An expression of disappointment.
Expressing surprise at the high price of something.
senses_topics:
|
10698 | word:
ouch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ouch (plural ouches)
forms:
form:
ouches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Some sources say the interjection is attested since 1838 (and specifically in American English) and derives ultimately from German autsch, perhaps specifically via Pennsylvania German outch (“cry of pain”), as early attestations of the interjection are from Pennsylvania. However, others say the interjection is a "mere" or "natural" exclamation attested since the mid 1600s, and the 1933 OED cites one instance of a verb "ouch" in 1654, "Sancho Pancas Runs Ouching round the mountaine like a ranck-Asse".
senses_examples:
text:
RhuliGel soothes the itches and ouches of summer.
ref:
1986 June, “RhuliGel Soothes the Itches and Ouches of Summer [advertisement]”, in Myrna Blyth, editor, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume CIII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Meredith Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 161, column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something that causes discomfort or pain.
senses_topics:
|
10699 | word:
ouch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ouch (third-person singular simple present ouches, present participle ouching, simple past and past participle ouched)
forms:
form:
ouches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ouching
tags:
participle
present
form:
ouched
tags:
participle
past
form:
ouched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Some sources say the interjection is attested since 1838 (and specifically in American English) and derives ultimately from German autsch, perhaps specifically via Pennsylvania German outch (“cry of pain”), as early attestations of the interjection are from Pennsylvania. However, others say the interjection is a "mere" or "natural" exclamation attested since the mid 1600s, and the 1933 OED cites one instance of a verb "ouch" in 1654, "Sancho Pancas Runs Ouching round the mountaine like a ranck-Asse".
senses_examples:
text:
Imperturbability your skill, not mine / I ouch out loud and clear / Your forgiveness, like Pope's divine / I'm just an angry queer
ref:
1984 April 21, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower”, in Gay Community News, page 18
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To exclaim "ouch!" in discomfort or pain.
senses_topics:
|
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