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10700 | word:
ouch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ouch (plural ouches)
forms:
form:
ouches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Variant forms.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of ouche
senses_topics:
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10701 | word:
ruin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ruin (countable and uncountable, plural ruins)
forms:
form:
ruins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ruyne, ruine, from Old French ruine, from Latin ruīna (“overthrow, ruin”), from ruō (“I fall down, tumble, sink in ruin, rush”).
senses_examples:
text:
The labour of a day will not build up a virtuous habit on the ruins of an old and vicious character.
ref:
a. 1812, Joseph Stevens Buckminster, sermon
type:
quotation
text:
Dr. Manuel: No one is saved. The age of humanity is ended. Soon, only ruin and corpses will remain.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime
type:
quotation
text:
The monastery has fallen into ruin.
type:
example
text:
Gambling has been the ruin of many.
type:
example
text:
the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes
type:
example
text:
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!
ref:
1768, Thomas Gray, The Bard
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
The act of ruining something.
A fall or tumble.
A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
senses_topics:
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10702 | word:
ruin
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ruin (third-person singular simple present ruins, present participle ruining, simple past and past participle ruined or (dialectal, nonstandard) ruint)
forms:
form:
ruins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ruining
tags:
participle
present
form:
ruined
tags:
participle
past
form:
ruined
tags:
past
form:
ruint
tags:
dialectal
nonstandard
participle
past
form:
ruint
tags:
dialectal
nonstandard
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ruyne, ruine, from Old French ruine, from Latin ruīna (“overthrow, ruin”), from ruō (“I fall down, tumble, sink in ruin, rush”).
senses_examples:
text:
With all these purchases, you surely mean to ruin us!
type:
example
text:
He ruined his new white slacks by accidentally spilling oil on them.
type:
example
text:
By the fireside there are old men seated, / Seeing ruined cities in the ashes.
ref:
1857, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Mile-Stone
type:
quotation
text:
My car breaking down just as I was on the road ruined my vacation.
type:
example
text:
I used to love that song, but being assaulted when that song was playing ruined the song for me.
type:
example
text:
Though he his house of polisht marble build, / Yet shall it ruine like the Moth's fraile cell
ref:
1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalmes and upon the Hymnes dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments
type:
quotation
text:
The young libertine was notorious for ruining local girls.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
To destroy or make something no longer usable.
To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
To fall into a state of decay.
To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
senses_topics:
|
10703 | word:
Abrahamitical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Abrahamitical (comparative more Abrahamitical, superlative most Abrahamitical)
forms:
form:
more Abrahamitical
tags:
comparative
form:
most Abrahamitical
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Abrahamitic
senses_topics:
|
10704 | word:
Abram-man
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Abram-man (plural Abram-men)
forms:
form:
Abram-men
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Come, princes of the ragged regiment; / You 'o the blood, Prig, my most Upright-lord, / and these, what name or title e'er they bear, / Jarkman, or Patrico, Crank, or Clapper-dudgeon, / Frater, or Abram-man; I speak to all.
ref:
c. 1620, Beggars' Bush, act 2, scene 1
type:
quotation
text:
There is a trick for you to find out an Abram-man, and save sixpence when he begs of you as a disbanded seaman.
ref:
1823, Walter Scott, Saint Ronan's Well
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Abraham man
senses_topics:
|
10705 | word:
aha
word_type:
intj
expansion:
aha
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English a ha, aha, natural expression. Equivalent to ah + ha!.
senses_examples:
text:
Aha! That will work.
type:
example
text:
Aha! Now I've got you!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.
An exclamation of surprise, exaltation, or contempt.
senses_topics:
|
10706 | word:
gallicize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gallicize (third-person singular simple present gallicizes, present participle gallicizing, simple past and past participle gallicized)
forms:
form:
gallicizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gallicizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
gallicized
tags:
participle
past
form:
gallicized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Gallic + -ize, from Latin Gallicus (“of or relating to Gaul”) and used archaically in English in reference to modern France.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of frenchify, to make French or more French-like.
Synonym of frenchify, to become French or more French-like.
To translate into the French language.
senses_topics:
|
10707 | word:
output
word_type:
noun
expansion:
output (countable and uncountable, plural outputs)
forms:
form:
outputs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
output
etymology_text:
From out + put.
senses_examples:
text:
Output at the Pen-ch'i mine, which produced somewhat under 1 million tons annually during 1942-1944, was around 500,000 tons in 1949.
ref:
1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China, New York: Bookman Associates, →OCLC, page 284
type:
quotation
text:
It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid and unique to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
The factory increased its output this year.
ref:
2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240
type:
example
text:
a six-page output; six pages of output
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.
That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
The amount of power produced by a particular system.
That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
medicine
sciences
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
business
computing
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences |
10708 | word:
output
word_type:
verb
expansion:
output (third-person singular simple present outputs, present participle outputting, simple past and past participle output or outputted)
forms:
form:
outputs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
outputting
tags:
participle
present
form:
output
tags:
participle
past
form:
output
tags:
past
form:
outputted
tags:
participle
past
form:
outputted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
output
etymology_text:
From out + put.
senses_examples:
text:
We output 1400 units last year.
type:
example
text:
When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce, create, or complete.
To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10709 | word:
mice
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mice
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English mȳs (“mice”), from an umlauted form of Proto-Germanic *mūsiz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *mūs (“mouse”). Compare Scots mice, mise, myse, myce (“mice”), West Frisian mûzen (“mice”), Dutch muizen (“mice”), German Mäuse (“mice”), Swedish möss (“mice”), Faroese mýs (“mice”), Icelandic mýs (“mice”). More at mouse.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of mouse
senses_topics:
|
10710 | word:
mice
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mice (third-person singular simple present mices, present participle micing, simple past and past participle miced)
forms:
form:
mices
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
micing
tags:
participle
present
form:
miced
tags:
participle
past
form:
miced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English mȳs (“mice”), from an umlauted form of Proto-Germanic *mūsiz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *mūs (“mouse”). Compare Scots mice, mise, myse, myce (“mice”), West Frisian mûzen (“mice”), Dutch muizen (“mice”), German Mäuse (“mice”), Swedish möss (“mice”), Faroese mýs (“mice”), Icelandic mýs (“mice”). More at mouse.
senses_examples:
text:
That cat's mysin, he doesn't see the dog coming.
ref:
1984, Peter A. Smith, Fred M. Barritt, Bermewjan Vurds, Island Press
type:
quotation
text:
A breakfast diner might describe an incident with someone who was "not too tightly wrapped". Or not wanting to waste time on someone who was always "micin". Another breakfast guest might explode with "what'chu mean?", only to be told half-jokingly, “Bie ... shut yor mouth”.
ref:
2015 December 9, Jack Gauntlett, “Bermudian sayings always raise a smile”, in The Royal Gazette, archived from the original on 2022-12-11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be distracted or inattentive (possibly alluding to a cat being distracted by a mouse).
senses_topics:
|
10711 | word:
SW
word_type:
name
expansion:
SW
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Star Wars.
senses_topics:
|
10712 | word:
SW
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SW (countable and uncountable, plural SWs)
forms:
form:
SWs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
PAOTING (CH’ING-YÜAN, TSINGYUAN), capital of Hopeh province, China, is 90 mi. (145 km.) S.W. of Peking on the Peking-Hankow railway.
ref:
1968, Joseph Earle Spencer, “PAOTING”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 237, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of southwest.
Abbreviation of software.
Initialism of search warrant.
Initialism of sex work.
Initialism of sex worker.
Initialism of social work.
Initialism of short wave.
Initialism of street workout.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
10713 | word:
SW
word_type:
adj
expansion:
SW
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of southwestern.
Initialism of single white.
senses_topics:
|
10714 | word:
SW
word_type:
verb
expansion:
SW
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of swing: to play the bell in a normal position, swing it down to the waist, then bring it back up
senses_topics:
entertainment
handbells
lifestyle
music |
10715 | word:
put out
word_type:
noun
expansion:
put out (plural put outs)
forms:
form:
put outs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of putout.
senses_topics:
|
10716 | word:
put out
word_type:
adj
expansion:
put out (comparative more put out, superlative most put out)
forms:
form:
more put out
tags:
comparative
form:
most put out
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Gordon told GCN that when the bill was first reviewed in the House, it received a 70-49 vote, one vote short of the majority it needed to pass. Gordon said that gay and lesbian activists were "extremely put-out" over this narrow loss.
ref:
1991 May 4, Elizabeth Yukins, “Maryland Passes Gay Hate Crimes Bill”, in Gay Community News, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
He was put out at the mere suggestion of misconduct.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Taking offense; indignant.
senses_topics:
|
10717 | word:
put out
word_type:
verb
expansion:
put out (third-person singular simple present puts out, present participle putting out, simple past and past participle put out)
forms:
form:
puts out
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
putting out
tags:
participle
present
form:
put out
tags:
participle
past
form:
put out
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
You can't have a pair of scissors! You'll put your eye out!
type:
example
text:
Don’t forget to put out the dog.
type:
example
text:
I don't mean to put you out. It's just vital that I get this done tonight.
type:
example
text:
England stumbled into the World Cup quarter-finals and almost certainly put Scotland out after an error-ridden victory at Eden Park.
ref:
2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Along about Tuesday Uncle Cal put out for San Antone on the last wagonload of wool.
ref:
c. 1900, O. Henry, The Missing Chord
type:
quotation
text:
The factory puts out 4000 units each day.
type:
example
text:
This unit puts out 4000 BTUs.
type:
example
text:
Lift with your knees. Don’t put out your back.
type:
example
text:
They worked for days to put out the brushfire.
type:
example
text:
She put out her cigarette.
type:
example
text:
'You talk funny,' I said to him. 'I mean, the other wardens say, "Put that light out", but you shout, "Put out the light".'
'Shakespeare,' the warden said in a deep voice.
ref:
2010, Terry Deary, Put out the Light, p. 10
text:
Put out those lights before the Germans see them.
type:
example
text:
Don't them laundry queens put out good enough to suit you?
ref:
1928 December, Our Army, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
Christ, maybe that blond was only a bitch after all. Maybe she put out even to the punks. Come to think of it, she looked a little hard-boiled.
ref:
1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 17, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan
type:
quotation
text:
If she won't put out the men will accuse her of being bourgeois and uptight.
ref:
1975, David Lodge, Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses, page 232
type:
quotation
text:
I can't afford to waste a Saturday night here with some married bird who isn't putting out.
ref:
2003, Elizabeth M. Noble, Reading Group, page 205
type:
quotation
text:
This Grosso dated this woman a couple of times, and then, when she wouldn't put out for him, he beat her up and forced her.
ref:
2005, William Heffernan, A Time Gone By
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To blind (eyes).
To place outside, to remove, particularly
To expel.
To place outside, to remove, particularly
To remove from office.
To place outside, to remove, particularly
To cause something to be out, particularly
To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
To cause something to be out, particularly
To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
To cause something to be out, particularly
To cause a player on offense to be out.
To cause something to be out, particularly
Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.
To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
To cause something to go out, particularly
To produce, to emit.
To cause something to go out, particularly
To express.
To cause something to go out, particularly
To broadcast, to publish.
To cause something to go out, particularly
To dislocate (a joint).
To cause something to go out, particularly
To extinguish (fire).
To cause something to go out, particularly
To turn off (light).
To consent to sex.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
medicine
military
politics
sciences
sports
war
|
10718 | word:
Australian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Australian (plural Australians)
forms:
form:
Australians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Australia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
An Australian was once appointed on contract, but he swore too much.
ref:
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person from the country of Australia or of Australian descent.
A person from the continent of Australia.
A language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English).
senses_topics:
|
10719 | word:
Australian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Australian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Australia + -an.
senses_examples:
text:
Australian scrolling
Google's name for a style of scrolling with a mousepad in which the flicking direction is inverted in comparison to the "standard" style
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages.
Upside down.
senses_topics:
|
10720 | word:
Australian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Australian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Australia + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Australian, an Australian newspaper.
senses_topics:
|
10721 | word:
splash
word_type:
noun
expansion:
splash (plural splashes)
forms:
form:
splashes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
splash
etymology_text:
Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).
senses_examples:
text:
I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond.
type:
example
text:
I felt a splash of rain, so I put up my hood.
type:
example
text:
I felt a splash of water on my leg as the car drove into the nearby puddle.
type:
example
text:
Add the tomato purée and cook for a further 4-5 minutes. Add a splash of whisky to the pan, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to deglaze.
ref:
2014 August 17 (last accessed), Chris Morrison, “recipe, Grilled fillet of halibut and langoustine tails with smoked haddock risotto and shellfish froth”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2013-07-07
type:
quotation
text:
The painter put a splash of blue on the wall to make it more colorful
type:
example
text:
There was a visible splash on his pants after he went to the bathroom.
type:
example
text:
The new movie made quite a splash upon its release.
type:
example
text:
When the splash appears with Please wait, wait for Windows to start configuration.
ref:
2008, Ron Carswell, Heidi Webb, Guide to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005
type:
quotation
text:
So for a local newspaper, a splash on a fatal crash is just the first of a series of reports.
ref:
2006, Bob Franklin, Local Journalism and Local Media: Making the Local News
type:
quotation
text:
After the brouhaha and the newspaper headline splashes, each of these contentious items would simply die its own quiet death to be replaced by a newer scandal: […]
ref:
2019, Victoria Hoffarth, When Turtles Come Home, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
Hits were observed, but again the poor functioning of VT ammunition hindered in effecting a splash.
ref:
2010, Robin L. Rielly, Kamikaze Attacks of World War II, page 267
type:
quotation
text:
Jojo caught up and gave him a splash
ref:
2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, Td of TPL (lyrics), 1:52–1:56
type:
quotation
roman:
Slap that wap, get rid of them plats
text:
You grip your splash for fashion—me and you, we ain’t got the same intentions.
ref:
2021 August 13, #CO CMoney (lyrics and music), “Don’t Ask”, 2:51–2:53
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
A small amount of liquid.
A small amount (of color).
A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
An impact or impression.
A splash screen.
A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
A cosmetic powder to whiten the complexion.
A large, prominent headline or article.
The shooting down of an aircraft over water.
The bleeding caused by a knife wound.
A knife.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
journalism
media
government
military
politics
war
|
10722 | word:
splash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
splash (third-person singular simple present splashes, present participle splashing, simple past and past participle splashed)
forms:
form:
splashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
splashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
splashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
splashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
splash
etymology_text:
Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).
senses_examples:
text:
sit and splash in the bathtub
type:
example
text:
I know the reason I feel so blessed / My heart still splashes inside my chest
ref:
1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “She Moves On”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
type:
quotation
text:
water splashed everywhere
type:
example
text:
The children were splashing each other playfully in the sea.
type:
example
text:
When she comes in the door, splash her with perfume.
type:
example
text:
The headline was splashed across newspapers everywhere.
type:
example
text:
The March 5, 1978 issue of National Reader […] contained an exciting front page headline -- "Most Major Hollywood Stars Are Gay or Bisexual!!!!" Splashed on the cover are photos of Rock Hudson, Shaun and David Cassidy, […] and, last but not least, Lily Tomlin.
ref:
1978 April 8, Eric Rogers, “Speaking Out”, in Gay Community News, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Now it's big black cars and Riviera views / And your lover in the foyer doesn't even know you / And your secrets end up splashed on the news front page
ref:
2012, Taylor Swift (lyrics and music), “The Lucky One”, in Red (Taylor's Version), published 2021
type:
quotation
text:
After pay day I can afford to splash some cash and buy myself a motorbike.
type:
example
text:
This was pure theatre, with a 60,000 crowd at Wembley adding colour to the fight to face either England or Denmark in Sunday's final, the stadium splashed with the red of Spain at one end and the victorious blue of Italy at the other as crowds flocked back in ever bigger numbers after pandemic restrictions were lifted.
ref:
2021 July 6, Phil McNulty, “Italy beat Spain on penalties: 'Pure theatre as Italy present formidable obstacle in final'”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
In the two years following Midway, Japanese shipyards managed to splash only six additional fleet carriers. The United States in the same period added seventeen, along with ten medium carriers and eighty-six escort carriers.
ref:
1999 March, David M. Kennedy, "Victory at Sea": Atlantic Monthly
type:
quotation
text:
Planes were sighted at about 5000 yards, fire was opened at 4500 yards; the first plane was splashed about 1800 yards from the ship, the second was splashed about 3000 yards from the ship and rudder shifted to hard right.
ref:
2010, Robin L. Rielly, Kamikaze Attacks of World War II, page 234
type:
quotation
text:
Grab him, don't panic, rambo under my jacket
Nap him, splash him, then I'm petrol bath my jacket
ref:
2017 October 18, “Panic”, Knockoutned (lyrics), performed by #Moscow17 Ruth x Knockoutned
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.
To hit or expel liquid at.
To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently.
To spend (money).
To roughly fill with color.
To launch a ship.
To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
government
military
politics
war
|
10723 | word:
fier
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fier (plural fiers)
forms:
form:
fiers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
They have also divers conjurations: one they made at what tyme they had taken Captain Smyth prisoner, to know, as they reported, if any more of his countrymen would arrive there, and what they intended; the manner of yt Captain Smyth observed to be as followeth : first, soe some as daie was shut in, they kindled a faire great fier in a lone howse, about which assembled seven priests, takinge Captain Smyth by the hand, and appointing him his seat; about the fier they made a kynd of enchanted circle of meale; that done, the chifest priest, attyred as is expressed, gravely began to sing and shake his rattle, solemly rownding and marching about the fier, the rest followed him silently untill his song was done, which they all shutt up with a groane.
ref:
1849, William Strachey, Richard Henry Major, The History of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia, page 92
type:
quotation
text:
The salvadges perceiving so much, subtilely devised how they might put out the fier in the shallop, by which meanes they sawe they should be free from the danger of our men's pieces.
ref:
2000, Colin G. Calloway, Dawnland Encounters: Indians and Europeans in Northern New England
type:
quotation
text:
The men, “beinge att praiers,” heard odd noises and thought “they sawe one like an Indian leape over the fier.”
ref:
2012, Rebecca Anne Goetz, The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race, page 45
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of fire.
senses_topics:
|
10724 | word:
loophole
word_type:
noun
expansion:
loophole (plural loopholes)
forms:
form:
loopholes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English loupe (“opening in a wall”) + hole, from a Germanic source. Compare Medieval Latin loupa, lobia and Middle Dutch lupen (“to watch”).
senses_examples:
text:
There was a loophole in this wall, to let the light in, just at the height of a person's head, who was sitting near the chimney.
ref:
1809, Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee
type:
quotation
text:
The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress.
ref:
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Coupling the poor girl's intelligence with my previous knowledge, and the result of our good friend's inquiries on the spot, I left him no loophole of escape, and laid bare the whole villany which by these lights became plain as day.
ref:
1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 49, in Oliver Twist, page 236
type:
quotation
text:
You have a contract that says you will work until Island Towers is finalized, which I interpret as completion of construction, or I can stop you working elsewhere. And there's no loopholes, because you drafted it and you're the best.
ref:
2002, Marc Lawrence, Two Weeks Notice (motion picture)
type:
quotation
text:
They would rather ask more from the vast majority of Americans and put our recovery at risk than close even a single tax loophole that benefits the wealthy.
ref:
2013 February 9, Barack Obama, The Support They Need
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A slit in a castle wall; today, any similar window for shooting a ranged weapon or letting in light. Also written loop hole.
A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule or law that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.
senses_topics:
|
10725 | word:
loophole
word_type:
verb
expansion:
loophole (third-person singular simple present loopholes, present participle loopholing, simple past and past participle loopholed)
forms:
form:
loopholes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
loopholing
tags:
participle
present
form:
loopholed
tags:
participle
past
form:
loopholed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English loupe (“opening in a wall”) + hole, from a Germanic source. Compare Medieval Latin loupa, lobia and Middle Dutch lupen (“to watch”).
senses_examples:
text:
The lower windows were barricaded, and the whole building loopholed for musketry fire.
ref:
1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard
type:
quotation
text:
The doors were barricaded, the shutters closed upon the windows and loopholed, and provisions were brought in from the outhouses.
ref:
1907, A. E. W. Mason, The Broken Road
type:
quotation
text:
The Germans were loopholing it for defence.
ref:
1915, W. H. L. Watson, Adventures of a Despatch Rider
type:
quotation
text:
Abroad they had developed loopholing the law into an art; in Israel they jettisoned loopholing for ignoring the law wherever possible. Obeying laws was for naive fools.
ref:
1988, Macabee Dean, The Ashmadai Solution: A Surrealistic Extrapolation of a Gentle Genocide
type:
quotation
text:
De-moralizing the subject can be, quite simply, demoralizing, as stirring statements of ideals turn into persnickety rules with exceptions crying out to be loopholed.
ref:
2005, Deborah Rhode, David Luban, Legal Ethics Stories
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers
To exploit (a law, etc.) by means of loopholes.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
|
10726 | word:
flock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flock (plural flocks)
forms:
form:
flocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flok, from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flokk, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with Middle Low German vlocke (“crowd, flock”), Danish flok (“flock”), Swedish flock (“flock”), Norwegian flokk (“flock”), Faroese flokkur (“flock”), Icelandic flokkur (“flock, group”). Related also to Norman fliotchet (“flock, crowd”), from Old Norse. Perhaps related to Old English folc (“crowd, troop, band”). More at folk.
senses_examples:
text:
He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 170
type:
quotation
text:
I also have other sheep that are not from this pen. I must lead them. They, too, will respond to my voice. So they will be one flock with one shepherd.
ref:
1995, Green Key Books, God's Word to the Nations (John 10:16)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
A large number of people.
A religious congregation.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
10727 | word:
flock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flock (third-person singular simple present flocks, present participle flocking, simple past and past participle flocked)
forms:
form:
flocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
flocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
flocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flok, from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flokk, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with Middle Low German vlocke (“crowd, flock”), Danish flok (“flock”), Swedish flock (“flock”), Norwegian flokk (“flock”), Faroese flokkur (“flock”), Icelandic flokkur (“flock, group”). Related also to Norman fliotchet (“flock, crowd”), from Old Norse. Perhaps related to Old English folc (“crowd, troop, band”). More at folk.
senses_examples:
text:
People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.
type:
example
text:
Given the poor state of the line's trains and schedules, it is remarkable that people flock to use or experience it in embarrassingly large numbers.
ref:
2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.
ref:
1609, John Taylor, Penniless Pilgrimage
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
To flock to; to crowd.
senses_topics:
|
10728 | word:
flock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
flock (countable and uncountable, plural flocks)
forms:
form:
flocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flok (“tuft of wool”), from Old French floc (“tuft of wool”), from Late Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokko (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkōn-, *flukkan-, *fluksōn- (“down, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”). Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian flokë (“hair”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
A lock of wool or hair.
Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.
senses_topics:
|
10729 | word:
flock
word_type:
verb
expansion:
flock (third-person singular simple present flocks, present participle flocking, simple past and past participle flocked)
forms:
form:
flocks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
flocking
tags:
participle
present
form:
flocked
tags:
participle
past
form:
flocked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English flok (“tuft of wool”), from Old French floc (“tuft of wool”), from Late Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokko (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkōn-, *flukkan-, *fluksōn- (“down, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”). Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian flokë (“hair”).
senses_examples:
text:
the sampling and elution advantages of flocked swabs versus spun swabs
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow.
To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
senses_topics:
|
10730 | word:
hey
word_type:
intj
expansion:
hey
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hey, hei, also without h- in ey, from Old English *hē, ēa (interjection), attested as first element in hēlā, ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”). Cognate with Dutch hé, hei (“hi, hey”), German hei (“hey, wow”), Danish and Swedish hej (“hello, hey”), Faroese hey (“hey, hello”), Old Norse, Icelandic and Norwegian hei (“hey”), Polish hej (“hey, hello”), Romanian hei, Russian эй (ej, “hey”); see heigh. Probably a natural expression, as may be inferred from its presence with similar meaning in many other unrelated languages: for example, Burmese ဟေး (he:), Finnish hei, Unami hè, and Mandarin 哎 (āi), and various sound-alikes as Ancient Greek εἶα (eîa) and Latin eia, eho, Sanskrit हे (he). See also hello.
senses_examples:
text:
Hey, look at this!
type:
example
text:
Hey! Listen!
type:
example
text:
Hey! Stop that!
type:
example
text:
Hey! This is new!
type:
example
text:
Hey! How's it going?
type:
example
text:
Hey? How's that?
type:
example
text:
"Who 's a cur - now - hey?"
ref:
1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page vi. 54
type:
quotation
text:
The chorus is "nana na na, nana na na hey hey hey, goodbye".
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An exclamation to get attention.
A protest or reprimand.
An expression of surprise.
An informal greeting, similar to hi.
A request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion.
Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.
A meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in song lyrics.
senses_topics:
|
10731 | word:
hey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hey (plural heys)
forms:
form:
heys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French haie (“hedge”), with reference to the weaving patterns used in hedgelaying. Doublet of hedge.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A choreographic figure in which three or more dancers weave between one another, passing by left and right shoulder alternately.
senses_topics:
country-dancing
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
10732 | word:
hey
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hey (plural heys)
forms:
form:
heys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See he.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of he (“Hebrew letter”)
senses_topics:
|
10733 | word:
kata
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kata (plural katas or kata)
forms:
form:
katas
tags:
plural
form:
kata
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 型 (literally “pattern, model”).
In English use since the 1950s.
senses_examples:
text:
judo kata
type:
example
text:
About fifty kata, or "formal exercises," are practiced at the present time, some having been passed down from generation to generation, others having been developed fairly recently.
ref:
1979, Masatoshi Nakayama, Best Karate: Heian, Tekki, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
Katas are a series of motions, such as punches, strikes, and kicks, arranged in a specific pattern. The pattern allows the motions to flow into one another. A student must learn a new kata to advance to each new belt level.
ref:
2006, Kelley MacAulay, Bobbie Kalman, Karate in Action, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
When the competitor's name is called, she stands on the designated line, bows to the panel of judges, and announces the name of the kata she will perform.[…]She then performs the kata. When she is finished, her opponent performs her kata. At the end of the second kata, both return to the mat area to await the decision of the judging panel.
ref:
2009, Thomas W. Hanlon, The Sports Rules Book, Human Kinetics, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
2010, Kenji Tokitsu, The Katas: The Meaning Behind the Movements:
type:
quotation
text:
These kata will give you the C# syntax for inheritance.
ref:
2020, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Head First C#, O'Reilly Media, page 728
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts.
A short programming exercise to improve one's skills through practice and repetition.
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
10734 | word:
kata
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kata (plural katas)
forms:
form:
katas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “downwards”). Compare cata-.
senses_examples:
text:
kata factor
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ellipsis of kata thermometer.
A drop (in temperature).
senses_topics:
|
10735 | word:
kata
word_type:
adv
expansion:
kata (comparative more kata, superlative most kata)
forms:
form:
more kata
tags:
comparative
form:
most kata
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “downwards”). Compare cata-.
senses_examples:
text:
Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.
ref:
1985, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.
ref:
2005, Animation journal, volumes 13-15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a direction analogous to down, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
senses_topics:
|
10736 | word:
kata
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kata (plural katas)
forms:
form:
katas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of gata (“type of Armenian pastry”)
senses_topics:
|
10737 | word:
sango
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sango (plural sangos or sangoes)
forms:
form:
sangos
tags:
plural
form:
sangoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "sangwich") + -o (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1940s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sandwich.
senses_topics:
|
10738 | word:
sango
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sango (plural sangos)
forms:
form:
sangos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
1824, Alexander Gerard, Journal of an Excursion through the Himalayah Mountains, from Shipke to the Frontiers of Chinese Tartary, David Brewster (editor), The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 1: April—October, page 219,
We crossed it and another stream a little above their union by a couple of bad sangos, and ascended from its bed by a rocky footpath, winding amongst extensive forests of oak, yew, pine, and horse chesnut, to Camp.
text:
Four large mountain torrents, the Dangalee, Dubrane, Loarnad, and Rindee Gadh, join the Ganges from the left bank, and have to be crossed by sangos.
ref:
1865, Henry Astbury Leveson, The Hunting Grounds of the Old World, page 459
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rudimentary wooden bridge in India.
senses_topics:
|
10739 | word:
oh
word_type:
intj
expansion:
oh
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English o.
senses_examples:
text:
Oh! I didn't see you there.
type:
example
text:
Oh, wow! That's amazing.
type:
example
text:
Oh, so that's how it works.
type:
example
text:
Oh, leave me alone.
type:
example
text:
Oh, and don't forget your coat.
type:
example
text:
Oh, gosh
text:
Oh baby, baby, how was I supposed to know / That something wasn't right here?
ref:
1998, Max Martin, ...Baby One More Time (song performed by Britney Spears)
text:
Oh, when will it end?
type:
example
text:
And oh how stingingly acute, and pungently grievous and tormentive, are the remembrancing Reflections of a separate uncloathed Soul in the other World, upon a review of its mad Choice, foolish Hopes, fruitless Desires […]
ref:
1703, Lawrence Smith, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, page 143
type:
quotation
text:
Oh! That hurt.
type:
example
text:
I'm off with the raggle-taggle gypsy-oh.
ref:
1968, MacKinlay Kantor, Beauty Beast
type:
quotation
text:
"You should watch where you're going!" "Oh?"
text:
What if he says "Oh, I need to see your ID"?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expression of surprise.
Expression of wonder, amazement, or awe.
Expression of understanding, affirmation, recognition, or realization.
A word to precede an offhand or annoyed remark.
A word to precede an added comment or afterthought.
An invocation or address (similar to the vocative in languages with noun declension), often with a term of endearment.
Exclamation for drama or emphasis (often poetic).
Expression of pain. See ouch.
Space filler or extra syllable, especially in (popular) music.
Expression of mild scepticism.
A word to mark a spoken phrase as imaginary.
senses_topics:
|
10740 | word:
oh
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oh (plural ohs)
forms:
form:
ohs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English o.
senses_examples:
text:
There were ohs and ahs, and the people twisted about as they looked for her. Then they began to applaud.
ref:
2011, Seabert Parsons, The Lost Codex of Palenque, page 240
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An utterance of oh; a spoken expression of surprise, acknowledgement, etc.
senses_topics:
|
10741 | word:
oh
word_type:
verb
expansion:
oh (third-person singular simple present ohs, present participle ohing, simple past and past participle ohed)
forms:
form:
ohs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ohing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ohed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ohed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Inherited from Middle English o.
senses_examples:
text:
A quarter of an hour elapsed, and then, after several rings at the door-bell, a smothered laugh, and a good deal of ohing and ahing, the door was thrown open, and one by one, as they were announced, in came the expected characters.
ref:
1852, Merry's museum and Parley's magazine, volumes 23-24, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To utter the interjection oh; to express surprise, etc.
senses_topics:
|
10742 | word:
oh
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oh (plural ohs)
forms:
form:
ohs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English o, oo, from Old English ō, from Latin ō.
senses_examples:
text:
One genuine recycled local glass of aitch-two-oh
ref:
2006, Ben Bova, Titan, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
Exes and Ohs: A Downtown Girl's (Mostly Awkward) Tales of Love, Lust, Revenge, and a Little Facebook Stalking
ref:
2011, Shallon Lester, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.
senses_topics:
|
10743 | word:
oh
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oh (plural ohs)
forms:
form:
ohs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From o (“zero”).
senses_examples:
text:
My telephone number is four-double-three-two-oh-nine.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the digit 0 (especially in representations of speech)
senses_topics:
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10744 | word:
ABC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ABC (countable and uncountable, plural ABCs or ABC's)
forms:
form:
ABCs
tags:
plural
form:
ABC's
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abece, ABC, from the first three letters of the Latin alphabet, standing for the whole alphabet.
senses_examples:
text:
Do you know your ABC? (US: Do you know your ABCs?)
text:
the ABC of finance
text:
This was the Alma Mater of the Brigade, where it learned its A B C of military tactics.
ref:
1866, D. P. Conyngham, The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns: With Some Account of the Corcoran Legion, and Sketches of the Principal Officers, Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
With her expert guidance, even a novice like me can have a taste of the focused, structured world of a Cunningham dance. The solo is possibly his plainest, almost an ABC of his meticulous approach to subdividing the body in motion — twist, bend, reach, step.
ref:
2020 April 21, Marina Harss, “Twist, Bend, Reach, Step: A Merce Cunningham Solo Anyone Can Try”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
For this reason his heart sank when, emerging from his study into the great hall at quarter to eleven, he met Beaver already dressed and prepared to be entertained; it was only a momentary vexation, however, for while he wished him good morning he noticed that his guest had an A.B.C. in his hands and was clearly looking out a train.
ref:
1934, Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust, Chapman & Hall
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The English alphabet.
A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.
A primer for teaching the Latin alphabet and first elements of reading.
The fundamentals of any subject.
A straightforward, uniform playing style, often focusing on betting for value, folding weak hands, and avoiding bluffing.
A British alphabetized guidebook listing trains and their stations.
senses_topics:
communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
card-games
poker
rail-transport
railways
transport |
10745 | word:
ABC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ABC (countable and uncountable, plural ABCs)
forms:
form:
ABCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Initialisms.
senses_examples:
text:
I run my hands over his chest, assessing his ABCs: airway, breathing, circulation.
ref:
2015, Marcia Wells, Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery in Mayan Mexico, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
Pennsylvania is one of 18 alcoholic beverage control states, commonly known as “ABC states.” In an ABC state, the state government controls the sale and distribution of various alcoholic beverages, depending on state law.
ref:
2011, Richard A. McGowan, “State-Controlled Liquor Stores I: Pennsylvania”, in Privatize This? Assessing the Opportunities and Costs of Privatization, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
Everyone was Chinese. Some of the students were ABCs. That means "American-born Chinese." Others were FOBs. FOB means "fresh off the boat" and it is a bad insult. I didn't feel prejudiced about the FOBs because I was one of them.
ref:
1993, Susan Kulkin, Speaking Out: Teenagers Take on Race, Sex, and Identity, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
Many argue, with justice, that the differences between the various groups of Chinese-Australians are such that it is impossible to speak in terms of a "cultural identity" common to them all (Ang 2001). On the other hand, the mainstream culture is rarely capable of making such distinctions: in the eyes of most Australians, there is little difference between an ABC (Australian-born Chinese), an ethnic Chinese from Vietnam, or a mainlander.
ref:
2004, Wenche Ommundsen, “Cultural Citizenship in Diaspora: A Study of Chinese Australia”, in Robbie B.H. Goh, Shawn Wong, editors, Asian Diasporas: Cultures, Indentity, Representations, Hong Kong University Press, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
Activity-based costing is a powerful control tool. With ABC, the manager can access all departments and monitor the costs associated with any activity he or she wants to control.
ref:
2008, Gary Dessler, Jean Phillips, “Planning and Controlling Now: Controlling”, in Managing Now, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 222
type:
quotation
text:
Boga and Subhash with Sherpa Nim Dorje and Kedar Singh left early to open a route to advance base camp. […] They proceeded south along the left bank of the glacier. They could avoid the moraines by climbing the slopes near the bank. It was a long march and they established ABC at 4877 m on a small open rocky ground.
ref:
1999, Harish Kapadia, “Accident and Rescue in the Nanda Devi Sanctuary”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, page 69
type:
quotation
text:
ABC-transporters are multispan membrane proteins that mediate the active uptake or efflux of specific substrates across various biological membrane systems. A functional ABC-transporter protein usually consists of two transmembrane domains and two ABCs.
ref:
2008, Gerd Schmitz, “Sterol Transporters”, in Stefan Offermanns, Walter Rosenthal, editors, Encyclopedia of Molecular Pharmacology, 2nd edition, volume 1, Springer, page 1157
type:
quotation
text:
In the long bones, spine, and flat bones, the majority of aneurysmal bone cysts (ABCs) are eccentrically located whereas in the short tubular bones they are usually central in location. […] About 15% of all giant cell tumors have cystic areas that resemble ABC, and in about one third of all ABCs a pre-existing lesion can be identified.
ref:
2013, Georges Y. El-Khoury, “Tumors/Miscellaneous: Aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC)”, in D. Lee Bennett, Georges Y. El-Khoury, editors, Pearls and Pitfalls in Musculoskeletal Imaging: Variants and Other Difficult Diagnoses, Cambridge University Press, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
Like foreclosure, an assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC) is a creature of state law. ABCs have long been popular in a few states, most notably California and Illinois, but they are beginning to gain traction in other states as a less expensive alternative to bankruptcy.
ref:
2010, Pepper Hamilton, “Alternatives to bankruptcy”, in John Wm. Butler, Jr, editor, Navigating Today's Environment: The Directors' and Officers' Guide to Restructuring, Globe White Page Ltd, page 205
type:
quotation
text:
As a matter of fact, when numerically handling a model originally established on an unbounded domain, it is compulsory to impose the pertinent ABC to terminate the endless mesh while retaining a well-posed and stable simulation.
ref:
2008, Nikolaos V. Kantartzis, Theodoros D. Tsiboukis, Modern EMC Analysis Techniques I: Time-Domain Computational Schemes, Morgan & Claypool, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
Abstract base classes (ABCs) represent an interesting paradox. […] It is instructive to think of ABCs as tools rather than as part of the product.
ref:
2010, James Coplien, Gertrud Bjørnvig, “What the System Is, Part 2: Coding It Up”, in Lean Architecture for Agile Software Development, John Wiley & Sons, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
Most ABCs in the collections.abc module exist to formalize interfaces that are implemented by built-in objects and are implicitly supported by the interpreter—both of which predate the ABCs themselves.
ref:
2022, Luciano Ramalho, Fluent Python, 2nd edition, O'Reilly
type:
quotation
text:
Creatively integrating counseling theory, research, and best practices has afforder me the opportunity to constructively engage clients in adventure-based counseling (ABC) activities that foster social, mental, and emotional development. Utilizing ABC as an innovative counseling approach for individuals, families, and groups has increased my enthusiasm as a counselor.
ref:
2012, Shannon Hodges, “Emerging Fields and Profession in Counseling”, in 101 Careers in Counseling, New York: Springer Publishing Company, page 229
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of airway, breathing and circulation: the essential steps in the immediate assessment and treatment of critically ill or injured patients.
Initialism of alcoholic beverage control.
Initialism of American-born Chinese.
Initialism of Australian-born Chinese.
Initialism of activity-based costing.
Initialism of advance base camp.
Initialism of ATP-binding cassette.
Initialism of antigen-binding capacity.
Initialism of aneurysmal bone cyst.
Initialism of adenoid basal cell carcinoma.
Abbreviation of abacavir.
Initialism of accelerated blood clearance.
Initialism of Atanasoff-Berry computer.
Initialism of artificial bee colony.
Initialism of assignment for the benefit of creditors.
Initialism of absorbing boundary condition.
Initialism of abstract base class.
Initialism of adventure-based counseling.
Initialism of affect, behavior, and cognition.
Initialism of alien big cat.
Initialism of active body control.
Initialism of Archbishop of Canterbury.
senses_topics:
emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
business
management
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
immunology
medicine
sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
medicine
pathology
sciences
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
business
finance
law
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
automotive
transport
vehicles
Christianity |
10746 | word:
ABC
word_type:
name
expansion:
ABC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Initialisms.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: A.B.C.
text:
The first was the Asian Games, held every 4 years, and the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC), held every 2 years.
ref:
2013 August 10, Gilas Pilipinas, “Looking back: When PH ruled Asian basketball”, in Rappler
type:
quotation
text:
The most memorable championship of his life, the 1967 ABC (now Fiba Asia), was also the most dramatic for the Philippines in the entire 1960s.
ref:
2017 January 15, Ray Roquero, “Hero of '67 ABC”, in Business Mirror
type:
quotation
text:
The now FIBA Asia Cup was previously called as the FIBA Asia Championships and the older Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) Championships.
ref:
2017 August 16, “Australia, NZ slug it out for FIBA Asia Cup crown”, in Asia Pacific Report
type:
quotation
text:
Former PBA players pay final respects to Danny Florencio in his final journey home But Florencio would cement his place in local basketball history as the hero in the Philippines’ dramatic 83-80 win over South Korea for the 1967 Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) Championship (now known as the FIBA-Asia).
ref:
2018 April 5, Gerry Ramos, Sports Interactive Network Philippines
type:
quotation
text:
ABC countries
type:
example
text:
The American Book Center in Amsterdam is home to one of the largest collections of English literature in continental Europe. Its rickety shelves, spread over four floors, are crammed with American masterpieces from the likes of Hemmingway and Flannery O’Connor. If non-fiction is more your buzz, there are dozens of lavishly illustrated books on subjects such as art and design. ABC also runs The Treehouse, a series of events designed to nourish literary souls from the roots upwards.
ref:
2009 June 8, Derbhile Dromey, “10 best bookshops in the world”, in Irish Independent
type:
quotation
text:
In addition to sharing American-style storytelling with audiences throughout Finland and France, including a featured presentation at the ELSA conference in Paris this month, Marblehead storyteller Judith Black will be helping to organize and host a story slam at ABC Treehouse, an institution that promotes and supports intercultural exploration in Amsterdam.
ref:
2011 March 7, Caitlin Rung, “Marblehead storyteller Judith Black goes international”, in Boston Globe
type:
quotation
text:
The American Book Center – a part of Amsterdam's book scene for 41 years – has embraced the latest in book technology. Lynn Kaplanian Buller has been involved with the ABC almost since its launch in 1972, adding a second store in The Hague in 1976.
ref:
2014 January 26, Ana McGinley, “From tea to e-readers: English bookshops in the Netherlands”, in Dutch News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of American Broadcasting Company: an American commercial broadcast television network founded in 1943.
Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Company.
Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Commission.
Initialism of Asahi Broadcasting Corporation.
Initialism of Agricultural Bank of China.
Initialism of Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Initialism of Aerated Bread Company.
Initialism of Advance Booking Charter.
Initialism of Asian Basketball Confederation.
Initialism of American Bowling Congress.
Initialism of Argentina, Brazil and Chile: the three most powerful and wealthiest countries in South America.
Initialism of Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano do Sul: satellite cities around the city of São Paulo that form the most important industrial area in Brazil.
Initialism of Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad.
Initialism of American Book Center: an English-language bookstore in Amsterdam founded in 1972.
An imperative general-purpose programming language, intended for teaching or prototyping.
Initialism of Anglican Book Centre: the publishing house and bookshop of the Anglican Church of Canada until 2013.
senses_topics:
broadcasting
media
television
broadcasting
media
radio
television
broadcasting
media
radio
broadcasting
media
radio
television
broadcasting
media
radio
television
business
finance
media
publishing
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
rail-transport
railways
transport
computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Christianity |
10747 | word:
ABC
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ABC (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Initialisms.
senses_examples:
text:
She'd chew the gum until she was finished with it for the day and store it in a tiny box in the refrigerator until she wanted another chew. If I accidentally threw out her gum, she was able to find someone else's ABC gum (already been chewed).
ref:
2010, Leverda Watkins, Pinnacle of Faith, Xlibris, page 165
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of atomic, biological and chemical: the three main categories of weapon of mass destruction.
Initialism of already been chewed.
Initialism of activated B-cell-like.
senses_topics:
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
medicine
sciences |
10748 | word:
ABC
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
ABC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Initialisms.
senses_examples:
text:
He thought he was up-to-date on all the latest wine lingo until a longtime wine writer returned his sample request card with a bold, hand-written note on it that stated, “Send me all samples—ABC!” ¶ “ABC” threw my friend for a loop. When he called me, I translated the cryptic phrase—ABC is winespeak for “Anything But Chardonnay.”
ref:
1997 March, Ron Loutherback, “Beyond the Label: The ABCs of white wine”, in Orange Coast, volume 23, number 3, page 168
type:
quotation
text:
A final example of the iatrogenic effects of international public interventions is the impact on condom use that resulted from the “ABC” (Abstinence, Be Faithful, Use Condoms) approach to AIDS prevention, which has dominated programmatic efforts in Nigeria since about 2000. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), created under US President George W. Bush's administration, promoted a conservative approach to AIDS prevention through its ABC messages, which were (1) abstinence is the only true prevention; (2) if one is in a sexual relationship, stay faithful to one partner; and (3) if one can't do either, use condoms.
ref:
2014, Daniel Jordan Smith, “Introduction”, in AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of anything but Chardonnay: a backlash against Chardonnay wine, seen as ubiquitous.
Initialism of abstinence, be faithful, use a condom: a sex education policy developed in response to the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Initialism of always be charging; a recommendation to remember to charge or be left without use by a low battery at an inopportune time.
Initialism of anything but Conservative.
senses_topics:
beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
medicine
sciences
automotive
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
transport
vehicles
government
politics |
10749 | word:
ABC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ABC (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
ABC keyboard
etymology_text:
Like QWERTY, the name is based on the first letter keys.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A keyboard layout in which all keys are arranged in alphabetical order in English.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography |
10750 | word:
light a fire under
word_type:
verb
expansion:
light a fire under (third-person singular simple present lights a fire under, present participle lighting a fire under, simple past and past participle lit a fire under)
forms:
form:
lights a fire under
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lighting a fire under
tags:
participle
present
form:
lit a fire under
tags:
participle
past
form:
lit a fire under
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Referring to a time when, if chimney sweeps were afraid to ascend a chimney, the fire would be lit under them in order to motivate them to climb to the top.
senses_examples:
text:
Let me see if I can light a fire under the waiter to get our order sooner.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To motivate or encourage (someone) to start sooner or move faster.
senses_topics:
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10751 | word:
get a kick out of
word_type:
verb
expansion:
get a kick out of (third-person singular simple present gets a kick out of, present participle getting a kick out of, simple past got a kick out of, past participle (UK) got a kick out of or (US) gotten a kick out of)
forms:
form:
gets a kick out of
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
getting a kick out of
tags:
participle
present
form:
got a kick out of
tags:
past
form:
got a kick out of
tags:
UK
participle
past
form:
gotten a kick out of
tags:
US
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I really got a kick out of that clown's juggling act.
type:
example
text:
Some get a kick from cocaine / I'm sure that if I took even one sniff / That would bore me terrifically too / Yet I get a kick out of you
ref:
1934, Cole Porter (lyrics and music), “I Get a Kick Out of You”
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be delighted by; to be amused by.
senses_topics:
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10752 | word:
kick in the pants
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kick in the pants (plural kicks in the pants)
forms:
form:
kicks in the pants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
That kid needs a kick in the pants to get his homework done today.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A forceful reminder to start or get going.
senses_topics:
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10753 | word:
kick in
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kick in (third-person singular simple present kicks in, present participle kicking in, simple past and past participle kicked in)
forms:
form:
kicks in
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kicking in
tags:
participle
present
form:
kicked in
tags:
participle
past
form:
kicked in
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Upon hearing residents in the burning house, the passerby kicked in the front door and yelled to those inside.
type:
example
text:
People expect women [when they give birth] to have this instinct that kicks in.
ref:
2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), Julie Delpy (actor)
type:
quotation
text:
Once the wet kicks in up north, you can be stranded for months waiting for swollen rivers to subside to a crossable depth[.]
ref:
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 289
type:
quotation
text:
You have to push the switch hard to get the heater to kick in.
type:
example
text:
I took my medication an hour ago, and it hasn't kicked in yet.
type:
example
text:
You should kick in on the work.
text:
The rhythm section will kick in after that point.
text:
For the year-end party, we're asking each employee to kick in twenty dollars.
text:
This is a worthy charity, so everyone should kick in.
text:
The business is going to kick in most likely.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To kick; to collapse or break by kicking
To kick or strike so as to cause the object struck to collapse or fall inwards.
To kick; to collapse or break by kicking
To kick or strike (a person); to beat up
To begin, contribute or join in on
To start, connect, or take effect, especially in a sudden way; to begin functioning.
To begin, contribute or join in on
To join or begin.
To begin, contribute or join in on
To contribute, especially to a collection of money; to hand over.
To die; to give up on something.
senses_topics:
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10754 | word:
ah
word_type:
intj
expansion:
ah
forms:
wikipedia:
en:ah
etymology_text:
mid-1400s Old Frankish (replacing English la).
senses_examples:
text:
Ah, I understand now.
type:
example
text:
Ah! It's good to be back home!
type:
example
text:
Ah, the flowers of spring.
type:
example
text:
Boy don't try to front, uh, I
Know just, just, what you are, ah, ah.
ref:
2008, Britney Spears (lyrics and music), “Womanizer”
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An expression of relief, relaxation, comfort, confusion, understanding, wonder, awe, etc. according to uttered inflection.
A syllable used to fill space, particularly in music.
senses_topics:
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10755 | word:
ah
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ah (plural ahs)
forms:
form:
ahs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:ah
etymology_text:
mid-1400s Old Frankish (replacing English la).
senses_examples:
text:
the crowd's oohs and ahs at the fireworks
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An instance of the interjection ah.
senses_topics:
|
10756 | word:
ah
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ah (third-person singular simple present ahs, present participle ahing, simple past and past participle ahed)
forms:
form:
ahs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ahing
tags:
participle
present
form:
ahed
tags:
participle
past
form:
ahed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:ah
etymology_text:
mid-1400s Old Frankish (replacing English la).
senses_examples:
text:
Mother and dad oohed and ahed over Cindy. She was only two months old but already was developing her personality.
ref:
2005, T. R. Rhoads, Sinner, Sailor: A Memoir, page 221
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To give a cry of "ah".
senses_topics:
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10757 | word:
ah
word_type:
pron
expansion:
ah (personal pronoun, plural we, possessive adjective mah)
forms:
form:
we
tags:
plural
form:
mah
tags:
adjective
possessive
wikipedia:
en:ah
etymology_text:
mid-1400s Old Frankish (replacing English la).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of I, most often indicating that the speaker is using a Scottish or American (particularly Southern) accent.
senses_topics:
|
10758 | word:
ah
word_type:
particle
expansion:
ah
forms:
wikipedia:
en:ah
etymology_text:
From Hokkien 啊 (--a), Teochew 啊 (a⁷), Mandarin 啊 (a).
senses_examples:
text:
You're dyslexic ah? ― So you're dyslexic?
type:
example
text:
Only 2 ft apart considered safe ah?
ref:
2020 December 4, Notdumb, “Liddat is safe distance ah?”, in SG Talk, archived from the original on 2020-04-18
type:
quotation
text:
See how lor. Who’s going ar?
ref:
2011 October 23, Rachel Chang, “LifeStyle”, in The Sunday Times, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Don't drink and drive ah...
type:
example
text:
Sure, ah? Thanks, man, pai seh.
ref:
2010 April 18, Colin Goh, “LifeStyle”, in The Sunday Times, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
The drilling upstairs ah, non-stop leh.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Marks a tag question prompting the listener to clarify something.
Used for emphasis; reinforces a short wh-question.
Emphasizes the need for absolute confirmation or acknowledgment.
A filler word separating the topic of a sentence and its comment.
A filler word used to ascertain the continued attention of the listener.
senses_topics:
|
10759 | word:
hold off
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold off (third-person singular simple present holds off, present participle holding off, simple past and past participle held off)
forms:
form:
holds off
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding off
tags:
participle
present
form:
held off
tags:
participle
past
form:
held off
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Let's try to hold off the lawyers until we are ready for them.
type:
example
text:
The breakthrough came after 63 minutes as United’s unorthodox defence desperately tried to hold off a spell of sustained pressure.
ref:
2014 November 2, Daniel Taylor, “Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United”, in guardian.co.uk
type:
quotation
text:
Hold off (on) the decision one more day so I can answer your question.
type:
example
text:
Hold off (on) baking until I get there.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To delay (someone or something) temporarily; to keep at bay.
To delay commencing (an action until some specified time or event has passed).
senses_topics:
|
10760 | word:
Fand
word_type:
name
expansion:
Fand
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fairy and the wife of Manannán mac Lir and later the lover of Cúchulainn.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
10761 | word:
on hold
word_type:
prep_phrase
expansion:
on hold
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
This project is on hold until we can get more information.
type:
example
text:
Plans to build a western rail route into Heathrow Airport have been put on hold, with Network Rail saying that staff working on the scheme have been moved to other projects.
ref:
2021 May 5, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Heathrow Western Rail Access scheme 'on hold'”, in RAIL, number 930, page 26
type:
quotation
text:
I have been on hold for 45 minutes listening to a recording about how important my call is to them.
type:
example
text:
I have a book on hold for me at the library.
type:
example
text:
Now James Kellaris, a professor of marketing at the University of Cincinnati, reports that the sexes respond differently to onhold music.
ref:
1999, New Scientist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Delayed; postponed; suspended.
Waiting on a telephone call.
On reserve; being held for someone.
Pertaining to a telephone hold state.
senses_topics:
|
10762 | word:
kick around
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kick around (plural kick arounds)
forms:
form:
kick arounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An informal game of football, rugby or similar sports.
senses_topics:
|
10763 | word:
kick around
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kick around (third-person singular simple present kicks around, present participle kicking around, simple past and past participle kicked around)
forms:
form:
kicks around
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kicking around
tags:
participle
present
form:
kicked around
tags:
participle
past
form:
kicked around
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Don't be afraid to kick it around a little. It is sturdy.
type:
example
text:
I leave you gentlemen now, and you will write it. You will interpret. That’s your right. But as I leave you I want you to know—just think how much you’re going to be missing. You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because gentlemen, this is my last press conference, and it will be the one in which I have welcomed the opportunity to test wits with you. […]
ref:
1962 November 7, Richard Nixon, “Richard Nixon's November 1962 Press Conference”, in Richard Nixon Foundation
type:
quotation
text:
Is this your pen I found kicking around in my drawer?
type:
example
text:
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
ref:
1973 March 1, Roger Waters (lyrics and music), “Time”, in The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd
type:
quotation
text:
to kick around ideas
type:
example
text:
They kicked around some ideas for doing their own thing, like moonlighting as music video producers, but they never followed through.
ref:
2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To abuse or mistreat; to bully; to be rough with.
To wander loose; to float around; to hang around; to exist; to remain unexploited or unused.
To discuss informally; to consider or distribute.
senses_topics:
|
10764 | word:
hold a grudge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold a grudge (third-person singular simple present holds a grudge, present participle holding a grudge, simple past and past participle held a grudge)
forms:
form:
holds a grudge
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding a grudge
tags:
participle
present
form:
held a grudge
tags:
participle
past
form:
held a grudge
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
That guy sure can hold a grudge when something goes wrong.
type:
example
text:
I made a mistake. That's not a good reason to hold a grudge against me.
type:
example
text:
Jürgen Klopp accused the referee Paul Tierney of holding a grudge against Liverpool and of speaking out of turn during his team’s thrilling stoppage‑time victory over Tottenham.
ref:
2023 April 30, Andy Hunter, “Jürgen Klopp accuses referee Paul Tierney of grudge after beating Spurs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stay angry (at someone or something).
senses_topics:
|
10765 | word:
kick start
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kick start (plural kick starts)
forms:
form:
kick starts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From kick + start.
senses_examples:
text:
The motorcycle requires a kick start.
type:
example
text:
As a kick start for the group, let's write up some ideas.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A metal bar on a motorcycle used to start its engine.
An act of starting a motorcycle by quickly depressing the kick start with one's foot.
A fast or strong start; help with starting or beginning well.
An impetus that starts or restarts some process.
senses_topics:
|
10766 | word:
kick start
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kick start (third-person singular simple present kick starts, present participle kick starting, simple past and past participle kick started)
forms:
form:
kick starts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kick starting
tags:
participle
present
form:
kick started
tags:
participle
past
form:
kick started
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From kick + start.
senses_examples:
text:
He kick started the motorcycle and took off.
type:
example
text:
To kick start your learning, let's summarize the basics.
type:
example
text:
Kick start your day with a hearty breakfast.
type:
example
text:
To kick start the economy with a large construction project.
type:
example
text:
The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted that global consumption of coal power[…] would reach record levels in 2021 driven by a surge in demand for energy to kickstart global economies following the coronavirus pandemic.
ref:
2022 January 17, Jillian Ambrose, “China’s coal production hit record levels in 2021”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To start a motorcycle.
To start or begin strongly or quickly.
To make (something) active, functional, or productive again; to reinvigorate (an activity, system, or process).
senses_topics:
|
10767 | word:
hold on
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold on (third-person singular simple present holds on, present participle holding on, simple past and past participle held on)
forms:
form:
holds on
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding on
tags:
participle
present
form:
held on
tags:
participle
past
form:
held on
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Hold on tightly to the railing.
type:
example
text:
Hold on to my umbrella while I ride the roller coaster.
type:
example
text:
I'm holding on to my trump cards until I really need them.
type:
example
text:
Hold on while I get my coat.
type:
example
text:
He didn't give up his fandom when others did; he held on.
type:
example
text:
This trade held on for many years.
ref:
1723, Jonathan Swift, Some Arguments Against Enlarging the Power of Bishops
type:
quotation
text:
That scare aside, Wolves had little trouble in holding on for their first league away win of the season and their first over the Reds since little-known striker Steve Mardenborough gave them a victory at Anfield in January 1984.
ref:
2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To grasp or grip firmly.
To keep; to store something for someone.
To retain an advantage.
Wait a short while.
To remain loyal.
To persist.
senses_topics:
|
10768 | word:
hang on
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hang on (third-person singular simple present hangs on, present participle hanging on, simple past and past participle hung on)
forms:
form:
hangs on
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hanging on
tags:
participle
present
form:
hung on
tags:
participle
past
form:
hung on
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: hang in
text:
Hang on. Let me check.
type:
example
text:
Hang on to the handle so you don't drop it.
type:
example
text:
"If you'll come along, then hang on!" said Hans, and the man had to hang on and limp along on one leg, whether he would or no; and when he tried to tear himself loose, he made it still worse for himself, for he was very nearly falling on his back whenever he struggled to get free.
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 271
type:
quotation
text:
Hang on to my jacket until I get back.
type:
example
text:
The audience hangs on his every word.
type:
example
text:
He's got a philosophy he hangs on to.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: hang in
text:
Just hang on and keep going; this pain won't last forever.
type:
example
text:
It's such a perfect day, I'm glad I spend it with you / Such a perfect day you just keep me hanging on / You just keep me hanging on
ref:
1972, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Perfect Day”
type:
quotation
text:
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
ref:
1973, “Time”, in The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd
type:
quotation
text:
Everything hangs on whether the boss agrees.
type:
example
text:
Medically, autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder, hanging on a set of observed and reported behavioral characteristics.
ref:
2021 April 29, Gemma L. Williams, Tim Wharton, Caroline Jagoe, “Mutual (Mis)understanding: Reframing Autistic Pragmatic “Impairments” Using Relevance Theory”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 12, →DOI
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wait a moment.
To hold, grasp, or grip.
To keep; to store something for someone.
To pay close attention to, or regard with (possibly obsequious) admiration.
To continually believe in something; to have faith in.
To persevere.
To depend upon.
To weigh down or oppress.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, on.
senses_topics:
|
10769 | word:
hold a candle
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold a candle (third-person singular simple present holds a candle, present participle holding a candle, simple past and past participle held a candle)
forms:
form:
holds a candle
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding a candle
tags:
participle
present
form:
held a candle
tags:
participle
past
form:
held a candle
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the custom of apprentices to a master holding a candle so that the master could see more clearly. The negative version implies that a person who was not fit even for such a simple task was worthless.
senses_examples:
text:
The old computer just doesn't hold a candle to the latest models.
type:
example
text:
"I know, dear, it is I," his thin wife answered with a meek smile. "I was beautiful, there was no doubt about it, when you married me."
"You were, my dear," agreed her husband: "As a girl few could hold a candle to you."
ref:
1908, Jerome K. Jerome, The Philosopher's Joke
type:
quotation
text:
“[…]Speaking of pretty girls, my sister, Eileen, is a pretty girl. She is a downright beautiful girl.”
“Yes,” said Donald, “she is, but she can’t hold a candle to you. How did she look when she was your age?”
ref:
1921, Gene Stratton-Porter, Her Father's Daughter
type:
quotation
text:
Thirty miles north of CosMc’s, the McDonald’s No 1 Store Museum once stood, a replica of the company’s stunning post-war sci fi Googie architecture that CosMc’s’ retro-details barely hold a candle to.
ref:
2023 December 14, Pearse Anderson, “‘Lonely, gray and being actively colonized by corporations’: we tried the McDonald’s spinoff, CosMc’s”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To compare; to be even remotely of the same quality, skill, etc. as another.
senses_topics:
|
10770 | word:
kick off
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kick off (third-person singular simple present kicks off, present participle kicking off, simple past and past participle kicked off)
forms:
form:
kicks off
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kicking off
tags:
participle
present
form:
kicked off
tags:
participle
past
form:
kicked off
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The players kick off for the third quarter and the clock starts.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: set off
text:
Let's kick off this project with a planning meeting.
type:
example
text:
The project kicked off with an energy-sapping meeting.
type:
example
text:
Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen.
ref:
2013 August 19, Louise Taylor, “English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
On Saturday the group kicked off a weekend of activity ahead of its summer uprising this week, which aims to disrupt five major UK cities and shock people into action against the climate crisis.
ref:
2019 July 13, Nosheen Iqbal, “Extinction Rebellion kick off weekend of protest with Dalston blockade”, in The Observer
type:
quotation
text:
To kick it all off, there's a street parade through the Todd Mall, followed by a full-day of competitions with a lolly scramble for the kids[.]
ref:
2022 August 1, Off the Leash, Darwin, NT, page 6, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: kick out
text:
I got kicked off the team after a string of poor performances
type:
example
text:
It's a wonder that old dog hasn't kicked off yet.
type:
example
text:
The washer was working fine until it kicked off in the middle of a cycle.
type:
example
text:
The circuit breaker, a power failure, and the e-stop button are the only things we can think of that might have caused that pump to kick off when it did.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: flare up
text:
The party kicked off when the third bottle of wine was opened.
type:
example
text:
I understood that I was missing out on a lot of his life and if the war really kicked off I was going to be gone for an even longer amount of time.
ref:
2007, Robert Ortiz, A Walking Distance, AuthorHouse, page 177
type:
quotation
text:
A week after we kicked off her calf that cow was still bawling.
type:
example
text:
When she called him a drunk, it was the last straw. He just kicked off.
type:
example
text:
The chap opposite seems to be trying to pull a fast one, and having seen the guard is trying to buy a ticket online... but doesn't succeed. The guard helpfully sells him one, but not quite at the price of one purchased in advance. In fairness he doesn't kick off, nor does the guard treat him like some common criminal. It's a fair cop - or should that be a fare cop?
ref:
2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
It really kicked off in town when the team lost.
type:
example
text:
Suddenly it all kicked off on the terraces as horrendous violence and disgraceful scenes were picked up by television cameras.
ref:
2010, Kenny Sansom, To Cap It All, John Blake Publishing
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
To start; to launch; to set in motion.
To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
To die or quit permanently.
To shut down or turn off suddenly.
To suddenly become more active.
To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders, whether by literally kicking it away or another method.
To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight; to behave aggressively.
To have a fight or argument start; to fight or argue.
senses_topics:
|
10771 | word:
spider
word_type:
noun
expansion:
spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)
forms:
form:
spiders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.
senses_examples:
text:
Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.
ref:
1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.
ref:
2008, Alex Michael, Ben Salter, Marketing Through Search Optimization, Routledge, page xii
type:
quotation
text:
2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.
text:
Cut slices and lay them in cold water in the spider; boil them up two or three minutes, then pour off the water and set the spider again on the coals and brown the slices on each side.
ref:
1846, Mary Hooker Cornelius, The Young Housekeeper's Friend, page 146, recipe 28 “To fry salt pork”
text:
In spider pan or deep skillet set over hot coals, quickly fry a few at a time in deep lard until brown.
ref:
2005, Marty Davidson, Grandma Grace's Southern Favorites, recipe for “strawberry coconuts”, Rutledge Hill Press, page 193
text:
2008, Corona Club (San Francisco, California), Corona Club Cook Book, page 202,
Melt ½ the dry sugar in the spider, stirring with knife until all is melted.
text:
If you are deep-frying your falafel, use a spider or basket to place them gently into the hot oil, which should be preheated to a temperature of 175°C (330°F).
ref:
1996, City and Guilds of London Institute, Food preparation and cooking. Cookery units. Student guide., Stanley Thornes, unit 2ND5, element 2, page 157
text:
Consider investing in a frying basket or a spider for small amounts of fish. A spider looks like a metal web and has a long handle and can lower and raise fish from the hot oil.
ref:
2008, Anna Kasabian, David Kasabian, The Wild Fish Cookbook, Creative Publishing International, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
I am also disappointed with the horses, having hardly seen a decent pair yet, while the traps and horses do not look smart and well groomed. There are a great many American spiders used. Have not seen a bullock in the yoke yet.
ref:
1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 298
type:
quotation
text:
The spider is very useful for shooting in the studio or on locations with smooth floors where tripod legs tend to slide.
ref:
1927, H. Mario Raimondo Souto, The Technique of the Motion Picture Camera, page 64
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
A spindly person.
A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
Heroin.
Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
A soft-hackle fly.
The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
A spider graph or spider tree.
A type of light phaeton.
A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.
senses_topics:
ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
cooking
food
lifestyle
cooking
food
lifestyle
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
entertainment
lifestyle
music
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
mathematics
sciences
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
|
10772 | word:
spider
word_type:
verb
expansion:
spider (third-person singular simple present spiders, present participle spidering, simple past and past participle spidered)
forms:
form:
spiders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
spidering
tags:
participle
present
form:
spidered
tags:
participle
past
form:
spidered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.
senses_examples:
text:
A year later she returned to El Cap and spidered up the wall again — this time in 23 hours.
ref:
2001, Life Books, Life: The Greatest Adventures of All Time, Time Home Entertainment Incorporated
type:
quotation
text:
They saved the hall though the facing and part of the roof had to be torn out and replaced, men spidered over the building to repair it before Coaker's arrival.
ref:
2009, Michael Crummey, Galore: A novel, Doubleday Canada
type:
quotation
text:
Briefly he considered letting go to glide along in Radu's wake as the assassin spidered up the wall.
ref:
2012, David Gross, Lord of Stormweather: Sembia: Gateway to the Realms, Wizards of the Coast
type:
quotation
text:
High walls surrounded it on all sides, each one covered with the skeletal stems of climbing plants that spidered across the stones, and the ground was cobbled between patches of frozen grass.
ref:
2011, Jenna Burtenshaw, Wintercraft: Blackwatch, Hachette UK
type:
quotation
text:
Large cracks spidered across the mask's glass where the nozzle had hit.
ref:
2011, MJ Ware, Super Zombie Juice Mega Bomb, MJA Ware
type:
quotation
text:
Moss spidered across the stone, fresh green. Seaweed sprouted bright yellows and ochres between the vast webs of fingers.
ref:
2013, Mary Gentle, Rats and Gargoyles, Hachette UK
type:
quotation
text:
The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To move like a spider.
To cover a surface like a cobweb.
To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
senses_topics:
|
10773 | word:
hold up
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold up (third-person singular simple present holds up, present participle holding up, simple past and past participle held up)
forms:
form:
holds up
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding up
tags:
participle
present
form:
held up
tags:
participle
past
form:
held up
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Hold up a minute. I want to check something.
type:
example
text:
I've got to get to work now. Why are you holding me up?
type:
example
text:
What is holding up traffic?
type:
example
text:
It worked to perfection. Ferrari's decision not to stop on the next lap simply made life easier, especially when Alonso was held up by Marussia's Charles Pic during that period - for which the Frenchman earned a drive-through penalty.
ref:
2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
The guy tried to hold up a bank.
type:
example
text:
His lectures held up Napoleon as an example of the phenomenon.
type:
example
text:
I don't think he's holding up his end of the bargain.
type:
example
text:
Hold up the table while I slide this underneath.
type:
example
text:
In order to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut back and held up in places with a concrete retaining wall.
ref:
1962 June, David Walters, “The new station and layout at Coventry”, in Modern Railways, page 405
type:
quotation
text:
hold up to scrutiny
type:
example
text:
hold up to heavy use
type:
example
text:
The now infamous '108 woodlands' figure published by the Woodlands Trust, and later used by others to infer that HS2 would destroy 108 woodlands, does not hold up to scrutiny.
ref:
2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
For what will the World say; Why could not he hold up? What made him come on so heavily, but that he wanted either Management or Metal
ref:
1697, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects
type:
quotation
text:
how're you holdin up?
type:
example
text:
Bride of Frankenstein is an old film, but it holds up.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wait or delay.
To impede; detain.
To impede; detain.
To detain by threatening, usually with a weapon, in order to commit robbery.
To support or lift.
To highlight, as if lifting up for display.
To support or lift.
To fulfil or complete one's part of an agreement.
To support or lift.
To persist.
To withstand; to stand up to; to survive.
To persist.
To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground.
To persist.
To maintain composure despite hardship.
To persist.
To continue to be seen as good, to avoid seeming dated.
senses_topics:
|
10774 | word:
hold it
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold it (third-person singular simple present holds it, present participle holding it, simple past and past participle held it)
forms:
form:
holds it
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding it
tags:
participle
present
form:
held it
tags:
participle
past
form:
held it
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Hold it. What did you say his name was?
type:
example
text:
Can't you hold it until the next gas station?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Wait a minute; stop.
To wait to urinate or defecate despite present urgency.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, it.
senses_topics:
|
10775 | word:
hold out
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold out (third-person singular simple present holds out, present participle holding out, simple past and past participle held out)
forms:
form:
holds out
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding out
tags:
participle
present
form:
held out
tags:
participle
past
form:
held out
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hold and out.
senses_examples:
text:
He held out his hand, and I grabbed it.
type:
example
text:
The prospectus held out the promise of enormous profits to be made.
type:
example
text:
I am holding out for more money.
type:
example
text:
How long has he been holding out?
type:
example
text:
How long can they hold out without water?
type:
example
text:
Stevan Jovetic gave Montenegro hope when he unleashed a pile-driver but Wales held out for a much-needed win.
ref:
2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
For the third game in a row, the Boks held out with just one point after seeing off France and England in the quarters and semis respectively.
ref:
2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online
type:
quotation
text:
You've got a key! Why have you been holding out on me?
type:
example
text:
Pack the boxes, but hold out a few blue ones for later.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hold (something) out; to extend (something) forward.
To offer, present (a hope, possibility, opportunity etc.)
To wait, or refuse in hopes of getting something better (from a negotiation, etc.)
To survive, endure.
To withhold something.
To set aside something or save it for later.
senses_topics:
|
10776 | word:
hold out
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hold out (plural hold outs)
forms:
form:
hold outs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hold and out.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of holdout.
senses_topics:
|
10777 | word:
holding pattern
word_type:
noun
expansion:
holding pattern (plural holding patterns)
forms:
form:
holding patterns
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The plane flew in a holding pattern for half an hour because one runway was closed.
type:
example
text:
This project is in a holding pattern until all the parts arrive.
type:
example
text:
All of Sellafield is in a holding pattern, trying to keep waste safe until it can be consigned to the ultimate strongroom: the geological disposal facility (GDF), bored hundreds of metres into the Earth’s rock, a project that could cost another £53bn.
ref:
December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A path taken by an aircraft waiting to land.
Any failure to advance; useless or unproductive activity.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
10778 | word:
no holds barred
word_type:
adj
expansion:
no holds barred (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
a no holds barred match
type:
example
text:
a no holds barred debating style that quickly transformed into cheap shots and bickering
type:
example
text:
There isn’t much reason to be optimistic about thoughtful dialogue in this general election. Both sides are girded for a negative, no-holds-barred slugfest.
ref:
2016 May 8, Albert R. Hunt, “Trump and Clinton Campaigns Gear Up for a Slugfest”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Among them was Ryan Ferchaud, 37, a tourist from Memphis who mostly faulted groups of college students for what she said was their no-holds-barred attitude regarding the mayhem.
ref:
2021 March 22, Neil Vigdor, Michael Majchrowicz, Azi Paybarah, “Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
But the Russian doctrine of mass firing and no holds barred was visible in Chechnya, and there is the potential that Russia will get its act together tactically, and that will result in mass fire against population centers.
ref:
2022 February 28, Steven Erlanger, quoting Douglas Lute, “After a Fumbled Start, Russian Forces Hit Harder in Ukraine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without restrictions on holds or what opponents may do.
Having absolutely no limits or restrictions as far as the levels and nature of one's hostilities and offense; taking to an especially ruthless or vicious manner.
senses_topics:
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
|
10779 | word:
rein
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rein (plural reins)
forms:
form:
reins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rein, reyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reyne, resne, from Early Medieval Latin retina, ultimately from Classical Latin retineō (“hold back”), from re- + teneō (“keep, hold”). Compare modern French rêne.
Displaced native Old English ġewealdleþer (literally “control leather”).
senses_examples:
text:
The government is attempting to keep a rein on rising prices.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.
An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing.
senses_topics:
|
10780 | word:
rein
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rein (third-person singular simple present reins, present participle reining, simple past and past participle reined)
forms:
form:
reins
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
reining
tags:
participle
present
form:
reined
tags:
participle
past
form:
reined
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English rein, reyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reyne, resne, from Early Medieval Latin retina, ultimately from Classical Latin retineō (“hold back”), from re- + teneō (“keep, hold”). Compare modern French rêne.
Displaced native Old English ġewealdleþer (literally “control leather”).
senses_examples:
text:
After an interval that he judged to have lasted twenty minutes, the bed began to shake with poorly reined sobs.
ref:
2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
type:
quotation
text:
She worked each horse at a walk, trot, and then a canter. The horses reined well and executed stops quickly.
ref:
2011, Marie Claire Peck, Rocking Horse Ranch, page 40
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To direct or stop a horse by using reins.
To restrain; to control; to check.
To obey directions given with the reins.
senses_topics:
|
10781 | word:
rein
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rein (plural reins)
forms:
form:
reins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
table
From Anglo-Norman reines, Middle French reins, and their source, Latin rēnēs. Doublet of ren.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kidney.
The inward impulses; the affections and passions, formerly supposed to be located in the area of the kidneys.
senses_topics:
|
10782 | word:
hold water
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hold water (third-person singular simple present holds water, present participle holding water, simple past and past participle held water)
forms:
form:
holds water
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
holding water
tags:
participle
present
form:
held water
tags:
participle
past
form:
held water
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Possibly from the King James Version of Jeremiah 2:13: “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”
senses_examples:
text:
At the parlay, Tyrion also tries to claim Tywin’s murder was self-defense, which holds some water, and despite Jaime’s anger, I suspect he can see it from that side.
ref:
2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
"Young man," he said, "upon this point I can only say that your story is grossly improbable. It won't hold water."
ref:
1888, Horatio Alger, chapter 35, in The Errand Boy
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To withstand scrutiny or criticism; to be valid.
senses_topics:
|
10783 | word:
host
word_type:
noun
expansion:
host (plural hosts, feminine hostess)
forms:
form:
hosts
tags:
plural
form:
hostess
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
host
etymology_text:
From Middle English hoste, from Old French oste (French: hôte), from Latin hospitem, accusative of hospes (“a host, also a sojourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger”), from *hostipotis, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰostipotis (“master of guests”), from *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, enemy”) and *pótis (“owner, master, host, husband”). Used in English since 13th century.
senses_examples:
text:
A good host is always considerate of the guest’s needs.
type:
example
text:
Our company is host of the annual conference this year.
type:
example
text:
The host was terrible, but the acts themselves were good.
type:
example
text:
Viruses depend on the host that they infect in order to be able to reproduce.
type:
example
text:
A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
The so-called junk DNA is known, so far, to provide no apparent benefit to its host.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
One that provides a facility for an event.
A person or organization responsible for running an event.
A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.
Any computer attached to a network.
A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.
An organism bearing certain genetic material, with respect to its cells.
A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
biology
ecology
natural-sciences
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
|
10784 | word:
host
word_type:
verb
expansion:
host (third-person singular simple present hosts, present participle hosting, simple past and past participle hosted)
forms:
form:
hosts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hosting
tags:
participle
present
form:
hosted
tags:
participle
past
form:
hosted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
host
etymology_text:
From Middle English hoste, from Old French oste (French: hôte), from Latin hospitem, accusative of hospes (“a host, also a sojourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger”), from *hostipotis, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰostipotis (“master of guests”), from *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, enemy”) and *pótis (“owner, master, host, husband”). Used in English since 13th century.
senses_examples:
text:
Our company will host the annual conference this year.
type:
example
text:
I was terrible at hosting that show.
type:
example
text:
I’ll be hosting tonight. I hope I’m not terrible.
type:
example
text:
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
Kremvax hosts a variety of services.
type:
example
text:
CMU/TEK TCP/IP software uses an excessive amount of cpu resources for terminal support both outbound, when accessing another system, and inbound, when the local system is hosting a session.
ref:
1987 May 7, Selden E. Ball, Jr., “Re: Ethernet Terminal Concentrators”, in comp.protocols.tcp-ip (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To perform the role of a host.
To lodge at an inn.
To run software made available to a remote user or process.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10785 | word:
host
word_type:
noun
expansion:
host (plural hosts)
forms:
form:
hosts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
host
etymology_text:
From Middle English oost, borrowed from Old French ost, oste, hoste, from Latin hostis (“foreign enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (as opposed to inimicus (“personal enemy”)). Doublet of guest.
senses_examples:
text:
the invading host that had sailed from Hellas in more than one thousand ships was of an unprecedented size.
ref:
2001, Carlos Parada, Hesione 2, Greek Mythology Link
type:
quotation
text:
The dealer stocks a host of parts for my Model A.
type:
example
text:
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils; […]
ref:
1802, William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
type:
quotation
text:
A short time since, some friends drinking tea one summer evening at their residence near Maidenhead, with all the windows of the drawing-room open, there suddenly burst in a host of small flies, which covered the table and the furniture […]
ref:
1836, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
type:
quotation
text:
England ran Tunisia ragged in that spell but were punished for missing a host of chances when Ferjani Sassi equalised from the penalty spot against the run of play after Kyle Walker was penalised for an elbow on Fakhreddine Ben Youssef.
ref:
2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2019-04-21
type:
quotation
text:
In the immediate term, there is a host of new operating procedures to be developed and to become familiarised with, in accordance with social distancing.
ref:
2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, in Rail, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels)
A large number of items; a large inventory.
senses_topics:
|
10786 | word:
host
word_type:
noun
expansion:
host (plural hosts)
forms:
form:
hosts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
host
etymology_text:
From Middle English host, oist, ost, from Old French hoiste, from Latin hostia (“sacrificial victim”). Doublet of hostie.
senses_examples:
text:
Do you pray to the Holy Ghost when you suck your host? / Do you read who's dead in the Irish Post?
ref:
1978, John Lydon (lyrics and music), “Religion II”, performed by Public Image Ltd.
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The consecrated bread of the Eucharist.
senses_topics:
Christianity |
10787 | word:
tare
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tare (plural tares)
forms:
form:
tares
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tare
etymology_text:
From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru.
table
senses_examples:
text:
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
ref:
Matthew 13:25 (KJV)
text:
I saw as I thought an uncle and guardian who has led a sober, industrious and Christian life and finds himself obliged to look on the tares of folly in his own close kin.
ref:
1985, John Fowles, A Maggot
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
senses_topics:
|
10788 | word:
tare
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tare (countable and uncountable, plural tares)
forms:
form:
tares
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Tare weight
tare
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French tare, from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).
table
senses_examples:
text:
What is the neat weight of 4 hogsheads of tobacco, each weighing 10cwt. 3qrs. 10lb. gross; — tare 100lb. per hdd.?
ref:
1824, Stephen Pike, The Teachers' Assistant: Or a System of Practical Arithmetic, page 97
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The empty weight of a container; unladen weight.
senses_topics:
|
10789 | word:
tare
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tare (third-person singular simple present tares, present participle taring, simple past and past participle tared)
forms:
form:
tares
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
taring
tags:
participle
present
form:
tared
tags:
participle
past
form:
tared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tare
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French tare, from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).
table
senses_examples:
text:
he is […] to tare such number of bales as may be deemed necessary to settle the net weight for duty.
ref:
1886, Records of the History, Laws, Regulations, and Statistics of the Tobacco Trade of the United Kingdom, page 86
type:
quotation
text:
Without question, I think, the exploit of "Jubilee" No. 45737 Atlas [...] was the finest [...], for the train was made up to eleven bogies taring the maximum of 350 tons for an engine of this class, notwithstanding which 7 min. was gained on schedule.
ref:
1959 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 610
type:
quotation
text:
2003, Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math, CSHL Press, p. 63,
Spectrometers, for example, must be zeroed before each reading; balances must be tared before each weighing.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.
senses_topics:
business
law
sciences |
10790 | word:
tare
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tare
forms:
wikipedia:
tare
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of tear
senses_topics:
|
10791 | word:
tare
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tare (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Tare sauce
tare
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 垂(た)れ (tare, “sauce, gravy”).
table
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.
senses_topics:
|
10792 | word:
tare
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tare (plural tares)
forms:
form:
tares
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tare
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”)
senses_topics:
|
10793 | word:
CD-R
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CD-R (plural CD-Rs)
forms:
form:
CD-Rs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Compact disc - recordable; a form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from and write to a plastic disc. It can only be written to once, although the entire disc does not necessarily have to be written in one session.
senses_topics:
|
10794 | word:
DVD-RW
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DVD-RW (plural DVD-RWs)
forms:
form:
DVD-RWs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Digital Versatile Disc - read/writable: a form of digital media that is similar to a CD, but has far greater capacity and can be written to more than once.
senses_topics:
|
10795 | word:
SETI
word_type:
name
expansion:
SETI
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, constitutes major research projects at radio telescopes the world over, and it is championed by the non-profit institute that shares its name.
ref:
2019 March, John Wenz, “SETI's Secret Origin Story”, in Discover, volume 40, number 2, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences |
10796 | word:
cinq
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cinq (plural cinqs)
forms:
form:
cinqs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic form of cinque.
senses_topics:
|
10797 | word:
DVD-R
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DVD-R (plural DVD-Rs)
forms:
form:
DVD-Rs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Digital Versatile Disc recordable: a form of digital media that is similar to a CD, but has far denser storage and thus greater capacity. It can only be written to once, but it can be read from an indefinite number of times.
senses_topics:
|
10798 | word:
GMT
word_type:
name
expansion:
GMT
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Greenwich Mean Time.
senses_topics:
|
10799 | word:
NRA
word_type:
name
expansion:
NRA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of National Recovery Act.
Initialism of National Rifle Association (of the United Kingdom).
Initialism of National Rifle Association of America.
Initialism of National Rifle Association of Australia.
Initialism of National Rifle Association of New Zealand.
Initialism of National Roads Authority.
normal retirement age
senses_topics:
|
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