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10800 | word:
FEMA
word_type:
name
expansion:
FEMA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
FEMA produces maps showing which areas are at risk from flooding, so that homeowners, builders and local officials can make informed decisions about where and how to build houses.
ref:
2021 August 26, Christopher Flavelle, “How Government Decisions Left Tennessee Exposed to Deadly Flooding”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
After a disaster, the two agencies chiefly responsible for helping victims are FEMA, which focuses on emergency shelter and limited home repairs, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which funds long-term rebuilding.
ref:
2022 July 23, Christopher Flavelle, Edmund D. Fountain, “How the Government Is Failing Americans Uprooted by Calamity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of Federal Emergency Management Agency.
senses_topics:
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10801 | word:
EPROM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
EPROM (plural EPROMs)
forms:
form:
EPROMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of erasable programmable read-only memory.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
10802 | word:
DOJ
word_type:
name
expansion:
DOJ
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of United States Department of Justice; also DoJ.
senses_topics:
|
10803 | word:
DOJ
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DOJ (plural DOJs)
forms:
form:
DOJs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of date of judgment.
Initialism of double open jaw.
senses_topics:
law
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel |
10804 | word:
CD-RW
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CD-RW (plural CD-RWs)
forms:
form:
CD-RWs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of compact disk – rewritable. A form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from a plastic disc. It can be written to multiple times.
senses_topics:
|
10805 | word:
DOB
word_type:
noun
expansion:
DOB (plural DOBs)
forms:
form:
DOBs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
DOB
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative forms: D.O.B., DoB, d.o.b., dob
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of date of birth.
senses_topics:
|
10806 | word:
DOB
word_type:
name
expansion:
DOB
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Daughters of Bilitis. The first organized and successful lesbian liberation organization in the United States.
Initialism of 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromoamphetamine. A psychedelic drug similar to 2C-B.
senses_topics:
|
10807 | word:
GCC
word_type:
name
expansion:
GCC
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* (GNU Compiler Collection): GCC was originally an acronym for "GNU C Compiler", now a backronym for "GNU Compiler Collection".
* (Gulf Cooperation Council): Initialism of Gulf Cooperation Council.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of GNU Compiler Collection. It is a collection of compilers for C, C++, Fortran, etc. aiming to be standards-compliant and correct.
Initialism of Gulf Cooperation Council. It is a multinational body of countries of the Persian Gulf area
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
government
politics |
10808 | word:
kick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)
forms:
form:
kicks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
kicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
kicked
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
kick
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kyken (“to strike out with the foot”), from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”) and keikja (“to bend backwards”) (compare Old Norse keikr (“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz (“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kī-, *kij- (“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH- (“to sprout, shoot”). Compare also Dutch kijken (“to look”), Middle Low German kīken (“to look, watch”). See keek.
senses_examples:
text:
Did you kick your brother?
text:
1895, George MacDonald, Lilith, Chapter XII: Friends and Foes,
I was cuffed by the women and kicked by the men because I would not swallow it.
text:
A punt is made by letting the ball drop from the hands and kicking it just before it touches the ground.
ref:
1905, Fielding H. Yost, chapter 6, in Football for Player and Spectator
type:
quotation
text:
Will Henderson, who had on a light overcoat and no overshoes, kicked the heel of his left foot with the toe of the right.
ref:
1919, Sherwood Anderson, “The Teacher: concerning Kate Swift”, in Winesburg, Ohio
type:
quotation
text:
Or to put it in the more colourful language of our Prime Minister: "The secret to improving rail transport, in my view, is you need to find the right arse to kick." Unfortunately, since the abolition of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) in 2005, the DfT has ostensibly been in direct control of railway policy setting, and this has meant that the only arse the government has been able to kick is its own.
ref:
2020 September 9, Jason Chamberlain, “The growing likelihood of a 'different type of railway'”, in Rail, page 45
type:
quotation
text:
He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline kick.
type:
example
text:
1904, Stratemeyer Syndicate, The Bobbsey Twins, Chapter II: Rope Jumping, and What Followed,
"If you did that, I'd kick," answered Freddie, and began to kick real hard into the air.
text:
Kick the ball into the goal.
type:
example
text:
Sometimes he can kick the ball forward along the ground until it is kicked in goal, where he can fall on it for a touchdown.
ref:
1905, Fielding H. Yost, chapter 7, in Football for Player and Spectator
type:
quotation
text:
"He's been mad at me ever since I fired him off'n my payroll. After I kicked him off'n my ranch he run for sheriff, and the night of the election everybody was so drunk they voted for him by mistake, or for a joke, or somethin', and since he's been in office he's been lettin' the sheepmen steal me right out of house and home."
ref:
1936 October, Robert E. Howard, “The Conquerin' Hero of the Humbolts”, in Action Stories
type:
quotation
text:
They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
ref:
1976 February 3, Bill Gates, An Open Letter to Hobbyists
type:
quotation
text:
Dial 1-900-Mix-a-Lot and kick them nasty thoughts.
ref:
1992, “Baby Got Back”, in Sir Mix-a-Lot (lyrics), Rick Rubin and Sir Mix-a-Lot (music), Mack Daddy, Def American Recordings
type:
quotation
text:
He was kicked from the IRC server for flooding.
text:
I still smoke, but they keep telling me to kick the habit.
type:
example
text:
He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast.
type:
example
text:
The back of the car kicked out violently, forcing me to steer into the slide and accelerate in order to maintain control.
ref:
2011, Tom Andry, Bob Moore: No Hero
type:
quotation
text:
Lying on the ground, when fired, it kicked me back a foot. There was no way a person my size was going to be able to do an effective job with this gun.
ref:
2003, Jennifer C. D. Groomes, The Falcon Project, page 174
type:
quotation
text:
I asked my sister Jeanette if she wanted to shoot the 12 ga. shotgun. She replied, "does it kick"?
ref:
2006, Daniel D. Scherschel, Maple Grove, page 81
type:
quotation
text:
Contador kicks again to try to rid himself of Rasmussen.
type:
example
text:
In the meantime, it is possible for the embedded software to “kick” the watchdog timer, to reset its counter to the original large number.
ref:
1999, Michael Barr, Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
From now on the process has to periodically kick the watchdog timer in intervals shorter than the initialization interval.
ref:
2012, Tarek Sobh, Khaled Elleithy, Emerging Trends in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, and Engineering, page 763
type:
quotation
text:
He's still kicking himself for not investing three years ago.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
To eject summarily.
To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
To move or push suddenly and violently.
To recoil; to push by recoiling.
To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
To show opposition or resistance.
To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
To reset (a watchdog timer).
To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
senses_topics:
board-games
chess
games
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
media
printing
publishing
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
10809 | word:
kick
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kick (plural kicks)
forms:
form:
kicks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English kyken (“to strike out with the foot”), from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”) and keikja (“to bend backwards”) (compare Old Norse keikr (“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz (“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kī-, *kij- (“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH- (“to sprout, shoot”). Compare also Dutch kijken (“to look”), Middle Low German kīken (“to look, watch”). See keek.
senses_examples:
text:
A kick to the knee.
type:
example
text:
Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.
ref:
2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England
type:
quotation
text:
The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.
type:
example
text:
I finally saw the show. What a kick!
type:
example
text:
I think I sprained something on my latest exercise kick.
type:
example
text:
get a kick out of; get one's kicks
type:
example
text:
Won't you get hip to this kindly tip / When you ride that California trip / Get your kicks on Route 66
ref:
1946, Bobby Troup (lyrics and music), “Route 66”, performed by Nat King Cole
type:
quotation
text:
I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So tell me why should it be true that I get a kick out of you. Some hey may go for cocaine. I'm sure that if I took even one sniff it would bore me terrifically, too. Yet, I get a kick out of you.[…]I get no kick in a plane. Flying too high with some gal in the sky is my idea of nothing to do. Yet I get a kick. You give me a boot. I get a kick out of you.
ref:
1954 January 4, “I Get a Kick Out of You”, in Songs for Young Lovers, performed by Frank Sinatra
type:
quotation
text:
The “Mods” say it was the “Rockers” who came looking for trouble. Both groups, however, admit that they were “looking for kicks.”
ref:
1964 March 31, “Rival Teen‐Age Gangs Terrorize British Sea Resort”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
I have a theory […] that the Butterfield Band, who played in back of Dylan was really the Kingston Trio getting kicks […]
ref:
1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 2022-11-13, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight / Get teenage kicks right through the night
ref:
1979, John O'Neill (lyrics and music), “Teenage Kicks”, performed by The Undertones
type:
quotation
text:
This is a common experience among drug addicts who need stronger and stronger doses to regain the old 'kicks'.
ref:
1996, Samuel Brittan, Capitalism with a human face, page 136
type:
quotation
text:
They seek new kicks, new thrills, new adventures.
ref:
2010, Theodore J. Kaczynski, edited by David Skrbina, Technological Slavery, page 385
type:
quotation
text:
The car had a nasty kick the whole way.
type:
example
text:
The pool ball took a wild kick, up off the table.
type:
example
text:
Add a little cascabel pepper to ordinary tomato sauce to give it a kick.
ref:
2002, Ellen and Michael Albertson, Temptations, Fireside, page 124 http://books.google.com/books?id=cITFVpz2ri8C&pg=PA124&dq=kick
text:
For extra kick, hollow out a lime, float it on top of the drink, and fill it with tequila.
ref:
2003, Sheree Bykofsky, Megan Buckley, Sexy City Cocktails, Adams Media, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
The first time I saw "Deep Water," the trace of mystery in the Crowhurst affair gave the movie a kick of excitement.
ref:
2007 August 27, Anthony Lane, “Lone Sailors”, in The New Yorker, volume 83, numbers 22-28
type:
quotation
text:
a long kick up the field.
type:
example
text:
Her mind couldn’t lose sight of […]the bloodied nickel plated pistol Angie had in his kick.
ref:
1952, George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, Bobs-Merrill, page 383
type:
quotation
text:
Swell shows all of ‘em, except this last one. […] Set me back two-seventy-five, including tax, and I wish I’d got it in my kick right now.
ref:
2008, P.G.Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally (Volume 2 of 2)+kick%22&pg=PA277&printsec=frontcover), ReadHowYouWant.com, page 277
type:
quotation
text:
If you keep Nan’s advice you’ll keep it in your kick.
ref:
2008, Loren D. Estleman, Port Hazard:A Page Murdock Novel+kick%22&pg=PT88&printsec=frontcover), Tom Doherty Associates
type:
quotation
text:
You take that and put it in your kick. I’ve had plenty of cash out of you already.
ref:
2012, Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust), Silvertip’s Trap, Adams Media
type:
quotation
text:
That's the stuff that will do the trick / Sold at every chemist for one and a kick
ref:
1941, Eddie Latta, George Formby (lyrics and music), “Auntie Maggie's Remedy”, performed by George Formby
type:
quotation
text:
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks / You better run, better run, outrun my gun
ref:
2010, Mark Foster (lyrics and music), “Pumped Up Kicks”, performed by Foster the People
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
The action of swinging a foot or leg.
Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing; a pleasure; a thrill.
The removal of a person from an online activity.
Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
A pungent or spicy flavour; piquancy.
A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
A pass played by kicking with the foot.
The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
The recoil of a gun.
A pocket.
An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)
Sixpence.
A shoe.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
broadcasting
film
media
television
|
10810 | word:
kick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)
forms:
form:
kicks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
kicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
kicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening of kick the bucket.
senses_examples:
text:
Who knows what will happen to his billions when the eighty-five-year-old kicks, but before he leaves the planet, Moon reportedly is hell-bent on creating a holy land in North Korea, dedicated to him.
ref:
2005, Melissa L. Rossi, What every American should know about who's really running the world, page 211
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To die.
senses_topics:
|
10811 | word:
kick
word_type:
verb
expansion:
kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)
forms:
form:
kicks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
kicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
kicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
kicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening of kick ass
senses_examples:
text:
That band really kicks.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be emphatically excellent.
senses_topics:
|
10812 | word:
LDPE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
LDPE (countable and uncountable, plural LDPEs)
forms:
form:
LDPEs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of low-density polyethylene.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
10813 | word:
EKG
word_type:
noun
expansion:
EKG
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German EKG. Initialism of German Elektrokardiogramm.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of ECG (“electrocardiogram”)
senses_topics:
cardiology
medicine
sciences |
10814 | word:
HDPE
word_type:
noun
expansion:
HDPE (countable and uncountable, plural HDPEs)
forms:
form:
HDPEs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of high-density polyethylene.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
10815 | word:
sense
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sense (countable and uncountable, plural senses)
forms:
form:
senses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sense
word sense
etymology_text:
From Middle English sense, from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, reason, direction”); partly from Latin sēnsus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); partly of Germanic origin (whence also Occitan sen, Italian senno), from Vulgar Latin *sennus (“sense, reason, way”), from Frankish *sinn ("reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction"; whence also Dutch zin, German Sinn, Swedish sinne, Norwegian sinn). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
senses_examples:
text:
a sense of security
type:
example
text:
Where a college administration does not come forward and say that gay people have a right to be here, there is a sense among students that it is acceptable to harass and intimidate lesbian and gay members of that community.
ref:
1990 December 16, Laura Briggs, quoting Robert Weinerman, “Gay Students Fight 'Little War' At Mass. School”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
It’s common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
type:
example
text:
word sense disambiguation
type:
example
text:
the various senses of the word “car” (e.g., motor car, elevator car, railcar)
type:
example
text:
You don’t make any sense.
type:
example
text:
A keen musical sense
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
Sound practical or moral judgment.
The meaning, reason, or value of something.
Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
The meaning, reason, or value of something.
A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries or definitions for a word in a dictionary.
The meaning, reason, or value of something.
A natural appreciation or ability.
The way that a referent is presented.
One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10816 | word:
sense
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sense (third-person singular simple present senses, present participle sensing, simple past and past participle sensed)
forms:
form:
senses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
sensing
tags:
participle
present
form:
sensed
tags:
participle
past
form:
sensed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sense, from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, reason, direction”); partly from Latin sēnsus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); partly of Germanic origin (whence also Occitan sen, Italian senno), from Vulgar Latin *sennus (“sense, reason, way”), from Frankish *sinn ("reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction"; whence also Dutch zin, German Sinn, Swedish sinne, Norwegian sinn). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
senses_examples:
text:
She immediately sensed her disdain.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
To instinctively be aware.
To comprehend.
senses_topics:
|
10817 | word:
FOIL
word_type:
name
expansion:
FOIL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Acronym of first outer inner last or similar.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An acronym for the algorithm for multiplying two binomials.
senses_topics:
|
10818 | word:
FOIL
word_type:
verb
expansion:
FOIL (third-person singular simple present FOILs, present participle FOILing, simple past and past participle FOILed)
forms:
form:
FOILs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
FOILing
tags:
participle
present
form:
FOILed
tags:
participle
past
form:
FOILed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Acronym of first outer inner last or similar.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To apply the FOIL algorithm to.
senses_topics:
|
10819 | word:
ADH
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ADH (countable and uncountable, plural ADHs)
forms:
form:
ADHs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of antidiuretic hormone.
Initialism of alcohol dehydrogenase.
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
10820 | word:
ADP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ADP (countable and uncountable, plural ADPs)
forms:
form:
ADPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of adenosine diphosphate.
Abbreviation of adposition.
senses_topics:
|
10821 | word:
ECG
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ECG (plural ECGs)
forms:
form:
ECGs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of electrocardiogram; initialism of electrocardiography; initialism of electrocardiograph.
senses_topics:
cardiology
medicine
sciences |
10822 | word:
ECG
word_type:
name
expansion:
ECG
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of East Central German.
senses_topics:
|
10823 | word:
sept
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sept (plural septs)
forms:
form:
septs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
A corruption of sect, influenced by Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”).
senses_examples:
text:
The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.
ref:
1842, Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, volume 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.
An enclosure; a railing.
senses_topics:
|
10824 | word:
sept
word_type:
verb
expansion:
sept
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Probably influenced by weep → wept.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:sept.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of seep
senses_topics:
|
10825 | word:
CFC
word_type:
name
expansion:
CFC
forms:
wikipedia:
CFC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Chelsea Football Club.
Initialism of Combined Federal Campaign.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
|
10826 | word:
CFC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CFC (plural CFCs)
forms:
form:
CFCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
CFC
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of chlorofluorocarbon, a class of molecules containing chlorine, fluorine and carbon atoms
Initialism of controlled foreign corporation.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
business |
10827 | word:
bath
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bath (plural baths)
forms:
form:
baths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
English bath
From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.
senses_examples:
text:
Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
ref:
1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture
type:
quotation
text:
The master bath has two sinks.
type:
example
text:
a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
type:
example
text:
He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
ref:
1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
A building or area where bathing occurs.
Clipping of bathroom.
The act of bathing.
The body of liquid one bathes in.
A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
senses_topics:
business
real-estate
|
10828 | word:
bath
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bath (third-person singular simple present baths, present participle bathing, simple past and past participle bathed)
forms:
form:
baths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bathing
tags:
participle
present
form:
bathed
tags:
participle
past
form:
bathed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
English bath
From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.
senses_examples:
text:
Somewhere to bath the baby: don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to bath the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor.
ref:
1990, Mukti Jain Campion, The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability., page 41
type:
quotation
text:
For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose.
ref:
2006, Sue Dallas, Diana North, Joanne Angus, Grooming Manual for the Dog and Cat, page 91
type:
quotation
text:
If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week.
ref:
2007, Robin Barker, Baby Love, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, dear no, not me; I never bath, ’tis the cat has been bathing, in a warm sea bath; I’ll tell you how I manage: I bought a large pickle-jar, and so I have it filled every morning with hot sea water, proportionate to the thermometerical heat my finger can bear, and that I stile Tink-a-tink’s bath; in which I immerge him all but his head, for a quarter of an hour; and he looks so pretty, and receives so much benefit, you would be surprised.
ref:
1815, anonymous author, The Observant Pedestrian Mounted, volume 3
type:
quotation
text:
A man's home may be handy to the mine, in which case he would not need to lose the bath, but if he lived any distance away he would bath at the mine.
ref:
1912, James Ward, quotee, “Report on the Royal Commission on Mines”, in Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, Wellington, page 141
type:
quotation
text:
In a flight of fancy, Millot even wanted to create public bath houses alongside the Seine, so young children could bath in the river’s healthful waters.
ref:
2007, “Doctors, Regeneration, and the Revolutionary Crucible, 1789-1804”, in Sean M. Quinlan, The Great Nation in Decline (The History of Medicine in Context), Aldershot: Ashgate, page 140
type:
quotation
text:
Parents would bath after all the children had gone to bed or older children sent into the front room.
ref:
2017 February 9, “Very Early Spring”, in Jean A. Stockdale, My Spring: Royal Times and Ordinary Lives, Troubador Publishing, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wash a person or animal in a bath.
To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.
senses_topics:
|
10829 | word:
bath
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bath (plural baths)
forms:
form:
baths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hebrew בַּת (baṯ).
senses_examples:
text:
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
ref:
1769, Bible (KJV), Ezekiel, 45:10–11
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
senses_topics:
units-of-measure |
10830 | word:
PET
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PET (countable and uncountable, plural PETs)
forms:
form:
PETs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The name of the computer (sense 4) derives from the 1970s pet rock fad; the acronym was invented afterwards.
senses_examples:
text:
Why is the order of graphical characters in the PETSCII table so seemingly haphazard? The answer is that arrangement was dictated by the PET keyboard design, a hardware-driven decision.
ref:
2014, Nick Montfort et al., 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, MIT Press, page 225
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of polyethylene terephthalate.
Acronym of positron emission tomography.
Acronym of paired-end tag.
Acronym of personal electronic transactor, a line of personal computers produced by Commodore International.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
medicine
sciences
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10831 | word:
PET
word_type:
name
expansion:
PET
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The name of the computer (sense 4) derives from the 1970s pet rock fad; the acronym was invented afterwards.
senses_examples:
text:
But Wright takes a rather contrarian position about the impact of emotionally charged Trudeaumania on PET’s astonishing political rise in 1968.
ref:
2016 November 20, “New books put Trudeaumania in fresh perspective”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 2017-08-07
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
senses_topics:
government
politics |
10832 | word:
FM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
FM (countable and uncountable, plural FMs)
forms:
form:
FMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
FM radio
type:
example
text:
The FM hit back at Scottish Tory Douglas Ross's reference to a Times article published on Thursday, based on four anonymous sources, as "desperate" as the pair clashed at FMQs.
ref:
2022 October 27, Abbi Garton-Crosbie, “FMQs: Nicola Sturgeon destroys claim that Scotland must join the euro to get into EU”, in The National
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of frequency modulation.
Initialism of field marshal.
Initialism of finance minister.
Initialism of foreign minister.
Initialism of first minister.
Initialism of finance ministry.
Initialism of foreign ministry.
Initialism of first ministry.
Initialism of field manual.
Initialism of fibromyalgia.
Initialism of fan marker.
Initialism of FIDE Master.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
medicine
pathology
sciences
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
board-games
chess
games |
10833 | word:
NSDAP
word_type:
name
expansion:
NSDAP
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
senses_topics:
|
10834 | word:
WTO
word_type:
name
expansion:
WTO
forms:
wikipedia:
WTO
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of World Trade Organization.
Initialism of Warsaw Treaty Organization.
senses_topics:
history
human-sciences
sciences |
10835 | word:
w/o
word_type:
verb
expansion:
o
forms:
form:
o
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of write off.
senses_topics:
business
finance
insurance |
10836 | word:
w/o
word_type:
noun
expansion:
o (plural not attested)
forms:
form:
o
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
w/o January 7th
text:
Sandy Steven, w/o Steven
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of walkover.
Abbreviation of week of.
Abbreviation of write-off.
weight percent (percentage calculated by relative mass)
Abbreviation of wife of.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
finance
insurance
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
10837 | word:
w/o
word_type:
adj
expansion:
o
forms:
form:
o
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of emulsion of water in oil.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10838 | word:
w/o
word_type:
adv
expansion:
o (not comparable)
forms:
form:
o
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of without.
senses_topics:
|
10839 | word:
jag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jag (plural jags)
forms:
form:
jags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is from late Middle English jagge, the verb is from jaggen.
senses_examples:
text:
The thick black cloud was cleft, and still / The Moon was at its side; / Like waters shot from some high crag, / The lightning fell with never a jag, / A river steep and wide.
ref:
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 323–7
type:
quotation
text:
The especial beauty of London is the Thames, and the Thames is so wonderful because the mist is always changing its shapes and colours, always making its light mysterious, and building palaces of cloud out of mere Parliament Houses with their jags and turrets.
ref:
1909, Arthur Symons, London: A Book of Aspects, self-published, page 3
type:
quotation
text:
Even if you hadn’t been drowned, you would have been smashed to pieces by the terrible weight of water against the countless jags of rock.
ref:
1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 16, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 1998
type:
quotation
text:
some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited
ref:
1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata
type:
quotation
text:
I depart as air .... I shake my white locks at the runway sun, / I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
ref:
1855, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass, page 56
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sharp projection.
A part broken off; a fragment.
A flap, a tear in a clothing
A cleft or division.
A medical injection, a jab.
A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
Ellipsis of jagoff.: An irritating, inept, or repugnant person.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
10840 | word:
jag
word_type:
verb
expansion:
jag (third-person singular simple present jags, present participle jagging, simple past and past participle jagged)
forms:
form:
jags
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
jagging
tags:
participle
present
form:
jagged
tags:
participle
past
form:
jagged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The noun is from late Middle English jagge, the verb is from jaggen.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut unevenly.
To tease.
senses_topics:
|
10841 | word:
jag
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jag (plural jags)
forms:
form:
jags
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag (“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze”), from Proto-Germanic *kagô (compare dialectal German Kag (“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage (“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage (“low bush”), of unknown origin.
senses_examples:
text:
Consider, the pessimists argue, the vast number of plays which it is only possible to sit through with the assistance of what Ella Wheeler Wilcox would call a mild jag.
ref:
1919 August, P. G. Wodehouse, “Prohibition and the Drama”, in Vanity Fair, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’
ref:
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
Of course she did not lose her sense of humor (not necessarily to be confused with her laughing fits, which are crying jags turned inside out according to the shrinks).
ref:
1985, Peter De Vries, chapter 9, in The Prick of Noon, Penguin, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
Miles had a cold, he always had a cold, it went unnoticed, went without saying, he had coughing jags and slightly woozy eyes, completely unremarked by people who knew him […]
ref:
1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon & Schuster, published 2007, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 396
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
A fit, spell, outburst.
A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
senses_topics:
|
10842 | word:
NSA
word_type:
adv
expansion:
NSA (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of no strings attached.
Initialism of no sugar added.
senses_topics:
|
10843 | word:
NSA
word_type:
adj
expansion:
NSA (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of not sexually active.
senses_topics:
|
10844 | word:
NSA
word_type:
name
expansion:
NSA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of National Security Agency.
Initialism of National Surveillance Agency.
Initialism of National Sheep Association.
senses_topics:
government
government
|
10845 | word:
NSA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
NSA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of non-standalone architecture.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony |
10846 | word:
magic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
magic (usually uncountable, plural magics)
forms:
form:
magics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:magic
etymology_text:
From Middle English magik, magyk, from Old French magique (noun and adjective), from Latin magicus (adjective), magica (noun use of feminine form of magicus), from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós, “magical”), from μάγος (mágos, “magus”). Ultimately from Old Iranian, probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”). Displaced native Old English ġealdor (survived in Middle English galder), and dwimmer.
senses_examples:
text:
And whan he shall be arrayed as I telle you / lete hym thenne doo his incantacyons & his magyke as he wyll […].
ref:
c. 1489, Foure Sonnes of Aymon, William Caxton
type:
quotation
text:
The arts of magic and divination were strictly prohibited.
ref:
1781, Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, II.23
type:
quotation
text:
Does not the very name stir the heart [...] with a thrill more mysterious and romantic than any allusion to the magics of Egypt or Hind?
ref:
1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page viii. 192
type:
quotation
text:
Conversions to the new religion […] have frequently been assisted by the view of converts that they are acquiring not just a means of otherworldly salvation, but a new and more powerful magic.
ref:
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
And she can turn people into stone and do all kinds of horrible things. And she has made a magic so that it is always winter in Narnia—always winter, but it never gets to Christmas.
ref:
1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
type:
quotation
text:
I am the master of mighty magics.
ref:
2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 116
type:
quotation
text:
I learned a new magic after rescuing the tree fairy.
type:
example
text:
We began to take Santa Claus to the kids at the isolated sidings for the same reason men all over Australia on the lines back o' beyond did [...] we didn't want them to miss that magic.
ref:
1969, Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, Melbourne: Macmillan, page 151
type:
quotation
text:
The stringstream class hides a lot of string parsing magic from us at this point.
ref:
2017, Jacek Galowicz, C++17 STL Cookbook, page 257
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them.
A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell; a magical ability.
The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual.
The ability to cast a magic spell.
Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
Complicated or esoteric code that is not expected to be generally understood.
A conjuring trick or illusion performed to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.
The art or practice of performing conjuring tricks and illusions.
senses_topics:
games
gaming
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
10847 | word:
magic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
magic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
en:magic
etymology_text:
From Middle English magik, magyk, from Old French magique (noun and adjective), from Latin magicus (adjective), magica (noun use of feminine form of magicus), from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós, “magical”), from μάγος (mágos, “magus”). Ultimately from Old Iranian, probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”). Displaced native Old English ġealdor (survived in Middle English galder), and dwimmer.
senses_examples:
text:
a magic wand
type:
example
text:
a magic dragon
type:
example
text:
a magic moment
type:
example
text:
a magic show
type:
example
text:
a magic trick
type:
example
text:
I cleaned up the flat while you were out. —Really? Magic!
type:
example
text:
The code is full of magic numbers and we can't figure out what they mean.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.
Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic.
Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc.
Great; excellent.
Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.
Being a literal number or string value with no meaning or context, not defined as a constant or variable
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
10848 | word:
magic
word_type:
verb
expansion:
magic (third-person singular simple present magics, present participle magicking, simple past and past participle magicked)
forms:
form:
magics
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
magicking
tags:
participle
present
form:
magicked
tags:
participle
past
form:
magicked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
en:magic
etymology_text:
From Middle English magik, magyk, from Old French magique (noun and adjective), from Latin magicus (adjective), magica (noun use of feminine form of magicus), from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós, “magical”), from μάγος (mágos, “magus”). Ultimately from Old Iranian, probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”). Displaced native Old English ġealdor (survived in Middle English galder), and dwimmer.
senses_examples:
text:
He pictured them standing about the dim hallway, magicked into immobility, glazed and mute, one with a hand raised, another bending to set down a bag, and Licht before them, nodding and twitching like a marionette, as usual.
ref:
1993, John Banville, Ghosts
type:
quotation
text:
The Western professionals magic so much money offshore that it is impossible to put a reliable figure on it.
ref:
2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 8, in Moneyland, Profile Books, page 132
type:
quotation
text:
None can be magicked overnight.
ref:
2021 October 6, Philip Haigh, “Rail freight has a key role in boosting Britain's resilience”, in RAIL, number 941, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic.
senses_topics:
|
10849 | word:
cinque
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cinque (plural cinques)
forms:
form:
cinques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English cink, from Middle French cinq, from Latin cīnque, variant of quīnque. The archaic spelling cinq is taken from modern French cinq, whereas the standard spelling is perhaps influenced by Italian cinque or a misspelling of the French. The variant pronunciation /sæŋk/ is based on Modern French. Doublet of five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi; related to Pompeii.
senses_examples:
text:
Accordingly the firſt beſt throw upon the dice is eſteemed aces, as it ſtops the ſix point in the outer table, and ſecures the cinque in your own, whereby your adverſary's two men upon your ace point cannot get out with either quatre, cinq, or ſix.
ref:
1775, “a Connoisseur”, “Containing an Account of the Game of Back-gammon, with the most approved Method of playing at it, and the Rules of the Game. Together with the Artifices and Legerdemains that are frequently practised at it.”, in Annals of Gaming; or, The Fair Player’s Sure Guide. Containing Original Treatises on the following Games. […], London: […] G. Allen, […], pages 181–182
type:
quotation
text:
The firſt beſt Throw upon the Dice is eſteemed Aces, as it ſtops the Six-Point in the outer Table, and ſecures the Cinque in your own, whereby your Adverſary’s two Men upon your Ace-Point cannot get out with either Quatre, Cinque, or Six.
ref:
1775, “Introduction to the Game of Back-Gammon; With the most approved Method of playing at it”, in Charles Jones, editor, Hoyle’s Games Improved. Being Practical Treatises on the following Fashionable Games, […], London: […] J. Rivington and J. Wilkie, […], page 170
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.
senses_topics:
card-games
dice
dominoes
games |
10850 | word:
PTO
word_type:
name
expansion:
PTO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of patent and trademark office. (United States Patent and Trademark Office), usually abbreviated USPTO.
senses_topics:
|
10851 | word:
PTO
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PTO (plural PTOs)
forms:
form:
PTOs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of parent-teacher organization.
Initialism of paid time off.
Initialism of power take-off, a powered shaft for driving auxiliary equipment.
senses_topics:
|
10852 | word:
PTO
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
PTO
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of please turn over (written at the end of the text on a page to say that it continues overleaf)
senses_topics:
|
10853 | word:
EEG
word_type:
noun
expansion:
EEG (countable and uncountable, plural EEGs)
forms:
form:
EEGs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of electroencephalogram.
Initialism of electroencephalograph.
Initialism of electroencephalography.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences |
10854 | word:
quatorze
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quatorze (plural quatorzes)
forms:
form:
quatorzes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French quatorze.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The four aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, in the game of piquet, any of these counting as fourteen points.
senses_topics:
card-games
games |
10855 | word:
pitch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pitch (countable and uncountable, plural pitches)
forms:
form:
pitches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”), Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”), Franco-Provençal pouatche (“sap from a pine”) and French poix (“sap”). The adjective is probably back-formed from pitch-black, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)".
senses_examples:
text:
It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
type:
example
text:
They put pitch on the mast to protect it.
type:
example
text:
The barrel was sealed with pitch.
type:
example
text:
It was pitch black because there was no moon.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil and tar.
Pitchstone.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
10856 | word:
pitch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched)
forms:
form:
pitches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pitching
tags:
participle
present
form:
pitched
tags:
participle
past
form:
pitched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”), Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”), Franco-Provençal pouatche (“sap from a pine”) and French poix (“sap”). The adjective is probably back-formed from pitch-black, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)".
senses_examples:
text:
1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas
Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cover or smear with pitch.
To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
senses_topics:
|
10857 | word:
pitch
word_type:
adj
expansion:
pitch (comparative pitcher, superlative pitchest)
forms:
form:
pitcher
tags:
comparative
form:
pitchest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”), Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”), Franco-Provençal pouatche (“sap from a pine”) and French poix (“sap”). The adjective is probably back-formed from pitch-black, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)".
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:pitch.
text:
Then I got back here - difficulty again: no trolly-bus, and and black pitcher than black - and have since been conning the Beveridge Report.
ref:
2008 July 15, Edward Morgan Forster, Christopher Isherwood, Letters Between Forster and Isherwood on Homosexuality and Literature, Palgrave MacMillan
type:
quotation
text:
If you lose even once, that's it: The screen goes, like, the pitchest black ever, and you're [out].
ref:
2013 February 26, Dale E. Basye, Snivel: The Fifth Circle of Heck, Yearling, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
For some of us postpartum depression is the pitchest black we have ever known. From the dark womb we welcome new life, and our own new life, a life we haven't known, unfolds[…]
ref:
2016 August 30, Mandy Arioto, Starry-Eyed: Seeing Grace in the Unfolding Constellation of Life and Motherhood, Zondervan, page 19
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very dark black; pitch-black.
Intense, deep, dark.
senses_topics:
|
10858 | word:
pitch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pitch (plural pitches)
forms:
form:
pitches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English picchen, pycchen (“to thrust in, fasten, settle”), from Old English *piċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *pikkijan, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn (“to pick, peck”), whence Middle English pikken, picken (“to pick, pierce”), modern English pick.
senses_examples:
text:
a good pitch in quoits
type:
example
text:
The pitch was low and inside.
type:
example
text:
The teams met on the pitch.
type:
example
text:
The two men of Alltraighe maintain, Two chiefs of the plain of Kerry, A clan the most active in pitch of battle, Their chiefs are O’Neide and Clan Conary.
ref:
1845, Owen Connellan, Annals of Ireland: Translated from the Original Irish of the Four Masters, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
Every other day they would spend half of the training hours on the battle pitch.
ref:
2015, SK Benton, Lives of Future-Past
type:
quotation
text:
George’s cult was popular in the east because of his legendary feats on the battle pitch and because of the location of his tomb, which was a pilgrimage site.
ref:
2018, Christopher R. Lakey, Sculptural Seeing: Relief, Optics and the Rise of Perspectives in Medieval Italy, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
He gave me a sales pitch.
type:
example
text:
The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.
type:
example
text:
The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.
type:
example
text:
A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
type:
example
text:
the pitch of the roof or haystack
type:
example
text:
the pitch of an aircraft
type:
example
text:
The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.
type:
example
text:
Another reason is that the prostitute who makes her pitch at Marble Arch stands a chance of being picked up by an out-of-town business man stopping at one of the hotels in the vicinity, and of being treated to a steak dinner […]
ref:
1975, Tom A. Cullen, The Prostitutes' Padre, page 94
type:
quotation
text:
He lived at a time when learning was at its highest pitch.
ref:
September 28, 1710, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner No. 2
text:
But, except the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they never can arrive at such a pitch of vivacity
ref:
1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, Oxford University Press, published 1973, section 11
type:
quotation
text:
In this poem his 'vernacular' bluster and garish misrhymes build to a pitch of rowdy anarchy […]
ref:
2014, James Booth, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, page 190
type:
quotation
text:
From the pitch of Cape-Fraward, to the pitch of Cape-Holland, the Streight lies in the Channel West and by North, nearest, and is distant full five Leagues;
ref:
2014, John Narborough, Abel Tasman, John Wood, An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North
type:
quotation
text:
The line turns a sharp right-angle to the north to circumvent the town, and then plunges straight into the 1 in 50, which lasts for nearly 20 miles with few intermissions, and some pitches of 1 in 40.
ref:
1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265
type:
quotation
text:
You lead "through" instead — your companion leads a pitch, then you join him. But instead of swapping over at the ice axe belay, you carry on in the lead, cutting or kicking steps until you are about twenty feet above.
ref:
1967, Anthony Greenbank, Instructions in Mountaineering, page 84
type:
quotation
text:
The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.
type:
example
text:
a steep pitch in the road
type:
example
text:
the pitch of a roof
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
The act of pitching a baseball.
The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
The field of battle.
An effort to sell or promote something.
The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
The angle at which an object sits.
The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
A person's or animal's height.
Prominence; importance.
A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
caving
hobbies
lifestyle
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
business
mining |
10859 | word:
pitch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched or (obsolete) pight)
forms:
form:
pitches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pitching
tags:
participle
present
form:
pitched
tags:
participle
past
form:
pitched
tags:
past
form:
pight
tags:
obsolete
participle
past
form:
pight
tags:
obsolete
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English picchen, pycchen (“to thrust in, fasten, settle”), from Old English *piċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *pikkijan, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn (“to pick, peck”), whence Middle English pikken, picken (“to pick, pierce”), modern English pick.
senses_examples:
text:
He pitched the horseshoe.
type:
example
text:
The hurler pitched a curveball.
type:
example
text:
He pitched high and inside.
type:
example
text:
Bob pitches today.
type:
example
text:
He pitched the candy wrapper.
type:
example
text:
He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
type:
example
text:
At which level should I pitch my presentation?
type:
example
text:
Pitch the tent over there.
type:
example
text:
Why not, when it was clearly now possible to pitch your tent well beyond whatever expert consensus considered reasonable and be lionised instead of punished [...]
ref:
2024 April 16, Gaby Hinsliff, “Liz Truss has kindly offered to ‘save the west’. But who will save her from her delusions?”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
type:
example
text:
The airplane pitched.
type:
example
text:
Half a dozen deserted boats pitched aimlessly upon the confusion of the waves.
ref:
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.
type:
example
text:
The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
type:
example
text:
Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.
ref:
a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Precepts of Christianity not grievous
type:
quotation
text:
to pitch from a precipice
type:
example
text:
The field pitches toward the east.
type:
example
text:
[…]pitch the road with hard stones [rather] than to break them up for a road covering
ref:
1838, Thomas Hughes, The Practice of Making & Repairing Roads
type:
quotation
text:
They pitched at the waters of Merom. These waters of Merom are generally thought to be nothing but the lake of Semechon,[…]
ref:
1801, Thomas Coke, chapter 11, in A Commentary on the Holy Bible: Commentary on the Old Teatament, Joshua, page 51, verse 5
type:
quotation
text:
“Vy don’t you pitch into her Sarah?” exclaims one half-dressed matron by way of encouragement.
ref:
1866, Charles Dickens, Works: Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People with Illustrations by George Cruikshank, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
Yet I sometimes long to pitch at him for daring to lift his eyes this way; I always feel the blood tingling at my finger’s end whenever he crosses my path.
ref:
1868, Rock Ruin; or the Daughter of the Island, page 23
type:
quotation
text:
On the seventh day after the two armies were pitched against each other in the plain before Aphek the battle was joined, the Syrians were routed, and a hundred thousand of their foot-men were slain in one day.
ref:
1886, James Osgood Andrew Clark, Elijah Vindicated: Or The Answer by Fire, page 378
type:
quotation
text:
The Philistines, hearing that Israel were assembled at Mizpeh, raised an army and pitched against them.
ref:
1892, Louis Barnett Abrahams, A Manual of Scripture History for Use in Jewish Schools and Families, page 72
type:
quotation
text:
He would pitch into her, and pitch into himself, and then he would dwell on her good qualities, […]
ref:
2015, William Dean Howells, Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells
type:
quotation
text:
If Spain was to fight in the Americas, for example, the Royal Navy could pitch against it over 300 ships in the seventies (Morris 2011:13-32), deployed in various parts of the world.
ref:
2016, A. González Enciso, War, Power and the Economy: Mercantilism and state formation in 18th-century Europe, page 144
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To throw.
To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
To throw away; discard.
To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
To bounce on the playing surface.
To settle and build up, without melting.
To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
To fix one's choice.
To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
To set or fix (a price or value).
To discard (a card) for some gain.
To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
senses_topics:
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
card-games
games
|
10860 | word:
pitch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pitch (countable and uncountable, plural pitches)
forms:
form:
pitches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown. Perhaps from the above sense of "inclination", "level", or "degree", or influenced by it.
senses_examples:
text:
The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
type:
example
text:
Are we in baroque pitch for this one?
type:
example
text:
Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
senses_topics:
entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
phonetics
phonology
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
10861 | word:
pitch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched)
forms:
form:
pitches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pitching
tags:
participle
present
form:
pitched
tags:
participle
past
form:
pitched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown. Perhaps from the above sense of "inclination", "level", or "degree", or influenced by it.
senses_examples:
text:
His "hello" was enough to recognize his voice by. I pitched mine low so he wouldn't know it.
ref:
1955 October, Rex Stout, “Die Like a Dog”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, pages 196–197
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce a note of a given pitch.
To fix or set the tone of.
senses_topics:
|
10862 | word:
dev
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dev (countable and uncountable, plural devs)
forms:
form:
devs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dev
etymology_text:
Clipping.
senses_examples:
text:
game dev
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Clipping of developer.
Clipping of development.
Clipping of device.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10863 | word:
dev
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dev (plural devs)
forms:
form:
devs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
dev
etymology_text:
From Armenian դեւ (dew). Doublet of daeva.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A monster, dragon, serpent, or giant.
An immortal spirit who inhabits old ruins.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
10864 | word:
otto
word_type:
noun
expansion:
otto (countable and uncountable, plural ottos)
forms:
form:
ottos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Now, when orange-flowers are distilled with water, we procure the otto of the blossom, which is known commercially as oil of neroli.
ref:
1857, G[eorge] W[illiam] Septimus Piesse, “Section III”, in The Art of Perfumery, and Method of Obtaining the Odors of Plants, […], Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay and Blackiston, →OCLC, page 78
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of attar
senses_topics:
|
10865 | word:
nil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nil (usually uncountable, plural nils)
forms:
form:
nils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin nīl, a contraction of nihil, nihilum (“nothing”). See
nihilism.
senses_examples:
text:
As to Aristotle's influence on him, we are left free to conjecture whatever seems to us most plausible. For my part, I should suppose it nil.
ref:
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19
type:
quotation
text:
The football match ended in a nil-nil draw.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nothing; zero.
A score of zero
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
10866 | word:
nil
word_type:
det
expansion:
nil
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin nīl, a contraction of nihil, nihilum (“nothing”). See
nihilism.
senses_examples:
text:
But after two or three hours and nil results, you have to accept that the trail is cold and you can't justify that level of manpower.
ref:
1982, Gavin Lyall, Conduct of Major Maxim, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
No, not any.
senses_topics:
|
10867 | word:
ë
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
ë
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An orthographic ⟨e⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the FACE vowel, as in the word "cafe".
senses_topics:
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences |
10868 | word:
quatre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quatre (plural quatres)
forms:
form:
quatres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French quatre. Doublet of cuatro and four.
senses_examples:
text:
Accordingly the firſt beſt throw upon the dice is eſteemed aces, as it ſtops the ſix point in the outer table, and ſecures the cinque in your own, whereby your adverſary's two men upon your ace point cannot get out with either quatre, cinq, or ſix.
ref:
1775, “a Connoisseur”, “Containing an Account of the Game of Back-gammon, with the most approved Method of playing at it, and the Rules of the Game. Together with the Artifices and Legerdemains that are frequently practised at it.”, in Annals of Gaming; or, The Fair Player’s Sure Guide. Containing Original Treatises on the following Games. […], London: […] G. Allen, […], pages 181–182
type:
quotation
text:
The firſt beſt Throw upon the Dice is eſteemed Aces, as it ſtops the Six-Point in the outer Table, and ſecures the Cinque in your own, whereby your Adverſary’s two Men upon your Ace-Point cannot get out with either Quatre, Cinque, or Six.
ref:
1775, “Introduction to the Game of Back-Gammon; With the most approved Method of playing at it”, in Charles Jones, editor, Hoyle’s Games Improved. Being Practical Treatises on the following Fashionable Games, […], London: […] J. Rivington and J. Wilkie, […], page 170
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.
senses_topics:
card-games
dice
dominoes
games |
10869 | word:
binary operation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
binary operation (plural binary operations)
forms:
form:
binary operations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The "four rules" of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are examples of binary operations.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any operation taking two operands.
senses_topics:
algebra
mathematics
sciences |
10870 | word:
tack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tack (countable and uncountable, plural tacks)
forms:
form:
tacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tack
etymology_text:
From Middle English tak, takke (“hook; staple; nail”), from Old Northern French taque (“nail, pin, peg”), from Frankish *takkō, from Proto-Germanic *takkô (“tip; point; protrusion; prong; tine; jag; spike; twig”), of unknown origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dHgʰ-n-, from the root *déHgʰ- (“to pinch; to tear, rip, fray”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Takke (“bough; branch; twig”), West Frisian takke (“branch”), tûk (“branch, smart, sharp”), Dutch tak (“twig; branch; limb”), German Zacke (“jag; prong; spike; tooth; peak”).
senses_examples:
text:
A tough test for even the strongest climber, it was new to the Tour de France this year, but its debut will be remembered for the wrong reasons after one of those spectators scattered carpet tacks on the road and induced around 30 punctures among the group of riders including Bradley Wiggins, the Tour's overall leader, and his chief rivals.
ref:
2012 July 15, Richard Williams, “Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot put Bradley Wiggins off track”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: pushpin
text:
When even cautious German politicians are questioning Nato’s ‘war-mongering’ actions, it’s clear that a new tack is required
ref:
2016 June 19, Mary Dejevsky, “Isolating Russia isn’t working. The west needs a new approach”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The laminate adhesive has very aggressive tack and is hard to move once in place.
type:
example
text:
Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]
ref:
1959, E. A. Apps, Printing Ink Technology, page 415
type:
quotation
text:
hardtack
type:
example
text:
soft tack
type:
example
text:
He should find[…]that there was tack in it, that it was solid silver, or silver that had strength in it.
ref:
1651-1666, Joseph Caryl, Exposition of Job with Practical Observations
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small nail with a flat head.
A thumbtack.
A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.
The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
Food generally; fare, especially of the bread kind.
That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
Confidence; reliance.
senses_topics:
business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
business
chemistry
construction
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
10871 | word:
tack
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tack (third-person singular simple present tacks, present participle tacking, simple past and past participle tacked)
forms:
form:
tacks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tacking
tags:
participle
present
form:
tacked
tags:
participle
past
form:
tacked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
tack
etymology_text:
From Middle English takken (“to attach; nail”), from the noun (see above).
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: sail close to the wind
text:
to tack (something) onto (something)
type:
example
text:
In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by prescriptivist language scholars.
ref:
2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 312
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
To weld with initial small welds to temporarily fasten in preparation for full welding.
To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
To add something as an extra item.
Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
To join in wedlock.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport
|
10872 | word:
tack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tack (plural tacks)
forms:
form:
tacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tack
etymology_text:
From an old or dialectal form of French tache. See techy. Doublet of tache.
senses_examples:
text:
a musty tack
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A stain; a tache.
A peculiar flavour or taint.
senses_topics:
|
10873 | word:
tack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tack (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
tack
etymology_text:
Back-formation from tacky.
senses_examples:
text:
For souvenirs – mostly outright tack and ethnicky textiles – try your bargaining skills at the shops and stalls on Binjiang Luand Zhengyang Jie, or the nightly street market spreading for about a block either side of Shanhu Bridge along Zhongshan Lu.
ref:
2014, David Leffman, The Rough Guide to China
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
senses_topics:
|
10874 | word:
tack
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tack (plural tacks)
forms:
form:
tacks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tack
etymology_text:
From Middle English tak, take (“fee, tax (on livestock)”), from Old Norse tak, taka (“a taking, seizure; revenue”), from Old Norse taka (“to take”). Cognate with Scots tack.
senses_examples:
text:
In the Breadalbane papers, for example, there is a "tack" which was given by Sir John Campbell of Glenurchy to his "weil belouit" servant John M'Conoquhy V'Gregour, in the year 1530.
ref:
1885, Lord Colin Campbell, The Crofter in History
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
senses_topics:
law |
10875 | word:
quinze
word_type:
noun
expansion:
quinze (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French quinze (“fifteen”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An old French card game of Spanish origin, players attempting to make fifteen points.
senses_topics:
|
10876 | word:
STS
word_type:
noun
expansion:
STS (countable and uncountable, plural STSs)
forms:
form:
STSs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In the third chapter, Lars Fuglsang, with a sketch of three general approaches to STS in relation to public policy formation, considers two versions of determinism: one in which science and technology shape society, another in which society shapes science and technology.
ref:
2012, Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Carl Mitcham, editors, Visions of STS: Counterpoints in Science, Technology, and Society Studies, SUNY Press, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Secondary traumatic stress (STS) is a form of post-traumatic stress disorder that has also been linked to burnouts. For Brendel, mindfulness is a way to simultaneously “mediate the risks and heal the healer”.
ref:
2017 September 18, Camille Darroux, “How yoga and meditation can help social care workers deal with trauma”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of science and technology studies.
Initialism of secondary traumatic stress.
Initialism of special treatment steel (a type of homogenous armor plate).
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
engineering
government
metallurgy
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
transport
war |
10877 | word:
STS
word_type:
name
expansion:
STS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Space Transportation System (a Space Shuttle program run by NASA).
Initialism of SharePoint Team Services (the first name given to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation).
Initialism of Spring Tool Suite.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
10878 | word:
dud
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dud (plural duds)
forms:
form:
duds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Dud (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English dudde (“cloak, mantle, kind of cloth; ragged clothing or cloth”), from Old English *dudda (attested only as personal name Dudda, part of modern English Dudley), akin to Old Norse dúði (“swaddling clothes”), Low German dudel. Possibly borrowed from the Old Norse word and related to dýja (“to shake, tremble”).
senses_examples:
text:
The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.
ref:
2021 December 29, Drachinifel, 21:03 from the start, in The USN Pacific Submarine Campaign - The Dark Year (Dec'41 - Dec'42), archived from the original on 2022-07-19
type:
quotation
text:
At the end of the day, the vast majority of primary schools are vibrant, friendly places and you may struggle to choose one because they all seem so great. Primary schools tend to have the feelgood factor. If you just aren't feeling it, this one's probably a dud.
ref:
2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
A failure of any kind.
A loser; an unlucky person.
A failure of any kind.
A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
A failure of any kind.
Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.
senses_topics:
|
10879 | word:
dud
word_type:
adj
expansion:
dud (not comparable)
forms:
form:
duddest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Dud (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English dudde (“cloak, mantle, kind of cloth; ragged clothing or cloth”), from Old English *dudda (attested only as personal name Dudda, part of modern English Dudley), akin to Old Norse dúði (“swaddling clothes”), Low German dudel. Possibly borrowed from the Old Norse word and related to dýja (“to shake, tremble”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] they're flying in the duddest of dud weather to hold the Germans back.
ref:
2019, Max Hennessy, The Bright Blue Sky
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Useless; failing; ineffective.
senses_topics:
|
10880 | word:
wand
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wand (plural wands)
forms:
form:
wands
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wand, wond, from Old Norse vǫndr (“switch, twig”), from Proto-Germanic *wanduz (“rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn, twist, wind, braid”). Cognate with Icelandic vendi (“wand”), Danish vånd (“wand, switch”), German Wand (“wall, septum”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (wandus, “rod”).
senses_examples:
text:
In addition to the distinction of a white frock, every woman and girl carried in her right hand a peeled willow-wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers.
ref:
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
senses_topics:
|
10881 | word:
wand
word_type:
verb
expansion:
wand (third-person singular simple present wands, present participle wanding, simple past and past participle wanded)
forms:
form:
wands
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
wanding
tags:
participle
present
form:
wanded
tags:
participle
past
form:
wanded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English wand, wond, from Old Norse vǫndr (“switch, twig”), from Proto-Germanic *wanduz (“rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn, twist, wind, braid”). Cognate with Icelandic vendi (“wand”), Danish vånd (“wand, switch”), German Wand (“wall, septum”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (wandus, “rod”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a handheld metal detector.
To use a handheld vibrator (the sex toy) on (a person or body part).
senses_topics:
|
10882 | word:
CD-ROM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CD-ROM (plural CD-ROMs)
forms:
form:
CD-ROMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
compact disk - read only memory: an optical disc containing data that can be read (but not changed) by a computer
senses_topics:
|
10883 | word:
jaguar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
jaguar (plural jaguars)
forms:
form:
jaguars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.
senses_topics:
|
10884 | word:
Space Shuttle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Space Shuttle (plural Space Shuttles)
forms:
form:
Space Shuttles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A space transportation system developed by NASA consisting of a reusable winged orbiter, a set of recoverable booster rockets, and a fuel tank.
The reusable winged orbiter of this system.
senses_topics:
|
10885 | word:
subtraction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
subtraction (countable and uncountable, plural subtractions)
forms:
form:
subtractions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Late Latin subtractio, subtractionis. Can be decomposed to subtract + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
The teacher has set us ten subtractions to do by tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
The subtraction of the wealth from the economy will result in recession.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of subtracting a number from another.
A calculation involving subtracting.
The removal of something.
senses_topics:
arithmetic
arithmetic
|
10886 | word:
ping
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ping (plural pings)
forms:
form:
pings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Ping (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Partly onomatopoeic, and partly continuing Middle English pingen (“to push, shove, pierce, stab, prod, goad, urge, feel remorse, incite”), from Old English pyngan (“to prick”), in turn likely from pungere. Compare English pang.
senses_examples:
text:
My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.
type:
example
text:
With a sudden ping, there was a rabbit there in the black labyrinth with him[.]
ref:
1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.
type:
example
text:
The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.
type:
example
text:
I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.
type:
example
text:
2000 April 4, CaPRubberchecks, “Low-Ping servers...YIKES!”, in alt.games.starsiege.tribes (Usenet):
type:
quotation
text:
"You low ping c**t, you only win cos of your ping!"
> > And other such insights into why I was winning.
ref:
2000 November 8, the_mad...@my-deja.com, “HL DM with a low ping.......”, in alt.games.half-life (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
2001 August 2, Asha, “high ping in cs low ping outside cs??”, in alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (Usenet):
type:
quotation
text:
Your best bet to negate lag is to go to a server using the zero ping mutator. This will compensate for your high ping when using a pistol, sniper or […]
ref:
2002 June 24, drip, “Bandwidth - Lagtime”, in alt.games.unreal.tournament (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
Latency.
A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
A notification.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
|
10887 | word:
ping
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ping (third-person singular simple present pings, present participle pinging, simple past pinged or (nonstandard) pang, past participle pinged or (nonstandard) pung)
forms:
form:
pings
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pinging
tags:
participle
present
form:
pinged
tags:
past
form:
pang
tags:
nonstandard
past
form:
pinged
tags:
participle
past
form:
pung
tags:
nonstandard
participle
past
wikipedia:
Ping (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Partly onomatopoeic, and partly continuing Middle English pingen (“to push, shove, pierce, stab, prod, goad, urge, feel remorse, incite”), from Old English pyngan (“to prick”), in turn likely from pungere. Compare English pang.
senses_examples:
text:
My car was pinging until my last oil change.
type:
example
text:
The microwave pinged. He forked the steak onto the plate and set the timer again.
ref:
2013, Francine Rivers, And the Shofar Blew
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: poll
text:
I'm pinging their server.
type:
example
text:
The server pings its affiliates periodically.
type:
example
text:
Just because you cannot ping a server or telnet to it does not mean that the server is down or inaccessible.
ref:
2008, Allan Reid, Jim Lorenz, Working at a Small-to-Medium Business or ISP, Cisco Press
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: buzz
text:
I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.
type:
example
text:
If any deeper etymology is required, Arthur, don't ping me; I'll ping you.
ref:
2001 November 25, William Safire, “On Language; The Arab Street”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
If certain attendees don't actively participate and that's a surprise to you, ping them an email or private chat message and ask what's happening for them.
ref:
2014, Jessica Pryce-Jones, Julia Lindsay, Running Great Meetings and Workshops For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 294
type:
quotation
text:
I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.
type:
example
text:
The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.
type:
example
text:
Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment, Essien then pinged the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently running.
ref:
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
However, after an inside pass from Moody to Tom Croft and a surge from the England blind-side, number eight James Haskell was eventually pinged from in front of the posts for not releasing.
ref:
2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Gary Ablett was pinged for holding the ball and gave away a free kick.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
To flick.
To bounce.
To cause something to bounce.
To call out audibly.
To penalize.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
10888 | word:
ogre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ogre (plural ogres)
forms:
form:
ogres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ogre
etymology_text:
First attested in the 18th century, borrowed from French ogre, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek Ὄρκος (Órkos), the personified demon of oaths (ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”)) who inflicts punishment upon oath-breakers. Doublet of orc.
senses_examples:
text:
And in the seventh tale of the third day of the same collection, when Corvetto had hidden himself under the Ogre's bed to steal his quilt, "he began to pull quite gently, when the Ogre awoke, and bid his wife not to pull the clothes that way, or she'd strip him, and he would get his death of cold." "Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.]
ref:
1828, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, volume II, page 237
type:
quotation
text:
People are going to think I'm an ogre if I refuse to buy coffee for my little brother!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.
A cruel person.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
|
10889 | word:
obi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
obi (plural obi or obis)
forms:
form:
obi
tags:
plural
form:
obis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Japanese 帯 (obi, “belt”).
senses_examples:
text:
The broad obi tied around her middle was orange and yellow. I'd never seen such elegant clothing.
ref:
1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage, published 1998, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
They had known nothing of woolen cloth, but now the popularity of obi made of imported grogram spread like wildfire. This popularity produced various stories in its wake.
ref:
2001, Kikue Yamakawa, Kate Wildman Nakai, Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sash worn with a kimono.
A strip of paper looped around a book or other product.
senses_topics:
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10890 | word:
obi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
obi (countable and uncountable, plural obis)
forms:
form:
obis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of obeah
senses_topics:
|
10891 | word:
eve
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eve (plural eves)
forms:
form:
eves
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a variant of the Middle English noun even (itself from Old English ǣfen), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection. See also the now archaic or poetic even (“evening”), from the same source.
In medieval Europe, days were considered to extend from sunset to sunset rather than midnight to midnight, so the night before a holiday was considered part of it, hence its "eve".
senses_examples:
text:
I love to see the shaking twig / Dance till the shut of eve
ref:
Mid-19th century, John Clare, Autumn
type:
quotation
text:
And has she tired of weeping / As she lies down at eve.
ref:
1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, chapter XXVII, in A Shropshire Lad, lines 42–43
type:
quotation
text:
Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb.
ref:
2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79
type:
quotation
text:
the eve of a scientific discovery
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
Evening, night.
The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced
senses_topics:
|
10892 | word:
syzygy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
syzygy (countable and uncountable, plural syzygies)
forms:
form:
syzygies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin sȳzygia (“conjunction”), from Ancient Greek συζυγία (suzugía, “union, yoke, pair”). This word was recognized as English in 1847 (in its astronomical meaning).
senses_examples:
text:
The duration of an eclipse depends on the relative positions of the sun, moon, and earth in their syzygy.
ref:
2004, Phyllis M. Lugger, William Liller, Asteroids to Quasars: A Symposium Honoring William Liller, Cambridge University Press, page 67
type:
quotation
text:
In 1936 Jung defends his concept of animus and anima by reference to the idea of the syzygy, concluding from the evidence in many different mythologies of the divine couple, united by a sacred marriage, that this motif is as universal as the existence of men and women. He postulates that in the syzygy the archetypal union of the parents is expressed, the mother corresponding to the anima.
ref:
2006, Renos K. Papadopoulos, The Handbook of Jungian Psychology: Theory, Practice and Applications, Psychology Press, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
A finitely presented module is an A-module M given by a finite number of generators and relations. Therefore it is a module with a finite generator set having a finitely generated syzygy module.
ref:
2015, Henri Lombardi, Claude Quitté, Commutative Algebra: Constructive Methods: Finite Projective Modules, Springer, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
When two or more arm-joints meet transversely by a rigid suture, and only the upper one is pinnule-bearing, those joints form a syzygy, whether their apposed faces are striated, dotted, or smooth.
ref:
1900, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Text-book of Paleontology: Protozoa. Coelentrata (zoophytes). Echinodermata. Vermes (Worms). Molluscoidea. Mollusca. Arthropoda (articulates)
type:
quotation
text:
These include syzygy, fusion of larvae or adults of flatworms, fusion of buds of some Tunicata, somatic fertilization (fusion of spermatozoa with somatic cells), composite zygotes of some Cestoda and Insecta, and fusion of cells in various tissues.
ref:
2018, Richard E. Blackwelder, The Diversity of Animal Reproduction, CRC Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An alignment of three celestial bodies (for example, the Sun, Earth, and Moon) such that one body is directly between the other two, such as occurs at an eclipse.
An archetypal pairing of contrasexual opposites, symbolizing the communication of the conscious and unconscious minds.
A relation between generators of a module.
The fusion of some or all of the organs.
The association of two protozoa end-to-end or laterally for the purpose of asexual exchange of genetic material.
The pairing of chromosomes in meiosis.
Complementary female–male pairings of the emanations known as Aeons.
senses_topics:
astrology
astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
medicine
sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Gnosticism
lifestyle
religion |
10893 | word:
multiplication
word_type:
noun
expansion:
multiplication (countable and uncountable, plural multiplications)
forms:
form:
multiplications
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
multiplication
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French multiplicacion, from Latin multiplicatio, multiplicationem; ~equivalent to multiplicate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
If the lesser nobility have remained more numerous, it must be attributed partly to the gradual multiplication of letters of nobility, and partly to the state of indigence in which in some provinces vast numbers of the gentry lived, and which left them strangers to those habits of caution by which opulent families are governed.
ref:
1843, Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume 6, page 191
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process of computing the sum of a number with itself a specified number of times, or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
A calculation involving multiplication.
The process of multiplying or increasing in number; increase.
senses_topics:
arithmetic
arithmetic
|
10894 | word:
dummy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dummy (plural dummies)
forms:
form:
dummies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dumb + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: mute
text:
The man's name […] was engraved in the centre, and beneath this, written in ink with the same elaborate precision as the engraving, there was a brief message.
I am a deaf-mute, but I read the lips and understand what is said to me. Please do not shout.
[…] Singer looked very carefully at his lips when he spoke—he had noticed that before. But a dummy!
ref:
1940, Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
type:
quotation
text:
Don't be such a dummy!
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: stupid
text:
Hey dummy, what's good wit chu?
type:
example
text:
To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
type:
example
text:
"There's a remedy, it does try one, but never mind," said Gubjor; "I shall make a dummy baby, which I shall bury in the churchyard, and then the dead will believe they have got the child, take my word, they won't know but what it is the real baby!"
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 304
type:
quotation
text:
The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
type:
example
text:
The second method was to use two loadometers under the wheels of one axle, mounting the wheels of the other axle on what we called "equalizing blocks" or "dummies." By that method the two axles are brought into the same horizontal plane […]
ref:
1950, National Bureau of Standards Miscellaneous Publication, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
The baby wants her dummy.
type:
example
text:
Then on the fifth day, at the first sleep of the day, remove the dummy and follow my settling guide for your baby′s age. You should throw all her dummies in the bin to ensure you are not tempted to use them again – even outside sleep times.
ref:
2006, Tizzie Hall, Save Our Sleep: A Parents′ Guide Towards Happy, Sleeping Babies from Birth to Two Years, MacMillan, published 2009, page 200
type:
quotation
text:
No Fairy baby has ever been seen to suck its thumb or to use a dummy.
ref:
2008, Bern, Bern's Fairy Tales, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
We′ve found that going cold turkey works best – you check that your baby isn't ill or teething, then throw all dummies away. When your baby cries for her dummy, you can look her in the eye and say, ‘It′s gone,’ and really mean it.
ref:
2011, Simone Cave, Caroline Fertleman, Baby to Toddler Month by Month, page 85
type:
quotation
text:
The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
type:
example
text:
If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.
type:
example
text:
Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.
ref:
2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Blackpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
a dummy calf, lamb, or foal
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A silent person; a person who does not talk.
A stupid person.
A term of address.
A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
An unused parameter or value.
A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
senses_topics:
bridge
card-games
games
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
soccer
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
10895 | word:
dummy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dummy (third-person singular simple present dummies, present participle dummying, simple past and past participle dummied)
forms:
form:
dummies
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dummying
tags:
participle
present
form:
dummied
tags:
participle
past
form:
dummied
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dumb + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
type:
example
text:
The more glamorous qualities usually associated with him are skill and pace and he used those to race on to a ball across him and dummy a defender before having a right-foot shot saved.
ref:
2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
For the first, the 30-year-old allowed Walcott space on the right to send in a pass that was expertly dummied by Samir Nasri, allowing Van Persie to swivel and smash right-footed past Robert Green.
ref:
2011 January 15, Kevin Darling, “West Ham 0 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
To feint.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
10896 | word:
dummy
word_type:
adv
expansion:
dummy (comparative more dummy, superlative most dummy)
forms:
form:
more dummy
tags:
comparative
form:
most dummy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dumb + -y.
senses_examples:
text:
It's dummy hot outside.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extremely.
senses_topics:
|
10897 | word:
seize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
seize (third-person singular simple present seizes, present participle seizing, simple past and past participle seized)
forms:
form:
seizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
seizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
seized
tags:
participle
past
form:
seized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Earlier seise, from Middle English seisen, sesen, saisen, from Old French seisir (“to take possession of; invest (person, court)”), from Early Medieval Latin sacīre (“to lay claim to, appropriate”) (8th century) in the phrase ad propriam sacire, from Old Low Frankish *sakjan (“to sue, bring legal action”), from Proto-Germanic *sakjaną, *sakōną (compare Old English sacian (“to strive, brawl”)), from Proto-Germanic *sakaną (compare Old Saxon sakan (“to accuse”), Old High German sahhan (“to bicker, quarrel, rebuke”), Old English sacan (“to quarrel, claim by law, accuse”). Cognate to sake and Latin sagio (“to perceive acutely”).
senses_examples:
text:
to seize smuggled goods
type:
example
text:
to seize a ship after libeling
type:
example
text:
This sensation of an object becoming alive is a characteristic that, I believe, seizes all viewers of a van Gogh. The Bible goes beyond being a simple still-life object to become a living thing, an expression of strength, an existence that emanates from itself, beyond the painting surface to participate in our very lives.
ref:
2010, Antonio Saggio, A Secret van Gogh: His Motif and Motives, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
a panic seized the crowd
type:
example
text:
a fever seized him
type:
example
text:
to seize two fish-hooks back to back
type:
example
text:
to seize or stop one rope on to another
type:
example
text:
The text which had seized upon his heart with such comfort and strength abode upon him for more than a year.
ref:
1830, Robert Southey, Bunyan, page 21
type:
quotation
text:
to seize on the neck of a horse
type:
example
text:
Nearing what she thought was a climax, he started seizing and fell off her. Later, realizing he was dead, she became alarmed and dragged the body to his vehicle to make it look like he had died in his truck.
ref:
2012, Daniel M. Avery, Tales of a Country Obstetrician
type:
quotation
text:
Rust caused the engine to seize, never to run again.
type:
example
text:
This Court will remain seized of this matter.
type:
example
text:
Chocolate seizes if a small amount of water (or watery liquid such as brandy) finds its way into the chocolate while it is melting. […] If chocolate seizes, it will look grainy and matte rather than glossy and smooth.
ref:
2012, Martha Holmberg, Modern Sauces: More Than 150 Recipes for Every Cook, Every Day, page 235
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”).
To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
To fasten, fix.
To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
To have a seizure.
To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
(with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
senses_topics:
law
nautical
transport
law
cooking
food
lifestyle |
10898 | word:
ha
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ha
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of a (“have”)
senses_topics:
|
10899 | word:
ha
word_type:
intj
expansion:
ha
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Attested early 14th century, of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Danish ha, Dutch ha, Finnish ha, Hungarian ha, Latin ha, Latvian ha, Swedish ha.
senses_examples:
text:
Ha, ha, ha! That’s funny.
type:
example
text:
Ha! Checkmate!
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A representation of laughter.
An exclamation of triumph or discovery.
An exclamation of grief.
A sound of hesitation: er, um.
senses_topics:
|
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