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10900 | word:
ha
word_type:
intj
expansion:
ha
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Onomatopoeic.
senses_examples:
text:
"That's well. Well," cried he, now for my turn. Ha! a hit! a hit!"
ref:
1844 September, E.M. Walley, “Eighteen Months in Russia”, in The Covenant: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Cause of Odd-fellowship, volume 3, number 9, page 395
type:
quotation
text:
I hit a cross-court forehand. “Ha ha haa. Great! Say, usin' cross-courts and angles like that is how O'Bramowitts beat Riggs."
ref:
1988, Albemarle - Issues 3-7, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!
ref:
1999, Mona the Vampire, "Attack of the Living Scarecrow" (season 1, episode 1a)
text:
Ha! Take that, you ugly, stupid devil, you.
ref:
2008, Sheryl Foulk Rogers-Ramirez, Look What God Did for Our Marriage, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
'I'm armed, you lot. And if you think you can take me alive . . . Ha! Take that! And that! And that!'
ref:
2009, Elizabeth George, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Said when making a vigorous attack.
senses_topics:
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10901 | word:
missense
word_type:
noun
expansion:
missense (countable and uncountable, plural missenses)
forms:
form:
missenses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mis- + sense.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
10902 | word:
missense
word_type:
verb
expansion:
missense (third-person singular simple present missenses, present participle missensing, simple past and past participle missensed)
forms:
form:
missenses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
missensing
tags:
participle
present
form:
missensed
tags:
participle
past
form:
missensed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mis- + sense.
senses_examples:
text:
One possibility is that if G6PT is a G6P sensor, it may be missensing the intracellular concentrations and misdirecting further accumulation.
ref:
2012, Stefan Bröer, Carsten A. Wagner, Membrane Transporter Diseases, page 194
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To sense incorrectly.
senses_topics:
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10903 | word:
due
word_type:
adj
expansion:
due (comparative more due, superlative most due)
forms:
form:
more due
tags:
comparative
form:
most due
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
due
etymology_text:
From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“I have”).
senses_examples:
text:
He is due four weeks of back pay.
type:
example
text:
The amount due is just three quid.
type:
example
text:
The due bills total nearly seven thousand dollars.
type:
example
text:
He can wait for the amount due him.
type:
example
text:
With all due respect, you're wrong about that.
type:
example
text:
Rain is due this afternoon.
type:
example
text:
The train is due in five minutes.
type:
example
text:
When is your baby due?
type:
example
text:
As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.
ref:
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
The baby is just about due.
type:
example
text:
The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping.
type:
example
text:
the milky aspect be due to a confusion of small stars
ref:
1852, James David Forbes, “Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science”, in Encyclopædia Britannica
type:
quotation
text:
The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Owed or owing.
Appropriate.
Scheduled; expected.
Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass
senses_topics:
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10904 | word:
due
word_type:
adv
expansion:
due (comparative more due, superlative most due)
forms:
form:
more due
tags:
comparative
form:
most due
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
due
etymology_text:
From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“I have”).
senses_examples:
text:
The river runs due north for about a mile.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Directly; exactly.
senses_topics:
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10905 | word:
due
word_type:
noun
expansion:
due (plural dues)
forms:
form:
dues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
due
etymology_text:
From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“I have”).
senses_examples:
text:
Give him his due – he is a good actor.
type:
example
text:
Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.
ref:
1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
Chelsea, to give them their due, did start to cut out the defensive lapses as the game went on but they needed to because their opponents were throwing everything at them in those stages and, if anything, seemed encouraged by the message that Mourinho’s Rémy-Cahill switch sent out.
ref:
2015 January 31, Daniel Taylor, “David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked”, in The Guardian (London)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Deserved acknowledgment.
A membership fee.
That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
Right; just title or claim.
senses_topics:
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10906 | word:
cord
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cord (countable and uncountable, plural cords)
forms:
form:
cords
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cord
etymology_text:
From Middle English corde, from Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowel”)). More at yarn and hernia.
senses_examples:
text:
The burglar tied up the victim with a cord.
type:
example
text:
He looped some cord around his fingers.
type:
example
text:
"If they buy three cords of birch logs," said the witch, "but they must be exact measure and no bargaining about the price, and if they throw overboard the one cord of logs, piece by piece, when the first sea comes, and the other cord, piece by piece, when the second sea comes, and the third cord, piece by piece, when the third sea comes, then it's all over with us."
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Braekstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
spermatic cord; spinal cord; umbilical cord; vocal cords
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (a rope, for example).
Any quantity of such material when viewed as a mass or commodity.
A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
Dated form of chord: musical sense.
Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
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10907 | word:
cord
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cord (third-person singular simple present cords, present participle cording, simple past and past participle corded)
forms:
form:
cords
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cording
tags:
participle
present
form:
corded
tags:
participle
past
form:
corded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
cord
etymology_text:
From Middle English corde, from Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowel”)). More at yarn and hernia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To furnish with cords
To tie or fasten with cords
To flatten a book during binding
To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
senses_topics:
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10908 | word:
interquel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
interquel (plural interquels)
forms:
form:
interquels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Patterned after prequel, as pre- meaning "before" and inter- meaning "between."
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An installment in a series of works set chronologically between two of its predecessors.
Any middle sequel with an earlier and a later installment. This usage may not be proper.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences |
10909 | word:
soleil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
soleil
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French soleil.
senses_examples:
text:
Divine. ... Disportinging yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.
ref:
1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
sun
senses_topics:
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10910 | word:
intermission
word_type:
noun
expansion:
intermission (plural intermissions)
forms:
form:
intermissions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin intermissiō, from intermittō.
senses_examples:
text:
We ordered some drinks for the intermission.
type:
example
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
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A break, especially between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.
senses_topics:
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10911 | word:
prequel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
prequel (plural prequels)
forms:
form:
prequels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Patterned after sequel using pre- (“before”).
senses_examples:
text:
'Prequels' are sequels that relate the story that preceded the original film.
ref:
1980, Patrick Robertson, Movie Facts and Feats: A Guinness Record Book, New York: Sterling Publishing, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
2008, 26 February, Andrew Pierce, "JRR Tolkien's estate to sue Lord of the Rings filmmakers New Line Cinema over profits, in The Daily Telegraph
They are also threatening to block the production of the long-awaited prequel, The Hobbit, which may now be cancelled.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a series of works, an installment that is set chronologically before its predecessor, especially the original narrative or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative work with at least one sequel.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences |
10912 | word:
sea
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sea (plural seas)
forms:
form:
seas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Brill Publishers
etymology_text:
From Middle English see, from Old English sǣ (“sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (compare West Frisian see, Dutch zee, German See, Danish sø, Norwegian Bokmål sjø, Swedish sjö), probably either from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”) (compare Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”), Tocharian B saiwe (“itch”), Latvian sievs, sīvs (“sharp, biting”); more at sore) or derived from *sīhwaną (“to percolate, filter”), in which case *saiwiz is from earlier *saigwiz, Pre-Germanic *soykʷ-ís.
senses_examples:
text:
At length the universal Wreck appear'd,/ To Cæsar's self, ev'n worthy to be fear'd./ Why all these Pains, this Toil of Fate (he cries)/ This Labour of the Seas, and Earth, and Skies?/ All Nature, and the Gods at once alarm'd,/ Against my little Boat and me are arm'd.
ref:
1719, Nicholas Rowe, “Book V”, in Lucan's Pharsalia: Translated into English Verse, Dublin: James Carson, page 183
type:
quotation
text:
There is something in being near the sea, like the confines of eternity. It is a new element, a pure abstraction. The mind loves to hover on that which is endless, and forever the same. People wonder at a steam-boat, the invention of man, managed by man, that makes its liquid path like an iron railway through the sea—I wonder at the sea itself, that vast Leviathan, rolled round the earth, smiling in its sleep, waked into fury, fathomless, boundless, a huge world of water-drops.—Whence is it, whither goes it, is it of eternity, or of nothing?
ref:
1833, William Hazlitt, “Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy”, in Greenbank's Periodical Library, volume I, chapter 1, page 173
type:
quotation
text:
As we stood there watching, the long yellow light on the eastern horizon suddenly changed in color—first to a roseate flush, then to a warm crimson; the scenes round us, sky, sea, and land, brightened as if by magic.
ref:
1922 March, J. S. Fletcher, “The Mystery of Ravensdene Court”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume XLVI, number 3, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
The Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Sea of Crete, etc.
type:
example
text:
God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
ref:
1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […], 4th edition, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.
type:
example
text:
"If they buy three cords of birch logs," said the witch, "but they must be exact measure and no bargaining about the price, and if they throw overboard the one cord of logs, piece by piece, when the first sea comes, and the other cord, piece by piece, when the second sea comes, and the third cord, piece by piece, when the third sea comes, then it's all over with us."
ref:
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 187
type:
quotation
text:
There was a small sea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man's left hand was uncramped.
ref:
1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
type:
quotation
text:
2020 June 8, National Weather Service Boston, 2:38 PM EDT marine forecast
High pressure will maintain light winds and flat seas through Tue night. ... Potential for briefly choppy 3 ft seas near South Coast...
text:
Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.
type:
example
text:
To be, or not to be, that is the question,/ Whether tis nobler in the minde to suffer/ The slings and arrowes of outragious fortune,/ Or to take Armes against a sea of troubles,/ And by opposing, end them, to die to sleepe/ No more, and by a sleepe, to say we end/ The hart-ake, and the thousand naturall shocks/ That flesh is heire to.
ref:
1604, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, London: Nicholas Ling
type:
quotation
text:
Secondly, in terms of geopolitics Central Asia was a huge sea of barbarians set in the midst of interlocking continents. Thanks to its border on the Siberian forest in the north, it was open to barbarian incomers who would upset existing polities and set migrations going.
ref:
1980, Patria Crone, Slaves on Horseback: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity, Cambridge University Press
type:
quotation
text:
In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire.
ref:
2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large body of salt water.
The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
A large body of salt water.
A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
A large body of salt water.
A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.
Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology |
10913 | word:
sei
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sei (plural seis)
forms:
form:
seis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From sei whale, from Norwegian seihval, seikval, from sei (“pollock”) + hval (“whale”). Doublet of saithe.
senses_examples:
text:
Seis also feed by engulfing small schooling fish.
ref:
2005, Wayne Ledwell, Whales and Dolphins of Newfoundland and Labrador
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sei whale.
senses_topics:
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10914 | word:
tre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tre (plural tres)
forms:
form:
tres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of tree.
senses_topics:
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10915 | word:
uno
word_type:
intj
expansion:
uno
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₁óynos
Learned borrowing from Spanish uno m (“one”, numeral).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A term said when the number of cards in player’s hand is reduced to one. If another player says this before the one whose hand contains only one card, the player who failed to say 'uno' must draw two cards.
senses_topics:
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10916 | word:
cop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cop (third-person singular simple present cops, present participle copping, simple past and past participle copped)
forms:
form:
cops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
copping
tags:
participle
present
form:
copped
tags:
participle
past
form:
copped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *coppen, *copen, from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, hijack”), from Old Frisian kāpia (“to buy”), whence Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koope. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.
senses_examples:
text:
You see yourself as the kind of guy who wakes up early on Sunday morning and steps out to cop the Times and croissants.
ref:
1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.
ref:
1995, Norman L. Russell, Doug Grad, Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
Heroin appeared on the streets of our town for the first time, and Innie watched helplessly as his sixteen-year-old brother began taking the train to Harlem to cop smack.
ref:
2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home, Simon & Schuster, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
Off the juice, codeine got me trippin' copped the coupe, woke up, roof is missin'...
ref:
2020, Internet Money, Gunna, Don Toliver (lyrics and music), “Lemonade”, in B4 The Storm ft. NAV
type:
quotation
text:
Uh, copped a BMW, new deposit, I picked up another bag Like fuck it, I'ma count while I'm in it...
ref:
2021, Polo G (lyrics and music), “RAPSTAR”, in Einer Bankz : Synco (music), Hall of Fame
type:
quotation
text:
Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.
ref:
2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda)
type:
quotation
text:
When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.
type:
example
text:
I take no shame to fight the lame / When they deserve to cop it.
ref:
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
You bust in the house, another bitch’s mouth is suckin on your man's dick
What do you do: think straight? Or do you run to the back,
Open the trunk to the nickel-plate 38?
“Wait wait, baby, please!”
That's the shit he's coppin when he’s down on both his knees
ref:
1992, “Straight Razor”, in Roxanne Shanté (lyrics), The Bitch Is Back
type:
quotation
text:
I now understand that my dad didn't really have much of a father-son relationship and may have found my behaviour hard to deal with. Maybe that is why I copped a beating.
ref:
2009, Lee Headington, Relentless, page 5
type:
quotation
text:
Copycat tryna cop my manner / Watch your back when you can't watch mine / Copycat tryna cop my glamor / Why so sad, bunny? Can't have mine
ref:
2017, Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell (lyrics and music), “Copycat”, in Don't Smile at Me, performed by Billie Eilish
type:
quotation
text:
No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.
type:
example
text:
I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
type:
example
text:
Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
type:
example
text:
He shot a guy in a bar on Martin Luther King Day and copped to first-degree manslaughter
ref:
2005, Elmore Leonard, Mr. Paradise, page 295
type:
quotation
text:
I said, 'Tell your tricks to call you here.'
She laid the bearskin and freaked the joint off with her lights and other crap. Except for the fake stars it was a fair mock-up of her pad where I had copped her.
ref:
1967, Iceberg Slim, Pimp, published 2009, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
The code was to call a pimp and tell him you have his hoe plus turn over her night trap but that was bull because the HOE was out of his stable months before I copped her.
ref:
2011, Shaheem Hargrove, Sharice Cuthrell, The Rise and Fall of a Ghetto Celebrity, page 55
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
To steal.
To adopt.
To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
senses_topics:
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10917 | word:
cop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cop (plural cops)
forms:
form:
cops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Short for copper (“police officer”), itself from the verb cop (“to lay hold of”) above, in reference to arresting criminals.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A police officer or prison guard.
senses_topics:
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10918 | word:
cop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cop (plural cops)
forms:
form:
cops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English coppe, from Old English *coppe, as in ātorcoppe (“spider”, literally “venom head”), from Old English copp (“top, summit, head”), from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, round vessel, head”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve”). Cognate with Middle Dutch koppe, kobbe (“spider”). More at cobweb.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A spider.
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10919 | word:
cop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cop (plural cops)
forms:
form:
cops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cop, coppe, from Old English cop, copp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, basin, round object”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew-. Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.
senses_examples:
text:
The stature is bowed down in age, the cop is depressed.
type:
example
text:
[…] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the breast and back, was usually considered a part of the arm guard.
ref:
2004, Kevin Grace, Tom White, Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground, Arcadia Publishing, page 142
type:
quotation
text:
In the middle was a pile of armour – breastplates, helmets, vambraces, gorgets, pauldrons, cops, cuisses, sabatons, gauntlets, all mangled and ruined, ...
ref:
2013, K. J. Parker, The Proof House, Orbit
type:
quotation
text:
Tilting Cuisses 457. In the 15th century the knee cops were merged in the plate cuisses. In the East, except in Japan, knee cops as separate pieces of armor were seldom used east of Turkey.
ref:
2013, George Cameron Stone, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times, Courier Corporation, page 364
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
The top, summit, especially of a hill.
The crown (of the head); also the head itself.
A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
A merlon.
senses_topics:
arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
architecture
government
military
politics
war |
10920 | word:
honing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
honing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of hone
senses_topics:
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10921 | word:
honing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
honing (plural honings)
forms:
form:
honings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
In future honings, you'll assume the tip is touching the stone on the back when it is, in fact, above the stone's surface.
ref:
2007, Fine Woodworking, numbers 195-201, page 57
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The process by which something is honed.
senses_topics:
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10922 | word:
kimono
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kimono (plural kimonos or kimono)
forms:
form:
kimonos
tags:
plural
form:
kimono
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 着物(きもの) (kimono, “clothing”), which is from 着 (“wearing”) + 物(もの) (mono, “thing”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A traditional Japanese T-shaped, wrapped-front garment with square sleeves and a rectangular body, now generally worn only on formal occasions.
A yukata.
A long robe-like garment in Western fashion, which may be open at the front, loosely inspired by the Japanese garment.
A bathrobe or dressing gown.
senses_topics:
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10923 | word:
null
word_type:
noun
expansion:
null (plural nulls)
forms:
form:
nulls
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
null
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus.
senses_examples:
text:
Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
The attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
The null hypothesis.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
mathematics
sciences
statistics |
10924 | word:
null
word_type:
adj
expansion:
null (comparative more null, superlative most null)
forms:
form:
more null
tags:
comparative
form:
most null
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
null
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus.
senses_examples:
text:
And however Firmilian and S. Cyprian might be deceived in the thinking hereticks quite loſt their orders ; yet in this they were untouched, that although their ſuppoſition was queſtionable, yet their ſuperſtructure was not meddled with, viz. That if they had been Lay-perſons, their Baptizations were null and invalid.
ref:
a. 1667, Rev. Jeremy Taylor, “Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacredness, and Separation of the Office Ministerial”, in Ενιαυτος: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays Of the year, 3rd edition, London: E. Tyler, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
ref:
1924, Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove
type:
quotation
text:
In normal operation, the input cranks to both the MPCU and standby rudder actuator will rotate to provide the servo valve command to the units, and the rudder will be hydraulically moved by the MPCU. The rudder movement is in turn fed back mechanically to both the MPCU and standby actuator systems so that when the rudder surface deflects to the position commanded by the pilot, the input cranks on both of the units will be returned to their null positions. Thus, there is a geometric relationship between the rudder position, the input crank of the MPCU, the torque tube, and the input crank of the standby rudder actuator that is retained during normal operation.
ref:
2001 March 27, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.16.3 Detail Examination and Tests of Standby Rudder Actuator Input Shaft and Bearing”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Uncontrolled Descent and Collision With Terrain, United Airlines Flight 585, Boeing 737-200, N999UA, 4 Miles South of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, March 3, 1991, archived from the original on 2022-05-08, pages 62–63
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having no validity; "null and void".
Insignificant.
Absent or non-existent.
Of the null set.
Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
Causing a complete loss of gene function; amorphic.
Neutral.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10925 | word:
null
word_type:
verb
expansion:
null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)
forms:
form:
nulls
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nulling
tags:
participle
present
form:
nulled
tags:
participle
past
form:
nulled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
null
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus.
senses_examples:
text:
Thy fair enchanted cup, and warbling charms / No more on me have pow’r, their force is null’d, / So much of Adders wiſdom I have learnt / To fence my ear againſt thy Sorceries.
ref:
1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes”, in Paradise Regain’d, 5th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1707, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
Three factors could ameliorate the effect of a bound input shaft and bearing. The first is the elasticity of the control system linkage that, against a definable load, will permit sufficient deformation of the otherwise rigid link feedback loop to null the MPCU servo valve. The second factor is the application of a load sufficient to break loose the binding between the input shaft and bearing. The third factor is a loss of torque of the bearing in the standby rudder actuator housing to permit the rotation of the bearing and shaft together within the housing to compensate for the bound shaft.
ref:
2001 March 27, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.16.3 Detail Examination and Tests of Standby Rudder Actuator Input Shaft and Bearing”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Uncontrolled Descent and Collision With Terrain, United Airlines Flight 585, Boeing 737-200, N999UA, 4 Miles South of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, March 3, 1991, archived from the original on 2022-05-08, page 63
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To nullify; to annul.
To return to the null position, setting, etc.
To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10926 | word:
cloudless
word_type:
adj
expansion:
cloudless (comparative more cloudless, superlative most cloudless)
forms:
form:
more cloudless
tags:
comparative
form:
most cloudless
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English cloudeles, equivalent to cloud + -less.
senses_examples:
text:
a cloudless day
type:
example
text:
a cloudless sky
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without any clouds.
senses_topics:
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10927 | word:
philia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
philia (countable and uncountable, plural philias)
forms:
form:
philias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
philia
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ancient Greek φιλία (philía).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
friendship
liking
a psychological disorder characterized by an irrational favorable disposition towards something
senses_topics:
|
10928 | word:
glycolysis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
glycolysis (usually uncountable, plural glycolyses)
forms:
form:
glycolyses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From glyco- + -lysis.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The cellular degradation of the simple sugar glucose to yield pyruvic acid, and ATP as an energy source
senses_topics:
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
10929 | word:
cloudlet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cloudlet (plural cloudlets)
forms:
form:
cloudlets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From cloud + -let.
senses_examples:
text:
1872, Thomas Durfee, "El Paseo" in The Village Picnic and Other Poems, Providence, RI: George H. Whitney, p. 112, https://books.google.ca/books?id=pIEtAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
I gaze at the beautiful dames that go / In their open volantes up and down; / Bewitchingly floating, by threes and by twos, / In their gauzy cloudlets of silk and of lace, / That seem to have robbed the sky of its hues, / And seem to have robbed the swan of his grace.
text:
We drove briskly up the long, sleeping hill, and bowled down the hollow past the farms where the hens were walking with the red gold cocks in the orchard, and the ducks like white cloudlets under the aspen trees revelled in the pond.
ref:
1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, page 365
type:
quotation
text:
At the world's edge began a strewing of roses, a shining and a blooming ineffably pure; baby cloudlets hung illumined, like attendant amoretti, in the blue and blushful haze […]
ref:
1963, Thomas Mann, “Death in Venice”, in H. T. Lowe-Porter, transl., Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories, New York: Vintage, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
The water overflowed, creating a wide circle of soggy ground and marsh and shallow puddles above which, in the brilliance of the morning, there was a shimmer of butterflies and dense cloudlets of flies pulsing like veils.
ref:
1968, Ivo Andrić, “Mustapha Magyar”, in Joseph Hitrec, transl., The Pasha's Concubine and Other Tales, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 93
type:
quotation
text:
The idea is to use the cloudlet as a flexible gateway or portal to access the distant cloud. The cloudlet can be implemented on PCs, workstations or low-cost servers.
ref:
2017, Kai Hwang, Min Chen, Big-Data Analytics for Cloud, IoT and Cognitive Computing, John Wiley & Sons
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A little cloud.
A small-scale cloud data center deployed at the edge.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10930 | word:
void
word_type:
adj
expansion:
void (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
void
etymology_text:
From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.
senses_examples:
text:
c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman
I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.
text:
null and void
text:
Taiwan's government says that as the island has never been ruled by the People's Republic of China, its sovereignty claims are void.
ref:
2022 September 21, Martin Pollard, Ben Blanchard, “China willing to make utmost effort for peaceful 'reunification' with Taiwan”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-09-21, Asia Pacific
type:
quotation
text:
And senseless words she gave, and sounding strain, / But senseless, lifeless! idol void and vain!
ref:
1728, Alexander Pope, “Book II”, in The Dunciad; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 231
type:
quotation
text:
In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.
ref:
2005, Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns
type:
quotation
text:
The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.
ref:
2007, Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
Being without; destitute; devoid.
Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
That does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
Having no cards in a particular suit.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
bridge
games |
10931 | word:
void
word_type:
noun
expansion:
void (plural voids)
forms:
form:
voids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Void (astronomy)
void
etymology_text:
From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.
senses_examples:
text:
Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
type:
example
text:
Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of Sense.
ref:
1711, Alexander Pope, “Part II”, in An Essay on Criticism, lines 9–10; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
My little void is so sweet sometimes.
type:
example
text:
From the logistics hub, the spoil will be taken by rail to Barrington in Cambridgeshire, Cliffe in Kent, and Rugby in Warwickshire. It will be used to fill voids at these locations which will then be used for housing developments.
ref:
2022 December 14, Paul Stephen, “HS2's Dorothy starts to dig second tunnel bore”, in RAIL, number 972, page 23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An empty space; a vacuum.
An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
A black cat.
An empty place; A location that has nothing useful.
The lack of cards in a particular suit.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
business
construction
manufacturing
bridge
games |
10932 | word:
void
word_type:
verb
expansion:
void (third-person singular simple present voids, present participle voiding, simple past and past participle voided)
forms:
form:
voids
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
voiding
tags:
participle
present
form:
voided
tags:
participle
past
form:
voided
tags:
past
wikipedia:
void
etymology_text:
From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.
senses_examples:
text:
Near-synonym: nullify
text:
He voided the check and returned it.
type:
example
text:
Opening this subassembly will void the warranty; there are no user-serviceable parts inside it.
type:
example
text:
void one’s bladder
type:
example
text:
void one’s bowels
type:
example
text:
to void excrement
type:
example
text:
With shovel, like a fury, voided out / The earth and scattered bones.
ref:
1612, John Webster, The White Devil
type:
quotation
text:
a watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices
ref:
a. 1692, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance
type:
quotation
text:
to void a table
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make invalid or worthless.
Synonym of empty (verb).
To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
To withdraw, depart.
To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
|
10933 | word:
void
word_type:
noun
expansion:
void (plural voids)
forms:
form:
voids
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
void
etymology_text:
Alteration of voidee.
senses_examples:
text:
Late on the final evening, as the customary ‘void’ – spiced wine and sweetmeats – was served, more elaborate disguisings in the great hall culminated in the release of a flock of white doves.
ref:
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A voidee.
senses_topics:
|
10934 | word:
sequel
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sequel (plural sequels)
forms:
form:
sequels
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle French sequele, sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla, from sequī (“to follow”). Doublet of sequela.
senses_examples:
text:
In the sequel we restrict ourselves to “nice” cases without going into details about the nicety conditions which have to be fulfilled (see, e.g., Freudenthal [1]).
ref:
1964, Hans Freudenthal, “Lie Groups in the Foundations of Geometry”, in Advances in Mathematics, volume 1, number 2, page 146
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.
A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.
The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".
Thirlage.
A person's descendants.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
mathematics
sciences
|
10935 | word:
tres
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tres (plural treses)
forms:
form:
treses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish tres (“three”). Doublet of three and trey.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A three-course stringed instrument similar to a guitar; the Cuban variant has six strings, and the Puerto Rican has nine.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
10936 | word:
tres
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tres
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of tre
senses_topics:
|
10937 | word:
dunch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dunch (third-person singular simple present dunches, present participle dunching or dunchin, simple past and past participle dunched)
forms:
form:
dunches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
dunching
tags:
participle
present
form:
dunchin
tags:
participle
present
form:
dunched
tags:
participle
past
form:
dunched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dunchen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from the noun (see below); or of North Germanic origin, related to Old Swedish diunga (“to hit, knock”), dialectal Swedish dunka (“to beat”); or from Middle English dengen, from Old English denġan, denċġan (“to knock, ding”), from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to bang, knock”). Compare English dinge.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To knock against; to hit, punch
To crash into; to bump into.
To gore with the horns, as a bull.
To jog, especially with the elbow.
senses_topics:
|
10938 | word:
dunch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dunch (plural dunches)
forms:
form:
dunches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English dunche, perhaps from Old English *dynċ, from Proto-Germanic *dunkiz.
Compare Old Norse dykr, dynkr (“a crashing noise”), Danish dunk (“a blow”), Swedish dunk (“a thump, clap”), Norwegian dunk (“a knock, bump”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A push; knock; bump.
A fat hit from a claggy lie.
senses_topics:
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
10939 | word:
dunch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dunch
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of dinner + lunch, probably in imitation of brunch.
senses_examples:
text:
I have a lunchtime meeting tomorrow, so let's have dunch together instead.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A leisurely meal between lunch and dinner in the late afternoon or early evening (about 3-5 p.m.), usually instead of lunch or dinner.
senses_topics:
|
10940 | word:
dame
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dame (plural dames)
forms:
form:
dames
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
60th British Academy Film Awards
Judi Dench
Order of the British Empire
etymology_text:
From Middle English dame, dam (“noble lady”), from Old French dame (“lady; term of address for a woman; the queen in card games and chess”), from Latin domina (“mistress of the house”), feminine form of dominus (“lord, master, ruler; owner of a residence”), or from Latin domus (“home, house”). Doublet of domina and donna.
senses_examples:
text:
Dame Edith Sitwell
type:
example
text:
The cover of the modern cd, issued by EMI Classics with Dame Janet Baker and Sir John Barbirolli in 1965, carries a portrait of Dame Janet wearing a long coral necklace in reference to the song 'Where the Corals lie' to words by Richard Garnett (1835–1906).
ref:
2009, Marcia Pointon, “Something Rich and Strange”, in Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery, New Haven, Conn., London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, part 1 (Stories Touching Stones), page 144
type:
quotation
text:
Even though the dames’ houses were being gradually phased out at Eton, [John Henry] Newman was enthusiastic about the arrangement since it met one of the promoters’ key demands; besides, he had experienced something similar as a boy at Ealing School, where the boarding houses were also under the jurisdiction of dames. The Ealing dames ensured that boys were properly dressed and cared for them when sick, and they also ran the tuck shops.
ref:
2005, Paul Shrimpton, “Darnell’s School”, in A Catholic Eton?: Newman’s Oratory School, Leominster, Herefordshire: Gracewing, page 88
type:
quotation
text:
As he [Fréderic Guyaz] worked for Topham [Beauclerk] while he was at Eton, it is likely that Topham was a day-boarder there, living at home in Windsor. His Eton "dame" was Mrs. Bland; day-boarders were allocated to a dame at whose house they took their meals.
Windsor is on the opposite side of the River Thames from Eton.
ref:
2016, David Noy, “Parents, Childhood, Youth (1739–1760)”, in Dr Johnson’s Friend and Robert Adam’s Client Topham Beauclerk, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 14
type:
quotation
text:
[page 73, column 2] Mother Goose was produced on the 29th of December; Simmons playing the Old Dame; […] [page 74, column 1] Bugle condemns her to the ducking-stool, a sentence opposed by Colin, who espouses the cause of the Old Dame, who, escaping from her persecutors, puts an end to the wedding festivities by raising the ghost of the Squire's first wife.
ref:
1870 January 29, “English Pantomime. In Two Parts.—Part II.”, in William, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, volume VII (Fourth Series), number 318, London, Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, →OCLC, chapter X, pages 73 and 74
type:
quotation
text:
The Dame in a Panto is generally a large, gregarious and out-going man who plays the part of a large, gregarious and out-going woman. […] Every successful actor who plays the part of Dame in Panto knows that the secret of his success is that it should be obvious that it is a man playing a part, for this is not a Drag act; the intention is not to be as womanly as possible, but always to be 'a feller in a frock'. […] Oh how everyone loves the Panto Dame for she is Panto.
ref:
2013, Maureen Hughes, “Welcome to the Magical World of Pantomime”, in A History of Pantomime, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword History, page 34
type:
quotation
text:
I can see that would be the kind of a chap that the dames would stand for everlastingly.
ref:
1903 March, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Lieutenant-Governor: A Novel, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Riverside Press, Cambridge [Mass.], →OCLC, page 37
type:
quotation
text:
There is nothin' like a dame / Nothin' in the world. / There is nothin' you can name / That is anythin' like a dame.
ref:
1949, Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), Richard Rodgers (music), “There Is Nothing Like a Dame”, in South Pacific; published in Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan (book), Albert Sirmay [i.e., Albert Szirmai] (vocal score editor), South Pacific. A Musical Play. [...] Adapted from James A. Michener’s [...] Tales of the South Pacific [...], New York, N.Y.: Williamson Music; Milwaukee, Wis.: Hal Leonard, 1949, →OCLC, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
[T]hough they were first-form'd dames of Earth, / And in whose sparcklinge and refulgent eyes / The glorious sonne did still delight to rise; […]
ref:
a. 1638, Ben Jonson, “The Twelvth Night’s Revells”, in Peter Cunningham, edited by David Laing, Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson: Being the Life of Inigo Jones. […], London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 101
type:
quotation
text:
And do you think my Dame Dobſon don't know a little better than you? She tells you, you need ſay no more, and 'tis an affront to her Art not to believe her; and I'le not ſee my Dame affronted.
ref:
1684, Edward Ravenscroft, Dame Dobson: Or, The Cunning Woman. A Comedy as it is Acted at the Duke’s Theatre, London: Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, act I, scene xi, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
[H]e pointed his staff at a female figure on the path, in whom goodman Brown recognized a very pious and exemplary dame, who had taught him his catechism, in youth, and was still his moral and spiritual adviser, jointly with the minister and deacon Gookin.
ref:
1835 April, [Nathaniel Hawthorne], “Young Goodman Brown”, in The New-England Magazine, volume VIII, Boston, Mass.: E. R. Broaders, […], →OCLC, page 252
type:
quotation
text:
The poetical relation between the pagan warrior and his celestial bride changed, in course of time, to that between the Christian knight and his ladye-bright, who also was not always an earthly dame, but the holy Virgin or some saint.
ref:
1849, Wolfgang Menzel, “First Period. Heathen Antiquity.”, in Mrs. George Horrocks, transl., The History of Germany, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. … Translated from the Fourth German Edition. … In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], →OCLC, part I (Origin and Manners of the Ancient Germans), section XX (Wolen and Walkyren), page 45
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
A woman.
A lady, a woman.
The hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.
A queen.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
board-games
chess
games |
10941 | word:
dame
word_type:
verb
expansion:
dame (third-person singular simple present dames, present participle daming, simple past and past participle damed)
forms:
form:
dames
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
daming
tags:
participle
present
form:
damed
tags:
participle
past
form:
damed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
60th British Academy Film Awards
Judi Dench
Order of the British Empire
etymology_text:
From Middle English dame, dam (“noble lady”), from Old French dame (“lady; term of address for a woman; the queen in card games and chess”), from Latin domina (“mistress of the house”), feminine form of dominus (“lord, master, ruler; owner of a residence”), or from Latin domus (“home, house”). Doublet of domina and donna.
senses_examples:
text:
The French call simply Pawn, “la Dame qui n’est point Damée, et l’on n’appelle Dame proprement dite, que le Pion qui est Damé, et couvert d’un autre Pion,” which means “the Draught or Pawn which is not damed, and which is only termed Dame or Queen, when the Pawn which is damed, is covered with another Pawn.”
ref:
1805, Richard Twiss, “On Draughts”, in Miscellanies, volume II, London: […], page 162
type:
quotation
text:
Jonathan’s first edition of Calais was signed by Dame Agatha [Christie]. Not as Dame Agatha, just plain Agatha. She got Damed later.
ref:
1995, H. Paul Jeffers, A Grand Night For Murder
type:
quotation
text:
[…]Joanna Lumley, both pros in their respective fields, and both Brits in their respective hearts, are now both newly knighted (damed, in Lumley’s case) by England’s Queen Lizzy.
ref:
1995, Mediaweek, page C-8
type:
quotation
text:
Edna [Everage] was damed spontaneously, on camera, by the Socialist Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam.
ref:
2004, John Lahr, “Barry Humphries: Playing possum”, in Matthew Ricketson, editor, The Best Australian Profiles, Black Inc., page 215
type:
quotation
text:
Peter Bradley, deputy leader of the Labour group, scoffed that she [Shirley Porter] had been ‘Damed with faint praise’ and further observed that every pantomime needs a Dame.
ref:
2006, Andrew Hosken, Nothing Like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter, London: Granta Books, page 289
type:
quotation
text:
And then, of course, there was the dame-ing. It didn’t take much to be made a dame in the ’70s.
ref:
2013, Tracy Farr, Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt, Fremantle Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make a dame.
senses_topics:
|
10942 | word:
fleur
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fleur (plural fleurs)
forms:
form:
fleurs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
fleur-de-lis
senses_topics:
|
10943 | word:
couleur
word_type:
noun
expansion:
couleur (plural couleurs)
forms:
form:
couleurs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French couleur. Doublet of color.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A suit of cards, in certain French card games.
senses_topics:
card-games
games |
10944 | word:
please
word_type:
verb
expansion:
please (third-person singular simple present pleases, present participle pleasing, simple past and past participle pleased)
forms:
form:
pleases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
pleasing
tags:
participle
present
form:
pleased
tags:
participle
past
form:
pleased
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
please
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
Modern English
please
etymology_text:
From Middle English plesen, plaisen, borrowed from Old French plaise, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleHk- (“pleasingness, permission”). In this sense, displaced native Old English līcian, whence Modern English like.
senses_examples:
text:
Her presentation pleased the executives.
type:
example
text:
I'm pleased to see you've been behaving yourself.
type:
example
text:
Our new range of organic foods is sure to please.
type:
example
text:
And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties ; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […].
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
Just do as you please.
type:
example
text:
He doesn't think, he just says whatever he pleases.
type:
example
text:
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth […]
ref:
1611, Bible, KJV edition, Psalm 135:6
type:
quotation
text:
Will any gentleman please to get outside and make room for a lady?
ref:
1870 July 16, “Our Idler’s Gossip”, in Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle, volume XXVII, number 708, new series, [Sydney, N.S.W.], page [3], column 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
senses_topics:
|
10945 | word:
please
word_type:
adv
expansion:
please (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
please
etymology_text:
Short for if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you which is a calque of French s’il vous plaît, which replaced pray.
senses_examples:
text:
Please, pass the bread.
type:
example
text:
Would you please sign this form?
type:
example
text:
Could you tell me the time, please?
type:
example
text:
May I take your order, please?
type:
example
text:
(Michael): Yuri Andropov! What are you doing in my closet of anxieties again?
(Yuri): Uh, oh. This is not 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.?
(Michael): Does it look like it? You're in the wrong nightmare again!!
(Yuri): ★@#*!?! Soviet maps ... worth nothing! Give, please, directions to White House.
Using the word in this position is often, but not always, the trait of a non-native speaker.
ref:
1983 July 10, Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County, spoken by Yuri Andropov
type:
quotation
text:
—May I help you? —(Yes,) please.
type:
example
text:
Oh, please, do we have to hear that again?
type:
example
text:
So it's safe to let a 10-year-old use a gun? Please.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to make a polite request.
Used as an affirmative to an offer.
An expression of annoyance, impatience or exasperation.
senses_topics:
|
10946 | word:
please
word_type:
intj
expansion:
please
forms:
wikipedia:
please
etymology_text:
Semantic loan from German bitte (“please; excuse me”).
senses_examples:
text:
Fellow: May I have a few days off to get married?
Reply, in the Cincinnati idiom by a boss who had heard the sound but not the sense:
Boss: Please?
ref:
August 1973, “Bitte or Bitter?”, in Cincinnati, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
Even though I heard it was supposed to be German-Catholic background, there’s only one thing German — they say ‘please’ [for the more common ‘pardon me’], which comes from bitte.
ref:
September 1978, Virginia Watson-Rouslin, “A Foreign View”, in Cincinnati, page 110
type:
quotation
text:
[…] He explained in broken English that one of his daughters was ill and he probably could not be there. I did not understand all that he said, so asked, ‘Please?’ per Cincinnati custom. ‘There is no need to plead. I will be there if she is feeling better,’ he replied.
ref:
September 1979, “Winners: Contest No. 13—The Laugh’s On Us”, in Cincinnati, volume 12, number 12, page 15
type:
quotation
text:
Cincinnati are some of the most polite persons I have ever met in the US. When asking someone a question, instead of saying “Excuse me,” or “Pardon,” they say “Please?”
ref:
5 May 1998, Jose I. Sarasua, “Come to Cincinnati... Please?”, in Cost Engineering, volume 40, number 5, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
By the same token, one contestant who doesn’t hear a particular question could say “Pardon me?” while another could say “Please?” Again, neither would be lying if he said he was from Ohio.
ref:
April 2001, Jeff Robinson, “Say what?”, in Ohio Magazine, archived from the original on 2019-04-02, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
In Maine, where as much as a quarter of the population has French ancestry, you may hear a stray hair called a couette, and in parts of Ohio please is used in the same way as the German bitte, to invite a person to repeat something just said — apparently a remnant of the bilingual schooling once available in Cincinnati.
ref:
2008, Henry Hitchings, The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English, page 255
type:
quotation
text:
Ellen grew up outside of Cincinnati and believed her own talk was the “norm,” while others were speakers of dialects. She was in graduate school before she learned that not all people say, Please? to mean Can you repeat that?
ref:
2011, Ellen McIntyre, Nancy Hulan, Vicky Layne, Reading Instruction for Diverse Classrooms: Research-Based, Culturally Responsive Practice, Guilford Press, page 72
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Said as a request to repeat information.
senses_topics:
|
10947 | word:
half and half
word_type:
adj
expansion:
half and half (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In equal parts; half
senses_topics:
|
10948 | word:
half and half
word_type:
adv
expansion:
half and half (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In two equal parts.
senses_topics:
|
10949 | word:
half and half
word_type:
noun
expansion:
half and half (countable and uncountable, plural half and halfs)
forms:
form:
half and halfs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A mixture of cream and milk often used in coffee, defined by the US Food and Drug Administration to contain between 10.5% and 18% milk fat.
A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A mixture of two alcoholic beverages, most frequently those brewed from malt, such as porter and ale or mild and bitter beers, in about equal parts; also used for equal parts of an alcoholic beverage and water.
A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A pizza with two different sets of toppings, one on each half.
A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A person of mixed race or with dual nationality.
A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A combination of both rice and chips as an accompaniment to a curry, as opposed to one or the other.
A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A combination of beer and ale (or similar alcoholic drinks) in equal quantities.
A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
Both oral sex and vaginal sex performed in sequence by a prostitute
A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A mixture of half lemonade and half iced tea.
A mixture of two things, generally in about equal proportions.
A cup of coffee with the equivalent of half a packet of sugar and half a creamer of cream.
senses_topics:
|
10950 | word:
musique
word_type:
noun
expansion:
musique (usually uncountable, plural musiques)
forms:
form:
musiques
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of music.
senses_topics:
|
10951 | word:
Hu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hu
forms:
wikipedia:
Hu
etymology_text:
From Chinese 胡 (hú). Doublet of Wu. For less common variants, see Hu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.
senses_topics:
|
10952 | word:
Hu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hu
forms:
wikipedia:
Hu
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of several peoples of China, for example the Tatars of northwestern China, whom the Chinese considered barbarians.
senses_topics:
|
10953 | word:
Hu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hu
forms:
wikipedia:
Hu
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The god of the creation word in Egyptian mythology.
senses_topics:
|
10954 | word:
Hu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hu
forms:
wikipedia:
Hu
etymology_text:
From Arabic هُو (hū), from the town's ancient name, Egyptian ḥwt-sḫm.
senses_examples:
text:
[...] portion of a dagger-blade(?) of flint, finely-worked and delicately serrated, prehistoric, Hu, Egypt; pottery table of offerings to the dead, Diospolis Parva. The following of the prehistoric period, Egypt: small curved flint knife, worked along one[…]
ref:
1900, University of Oxford, Oxford University Gazette, page 699
type:
quotation
text:
The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, Egypt Exploration Fund
ref:
2013 November 11, Linda Manzanilla, Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies, Springer Science & Business Media, page 84
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in Egypt, located on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the seventh nome of Upper Egypt.
senses_topics:
|
10955 | word:
Hu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hu
forms:
wikipedia:
Hu
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A name for God in the Eckankar new religious movement.
senses_topics:
|
10956 | word:
CD
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CD (countable and uncountable, plural CDs)
forms:
form:
CDs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.
senses_examples:
text:
I misplaced the Windows 98 install CD.
type:
example
text:
Called Compact Discs (CD for short) and expected to enter the market by 1983, they play an hour per side and are virtually indestructible.
ref:
1980 April 13, Allan Kozinn, “The Future is Digital”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Mariah Carey's new CD has some R'n'B influences.
type:
example
text:
Along the route to Tanyin flowed a fast stream of staff and C.D. cars.
ref:
1955, Graham Greene, The Quiet American
type:
quotation
text:
Jake lengthened his stride and crossed the road in front of a double-parked car, large, black and with CD plates.
ref:
1978, Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing, Vintage, published 2007, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Banks may offer premium rates on C.D.s to attract deposits, but once they get those deposits, they end the offers.
ref:
2023 April 21, Ann Carrns, “Rates on C.D.s Are Soaring, but the High Rates May Not Last”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: CI
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of compact disc; a disc once commonly used to store data, and especially for the distribution of music and software.
Initialism of compact disc; a disc once commonly used to store data, and especially for the distribution of music and software.
An album; a collection of musical recordings (or, occasionally, other audio such as spoken word).
Initialism of corps diplomatique, the diplomatic corps of a particular country.
Abbreviation of certificate of deposit.
Initialism of creative director, head of the creative department (for example of an advertising agency).
Initialism of corporate design, specific design features of a company, corporate identity CI.
Initialism of collision detection.
Initialism of chart datum.
Initialism of cross-dresser.
Initialism of circular dichroism.
Initialism of cluster of differentiation.
Abbreviation of cooldown.
Initialism of controlled drug.
Abbreviation of Crohn's disease.
Initialism of continuous delivery/deployment.
senses_topics:
diplomacy
government
politics
business
finance
business
business
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
nautical
transport
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
law
medicine
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
10957 | word:
CD
word_type:
verb
expansion:
CD (third-person singular simple present CDs, present participle CDing, simple past and past participle CDed)
forms:
form:
CDs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
CDing
tags:
participle
present
form:
CDed
tags:
participle
past
form:
CDed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.
senses_examples:
text:
By now I did not feel right without a bra and panties whenever I CD'ed.
ref:
1993 January 5, Tierney Dhewitrei, “about me, is it familiar?”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cross-dress.
senses_topics:
|
10958 | word:
hagseed
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hagseed (plural hagseeds)
forms:
form:
hagseeds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hag + seed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The offspring of a hag.
senses_topics:
|
10959 | word:
hagship
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hagship (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hag + -ship.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state or condition of a hag, an ugly woman.
senses_topics:
|
10960 | word:
hag-taper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hag-taper (plural hag-tapers)
forms:
form:
hag-tapers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hag + taper; see taper (“candle”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The great woolly mullein (Verbascum thapsus).
senses_topics:
|
10961 | word:
stars
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stars
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of star
senses_topics:
|
10962 | word:
stars
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stars pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Outer space.
senses_topics:
|
10963 | word:
stars
word_type:
verb
expansion:
stars
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of star
senses_topics:
|
10964 | word:
star system
word_type:
noun
expansion:
star system (plural star systems)
forms:
form:
star systems
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Chapters have examined the general structural trends that have defined particular phases in the organisation of the star system, looking at the conditions in which the system emerged, how the studios controlled the ownership of star images, and the power of the star in contemporary Hollywood.
ref:
2001, Paul McDonald, The Star System: Hollywood's Production of Popular Identities, Columbia University Press, page 107
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of stars (and possibly smaller bodies such as planets or asteroids) that orbit one another.
A method of creating, promoting and exploiting movie stars in cinema, emphasizing on their images rather than acting.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
broadcasting
film
media
television |
10965 | word:
hah
word_type:
intj
expansion:
hah
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Shut up, buddy, you've forgotten that I can't run. Now you're the wise guy, hah?
ref:
1994, Milton Teichman, Sharon Leder, Truth and Lamentation: Stories and Poems on the Holocaust, page 58
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of ha
Alternative form of huh
senses_topics:
|
10966 | word:
hah
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hah (plural hahs)
forms:
form:
hahs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of heh (Semitic letter)
senses_topics:
|
10967 | word:
annexation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
annexation (countable and uncountable, plural annexations)
forms:
form:
annexations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
annexation
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin annexation-, stem of annexatio (“action of annexing”), from past participle of annecto.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Addition or incorporation of something, or territories that have been annexed.
A legal merging of a territory into another body.
senses_topics:
law |
10968 | word:
Czechia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Czechia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Czech + -ia.
senses_examples:
text:
“Kłodzko Land,” as the basin is also called, forms a rectangular jut into Czechia that is sealed at its southwestern back by a fifty-kilometer-long ridge known as the Orlické (Eagle) Mountains […]
ref:
2020, Alan E. Sparks, Into the Carpathians
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Central Europe. Official name: Czech Republic. Capital and largest city: Prague.
senses_topics:
|
10969 | word:
legend
word_type:
noun
expansion:
legend (countable and uncountable, plural legends)
forms:
form:
legends
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
legend
etymology_text:
From Middle English legende, from Old French legende, from Medieval Latin legenda (“a legend, story, especially the lives of the saints”), from Latin legenda (“things which ought to be read”), from lego (“I read”).
senses_examples:
text:
The legend of Troy was discovered to have a historical basis.
type:
example
text:
the legend of Robin Hood
type:
example
text:
The 1984 Rose Bowl prank has spawned many legends. Here's the real story.
type:
example
text:
According to his legend, he once worked for the Red Cross, spreading humanitarian aid in Africa.
type:
example
text:
If the documents are needed to establish "a light legend," meaning a superficial cover story, no steps are taken to make sure that if someone calls the college or motor vehicle department, the name on the document will be registered.
ref:
1992, Ronald Kessler, Inside the CIA, Pocket Books, published 1994, page 115
type:
quotation
text:
Sorge solidified his own position by returning to Germany and developing a new legend. He joined the Nazi Party[…].
ref:
2003, Rodney Carlisle, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spies and Espionage, Alpha Books, page 105
type:
quotation
text:
Both the agent's legend and documents were intended to stand up against casual questions from Soviet citizens, such as during a job interview, or a routine police document check, such as were made at railway stations.
ref:
2005, Curtis Peebles, Twilight Warriors, Naval Institute Press, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
Achilles is a legend in Greek culture.
type:
example
text:
Michael Jordan stands as a legend in basketball.
type:
example
text:
I've lost my pen! —Here mate, borrow mine. —You legend.
type:
example
text:
Coordinate term: glossary
text:
According to the legend on the map, that building is a school.
type:
example
text:
The legend displacement on the basis then in use was 48,000 tons, the corresponding standard displacement as defined by the Washington Treaty being 47,540 tons.
ref:
1929, Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Inc, page 304
type:
quotation
text:
The legend and sketch designs were submitted to the Board on 27th March 1916 and, after examining a model and the drawings, the Sea Lords generally favoured proposal 'B'; the extra weight involved being acceptable.
ref:
1976, Alan Raven, John Roberts, British Battleships of World War Two: The Development and Technical History of the Royal Navy's Battleships and Battlecruisers from 1911 to 1946, page 63
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An unrealistic story depicting past events.
A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.
An unrealistic story depicting past events.
A plausible story set in the historical past, but whose historicity is uncertain.
An unrealistic story depicting past events.
A story in which a kernel of truth is embellished to an unlikely degree.
An unrealistic story depicting past events.
A fabricated backstory for a spy, with associated documents and records.
A person related to a legend or legends.
A leading protagonist in a historical legend.
A person related to a legend or legends.
A person of extraordinary fame or accomplishments.
A person related to a legend or legends.
A person of extraordinary fame or accomplishments.
A cool, nice or helpful person, especially one who is male.
A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.
An inscription, motto, or title, especially one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon a heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.
A musical composition set to a poetical story.
The design and specification of a vessel.
senses_topics:
cartography
geography
natural-sciences
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
numismatics
politics
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war |
10970 | word:
legend
word_type:
verb
expansion:
legend (third-person singular simple present legends, present participle legending, simple past and past participle legended)
forms:
form:
legends
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
legending
tags:
participle
present
form:
legended
tags:
participle
past
form:
legended
tags:
past
wikipedia:
legend
etymology_text:
From Middle English legende, from Old French legende, from Medieval Latin legenda (“a legend, story, especially the lives of the saints”), from Latin legenda (“things which ought to be read”), from lego (“I read”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To tell or narrate; to recount.
senses_topics:
|
10971 | word:
handcraftsman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handcraftsman (plural handcraftsmen)
forms:
form:
handcraftsmen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A handicraftsman.
senses_topics:
|
10972 | word:
handcloth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handcloth (plural handcloths)
forms:
form:
handcloths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English handcloth, from Old English handclāþ (“handcloth”), equivalent to hand + cloth. Cognate with Danish håndklæde (“handtowel”), Icelandic handklæði (“handcloth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A handkerchief.
A washcloth.
senses_topics:
|
10973 | word:
NBA
word_type:
name
expansion:
NBA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of National Basketball Association.
Initialism of National Boxing Association.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
10974 | word:
de-Christianize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
de-Christianize (third-person singular simple present de-Christianizes, present participle de-Christianizing, simple past and past participle de-Christianized)
forms:
form:
de-Christianizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
de-Christianizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
de-Christianized
tags:
participle
past
form:
de-Christianized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make unchristian or non-Christian.
To deprive of the Christian character of.
To remove the Christian aspect of.
To become un-Christian.
To renounce one's Christian faith.
senses_topics:
|
10975 | word:
eclipse
word_type:
noun
expansion:
eclipse (countable and uncountable, plural eclipses)
forms:
form:
eclipses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Cassini–Huygens
etymology_text:
From Old French eclipse, from Latin eclīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “eclipse”), from ἐκλείπω (ekleípō, “I abandon, go missing, vanish”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and λείπω (leípō, “I leave behind”).
senses_examples:
text:
a. 1618, Walter Raleigh, quoted in Eclipse, entry in 1805, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, Volume 2, unnumbered page,
All the posterity of our first parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life.
text:
As in the soft and sweet eclipse,
When soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
ref:
1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, published 1839, page 340
type:
quotation
text:
Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.
ref:
1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House is Built, Chapter VIII, Section ii
type:
quotation
text:
Aubrey was rapturous. All her other playthings went into eclipse and the doings of the Geezenstacks occupied most of her waking thoughts.
ref:
1943, Fredric Brown, The Geezenstacks
type:
quotation
text:
From the standpoint of the Buddhist historian, it would be futile to attempt to distinguish, on the basis of doctrine, between the T’ien-t’ai Buddhism of the Sui and the various T’ang schools, since they share common ideals. Yet despite the “T’ang” character of the T’ien-t’ai school, it entered an almost total eclipse during the first half of the T’ang dynasty.
ref:
1973, Stanley Weinstein, “Imperial Patronage in the Formation of T’ang Buddhism”, in Arthur F. Wright, Denis Twitchett, editors, Perspectives on the T’ang, Yale University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 289–290; republished as “Imperial Patronage in the Formation of T’ang Buddhism”, in Paul W. Kroll, editor, Critical Readings on Tang China, volume 4, Brill Publishers, 2019, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1646
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An alignment of astronomical objects whereby one object comes between the observer (or notional observer) and another object, thus obscuring the latter.
Especially, an alignment whereby a planetary object (for example, the Moon) comes between the Sun and another planetary object (for example, the Earth), resulting in a shadow being cast by the middle planetary object onto the other planetary object.
A seasonal state of plumage in some birds, notably ducks, adopted temporarily after the breeding season and characterised by a dull and scruffy appearance.
Obscurity, decline, downfall.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
|
10976 | word:
eclipse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
eclipse (third-person singular simple present eclipses, present participle eclipsing, simple past and past participle eclipsed)
forms:
form:
eclipses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
eclipsing
tags:
participle
present
form:
eclipsed
tags:
participle
past
form:
eclipsed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Cassini–Huygens
etymology_text:
From Old French eclipse, from Latin eclīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “eclipse”), from ἐκλείπω (ekleípō, “I abandon, go missing, vanish”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and λείπω (leípō, “I leave behind”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Moon eclipsed the Sun.
type:
example
text:
The Util.System namespace eclipses the top-level System namespace.
ref:
2005, Sean Campbell, Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for developers, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
Everything about her year-old restaurant […] reflects her love of bringing people to the table for good, simple food that's not eclipsed by bells and whistles.
ref:
2007, Cincinnati Magazine, page 81
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of astronomical or atmospheric bodies, to cause an eclipse.
To overshadow; to be better or more noticeable than.
To undergo eclipsis.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
10977 | word:
go to war
word_type:
verb
expansion:
go to war (third-person singular simple present goes to war, present participle going to war, simple past went to war, past participle gone to war)
forms:
form:
goes to war
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
going to war
tags:
participle
present
form:
went to war
tags:
past
form:
gone to war
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
At the age of nineteen, my grandfather went to war.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To enter into an armed conflict.
(of a person) To depart, typically from one's home, to join an army at war.
senses_topics:
|
10978 | word:
Skagerrak
word_type:
name
expansion:
Skagerrak
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Of Dutch origin from the 17th century. From the 18th century and on, Skagerrak was the official name on maps, whereas Kattegatt was the vulgar name between sailors. In time, Kattegatt came to be the more common name and Skagerrak only meant the outer part of the area, between Skagen and Norway. In the 19th century the names were still used synonymously. Skagerrak comes from the name Skagen and a word meaning “straight stretch” (rak, from Dutch or Low German; in modern Dutch rak is a straight stretch in an otherwise sinuous waterway; in modern sailing the distance to be sailed between two points), so the word means “the straight passage at Skagen”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The marine passage between Norway and Denmark, formerly also including the passage between Sweden and Denmark, comprising the Kattegat.
senses_topics:
|
10979 | word:
duo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
duo (plural duos)
forms:
form:
duos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
duo
etymology_text:
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From French duo or Italian duo, from Latin duo (“two”), from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Doublet of two, which was inherited via Proto-Germanic.
senses_examples:
text:
I noticed early on, in playing a duo with a violinist, that when a very cheesy synthesized violin sound plays in counterpoint with a real violin, it can quite convincingly seem as if two violins are playing.
ref:
2009, Roger T. Dean, The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together.
Any pair of two people.
Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
A song in two parts; a duet.
senses_topics:
|
10980 | word:
polyhedrous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
polyhedrous (comparative more polyhedrous, superlative most polyhedrous)
forms:
form:
more polyhedrous
tags:
comparative
form:
most polyhedrous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
polyhedral; having multiple faces or facets.
senses_topics:
|
10981 | word:
polygynist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
polygynist (plural polygynists)
forms:
form:
polygynists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From polygyny + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who practices or advocates polygyny
senses_topics:
|
10982 | word:
beplumed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
beplumed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From be- + plumed.
senses_examples:
text:
The beplumed and beribboned equipages were designed to harmonize with and enhance the appearances of the performers.
ref:
1932, Amelia Earhart, “The First Women Aeronauts”, in The Fun of It, page 201
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Decked with feathers.
senses_topics:
|
10983 | word:
bepommel
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bepommel (third-person singular simple present bepommels, present participle bepommeling or bepommelling, simple past and past participle bepommeled or bepommelled)
forms:
form:
bepommels
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bepommeling
tags:
participle
present
form:
bepommelling
tags:
participle
present
form:
bepommeled
tags:
participle
past
form:
bepommeled
tags:
past
form:
bepommelled
tags:
participle
past
form:
bepommelled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From be- + pommel.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pommel; to beat, as with a stick.
To assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.
senses_topics:
|
10984 | word:
bepraise
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bepraise (third-person singular simple present bepraises, present participle bepraising, simple past and past participle bepraised)
forms:
form:
bepraises
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bepraising
tags:
participle
present
form:
bepraised
tags:
participle
past
form:
bepraised
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From be- + praise.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To praise greatly or extravagantly.
senses_topics:
|
10985 | word:
bepinch
word_type:
verb
expansion:
bepinch (third-person singular simple present bepinches, present participle bepinching, simple past and past participle bepinched)
forms:
form:
bepinches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
bepinching
tags:
participle
present
form:
bepinched
tags:
participle
past
form:
bepinched
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From be- + pinch.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pinch, or mark with pinches.
To pinch all over.
senses_topics:
|
10986 | word:
MIDI
word_type:
name
expansion:
MIDI
forms:
wikipedia:
MIDI
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
MIDI channel number 10 is reserved for percussion.
type:
example
text:
The podules Acorn plans to release include network cards (for Econet and Ethernet), ROM cards containing application software, a MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) sound card, an extended I/O card, […]
ref:
1987, Byte, volume 12, numbers 10-11, page 126
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Musical Instrument Digital Interface.
senses_topics:
|
10987 | word:
MIDI
word_type:
noun
expansion:
MIDI (plural MIDIs)
forms:
form:
MIDIs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
MIDI
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
When you collect a group of MIDIs into an album, you can play them much like a CD, with repeat mode, random mode, and a programmed playlist.
ref:
1998, Judi N. Fernandez, WAVs, MIDIs & RealAudio: Enjoying Sound on Your Computer
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A computerized music file in the MIDI format.
senses_topics:
|
10988 | word:
beprose
word_type:
verb
expansion:
beprose (third-person singular simple present beproses, present participle beprosing, simple past and past participle beprosed)
forms:
form:
beproses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
beprosing
tags:
participle
present
form:
beprosed
tags:
participle
past
form:
beprosed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From be- + prose.
senses_examples:
text:
Such was his doom impos'd by Heaven's decree, / With ears that hear not, eyes that shall not see, / The low to raise, to level the Sublime, / To blast all Beauty, and beprose all Rhyme.
ref:
1733, David Mallet, Verbal Criticism
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reduce to prose.
senses_topics:
|
10989 | word:
dartboard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dartboard (plural dartboards)
forms:
form:
dartboards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From dart + board.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A board used as a target for throwing darts.
senses_topics:
|
10990 | word:
coke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coke (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Coke
etymology_text:
Perhaps from Middle English colk (“core”).
senses_examples:
text:
The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.
type:
example
text:
At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957-8; but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P'ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making.
ref:
1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 129, number 3, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 333
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
senses_topics:
|
10991 | word:
coke
word_type:
verb
expansion:
coke (third-person singular simple present cokes, present participle coking, simple past and past participle coked)
forms:
form:
cokes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
coking
tags:
participle
present
form:
coked
tags:
participle
past
form:
coked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Coke
etymology_text:
Perhaps from Middle English colk (“core”).
senses_examples:
text:
In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To produce coke from coal.
To turn into coke.
To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
senses_topics:
aerospace
astronautics
automotive
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles |
10992 | word:
coke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coke (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Coke
etymology_text:
Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cocaine.
senses_topics:
|
10993 | word:
coke
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coke (plural cokes)
forms:
form:
cokes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Coke
etymology_text:
1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).
senses_topics:
|
10994 | word:
binary code
word_type:
noun
expansion:
binary code (countable and uncountable, plural binary codes)
forms:
form:
binary codes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A code that uses the binary digits (1 and 0), usually in groups of eight, to represent characters, machine instructions or other data.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
10995 | word:
Nippon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Nippon (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 日本(にっぽん) (Nippon), an alternative or older form of 日本(にほん) (Nihon).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Japan.
senses_topics:
|
10996 | word:
handcraft
word_type:
noun
expansion:
handcraft (plural handcrafts)
forms:
form:
handcrafts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English handcrafte, handecraft, hond-craft, from Old English handcræft, equivalent to hand + craft. Cognate with Dutch handkracht, German Handkraft.
senses_examples:
text:
These are, in redecraft, the English language and literature, mathematics, psychology; in handcraft, the physical sciences, physics, chemistry, biology; with regular and ample laboratory work in each.
ref:
1895, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Proceedings of the Annual Convention - Issues 8-12, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
Accordingly, that institution or school is best which enforces habits of order, attention, obedience, discrimination, memory ; which then secures skill in handcraft and redecraft, and likewise shows how these habits and this skill may be applied in useful avocations.
ref:
1897, Daniel Coit Gilman, A Study in Black and White, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
handicraft
The class of subjects for study that rely upon experimentation and observation.
senses_topics:
|
10997 | word:
handcraft
word_type:
verb
expansion:
handcraft (third-person singular simple present handcrafts, present participle handcrafting, simple past and past participle handcrafted)
forms:
form:
handcrafts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
handcrafting
tags:
participle
present
form:
handcrafted
tags:
participle
past
form:
handcrafted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English handcrafte, handecraft, hond-craft, from Old English handcræft, equivalent to hand + craft. Cognate with Dutch handkracht, German Handkraft.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To engage in handcraft or handicraft.
senses_topics:
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10998 | word:
SRC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
SRC (plural SRCs)
forms:
form:
SRCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Short Range Certificate (certificate that entitles the holder to operate a maritime VHF radio).
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
10999 | word:
decameter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
decameter (plural decameters)
forms:
form:
decameters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French décamètre. Equivalent to deca- + meter.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
US spelling of decametre
senses_topics:
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