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1100 | word:
absent
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absent (third-person singular simple present absents, present participle absenting, simple past and past participle absented)
forms:
form:
absents
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
absenting
tags:
participle
present
form:
absented
tags:
participle
past
form:
absented
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English absenten, from Old French absenter, from Late Latin absentāre (“keep away, be away”).
senses_examples:
text:
Most of the men are retired, jobless, or have otherwise temporarily absented themselves from the workplace.
type:
example
text:
If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined.
ref:
1701-1703, Addison, Remarks on Italy
type:
quotation
text:
Some people expect that the news should be written "professionally," that it should conform to certain "journalistic standards," and that it should not "editorialize." And this is tantamount to saying it should be written objectively, that we should absent ourselves when writing copy.
ref:
1986 December 7, Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves, “Just the Facts, Miss Thing”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To keep (oneself) away.
To keep (someone) away.
Stay away; withdraw.
Leave.
senses_topics:
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1101 | word:
Esperanto
word_type:
name
expansion:
Esperanto
forms:
wikipedia:
Esperanto
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Esperanto Esperanto. Originally, this was the pseudonym assumed by the language's creator, L. L. Zamenhof, and the language was called Lingvo Internacia (“international language”). The term first appears in the publication Science in 1892.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Esperanto.
text:
The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency.
type:
example
text:
[Compared] to the Esperanto of the Eye, [cinema], [Esperanto's] conquest of the Earth is painfully slow[.]
ref:
1923, Edward Sims Van Zile, “The Movie as a World Language”, in That Marvel—the Movie, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
I think there is increasingly a homogenized voice, an Esperanto in the ear.
ref:
1981, Ellen Goodman, “Where did all the accents go?”, in Sarasota Journal, page 6A
type:
quotation
text:
[…]making its usual explicit request in the Esperanto of brutality.
ref:
1994, Terry Pratchet, Interesting Times
type:
quotation
text:
There may have been a few slippages when the show's American English was translated for foreign audiences—Alerte à Malibu! Mishmar Ha-Mifratz!—but the theme song was pure Esperanto, a joyous surge of energy and desire that was instantly comprehensible from Quito to Tehran.
ref:
2022, James Brooke-Smith, Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s, The History Press
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof with a base vocabulary inspired by Indo-European languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian, and having a streamlined grammar with completely regular conjugations, declensions, and inflections.
Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.
senses_topics:
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1102 | word:
European Central Bank
word_type:
name
expansion:
the European Central Bank
forms:
form:
the European Central Bank
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Central bank for the European Union, administering the monetary policy of the 17 EU Eurozone member states.
senses_topics:
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1103 | word:
hardwareman
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hardwareman (plural hardwaremen)
forms:
form:
hardwaremen
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English hardewareman, hardwareman; equivalent to hardware + -man.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ironmonger.
senses_topics:
|
1104 | word:
nag screen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nag screen (plural nag screens)
forms:
form:
nag screens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
WinRAR shows a nag screen once its 40-day trial is over to encourage users to buy a license.
type:
example
text:
The first screen to pop up is the nag screen; be patient, it disappears after 5 seconds. (Have you ever wondered why nag screens are mandatory for shareware?)
ref:
1996, New and improved stupid Windows tricks, page 17
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A message displayed by a nagware program to encourage the user to purchase the full version.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1105 | word:
vapourware
word_type:
noun
expansion:
vapourware (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From vapour + -ware.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of vaporware
senses_topics:
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1106 | word:
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
word_type:
name
expansion:
(the) former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A provisional designation (because of a naming dispute with Greece) formerly used by many international organizations to refer to the Republic of North Macedonia, a country on the Balkan Peninsula. (Abbreviated FYROM.)
senses_topics:
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1107 | word:
embellish
word_type:
verb
expansion:
embellish (third-person singular simple present embellishes, present participle embellishing, simple past and past participle embellished)
forms:
form:
embellishes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
embellishing
tags:
participle
present
form:
embellished
tags:
participle
past
form:
embellished
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English embelishen, from Old French embellir, from em- + bel.
senses_examples:
text:
The old book cover was embellished with golden letters
type:
example
text:
He was a notable patron of the arts who lavishly embellished his royal residences and rebuilt and enlarged Westminster Abbey, destined as the burialplace of himself and many of his successors, in honor of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor.
ref:
1998, C.H. Knowles, “Henry III (1207-1272; r. 1216-72)”, in Medieval England: An Encyclopedia, Garland Publishing, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 345, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Podolski gave Walcott a chance to further embellish Arsenal's first-half performance when he eluded James Perch and slipped the ball through to the striker.
ref:
2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian, London
type:
quotation
text:
to embellish a story, the truth
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.
To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.
senses_topics:
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1108 | word:
definition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
definition (countable and uncountable, plural definitions)
forms:
form:
definitions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
definition
etymology_text:
From Middle English diffinicioun, from Middle French definition, from Latin dēfīnītiō, from dēfīniō. Equivalent to define + -ition.
senses_examples:
text:
Your definition of "elephant" needs to be more precise than "a big animal with large ears".
type:
example
text:
DEFINITIONS mean nothing unless the concept in the mind of the men who makes the definition is the same as that in the mind of the man who hears it.
ref:
1925, Thomas R. Marshall, Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall, Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 65
type:
quotation
text:
Baroque is a good game, but only for a very narrow subset of the gaming audience. It is the very definition of a niche title.
ref:
2008 May, Shoeless Wayne Santos, “Baroque” (game review), GameAxis Unwired, Hardware Zone Pte, page 51
text:
Comedy Bang! Bang! It’s silly, it spoofy – it’s the very definition of a hidden gem
ref:
2016 March 1, Stuart Heritage, “Comedy Bang! Bang! It’s silly, it spoofy - it’s the very definition of a hidden gem”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
That Trump just came out and asked for Zelensky to investigate the Bidens – after reminding him several times of how much the US did for Ukraine!!!! – is something very close to the textbook definition of a quid pro quo.
ref:
2019 September 25, Chris Cilizza, “The Ukraine call ‘transcript’ is pretty darn close to a smoking gun”, in ThePo!nt, CNN
type:
quotation
text:
Her comic genius is beyond definition.
type:
example
text:
The definition of a telescope.
type:
example
text:
Improve the definition of an image.
type:
example
text:
high-defintion videos
type:
example
text:
A jacket with distinct waist definition.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or symbol (dictionary definitions).
A clear instance conforming to the dictionary or textbook definition.
A statement expressing the essential nature of something; formulation
The action or process of defining.
The act of defining; determination of the limits.
A product of defining.
The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear.
Clarity of visual presentation, distinctness of outline or detail.
Clarity, especially of musical sound in reproduction.
Sharp demarcation of outlines or limits.
The degree to which individual muscles are distinct on the body.
A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function).
A statement that establishes the referent of a term or notation.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
semantics
bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
mathematics
sciences |
1109 | word:
October
word_type:
name
expansion:
October (plural Octobers)
forms:
form:
Octobers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
October
October War
etymology_text:
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French octobre, from Latin octōber (“eighth month”), from Latin octō (“eight”), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“twice four”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.
senses_examples:
text:
The other one [book] I just read is October Suite by Maxine Clair (Random House, $23.95). It's about a woman named October. She's a young black schoolteacher in the 1950s ...
ref:
2002 January, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 35, number 4, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
From somewhere in the distance came the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle's siren. Lance flipped open his phone. “Get me the address of a woman named October Guinness . . . That's right, October,” he said again, [...]
ref:
2009, C.S. Graham, The Archangel Project, page 31
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November. Abbreviation: Oct.
A female given name transferred from the month name.
senses_topics:
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1110 | word:
October
word_type:
noun
expansion:
October (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
October
etymology_text:
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French octobre, from Latin octōber (“eighth month”), from Latin octō (“eight”), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“twice four”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of ale traditionally brewed in October.
senses_topics:
|
1111 | word:
October
word_type:
verb
expansion:
October (third-person singular simple present Octobers, present participle Octobering, simple past and past participle Octobered)
forms:
form:
Octobers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Octobering
tags:
participle
present
form:
Octobered
tags:
participle
past
form:
Octobered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
October
en:Octobering
etymology_text:
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French octobre, from Latin octōber (“eighth month”), from Latin octō (“eight”), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“twice four”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.
senses_topics:
|
1112 | word:
stickiness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
stickiness (usually uncountable, plural stickinesses)
forms:
form:
stickinesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From sticky + -ness.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.
ref:
2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, page 7]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2014-12-23
type:
quotation
text:
The stickiness of a cellphone might be measured by its ability to tell correct time, locate its user, and allow its user to remain connected regardless of location.
type:
example
text:
The low stickiness rating helped explain why our ad’s brand linkage rating was so low: people were turned off by the blurriness of the main photo.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The property of sticking or adhering; adhesion.
Warmth and humidity, as on a muggy day.
Of prices or wages: the tendency to stay the same despite changes in the economy.
The presence of unique attributes that make a product indisposable and valuable to its owner.
A research measure that captures the extent to which viewers wish to spend more time looking at or reading a print advertisement.
An overemotional attachment to others; clinging in interpersonal relations; difficulty with ending conversations.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
business
marketing
advertising
business
marketing
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
1113 | word:
musician
word_type:
noun
expansion:
musician (plural musicians)
forms:
form:
musicians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English musician, musicien, from Old French musicien (“musician”). Equivalent to music + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
Jenny is a talented musician, playing the cello, saxophone, piano and guitar.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A composer, conductor, or performer of music; specifically, a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, occupation, or profession.
senses_topics:
|
1114 | word:
lifetime
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lifetime (plural lifetimes)
forms:
form:
lifetimes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
lifetime
etymology_text:
From Middle English lyftyme, equivalent to life + time. Cognate with Icelandic líftími (“lifetime”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Lieuwendstied, Dutch leeftijd and levenstijd, German Low German Levenstied, German Lebenszeit, Danish livstid, Swedish livstid.
senses_examples:
text:
a project that will take many human lifetimes to complete
text:
the operational lifetime of an aircraft component
text:
comes with a lifetime warranty
type:
example
text:
I've been waiting a lifetime for a train.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The duration of the life of someone or something.
A long period of time.
senses_topics:
|
1115 | word:
mandapa
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mandapa (plural mandapas)
forms:
form:
mandapas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
mandapa
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Sanskrit मण्डप (maṇḍapa), मण्टप (maṇṭapa, “pavilion, mandapa”), a non-native word likely from the same source as मठ (maṭha, “hut, hermit's cottage”). Probably derived via Hindi मंडप (maṇḍap) or another New Indo-Aryan language.
senses_examples:
text:
She led the way inside the house to the mandap.
ref:
1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 44
type:
quotation
text:
When she takes her place next to Lakshaya at the wedding mandap, both of them smile at each other.
ref:
2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 284
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pillared hall or porch fronting a Hindu temple. It may be attached or detached from the building.
A temporary platform or sacred tent used for a wedding or other religious ceremony.
senses_topics:
architecture
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1116 | word:
relegate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
relegate (third-person singular simple present relegates, present participle relegating, simple past and past participle relegated)
forms:
form:
relegates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
relegating
tags:
participle
present
form:
relegated
tags:
participle
past
form:
relegated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1561, borrowed from Latin relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō (“to dispatch, banish”).
senses_examples:
text:
Eventually his freedom of speech drove Vespasian to relegate him a second time, and shortly after he was executed […].
ref:
2002, Mark Morford, The Roman Philosophers, page 183
type:
quotation
text:
Her bright ideas were relegated to "tosh" by her manager.
type:
example
text:
Our correspondent adds that, when he visited Rouen in 1910, the engine had been relegated to the shuttle service between Rouen (Rive Droite) and Rouen (Rive Gauche).
ref:
1946 November and December, “A Veteran French Tank Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 382
type:
quotation
text:
A Class 158 relegated from express duties turns up to transport me via the flower-bedecked Brighouse station to the trans-Pennine main line at Bradley Junction and onwards to Huddersfield.
ref:
2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57
type:
quotation
text:
After finishing second-bottom in the table, United were relegated from the division.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
Exile or banish to a particular place.
Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
Remove (oneself) to a distance from something or somewhere.
Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
Banish from proximity to Rome for a set time; compare relegate.
Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
Remove or send to a place far away.
Consign or assign.
Consign (a person or thing) to a place, position, or role of obscurity, insignificance, oblivion, lower rank or (especially) inferiority.
Consign or assign.
Assign (a thing) to an appropriate place or situation based on appraisal or classification.
Consign or assign.
Transfer (a sports team) to a lower-ranking league division.
Refer or submit.
Refer (a point of contention) to an authority in deference to the judgment thereof.
Refer or submit.
Submit (something) to someone else for appropriate action thereby; compare delegate.
Refer or submit.
Submit or refer (someone) to someone or something else for some reason or purpose.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
|
1117 | word:
relegate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
relegate (plural relegates)
forms:
form:
relegates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested circa 1550: from the Classical Latin relēgātus (“banished person, exile”), the nominative singular masculine substantive form of relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō (“to dispatch, banish”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.
senses_topics:
history
human-sciences
sciences |
1118 | word:
relegate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
relegate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested circa 1425: from the Classical Latin relēgātus, the perfect passive participle of relēgō (“I dispatch”, “I banish”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relegated; exiled.
senses_topics:
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1119 | word:
transitive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
transitive (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).
senses_examples:
text:
For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
ref:
1841-1843, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet
type:
quotation
text:
By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.
ref:
1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
type:
quotation
text:
The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
type:
example
text:
Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
ref:
1908, G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
type:
quotation
text:
"Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Making a transit or passage.
Affected by transference of signification.
Taking a direct object or objects.
Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c.
Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
algebra
mathematics
sciences
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
probability
sciences |
1120 | word:
transitive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
transitive (plural transitives)
forms:
form:
transitives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).
senses_examples:
text:
This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).
ref:
2011, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, The Syntax of Romanian: Comparative Studies in Romance, page 136
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transitive verb.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
1121 | word:
LED
word_type:
noun
expansion:
LED (plural LEDs)
forms:
form:
LEDs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of light-emitting diode.
senses_topics:
|
1122 | word:
aliveness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aliveness (usually uncountable, plural alivenesses)
forms:
form:
alivenesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From alive + -ness.
senses_examples:
text:
the aliveness of the colours in a painting
type:
example
text:
Sea-water wet their feet, wind tossed their hair, excitement quivered in every fibre of their aliveness.
ref:
1944, Emily Carr, “Beacon Hill”, in The House of All Sorts
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
senses_topics:
|
1123 | word:
viable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
viable (comparative more viable, superlative most viable)
forms:
form:
more viable
tags:
comparative
form:
most viable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French viable, with semantic influence of Latin viābilis (“passable”).
senses_examples:
text:
a viable option
type:
example
text:
Barker believed that evidence was emerging that a "solid proportion" of operations were "grossly uneconomic", and that no amount of improvement in equipment would make them viable. He suggested that "while the superstructure of the report is correct, the foundations require radical re-examination".
ref:
2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 42
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Able to live on its own (as for a newborn).
Able to be done, possible, practicable, feasible.
Capable of working successfully
Able to live and develop.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
1124 | word:
viable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
viable (plural viables)
forms:
form:
viables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French viable, with semantic influence of Latin viābilis (“passable”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organism that is able to live and develop.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
1125 | word:
adjective
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adjective (plural adjectives)
forms:
form:
adjectives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
adjective
etymology_text:
From Middle English adjectif, adjective, from Old French adjectif, from Latin adiectivus, from adiciō + -īvus, from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iaciō (“throw”). The Latin word adiectivus in turn was a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπιθετικόν (epithetikón, “added”), a derivative of the compound verb ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi), from which also comes epithet.
senses_examples:
text:
The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.
type:
example
text:
"They'll have to invent new adjectives when I come back. You wait!"
ref:
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
A dependent; an accessory.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
1126 | word:
adjective
word_type:
adj
expansion:
adjective (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English adjectif, adjective, from Old French adjectif, from Latin adiectivus, from adiciō + -īvus, from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iaciō (“throw”). The Latin word adiectivus in turn was a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπιθετικόν (epithetikón, “added”), a derivative of the compound verb ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi), from which also comes epithet.
senses_examples:
text:
In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.
ref:
1899, John Jay Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, AMS Press (1969) (as reproduced in Project Gutenberg)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
Incapable of independent function.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
law
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
|
1127 | word:
adjective
word_type:
verb
expansion:
adjective (third-person singular simple present adjectives, present participle adjectiving, simple past and past participle adjectived)
forms:
form:
adjectives
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
adjectiving
tags:
participle
present
form:
adjectived
tags:
participle
past
form:
adjectived
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English adjectif, adjective, from Old French adjectif, from Latin adiectivus, from adiciō + -īvus, from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iaciō (“throw”). The Latin word adiectivus in turn was a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπιθετικόν (epithetikón, “added”), a derivative of the compound verb ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi), from which also comes epithet.
senses_examples:
text:
Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has […] adjectived all three.
ref:
1805, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley Part 2
text:
In English, instead of adjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, adjectived signs from other languages[…]
ref:
1832, William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives, page 46
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.
senses_topics:
|
1128 | word:
calendar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
calendar (plural calendars)
forms:
form:
calendars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
calendar
etymology_text:
From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from calō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium.
senses_examples:
text:
The three principal calendars are the Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars.
type:
example
text:
Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall.
type:
example
text:
The club has a busy calendar this year.
type:
example
text:
a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.
A list of planned events.
An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.
An appointment book (US), appointment diary (UK)
senses_topics:
|
1129 | word:
calendar
word_type:
verb
expansion:
calendar (third-person singular simple present calendars, present participle calendaring, simple past and past participle calendared)
forms:
form:
calendars
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
calendaring
tags:
participle
present
form:
calendared
tags:
participle
past
form:
calendared
tags:
past
wikipedia:
calendar
etymology_text:
From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from calō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium.
senses_examples:
text:
The judge agreed to calendar a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to calendar the trial itself on a specific date.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.
To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
senses_topics:
law
|
1130 | word:
pumpkin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pumpkin (countable and uncountable, plural pumpkins)
forms:
form:
pumpkins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
pumpkin
etymology_text:
From Middle French pompon, from Latin pepō, from Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”). Suffixed with the now obsolete diminutive -kin. Doublet of pepo.
The alternative theory that it may be from Massachusett pôhpukun (“grows forth round”) is false.
senses_examples:
text:
There were pumpkins in Mombi’s corn-fields, lying golden red among the rows of green stalks; and these had been planted and carefully tended that the four-horned cow might eat of them in the winter time.
ref:
1904, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
type:
quotation
text:
pumpkin:
text:
You must be daddy’s little pumpkin.
ref:
1991, John Prine, Pat McLaughlin (lyrics and music), “Daddy’s Little Pumpkin”, in The Missing Years (album)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
The color of the fruit of the pumpkin plant.
Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.
A term of endearment for someone small and cute.
senses_topics:
|
1131 | word:
conceal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
conceal (third-person singular simple present conceals, present participle concealing, simple past and past participle concealed)
forms:
form:
conceals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
concealing
tags:
participle
present
form:
concealed
tags:
participle
past
form:
concealed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English concelen, from Old French conceler (“hide, disguise”), from Latin concelāre, infinitive of concelō (“carefully disguise”).
senses_examples:
text:
He tried to conceal the truth about his health.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
senses_topics:
|
1132 | word:
debt
word_type:
noun
expansion:
debt (countable and uncountable, plural debts)
forms:
form:
debts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
debt
etymology_text:
From Middle English dette, dett, borrowed from Old French dete (French dette), from Medieval Latin dēbita, from Latin dēbitum (“what is owed, a debt, a duty”), neuter of dēbitus, perfect passive participle of dēbeō (“I owe”), contraction of *dehibeō (“I have from”), from de (“from”) + habeō (“I have”). Doublet of debit.
The unpronounced "b" in the modern English spelling is a Latinisation from the Latin etymon dēbitum.
senses_examples:
text:
Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt / Of this proud king, who studies day and night / To answer all the debt he owes to you / Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
ref:
1589, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, act 1, scene 3
type:
quotation
text:
This long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.
ref:
1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 14, in The Scarlet Letter
type:
quotation
text:
I am in your debt.
type:
example
text:
Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.
ref:
1919, Upton Sinclair, chapter 15, in Jimmie Higgins
type:
quotation
text:
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
ref:
2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
I don't own any stocks or bonds. All my money is tied up in debt.
ref:
2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 213
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
The state or condition of owing something to another.
Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due
senses_topics:
business
finance
law |
1133 | word:
infotopia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
infotopia (plural infotopias)
forms:
form:
infotopias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of information + utopia
senses_examples:
text:
A free, open Internet without advertising or paywalls would be an infotopia.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An idealized information resource.
senses_topics:
|
1134 | word:
Macaddict
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Macaddict (plural Macaddicts)
forms:
form:
Macaddicts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fanatical advocate of the Macintosh computer system.
senses_topics:
|
1135 | word:
aria
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aria (plural arias or arie)
forms:
form:
arias
tags:
plural
form:
arie
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian aria, metathesis from Latin āerem, accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of air.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
1136 | word:
appeaser
word_type:
noun
expansion:
appeaser (plural appeasers)
forms:
form:
appeasers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From appease + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who appeases.
senses_topics:
|
1137 | word:
doctrine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
doctrine (countable and uncountable, plural doctrines)
forms:
form:
doctrines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.
senses_examples:
text:
The Incarnation is a basic doctrine of Christianity.
type:
example
text:
The Four Noble Truths summarise the main doctrines of Buddhism.
type:
example
text:
What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?
type:
example
text:
This one thing do we (compelled by your blaſphemous accuſations) repeat oftener then we would: to the end that indifferent men may ſee what doctrine it is, which you ſo maliciouſly impugne.
ref:
1560, John Knox, An Answere to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations Written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternall Predestination, London: Thomas Charde, published 1591, page 95
type:
quotation
text:
the Monroe Doctrine the Brezhnev Doctrine the Negroponte Doctrine
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.
senses_topics:
|
1138 | word:
aflare
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aflare (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + flare.
senses_examples:
text:
1886, Mary Noailles Murfree (as Charles Egbert Craddock), In the Clouds, Chapter 17, p. 248,
the flaming base of the opposite mountain, all luridly aflare in the windy dusk
text:
Ho! Get to lair! The sun’s aflare / Behind the breathing grass:
ref:
1895, Rudyard Kipling, “Letting in the Jungle”, in The Second Jungle Book, London: Macmillan, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
[The dragon] kindly breathed out a little flame, which set the packet aflare for a moment.
ref:
1919, Stella Benson, chapter 7, in Living Alone, London: Macmillan, published 2020, page 184
type:
quotation
text:
[…] he had not wanted to see the man when perhaps his blood was running hot and his temper aflare.
ref:
1988, Jory Sherman, chapter 4, in Horne’s Law, New York: Walker and Company, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Old Pye Street, Peter’s Street, and Duck Lane were aflare with the coarse lights of open naphtha lamps,
ref:
1897, Hall Caine, The Christian, London: Heinemann, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 331
type:
quotation
text:
He used to tell me how you two used to go down to the harbor and watch the big liners come in at night, all aflare with lights through the Golden Gate.
ref:
1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York: George H. Doran, Part 6, p. 402
type:
quotation
text:
[…] at last they reached a corridor which was aflare with dancing torchlight.
ref:
1968, Michael Moorcock, “The Dreaming City”, in The Stealer of Souls and Other Stories, London: Mayflower Books, page 19
type:
quotation
text:
ballet skirts aflare
ref:
1921, Edna Ferber, chapter 7, in The Girls, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
To balance like a bird with wings aflare,
ref:
1960, Vassar Miller, “Return”, in Wage War on Silence, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, page 58
type:
quotation
text:
The black horse paced slowly out into the open, neck arched, nostrils aflare, eyes rolling.
ref:
1983, Ahdaf Soueif, Aisha, London: Black Swan, published 1985, page 163
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Flaring (blazing or shining brightly or suddenly; also figuratively, of a strong emotion).
Illuminated (with something blazing or shining).
Flaring (opening outward).
senses_topics:
|
1139 | word:
scarp
word_type:
noun
expansion:
scarp (plural scarps)
forms:
form:
scarps
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
scarp
etymology_text:
Aphetic form of escarp. Doublet of sharp.
senses_examples:
text:
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).
type:
quotation
text:
[...] as in the seventh, which is Argent a Scarp Azure.
ref:
1673, Matthew Carter, Honor Redivivus: Or, The Analysis of Honor and Armory, page 211
type:
quotation
text:
He beareth Argent, a Scarp, Azure.
ref:
1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment.
Obsolete spelling of scarpe, scrape.
senses_topics:
geography
geology
natural-sciences
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
1140 | word:
scarp
word_type:
verb
expansion:
scarp (third-person singular simple present scarps, present participle scarping, simple past and past participle scarped)
forms:
form:
scarps
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
scarping
tags:
participle
present
form:
scarped
tags:
participle
past
form:
scarped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Aphetic form of escarp. Doublet of sharp.
senses_examples:
text:
to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment
senses_topics:
geography
natural-sciences |
1141 | word:
libre
word_type:
adj
expansion:
libre (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Sense 1 (“especially of the will: free, independent”) is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty, free; clear, free, vacant; free, without obligation”), from Latin līber (“free, unrestricted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).
Senses 2 (“(software) with very few limitations on distribution or improvement”) and 3 ("not enslaved") are either borrowed from the French word or the Spanish libre (“free: not enslaved or imprisoned; without obligation; unconstrained by distrust or timidity; not containing, without”), from the same Latin etymon as above.
senses_examples:
text:
He [God] Adame lent a libre will to follow what he liſt, / And with his holy ſpirit, and grace his choſen dois aſſiſt: [...]
ref:
1599, Alexander Hume, “Of Gods Benefites Bestowed vpon Man”, in Hymnes, or Sacred Songs, […], Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Walde-graue, […], →OCLC; republished as John Gardiner Kinnear, editor, Hymns and Sacred Songs, […] (Bannatyne Club Publications; 41), Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Co. [for the Bannatyne Club], 1832, →OCLC, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
One more point leads toward Free Software in education: when students get jobs, they prefer to use tools they learned at school in order to minimize extra learning efforts. This fact should lead colleges to teach only those tools not owned by anyone—those that are libre.
ref:
1999 February, Alessandro Rubini, “Software Libre and Commercial Viability”, in Marjorie Richardson, editor, Linux Journal: The Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community, number 58, Seattle, Wash.: Specialized System Consultants, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
The great potential of libre software for development and social inclusion has long been emphasized. The cost aspect of it, though it might act as a driver, is only one limited aspect of the benefits of libre software in developing countries, deprived regions, or urban areas. The empowerment of persons and groups to not only use technology, but understand it, at the level and rhythm that fits them, with the resulting ability to become active contributors and to innovate are the essence of libre software.
ref:
2005, Philippe Aigrain, “Libre Software Policies at the European Level”, in Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott A. Hissam, Karim R. Lakhani, editors, Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, Cambridge, Mass., London: MIT Press, pages 454–455
type:
quotation
text:
The formal definition of Open Access, however, does require re-use rights to enable the article to be re-used in various ways (text-mined, translated into other languages, used in part in other products, etc.), [...]. This is what is known as ‘libre’ Open Access. ‘Libre’ Open Access does not yet constitute the bulk of Open Access literature. In institutional repositories the majority of articles are of the ‘gratis’ type, though a small proportion carry an appropriate (usually Creative Commons) licence and are ‘libre’.
ref:
2012, Alma Swan, “Section 3. The Importance of Open Access.”, in Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access (Open Guidelines Series), Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, section 3.2 (Levels of Open Access), page 25, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
Free and open-source software (F/OSS, FOSS) or free/libre/open-source software (FLOSS) is a software that is both a free software and an open source. FOSS is a computer software that is available in source code (open source) form and that can be used, studied, copied, modified, and redistributed without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients have the same rights under which it was obtained (free or libre). Free software, software libre, or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients have the same rights under which it was obtained and that manufacturers of consumer products incorporating free software provide that software as source code.
ref:
2014, Joshua M. Pearce, “Introduction to Open-source Hardware for Science”, in Open-source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs, Waltham, Mass., Kidlington, Oxfordshire: Elsevier, section 1.2 (What is Open Source?), pages 1–2
type:
quotation
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:libre.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Especially of the will: free, independent, unconstrained.
With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge.
Not enslaved (of a black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
|
1142 | word:
libre
word_type:
noun
expansion:
libre (plural libres)
forms:
form:
libres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Sense 1 (“especially of the will: free, independent”) is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty, free; clear, free, vacant; free, without obligation”), from Latin līber (“free, unrestricted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).
Senses 2 (“(software) with very few limitations on distribution or improvement”) and 3 ("not enslaved") are either borrowed from the French word or the Spanish libre (“free: not enslaved or imprisoned; without obligation; unconstrained by distrust or timidity; not containing, without”), from the same Latin etymon as above.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:libre.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
senses_topics:
|
1143 | word:
macrovirus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
macrovirus (plural macroviruses)
forms:
form:
macroviruses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From macro + virus.
senses_examples:
text:
A macrovirus is a type of virus that is embedded in a document that used the macro programming language.
ref:
2002, Kathleen Sindell, Safety Net: Protecting Your Business on the Internet, John Wiley & Sons, page 243
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A computer virus written in a macro language.
senses_topics:
|
1144 | word:
sela
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sela
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of selo
senses_topics:
|
1145 | word:
servant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
servant (plural servants)
forms:
form:
servants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
servant (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English servaunt, from Old French servant, from the present participle of the verb servir. Doublet of sergeant and servient. Morphologically serve + -ant. Displaced native Old English þeġn.
senses_examples:
text:
There are three servants in the household, the butler and two maids.
type:
example
text:
She is quite the humble servant, the poor in this city owe much to her but she expects nothing.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
A person who dedicates themselves to God.
A professed lover.
A person of low condition or spirit.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
|
1146 | word:
servant
word_type:
verb
expansion:
servant (third-person singular simple present servants, present participle servanting, simple past and past participle servanted)
forms:
form:
servants
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
servanting
tags:
participle
present
form:
servanted
tags:
participle
past
form:
servanted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
servant (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Middle English servaunt, from Old French servant, from the present participle of the verb servir. Doublet of sergeant and servient. Morphologically serve + -ant. Displaced native Old English þeġn.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To subject.
senses_topics:
|
1147 | word:
OMC
word_type:
noun
expansion:
OMC (plural OMCs)
forms:
form:
OMCs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Acronym of original male character.
senses_examples:
text:
OTOH, if an OFC or OMC is written to further the story, well, if you can make me believe it, congratulations.
ref:
1999 September 28, Sigrid H., “NEW: Wonder Of Wonders/speechification/Laura/Karmen”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
It involves archaeology, the mysterious death of an immortal and the development of a menage a trois between Mac, Methos and a very well developed OMC.
ref:
2000 January 2, Shomeret, “My Favorite HL Fics of 1999”, in alt.tv.highlander.creative (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
However, especially in the Romeo and Juliet cases, they go all fan-wanky and the stories don't have the effectiveness because you recognize them as simply efforts to make a way to keep R & J alive if not happy together (often by the introduction of an OFC or OMC to replace the other character in another's life).
ref:
2004 August 8, Jillun, “Re: What ratings are acceptible here?”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male original character.
senses_topics:
lifestyle |
1148 | word:
Serbia and Montenegro
word_type:
name
expansion:
Serbia and Montenegro
forms:
wikipedia:
Serbia and Montenegro
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Former country on the Balkan Peninsula, formerly part of Yugoslavia. It disbanded in 2006.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Serbia, Montenegro.
senses_topics:
|
1149 | word:
fere
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fere (plural feres)
forms:
form:
feres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From (Northumbrian) Old English fǣra, aphetic form of ġefēra (whence also Middle English y-fere).
senses_examples:
text:
they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys.
ref:
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V
type:
quotation
text:
The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere, / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.
ref:
1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind
type:
quotation
text:
What if my Duncan be the youth whom his wicked brother hurled into the ravine, come again in a new body, to live out his life on the earth, cut short by his brother’s hatred? If so, his persecution of you, and of your mother for your sake, is easy to understand. And if so, you will never be able to rest till you find your fere, wherever she may have been born on the face of the earth.
ref:
1864, George MacDonald, The Old Nurse's Story
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A companion, comrade or friend.
A person's spouse, or an animal's mate.
senses_topics:
|
1150 | word:
fere
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fere (comparative more fere, superlative most fere)
forms:
form:
more fere
tags:
comparative
form:
most fere
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compare Latin ferus (“wild”).
senses_examples:
text:
Man's flesh they eat: their own they paint and sear, / branding with burning iron, — usage fere!
ref:
1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 405
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fierce.
senses_topics:
|
1151 | word:
Japan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Japan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in English as Giapan in Richard Willes's 1577 The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies (cited in Peter C. Mancall's Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery, pp. 156–57), translating a 19 February 1565 letter of the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis as "Of the Ilande of Giapan".
Borrowed from Portuguese Japão with possible influence from Dutch Japan, both from either or both:
* Malay Jepun, from Hokkien 日本 (Ji̍t-pún), from Middle Chinese 日本 (ȵiɪt̚ puən^X, “sun origin”).
* Indonesian Malay Jepang, from Teochew 日本 (rig⁸ bung²), from Middle Chinese 日本 (ȵiɪt̚ puən^X, “sun origin”).
With /j/ readings, such as Iaponia / Japonia or Japon / Iapon from Cantonese 日本 (jat⁶ bun²), also from Middle Chinese 日本 (ȵiɪt̚ puən^X, “sun origin”).
Compare also modern Mandarin 日本 (Rìběn), Japanese 日本(にっぽん) (Nippon) / 日本(にほん) (Nihon), Korean 일본 (Ilbon) (日本), Vietnamese Nhật Bản (日本).
The earliest form of Japan in Europe was Marco Polo's Cipangu, from some form of synonymous Sinitic 日本國／日本国 (Rìběnguó, “nation of Japan”).
senses_examples:
text:
Vivian: If you set a picture by Hokusai, or Hokkei, or any of the great native painters, beside a real Japanese gentleman or lady, you will see that there is not the slightest resemblance between them. The actual people who live in Japan are not unlike the general run of English people; that is to say, they are extremely commonplace, and have nothing curious or extraordinary about them. In fact the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people... if you desire to see a Japanese effect, you will not behave like a tourist and go to Tokio. On the contrary, you will stay at home and steep yourself in the work of certain Japanese artists, and then, when you have absorbed the spirit of their style, and caught their imaginative manner of vision, you will go some afternoon and sit in the Park or stroll down Piccadilly, and if you cannot see an absolutely Japanese effect there, you will not see it anywhere.
ref:
1889 Jan., Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying: An Observation", The Nineteenth Century
text:
Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor... That strategy works only when what they’re working with isn’t changing very much—the stereo industry and the automobile industry are two examples. When the target is moving quickly, they find it very difficult...
ref:
1985 February, Steve Jobs, interview with David Sheff, Playboy
text:
Nolan: You do know Japan have expressed concern?
Douglas: What, the whole country?
Nolan: No, not the whole... Mr Yamamoto.
Douglas: He's important, isn't he?
Nolan: He's the major shareholder.
ref:
2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country and archipelago in East Asia
senses_topics:
|
1152 | word:
currently
word_type:
adv
expansion:
currently (comparative more currently, superlative most currently)
forms:
form:
more currently
tags:
comparative
form:
most currently
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From current + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
All the beds of the hotel are currently occupied, but we have a free room tomorrow.
type:
example
text:
I'm currently living with my parents while I find a new job.
type:
example
text:
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
ref:
2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2012-02-13, page 162
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
At this moment, at present, now.
senses_topics:
|
1153 | word:
sound card
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sound card (plural sound cards)
forms:
form:
sound cards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A computer hardware device used for generating and capturing sounds.
senses_topics:
computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
1154 | word:
verb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
verb (plural verbs)
forms:
form:
verbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
verb
etymology_text:
From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.
senses_examples:
text:
The word “speak” is an English verb.
type:
example
text:
In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]
ref:
1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […], London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972
type:
quotation
text:
Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.
type:
example
text:
You can invoke the Properties OLE verb in many ways. The easiest way is to move the mouse over the border of the control until it becomes only a four-way pointer and then right-click.
ref:
1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out, page 321
type:
quotation
text:
The InfiniBand verbs, which are closely modeled in the “Gen2” interface, provide the functional specification for the operations that should be allowed on an InfiniBand compliant adapter.
ref:
2016, Ada Gavrilovska, Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
Any word; a vocable.
An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences |
1155 | word:
verb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
verb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)
forms:
form:
verbs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
verbing
tags:
participle
present
form:
verbed
tags:
participle
past
form:
verbed
tags:
past
form:
no-table-tags
source:
conjugation
tags:
table-tags
form:
en-conj
source:
conjugation
tags:
inflection-template
form:
verb
tags:
infinitive
source:
conjugation
wikipedia:
verb
etymology_text:
From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.
senses_examples:
text:
Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed... .
ref:
a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3
text:
I like to verb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.
ref:
1993 January 25, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
type:
quotation
text:
Nouns should never be verbed.
ref:
1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LAT_EX, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
In English, verbing nouns is okay
ref:
2005 October 5, Jeffrey Mattison, “Letters”, in The Christian Science Monitor, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...
ref:
1946, Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series
type:
quotation
text:
Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.
ref:
1964, Journal of Mathematical Psychology
type:
quotation
text:
The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside.
ref:
1998, Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
senses_topics:
|
1156 | word:
abdomen
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abdomen (plural abdomens or abdomina)
forms:
form:
abdomens
tags:
plural
form:
abdomina
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1541. Borrowed from Middle French abdomen, from Latin abdomen, possibly from abdō (“conceal”), from ab (“away”) + -dō (“put, place”).
senses_examples:
text:
He was all bent over complaining of pains in the abdomen.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fat surrounding the belly.
The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis, not including the back; or in some lower vertebrates, the portion between the cardiac and caudal regions.
The cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.
The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology |
1157 | word:
hour
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hour (plural hours)
forms:
form:
hours
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Modern English
hour
etymology_text:
From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”). Akin to Old English ġēar (“year”). Doublet of hora and year.
Partly displaced native Old English tīd (“time, hour”), whence Modern English tide.
senses_examples:
text:
I spent an hour at lunch.
type:
example
text:
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref:
1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
type:
quotation
text:
[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.
ref:
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
type:
quotation
text:
From childhood's hour I have not been / As others were; I have not seen / As others saw; I could not bring / My passions from a common spring.
ref:
c. 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Alone”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
text:
The hour grows late and I must go home.
type:
example
text:
By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.
ref:
2000, T. C. G. James, edited by Sebastian Cox, The Battle of Britain
type:
quotation
text:
I asked my manager for more hours.
type:
example
text:
The shop wasn't giving me enough hours so I started searching for a second job.
type:
example
text:
This place is an hour away from where I live.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
A season, moment, or time.
The time.
Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time.
The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
Christianity
|
1158 | word:
webmaster
word_type:
noun
expansion:
webmaster (plural webmasters)
forms:
form:
webmasters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Web + master.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a website or websites.
senses_topics:
|
1159 | word:
acronym
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acronym (plural acronyms)
forms:
form:
acronyms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
acronym
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Akronym, from Ancient Greek ἄκρον (ákron, “end, peak”) and ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”), equivalent to acro- (“high; beginning”) + -onym (“name”). Modelled after Homonym and Synonym, first attested in German in the early 1900s and in English in 1940.
senses_examples:
text:
Pee-gee-enn. It's an acronym, that's what it is. That's what they call words made up of initials.
ref:
1940, L. Feuchtwanger, translated by W. Muir et al., Paris Gazette, iii, xlvii, p. 518
type:
quotation
text:
Some teachers festoon every spare inch of wall with vocabulary choices or maths techniques to use, which look great at first, but to some children might appear quite daunting. You'll probably see unfamiliar acronyms such as Walt (We Are Learning To). Be sure to ask what they stand for and how they are used in practice.
ref:
2014 September 23, “Choosing a Primary School: A Teacher's Guide for Parents”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
Acronyms or telescoped names like nabisco from National Biscuit Company.
ref:
1950, Simeon Potter, Our Language, page 163
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words.
Generally such abbreviations, including those pronounced as individual letters (initialisms such as "TNT").
An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words.
Exclusively such abbreviations when pronounced as a word (as "laser").
An abbreviation formed by the beginning letters or syllables of other words (as "Benelux").
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
1160 | word:
acronym
word_type:
verb
expansion:
acronym (third-person singular simple present acronyms, present participle acronyming or acronymming, simple past and past participle acronymed or acronymmed)
forms:
form:
acronyms
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
acronyming
tags:
participle
present
form:
acronymming
tags:
participle
present
form:
acronymed
tags:
participle
past
form:
acronymed
tags:
past
form:
acronymmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
acronymmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
acronym
etymology_text:
Borrowed from German Akronym, from Ancient Greek ἄκρον (ákron, “end, peak”) and ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”), equivalent to acro- (“high; beginning”) + -onym (“name”). Modelled after Homonym and Synonym, first attested in German in the early 1900s and in English in 1940.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To form into an acronym.
senses_topics:
|
1161 | word:
AMPS
word_type:
name
expansion:
AMPS
forms:
wikipedia:
AMPS
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Advanced Mobile Phone System, American Mobile Phone System, Analog Mobile Phone System.
All Media and Products Survey.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
|
1162 | word:
TDMA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
TDMA (plural TDMAs)
forms:
form:
TDMAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
TDMA
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of time division multiple access.
Initialism of tridiagonal matrix algorithm.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences |
1163 | word:
TACS
word_type:
name
expansion:
TACS
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Total Access Communication System.
senses_topics:
|
1164 | word:
Polish
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Polish (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Polish
etymology_text:
From Pole + -ish. Doublet of Poylish.
senses_examples:
text:
Vinokur pulled the trigger a second and third time. "You're lying, you Polish cunt!" he screamed.
ref:
2007, Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, Kai Struve, Shared History, Divided Memory, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
As we mentioned the only chemical used in Polish meats or sausages was potassium nitrate even though the list of food additives allowed in Europe was long and impressive.
ref:
2009, Stanley Marianski, Adam Marianski, Miroslaw Gebarowski, Polish Sausages: Authentic Recipes and Instructions, page 13
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.
senses_topics:
|
1165 | word:
Polish
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Polish (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Polish
etymology_text:
From Pole + -ish. Doublet of Poylish.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language spoken in Poland.
A breed of chickens with a large crest of feathers.
senses_topics:
|
1166 | word:
Aborigine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Aborigine (plural Aborigines)
forms:
form:
Aborigines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from Aborigines.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An Aboriginal person from Australia (descending from, or a member of, one of the indigenous people(s) before British colonisation), Aboriginal Australian.
senses_topics:
|
1167 | word:
CEPT
word_type:
name
expansion:
CEPT
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Conference of European Posts and Telegraphs.
senses_topics:
|
1168 | word:
gratuitous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
gratuitous (comparative more gratuitous, superlative most gratuitous)
forms:
form:
more gratuitous
tags:
comparative
form:
most gratuitous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin grātuītus (“free”), from Latin grātia (“favor”), grātus (“showing favor”).
senses_examples:
text:
Also mentioned is the Rev. T. Stock, who has a tablet in St John's church [Gloucester] and "who with Raikes established the four original Sunday schools in this parish ... in 1780. From this small beginning sprung that gratuitous system of Christian instruction which has covered the face of England and Wales with schools."
ref:
2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
gratuitous violence
type:
example
text:
Good to see you Mr. Bond. Things've been awfully dull 'round here. […] Now you're on this. I hope we're going to have some gratuitous sex and violence!
ref:
1983, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Never Say Never Again, spoken by Q (Alec McCowen)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Given freely; unearned.
Unjustified or unnecessary; not called for by the circumstances.
senses_topics:
|
1169 | word:
CDMA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
CDMA (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Code Division Multiple Access.
senses_topics:
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
1170 | word:
CDMA
word_type:
name
expansion:
CDMA
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Commercial Development and Marketing Association.
senses_topics:
|
1171 | word:
AM
word_type:
name
expansion:
AM
forms:
wikipedia:
AM
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abbreviation of Amazonas (state of Brazil)
Initialism of Aston Martin.
Initialism of Arctic Monkeys.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
1172 | word:
AM
word_type:
adj
expansion:
AM (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
AM
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Anno Mundi. (Latin for in the year of the world)
senses_topics:
|
1173 | word:
AM
word_type:
adv
expansion:
AM (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
AM
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of a.m. (“before noon”)
senses_topics:
|
1174 | word:
AM
word_type:
noun
expansion:
AM (countable and uncountable, plural AMs)
forms:
form:
AMs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
AM
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The system, says Freeman is currently being used to assess exactly how AM powders pack and flow to ensure process efficiency and consistent product quality.
ref:
2015 September, Steven E. Kuehn, “I'm Printing Your Prescription Now, Ma'am”, in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Putnam Media, page 7
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Master of Arts.
Initialism of Assembly Member. (A title similar to MP, placed after the name of a Member of the Welsh National Assembly.)
Initialism of automated mapping. (Used in conjunction with Facilities Managements abbreviations (AM/FM).)
Member of the Order of Australia.
Initialism of amplitude modulation.; contrasted with FM
Initialism of additive manufacturing.
senses_topics:
education
government
politics
law
property
broadcasting
communication
communications
media
business
manufacturing |
1175 | word:
ETSI
word_type:
name
expansion:
ETSI
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of European Telecommunication Standards Institute.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
1176 | word:
andante
word_type:
noun
expansion:
andante (plural andantes)
forms:
form:
andantes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian andante.
senses_examples:
text:
The music’s marking is andante, a delicate footfall.
ref:
2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 198
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a moderately slow tempo; faster than adagio but slower than moderato.
A passage having this mark.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
1177 | word:
andante
word_type:
adv
expansion:
andante (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian andante.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Played at a moderately slow tempo.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
1178 | word:
andante
word_type:
adj
expansion:
andante (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Italian andante.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Describing a passage having this mark.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
1179 | word:
libero
word_type:
noun
expansion:
libero (plural liberos)
forms:
form:
liberos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Italian libero (literally “free one”). So called because he has no direct opponent to mark and is therefore free to join in the offensive. The volleyball use is younger.
senses_examples:
text:
Nicknamed “Der Kaiser”, Beckenbauer was as elegant as he was dominant, and such was his assurance in possession that he came to master the modern sweeper role, or libero. More so, he is credited with creating it.
ref:
2024 January 8, Sachin Nakrani, “Franz Beckenbauer, World Cup-winning captain and manager, dies aged 78”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A central defender to whom no forward is assigned for marking, forming the last line of defence and often initiating the offensive play.
A designated back-row player intended to be used as a ball-control specialist.
senses_topics:
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball |
1180 | word:
Mexico
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mexico
forms:
wikipedia:
Mexico
Mexico (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
From Spanish México, from Classical Nahuatl Mēxihco, a place-name referring to the Mēxihcah (Mexica/Aztecs).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in North America, located south of the United States, and northwest of Guatemala and Belize from Central America. Official name: United Mexican States.
Short for Mexico City, the capital city of Mexico.
Short for Mexico State, a state of Mexico. Capital: Toluca.
A municipality of the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines.
A census-designated place in Jefferson Township, Miami County, Indiana, United States.
An unincorporated community in Crittenden County, Kentucky, United States.
A town in Oxford County, Maine, United States.
An unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland, United States.
An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, United States.
A city, the county seat of Audrain County, Missouri, United States.
A town and village in Oswego County, New York, United States.
An unincorporated community in Tymochtee Township, Wyandot County, Maryland, United States.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Walker Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, United States.
An unincorporated community in Montour County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A former unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, United States, now submerged under Lake Tawakoni.
senses_topics:
|
1181 | word:
United Arab Emirates
word_type:
name
expansion:
the United Arab Emirates
forms:
form:
the United Arab Emirates
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Arabic الْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَّة الْمُتَّحِدَة (al-ʔimārāt al-ʕarabiyya l-muttaḥida).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East. Capital: Abu Dhabi. Largest city: Dubai.
senses_topics:
|
1182 | word:
dat
word_type:
det
expansion:
dat
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Pronuctiation spelling of that,
representing dialects with th-stopping. Compare Dutch dat, Low German dat, and German dat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of that.
senses_topics:
|
1183 | word:
dat
word_type:
conj
expansion:
dat
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Pronuctiation spelling of that,
representing dialects with th-stopping. Compare Dutch dat, Low German dat, and German dat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of that.
senses_topics:
|
1184 | word:
dat
word_type:
pron
expansion:
dat
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Pronuctiation spelling of that,
representing dialects with th-stopping. Compare Dutch dat, Low German dat, and German dat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of that.
senses_topics:
|
1185 | word:
dat
word_type:
adv
expansion:
dat (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Pronuctiation spelling of that,
representing dialects with th-stopping. Compare Dutch dat, Low German dat, and German dat.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pronunciation spelling of that.
senses_topics:
|
1186 | word:
PSTN
word_type:
noun
expansion:
PSTN (plural PSTNs)
forms:
form:
PSTNs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of Public switched telephone network.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
1187 | word:
Yugoslavia
word_type:
name
expansion:
Yugoslavia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, in turn from jug (“south”) and slavija (“Slavia, the land of the Slavs”). Literally, the land of the South Slavs.
senses_examples:
text:
Yugoslavia’s President, Slobodan Milosevic, has rejected all efforts at meaningful diplomacy and, in violation of his own previous commitments, has ratcheted up his military campaign against the innocent civilians of Kosovo.
ref:
1999 March 25, “Air Campaign Against Yugoslavia”, in The New York Times, New York
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a kingdom ruled by the House of Karađorđević which existed from 1918 to 1941.
A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a communist state which existed from 1945 to 1992.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a rump state formed by Serbia and Montenegro after 1992.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a rump state formed by Serbia and Montenegro after 1992.
Serbia and Montenegro, after 2003 until 2006, when it disintegrated.
senses_topics:
|
1188 | word:
motherfucker
word_type:
intj
expansion:
motherfucker
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr
Proto-Germanic *mōdēr
Proto-West Germanic *mōder
Old English mōdor
Middle English moder
English mother
English fucker
English motherfucker
Compound of mother + fucker; attested since 1918. The injury comes from the implication of somebody sleeping with their own mother, but was probably not used literally until later.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expressing dismay, discontent, or surprise.
senses_topics:
|
1189 | word:
motherfucker
word_type:
noun
expansion:
motherfucker (plural motherfuckers)
forms:
form:
motherfuckers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr
Proto-Germanic *mōdēr
Proto-West Germanic *mōder
Old English mōdor
Middle English moder
English mother
English fucker
English motherfucker
Compound of mother + fucker; attested since 1918. The injury comes from the implication of somebody sleeping with their own mother, but was probably not used literally until later.
senses_examples:
text:
Up against the wall, motherfucker.
type:
example
text:
English, motherfucker, do you speak it?
ref:
1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson)
type:
quotation
text:
Check out this motherfucker.
type:
example
text:
War is a motherfucker.
type:
example
text:
I jammed my finger in the door yesterday. It hurt like a motherfucker.
type:
example
text:
You mess with me, and I will come at you like a motherfucker.
type:
example
text:
It's hot as a motherfucker out here.
type:
example
text:
They goin hard as a motherfucker out here.
type:
example
text:
How’ve you been, you crazy motherfucker?
type:
example
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:motherfucker.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An extremely contemptible, vicious or mean person.
Any person, often but not always with the connotation that the person is disliked or is threatening.
An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative.
An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative.
To an extreme degree.
A good very close friend or relative.
One who engages in incest with their mother.
One who engages in sex with a mother, not necessarily one's own.
senses_topics:
|
1190 | word:
century
word_type:
noun
expansion:
century (plural centuries)
forms:
form:
centuries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
century
etymology_text:
From Middle English centurie (“a count of one hundred (of anything); a division of the Roman army; century; a division of land”), from Old French centurie, from Latin centuria, from centum (“one hundred”). The most common modern use is a shortening of century of years.
senses_examples:
text:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref:
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
type:
quotation
text:
Holonyms: maniple, cohort, legion
text:
Hamilton reached his century 14 years after securing his maiden pole in the Canadian Grand Prix in 2007, which he went on to win to take the first step on the road to becoming Formula One's most successful driver.
ref:
2021 May 8, “'It's like my first' - history-maker Hamilton celebrates century of poles”, in France 24
type:
quotation
text:
That was his tenth professional century.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
A score of one hundred points.
A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
senses_topics:
ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
|
1191 | word:
IMEI
word_type:
noun
expansion:
IMEI (plural IMEIs)
forms:
form:
IMEIs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I pulled my precious emergency burner phone out of my backpack, because the Feds can track your SIM card and the IMEI number that identifies your phone.
ref:
2021, Ben Aaronovitch, What Abigail Did That Summer, Gollancz, page 102
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of International Mobile Equipment Identity.
senses_topics:
|
1192 | word:
ISDN
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ISDN (plural ISDNs)
forms:
form:
ISDNs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of isosorbide dinitrate.
Initialism of integrated services digital network.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
1193 | word:
hamper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hamper (plural hampers)
forms:
form:
hampers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hamper
etymology_text:
From Middle English hamper, contracted from hanaper, hanypere, from Anglo-Norman hanaper, Old French hanapier, hanepier (“case for holding a large goblet or cup”), from hanap (“goblet, drinking cup”), from Frankish *hnapp (“cup, bowl, basin”), from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“cup, bowl”).
Cognate with Old High German hnapf (“cup, bowl, basin”) (German Napf (“bowl”)), Dutch nap (“cup”), Old English hnæpp (“bowl”). More at nap.
senses_examples:
text:
a hamper of wine
type:
example
text:
a clothes hamper
type:
example
text:
an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.
A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper), as opposed to a covered wicker basket which is a true hamper.
A gift basket.
senses_topics:
|
1194 | word:
hamper
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hamper (third-person singular simple present hampers, present participle hampering, simple past and past participle hampered)
forms:
form:
hampers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hampering
tags:
participle
present
form:
hampered
tags:
participle
past
form:
hampered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hamper
etymology_text:
From Middle English hamper, contracted from hanaper, hanypere, from Anglo-Norman hanaper, Old French hanapier, hanepier (“case for holding a large goblet or cup”), from hanap (“goblet, drinking cup”), from Frankish *hnapp (“cup, bowl, basin”), from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“cup, bowl”).
Cognate with Old High German hnapf (“cup, bowl, basin”) (German Napf (“bowl”)), Dutch nap (“cup”), Old English hnæpp (“bowl”). More at nap.
senses_examples:
text:
Competition pigeons are hampered for the truck trip to the point of release where the race back starts.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put into a hamper.
senses_topics:
|
1195 | word:
hamper
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hamper (third-person singular simple present hampers, present participle hampering, simple past and past participle hampered)
forms:
form:
hampers
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hampering
tags:
participle
present
form:
hampered
tags:
participle
past
form:
hampered
tags:
past
wikipedia:
hamper
etymology_text:
From Middle English hamperen, hampren (“to hamper, oppress”), probably of the same origin as English hamble (“to limp”), Scots hamp (“to halt in walking, stutter”), Dutch haperen (“to falter, hesitate”), German hemmen (“to stop, hinder, check”). More at hamble.
senses_examples:
text:
Engend'ring heats, these one by one unbind, Stretch their small tubes, and hamper'd nerves unwind.
ref:
1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem
type:
quotation
text:
They hamper and entangle our souls.
ref:
a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion
type:
quotation
text:
NR Senior Programme Manager Adrian Elliott describes the progress to date: "The weather has played a big part in hampering the programme. We had the wettest autumn ever and a number of winter storms to contend with, [...]
ref:
2020 April 8, Paul Stephen, “ECML dive-under drives divergence”, in Rail, page 44
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle.
To impede in motion or progress.
senses_topics:
|
1196 | word:
hamper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hamper (plural hampers)
forms:
form:
hampers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hamper
etymology_text:
From Middle English hamperen, hampren (“to hamper, oppress”), probably of the same origin as English hamble (“to limp”), Scots hamp (“to halt in walking, stutter”), Dutch haperen (“to falter, hesitate”), German hemmen (“to stop, hinder, check”). More at hamble.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
1197 | word:
EAN
word_type:
name
expansion:
EAN
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of European Article Numbering: a barcode symbology whose main variant, EAN-13, encodes thirteen digits, differing from UPC-A in that three of the digits in the left half are reversed so as to encode an additional digit.
senses_topics:
|
1198 | word:
IMSI
word_type:
noun
expansion:
IMSI (plural IMSIs)
forms:
form:
IMSIs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of International Mobile Subscriber Identity.
senses_topics:
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications |
1199 | word:
EU
word_type:
name
expansion:
EU
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of European Union.
senses_topics:
economics
government
politics
sciences |
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